DS-777 Average Annual Recharge, 2000 to 2009, in inches estimated from the SOil WATer (SOWAT) Balance Model for the High Plains Aquifer in Parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming
Description
The water-budget components geodatabase contains selected data from maps in the,
"Selected Approaches to Estimate Water-Budget Components of the High Plains, 1940
through 1949 and 2000 through 2009" report (Stanton and others, 2011).Data were
collected and synthesized from existing climate models including the Parameter-Elevation
Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) (Daly and others, 1994), and the Snow
accumulation and ablation model (SNOW-17) (Anderson, 2006), and used in soil-water
balance models to compute various components of a water budget. The methodologies
used to compute the averages and volumes for the data in this geodatabase are slightly
different for different components and models.