Hydrologic Soil Group for the Upper Colorado River Basin in Maurer et al. (2002) Climate Data resolution (hsg_UCRB_Maurer_resolution.asc)

Description

hsg_UCRB_Maurer_resolution.asc is an Esri ASCII grid representing the hydrologic soil group (HSG) for the Upper Colorado River Basin. The HSG for an area is determined by the least water-transmitting layer in the soil column. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) classifies four HSGs from Group A (high infiltration capacity and low overland flow potential) to Group D (low infiltration capacity and high overland flow potential). In Soil-Water Balance recharge simulations, a lookup table incorporates HSG and land-cover information for each grid cell to define unique runoff curve numbers, vegetation rooting depths, interception values, and maximum daily recharge values.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.54f57f83-ee11-44ce-82d7-bb5f1e06e86f.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CRMCYQ

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  • environment
  • utah
  • groundwater
  • colorado
  • wyoming
  • upper-colorado-river-basin
  • geoscientificinformation
  • california
  • inlandwaters
  • usgs-54f57f83-ee11-44ce-82d7-bb5f1e06e86f
  • arizona
  • groundwater-recharge
  • new-mexico
  • hydrologic-soil-group
  • nevada

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