Monthly Historical Water Balance Products for the CONUS

Description

This dataset provides daily historical Water Balance Model outputs from a Thornthwaite-type, single bucket model. Climate inputs to the model are from GridMet daily temperature and precipitation for the Continental United States (CONUS). The Water Balance Model output variables include the following: Potential Evapotranspiration (PET, mm), Actual Evapotranspiration (AET, mm), Moisture Deficit (Deficit, mm), Soil Water (soilwater, mm), Runoff (mm), Rain (mm), and Accumulated Snow Water Equivalent (accumswe, mm). The dataset covers the period from January 1 to December 31 for years 1980 through 2023 for the CONUS. Water Balance Model variables are provided as individual files, by variable and year, at a 1 km x 1 km spatial resolution and a daily temporal resolution. Data are in a North America Lambert Conformal Conic projection and are distributed in a standardized Climate and Forecast (CF)-compliant NetCDF file format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 User Guide for the Gridded Water Balance Model Dataset https://screenedcleanedsummaries.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Gridded_Water_Balance_Model_April_2021.pdf
21 Earthdata Search allows users to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=C2674700048-LPCLOUD
21 Direct access to Monthly Gridded Water Balance Model Dataset https://npwbanalres.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/index.html

Tags

  • precipitation
  • soils
  • land-surface
  • surface-water
  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • terrestrial-hydrosphere
  • earth-science

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