Data-Driven Drought Prediction Project Model Inputs for Upper and Lower Colorado Portions of the National Hydrologic Geo-Spatial Fabric version 1.1 and Select U.S. Geological Survey Streamgage Basins

This metadata record describes a series of data sets of natural, climatic, and anthropogenic landscape features processed as model inputs for the Data-Driven Drought Prediction Project of the Water Resources Mission Area Drought Program. These data are linked to two different spatial units: the National Hydrologic Geospatial Fabric version 1.1 (nhgfv1.1) including their associated individual catchments as well as their upstream watersheds for the Upper and Lower portions of the Colorado River Basin (Bock and others, 2020) and select U.S. Geological Survey streamgage basins for the conterminous United States ( Wieczorek and Staub, 2023). Child items are arranged by data themes (GRIDMET, NLDAS-2, SWE, see table below for more details). See each file's metadata for more details.

Variabe
File Name
Child Item Theme

spatial processing unit
rdews_gages
Stream Gage Basins

soil moisture at 0_10, 10_40, and 40_100 cm depths
soilM_0_10cm, soilM_10_40cm, soilM_40_100cm
NLDAS-2

precipitation
pr
GridMET
 

minimum temperature
tmmn

maximum temperature
tmmx

potential evapotranspiration
pet

Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index
spei

reference evapotranspiration
etr

snow water equivalent
swe
SWE