Monthly twelve-digit hydrologic unit code aggregations of the National Hydrologic Model Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System modeling application for Puerto Rico, 1950-2021 (ver. 2.0, June 2025)

This data release contains 16 variables from the National Hydrologic Model Infrastructure with the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (NHM-PRMS) modeling application forced with Daymet version 4 (LaFontaine and others, 2024) from January 1950 through December 2021 that are summarized to a monthly time step and a twelve-digit hydrologic unit code for the spatial extent of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The following fluxes and storages are included: total monthly precipitation, evapotranspiration, lateral flow, surface runoff, interflow, recharge, groundwater flow, and the average monthly snow water equivalent, interflow storage, groundwater storage, total storage, and soil moisture. These data can be found in the “PR_huc12_monthly_nhmprms_daymet_1950_2021.nc” file.

Additionally, two supplementary files are also included in this data release. The first file (“PR_weights_hru_to_huc12_nhmprms_daymet.csv”) contains the spatial weights or fraction that is used to “weight” the modeling output in the area-weighting process. The second file (“PR_summed_weights_per_huc12_nhmprms_daymet.csv”) contains the total fractional area within each twelve-digit hydrologic unit code that is covered by the modeling output and is important for filtering results in the data file (where a fractional coverage may be less than one).

In the version 2.0 data release update, a new variable was added to the “PR_huc12_monthly_nhmprms_daymet_1950_2021.nc” file and a new file, "PR_huc12_daily_soil_moisture_fraction_nhmprms_paymet_1950_2021.nc" was added that contains daily estimates of the soil moisture fraction at each twelve-digit hydrologic unit code for the spatial extent of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. See the file, “revision_history_nhmprms_daymet_PR.txt” for a full description of revisions.

First release: 2024
Revised: June 2025 (ver. 2.0)