Streamflow, Dissolved Organic Carbon, and Nitrate Input Datasets and Model Results Using the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) Model for Buck Creek Watersheds, Adirondack Park, New York, 2001 to 2021

This data release supports an analysis of changes in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrate concentrations in Buck Creek watershed near Inlet, New York 2001 to 2021. The Buck Creek watershed is a 310-hectare forested watershed that is recovering from acidic deposition within the Adirondack region. The data release includes pre-processed model inputs and model outputs for the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge and Season (WRTDS) model (Hirsch and others, 2010) to estimate daily flow normalized concentrations of DOC and nitrate during a 20-year period of analysis. WRTDS uses daily discharge and concentration observations implemented through the Exploration and Graphics for River Trends R package (EGRET) to predict solute concentration using decimal time and discharge as explanatory variables (Hirsch and De Cicco, 2015; Hirsch and others, 2010). Discharge and concentration data are available from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System (NWIS) database (U.S. Geological Survey, 2016). The time series data were analyzed for the entire period, water years 2001 (WY2001) to WY2021 where WY2001 is the period from October 1, 2000 to September 30, 2001. This data release contains 5 comma-separated values (CSV) files, one R script, and one XML metadata file. There are four input files (“Daily.csv”, “INFO.csv”, “Sample_doc.csv”, and “Sample_nitrate.csv”) that contain site information, daily mean discharge, and mean daily DOC or nitrate concentrations. The R script (“Buck Creek WRTDS R script.R”) uses the four input datasets and functions from the EGRET R package to generate estimations of flow normalized concentrations. The output file (“WRTDS_results.csv”) contains model output at daily time steps for each sub-watershed and for each solute. Files are automatically associated with the R script when opened in RStudio using the provided R project file ("Files.Rproj"). All input, output, and R files are in the "Files.zip" folder.