Jennifer S. Stanton
20130626
DS-777 Average Annual Potential Evapotranspiration, 2000 to 2009, in inches estimated from the National Weather Service (NWS) Snow Accumulation and Ablation (SNOW-17) Model for the High Plains Aquifer in Parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming
raster digital data
Data Series
777
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
Average annual potential evapotranspiration 2000-2009, in inches estimated from the National Weather Service data
https://water.usgs.gov/lookup/getspatial?ds777_High_Plains_water_budget_components-nws_pet_avein_0009
Natalie A. Houston
Sophia L. Gonzales-Bradford
Amanda T. Flynn
Sharon L. Qi
Steven M. Peterson
Jennifer S. Stanton
Derek W. Ryter
Terry L. Sohl
Gabriel B. Senay
20130626
Geodatabase Compilation of Hydrogeologic, Remote Sensing, and Water-Budget-Component data for the High Plains aquifer, 2011
raster digital data
Data Series
777
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/777
The water-budget-components geodatabase contains selected data from maps in the,
"Selected Approaches to Estimate Water-Budget Components of the High Plains, 1940
through 1949 and 2000 through 2009" report (Stanton and others, 2011). Data were
collected and synthesized from existing climate models including the Parameter-Elevation
Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) (Daly and others, 1994), and the
Snow accumulation and ablation model (SNOW-17) (Anderson, 2006), and used in
soil-water balance models to compute various components of a water budget. The
methodologies used to compute the averages and volumes for the data in this
geodatabase are slightly different for different components and models.
The Purpose of this geodatabase is to present selected raster data from the
Water-Budget-Components report.
References:
Anderson, Eric, 2006,
Snow accumulation and ablation model-SNOW-17:
National Weather Service River Forecast System User's Manual, 44 p.,
accessed December 3, 2010, at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hrl/nwsrfs/users_manual/part2/_pdf/22snow17.pdf.
Daly, Christopher, Neilson, R.P., and Phillips, D.L., 1994,
A statistical-topographic model for mapping climatological precipitation over mountainous terrain:
Journal of Applied Meteorology, v. 33, p. 140-158
Kahle, S.C., Morgan, D.S., Welch, W.B., Ely, D.M., Hinkle, S.R., Vaccaro, J.J., and Orzol, L.L., 2011,
Hydrogeologic framework and hydrologic budget components of the Columbia Plateau Regional Aquifer System, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho:
U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011?5124, 66 p.
(Also available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2011/5124/.)
National Climatic Data Center, 2010,
Locate weather observation station record: Asheville, N.C.,
National Climatic Data Center, data accessed June 15, 2010,
at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/stationlocator.html.
Stanton, J.S., Qi, S.L., Ryter, D.W., Falk, S.E., Houston, N.A., Peterson, S.M., Westenbroek, S.M., and Christenson, S.C., 2011,
Selected approaches to estimate water-budget components of the High Plains, 1940 through 1949 and 2000 through 2009:
U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5183, 79 p.
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aquifers
groundwater
ground water
High Plains aquifer
Ogallala aquifer
USGS Thesaurus
Evapotranspiration
Potential evapotranspiration
inlandWaters
ISO 19115 Topic Categories
environment
geoscientificInformation
inlandWaters
USGS Metadata Identifier
USGS:d8b44992-7421-4ee5-9da6-6172253cfc7b
Geographic Names Information System
High Plains
Great Plains
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Texas
Wyoming
northern High Plains
central High Plains
southern High Plains
None
This data set is not intended for use at larger scales than the resolution of the data set.
Jennifer S. Stanton
U.S. Geological Survey, Midwest Area
Hydrologist
mailing and physical address
5231 South 19th
Lincoln
Nebraska
68512-1271
USA
(402) 261-0458
(401) 331-9062
jstanton@usgs.gov
7:30 am - 4:30 pm Central time zone
https://water.usgs.gov/GIS/browse/ds777_High_Plains_water_budget_components-nws_pet_avein_0009.gif
Illustration of the dataset
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The National Weather Service Office of Hydrologic Development, Silver Spring, Maryland,
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Unclassified
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Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000
Not applicable for raster data.
Data set is complete for the High Plains aquifer. Data gaps or areas of no data within the High Plains aquifer boundary indicate areas where the aquifer is not present.
Rasters organized by month and year from January 2000 to December 2009 were obtained from the
National Weather Service Office Sacramento-Soil Moisture Accounting Model as raster files in
Geographic projection, North American Datum 1983. The native cell size was 4762.5 meters
Unknown
Natalie A. Houston
U.S. Geological Survey, Texas Water Science Center
Hydrologist
mailing and physical address
1505 Ferguson Lane
Austin
Texas
78754
USA
(512) 927-3565
(512) 927-3590
nhouston@usgs.gov
7:30 am - 4:30 pm Central time zone
Rasters were resampled to a cell size of 1000 meters for potential use in the SOil WATer (SOWAT)
Balance Model. Rasters were then reprojected to Albers Equal Area Conical projection.
Unknown
Natalie A. Houston
U.S. Geological Survey, Texas Water Science Center
Hydrologist
mailing and physical address
1505 Ferguson Lane
Austin
Texas
78754
USA
(512) 927-3565
(512) 927-3590
7:30 am - 4:30 pm Central time zone
Rasters were then summed by year and converted from the native units of millimeters to inches using a
conversion factor of 1 millimeter = 0.0393701 inch. The average annual raster was computed by taking the
average of the 10 annual rasters cell by cell using the mean function in ESRI Arc Info GRID software.
20110712
Natalie A. Houston
U.S. Geological Survey, Texas Water Science Center
Hydrologist
mailing and physical address
1505 Ferguson Lane
Austin
Texas
78754
USA
(512) 927-3565
(512) 927-3590
7:30 am - 4:30 pm Central time zone
In the Stanton and others (2011) report, the authors used this raster to compute average annual
potential evapotranspiration and volume for each of the eight states that make up the High Plains
(Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming),
and for each of the three commonly defined regional zones (northern High Plains, central High
Plains, and southern High Plains).
The average annual potential evapotranspiration in inches was computed using a tool called
zonal statistics in Arc GIS 9.3.1. Areas where the High Plains aquifer does not exist (no data)
were not included in these computations. Data were rounded to the nearest tenth of an inch.
The average annual volume of potential evapotranspiration in million acre-feet was computed by
multiplying the average annual precipitation in inches by the area in acre feet of the zone and
then dividing by a million. Areas in acre feet for the zones are defined as follows:
Colorado 8,523,000
Kansas 19,745,000
Nebraska 41,379,000
New Mexico 5,963,000
Oklahoma 4,735,000
South Dakota 3,106,000
Texas 23,209,000
Wyoming 5,183,000
northern High Plains (NHP) 61,655,000
central High Plains (CHP) 31,428,000
southern High Plains (SHP) 18,759,000
2012
Natalie A. Houston
U.S. Geological Survey, Texas Water Science Center
Hydrologist
mailing and physical address
1505 Ferguson Lane
Austin
TX
78754
USA
(512) 927-3565
(512) 927-3590
nhouston@usgs.gov
7:30 am - 4:30 pm Central time zone
Raster
Pixel
1330
785
1
Albers Conical Equal Area
29.500000
45.500000
-96.000000
23.000000
0.000000
0.000000
row and column
1000.000000
1000.000000
meters
North American Datum of 1983
Geodetic Reference System 80
6378137.000000
298.257222
This raster is average annual potential evapotranspiration 2000-2009, in inches estimated from the National Weather Service data
This raster was used to compute various components of a water budget analysis for a U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report. More information about this report can be found at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sir20115183
U.S. Geological Survey
Michael Ierardi
IT Specialist
mailing and physical
445 National Center
Reston
Virginia
20192
USA
1-888-275-8747 (1-888-ASK-USGS)
mierardi@usgs.gov
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