Storm and Annual Time Scale Hydrological Data for the Russian River Watershed 1996-2022

Dataset · Tue Nov 01 04:00:00 EDT 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.15485/1898149· OSTI ID:1898149

Newcomer, Michelle ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

These files contains observed and simulated hydrological data (discharge, precipitation) that have been aggregated to the storm-event scale and to the annual time scale for the Russian River Watershed (RRW), California. Observed data are obtained from 12 different USGS hydrological stations located throughout the watershed, and discharge is simulated using the GR5H hourly hydrological model. Precipitation data are obtained from the NASA NLDAS NOAH Community Land Surface Model. All simulated and observed discharge are aggregated to the storm and annual time scales. We investigated changes in watershed hydrological conditions in the Russian River Watershed, a Mediterranean, drought prone, wildfire-adapted ecosystem, following eleven wildfires that occurred from 2017-2020. We ask two research questions: 1) How do interacting wildfire events, drought, and atmospheric rivers impact hydrological conditions of the watershed and in particular streamflow?, and 2) What percentage of new and/or cumulative wildfire disturbance is required to initiate hydrological change? We hypothesize that sub-watersheds of the RRW Mediterranean ecoregion have not burned beyond an intrinsic, and still unknown, threshold required to initiate change. Using a series of paired burned/unburned catchments nested within the larger watershed, we examined temporal and spatial patterns of pre-and-post wildfire water hydrology using a rainfall runoff hydrological model compared with data.

• Research Organization: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Sonoma Water Wildfires
• Sponsoring Organization: Sonoma Water; U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
• OSTI ID: 1898149
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Discharge
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT
EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER > SURFACE WATER PROCESSES/MEASUREMENTS > DISCHARGE/FLOW
Hydrological Model
Hydrology
Precipitation
Wildfire
baseflow_amount
runoff_amount_excluding_baseflow
specific discharge