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  • Model simulated hydrological estimates for the North Slope drainage basin, Alaska, 1980-2010
  • Beaufort Lagoon Ecosystems LTER
    Rawlins, Michael; University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2019
  • Beaufort Lagoon Ecosystems LTER and M. Rawlins. 2019. Model simulated hydrological estimates for the North Slope drainage basin, Alaska, 1980-2010 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-12-28).

  • Estimates of runoff, river discharge, snow water equivalent (SWE), subsurface runoff, and soil temperatures are drawn from the Permafrost Water Balance Model. The simulation and derived data span the period 1980-2010. The model was forced with daily gridded meteorological data obtained from the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) reanalysis (version 5.2.0). The estimates of total runoff (daily), soil temperature (daily), subsurface runoff (monthly), and SWE (monthly) are expressed on a spatial grid (N=312; 25x25 km EASE-Grid version 1, Northern Hemisphere) over the North Slope drainage basin, with the coastline extending from Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) to just west of the Mackenzie River delta. River discharge, calculated as a volume flux of runoff at each grid cell, was routed through the river network defined on a simulated topological network (STN). Archived files contain discharge flux through the grid cell representing the outlet of each of forty-two basins defined across the region on the 25 km resolution EASE-Grid. Details of the PWBM, forcing variables, model validation and results of analysis are described in Rawlins et al. (2019).

  • N: 71.2383      S: 67.685      E: -134.105      W: -160.594
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