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source_urls <- 'MacroSheds drive (contact us for original source): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gugTmDybtMTbmKRq2WQvw2K1WkJjcmJr?usp=sharing'
The subset of MacroSheds that relates to streamflow and climate forcings makes it a valuable supplement to existing datasets like CAMELS (671 sites) and GAGES-II (9067 sites). Using CAMELS methods, we have compiled watershed attributes and Daymet forcings, for each MacroSheds site, that are immediately commensurable with the published CAMELS dataset, enhancing the predictive power of the combined set, especially for small watersheds. Of the 178 sites with discharge data that MacroSheds adds to this corpus (as of version 1), 122 have watershed areas of 10 km2 or less, and 68 have areas of 1 km2 or less. For CAMELS, these numbers are 8 and 0, respectively. For GAGES-II, they are 207 and 2 (see Figure 2 in the MacroSheds data paper, in review at the time of this writing).
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Please note that we used gSSURGO (Soil Survey Staff 2022) instead of the superseded STATSGO dataset for soil characteristics. Two other CAMELS watershed attributes, pet_mean and aridity, were also computed differently for MacroSheds watersheds. For these, we solved the Priestly-Taylor formulation by using a gridded 𝛼 product (Aschonitis et al. 2017), rather than calibrating 𝛼 ourselves.
We used gSSURGO (Soil Survey Staff 2022) instead of the superseded STATSGO dataset for soil characteristics, namely sand_frac, clay_frac, silt_frac, and organic_frac. We have omitted the following variables that are included with the original CAMELS dataset: soil_depth_pelletier, soil_depth_statsgo, soil_porosity, soil_conductivity, max_water_content, water_frac, other_frac. However, note that equivalents of these variables are included with the core MacroSheds watershed attribute dataset.
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Two other CAMELS watershed attributes, pet_mean and aridity, were also computed differently for MacroSheds watersheds. For these, we solved the Priestly-Taylor formulation by using a gridded 𝛼 product (Aschonitis et al. 2017), rather than calibrating 𝛼 ourselves.
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References:
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Aschonitis, V. G., Papamichail, D., Demertzi, K., Colombani, N., Mastrocicco, M., Ghirardini, A., Castaldelli, G., & Fano, E.-A. (2017). High resolution global grids of revised Priestley-Taylor and Hargreaves-Samani coefficients for assessing ASCE-standardized reference crop evapotranspiration and solar radiation, links to ESRI-grid files [Data set].
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Soil Survey Staff. (2022). National Value Added Look Up (valu) Table Database for the Gridded Soil Survey Geographic (gSSURGO) Database for the United States of America and the Territories, Commonwealths, and Island Nations served by the USDA-NRCS. United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. https://gdg.sc.egov.usda.gov/
The Daymet forcings accompanying the core MacroSheds dataset represent watershed averages of published, gridded Daymet products (Thornton et al. 2020). Note that our format is a little different from what CAMELS provides. Our Daymet files are CSVs with a single datetime column and only one header. For site locations and elevations (and lots of other site information) see 04_site_documentation.
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We've included timeseries of potential evapotranspiration (pet) in this dataset, though pet is not a Daymet variable per se. The pet product was also computed differently for MacroSheds watersheds than for CAMELS in that we solved the Priestly-Taylor formulation by using a gridded 𝛼 product (Aschonitis et al. 2017), rather than calibrating 𝛼 ourselves.
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References:
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Aschonitis, V. G., Papamichail, D., Demertzi, K., Colombani, N., Mastrocicco, M., Ghirardini, A., Castaldelli, G., & Fano, E.-A. (2017). High resolution global grids of revised Priestley-Taylor and Hargreaves-Samani coefficients for assessing ASCE-standardized reference crop evapotranspiration and solar radiation, links to ESRI-grid files [Data set].
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Thornton, M. M., Shrestha, R., Wei, Y., Thornton, P. E., Kao, S., & Wilson, B. E. (2020). DaymetDaymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 [NetCDF]. 0 MB. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1840
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