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Stream heat budget model input and scripts for simulating groundwater and thermal equilibrium controls on annual paired air-water temperature signal transport in headwater streams

April 20, 2024

We investigated the relative importance of groundwater (GW) and other local heat budget processes on downstream annual stream temperature signal characteristics using deterministic heat budget model (HFLUX) scenarios within an idealized stream reach representative of mountainous forested conditions. The purpose of this data release is to provide additional supplemental information for a published manuscript (Johnson et al., 2024). In this data release, we include (i) example input spreadsheets and an R script demonstrating how to read-in, edit, and export spreadsheet files without the need for a proprietary license, and (ii) MATLAB scripts necessary to run the HFLUX model and an example MATLAB script for developing our model scenarios. The latter does require a proprietary license to run the model, but the scripts can be viewed in a general text editor.

Publication Year 2024
Title Stream heat budget model input and scripts for simulating groundwater and thermal equilibrium controls on annual paired air-water temperature signal transport in headwater streams
DOI 10.5066/P14JJ8V8
Authors Zachary C Johnson, Martin Briggs, Craig D Snyder, Nathaniel P Hitt
Product Type Data Release
Record Source USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog
USGS Organization Washington Water Science Center