Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-209-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-209-2015
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14 Jan 2015
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Development of a large-sample watershed-scale hydrometeorological data set for the contiguous USA: data set characteristics and assessment of regional variability in hydrologic model performance

A. J. Newman, M. P. Clark, K. Sampson, A. Wood, L. E. Hay, A. Bock, R. J. Viger, D. Blodgett, L. Brekke, J. R. Arnold, T. Hopson, and Q. Duan

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (17 Oct 2014) by Stacey Archfield
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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (14 Nov 2014) by Stacey Archfield
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The focus of this paper is to (1) present a community data set of daily forcing and hydrologic response data for 671 unimpaired basins across the contiguous United States that spans a very wide range of hydroclimatic conditions, and (2) provide a calibrated model performance benchmark using a common conceptual snow and hydrologic modeling system. This benchmark provides a reference level of model performance across a very large basin sample and highlights regional variations in performance.