An improved model of shade-affected stream temperature in Soil &amp; Water Assessment Tool

Noa-Yarasca, Efrain; Babbar-Sebens, Meghna; Jordan, Chris

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-739-2023

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10 Feb 2023

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| 10 Feb 2023

An improved model of shade-affected stream temperature in Soil & Water Assessment Tool

Efrain Noa-Yarasca, Meghna Babbar-Sebens, and Chris Jordan

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-739-2023-supplement

Data sets

Data on An Improved Model of Shade-affected Stream Temperature in Soil & Water Assessment Tool Efrain Noa-Yarasca https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6301709

Short summary

Riparian vegetation has been identified as a strategy to control rising stream temperatures by shading streams. Riparian vegetation is included within a sub-basin-scale hydrological model and evaluated for full and efficient restoration scenarios. Results showed average temperature reductions of 0.91 and 0.86 °C for full and efficient riparian restoration, respectively. Notwithstanding the similar benefits, efficient restoration was 14.4 % cheaper than full riparian vegetation restoration.