Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
HESS
Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1851-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1851-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
Research article
 | 
15 Mar 2018
Research article |  | 15 Mar 2018

Wetlands inform how climate extremes influence surface water expansion and contraction

Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Charles R. Lane, Michael G. McManus, Laurie C. Alexander, and Jay R. Christensen

Data sets

Data Tools: 1981-2010 Normals NOAA NCDC http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/normals

Watershed Boundary Dataset USDA NRCS http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/water/watersheds/dataset/?cid=nrcs143_021625

Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) Database USDA NRCS https://sdmdataaccess.sc.egov.usda.gov

National Wetlands Inventory USFWS http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/

The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) concepts and content USGS http://nhd.usgs.gov/chapter1/ chp1_data_users_guide.pdf

The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) USGS ftp://nhdftp.usgs.gov/DataSets/Staged/States/FileGDB/ HighResolution

Model code and software

Perturb: Tools for evaluating collinearity J. Hendrickx http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=perturb

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Short summary
Effective monitoring and prediction of flood and drought events requires an improved understanding of surface water dynamics. We examined how the relationship between surface water extent, as mapped using Landsat imagery, and climate, is a function of landscape characteristics, using the Prairie Pothole Region and adjacent Northern Prairie in the United States as our study area. We found that at a landscape scale wetlands play a key role in informing how climate extremes influence surface water.
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