HydroTerre

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HydroTerre provides easy access to data for the Essential Terrestrial Variables necessary to run high resolution catchment models anywhere in the USA at a HUC 12 scale. For an overview see:

Leonard, L. C. Duffy, 2013, Cyber infrastructure for Distributed Water Resource Modeling: A National 
Prototype for Model-Data Web Services and Workflows, Environmental Modelling & Software 50, 85-96.

The following national datasets are provided in HydroTerre:

  • Elevation from USGS NED
  • Soils from SSURGO
  • Soils from Statsgo
  • NLDAS Forcing Variables
  • National Land Cover Database
  • Geology based on Soils
  • NHD HUC12
  • NHD Streams

HydroTerre data is accessible from [1].