Water budget over land cover classes in the Great Salt Lake basin.


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Owners: Bhuwan Ghimire
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Created: Sep 04, 2024 at 6:40 p.m.
Last updated: Jan 30, 2025 at 8:07 p.m.
Published date: Jan 30, 2025 at 8:07 p.m.
DOI: 10.4211/hs.65d49afe742247a9a3dd5533672ed37a
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Abstract

This resource holds water budget data over land cover classes used in the MS Thesis:
Ghimire, B., (2025), "Investigating Changes in Hydroclimate, Land Cover, and Evapotranspiration across The Great Salt Lake Basin and its Major Subbasins," Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University.

It contains Python code and coordinates of representative points for each land cover class, that were obtained by sampling grid points to sufficiently represents each class. These representative points were used as inputs into the ClimateEngine API to retrieve precipitation, evapotranspiration, daily mean air temperature, and potential evapotranspiration for each land cover class across the Great Salt Lake subbasins. The data for these variables were then averaged over the water years from 2004 to 2021 and are shared in the resource. These data were used to analyze water yield, defined as the difference between precipitation and evapotranspiration, which indicates the amount of water available for streamflow or storage in the basin. Additionally, total evapotranspiration, considered as a surrogate for water use from different land cover classes, was estimated. This analysis helps to understand how various land cover types influence water availability and usage within the basin.

Coverage

Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
Place/Area Name:
Great Salt Lake Basin
North Latitude
42.4034°
East Longitude
-110.6256°
South Latitude
39.7032°
West Longitude
-113.5480°

Temporal

Start Date: 09/30/2003
End Date: 10/01/2021
Leaflet Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

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Related Resources

This resource is described by This resource is described by Ghimire, B. (2025). "Investigating Changes in Hydroclimate, Land Cover, and Evapotranspiration across The Great Salt Lake (GSL) Basin and its Major Subbasins," Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University.
The content of this resource is derived from Huntington, J. L., Hegewisch, K. C., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G., Abatzoglou, J. T., McEvoy, D. J., & Erickson, T. (2017). Climate Engine: Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Data for Advanced Natural Resource Monitoring and Process Understanding. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98(11), 2397–2410. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00324.1
The content of this resource is derived from Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) (https://eros.usgs.gov/lcmap/apps/data-downloads) collection produced by the USGS
This resource belongs to the following collections:
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Investigating Changes In Hydroclimate, Land Cover And Evapotranspiration Across The Great Salt Lake Subbasins Bhuwan Ghimire  Public &  Shareable Open Access

Credits

Funding Agencies

This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
National Science Foundation HDR Institute: Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment 2118329

How to Cite

Ghimire, B. (2025). Water budget over land cover classes in the Great Salt Lake basin., HydroShare, https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.65d49afe742247a9a3dd5533672ed37a

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