A national topographic dataset for hydrological modeling over the contiguous United States

Zhang, Jun; Condon, Laura E.; Tran, Hoang; Maxwell, Reed M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3263-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3263-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3263-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 7

Data description paper

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08 Jul 2021

Data description paper |

| 08 Jul 2021

A national topographic dataset for hydrological modeling over the contiguous United States

Jun Zhang, Laura E. Condon, Hoang Tran, and Reed M. Maxwell

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee review of A national topographic dataset for hydrological modeling over contiguous United States', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Dec 2020
RC2: 'Independency and Necessity', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Dec 2020
AC1: 'Comment on essd-2020-291', Jun Zhang, 12 Feb 2021

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jun Zhang on behalf of the Authors (13 Mar 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (20 Mar 2021) by Ge Peng

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (06 Apr 2021)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (10 May 2021)

RR by Anonymous Referee #4 (11 May 2021)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (15 May 2021) by Ge Peng

AR by Jun Zhang on behalf of the Authors (24 May 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (05 Jun 2021) by Ge Peng

AR by Jun Zhang on behalf of the Authors (07 Jun 2021)

Short summary

Existing national topographic datasets for the US may not be compatible with gridded hydrologic models. A national topographic dataset developed to support physically based hydrologic models at 1 km and 250 m over the contiguous US is provided. We used a Priority Flood algorithm to ensure hydrologically consistent drainage networks and evaluated the performance with an integrated hydrologic model. Datasets and scripts are available for direct data usage or modification of processing as desired.