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

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

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

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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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