Beaver Creek Watershed - Beaver Creek Experimental Watershed Data
The 20 plus years of research conducted during the life of the Beaver
Creek watershed project resulted in a large collection of physiographic,
climatic, streamflow, floral, and faunal data with inconsistent (both
spacial and temporal) formats. This information has been difficult to
retrieve by those familiar with the project, let alone someone not familiar
with it. Fortunately, computers have greatly facilitated access to large
and varied databases, and the World Wide Web has further advanced our
ability to assess and disseminate such data.
These data include:
Precipitation
Daily
Watershed average daily, monthly, seasonal, and annual totals
Data sets from Beaver Creek are organized to reflect the components
of a water budget; that is, precipitation inputs (quantity and quality)
minus
streamflow outputs (quantity and quality) equals evapotranspiration (as
modified by geology, soil, elevation, and vegetation). Although current
scientific publications use metric units, the information in these databases
are expressed in English units because that was the system used in collecting
the data. Computers allow rapid conversion to other units
of measure if desired.