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A Department of Energy (DOE) multilaboratory Water Cycle Pilot Study (WCPS) investigated components of the local water budget at the Walnut River watershed in Kansas to study the relative importance of various processes and to determine the feasibility of observational water budget closure. An extensive database of local meteorological time series and land surface characteristics was compiled. Numerical simulations of water budget components were generated and, to the extent possible, validated for three nested domains within the Southern Great Plains—the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Cloud Atmospheric Radiation Testbed (CART), the Walnut River watershed (WRW), and the Whitewater watershed (WW), in Kansas.

A 2-month intensive observation period (IOP) was conducted to gather extensive observations relevant to specific details of the water budget, including finescale precipitation, streamflow, and soil moisture measurements that were not made routinely by other programs. Event and seasonal water isotope (d18O, dD) sampling in rainwater, streams, soils, lakes, and wells provided a means of tracing sources and sinks within and external to the WW, WRW, and the ARM CART domains. The WCPS measured changes in the leaf area index for several vegetation types, deep groundwater variations at two wells, and meteorological variables at a number of sites in the WRW. Additional activities of the WCPS include code development toward a regional climate model that includes water isotope processes, soil moisture transect measurements, and water-level measurements in groundwater wells.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, and ANL Research Affiliate and Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Norman L. Miller, 90-1116 One Cyclotron Road, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94702, E-mail: nlmiller@lbl.gov

A Department of Energy (DOE) multilaboratory Water Cycle Pilot Study (WCPS) investigated components of the local water budget at the Walnut River watershed in Kansas to study the relative importance of various processes and to determine the feasibility of observational water budget closure. An extensive database of local meteorological time series and land surface characteristics was compiled. Numerical simulations of water budget components were generated and, to the extent possible, validated for three nested domains within the Southern Great Plains—the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Cloud Atmospheric Radiation Testbed (CART), the Walnut River watershed (WRW), and the Whitewater watershed (WW), in Kansas.

A 2-month intensive observation period (IOP) was conducted to gather extensive observations relevant to specific details of the water budget, including finescale precipitation, streamflow, and soil moisture measurements that were not made routinely by other programs. Event and seasonal water isotope (d18O, dD) sampling in rainwater, streams, soils, lakes, and wells provided a means of tracing sources and sinks within and external to the WW, WRW, and the ARM CART domains. The WCPS measured changes in the leaf area index for several vegetation types, deep groundwater variations at two wells, and meteorological variables at a number of sites in the WRW. Additional activities of the WCPS include code development toward a regional climate model that includes water isotope processes, soil moisture transect measurements, and water-level measurements in groundwater wells.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, and ANL Research Affiliate and Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Norman L. Miller, 90-1116 One Cyclotron Road, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94702, E-mail: nlmiller@lbl.gov
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