NorWeST Stream Temperature Regional Database and Model

The NorWeST webpage hosts stream temperature data and climate scenarios in a variety of user-friendly digital formats for streams and rivers across the western U.S. The temperature database was compiled from hundreds of biologists and hydrologists working for >100 resource agencies and contains >200,000,000 hourly temperature recordings at >20,000 unique stream sites. Those temperature data were used with spatial statistical network models to develop 36 historical and future climate scenarios at 1-kilometer resolution for >1,000,000 kilometers of stream.

Temperature data and model outputs, registered to NHDPlus stream lines, are posted to the website after QA/QC procedures and development of the final temperature model within a river basin. Open access to the data and the availability of accurate stream temperature scenarios will foster new research and collaborative relationships that enhance management and conservation of aquatic resources.

Funding for the project was provided by the GNLCC and NPLCC with additional funds and in-kind support from the USFS, USGS, USFWS, NFWF, California Fish Passage Forum, and NASA.

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Tags	National Stream Internet NSI spatial stream-network models Regional Database and Modeled Stream Temperatures NorWeST
Parent Record	Rocky Mountain Research Station Air, Water, & Aquatic Environments Program
Modified	2022-09-27
Release Date	2019-04-05
Identifier	7149bdd2-f704-4c09-89fd-e2376bcac67c
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Area	POLYGON ((-124.77647267282 48.314088476421, -123.01866017282 49.18333548049, -106.93467579782 49.068304278898, -104.03428517282 32.140522948465, -117.04209767282 32.659977859167, -121.52451954782 35.426902546117, -123.63389454782 38.858764473018, -124.51280079782 42.457729809885, -124.42491017282 46.651150148835))
Publisher	U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Air, Water, and Aquatic Environments Program
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Location	Western United States
Temporal Coverage	January 1, 2017
License	U.S. Public Domain
Contact Name	Isaak, Dan
Contact Email	disaak@fs.fed.us
Public Access Level	Public
Bureau Code	005:96 - Forest Service

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Field	Value
Authors	Isaak, Dan (Scopus Author ID) Peterson, Erin (Scopus Author ID) Ver Hoef, Jay M. (ORCID) Nagel, David E. (Scopus Author ID) Wenger, Seth J. (ORCID) Hostetler, Stephen W. (Scopus Author ID) Luce, Charles H. (ORCID) Dunham, Jason B. (Scopus Author ID) Kershner, Jeffrey L. (Scopus Author ID) Roper, Brett B. (Scopus Author ID) Chandler, Gwynne L. (Scopus Author ID) Wollrab, Sherry P. (Scopus Author ID) Parkes-Payne, Sharon L. (Scopus Author ID) Horan, Dona L. (Scopus Author ID)
Peer Reviewed	No
Intended Use	Open access to the data and the availability of accurate stream temperature scenarios will foster new research and collaborative relationships that enhance management and conservation of aquatic resources.
Funding Sources	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Landscape Conservation Cooperative program Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Fish and Wildlife Foundation National Aeronautics and Space Administration U.S. Forest Service
Primary Article	Isaak, D. J., Wenger, S. J., Peterson, E. E., Ver Hoef, J. M., Nagel, D. E., Luce, C. H., Hostetler, S. W., Dunham, J. B., Roper, B. B., Wollrab, S. P., Chandler, G. L., Horan, D. L., & Parkes‐Payne, S. (2017). The NorWeST Summer Stream Temperature Model and Scenarios for the Western U.S.: A Crowd‐Sourced Database and New Geospatial Tools Foster a User Community and Predict Broad Climate Warming of Rivers and Streams. Water Resources Research, 53(11), 9181-9205. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017wr020969 AgID: 7308016
Product Type	Dataset
Related Content	Modeled Stream Temperature Scenario Maps NoRWeST Stream Temperature Interactive Map NorWeST Database Summaries Data files and R scripts used to fit SSN temperature models for Download The National Stream Internet project NoRWeST publications, presentations, posters, and briefing papers

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