Model Inputs and Outputs for Simulating and Predicting the Effects of Climate and Land-Use Changes on Thermal Springs Recharge—A System-Based Coupled Surface-water and Groundwater Model for Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas

Publication Date

2021-05-10

Start Date

1980-01-01

End Date

2014-12-31

Hart, R.M, and Ikard, S.J., 2021, Model Inputs and Outputs for Simulating and Predicting the Effects of Climate and Land-Use Changes on Thermal Springs Recharge—A System-Based Coupled Surface-water and Groundwater Model for Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9SBJVVL.

Type: Related Primary Publication

The data sets and related codes contained in this data release were used (1) to develop a surface water model of streamflow and precipitation using the Precipitation Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) watershed modeling software to simulate variable precipitation rates in the vicinity of Hot Springs National Park (HOSP); (2) to develop the hydrogeologic framework of HOSP and surrounding areas for a three-dimensional (3D) groundwater-flow model of the Hot Springs anticlinorium developed in MODFLOW 2005; (3) to run 43 groundwater-flow simulations, each incorporating different recharge conditions distributed over the groundwater-flow model grid, which were produced by the PRMS model simulations. Thirty-four PRMS model simulations produced recharge grids that reflected recharge conditions attributed to climate change, three PRMS simulations produced recharge grids that reflected recharge conditions attributed to land-use changes, and six PRMS simulations produced recharge grids that reflected recharge conditions attributed to a combined effect of land-use changes and climate change.

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