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Erosion Data

Each watershed had a sediment catchment basin and a flume constructed at its outlet. Instruments were installed at each catchment to measure runoff. Sediment was removed and weighed on site after any large events. Overall, sediment yield was very low for all watersheds.

Erosion data are in Microsoft Excel (*.xls) format and include precipitation (mm), runoff (mm) and sediment (Mg ha^-1) by day, week, month and year for each watershed.

Hermada erosion data (223K Excel file)
Slate Point erosion data (294K Excel file)
Round Up erosion data (137K Excel file)

Climate Files

Climate variables were measured at a weather station installed at each watershed. The values in these files were corrected for instrument error and were converted into the same format generated by the CLIGEN weather generation model for use in WEPP. The files include the data for all years that the watersheds were monitored. Periodic instrument malfunction resulted in missing data. For the thesis as with these files, the missing climate dates were filled with climate data generated by Rock:Clime from the FS WEPP interface.

The climate files start on January 1 of the first year that the instruments were installed. However, during the times when no instruments were installed, the precipitation was set to 10 mm or less so that no runoff was generated by the model until the instuments were recording data. The thesis explains this in more detail.

Hermada climate file (115K text file)
Slate Point climate file (81K text file)
Round Up climate file (62K text file)