Inputs for Baseline ParFlow-CONUS2 Simulations

The ParFlow-CONUS2 model is the second generation national ParFlow model. The ParFlow-CONUS2 domain covers the entire contiguous US and areas draining to it. The domain extent and projection are based off of the National Water Model Grid. Manual corrections were made along the coastline to get rid of cells that were water and to prune any orphan cells (i.e. cells attached to the domain only by a corner). You can learn more about the domain and the model on the HydroFrame website. The conus2_domain dataset contains all of the input fields for the model as well as additional pre and post processing files that can be useful for data analysis. Click here for more information on the ParFlow-CONUS2 model: https://hydroframe.org/parflow-conus2.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessRights Users must create a HydroFrame API account and register their PIN before using the hf_hydrodata package. If it's your first time using this package you will need to sign up for a HydroFrame account on the HydroFrame Signup Page (https://hydrogen.princeton.edu/signup; note: this only needs to be done once). Visit our HydroFrame PIN Page (https://hydrogen.princeton.edu/pin) to create a 4-digit PIN. After creating your PIN, you must register that PIN on the machine that you intend to use.
columnDataDict Access column data dictionary at: https://hf-hydrodata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gen_conus2_domain.html
creationMethod Please see the publications on the ParFlow-CONUS2 web page (https://hydroframe.org/parflow-conus2) for more information on domain dataset development.
creatorEmail hydrogen-support@princeton.edu
creatorName HydroFrame Team
creatorWebsite https://hydroframe.org/
dataAuthType public
dataBbox [-126.88755692881833, 21.8170599154073, -64.7677149695924, 53.20274381640737]
dataProvenance [{"date":"2023-12-19","name":"Creation and publication of dataset"}]
dataType NumPy array
datasetPageUrl https://hf-hydrodata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gen_conus2_domain.html
datasetVersion v1.0
docsURL https://hf-hydrodata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gen_conus2_domain.html
doi https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.13357; https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.13354; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3263-2021
issueDate 2023-12-19
lastUpdateDate 2025-05-15
license other
otherLicense Copyright © 2024 The Trustees of Princeton University and The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of The University of Arizona, College of Science Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences. All rights reserved. hf_hydrodata was created by William M. Hasling, Laura Condon, Reed Maxwell, George Artavanis, Will Lytle, Amy M. Johnson, Amy C. Defnet. It is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
pocEmail hydrogen-support@princeton.edu
pocName HydroFrame Team
pocWebsite https://hydroframe.org/
publisherEmail hydrogen-support@princeton.edu
publisherName HydroFrame Team
publisherWebsite https://hydroframe.org/
purpose ParFlow-CONUS2 domain datasets.
spatialCov Grid: conus2 Spatial Resolution: 1000 meters XY Grid Spatial Extent: 4442 x 3256 LatLon Spatial Exent: -126.88755692881833, 21.8170599154073, -64.7677149695924, 53.20274381640737 Origin (meters): -2208000.30881173, -1668999.65483222 Projection: +proj=lcc +lat_1=30 +lat_2=60 +lon_0=-97.0 +lat_0=40.0000076294444 +a=6370000.0 +b=6370000
spatialCovFormat text
spatialRes 1000 meter
status submitted
theme ["hydrology"]
uploadType dataset
Tags
  • aridity
  • climate
  • drainage-area
  • elevation
  • flow-direction
  • hydrogeology
  • land-surface
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • parflow
  • permeability
  • pme
  • porosity
  • pressure-head
  • rivers
  • slope
  • specific-storage
  • stream-network
  • stream-order
  • stream-segments
  • subsurface
  • topographic-index
  • topography
  • van-genuchten
  • vegetation-type
  • water-table-depth
isopen False
metadata_created 2026-10-30T16:46:55.720857
metadata_modified 2026-10-30T16:46:55.720863
notes The ParFlow-CONUS2 model is the second generation national ParFlow model. The ParFlow-CONUS2 domain covers the entire contiguous US and areas draining to it. The domain extent and projection are based off of the National Water Model Grid. Manual corrections were made along the coastline to get rid of cells that were water and to prune any orphan cells (i.e. cells attached to the domain only by a corner). You can learn more about the domain and the model on the HydroFrame website. The conus2_domain dataset contains all of the input fields for the model as well as additional pre and post processing files that can be useful for data analysis. Click here for more information on the ParFlow-CONUS2 model: https://hydroframe.org/parflow-conus2.
num_resources 1
num_tags 26
title Inputs for Baseline ParFlow-CONUS2 Simulations