Climate-Driven Shifts in the Geographic Dependency of the NRCS Initial Abstraction Ratio

Abstract

AbstractThe appropriate selection of the initial abstraction ratio in the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) curve number method has been debated within the hydrologic engineering community. Building on recent work that introduced the concept ...Practical ApplicationsThis work uses the future climate-based projections made available by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Atlas 15 pilot project that provides future precipitation estimates across the State of Montana as ...