Terrestrial Hydrology Group

Our research includes land surface - atmosphere interactions for climate models and watershed models; impacts of climate change on hydrologic and water resource systems; and remote sensing of hydrologic systems. This web site describes our current research projects, the people in our research group, the models and the data that we use, our recent publications and our resources.


  • Global PDSI

    A global dataset of Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) and potential evporation (PE) at 1.0-degree, monthly resolution.
  • Global Runoff to the Oceans

    This archive contains estimates of runoff to the ocenas for all river outlets globally, excluding Greenland and Antarctica, based on routing through the simulated topological...
  • Global Meteorological Forcing Dataset for land surface modeling

    This dataset provides near-surface meteorological data for driving land surface models and other terrestrial modeling systems. It blends reanalysis data with observations and...