Daily streamflow performance benchmark defined by D-score (v0.1) for the National Water Model Retrospective (v2.1) at benchmark streamflow locations

This data release contains the D-score (version 0.1) daily streamflow performance benchmark results for the National Water Model (NWM) Retrospective version 2.1 computed at streamgage benchmark locations (version 1) as defined by Foks and others (2022). Model error was determined by evaluating predicted daily mean streamflow (aggregated from an hourly timestep) versus observed daily mean streamflow. Using those errors, the D-score performance benchmark computes the mean squared logarithmic error (MSLE), then decomposes the overall MSLE into orthogonal components such as bias, distribution, and sequence (Hodson and others, 2021). For easier interpretation, the MSLE components can be passed through a scoring function as described in Hodson and others (2021). References: Foks, S.S., Towler, E., Hodson, T.O., Bock, A.R., Dickinson, J.E., Dugger, A.L., Dunne, K.A., Essaid, H.I., Miles, K.A., Over, T.M., Penn, C.A., Russell, A.M., Saxe, S.W., and Simeone, C.E., 2022, Streamflow benchmark locations for hydrologic model evaluation within the conterminous United States (cobalt gages): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P972P42Z. Hodson, T.O., Over, T.M., and Foks, S.S., 2021, Mean squared error, deconstructed. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, v. 13, no. 12, e2021MS002681, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002681.