Bias-corrected VIC historical runoff data (1950-2013) for the Central Sierra Nevada

This data was used in the CenSierraPywr model created for the project "Optimizing Hydropower Operations While Sustaining Ecosystem Functions in a Changing Climate", for the California Energy Commission. For hydrology inputs, the model requires runoff at the sub-basin level. For this study, we used VIC the historical (1950 to 2013) daily gridded (1/16o) runoff data generated by the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrologic model, forced with observed meteorological data from NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, USA. A version of the Livneh dataset clipped to California and Nevada, as developed for the project to model managed flow for Sacramento/San Joaquin basin and hosted by a UC Berkeley server, was used in this study.