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EM Identity and Description

EM ID variable.detail.emIdHelp ?	EM-437
Document Author variable.detail.emDocumentAuthorHelp ?	Amelia Smith, Susan Harrell Yee, Marc Russell, Jill Awkerman and William S. Fisher
Document Year variable.detail.emDocumentYearHelp ?	2017

Variable General Info

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Maximum vegetative root depth	Plant evapotranspiration coefficient	Seasonality factor	Subwatershed boundary	Water consumptive use	Watershed boundary
Variable ID variable.detail.varIdHelp ?	9512	9513	9510	9509	9514	9504
Symbol variable.detail.varSymbolHelp ?	Not reported	Kc	Z	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Qualitative-Quantitative variable.detail.continuousCategoricalHelp ?	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Qualitative (Class, Rating or Ranking)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Qualitative (Class, Rating or Ranking)
Cardinal-Ordinal variable.detail.cardinalOrdinalHelp ?	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Non-Ordinal	Cardinal	Non-Ordinal
Units variable.detail.varUnitsHelp ?	mm	Not reported	unitless	Not applicable	m^3 yr^-1	Not applicable

Variable Typology

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Maximum vegetative root depth	Plant evapotranspiration coefficient	Seasonality factor	Subwatershed boundary	Water consumptive use	Watershed boundary
Predictor-Intermediate-Response variable.detail.displayVariableTypeHelp ?	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor
Predictor Variable Type variable.detail.displayPredictorVariableTypeHelp ?	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter
Response Variable Type variable.detail.resClassHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Data Source/Type variable.detail.dataTypeHelp ?	Transferred Values (e.g., from literature; transferred spatially, temporally or across scales)	Transferred Values (e.g., from literature; transferred spatially, temporally or across scales)	Transferred Values (e.g., from literature; transferred spatially, temporally or across scales)	Map or database (e.g., wide coverage, wide availability, measured or modeled)	Transferred Values (e.g., from literature; transferred spatially, temporally or across scales)	Map or database (e.g., wide coverage, wide availability, measured or modeled)
Variable Classification Hierarchy variable.detail.vchLevel1Help ?	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services	2. Land Surface (or Water Body) Cover, Use, Substrate, or Metric	4. Human-Produced Stressor or Enhancer of Ecosystem Goods and Services Production	2. Land Surface (or Water Body) Cover, Use, Substrate, or Metric
	--Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of living ecosystem components	--Physical/chemical characteristics of nonliving ecosystem components	--Physical/chemical characteristics of nonliving ecosystem components	--Demarcation of watershed, channel, floodplain, shore, coastline, flowline	--Water withdrawal from the environment by humans	--Demarcation of watershed, channel, floodplain, shore, coastline, flowline
	----Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of flora and fungi	----Physical/chemical characteristics of water	----Physical/chemical characteristics of air, meteorology and precipitation	----Watershed demarcation or dimension		----Watershed demarcation or dimension
	------Plant root characteristics	------Evapotranspiration (via soil and/or vegetation)	------Meteorology data and parameters (including precipitation)

Variable Spatial Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Maximum vegetative root depth	Plant evapotranspiration coefficient	Seasonality factor	Subwatershed boundary	Water consumptive use	Watershed boundary
Spatial Extent Area variable.detail.spExtentHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Spatially Distributed? variable.detail.spDistributedHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Observations Spatially Patterned? variable.detail.regularSpGrainHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Spatial Grain Type variable.detail.spGrainTypeHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Spatial Grain Size variable.detail.spGrainSizeHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Spatial Density variable.detail.spDensityHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
EnviroAtlas URL variable.detail.enviroAtlasURLHelp ?			Average Annual Precipitation	The Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)	Agricultural water use (million gallons/day)	The Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)

Variable Temporal Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Maximum vegetative root depth	Plant evapotranspiration coefficient	Seasonality factor	Subwatershed boundary	Water consumptive use	Watershed boundary
Temporal Extent variable.detail.tempExtentHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Temporally Distributed? variable.detail.tempDistributedHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Regular Temporal Grain? variable.detail.regularTempGrainHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Temporal Grain Size Value variable.detail.tempGrainSizeValHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Temporal Grain Size Units variable.detail.tempGrainSizeUnitHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Temporal Density variable.detail.tempDensityHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables

Variable Values

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Maximum vegetative root depth	Plant evapotranspiration coefficient	Seasonality factor	Subwatershed boundary	Water consumptive use	Watershed boundary
Units variable.detail.estUnitHelp ?	mm	Not reported	unitless	Not applicable	Not reported	Not applicable
Min Value variable.detail.minEstHelp ?	0	153	1.25	Not applicable	Not reported	Not applicable
Max Value variable.detail.estHelp ?	7300	1100	5	Not applicable	Not reported	Not applicable
Other Value Type variable.detail.natureOtherEstHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Other Value variable.detail.otherEstHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable

Variable Variability and Sensitivity

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Maximum vegetative root depth	Plant evapotranspiration coefficient	Seasonality factor	Subwatershed boundary	Water consumptive use	Watershed boundary
Variability Expression Given? variable.detail.variabilityExpHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Variability Metric variable.detail.variabilityMetricHelp ?	None	None	None	None	None	None
Variability Value variable.detail.variabilityValueHelp ?	None	None	None	None	None	None
Variability Units	None	None	None	None	None	None
Resampling Used? variable.detail.bootstrappingHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Variability Expression Used in Modeling? variable.detail.variabilityUsedHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables

Variable Operational Validation (Response Variables only)

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?
Variable ID variable.detail.varIdHelp ?
Validated? variable.detail.resValidatedHelp ?
Validation Approach (within, between, etc.) variable.detail.validationApproachHelp ?
Validation Quality (Qual/Quant) variable.detail.validationQualityHelp ?
Validation Method (Stat/Deviance) variable.detail.validationMethodHelp ?
Validation Metric variable.detail.validationMetricHelp ?
Validation Value variable.detail.validationValHelp ?
Validation Units
Use of Measured Response Data variable.detail.measuredResponseDataHelp ?

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Validated?

Validation Approach (within, between, etc.)

Validation Quality (Qual/Quant)

Validation Method (Stat/Deviance)

Validation Metric

Validation Value

Validation Units

Use of Measured Response Data

US EPA

EcoService Models Library (ESML)

Variables Details

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