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WEPPcloud-(Un)Disturbed for United States

The WEPPcloud-Disturbed allows users to upload a burn severity map and predict erosion based on fire severity. Optionally, the user can forgo uploading a burn severity map to model unburned conditions. It uses SSURGO to create 7778 soils and NLCD to parameterize landuse for unburned conditions. For fire and treatment conditions soils and managements are procedurally generated and parameterized from the disturbed database based on soil texture and landuse. This allowing forests, shrubs, and grass to be burned based on landuse. The parameterization is intended to provide meaningful comparisons between unburned, burned, and treatment conditions. In the long-term disturbed is envisioned to replace the WEPPcloud-PEP interface.
This interface also incorporates the Wildfire Ash Transport And Risk estimation tool (WATAR).

14303 projects and 828,286 hillslopes (588,106 WATAR hillslopes) ran since January 1, 2024

WEPPcloud-Revegetation for United States

The WEPPcloud-Revegetation allows users to upload a burn severity map and use historic vegetative cover data from RAP to model post-fire hydrology and erosion.
The WEPPcloud-Revegetation allows users to upload a Soil Burn Severity map and use historical vegetative cover data from the Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) to model streamflow and soil erosion both before and after a fire. This interface also supports the modeling of stochastic wildfires and their subsequent recovery. Users can specify a cover transformation that describes the recovery of perennial, annual, shrub, and tree covers following the simulated fire.

1707 projects and 98,754 hillslopes ran since January 1, 2024

WEPPcloud-EU

WEPPcloud for Europe.

Managements are assigned based on ESDAC landuses. Soils are built from ESDAC and EU-SoilHydroGrids data. U.S. climate stations are selected based on E-OBS monthly precip and temperatures.

The PeP interfaces provide post fire erosion modeling and ash transport modeling. Parameterizes soils based on burn severity and soil texture using Disturbed WEPP soil files. The PeP interface incorporates the Wildfire Ash Transport And Risk estimation tool (WATAR).

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 10100389.

2113 EU projects and 122,144 hillslopes ran since January 1, 2024

EU WATAR hillslopes ran since January 1, 2023 51,176

WEPPcloud-AU

WEPPcloud for Australia.

Managements are assigned based on Land Use of Australia 2010-11. Soils are built from ASRIS soil data. U.S. climate stations are selected based on AGDC monthly precip and temperatures.

921 EU projects and 53,582 hillslopes ran since January 1, 2024

EU WATAR hillslopes ran since January 1, 2023 40,128

WEPPcloud-RHEM

Run the Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model (RHEM) over the US.

Where available foliar and ground covers are estimated from NLCD Shrubland 2016 data.

SURGO/STATSGO is used to identify soil textures

954 RHEM projects and 55,145 RHEM hillslopes ran since January 1, 2024

Site Specific Resources

Lake Tahoe

The Lake Tahoe Project incorporates region specific soil, phosphorus, and estimated soil burn severity.

View Results and Run WEPP

Hazards and Disasters (Hazard SEES) - FireEarth Project

Data portals related to the Hazard SEES - FireEarth Project

Seattle Municipal Watersheds

Legacy Interfaces

WEPPcloud

Run WEPP anywhere in the continental U.S.

Legacy interface. From 2021 we recommend users to switch to WEPPcloud-US instead of WEPP-PEP. WEPP-PEP is limited to four general soils based on textures. WEPPcloud-Disturbed incorporates spatial variability in soils from SSURGO/STATSGO data bases. A full comparison between the two interfaces has not been made, however, WEPPcloud-US for undisturbed conditions has been successfully validated in multiple watersheds in Western US. Elevation data is from the USGS National Elevation Set. This interface uses TOPAZ for watershed delineation. The soils are built using SURGO/STATSGO. Landcover is selected based on the USGS National Landcover dataset. Climates are generated from the CLIGEN database.

This interface has been deprecated. For new projects run (Un)Disturbed without a burn severity map.

Start WEPPcloud Run 10m (Experimental)

0 projects and 0 hillslopes ran since January 1, 2024

WEPPcloud-PEP w/ WATAR

The WEPPcloud Post-Fire Erosion Prediction (PEP) allows users to upload a burn severity map and predict erosion based on fire severity. Legacy interface. From 2021 we recommend users to switch to WEPPcloud-US instead of WEPP-PEP. WEPP-PEP is limited to four general soils based on textures. WEPPcloud-Disturbed incorporates spatial variability in soils from SSURGO/STATSGO data bases. A full comparison between the two interfaces has not been made, however, WEPPcloud-US for undisturbed conditions has been successfully validated in multiple watersheds in Western US. Soil textures are identified from SSURGO. Unburned conditions are assigned 2006.2 forest soils and managements based on soil texture. Burned areas are assigned burned soils and managements based on soil texture.
The PeP interface incorporates the Wildfire Ash Transport And Risk estimation tool (WATAR).
View 15 May 2019 USDA Forest Service Webinar: An Introduction to WEPPcloud-PEP

This interface has been deprecated. For new projects run (Un)Disturbed without a burn severity map.

Start WEPPcloud Run

0 projects and 0 hillslopes (0 WATAR hillslopes) ran since January 1, 2024

Download Example 4 Class SBS Map (Rattlesnake Fire)

WEPPcloud Utilities

Combined Watershed Viewer URL Generator

WEPPcloud Test Watersheds

Test Watersheds

Contact

For technical assistance please contact Roger Lew at rogerlew@uidaho.edu

For other requests please contact Mariana Dobre at mdobre@uidaho.edu or Roger Lew at rogerlew@uidaho.edu

Documentation

WEPPcloud Documentation can be found at: https://doc.wepp.cloud

Sponsors:

NSF Idaho EPSCoR
This work was made possible by the NSF Idaho EPSCoR Program and by the National Science Foundation under award number IIA-1301792.
USDA AFRI
This work is supported by AFRI program [grant no2016-67020-25320/project accession no. 1009827] from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
UK NERC
The Wildfire Ash Transport And Risk estimation tool (WATAR) was made possible with collaboration from Swansea University (Jonay Neris, Stefan Doerr) and the US Forest Service (Pete Robichaud, William Elliott), and funding provided by UK NERC Grant NE/R011125/1 and European Commission (H2020 FirEUrisk project no. 101003890)
NASA
The revegetation module in WEPPcloud was supported by NASA’s Western Water Application Office (WWAO)

Affiliations and Collaborators:

University of Idaho
Go Vandals! Univeristy of Idaho
WEPPcloud EU has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101003890 https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-2020_en
Swansea University
Gweddw Crefft Heb Ei Dawn Technical Skill is Bereft Without Culture Swansea Univeristy
USDA FS Rocky Mountain Forest Station
Caring for the land and serving people Rocky Mountain Research Station
University of Idaho RCDS
WEPPcloud is proudly hosted by the Univeristy of Idaho Research Computing + Data Services
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Contributors:

Roger Lew, Mariana Dobre, William Elliot, Pete Robichaud, Erin Brooks, Anurag Srivastava, Jim Frakenberger, Jonay Neris, Stefan Doerr, Cristina Santin, Mary E. Miller

Attributions:

Map baselayers provided by Google (Terrain, Satellite) and USGS (NLCD).

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