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    Large scale surface water and groundwater models are essential tools for improving our understanding of the dynamic interaction between the water cycle and human activity. This is especially true when investigating human impacts, extreme hydrologic events, and future water resource availability. Results from these models advance hydrologic science and inform neighboring research disciplinesâ€”for example drought and flooding forecasts influence research in biology, sociology, and economics. As a result, community intellectual contributions to the process parametrization, physics configuration, and validation of continental-scale models is essential to improving the usefulness and adoption of these models within the academic community and beyond. Due to the computational scale of these models, they often require specialized computing hardware and vast amounts of domain and forcing data, making it difficult for the broader water science community to directly engage in development efforts. The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have recognized this challenge and are collaborating to improve the accessibility of model domain data to lower the barrier of entry for using and applying these models, engaging a wide variety scientists and a diverse spectrum of expertise.
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    The purpose of this application is to introduce a collaborative effort for preparing, publishing, and sharing subsets of the National Water Model input data at watershed scales. With a combination of modern cyberinfrastructure techniques and state-of-the-science modeling tools, researchers will have access to subsets of National Water Model information that would otherwise require extensive computational resources. This work will provide the foundation onto which similar efforts can be applied to other large-scale model simulations and input data.
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