“…Environmental models incorporating landuse/landcover (LULC) data are common in many fields including hydrology, biogeochemistry, ecology, and climate science, often with decision-making implications (Hu et al, 2021;Baumgartner and Robinson, 2017;Naha et al, 2021;Li et al, 2021). Studies relating hydrology and water quality to LULC often use an LULC dataset developed primarily from growing season data, such as the United States National Landcover Database (NLCD; Jin et al, 2019) or Cropland Data Layer (CDL; Boryan et al, 2011), and/or use an LULC dataset available at an annual time step (Sulla-Menashe and Friedl, 2018;Buchhorn et al, 2020;Gray et al, 2022).…”