Data

This page will provide a broad look at the data available for the Colorado River Basin. Here are some sample categories of topics that should be covered. This list is not intended to be inclusive, nor is the current organization set.

Data

Reservoir Data

• Historic
• APIs to Access
• Images

Water Use Consumption Data

• Lower Colorado River Reports
• Upper Colorado Consumptive Uses and Losses

[Provisional Report]

• State Level Data
• Tribal Data

Evaporation and ET Data

• Discussion re Methods
• Crop ET
• Reservoir Evaporation (Overlap with above)

1. Tools to Calculate / Access

Demand Data

• Demands vs Uses

Examples

1. UCRC Demand Schedules
2. 2012 Study
3. Tribal Data
4. State Demands per CRSS

Natural Flow Data

Reclamation

Reclamation maintains a set of monthly natural (unimpaired by humans) flow data at 29 locations. In addition to other purposes, this data is used by Reclamation's CRSS Model.

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It is available in a spreadsheet with monthly, annual, intervening, and total flows.

Explanation of the Spreadsheet

R Package to Access

Image of Data Locations

List of Data Locations

UB / LB

Various Publications describe this data including:

Loosely Related Data

1. Unregulated Flows
2. Regulated Flows

Image of one of these..

Paleo Data

1. Streamflow Data
2. Temperature Data
3. Other, e.g, Megadrought

Climate Projection Data

• Simple Outputs from GCM
• Derived Data, e.g., future CU, runoff

Tribal Data

1. Use Data
2. Rights

Data Tools

Examples

1. TSTool
2. Netcdf Visualizations
3. Data Access Tools, eg R Packages
4. BoR Access Helpers
5. State Data
6. USGS APIs to access data
7. Images e.g. Snake Diagram, Natural Flow Diagam, CBRFC Probability Plots