Science and applications: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:03, 14 April 2021

Overview

This section of the wiki covers a broad set of topics pertaining to science that is relevant and/or applied to Colorado River management, as well as specific applications of the science, such as streamflow forecasting.

Each page contains the following content, as appropriate:

Summary description of the topic
The topic's relevance to Colorado River water management
Annotated links to datasets, tools, and other resources on that topic
Research directions (ongoing and potential) for that topic
New research on that topic (since 2020)

Topics

Weather and climate

Past and current climate
- Mechanisms & spatial patterns
- Variability & trends over time
  - Paleoclimate
- Recent trends & climate change
Climate monitoring
- Weather station networks
  - Errors and adjustments
- Gridded climate products
- Drought monitoring
Weather and climate forecasts
- Overview
- Weather forecasts
- Subseasonal forecasts
- Seasonal forecasts
- Decadal climate forecasts
Future climate
- Fundamentals of climate change
- Climate models
- Downscaling
- Projected future climate

Hydrology and water availability

Water balance and basin water budget
Snowpack
- Snowpack processes & patterns
- Snowpack monitoring
- Dust-on-snow
- Cloud seeding
Soil moisture
- Soil moisture monitoring
Evaporation and evaporative demand
Groundwater
Streamflow
- Paleohydrology
- Historical (gaged) records
- Adjusted streamflow
  - BoR Natural Flows
  - Other naturalized
- Variability & trends over time
- Recent trends & climate change
- Real-time streamflows
- Seasonal streamflow forecasts
Droughts
- Dynamics/causes
- Impacts
- Historic droughts
- Paleodroughts
- Megadrought
Floods
- Historic
- Paleofloods
Channel dynamics
Hydrologic modeling
Water operations and planning
- Reservoirs and infrastructure
- Operating rules
- River system models
  - 24-Month Study
  - MTOM
  - CRSS
  - Other models used in the basin
- Planning approaches
Future hydrology and water availability
- Methods
- Future streamflow changes
- Other hydrology changes
Synthesis: Future basin water availability

Water Use

Agricultural water use
- ET measurement
- Conservation strategies
Municipal water use
- Conservation strategies
Environmental/instream water use
Other depletions
- Reservoir evaporation
- Channel/bank losses
- Phreatophytic vegetation
Demand accounting and scenarios
- State/basin reports
- Demand schedules
- Other demand scenarios
Synthesis: Future basin demand

Water quality and sediment

Salinity
- Salinity monitoring
- Salinity control measures
Other contaminants
- Uranium mining/tailings
Sediment
- Erosion/sediment sources
- Reservoir sedimentation
- Riverbed sediment dynamics

Ecosystems and environment

Overview
Forests
- Disturbances
  - Wildfires
  - Insect infestations/disease
Riparian
- Tamarisk and invasive plants
Aquatic
- T&E fish species
  - Upper Basin
  - Lower Basin
- Invasive mussels
Specific hot spots
- Salton Sea
- Colorado River Delta

Societal and economic issues

Benefits of water
Impacts of shortage and drought
Social inequity and vulnerability
Other

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