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This plot first appeared as Figure 2 in Udall and Overpeck (2017), "The twenty-first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future." Brad Udall has updated it annually and it now shows data through Water Year 2023.  
This plot first appeared as Figure 2 in Udall and Overpeck (2017), "The twenty-first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future." Brad Udall has updated it annually and it now shows data through Water Year 2023.  


[[File:Udall_4-panel_CRB_plot.png|thumb|800px|  The "4-panel plot" showing trends in Colorado River Basin reservoir storage, natural streamflow, precipitation, and temperature, through Water Year 2023. (Figure: Brad Udall; Data: Reclamation - reservoir storage and streamflow; NOAA NCEI - precipitation and temperature)]]
[[File:Udall_4-panel_plot.png|thumb|800px|  The "4-panel plot" showing trends in Colorado River Basin reservoir storage, natural streamflow, precipitation, and temperature, through Water Year 2023. (Figure: Brad Udall; Data: Reclamation - reservoir storage and streamflow; NOAA NCEI - precipitation and temperature)]]

Revision as of 12:33, 16 November 2023

Overview

This page links to frequently-updated web resources that provide information about current, recent, and forecasted weather and climate, snowpack, streamflow, reservoir levels, and water supply, for the Colorado River Basin. A more comprehensive list of web resources can be found on the Data and tools page.

Interactive maps and tools

These web resources provide multiple ways to view the data, e.g., by selecting a variable, a site or geographic region, or other attributes. In the listings below, links in the bullet items go directly to specific views of the listed variable (e.g., snowpack).

NRCS Interactive Map

CBRFC Conditions Map

Reclamation HydroData Reservoir Map

  • Reservoir storage (current and historical)
  • Reservoir inflows (current and historical)
  • Reservoir releases (current and historical)

Reclamation HydroData Gage Map

  • Streamflows (current and historical)
  • Diversion flows (current and historical)

Reclamation CRMMS Visualization Tool

  • Projected reservoir storage
  • Projected reservoir levels
  • Projected reservoir inflows
  • Projected reservoir releases

Drought.gov Colorado River Basin Current Conditions

  • US Drought Monitor (current)
  • Precipitation (recent)
  • Temperature (recent)
  • Streamflows (current)
  • Precipitation outlook (1-month)

Dashboards

These web resources show a curated set of visualizations, with no user selection.

WWA Intermountain West Climate Dashboard

  • Temperature (recent)
  • Precipitation (recent)
  • Snowpack (current)
  • Drought indices (current)
  • Streamflows (current)
  • Seasonal streamflow forecasts (NRCS, available Jan-Jun)
  • Soil moisture (current)
  • Reservoir storage (current)
  • Seasonal climate outlooks
  • ENSO (current, forecasted)

CBRFC Upper Colorado Situational Awareness

  • Soil moisture (antecedent; early November)
  • Snowpack (current)
  • Precipitation (recent)
  • Seasonal streamflow forecast (Powell inflows only)
  • Reservoir inflows (current; Powell only)

CAP Colorado River Conditions Dashboard

  • Reservoir storage (updated monthly)
  • Snowpack (updated monthly)
  • Projected reservoir levels (Powell, Mead)

The Colorado River '4-panel plot'

This plot first appeared as Figure 2 in Udall and Overpeck (2017), "The twenty-first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future." Brad Udall has updated it annually and it now shows data through Water Year 2023.

The "4-panel plot" showing trends in Colorado River Basin reservoir storage, natural streamflow, precipitation, and temperature, through Water Year 2023. (Figure: Brad Udall; Data: Reclamation - reservoir storage and streamflow; NOAA NCEI - precipitation and temperature)