Data and tools

Overview

This section of the Colorado River Science Wiki automatically collates all of the information found under the Data and tools headings on every page in the Science and applications section, and lists it below in the same order as the the pages in the Science and applications section.

<-- 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 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

TreeFlow

The TreeFlow resource provides access to data, metadata, and plots of nearly all existing tree-ring reconstructions of streamflow for the Colorado River Basin, as well as other river basins throughout the U.S. Currently there are 31 gages in the Upper Basin and 4 gages in the Lower Basin for which reconstructions are available.

• Meko et al. 2007 reconstruction of Lees Ferry gage (762-2005)

PaleoFlow

The Paleoflow tool provides additional analysis and plotting options for the Colorado River Basin reconstructions that are available on TreeFlow, including dynamic time-series plots, analysis of extreme events, and comparisons of distributions (probability density functions) between two periods. Make sure Time Resolution = Annual to see the full list of reconstructions.

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