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. At this time it is not clear if streamflow, for example, is the highest order, with paleo, historic, and future subcategories, or to divide first by time period, and then by type of data. Both organizations could be provided, potentially, with the 'atomic' data the same, just presented in two, or more, ways.

Data

Reservoir Data

• Historic Elevation / Volume
• Flood Control Rules
• Basic Reservoir Data
  • volume
  • elevation/volume curves
  • area / elevation curves
  • area /volume curves
  • spillway size
  • power plants, etc.
  • some of this online at BoR sites, but hard to find
  • releases
  • regulated inflow
  • unregulated inflow
• APIs to Access
• Images

Water Use Consumption Data

Upper Colorado Consumptive Uses and Losses

[Provisional Report]

Other Data

• State Level Data
• Tribal Data
• Cohen et al

Evaporation and ET Data

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

1. Tools to Calculate / Access

Demand Data

• Demands vs Uses , i.e. 'demand' is a desire, not actual use

CRSS Data

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

Regulated Flows

Image of one of these..

Paleo Data

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

1. best to organize by streamflow/climate and then historic/paleo/future, possibly

Geographic Data

Shapefiles

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

Tribal Data

1. Use Data
2. Rights

Data Access Tools

Examples

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

Data Access Sites

1. BoR
2. NOAA
3. USGS
4. PRISM
5. Livneh
6. State Sites
7. NOAA CBRFC
8. NRCS
9. RCCs
10. Climate Dashboards
    1. CLIMAS
    2. WWA
    3. Scenit