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

Future climate

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