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In the list below, the bolded items are links to the wiki page on that topic. Other items are pages that are planned for development.
  
 
==Topics==
 
==Topics==

Revision as of 12:19, 29 March 2022

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 at least the following:

  • Summary description of the topic
  • The topic's relevance to Colorado River water management
  • Annotated links to datasets, tools, and other information resources on that topic

In the list below, the bolded items are links to the wiki page on that topic. Other items are pages that are planned for development.

Topics

Cross-cutting reports

Weather and climate

Hydrology and water availability

  • Water balance and basin water budget
  • Snowpack
  • Soil moisture
  • Evaporation and evaporative demand
  • Groundwater
  • Historical streamflow data
  • Real-time streamflow data
  • Paleohydrology
  • Hydrologic variability and trends
  • Seasonal streamflow forecasts
  • Droughts
  • Floods
  • Channel dynamics
  • Hydrologic modeling
  • Future hydrology and water availability

Water operations and planning

Water Use

  • Agricultural water use
  • Municipal water use
  • Environmental/instream water use
  • Reservoir evaporation
  • Channel and bank losses
  • Demand accounting and scenarios
  • Future basin demand

Water quality

  • Salinity
  • Uranium mining and tailings
  • Other contaminants

Geomorphology and sediment

  • Erosion and sediment sources
  • Riverbed sediment dynamics
  • Reservoir sedimentation

Ecosystems and environment

  • Vegetation change
  • Wildfires
  • Insect infestations and disease
  • Tamarisk and invasive plants
  • T&E fish species - Upper Basin
  • T&E fish species - Lower Basin
  • Invasive mussels
  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge
  • Salton Sea
  • Colorado River Delta

Societal and economic issues

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