Science and applications
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
Topics
Cross-cutting reports
- 2021 SECURE Water Act reports
- 2020 CRB State of the Science
- 2012 Colorado River Basin Study
Weather and climate
- Climate patterns and variability
- Recent climate change
- Weather and climate monitoring
- Weather and climate forecasts
- Projected future 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
- Reservoirs and infrastructure
- Operating guidelines and rules
- River system models
- Planning approaches
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