A hydrological simulation dataset of the Upper Colorado River Basin from 1983 to 2019.

Tran, Hoang; Zhang, Jun; O'Neill, Mary Michael; Ryken, Anna; Condon, Laura E.; Maxwell, Reed M.

This article presents a hydrological reconstruction of the Upper Colorado River Basin with an hourly temporal resolution, and 1-km spatial resolution from October 1982 to September 2019. The validated dataset includes a suite of hydrologic variables including streamflow, water table depth, snow water equivalent (SWE) and evapotranspiration (ET) simulated by an integrated hydrological model, ParFlow-CLM. The dataset was validated over the period with a combination of point observations and remotely sensed products. These datasets provide a long-term, natural-flow, simulation for one of the most over-allocated basins in the world. Measurement(s) streamflow • groundwater • evaporation • evapotranspiration • total water storage Technology Type(s) integrated hydrological model Factor Type(s) temporal interval • geographic location Sample Characteristic - Environment river Sample Characteristic - Location Colorado River Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16632454

WATERSHEDS; HYDROLOGIC models; WATER storage; WATER depth; STREAMFLOW

Scientific Data, 2022, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1

2052-4463

Academic Journal

10.1038/s41597-022-01123-w