Data for Unraveling the Drivers of Water Shortage across Spatial Scales and Sectors in Colorado's West Slope River Basins

Sunkara, Sai Veena; Gold, David; Reed, Patrick

doi:10.57931/3012850

Title: Data for Unraveling the Drivers of Water Shortage across Spatial Scales and Sectors in Colorado's West Slope River Basins

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Results from Sunkara et al. submitted to Earth's Future. All code to reproduce the experiment and make the figures can be found here: https://github.com/ssaiveena/Sunkara-etal_2025_WestSlope For a detailed guide to data in this repository, see the README.txt file. Shortage output from .xdd files generated by StateMod was compressed into .parquet files in the Uncertain_scenarios folder. Reservoir output from .xre files can be found in the "Reservoir" directory within the Uncertain_scenarios folder. We adopted the CDSS naming convention: cm = Upper Colorado River Basin gm = Gunnison River Basin ym = Yampa River Basin wm = White River Basin sj = Southwest Basin

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Sunkara, Sai Veena; Gold, David; Reed, Patrick

Cornell University
Utrecht University

Publication Date:: Tue Oct 28 20:00:00 EDT 2025

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

Research Org.:: Pacific Northwest National Lab (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Subject:: Climate Change; Colorado River; integrated multisector multiscale modeling; Lake Powell; StateMod; Water; West Slope Basins

OSTI Identifier:: 3012850

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.57931/3012850

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                    Sunkara, Sai Veena, Gold, David, and Reed, Patrick. Data for Unraveling the Drivers of Water Shortage across Spatial Scales and Sectors in Colorado's West Slope River Basins.  United States: N. p., 2025. 
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                    Sunkara, Sai Veena, Gold, David, & Reed, Patrick. Data for Unraveling the Drivers of Water Shortage across Spatial Scales and Sectors in Colorado's West Slope River Basins.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.57931/3012850

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                    Sunkara, Sai Veena, Gold, David, and Reed, Patrick. 2025.  
"Data for Unraveling the Drivers of Water Shortage across Spatial Scales and Sectors in Colorado's West Slope River Basins".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.57931/3012850.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/3012850. Pub date:Tue Oct 28 20:00:00 EDT 2025

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  abstractNote = {Results from Sunkara et al. submitted to Earth's Future. All code to reproduce the experiment and make the figures can be found here: https://github.com/ssaiveena/Sunkara-etal_2025_WestSlope For a detailed guide to data in this repository, see the README.txt file. Shortage output from .xdd files generated by StateMod was compressed into .parquet files in the Uncertain_scenarios folder. Reservoir output from .xre files can be found in the "Reservoir" directory within the Uncertain_scenarios folder. We adopted the CDSS naming convention:  cm = Upper Colorado River Basin gm = Gunnison River Basin ym = Yampa River Basin wm = White River Basin sj = Southwest Basin},

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