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.

doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01123-w

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

Journal Article · 20 January 2022 · Scientific Data

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01123-w · OSTI ID:1841303

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

Abstract 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.

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