Water chemistry data for Fourmile Creek Watershed, Colorado, 2010-2015
Dates
Publication Date
2018-03-19
Start Date
2010
End Date
2015
Citation
Murphy, S.F., McCleskey, R.B., and Writer, J.H., 2018, Water chemistry data for Fourmile Creek Watershed, Colorado, 2010-2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7Z60N8T.
Summary
Extreme climate events– such as hurricanes, droughts, ice storms, extreme precipitation, and wildfires– have the potential to cause large changes in watershed processes, response, and function. A five-year post-wildfire study of stream chemistry in the Colorado Front Range USA, enabled the analysis of the effects these events have water quality, which is published in the journal article Murphy, S.F., McCleskey, R.B., Martin, D.A., Writer, J.H., and Ebel, B.A., in review, Fire, flood, and drought: Extreme climate events alter flowpaths and stream chemistry: JGR-Biogeosciences. That article describes how extreme climate events altered concentration-discharge relations in ways that elucidate hydrologic flow paths and the role of material [...]
Summary
Extreme climate events– such as hurricanes, droughts, ice storms, extreme precipitation, and wildfires– have the potential to cause large changes in watershed processes, response, and function. A five-year post-wildfire study of stream chemistry in the Colorado Front Range USA, enabled the analysis of the effects these events have water quality, which is published in the journal article Murphy, S.F., McCleskey, R.B., Martin, D.A., Writer, J.H., and Ebel, B.A., in review, Fire, flood, and drought: Extreme climate events alter flowpaths and stream chemistry: JGR-Biogeosciences. That article describes how extreme climate events altered concentration-discharge relations in ways that elucidate hydrologic flow paths and the role of material connectivity in stream water chemistry. The datasets provided here contain the data used in that analysis.
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Fourmile_Creek_Metadata.xml Original FGDC Metadata
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FourmileAsh.csv
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FourmileWater.csv
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Purpose
These data sets were developed for an assessment of the impacts of extreme climate events– wildfire, extreme precipitation, and drought- on water quality of Fourmile Creek, Boulder County, Colorado. The data include five years of water-quality data for four sites on Fourmile Creek, along with data for deionized-water leachates of wildfire ash.
