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Model-Estimated, Spatially Distributed Monthly Water Balance of the Upper Colorado River Basin, Water Years 1913-2017

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1912-10-01
End Date
2017-09-30

Citation

Milly, P.C., and Dunne, K.A., 2022, Model-estimated, spatially distributed monthly water balance of the Upper Colorado River Basin, water years 1913-2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PEXXLB.

Summary

Dataset was generated by performing water-balance computations for the Upper Colorado River Basin for the months October 1913 through September 2017. The basin area was first divided into 17,626 4-kim grid cells, and these were then grouped by sub-basin and annual precipitation into 960 subareas; the dataset includes a lookup table for this grouping. For each of the 960 subareas, the dataset gives the model's estimates of rainfall, snowfall, albedo, net radiation, snowmelt, potential evapotranspiration, actual evapotranspiration, total runoff, snow-water equivalent, soil-water storage, groundwater storage, and air temperature.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Paul C Milly
Originator :
Paul C Milly, Krista A Dunne
Metadata Contact :
Paul C Milly
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Integrated Modeling & Prediction Division
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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UCRB Data Release Metadata Revised.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		56.95 KB application/fgdc+xml
cell_lookup.csv 537.38 KB text/csv
temp_stats.txt 67.73 MB text/plain
soil_stats.txt 78.06 MB text/plain
snwe_stats.txt 48.6 MB text/plain
snow_stats.txt 45.78 MB text/plain
runf_stats.txt 88.3 MB text/plain
rnet_stats.txt 86.9 MB text/plain
rain_stats.txt 55.07 MB text/plain
pote_stats.txt 83.52 MB text/plain
melt_stats.txt 39.06 MB text/plain
gwtr_stats.txt 77.72 MB text/plain
evap_stats.txt 82.65 MB text/plain
albd_stats.txt 95.02 MB text/plain

Purpose

These data were generated as part of a study to determine the magnitude and controls of the sensitivity of the basin's discharge to atmospheric warming. Data are appropriate for estimation of historical basin-wide water-balance components.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9PEXXLB

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