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Data to Supplement "What will it take to stabilize the Colorado River?"


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Created: May 03, 2022 at 12:30 p.m.
Last updated: Jul 11, 2022 at 2:45 p.m.
DOI: 10.4211/hs.a065c17a6a02463ca9e7d69f22baed10
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Abstract

The Colorado River is facing an unprecedented water supply crisis due to a 20% reduction of streamflow compared to the 20th century average and to policies that have allowed 21st century consumptive water use to exceed water supplies. To continue to meet demands, storage in the two largest reservoirs in the United States, Lakes Mead and Powell, have fallen from nearly full in 2000 to a projected level of 25% full by the end of the year. Existing drought management policies have thus far been unable to arrest this decline. If the current drought were to continue, substantially greater reductions in consumptive use will be necessary to avoid the loss of hydropower and avoid unpredictable delivery reductions to water users. To address the imbalance between supply and consumption, we identify combinations of limits on Upper Basin consumptive use alongside reduced deliveries to the Lower Basin and Mexico. These adaptation measures need to be applied swiftly to avoid further decline if the current drought persists.

This collection is supplementary data and code referenced in the journal article titled "What will it take to stabilize the Colorado River? ". This collection is to preserve and provide access to data used in the study in the interest of transparency and reproducibility of this work.

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Coverage

Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
Place/Area Name:
Colorado River Basin
North Latitude
43.1923°
East Longitude
-105.0792°
South Latitude
30.5901°
West Longitude
-116.1303°

Temporal

Start Date:
End Date:

Content

ReadME.txt

1 Supplementary Materials and Methods_Models and Outputs.zip 
This includes (1.1) the original RiverWare model acquired from the US Bureau of Reclamation, (1.2) additional elements developed for the study to be incorporated into the original model, (1.3) an updated model with all adaptations, saved model versions with each configuration, outputs from each model run, (1.4) plots developed from the outputs, and (1.5) the step by step guidance for results replication.

1.1 CRSS.Jun2021_original.zip
This is the original RiverWare model acquired from the US Bureau of Reclamation.

1.2 DataPreparations.zip
This includes additional elements developed for the study to be incorporated into the original model. (Provided by KW, JW, HS)

1.3 CRSS.Jun2021_Updated.zip
This is an updated model with all adaptations, saved model versions with each configuration, outputs from each model run. (Provided by JW, KW)

1.4 What will it take to stabilize the Colorado River_Figures_Data Source_Revision1.xlsx
This includes plots developed from the outputs. (Provided by KW, JW)

1.5 Supplementary Materials and Methods_Step by Step Guidance.pdf
This is the step by step guidance for results replication. (Provided by JW, KW)

Credits

Funding Agencies

This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
Future of the Colorado River, Catena Foundation Grant 202059
The Walton Family Foundation Grant 2018-585
My Good Fund
David Bonderman fund
Janet Quinney Lawson Chair in Colorado River Studies endowment
Utah Water Research Laboratory funding
Oxford Martin Programme on Transboundary Resource Management

How to Cite

Wheeler, K., B. Udall, J. Wang, E. Kuhn, H. Salehabadi, J. C. Schmidt (2022). Data to Supplement "What will it take to stabilize the Colorado River?", HydroShare, https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.a065c17a6a02463ca9e7d69f22baed10

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