Catalog Record
Report from S&T Project 19264: Exploring the use of temperature to understand recent drought and project future conditions in the Colorado River Basin
BOR’s midterm projections of Colorado River Basin reservoir operations are based on data that do not account for recent warming. This study combined temperature predictions and statistical modeling to generate experimental forecasts that showed moderate skill improvements. The data used and generated by this study is publicly available on GitHub at the following location: https://github.com/Dave-Woodson/CRB-Decadal-Projections
Generation Effort
S&T Project 19264: Exploring the use of temperature to understand recent drought and project future conditions in the Colorado River Basin
Location
Colorado River Basin
Themes
Water
Reclamation Project
Yuma Project, Boulder Canyon Project, Colorado River Storage Project, Colorado River Front Work and Levee System, Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Project
Reclamation Program
Science and Technology Program
Location Information
Location Name
Colorado River Basin
Location Description
The Colorado River Basin, located in the southwestern United States, occupies an area of approximately 250,000 square miles. The Colorado River is approximately 1,400 miles long and originates along the Continental Divide in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, and ends where it meets the Gulf of California in Mexico.
Location Parent
State(s)
Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming
Unified Region(s)
Upper Colorado Basin, Lower Colorado Basin
Timezone
Elevation
[ N/A ]
Vertical Datum
[ N/A ]
Coordinates (lat, long)
See
Location Details
Horizontal Datum
WGS84
