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

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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This article presents a hydrological reconstruction of the Upper Colorado River Basin using hourly temporal resolution and 1-km spatial resolution from October 1982 to September 2019. The validated dataset includes various hydrologic variables such as streamflow, water table depth, snow water equivalent (SWE), and evapotranspiration (ET). These datasets provide a long-term simulation of natural flow for one of the most over-allocated basins in the world.