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Tamarisk and Russian Olive Occurrence and Absence Dataset Collected in Select Tributaries of the Colorado River for 2017

Data, 2018
Non-native and invasive tamarisk (Tamarix spp.) and Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia) are common in riparian areas of the Colorado River Basin and are regarded as problematic by many land and water managers.
Anthony G. Vorster, Brian D. Woodward, Amanda M. West, Nicholas E. Young, Robert G. Sturtevant, Timothy J. Mayer, Rebecca K. Girma, Paul H. Evangelista   +7 more
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Colorado River water supply is predictable on multi-year timescales owing to long-term ocean memory

Communications Earth & Environment, 2020
Sea surface temperature anomalies in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans can help predict water shortages in the Colorado River basin, according to analyses of decadal climate predictions and observations.
Yoshimitsu Chikamoto, S.-Y. Simon Wang, Matt Yost, Larissa Yocom, Robert R. Gillies   +4 more
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Policy deficiencies and contingency plans: groundwater management implications for baseflow contributions to the Colorado River

Frontiers in Environmental Science
The Colorado River is a vital water source for the western United States, yet the river is governed by disjointed and outdated policies that have left water management fragmented and water quantities overallocated.
Denielle Perry, Riley K. Swanson, Abraham E. Springer   +2 more
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Decoupling environmental water markets from water law

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
Environmental water markets have emerged as a tool for restoring flows in rivers across the world. Prior literature suggests that certain legal conditions are necessary for these markets to function.
Philip Womble, Allen Townsend, Leon F Szeptycki   +2 more
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Challenge and response in the Colorado River Basin

Water Policy, 2014
The Colorado River Basin supplies water to roughly 40 million people in the south-western United States. A complex interstate regime that has evolved across the past century governs allocation and management of these coveted flows, and formidable challenges face this regime in contemporary times – a historical era aptly dubbed the ‘era of limits’. This
Arturo Villanueva, Vanessa Palmer, Eliza Morris, Jaime Latcham, Katja Bratrschovsky, Jason Robison   +5 more
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Atmospheric Rivers and Snow Accumulation in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Geophysical Research Letters, 2021
Abstract We utilized a macroscale hydrology model in conjunction with an atmospheric river (AR) catalog to evaluate AR‐affected snow accumulation in the Upper Colorado River basin (UCRB) headwaters for water years 1951–2015.
Mu Xiao, Dennis P. Lettenmaier
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Is quinoa‐farming sustainable in marginal environments? Social, economical and environmental aspects

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is an Andean grain crop introduced as a novel crop to many parts of the world in recent years. Recognized for nutritious seeds and high abiotic stress tolerance, it has been promoted as an element of climate‐resilient agriculture, particularly in marginal environments.
Anna Tabea Mengen, Damir Esenaliev, Jakhongir Babadjanov, Lukas John, Sandra M. Schmöckel, Botir Khaitov   +5 more
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Colorado River Basin Hydroclimatic Variability

Journal of Climate, 2012
Abstract An analysis of annual hydroclimatic variability in the Upper Colorado River basin (UCRB) for the period of 1906–2006 was performed to understand the dominant modes of multidecadal variability. First, wavelet-based spectral analysis was employed for streamflow at Lees Ferry, Arizona (aggregate location for UCRB flow), which ...
Kenneth Nowak, Martin Hoerling, Balaji Rajagopalan, Edith Zagona   +3 more
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Using a social‐ecological macrosystems framework to understand how human activities alter ecological synchrony

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Different aspects of ecological systems, biotic or abiotic, often fluctuate in coordinated patterns over space and time. Such high concordance between ecological processes is often referred to as ecological synchrony. Human activities, including and beyond climate change, have the potential to alter ecological synchrony by disrupting or ...
Yiluan Song, Mallory Barnes, K. Ann Bybee‐Finley, Kyla M. Dahlin, Travis McDevitt‐Galles, Stephan B. Munch, Guillermo E. Ponce‐Campos, Casey Youngflesh, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Kai Zhu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the contribution of groundwater storage to interannual streamflow anomalies in the Colorado River basin [PDF]

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2013
We assess the significance of groundwater storage for seasonal streamflow forecasts by evaluating its contribution to interannual streamflow anomalies in the 29 tributary sub-basins of the Colorado River. Monthly and annual changes in total basin storage
E. A. Rosenberg, E. A. Clark, A. C. Steinemann, D. P. Lettenmaier   +3 more
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