Water Level Data from Wells PLM1 and PLM6 for the East River Watershed, Colorado

Creators: Kenneth Williams, Rosemary Carroll, Wenming Dong ORCID, Roelof Versteeg ORCID, Tetsu Tokunaga ORCID

Year: 2020

License: CC-BY 4.0

Location: The East River (ER) is a snow‐dominated, headwater basin of the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) located in the western United States. The ER is the designated testbed of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (WFSFA). Through WFSFA, observational networks have been established to measure stream discharge and precipitation chemistry.The ER is considered representative of many snow‐dominated headwaters of the Rocky Mountains. The study domain encompasses nearly 85 square km, a 1.4‐km vertical drop in elevation (4,120 to 2,760 m) and pristine alpine, subalpine, montane, and riparian ecosystems. The ER contains high‐energy mountain streams to low‐energy meandering floodplains and is eroding primarily into the Cretaceous, carbon‐rich, marine shale of the Mancos Formation. Additional metadata on specific locations within the watershed are provided in the following related data package: Varadharajan C, et al (2020). https://doi.org/10.15485/1660962.

Temporal extent: 2016-11-30 to 2020-02-19

Bounding box: 38.880°N to 39.034°N, -107.050°W to -106.880°W

Publisher: ESS_DIVE

Tags: water level, plm, wells, hillslope, East River Community Observatory, CATEGORICAL:NONE EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GROUND WATER, CATEGORICAL:GCMD groundwater level, VARIABLE:NONE EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GROUND WATER > GROUND WATER FEATURES, Alpine & Subalpine Ecology, Genetics & Evolution, Hydrology & Watersheds, Snow & Ice, Groundwater, Geology & Tectonics, Geochemistry & Isotopes, Weather & Atmospheric Science, Gunnison Basin, Research Programs

Description

This data set contains water level data for the PLM1 and PLM6 wells. PLM1 and PLM6 are location identifiers used by the Watershed Function SFA project for two groundwater monitoring wells along an elevation gradient located along the lower montane life zone of a hillslope near the Pumphouse location. These wells used to monitor subsurface water and carbon inventories and fluxes at the East River Watershed, Colorado, USA. Complete metadata information on the PLM1 and PLM6 wells are available in the related data package reference Varadharajan C, et al (2020). https://doi.org/10.15485/1660962. Data are reported in .csv files per well. The latitude and longitude of each location are given in a file called locations.csv. These data are used for determining the seasonally dependent flow of groundwater under the PLM hillslope. The downslope flow of groundwater in combination with data on groundwater chemistry can be used to estimate rates of solute export from the hillslope to the floodplain and river. These data products are part of the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area collection effort to further scientific understanding of biogeochemical dynamics from genome to watershed scales.

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