Discharge data collected within the East River for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Watershed Function Science Focus Area (water years 2015-2018)

Creators: Rosemary Carroll, Kenneth Williams

Year: 2019

DOI: 10.21952/WTR/1495380

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.

Temporal extent: 2014-08-05 to 2018-10-15

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

Publisher: ESS_DIVE

Tags: Stream Hydrology, CATEGORICAL:NONE EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > SENSOR CHARACTERISTICS > GEOLOCATION, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER > SURFACE WATER PROCESSES/MEASUREMENTS > DISCHARGE/FLOW > AVERAGE FLOW, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER > SURFACE WATER PROCESSES/MEASUREMENTS > DISCHARGE/FLOW, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY > WATER TEMPERATURE, VARIABLE:GCMD EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER, CATEGORICAL:GCMD Water Surface Elevation, Alpine & Subalpine Ecology, Hydrology & Watersheds, Snow & Ice, Geology & Tectonics, Weather & Atmospheric Science, Gunnison Basin, Research Programs