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A history of the 2014 Minute 319 environmental pulse flow as documented by field measurements and satellite imagery

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Nelson, S.M., Ramírez-Hernández, Jorge, Rodríguez-Burgueño, J.E. Jesús E., Milliken, Jeff, Kennedy, Jeffrey R., Zamora-Arroyo, Francisco, Schlatter, Karen, Santiago-Serrano, Edith, Carrera-Villa, Edgar, 2017, A history of the 2014 Minute 319 environmental pulse flow as documented by field measurements and satellite imagery: Ecological Engineering, vol. 106, p. 733-748. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.10.040

Summary

As provided in Minute 319 of the U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty of 1944, a pulse flow of approximately 132 million cubic meters (mcm) was released to the riparian corridor of the Colorado River Delta over an eight-week period that began March 23, 2014 and ended May 18, 2014. Peak flows were released in the early part of the pulse to simulate a spring flood , with approximately 101.7 mcm released at Morelos Dam on the U.S.-Mexico border. The remainder of the pulse flow water was released to the riparian corridor via Mexicali Valley irrigation spillway canals, with 20.9 mcm released at Km 27 Spillway (41 km below Morelos Dam) and 9.3 mcm released at Km 18 Spillway (78 km below Morelos Dam). We used sequential satellite images, overflights, [...]

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