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A network of 31 Upper Missouri River Basin naturalized water-year (Oct-Sep) streamflow reconstructions spanning years 800-1998 CE

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Publication Date
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0800-01-01
End Date
2015-09-30

Citation

Martin, J.T., Pederson, G.T., Woodhouse, C.A., Cook, E.R., McCabe, G.J., Wise, E.K., Erger, P., Dolan, L., McGuire, M., Gangopadhyay, S., Chase, K., Littell, J.S., Gray, S.T., St. George, S., Friedman, J., Sauchyn, D., St. Jacques, J., and King, J., 2019, A network of 31 Upper Missouri River Basin naturalized water-year (Oct-Sep) streamflow reconstructions spanning years 800-1998 CE: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FC7ILX.

Summary

Paleohydrologic records provide a valuable perspective on the variability of streamflow and hydroclimate that is critical for water resource planning and placing present day and future conditions into a long-term context. Until now, key insights gained from streamflow reconstructions in the other river basins across the Western U.S. been lacking in the Upper Missouri River Basin due to a lack of extended streamflow records. Here we utilize a new database of naturalized streamflow records for the Upper Missouri and an expanded network of tree-ring records from the region to reconstruct streamflow at 31 gaging locations across the major Mountain Headwaters of the United States’ largest river basin. The database also includes an Upper [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Gregory T. Pederson
Originator :
Justin T. Martin, Gregory T. Pederson, Connie A. Woodhouse, Edward R. Cook, Gregory J. McCabe, Erika K. Wise, Patrick Erger, Larry Dolan, Marketa McGuire, Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, Katherine Chase, Jeremy S. Littell, Stephen T. Gray, Scott St. George, Jonathan Friedman, Dave Sauchyn, Jeannine St. Jacques, John King
Metadata Contact :
Gregory T. Pederson
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources
SDC Data Owner :
Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center

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UMRB Streamflow Reconstruction 800-1998.xml
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UMRB Stream Gage Spatial Data.csv 3.13 KB text/csv
UMRB Streamflow Data.csv 14.92 MB text/csv

Purpose

The data were generated to provide annual water-year (Oct-Sep) streamflow values spanning years 800-1998 CE for a network of 31 water manager selected stream gages in the Upper Missouri River Basin. The data was specifically developed to be used in water management and drought planning work. For this project, reconstructed annual naturalized (i.e. the affect of human modifications, irrigation, and diversions are accounted and adjusted for in the annual streamflow records) streamflow time series were disaggregated to daily flow estimates and used to drive RiverWare operations models developed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to test current operational rules under periods of severe drought or high flow variability.

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