Streamflow Drought Metrics for Selected United States Geological Survey Streamgages in and around the Colorado River Basin from 1981-2020

Description

This metadata record describes a series of tabular datasets containing metrics used to characterize drought for select United States Geological Survey (USGS) streamgages in and surrounding the Colorado River Basin for the climate years (April 1 – March 31) 1981 to 2020. These streamgages are a subset of those used in Geospatial Attributes of Gages for Evaluating Streamflow, version 2 (GAGES-II, Falcone, 2011) with some additional USGS streamgages not in the GAGES-II dataset added. The metrics include streamflow percentiles, identified drought events, annual low streamflow, and statistics for each drought event.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P92FAASD
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.62f52da9d34eacf53973a908.xml

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  • drought
  • biota
  • streamflow
  • datasets
  • usgs-62f52da9d34eacf53973a908
  • hydrology
  • conus

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