Impact of streamflow variability on the Colorado River system operation Keedy, Julia A. ; Salas, J. D. (Jose D.) ; Fontane, Darrell G. ; Merritt, David H. Hydrologic cycle -- Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico) Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico) Watershed management -- Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico) Water-supply -- Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico) "May 2007" "Completion Report No. 208" 87 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-81) The water supply provided by the Colorado River system is critical to millions of residents in the arid and semiarid western United States. Understanding the response of the system to possible hydrologic occurrences is important to water planners and managers for short, medium, and long term planning and operation of the system. A long sequence of historical streamflow records is available for the river system; however, this sequence is not sufficient to capture the complex temporal and spatial variability of the river system. The overall objective of the study is to determine the effect of alternative possible future hydrologic scenarios on water supply availability throughout the entire river system. Another objective is to estimate the sustainable yield of the Upper Colorado River basin. This study demonstrates that the traditional definition of the Upper Basin’s sustainable yield must be reevaluated in order to determine any sort of sustainable yield volume under stochastic simulation. Colorado State University. Libraries Colorado Water Resources Research Institute 2007 text ; image application/pdf COMP208.pdf CCRICWRI100007CRPT eng Completion report (Colorado Water Resources Research Institute) ; no. 208 Colorado c2007 Colorado Water Resources Research Institute
Impact of streamflow variability on the Colorado River system operation
Keedy, Julia A. ; Salas, J. D. (Jose D.) ; Fontane, Darrell G. ; Merritt, David H.
Hydrologic cycle -- Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)
Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)
Watershed management -- Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)
Water-supply -- Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)
"May 2007"
"Completion Report No. 208"
87 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-81)
The water supply provided by the Colorado River system is critical to millions of residents in the arid and semiarid western United States. Understanding the response of the system to possible hydrologic occurrences is important to water planners and managers for short, medium, and long term planning and operation of the system. A long sequence of historical streamflow records is available for the river system; however, this sequence is not sufficient to capture the complex temporal and spatial variability of the river system. The overall objective of the study is to determine the effect of alternative possible future hydrologic scenarios on water supply availability throughout the entire river system. Another objective is to estimate the sustainable yield of the Upper Colorado River basin. This study demonstrates that the traditional definition of the Upper Basin’s sustainable yield must be reevaluated in order to determine any sort of sustainable yield volume under stochastic simulation.
Colorado State University. Libraries
Colorado Water Resources Research Institute
2007
text ; image
application/pdf
COMP208.pdf
CCRICWRI100007CRPT
eng
Completion report (Colorado Water Resources Research Institute) ; no. 208
Colorado
c2007 Colorado Water Resources Research Institute