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Research datasets from RMBL, the Spatial Data Platform, and partner repositories. Coverage filters use data years (when measurements were made), not publication dates.

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Place

Gunnison Basin (811)East River (201)Upper Colorado River Basin (168)Upper East River Beaver Pond (161)East River Watershed (144)Crested Butte (133)Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (126)Gunnison County (94)Gothic (72)Rocky Mountains (71)

Method

Random Forest climate downscaling (52)Piezometer groundwater monitoring (50)drive-point piezometer groundwater sampling (48)standard water chemistry analysis suite (38)airborne aeromagnetic surveying (34)Satellite-based snow disappearance tracking (32)gravimetric method (32)Multiscale Model to Model Cloud Compare method (32)Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (26)RTK-GNSS cross-section surveying (26)

Taxon

Centrocercus urophasianus (40)Centrocercus urophasianus or Centrocercus minimus (40)sage grouse (40)Centrocercus (40)Centrocercus minimus (40)Marmota (39)Gunnison sage-grouse (39)Yellow-bellied Marmot (36)Tamias minimus (34)Boechera stricta (32)

Sampling Frequency

sub-daily (238)daily (70)weekly (36)monthly (10)annual (165)multi-year (66)one-time (539)

Variables

air temperature (118)elevation (115)precipitation (101)soil moisture (92)snow depth (88)snow water equivalent (50)wind speed (48)soil temperature (45)streamflow (36)relative humidity (36)wind direction (33)water temperature (32)sex (31)discharge (31)

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Keywords

cations (22)anions (22)river corridor (19)metabolite (18)organic matter (18)mass spectrometry (18)hyporheic zone (18)metabolomics (18)fticr-ms (17)pore water (17)evapotranspiration (16)groundwater level (16)neon campaign 2018 (14)patriculate/dissolved organic carbon (13)

Format

geotiff (174)csv (9)

License

CC-BY 4.0 (466)Other / unknown (261)CC0 (232)CC-BY-SA 4.0 (13)CC-BY-NC 4.0 (2)MIT (1)

Repository

Other repositories (1094)ESS-DIVE (224)RMBL SDP (174)

Other repositories

Snowpack_Snodgrass Elevation transect_Winters (2021-22, 2022-23)_AS.csv

Published 2023Data 2021–2023direct downloadCrested Butte · Gunnison Basin · Snodgrass

RMBL SDP21-year record

Upper Gunnison Daily Minimum 2m Air Temperature Daily Time-series (2001-2022).

Published 2023Data 2001–202281 m resolutionGunnison Basin · Upper East River Beaver Pond · Upper Gunnison Valley

RMBL SDP21-year record

Upper Gunnison Daily Maximum 2m Air Temperature Daily Time-series (2001-2022).

Published 2023Data 2001–202281 m resolutionGunnison Basin · Upper East River Beaver Pond · Upper Gunnison Valley

Other repositories

Global Daily Surface Blue-sky Albedo Climatology and Land Cover Climatology Dataset from 20-year MODIS Products (500m)

Published 2022Data 2001–2001direct downloadGunnison Basin