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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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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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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 repositories121-year record

Gap-filled meteorological data (2011-2020) and modeled potential evapotranspiration data from the KCOMTCRE2 WeatherUnderground weather station, from the East River Watershed, Colorado.

Published 2021Data 1900–20211 citationdirect downloadCrested Butte · East River Watershed · Upper Colorado River Basin

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Grand Mesa Study Plot

Published 2018Grand Mesa Study Plot · Gunnison Basin

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Grand Mesa Study Plot

Published 2018direct downloadGrand Mesa · Grand Mesa Study Plot · Gunnison Basin

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Grand Mesa Study Plot

Published 2018direct downloadGrand Mesa · Grand Mesa Study Plot · Gunnison Basin

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Grand Mesa Study Plot

Published 20181 citationGrand Mesa Study Plot · Gunnison Basin · Mesa Lakes Snow Telemetry site

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Grand Mesa Study Plot

Published 2018

direct download

Grand Mesa · Grand Mesa Study Plot · Gunnison Basin

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Grand Mesa Study Plot

Published 2018direct downloadGrand Mesa · Grand Mesa Study Plot · Gunnison Basin

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Supplement 1. Temperature and light data recorded at trap-nest sites, 2007–2010.

Published 2016Data 2007–2010direct downloadBrush Creek · Crested Butte · Gunnison Basin

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Supplement 1. Temperature and light data recorded at trap-nest sites, 2007–2010.

Published 2016Data 2007–2010direct downloadBrush Creek · Crested Butte · Gunnison Basin

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USGS Water Data for the Nation

Published 1994Data 1950–1950385 citationsdirect downloadGunnison Basin

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