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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)

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Meteorological and Soil Data from Ecohydrology Sensor Towers at Pump House and Snodgrass Mountain in East River Watershed, Colorado, 2019-2025

Published 2026Data 2019–20251 citationdirect downloadCrested Butte · Snodgrass Mountain · Upper Colorado River Basin

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Meteorological, reference evapotranspiration and estimated transpiration data, July 2020-Dec 2021, Slate River Floodplain, Crested Butte, Colorado

Published 2023Data 2020–20211 citationdirect downloadSlate River · Slate River Floodplain · Upper Colorado River Basin

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Meteorological data from the Billy Bar site at the East River, Colorado.

Published 2023Data 2015–20171 citationdirect downloadEast River · East River Watershed · Upper Colorado River Basin

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