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This is a database that provides the inputs and exppresions for the baseline scenario presented in:

Astrid Hernández-Cruz, Samuel Sandoval-Solís, Leopoldo G. Mendoza-Espinosa, Jorge Ramírez-Hernández, Josué Medellín-Azuara, and Luis W. Daesslé. Assessing water management strategies under water scarcity in the Mexican portion of the Colorado River Basin. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 2023. (currently under review, Feb. 7, 2023)

This data can be imported into the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) platform.

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This resources shares the water resources planning model for the Aragvi River Basin, located in the country of Georgia. It provides: the model file that uses the WEAP platform, the documentation of the model, the input data used for the model, and an interface built in excel. This model evaluates the water supply of Tbilisi (Georgia's capitol) under different water demand conditions. This resources is the water planning model used in the following peer-reviewed publication:
Sandoval-Solis, S., Ortiz-Partida, J.P. and Floyd, L. E. (2022). Multi-objective water planning in a poor water data region: Aragvi River Basin. J. Sustainability. (14) 6: 3649 https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063649

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In California, riverine ecosystems adapt to a Mediterranean climate: floods in wet winters, snowmelt flows in spring and low flows in summer. Humans have modified the natural river flow patterns in California by storing water during winter and releasing during summer and diverting water from streams. Resulting alterations to the natural flow regimes have degraded riverine ecosystems. Both intense climatic variability and profoundly altered rivers increase the importance of understanding the diversity of streamflow patterns. The present electronic resources quantifies the human alteration on flow regimes in California by categorizing impaired flow regime classes from human alteration. This study is based on the hydrologic classification of altered rivers in California developed by Guitron (2020). This resources share the predicted hydrologic class for impaired flows in California.

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A river classification was developed for major regions of the State of California USA using a field surveying protocol that can now be used to collect data at additional sites. The field protocols provide a framework for systematically collecting a variety of physical geomorphic data using uniform sampling, including channel slope, cross-sectional morphology, sediment composition, and longitudinal depth and width variability. The standard sampling layout consists of a stream length 15 times the active channel width (measured along the thalweg) divided into 10 equidistant transects that are arranged perpendicular to the stream channel. Details of the river classification of the Sacramento Basin region are available in Byrne et al (2020).

This resource contains the field surveying protocols and field data collection template.

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This is a database that provides all the shapefiles created to develop the four maps presented in:
Sandoval-Solis, S., Paladino, S., Garza-Diaz, L.E., Nava, L.F., Friedman, J., Plassin, S., Gomez-Quiroga, G., Ortiz-Partida, J.P., Koch,J., Fleming, J., Lane, B.A., Wineland, S., Mirchi, A., Saiz-Rodriguez, R., and Neeson, T.M. (2020). Environmental Flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo. Journal of Ecology and Society. Submitted. December 2020.
The maps shown in this manuscript were developed by Grace Gomez Quiroga (ggomezquiroga@ucdavis.edu ). All the authors listed in the manuscript provided feedback and contributed to the design of all the maps.