noaa-recon-14249
Rio Grande 500 Year Riverflow and Precipitation Reconstructions
Woodhouse, C.A.; Meko, D.M.; Griffin, D.; Castro, C.L.
Rio Grande 500 Year Riverflow and Precipitation Reconstructions
2013-04-16
NCDC-Paleoclimatology
ONLINE Files
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https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/14249
Investigator
C.A.
Woodhouse
Investigator
D.M.
Meko
Investigator
D.
Griffin
Investigator
C.L.
Castro
earth science
paleoclimate
climate reconstructions|tree ring
age,null,null,year Common Era,null,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
climate reconstructions|tree ring
streamflow,null,null,acre foot,Oct-Sep,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
instrumental
precipitation,null,null,millimeter,Jun-Jul,instrumental,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
instrumental
streamflow,null,null,cubic meter per second,Oct-Sep,instrumental,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
climate reconstructions|tree ring
precipitation,null,null,millimeter,Jun-Jul,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
instrumental
streamflow,null,null,acre foot,Oct-Sep,instrumental,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
climate reconstructions|tree ring
streamflow,null,null,cubic meter per second,Oct-Sep,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
reconstructions
streamflow
earth science
paleoclimate
reconstructions
precipitation
geoscientificInformation
Monsoon
Precipitation Reconstruction
Streamflow Reconstruction
hydrology
1508 AD
2008 AD
442 cal yr BP
-58 cal yr BP
Complete
31.75
37.6886
-108.12
-106
2432
2432
Continent
North America
United States Of America
New Mexico
Lower Rio Grande Region>LATITUDE >LONGITUDE
Continent
North America
United States Of America
Colorado
Upper Rio Grande USGS 08220000>LATITUDE 37.6886>LONGITUDE -106.4599
None
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https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data
DATA Center Contact
Bruce
Bauer
bruce.a.bauer@noaa.gov
paleo@noaa.gov
303-497-6280
303-497-6513
325 Broadway, E/NE31
Boulder
CO
80305-3328
USA
online
ASCII
Woodhouse, C.A., D.M. Meko, D. Griffin, and C.L. Castro. 2013.
Tree rings and multiseason drought variability in the lower Rio Grande Basin, USA. Water Resources Research, Vol. 49, Issue 2, pp. 844-850. DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20098
Connie A. Woodhouse, David W. Stahle, José Villanueva Díaz. 2013. Rio Grande and Rio Conchos water supply variability over the past 500 years. Climate Research, Vol. 51, Issue 2, pp. 125-136. DOI: 10.3354/cr01059
Agriculture and ranching in semiarid regions often rely on local precipitation during the growing season as well as streamflow from runoff in distant headwaters. Where snowpack and reservoir storage are important, this pattern of reliance leads to vulnerability to multiseason drought. The lower Rio Grande basin in New Mexico, used as a case study here, has experienced drought conditions over the past 12 years characterized both by low local summer monsoon precipitation and by reduced availability of surface water supplies from the upper Rio Grande. To place this drought in a long-term context, we evaluate the covariability of local warm-season and remote cool-season hydroclimate over both the modern period and past centuries. We draw on a recently developed network of tree-ring data that allows an assessment of preinstrumental warm-season variations in precipitation over the southwest. Both instrumental and paleoclimatic data suggest that low runoff followed by a dry monsoon is not unusual, although over the full reconstruction period (1659-2008), years with wet or dry conditions shared in both seasons do not occur significantly more often than unshared conditions. Low flows followed by dry monsoon conditions were most persistent in the 1770s and 1780s; other notable periods of shared seasonal droughts occurred in the 1660s and 1950s. The recent drought does not yet appear to be unusually severe in either the instrumental or paleoclimatic context.
STUDY NOTES: Tree Ring-based reconstructions of upper and lower Rio Grande Basin precipitation
and riverflow for the past 500 years. Reconstructed Rio Grande Water Year Flow at Del Norte, CO,
in both acre feet and cubic meters per second, plus Reconstructed June-July total precipitation
in millimeters, are presented.
GET DATA
https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/reconstructions/northamerica/riogrande2013precip.txt
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https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/reconstructions/northamerica/riogrande2013flow.txt
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