Historic Colorado River streamflows reconstructed back to 1490
...pdates the first tree-ring based reconstruction of streamflows at Lee's Ferry and other Colorado River basin gaug...g widths from 1906 to 1995 with naturalized gauged streamflows (i.e., streamflows adjusted to remove the impacts of humans) during the same period. The streamflows...Studying water quality in Colorado River Delta's Cienega de Santa Clara
... supports the Cienega de Santa Clara. But the high streamflows on the Colorado River at that time were sufficient to provide the low-salinity water the United States is required to provide Mexican farms and cities. Therefore, the YDP has never gone into regular operation. The current drought has renewed intere...Colorado River streamflow history reveals megadrought before 1490
... documents the year-by-year natural variability of streamflows in the upper Colorado River basin back to A. D. 76... the continuous tree-ring record of upper Colorado streamflows back seven centuries earlier than previous reconstructions. "The biggest drought we find in the en...