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# Data for "Upper Gila, Salt, and Verde Rivers: Arid Land Rivers in a Changing Climate"

Preferred citation (DataCite format):

  Woodhouse, C.A.; Udall, B (in Review).
  Upper Gila, Salt, and Verde Rivers: Arid Land Rivers in a Changing Climate.
  Earth Interactions


Corresponding Author:
  Connie A Woodhouse, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, conniew1@email.arizona.edu


License:
  CC0


DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.16822399



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## Summary

The datasets include monthly and annual streamflow, precipitation, and
temperature data, for the years 1921-2019, for the Upper Gila, Salt, and Verde
River basins in southwestern New Mexico and Arizona. The data were plotted and
analyzed to determine the main climatic controls on streamflow.



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## Files and Folders

- WoodhouseUdallData.docx: this file contains metadata for the data in the 
spreadsheet, including detailed descriptions, data sources, and funding source.
- WoodhouseUdallData.xlsx: this file contains the datasets used in the study, 
including the monthly streamflow, monthly gridded climate datasets from PRISM 
and nClimGrid, and seasonal data in percentile units.



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## Contributor Roles

The roles are defined by the CRediT taxonomy http://credit.niso.org/

  - Connie Woodhouse, University of Arizona: Conceptualization, Data curation, 
  Formal Analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing-original draft
  - Bradley Udall: Formal Analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing-original draft