{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Fred D Tillman", "hasEmail": "mailto:ftillman@usgs.gov"}, "description": "The Colorado River and its tributaries supply water to more than 35 million people in the United States \nand 3 million people in Mexico, irrigating more than 4.5 million acres of farmland, and generating about \n12 billion kilowatt hours of hydroelectric power annually. Planning for the sustainable management of \nthe Colorado River in future climates requires an understanding of the Upper Colorado River Basin \ngroundwater system. The Upper Colorado River Basin, encompassing more than 110,000 square \nmiles (mi2), contains the headwaters of the Colorado River and is an important source of snowmelt \nrunoff to the River. Groundwater discharge also is an important source of water in the River and its \ntributaries, with estimates ranging from 21 to 58 percent of streamflow in the upper basin.\n\t\t\t\nA study by Castle and others (2014) using remotely sensed gravity observations from the NASA \nGravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission found that UCRB groundwater was \ndepleted by more than 17 million acre-feet (ft) from December 2004 to November 2013. Understanding \ngroundwater-budget components, including groundwater recharge, is important to sustainably \nmanage both groundwater and surface-water supplies in the Colorado River Basin.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ZFQFJD", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.850b5cf3-7b38-4a2e-bb0a-4b91f6b6332f.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_850b5cf3-7b38-4a2e-bb0a-4b91f6b6332f", "keyword": ["Arizona", "California", "Colorado", "DCHP", "Daymet", "Nevada", "New Mexico", "USGS:850b5cf3-7b38-4a2e-bb0a-4b91f6b6332f", "Upper Colorado River Basin", "Utah", "Wyoming", "environment", "geoscientificInformation", "groundwater", "groundwater recharge", "inlandWaters", "soil-water balance"], "modified": "2020-11-17T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-113.920363928, 34.965779618, -105.25, 43.986766736", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Input Digital Datasets for the Soil-Water Balance Groundwater Recharge Model of the Upper Colorado River Basin"}