Wildfires drive multi-year water quality degradation over the western U.S.
Creators
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
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University of Virginia
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Hazen and Sawyer (United States)
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Colorado State University
Description
Information on the 245 burned basins, 293 unburned basins, and 356 associated fires from across the U.S. West which were used in statistical analyses of post-wildfire water quality response. Included are physiographic characteristics, as well as ESRI Shapefile polygons representing delineations for each basin and fire. Additionally, daily carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, and turbidity data sampled from the basins' outlets are provided from 1974-2022. R coding scripts used in data processing and modeling also included, as well as data directly used in generating manuscript and "Supplementary Information" plots.
Water quality data used to create this dataset are from the Water Quality Portal and wildfire burn perimeters are from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity database.
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Funding
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
- Graduate Student Research Award NA17OAR4320101
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Western Water Assessment: Building Resilience to Compound Hazards in the Inter-Mountain West NA21OAR4310309
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation