Water Management Panel Data (1985-2018) of California's Western Sierra Nevada High-Elevation Basins

This is 34 years of water data from 14 high-elevation basins on the western slope of California's Sierra Nevada. All data originates from the California Data Exchange Center (CDEC: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/). The data were cleaned and aggregated between the years 2013-2019. The panel data table includes records of April-July runoff forecasts (the 50% exceedance forecast), forecast uncertainty (as measured by the difference between the 90% and 10% exceedance forecasts), available reservoir space to store runoff on March 31st, April-July releases, and the interaction term forecastXuncertainty. The data are organized as an unbalanced panel data table (N=416) for 34 years of records for 14 basins. All water volumes are reported in cubic kilometers. This data set includes a key that details the common names of each basins, each of their aggregated surface reservoir storage capacity, the measurement location where the data are aggregated in reference to, and a three letter code that links the key to the panel data table. This is the same three letter key used to query some of these data within CDEC.

Detailed information on the project is available in the companion open-access publication (DOI available upon publication). The description of this data is in progress and will be fully updated upon acceptance of accompanying peer-reviewed journal article.