Local community interest in better understanding regional climate change impacts has motivated the establishment of a long-term soil moisture and weather observation network in the Roaring Fork catchment of the Colorado River Headwaters. This catchment-wide suite of 10 stations, installed between 2012 and 2020, collects frequent, fixed-interval data on soil moisture, soil temperature, rain, air temperature, relative humidity, and (at some stations) snow across an elevational gradient from 1800 to 3680 m. In this paper we provide a description of the data this network provides, how data are accessed, and how this community-supported effort has resulted in data that support mountain hydrology research with applications for resource management and climate change adaptation decision making. All data from this network are publicly available.
Osenga, EC; Vano, JA; Arnott, JC
A community-supported weather and soil moisture monitoring database of the Roaring Fork catchment of the Colorado River Headwaters
Hydrological Processes