RICON: River and Infrastructure Connectivity Network for the Colorado River Basin

River and Infrastructure Connectivity Network (RICON) provides a concise edge list showing dependencies between streamgages and reservoirs. The dataset includes a complete list of edges for the unidirectional network and attributes for all nodes, such as geospatial locations and unique identifiers. Author Sudarshana Mukhopadhyay published the data archive on figshare in CSV and RData formats.

Use Cases

• Modeling hydrological network dependencies based on the edge list connecting streamgages and reservoirs.
• Analyzing geospatial connectivity of water infrastructure based on node attributes like location and upstream/downstream links.
• Simulating flow or impact scenarios within the Colorado River Basin using the provided network structure.

Strengths

• Dataset provides a complete list of edges for the unidirectional network connecting key hydrological features.
• Node attributes include concrete details like geospatial locations and unique identifiers for reservoirs and streamgages.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Geography

Colorado River Basin (CRB)