Notice of Intent to Award to Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies

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The Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies’ Colorado Dust-on-Snow (CODOS) program, in Silverton, Colorado performs dust-on-snow monitoring throughout the Colorado mountains. Through this program the Center provides timely analyses and forecasts of dust effects to the Colorado River water management community and other interested stakeholders. The information provided through the program benefits the Lower Colorado Region by increasing the knowledge of the natural system, with the potential to improve runoff forecasts, and thereby improving operations of the Region's facilities. The primary CODOS deliverable is a series of operational dust-on-snow condition updates, alerts, and emails tailored to operations, which will be available for Reclamation and internal re-distribution. Research reports and products from other dust-on-snow research teams will also be available for use by Reclamation

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