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Add CA stream gage data figure #265

Closed eread-usgs closed 10 years ago

eread-usgs commented 10 years ago

At the request of USGS CA reviewers: Incorporate a figure showing streamflow from CA streams for the timeperiod of interest.

From Nate: "Look at this as a consideration also (design wise): http://ca.water.usgs.gov/data/drought/surfacewater.html "

jordansread commented 10 years ago

@lawinslow the discharge data you pull in - what are the units? m3/s or m3/day?

jordansread commented 10 years ago

@mwernimont please add a new div between "Drought, snowpack, and reservoir storage (2010 vs 2014)" and "withdrawal" for this fig:http://rawgit.com/USGS-CIDA/CIDA-Viz/master/ca_discharge/Figures/discharge_20141028.svg

Will need it to be moved into public_html too.

Can be centered and cover up the map, because it has the CA inset. Coordinate w/ @eread-usgs or myself for caption and title text.

eread-usgs commented 10 years ago

Hi @mwernimont . The caption/title/data attributions for this new figure, which we're referring to as the discharge figure, are described below. The figure should follow the snowpack fig.

Caption box preceding discharge figure: "Drought also affects flow in streams and rivers. The current and historical streamflow in unregulated rivers and streams (those without upstream reservoirs or control structures) is shown in the graph below."

Figure title: "Current vs historical streamflow" Figure subtitle: "Data providers: U.S. Geological Survey GAGESII (http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/gagesII_Sept2011.xml) and NWIS (http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/sw)"

Figure legend: "Current streamflow (y-axis) is plotted against the historical (since 1980) mean stream (x-axis) for this day of year. Axes are log-scaled ('log scaled' should be linked to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale). Streams (blue circles) falling in the gray zone currently have below average flow, and those falling above the gray zone have above average flow. Streams are represented on map according to color (red is below average flow, blue is above average flow). Mouse over dots on plot or map to get stream site name.

"Get the data" link to https://github.com/USGS-CIDA/CIDA-Viz/blob/master/README.md#discharge-data