Closed slevin75 closed 1 year ago
I am in favor of using water year.
I also agree with ending 9/30/2020 due to provisional data in 2021. For now, let's keep the start date as early as possible. We can do a moving window analysis for each gauge to see how metrics are changing over time. If there are substantial changes for some sites, I think that can help inform if we should limit our analysis to a more recent time period. Otherwise, a longer record will help to obtain more robust statistics (metrics). I'll start an issue to set up the moving window analysis for metrics.
I think the GAUGES database already screens sites for minimum record length, but I'm not sure what that length is. We can revisit when the GAUGES III database is available.
This was a discussion that I turned into an issue - I might have forgotten to close it
Discussed in https://github.com/USGS-R/regional-hydrologic-forcings-ml/discussions/6