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scripts for predicting streamflow characteristics in ungaged basins for RESTORE
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Closed rrknight-usgs closed 6 years ago

rrknight-usgs commented 6 years ago

2003-Redundancy_and_the_choice_of_hydrologic_indices_for_characterizing_streamflow_regimes.pdf Scott / Will, I had a good talk w Stacey Archfield today (as a subpart of a discussion on trends). I asked what she thought about identifying which characteristics of the flow regime would be most useful for estimating if there were no other guidance for a given area... which is sort of where we stand. We collectively came up with the Olden and Poff paper (DOI below). In short, they did a national analysis... winnowed down the number of useful characteristics based on dominant hydro process driving a river... that may be a good start... we can talk. Second idea... use the IHA metrics (~32) that are sort of commonly accepted... though the way they were intended to be used is useless....

doi.wiley.com/10.1002/rra.700

scworland commented 6 years ago

So we choose the statistics from Table 3 for each "stream type" underlined below? I think we are ok to not use the "snow and rain" stream type. That seems misclassified to me.

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scworland commented 6 years ago

We have decided to model daily streamflow so this issue is no longer relevant