runoff_multi_sites {PRSim}

Sample runoff of four catchments with a similar discharge regime

Description

Observed runoff data from four USGS sites.

Usage

data("runoff_multi_sites")

Format

A list of four data frames (one list per station) of the following 4 variables.

YYYY

a numeric vector, year

MM

a numeric vector, month

DD

a numeric vector, day

Qobs

a numeric vector, observed runoff

Details

The data contains runoff for four USGS gages: (i) Calawah River near Forks, WA (USGS 12043000), (ii) NF Stillaguamish River near Arlington, WA (USGS 12167000), (iii) Nehalem River near Foss, OR (USGS 14301000), and (iv) Steamboat Creek near Glide, OR (USGS 14316700).

Source

The actual discharge data were downloaded from https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis.

References

Brunner, M. I., A. Bárdossy, and R. Furrer (2019). Technical note: Stochastic simulation of streamflow time series using phase randomization. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23, 3175-3187, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3175-2019.

Examples

data(runoff_multi_sites)
str(runoff_multi_sites) 
runoff_multi_sites[[1]]$timestamp <- paste(runoff_multi_sites[[1]]$YYYY, 
runoff_multi_sites[[1]]$MM, runoff_multi_sites[[1]]$DD, sep=" ")
runoff_multi_sites[[1]]$timestamp <- 
as.POSIXct(strptime(runoff_multi_sites[[1]]$timestamp,format="%Y %m %d", tz="GMT"))
plot(runoff_multi_sites[[1]]$timestamp[1:1000], runoff_multi_sites[[1]]$Qobs[1:1000], type="l", 
  xlab="Time [d]", ylab=expression(paste("Discharge [m"^3,"/s]")))