Estimated relationship between duration of inundation and monthly mean flow

weeks_inundated

Format

dataframe with rows and 3 variables

watershed

name of CVPIA watershed

weeks_inundated

integer value between 0 and 4 to represent weeks of floodplain inundation

flow_threshold

flow threshold in cubic feet per second associated with number of weeks inundated

Source

Sadie Gill sgill@flowwest.com

Details

Visual inspection of measured flow and professional judgement were used to define relationships between number of days inundated and the mean monthly flow.

Relationship Modeled:

  • Sacramento River

  • Big Chico Creek

  • Butte Creek

  • Cottonwood Creek

  • Deer Creek

  • Elder Creek

  • Sutter Bypass

  • Bear River

  • Feather River

  • Yuba River

  • Yolo Bypass

  • American River

  • Calaveras River

  • Merced River

  • Stanislaus River

  • Tuolumne River

  • San Joaquin River

All other watersheds are assumed to have a two week inundation.

Examples

weeks_inundated
#> watershed weeks_inundated flow_threshold #> 1 Yuba River 0 0 #> 2 Yuba River 1 NA #> 3 Yuba River 2 NA #> 4 Yuba River 3 NA #> 5 Yuba River 4 800 #> 6 Big Chico Creek 0 0 #> 7 Big Chico Creek 1 NA #> 8 Big Chico Creek 2 265 #> 9 Big Chico Creek 3 NA #> 10 Big Chico Creek 4 900 #> 11 Butte Creek 0 0 #> 12 Butte Creek 1 NA #> 13 Butte Creek 2 310 #> 14 Butte Creek 3 NA #> 15 Butte Creek 4 500 #> 16 Cottonwood Creek 0 0 #> 17 Cottonwood Creek 1 NA #> 18 Cottonwood Creek 2 NA #> 19 Cottonwood Creek 3 NA #> 20 Cottonwood Creek 4 400 #> 21 Deer Creek 0 0 #> 22 Deer Creek 1 NA #> 23 Deer Creek 2 370 #> 24 Deer Creek 3 NA #> 25 Deer Creek 4 750 #> 26 Elder Creek 0 0 #> 27 Elder Creek 1 NA #> 28 Elder Creek 2 130 #> 29 Elder Creek 3 NA #> 30 Elder Creek 4 250 #> 31 Bear River 0 0 #> 32 Bear River 1 NA #> 33 Bear River 2 760 #> 34 Bear River 3 NA #> 35 Bear River 4 1000 #> 36 Feather River 0 0 #> 37 Feather River 1 NA #> 38 Feather River 2 NA #> 39 Feather River 3 NA #> 40 Feather River 4 4000 #> 41 American River 0 0 #> 42 American River 1 NA #> 43 American River 2 NA #> 44 American River 3 NA #> 45 American River 4 4200 #> 46 Calaveras River 0 0 #> 47 Calaveras River 1 NA #> 48 Calaveras River 2 NA #> 49 Calaveras River 3 210 #> 50 Calaveras River 4 NA #> 51 Merced River 0 0 #> 52 Merced River 1 NA #> 53 Merced River 2 NA #> 54 Merced River 3 NA #> 55 Merced River 4 500 #> 56 Stanislaus River 0 0 #> 57 Stanislaus River 1 NA #> 58 Stanislaus River 2 NA #> 59 Stanislaus River 3 NA #> 60 Stanislaus River 4 500 #> 61 Tuolumne River 0 0 #> 62 Tuolumne River 1 NA #> 63 Tuolumne River 2 NA #> 64 Tuolumne River 3 NA #> 65 Tuolumne River 4 1000 #> 66 San Joaquin River 0 0 #> 67 San Joaquin River 1 NA #> 68 San Joaquin River 2 NA #> 69 San Joaquin River 3 NA #> 70 San Joaquin River 4 1520