Estimated relationship between duration of inundation and monthly mean flow
weeks_inundated
dataframe with rows and 3 variables
name of CVPIA watershed
integer value between 0 and 4 to represent weeks of floodplain inundation
flow threshold in cubic feet per second associated with number of weeks inundated
Sadie Gill sgill@flowwest.com
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.
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