FDC: Flow Duration Curve

In FlowScreen: Daily Streamflow Trend and Change Point Screening

Description

Produces a flow duration curve plot with optional Gustard type-curves that can be used to estimate catchment permeability.

Usage

FDC(flow, title = NULL, normal = FALSE, gust = TRUE)

Arguments

flow	daily streamflow time series
title	character string for plot title
normal	boolean indicating whether to plot on normal probability axis (normal=TRUE) or linear probability axis (default, normal=FALSE)
gust	boolean indicating whether to plot Gustard type curves.

Author(s)

Paul Whitfield

References

Gustard, A., Bullock, A., and Dixon, J.M. (1992). Report No. 108: Low flow estimation in the United Kingdom. Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Institute of Hydrology.

Examples

data(caniapiscau)
caniapiscau <- subset(caniapiscau, !is.na(caniapiscau$Flow))
FDC(caniapiscau$Flow, title="Caniapiscau River")

Example output

FlowScreen documentation built on May 2, 2019, 1:09 p.m.