baseflowA: Baseflow removal (after Fuka et al. 2018)

In hydroEvents: Extract Event Statistics in Hydrologic Time Series

Baseflow removal (after Fuka et al. 2018)

Description

This function calculates baseflow using a recursive digital filter and is based on the implementation in the EcoHydRology package.

The formulation is originally after Lyne and Hollick (1979) and described in Furey and Gupta (2001). Recommended parameters are after Nathan and McMahon (1990).

Usage

baseflowA(q, alpha = 0.925, passes = 3)

Arguments

q	The vector series of streamflow
alpha	Filter parameter
passes	Number of passes

Value

A list of the baseflow and baseflow index at each timestep.

References

Fuka D. R., Walter, M.T., Archiblad, J.A., Steenhuis, T.S., & Easton, Z. M. (2018). A Community Modeling Foundation for Eco-Hydrology, R package version 0.4.12.1 Flow from Streamflow Time Series. Water Resources Research, 37(11), 2709–2722.

Furey, P., & Gupta, V. (2001). A Physically Based Filter for Spearating Base Flow from Streamflow Time Series. Water Resources Research, 37(11), 2709–2722.

Lyne, V., & Hollick, M. (1979). Stochastic time-variable rainfall-runoff modelling. Institute of Engineers Australia National Conference, 89-92.

Nathan, R. J., & McMahon, T. A. (1990). Evaluation of automated techniques for base flow and recession analyses. Water Resources Research, 26(7), 1465–1473.

Examples

library(hydroEvents)
data(dataBassRiver)
alpha.list = c(0, 0.9, 0.925, 0.95, 0.98, 0.987)
BFI.1 = numeric(length(alpha.list))
for (i in 1:length(alpha.list)) {
  bf.1 = baseflowA(dataBassRiver, alpha = alpha.list[i])
  BFI.1[i] = sum(bf.1$bf)/sum(dataBassRiver)
}
print(cbind(alpha.list, BFI.1))

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