qc_pnw: Quality check model estimates in U.S. Pacific Northwest

In NaiaraLopezRojo/globalIRmap: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)

Description

Analyze performance of model predictions of flow intermittence against PROSPER field observations of flow state across the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Usage

qc_pnw(inp_pnwresdir, in_rivpred, predcol, interthresh = 0.5, mincutoff = 0)

Arguments

inp_pnwresdir	(character) full path to directory containing formatted data for Pacific Northwest.
in_rivpred	data.table of model predictions for global river network. Here, output from netpredformat.
predcol	(character) name of the column for the predicted probability of flow intermittence generated by this study (Messager et al. 2021).
interthresh	(numeric) flow intermittence probability threshold above which to classify records as non-perennial.
mincutoff	(numeric) smallest river reaches to include in comparison, in terms of long-term mean annual flow (m3/s; e.g., 0.1)

Details

this function is used to format data used in producing Extended Data Figure 6. A side effect of this function is the writing of a .gpkg of river reaches for which there are flow observations in the U.S. Pacific Northwest with quality-checking attributes.

Value

list with two elements: *"plot": scatterplots analyzing Intermittence Prediction Residuals (IPR) as a function of modeled mean annual flow, the position of the field observation along the RiverATLAS river reach, the number of field observations at the site, and the population density in the entire upstream area of the corresponding reach. *"stats": summary comparison statistics.

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