gage.disch: Daily Mean Discharge at Streamgages

Description Usage Format Source Examples

Description

The daily mean discharge at streamgages in the Big Wood River Valley, Idaho. Discharge records bracket the 1992-2014 time period and are based on records with quality assurance code of approved (‘A’).

Usage

1

Format

An object of data.frame class with 8,315 records and the following variables:

Date

date during which discharge was averaged.

13135500

daily mean discharge in cubic meters per day, recorded at the USGS 13135500 Big Wood River near Ketchum streamgage.

13139510

daily mean discharge in cubic meters per day, recorded at the USGS 13139510 Big Wood River at Hailey streamgage.

13140800

daily mean discharge in cubic meters per day, recorded at the USGS 13140800 Big Wood River at Stanton Crossing near Bellevue streamgage.

Source

National Water Information System (NWIS), accessed on January 8, 2015

Examples

 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
10
11
str(gage.disch)

col <- c("red", "blue", "green")
ylab <- paste("Discharge in cubic", c("meters per day", "acre-foot per year"))
inlmisc::PlotGraph(gage.disch, ylab = ylab, col = col, lty = 1:3,
                   conversion.factor = 0.29611, seq.date.by = "year")
leg <- sprintf("USGS %s", names(gage.disch)[-1])
legend("topright", leg, col = col, lty = 1:3, inset = 0.02, cex = 0.7,
       box.lty = 1, bg = "#FFFFFFE7")

graphics.off()

USGS-R/wrv documentation built on June 30, 2020, 11:07 p.m.