canFlood: L-moments and catchment descriptors of hydrometric station in...

Description Usage Format Details Source

Description

The L-moments of the annual maximums for 563 stations were extracted from Water Survery of Canada (HYDDAT). Catchment descritors are available for each stations are provided by Environnement and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). The best at-site distributions according to the AIC criterion are included.

Usage

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Format

An object of class data.frame with 563 rows and 15 columns.

Details

STATION

Identification number of the station in HYDAT.

BASIN_AREA

Drainage area (sq km).

PPTAVG_BAS

Mean annual precipitation for the catchment (mm).

WB_AREA_PC

Drainage area covered by waterbodies (pct).

STREAM_DENS

Stream density (km of streams per catchment sq km).

ELEV_MEAN

Mean elevation of the catchment (m).

SLOPE_PCT

Mean slope of the catchment (pct)

CENTRO_X, CENTRO_Y

Longitude and latitude of the catchment center.

ELON, ELAT

Cartesian coordinates preserving the geographical distance. Obtained using classical multidimensional scaling.

L1, LCV, LSK

Sample mean, L-coefficiant of variation and L-coefficient of skewness of the annual maximum discharge.

DISTR

Distribution selected for the annual maximum discharge based on the Akaike Information Critrion (AIC).

Source

https://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/


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