README.md

In mundl/smires: Science and Management of Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams

smires

SMIRES is a COST Action addressing the Science and Management of Intermittent Rivers & Ephemeral Streams. SMIRES brings together more than 200 hydrologists, biogeochemists, ecologists, modelers, environmental economists, social researchers and stakeholders from 31 different countries to develop a research network for synthesising the fragmented, recent knowledge on IRES, improving our understanding of IRES and translating this into a science-based, sustainable management of river networks. More information about SMIRES can be found at http://www.smires.eu/.

This git repository hosts the R-package smires, one of several outcomes of Working Group 1 (WG1, Prevalence, distribution and trends of IRES). Given time series of daily (weekly, monthly) discharges, its purpose is to:

• identify gauging stations that have an IRES flow regime;
• enable inexperienced R users to easily calculate most flow and intermittency metrics;
• offer advanced R users a flexible framework for computing hydro-/ecological metrics;
• have only as few requirements on input data as possible;
• work with binary data (flow, no-flow);
• give the user free choice over the aggregation period (calendar years, hydrological years, months, seasons, ...);
• give the user free choice over the aggregation function;
• provide sample datasets of every participating European country;

Installation of the R-package

In order to use the development version of the package smires you will need to install the package devtools once.

install.packages("devtools")

It provides the convenient command install_github() which installs the most recent version of a package hosted on github. To do so, simply execute the following three lines:

library(devtools)
install_github("mundl/smires")
library(smires)

The current version is 0.5.1. To load this package in an R session, library(smires) has to be called.

library(smires)
packageVersion("smires")

Vignettes

The usage of the package is demonstrated in these four preliminary vignettes. They are currently under development.

• The concept of the R package smires.
• How to compute smires metrics.
• To compute the metrics mentioned above, we make use of the following framework.
• This vignette explains in detail how data and meta data is imported.

Examples

Each participating country was asked to suggest metrics and to submit a few time series with intermittent streamflow. As we plan to integrate the provided time series in the R package, we need permission of the copyright holder to make the data available. The column include of the following table indicates if the data can be published.

Time Series

Currently 12 countries have submitted time series of which 11 countries agreed on including the data into the R-package.

country contact time series include comment at t.gauste*@boku.ac.at 22 mostly human influenced catchments TRUE cy gdorflinge*@wdd.moa.gov.cy Peristerona, Pouzis, Liopetri TRUE es luis.medier*@upm.es 8060, 9052 TRUE fr ytrambla*@gmail.com 37 stations TRUE fr eric.sauque*@irstea.fr H1333010, H1503910, H1513210, H1603010, H1713010, H1932020 TRUE gr rania.tzorak*@aegean.gr Vrontamas TRUE it giuseppe.verdian*@adb.puglia.it Carapelle Torrent TRUE Region Puglia it annamaria.degirolam*@ba.irsa.cnr.it Celone, Salsola TRUE source pl kazimierz_banasi*@sggw.pl Plachty Stare TRUE uses hydrological year, starting with November pl rmrutko*@cyf-kr.edu.pl Goryczkowa TRUE only 3 years of observation pt teresa*@ipcb.pt Coruche, Monforte, Pavia, Moinho TRUE pt helena.alve*@apambiente.pt Moinho da Gamitinha, Torrão do Alentejo TRUE source si simon.rusja*@fgg.uni-lj.si 13 station of which 7 are intermittent TRUE uk catse*@ceh.ac.uk Balder at Balderhead Reservoir, Ampney Brook at Ampney St Peter TRUE Balder: human influence, Ampney Brook: chalk stream that dries naturally sk kohnov*@stuba.sk Cierna voda, Bodva, Chlmec, +4 stations FALSE ch ilja.vanmeervel*@geo.uzh.ch Altlandenberg es francesc.gallar*@idaea.csic.es Riu Manol lt hydr*@mail.lei.lt

Getting in Contact

In case you are interested or you want to contribute to the package smires (even though you are not part of the SMIRES cost action) please contact [e-mail].

mundl/smires documentation built on May 23, 2019, 8:22 a.m.