River and Reservoir Watch Version 4.6
River Discharge and Reservoir Storage Changes Using Satellite Microwave Radiometry Location of this Satellite Gauging Reach
Shire Center: 35.095 Long. Signal/Noise: 8.7
GFDS Area ID: 56 Malawi Center: -16.4625 Lat. Good
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Last measured: 17-Nov-24
Discharge: 176 m3/sec Status: 1 (1, low; 2, normal flow; 3, moderate flood, r >2.33 y; 4, major flood, r >5 y)
7-day Runoff 0.6 mm 25% (7-day runoff compared to 20 y average for this date, 2004-2023)
Flood Magnitude: 0.0 Scale of 0-10 Flood Magnitude Defined Technical Summary
Notes: 7-day forward weighted moving average is applied. Geolocation correction, commencing April 1, 2012: 0
Low flow is 20th percentile discharge for this day, 2003-2013.
Notes: Log Pearson Type III is used to compute recurrence intervals from 24 years of record (1998-2023)
Mean discharge 1479 m3/s
Annual Runoff (percent of mean, 1998-2021) Mean Runoff 325 mm
Mann-Kendall Runoff Trend Analysis (5%) M-K 5 Significant? no Major Floods 10 = flood of record
Sen's slope:
0.00 z-stat 0.09
Regression slope: 0.00 p-value 0.93
Annual Maximum Q, m3/s
Brakenridge, G. R., Nghiem, S. V., Kettner, A. J., Paris, S., Cohen, S. Access to Data
River and Reservoir Watch Version 4.6, DFO Flood Observatory, University of Colorado Mann-Kendall Max Q Trend Analysis (5%) M-K 63
Robert.Brakenridge@Colorado.edu Sen's slope: 126.13 z-stat 1.37
  Regression slope: 266.13 p-value 0.17
Significant? no
    Coefficients of Polynomial or Linear Rating Curve used:       -159875.10 154770.50  
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