River Watch Regional Display for Latin America

River Watch Display para América Latina

Technical Summary

Resumen Técnico

Supported by CAF, The Latin American Development Bank, in collaboration with GeoSUR.

Updated Daily at 13:15 MST

Operational Notes: Draft, in preparation

Yellow dots: low flow (<50 % mean daily runoff for this date); Blue dots: normal flow; Purple dots: moderate flooding (>1.33 yr recurrence); Red, major flooding (> 5 yr recurrence).

Period of record for most sites begin January 1, 1998. The Log Pearson III distribution is used for recurrence interval calculation, 1998-2012.

A tabular listing of all sites is available also.

Citation: Brakenridge, G.R., De Groeve, T., Cohen, S., and Nghiem, S. V., date of display, River Watch, Version 2: University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA (http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/DischargeAccess.html). Or individual site display and data: Brakenridge, G.R., De Groeve, T., Cohen, S., and Nghiem, S. V., date of display, River Watch, Version 2, Site #: University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA (http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/SiteDisplays/#.htm).

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