River and Reservoir Watch Version 4.6
River Discharge and Reservoir Storage Changes Using Satellite Microwave Radiometry Location of this Satellite Gauging Reach
SaptKosi Center: 86.395 Long. Signal/Noise: 11.5
GFDS Area ID: 52 India Center: 26.0165 Lat. Good
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Last measured: 14-Jul-24
Discharge: 5088 m3/sec Status: 2 (1, low; 2, normal flow; 3, moderate flood, r >2.33 y; 4, major flood, r >5 y)
7-day Runoff 40.1 mm 140% (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 2432 m3/s
Annual Runoff (percent of mean, 1998-2021) Mean Runoff 1167 mm
Mann-Kendall Runoff Trend Analysis (5%) M-K -71 Significant? no Major Floods 10 = flood of record
Sen's slope:
-0.02 z-stat -1.54
Regression slope: -0.01 p-value 0.12
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 -77
Robert.Brakenridge@Colorado.edu Sen's slope: -118.93 z-stat -1.68
  Regression slope: -74.66 p-value 0.09
Significant? no
    Coefficients of Polynomial or Linear Rating Curve used:       -66517.66 65137.63  
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