River and Reservoir Watch Version 4.6
River Discharge and Reservoir Storage Changes Using Satellite Microwave Radiometry Location of this Satellite Gauging Reach
Chambeshi Center: 30.505 Long. Signal/Noise: 16.9
GFDS Area ID: 94 Zambia Center: -11.3325 Lat. Very Good
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Last measured: 25-Jul-24
Discharge: 2342 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 28.6 mm 228% (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 953 mm
Mann-Kendall Runoff Trend Analysis (5%) M-K 171 Significant? yes Major Floods 10 = flood of record
Sen's slope:
0.05 z-stat 3.75
Regression slope: 0.05 p-value 0.00
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 119
Robert.Brakenridge@Colorado.edu Sen's slope: 118.42 z-stat 2.60
  Regression slope: 94.55 p-value 0.01
Significant? yes
    Coefficients of Polynomial or Linear Rating Curve used:       -31323.93 30852.00  
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