Gaging Site:

457

River:

Brazos

Latitude:

31.147

Old Number:

117

Nation:

USA

Longitude:

-96.850

Calibration of remote sensing to discharge

Calibration to discharge is by comparison of satellite data to nearby ground-based (discharge) station data.

Ground station information:

Fitzroy Crossing (5608024)

Site watershed:

#N/A

km2

Source: UNH-GRDC Composite Runoff Fields V1.0

Station watershed:

50014 km2

50,014

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

April

May

June

July

Aug

Sept

Max

Min

Max

Min

Period of

(monthly)

(daily)

Record

Maximum Daily M/C

1.07

1.37

1.10

1.07

1.08

1.11

1.18

1.17

1.83

1.06

1.08

Mean Monthly M/C

0.99

1.00

0.99

1.01

1.02

1.00

1.02

1.00

0.99

1.29

0.82

1.828

0.555

2002-2007

Minimum Daily M/C

0.92

0.88

0.91

0.90

0.84

0.93

0.94

0.56

0.96

0.94

0.90

Station Mean Monthly m3/sec

421

940

670

113

8539

1955 [10]

Site-adjusted Mean Monthly m3/sec

#N/A

Log of Site-adjusted Station Discharge

#N/A

Estimated Discharge (m3/sec):

171

205

302

321

263

234

464

678

319

652

315

179

7300

-1048

36413

9293

1996 [12]

(from rating equation shown in plot below)

Monthly mean M/C versus monthly mean station discharge

Comparison of monthly mean series and monthly minima and maxima

(this equation used to estimate discharge from the remote sensing data)

Calibration Notes:

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