Statistics in WR: Lecture 22 Key Themes Review of concepts from Lecture 1 Patterns in space and time from class exercises Principles for thinking about spatial and temporal variation
Data Cube – What, Where, When Space, L Time, T Variable, V D “When” A data value “Where” “What”
Continuous Space-Time Data Model -- NetCDF Time, T Coordinate dimensions {X} D Space, L Variable dimensions {Y} Variables, V
Discrete Space-Time Data Model Time, TSDateTime TSValue Space, FeatureID Variables, TSTypeID
Hydrologic Statistics Time Series Analysis Geostatistics Multivariate analysis How do we understand space-time correlation fields of many variables?
Ex 3: Patterns of Discharge, Sediment Concentration and Load
Ex 4: Correlation in space and time
Ex 5: Trends through Time
Ex 6: Diurnal and Seasonal Patterns
Ex 7: SPARROW Modeling of Nitrogen Transport Mean annual load of Total N
288 USGS sites with flow and Nitrogen data These sites are ones that were used for the Sparrow model that continue to be operational to 2008 http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/sparrow/
Ex 8: Flood frequency analysis 100 year flood discharge p = 0.01
USGS Peak-Flow Regression Equations for 100-year discharge 100 mile2 10 mile2 110 mile2 What happens to design flood discharge when a 10 square mile tributary joins a 100 square mile river?
Ex 9: Time Evolution of Spatial Patterns
Texas Water Data Services 10 services 15,870 sites 81,625 series 8,549,857 records
Salinity Layer for Texas