John McCartney CVEN 5454 Spring 2003 Relationship between Streamflow and Large-Scale Climate Indicators for: The San Juan River at Bluff Utah John McCartney CVEN 5454 Spring 2003
Topography of San Juan / Escalante Region
Annual Streamflow Cycle For data ranging from 1929 to 2001
Monthly Streamflow PDFs
Relationship between Streamflow and Large-scale Climate Indices Mutual Information = 0.107 r = 0.241 r = 0.372
Relationship between Streamflow and Large-scale Climate Indices
Streamflow Relative to Different Phases in the Climate Signal El Nino: winter ENSO > 0.25 Neutral: -0.25 < winter ENSO < 0.25 El Nina: winter Enso < -0.25 I chose this so that there were sufficient numbers of corresponding streamflows in each category
Streamflow Relative to Different Phases in the Climate Signal
Probabilistic Forecast of Streamflow Levels P(High ENSO) = 0.25 P(Neutral ENSO) = 0.35 P(Low ENSO) = 0.4 Upper flow threshold = 6500 cfs Lower flow threshold = 3000 cfs Conditional Matrix: P(High Flow) = 0.2320802 P(Neutral Flow) = 0.3224028 P(Low Flow) = 0.4455171
Simulated Average Spring Streamflow Scenario from Probabilistic Forecast
PDF Analysis of 100-yr flood ~5300 cfs
Extreme Distribution/LOCFIT Analysis of 100-yr Flood ~5300
AR(1) Parametric Time Series Analysis of Monthly Streamflow Statistics
k-Nearest-Neighbor Nonparametric Time Series Analysis of Monthly Streamflow
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