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Model Archive Summary and Time-Series Suspended-Sediment Concentrations Computed from a Surrogate Turbidity Regression at USGS Station 11312672 Victoria Canal Near Byron, California (2013-2016)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2013-10-01
End Date
2016-06-23

Citation

Morgan-King, T.L., and Conlen, A.L., 2024, Model Archive Summary and time-series suspended-sediment concentrations computed from a surrogate turbidity regression at USGS station 11312672 Victoria Canal Near Byron, CA (2013-2016): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PWL4GL.

Summary

Continuous 15-minute time-series suspended-sediment concentration (SSC) data computed from instream turbidity data. Turbidity data is managed by California Department of Water Resources (CDWR) using a YSI-6-series multi-parameter water quality sonde. Complete methods for turbidity data collection are described in attached methods document.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Tara Morgan
Originator :
Tara Morgan, Anna L Conlen
Metadata Contact :
Tara Morgan
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Water Resources :
USGS Mission Area
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources
SDC Data Owner :
California Water Science Center

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VCU_xsec.jpg
“channel cross section information”
thumbnail 907.54 KB image/jpeg
VCU_calibration_dataset.csv
“Calibration Dataset”
766 Bytes text/csv
VCU_B9528500_CDWR_Turbidity_2013-2016.csv
“CDWR QA/QCed Turbidity Data”
2.15 MB text/csv
VCU_deleted.csv
“dates/times of CDWR turbidity point values deleted”
28.77 KB text/csv
Susp_sediment,wu,est.mg_l.Cross_Sectional_Average_from_WDL@11312672.20131001.csv
“15-minute time-series SSC”
5.23 MB text/csv
11312672_VCU_ExpandedMAS.docx
“Expanded MAS”
491.46 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

Purpose

Time-series SSC are needed to determine sediment transport in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California. This data release includes the continuous 15-minute time-series suspended-sediment concentration data, Model Archive Summary (MAS), CDWR turbidity data, as well as calibration data. CDWR turbidity data were used to compute the SSC dataset. Cited publications are included in the MAS as well as all other supporting documentation to develop the regression model to calculate SSC from turbidity.

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This work is marked with Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
channel cross section information
channel cross section information

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