Lake Erie Tributaries: Nutrient and streamflow trend results

Dates

Publication Date: 2018-11-13
Start Date: 1987
End Date: 2016

Citation

Choquette, A.F., Hirsch, R.M., and Murphy, J.C., 2018, Nutrient and streamflow model-input data (1974-2016) and trend results (1987-2016) for selected Lake Erie tributaries: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FFOORH.

Summary

This data set includes WRTDS nutrient flux trend results and the values of daily streamflow trend results displayed in the Quantile-Kendall plots. For 1995-2015 nutrient trends, the method of generalized flow normalization (FNG) was used which explicitly addresses non-stationary streamflow conditions. For 2005-2015 nutrient trends, the WRTDS trend analyses used the method of stationary flow normalization (FNS) because streamflow nonstationarity is difficult to assess over this shorter duration time frame. The 1995-2015 annual nutrient trends were determined for all five nutrient parameters (TP, SRP, TN, NO23, TKN), and monthly trends were evaluated only for SRP. The 2005-2015 annual nutrient trends were determined for the three parameters [...]

Summary

This data set includes WRTDS nutrient flux trend results and the values of daily streamflow trend results displayed in the Quantile-Kendall plots. For 1995-2015 nutrient trends, the method of generalized flow normalization (FNG) was used which explicitly addresses non-stationary streamflow conditions. For 2005-2015 nutrient trends, the WRTDS trend analyses used the method of stationary flow normalization (FNS) because streamflow nonstationarity is difficult to assess over this shorter duration time frame. The 1995-2015 annual nutrient trends were determined for all five nutrient parameters (TP, SRP, TN, NO23, TKN), and monthly trends were evaluated only for SRP. The 2005-2015 annual nutrient trends were determined for the three parameters TP, SRP, and TN. For the water-quality parameter SRP, monitoring data and trend results were available for 6 of the 10 trend sites. Daily streamflow trends were evaluated for the time-period 1987-2016 at 9 of the study sites, applied as climatic years (years which start April 1 and end March 31) for a period of 29 climatic years (1988 – 2016). Details on the WRTDS method of generalized flow normalization appear in Hirsch and De Cicco (2018) and in Choquette et al. (2019). Details on the Quantile-Kendall plots and their construction appears in Hirsch (2018) and in Appendix A of Choquette et al. (2019). Details regarding interpretations of these trend results and the watershed characteristics upstream of these sites appear in Choquette et al. (2019).

The results dataset is presented in 5 parts:
1. AnnualNutrientTrends_1995-2015.csv (WRTDS nutrient flux trend results)
2. MonthlySRPTrends_1995-2015.csv (SRP monthly flux trend results for 6 sites)
3. AnnualNutrientTrends_2005-2015.csv (WRTDS nutrient flux trend results)
4. DailyFlowTrends_1987-2016.zip (Annual streamflow trend results, by site, presented in the Quantile-Kendall plots)
5. Quantile-Kendall-plots.pdf (plots showing 1988-2016 streamflow trend results)

References:
Choquette, A.F., Hirsch, R.M., Murphy, J.C., Johnson, L.T., and Confesor, R.B. Jr., 2019, Tracking changes in nutrient delivery to western Lake Erie: approaches to compensate for variability and trends in streamflow: J. of Great Lakes Research, v. 45, no. 1, p. 21-39, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2018.11.012.
Hirsch, R.M., 2018, Daily streamflow trend analysis: U.S. Geological Survey Office of Water Information Blog, 38 p., at: https://owi.usgs.gov/blog/Quantile-Kendall/.
Hirsch, R.M., and De Cicco, L.A., 2018, EGRET release 3.0, and EGRETci release 2.0, at: https://cran.r-project.org/

Contacts

Point of Contact :: Jennifer C Murphy, USGS Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
Originator :: Anne F Choquette, Robert M Hirsch, Jennifer C Murphy
Metadata Contact :: Jennifer C Murphy
Publisher :: U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :: U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :: Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :: Water Resources

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LakeErieTrends_Ch2_TrendResults_rev.xml “Child 2_Trend Results” Original FGDC Metadata	View	45.54 KB	application/fgdc+xml
AnnualNutrientTrends_1995-2015.csv		5.7 KB	text/csv
AnnualNutrientTrends_2005-2015.csv		2.95 KB	text/csv
DailyFlowTrends_1987-2016.zip		49.45 KB	application/zip
MonthlySRPTrends_1995-2015.csv		1.3 KB	text/csv
Quantile-Kendall-plots.pdf		180.57 KB	application/pdf

Purpose

These data support the following publication: Choquette, A.F., Hirsch, R.M., Murphy, J.C., Johnson, L.T., and Confesor, R.B. Jr., 2019, Tracking changes in nutrient delivery to western Lake Erie: approaches to compensate for variability and trends in streamflow: J. of Great Lakes Research, v. 45, no. 1, p. 21-39, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2018.11.012. These datasets contain water-quality WRTDS trend results, and daily streamflow (discharge) trend results and statistics associated with the Quantile-Kendall plots.

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