Rainfall, Streamflow, Turbidity, and Suspended Sediment Yield in the Redwood Creek Watershed: A Progress Report on Redwood National and State Parks' Hydrologic Monitoring Program [for 2005]
Klein R. 2005. Rainfall, Streamflow, Turbidity, and Suspended Sediment Yield in the Redwood Creek Watershed: A Progress Report on Redwood National and State Parks' Hydrologic Monitoring Program [for 2005]. Redwood National and State Parks. Arcata, CA
The hydrologic monitoring program at Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) consists of hydrologic data collection at a network of stream gaging stations within the Redwood Creek basin, and the preparation and dissemination of hydrologic data for use in various analyses and for publication. This progress report updates and expands upon the previous one, prepared in 1998. Since 1998, the hydrologic monitoring program at has undergone some significant changes. Most importantly, several pre-existing gaging stations have been retrofit with electronic turbidity sensors in addition to the pre-existing data collection and sampling equipment, two gages have been discontinued, and several new gages employing the latest technologies have been added to the network. The addition of turbidity in continuous data collection allows vast improvement in our ability to provide accurate estimates of suspended sediment yields, a product of primary interest to users of RNSP’s hydrologic data. In addition, several data processing software changes have been implemented, some in response to the addition of turbidity data to the suite of observations made at the gaging stations. In addition to ‘in-house’ use of the data, a variety of users [research, resource management, and regulatory communities and the public] are provided with data products from the hydrologic monitoring program. In 1999, we produced the first-ever hydrologic data release from RNSP. This large document contains both USGS-style daily records from our stream gages (daily average discharge, daily total suspended sediment yield, and daily total rainfall) as well as monthly averages and totals for the period of 1990-1998, and includes graphical plots of the data." Another function of the hydrologic monitoring program "is to collect and disseminate hydrologic data tha characterize 'baseline' pristine hydrologic conditions in the redwood ecosystem.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Klein, Randy
- Date of Issue
- 2005-12
- Publisher
- Redwood National and State Parks
- Units
- REDW
- Keywords
- hydrologic monitoring, Hydrology, Monitoring, Redwood Creek, Research