Statistical summaries of streamflow in Montana and adjacent areas, water years 1900 through 2002

Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5266
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In response to the need to have more current information about streamflow characteristics in Montana, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, and Bureau of Land Management, conducted a study to analyze streamflow data. Updated statistical summaries of streamflow characteristics are presented for 286 streamflow-gaging sites in Montana and adjacent areas having 10 or more years of record for water years 1900 through 2002. Data include the magnitude and probability of annual low and high flow, the magnitude and probability of low flow for three seasons (March-June, July-October, and November-February), flow duration of the daily mean discharge, and the monthly and annual mean discharges. For streamflow-gaging stations where 20 percent or more of the contributing drainage basin is affected by dams or other large-scale human modification, streamflow is considered regulated. Separate streamflow characteristics are presented for the unregulated and regulated periods of record for sites with sufficient data.
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Statistical summaries of streamflow in Montana and adjacent areas, water years 1900 through 2002
Series title Scientific Investigations Report
Series number 2004-5266
DOI 10.3133/sir20045266
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Year Published 2005
Language ENGLISH
Description 317 p.
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