| Abstract: | The continuous slope-area (CSA) method expands the slope-area method of computing peak discharge to a complete flow event. Continuously recording pressure transducers installed at three or more cross sections provide water-surface slopes and stage during an event that can be used with cross-section surveys and estimates of channel roughness to compute a continuous discharge hydrograph. The CSA method has been made feasible by the availability of low-cost recording pressure transducers that provide a continuous record of stage. The CSA method was implemented on the Babocomari River in Arizona in 2002 to monitor streamflow in the channel reach by installing eight pressure transducers in four cross sections within the reach. Continuous discharge hydrographs were constructed from five streamflow events during 2002-2006. Results from this study indicate that the CSA method can be used to obtain continuous hydrographs and rating curves can be generated from streamflow events. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 99106 |
| Citation Author: | Smith, Christopher F.; Cordova, Jeffrey T.; Wiele, Stephen M. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Arizona Water Science Center |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | viii, 30 p.; Appendices |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Scientific Investigations Report |
| Citation Series Code: | SIR |
| Citation Series Number: | 2010-5241 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | The continuous slope-area method for computing event hydrographs; 2010; SIR; 2010-5241; Smith, Christopher F.; Cordova, Jeffrey T.; Wiele, Stephen M. |
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| Text: | The continuous slope-area method for computing event hydrographs; 2010; SIR; 2010-5241; Smith, Christopher F.; Cordova, Jeffrey T.; Wiele, Stephen M. |
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| Date Other: | Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00 -0500 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
