| Abstract: | Once-monthly streamflow measurements were used to estimate selected percentile discharges on flow-duration curves of monthly mean discharge for 40 ungaged stream sites in the upper Yellowstone River basin in Montana. The estimation technique was a modification of the concurrent-discharge method previously described and used by H.C. Riggs to estimate annual mean discharge. The modified technique is based on the relationship of various mean seasonal discharges to the required discharges on the flow-duration curves. The mean seasonal discharges are estimated from the monthly streamflow measurements, and the percentile discharges are calculated from regression equations. The regression equations, developed from streamflow record at nine gaging stations, indicated a significant log-linear relationship between mean seasonal discharge and various percentile discharges. The technique was tested at two discontinued streamflow-gaging stations; the differences between estimated monthly discharges and those determined from the discharge record ranged from -31 to +27 percent at one site and from -14 to +85 percent at the other. The estimates at one site were unbiased, and the estimates at the other site were consistently larger than the recorded values. Based on the test results, the probable average error of the technique was + or - 30 percent for the 21 sites measured during the first year of the program and + or - 50 percent for the 19 sites measured during the second year. (USGS) |
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| Citation Author: | Parrett, Charles; Hull, J. A. |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | iv, 34 p. :ill., map ;28 cm. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Citation Series: | Water-Resources Investigations Report |
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| Citation Series Number: | 86-4009 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Estimated monthly percentile discharges at ungaged sites in the Upper Yellowstone River Basin in Montana; 1986; WRI; 86-4009; Parrett, Charles; Hull, J. A. |
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| Text: | Estimated monthly percentile discharges at ungaged sites in the Upper Yellowstone River Basin in Montana; 1986; WRI; 86-4009; Parrett, Charles; Hull, J. A. |
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| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/1986/4009/report.pdf |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
