WSP11570

• File Number: 8111.807
• Description: Arkansas River Compact Administration - Stream Gage Evaluation
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 1/1/1980
• Author: USGS
• Title: Cost-Effective Stream Gaging Strategies for the Lower Colorado River
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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FIGURES

l.--The Colorado River drainage basin.

2.--Mathematical programming form of the optimization of
the routing of hydrographers.

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3.--Tabular form of the optimization of the routing
of hydrographers.

4.--Burkham-and-Dawdy accuracy analysis of streamflow data
for the Colorado River below Davis Dam.

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5.--Theoretical error variances of real-time estimates of
discharge.

6.--Theoretical error variances of smoothed estimates of
discharge rate.

7.--Limit of bias introduced by approximating the error
variance of estimates of annual mean discharge.

8.--Residuals of discharge-rating analysis for the Colorado
River below Davis Dam.

9.--Autocovariance function of the differences between true
and rated discharge rate for the Colorado River below
Davis Dam for the water years 1956-1958.

10.--A comparison of Kalman-filter results with those of the
Burkham-and-Dawdy procedure for error estimation.

ll.--Schematic of the network of stream gages serviced from
the Blythe Field Office.

l2.--Schematic of the network of stream gages serviced from
the Yuma Subdistrict Office.

l3.--Autocovariance function of the differences between true
and rated discharge rate for the Colorado River below
Davis Dam.

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l4.--Standard error of estimate of annual mean discharge for
the Colorado River below Davis Dam.

lS.--Autocovariance function of the differences between
true and rated discharge rate for the Topock Marsh
Inlet near Needles, Calif.

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