Hydrodynamic Model Output Used to Evaluate Chinook Salmon Movements and Distribution in the South Delta

This data release includes the output variables extracted from the UnTRIM Bay-Delta hydrodynamic model (hydrodynamic model) for use in evaluating the effects of hydrodynamics on the behavior of acoustically-tagged juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Work was funded by State Water Contractors (SWC) and completed by Anchor QEA; FlowWest, LLC; and University of Washington under a SWC 2023 Science Plan grant (study name Evaluation of the Influence of State Water Project and Central Valley Project on Chinook Salmon Movements and Distribution in the South Delta), contracted by SWC. Not all the hydrodynamic model output variables in the output provided with this memorandum were used in the final fish models used to analyze Chinook Salmon responses. Model output for additional variables and locations were included for completeness and to make these output files more broadly useful to researchers interested in other locations or variables in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Hydrodynamic model simulations were conducted for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, with hydrodynamic model output variables provided at mostly the same locations for each period simulated. The years 2011 through 2016 were simulated previously for a prior project and model output provided through the Environmental Data Initiative (edi.1124.1). Files for these years were recreated from the prior simulations for this project to add an output location. Additional locations were added to the 2010 and 2017 simulations for the 2010 and 2017 hydrophone arrays, and thus 2010 and 2017 include additional model output, relative to 2011 through 2016. The model simulation for each year spanned the full period of Chinook Salmon detections in the telemetry data collected during that year.