Data for 'Flow-dependent color patches in a Great Plains river'

This item contains the 8 files used to generate figures in Bruns, Nicholas, Gardner, John R., Doyle, Martin. 2024. "Flow-dependent color patches in a Great Plains river." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. All data is available in the zip folder, color_patches_data. - gage_data_processed.RData first published in Bruns et all. 2022a - kansas_river_small_dams.gpkg subset from Yang et al. 2022 - nhd_Kansas_river.gpkg - working_nhd_line_kansas.gpkg 2 versions for plotting purposes, both subsets from NHDplusV2, (Moore and Dewald 2016) - riverSR_Kansas_River_v1.1.feather subset from Gardner et al. 2021 - sensor_color_matchups.csv - composite_profiles_by_discharge_fifths_ANNOTATED.csv - desoto_flow_duration_stats.csv from Steeves 2017 (flow duration statistics) See accompanying scripts, archived on figshare at: 10.6084/m9.figshare.26125843 1a_obtain_and_prepare_MS_data.R and 1b_helper_make_color_sensor_matchups.R - shows provenance of generating datasets from public data sources () 2a_make_MS_figs.Rmd and 2b_prep_MS_paper_data.R - shows manuscript analysis and generation of paper figures Bruns, Nicholas E., Matthew R.V. Ross, James B. Heffernan, and Martin Doyle. 2022a. “A Simple Metric for Predicting the Timing of River Phytoplankton Blooms.” Ecosphere 13 (12): e4348. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4348. Gardner, John R., Xiao Yang, Simon N. Topp, Matthew R.V. Ross, Elizabeth H. Altenau, and Tamlin M. Pavelsky. 2021. “The Color of Rivers” [Dataset]. Geophysical Research Letters 48 (1): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088946. Granato, Gregory E, Kernell G Ries III, and Peter A Steeves. 2017. “Compilation of streamflow statistics calculated from daily mean streamflow data collected during water years 1901–2015 for selected U.S. Geological Survey streamgages” [Dataset]. Reston, VA. https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171108. Moore, Richard B, and Thomas G Dewald. 2016. “The Road to NHDP lus—Advancements in Digital Stream Networks and Associated Catchments.” JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 52 (4). Wiley Online Library: 890–900. Yang, Xiao, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Matthew R.V. Ross, Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley, Wayana Dolan, Elizabeth H. Altenau, Michael Belanger, et al. 2022. “Mapping Flow-Obstructing Structures on Global Rivers” [Dataset]. Water Resources Research 58 (1): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030386.