Hydrodynamic modeling data for Synthesis of Juvenile Steelhead Responses to Hydrodynamic Conditions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin 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 steelhead in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Work was funded by Proposition 1 and completed by Anchor QEA, LLC, and U.S. Geological Survey for the State Water Contractors under a Proposition 1 Grant (Evaluating Juvenile Salmonid Behavioral Responses to Hydrodynamic Conditions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta), contracted by Delta Stewardship Council. Not all the hydrodynamic model output variables in the output provided with this memorandum were used in the final fish models used to analyze steelhead 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 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, with hydrodynamic model output variables provided at the same locations for each period simulated. The model simulation for each year spanned the full period of steelhead detections in the telemetry data collected during that year.