Peak Flow Event Durations in the Mississippi River Basin and Implications for Temporal Sampling of Rivers

Corresponding peer-reviewed publication

This repository corresponds to all the input and output files that were used in the study reported in:

Cerbelaud, A., David, C. H., Biancamaria, S., Wade, J., Tom, M., Prata de Moraes Frasson, R., & Blumstein, D. (2024). Peak flow event durations in the Mississippi River basin and implications for temporal sampling of rivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL109220. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109220.

When making use of any of the output files of this dataset, please cite both the aforementioned article and the dataset herein. 

Main goals of the publication

The corresponding work aims to quantify peak flow event durations at an hourly time scale and their impact on high-frequency river sampling requirements using sampling ratios. The analysis is performed over the Mississippi basin using hourly USGS gages over 2010-2022.

The findings derived from these output files have direct implications for future satellite missions concerned with capturing high-frequency dynamics in rivers, including flood events.