River data associated with ocean model simulations for 2019 in Discovery Islands (British Columbia, Canada)

This repository contains a river dataset associated with the publication "Fjord circulation permits a persistent subsurface water mass in a long, deep mid-latitude inlet" by Laura Bianucci et al. In that work, an application of the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM v4.1) was run from May 24 to June 27, 2019 in the Discovery Islands region of British Columbia, Canada. This repository contains the 2019 discharge data for the 11 rivers that were used to force the model. Four of these 11 rivers present data obtained from the Water Survey of Canada, namely the Homathko, Campbell, Salmon, and Oyster rivers. For the other seven rivers, a watershed area-ratio approach was used to estimate their discharge. Specifically, each ungauged watershed was assigned a donor gauge from a nearby watershed of the same type and with similar climate and hydrology; then, the discharge time-series of the donor gauge was multiplied by the watershed area of the ungaged river and divided by the area of the donor river. The Southgate and Toba rivers used the Homathko river as a donor (all three having a glacierized mountain watershed type), while the Stafford, Apple, Phillips, and Brem rivers based their discharges on the Wakeman River (snow mountain watershed type). The Powell River was estimated from the Campbell River, given that both are snow mountain type watersheds where discharge is controlled by dams (i.e., the underlying assumption being that both rivers were managed in the same way). The matlab file river_discharge.mat has a structure (called river_discharge) that provides the 2019 data for each river as well as the units, time, and name of each river. The preprint associated with the publication is found at EGUsphere - Persistence of a Subsurface Water Mass in a Deep Mid-Latitude Fjord (copernicus.org). Please refer to the accepted version of the mansucript, rather than the preprint (link not available at the time of the creation of this repository).