hydroDat function

Canadian hydrological data sets.

Five data sets obtained from the HYDAT database, Environment and Climate Change Canada's database of historical hydrometric data. The data were obtained using the tidyhydat

package. The data have been trimmed so that there are no gaps in the observation dates and are presented in raw form and in discretised form as deciles of the residuals (difference between raw values and the daily mean over years). data

data("linLandFlows")
    data("ftLiardFlows")
    data("portMannFlows")
    data("portMannSedLoads")
    data("portMannSedCon")

Format

Data frames with observations on the following 3 variables.

• Date: Dates on which observations were made.
• Value: Numeric vector of observation values.
• mean: The mean over years of Value.
• resid: The difference Value - mean.
• deciles: A factor with levels d1, ..., d10, which are the deciles of the variable resid

Details

The variable mean was calculated as follows:

yday <- as.POSIXlt(X$Date)$yday
   mn   <- tapply(X$Value,yday,mean,na.rm=TRUE)
   mean <- mn[as.character(yday)]

where X is the data set being processed.

The data set linLandFlows originally consisted of 2008 observations; there were 1980 observations after trimming . The data set ftLiardFlows originally consisted of 22364 observations; there were 11932 observations after trimming . The data set portMannFlows originally consisted of 6455 observations; there were 3653 observations after trimming . The data set portMannSedLoads consists of 2771 observations; no observations were trimmed. The data set portMannSedCon consists of 4597 observations; no observations were trimmed.

The units of the Flows variables are cubic metres per second ($m^3/s$); the units of portMannSedLoads

are tonnes; the units of portMannSedCon are milligrams per litre (mg/l).

The linLandFlows data were obtained at the Lindberg Landing hydrometric station on the Liard River in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The ftLiardFlows data were obtained at the Fort Liard hydrometric station on the Liard River in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The portMann

data were obtained at the hydrometric station located at the Port Mann pumping station on the Fraser River in the Province of British Columbia in Canada.

Source

Environment and Climate Change Canada's database HYDAT , a database of historical hydrometric data. The data were obtained vis the tidyhydat package, which is available from CRAN , https://cran.r-project.org

Examples

fit <- hmm(linLandFlows$deciles,K=4,itmax=10)