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

<p><strong>Corresponding peer-reviewed publication</strong></p> <p>This repository corresponds to all the input and output files that were used in the study reported in:</p> <ul> <li>Cerbelaud, A., David, C. H., Biancamaria, S., Wade, J., Tom, M., Prata de Moraes Frasson, R., &amp; Blumstein, D. (2024). Peak flow event durations in the Mississippi River basin and implications for temporal sampling of rivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL109220. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109220" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109220</a>.</li> </ul> <p>When making use of any of the output files of this dataset, please cite both the aforementioned article and the dataset herein.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Main goals of the publication</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>