PeakFQ program input and output files for selected streamgages in Connecticut, based on data through water year 2015

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Flood-frequency analyses for 141 streamgages in Connecticut were updated using the U.S. Geological Survey program PeakFQ, version 7.2 (https://water.usgs.gov/software/PeakFQ/; Veilleux and others, 2014). The PeakFQ program follows Bulletin 17C national guidelines for flood-frequency analysis (https://doi.org/10.3133/tm4B5). The input and output files to PeakFQ that were used in the Connecticut flood-frequency update are presented. Individual file folders for the 141 streamgages using the streamgage identification number as the folder name contain three files: ".TXT" file used as input to PeakFQ contains the annual peak flows for the streamgage in standard PeakFQ (WATSTORE) text format available from NWIS web at https://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/peak; ".PRT" text file provides estimates of flood magnitudes and their corresponding variance for a range of annual exceedance probabilities, estimates of the parameters of the log-Pearson Type III frequency distribution, including the logarithmic mean, standard deviation, skew, and mean square error of the skew; and ".JPG" image file shows the fitted frequency curve, systematic peaks, confidence limits, and associated information on low outliers, censored peaks, interval peaks, historic peaks, and thresholds if applicable.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9S4F751
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6075b95cd34e018b3201c82d.xml

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  • flood-frequency
  • peakfq
  • biota
  • peak-flows
  • usgs-6075b95cd34e018b3201c82d

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