Statewide base-flow estimates for Oregon, water years 1980–2023

Description

Base flow, the groundwater contribution to streamflow, is beneficial data for analysis of groundwater-flow systems. This data release includes base-flow estimates and streamflow data for 471 Oregon streamgage sites. Categories of data include: (1) site information, (2) water year estimates of base flow and streamflow, and (3) daily estimates of base flow. Water-year base-flow estimates are considered most reliable; daily estimates are provided for completion and summarization purposes only. Daily discharge (streamflow) data from water years 1980–2023 were obtained from the United States Geological Survey (USGS; https://waterdata.usgs.gov) and the Oregon Water Resources Department (OWRD; https://apps.wrd.state.or.us/apps/sw/hydro_report/) online databases and used to estimate base flow using three methods: low-flow, graphical hydrograph separation (GHS), and chemical hydrograph separation (CHS). Specific conductance (SC) data from continuous SC monitoring at streamgages were obtained from the USGS database and used for CHS base-flow analysis at 15 sites. Data are in .csv file and .txt file format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P17DGTTB

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  • environment
  • south-coast-basin
  • hood-river-basin
  • groundwater-flow
  • owyhee-river-basin
  • deschutes-river-basin
  • john-day-river-basin
  • goose-and-summer-lakes-basin
  • base-flow
  • hydrographic-datasets
  • grand-ronde-river-basin
  • sandy-river-basin
  • klamath-river-basin
  • rogue-river-basin
  • malheur-lake-harney-basin
  • powder-river-basin
  • umatilla-river-basin
  • malheur-river-basin
  • north-coast-basin
  • inlandwaters
  • mid-coast-basin
  • usgs-682fa1e5d4be027fab6e2d8b
  • umpqua-river-basin
  • stream-discharge
  • hydrology
  • willamette-river-basin
  • oregon

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