Rainfall and streamflow for Cotter River at Gingera.

Daily rainfall and streamflow for Cotter River at Gingera (Australian Capital Territory), from 1966-05-01 to 2003-06-07. The catchment area is 148 square kilometers.

Cotter

Format

A zoo object, of class c("zooreg", "zoo"). It is a regular time series indexed by days, in Date format.

There are three columns, P (areal rainfall, mm/day) and Q (streamflow, mm/day). E (temperature, degrees C).

Source

EcoWise?

Temperature: Copyright (c) Commonwealth of Australia.

Details

Rainfall (P)

Daily areal rainfall (mm/day).

Derived from rain gauges operated by Bureau of Meteorology and EcoWise. An area-weighted average was used, with weights determined from a long-term spline-interpolated rainfall surface.

Streamflow (Q)

Daily mean streamflow (mm/day). Stream gauge ID 410730 "Cotter at Gingera". Latitude -33.592; Longitude 148.822.

Temperature (E)

Daily Maximum Temperature. Product code: IDCJAC0002 reference: 00232595.

Bureau of Meteorology station number: 070014 Station name: CANBERRA AIRPORT Latitude -35.305; Longitude 149.201; Altitude 578.4 m.

Examples

data(Cotter)
summary(Cotter)
#>      Index                  P                 Q                  E        
#>  Min.   :1966-05-01   Min.   :  0.000   Min.   : 0.00507   Min.   : 2.80  
#>  1st Qu.:1975-08-11   1st Qu.:  0.000   1st Qu.: 0.22739   1st Qu.:14.00  
#>  Median :1984-11-20   Median :  0.000   Median : 0.48368   Median :19.20  
#>  Mean   :1984-11-20   Mean   :  2.966   Mean   : 0.82685   Mean   :19.69  
#>  3rd Qu.:1994-03-02   3rd Qu.:  1.650   3rd Qu.: 1.03914   3rd Qu.:24.60  
#>  Max.   :2003-06-12   Max.   :141.390   Max.   :28.49527   Max.   :42.20  
#>                                         NA's   :33                        
xyplot(Cotter)