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plot_flow_duration

Plot flow duration curves

Description

Plots flow duration curves of flow data from a daily streamflow data set. Plots the percent time flows are equalled or exceeded. Calculates statistics from all values, unless specified. Data calculated using calc_longterm_stats() function then converted for plotting. Returns a list of plots.

Usage

plot_flow_duration(
  data,
  dates = Date,
  values = Value,
  groups = STATION_NUMBER,
  station_number,
  roll_days = 1,
  roll_align = "right",
  water_year_start = 1,
  start_year,
  end_year,
  exclude_years,
  complete_years = FALSE,
  custom_months,
  custom_months_label,
  ignore_missing = FALSE,
  months = 1:12,
  include_longterm = TRUE,
  log_discharge = TRUE,
  include_title = FALSE
)

Arguments

`data`	Data frame of daily data that contains columns of dates, flow values, and (optional) groups (e.g. station numbers). Leave blank if using `station_number` argument.
`dates`	Name of column in `data` that contains dates formatted YYYY-MM-DD. Only required if dates column name is not 'Date' (default). Leave blank if using `station_number` argument.
`values`	Name of column in `data` that contains numeric flow values, in units of cubic metres per second. Only required if values column name is not 'Value' (default). Leave blank if using `station_number` argument.
`groups`	Name of column in `data` that contains unique identifiers for different data sets, if applicable. Only required if groups column name is not 'STATION_NUMBER'. Function will automatically group by a column named 'STATION_NUMBER' if present. Remove the 'STATION_NUMBER' column beforehand to remove this grouping. Leave blank if using `station_number` argument.
`station_number`	Character string vector of seven digit Water Survey of Canada station numbers (e.g. `"08NM116"`) of which to extract daily streamflow data from a HYDAT database. Requires `tidyhydat` package and a HYDAT database. Leave blank if using `data` argument.
`roll_days`	Numeric value of the number of days to apply a rolling mean. Default `1`.
`roll_align`	Character string identifying the direction of the rolling mean from the specified date, either by the first (`'left'`), last (`'right'`), or middle (`'center'`) day of the rolling n-day group of observations. Default `'right'`.
`water_year_start`	Numeric value indicating the month (`1` through `12`) of the start of water year for analysis. Default `1`.
`start_year`	Numeric value of the first year to consider for analysis. Leave blank to use the first year of the source data.
`end_year`	Numeric value of the last year to consider for analysis. Leave blank to use the last year of the source data.
`exclude_years`	Numeric vector of years to exclude from analysis. Leave blank to include all years.
`complete_years`	Logical values indicating whether to include only years with complete data in analysis. Default `FALSE`.
`custom_months`	Numeric vector of months to combine to summarize (ex. `6:8` for Jun-Aug). Adds results to the end of table. If wanting months that overlap calendar years (ex. Oct-Mar), choose `water_year_start` that begins before the first month listed. Leave blank for no custom month summary.
`custom_months_label`	Character string to label custom months. For example, if `months = 7:9` you may choose `"Summer"` or `"Jul-Sep"`. Default `"Custom-Months"`.
`ignore_missing`	Logical value indicating whether dates with missing values should be included in the calculation. If `TRUE` then a statistic will be calculated regardless of missing dates. If `FALSE` then only those statistics from time periods with no missing dates will be returned. Default `FALSE`.
`months`	Numeric vector of month curves to plot. `NA` if no months required. Default `1:12`.
`include_longterm`	Logical value indicating whether to include long-term curve of all data. Default `TRUE`.
`log_discharge`	Logical value to indicate plotting the discharge axis (Y-axis) on a logarithmic scale. Default `FALSE`.
`include_title`	Logical value to indicate adding the group/station number to the plot, if provided. Default `FALSE`.

Value

A list of ggplot2 objects with the following for each station provided:

Flow_Duration

a plot that contains flow duration curves for each month, long-term, and (option) customized months

Examples

## Not run: 

# Working examples:

# Run if HYDAT database has been downloaded (using tidyhydat::download_hydat())
if (file.exists(tidyhydat::hy_downloaded_db())) {

# Plot flow durations using a data frame and data argument with defaults
flow_data <- tidyhydat::hy_daily_flows(station_number = "08NM116")
plot_flow_duration(data = flow_data,
                    start_year = 1980)

# Plot flow durations using station_number argument with defaults
plot_flow_duration(station_number = "08NM116",
                   start_year = 1980)

# Plot flow durations and add custom stats for July-September
plot_flow_duration(station_number = "08NM116",
                   start_year = 1980,
                   custom_months = 7:9,
                   custom_months_label = "Summer")
                   
}

## End(Not run)

fasstr

Analyze, Summarize, and Visualize Daily Streamflow Data

v0.3.2

Apache License 2.0

Authors

Jon Goetz [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4993-1119>), Carl James Schwarz [aut], Robin Pike [ctb], Province of British Columbia [cph]

Initial release