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Water-surface elevations and temperature data collected for the NASA/JPL AirSWOT campaign on the Sacramento River, near Colusa, CA, for the period March – May, 2015

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2015-03-04
End Date
2015-05-26

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Minear, J.T., and Wright, S.A., 2016, Water-surface elevations, depths, velocities, and temperature data collected for the NASA/JPL AirSWOT campaign on the Sacramento River, near Colusa, CA, for the period March – May, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7NZ85R4.

Summary

This dataset is one part of a larger field dataset collected during March - May 2015 along the Sacramento River, near Colusa, CA. This particular dataset contains water-surface elevation and temperature data from 35 stationary pressure transducers spaced approximately every few kilometers along the Sacramento River upstream and downstream of Colusa, CA. The locations of the transducers were determined with RTK GPS with high precisions in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. The water-surface elevations were determined from the transducer pressure readings by using the nearest of six deployed barometric transducers, typically located within less than 10 kilometers.

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LowSac_PT_vp1.csv 3.68 MB text/csv
LowSac_PT_vp2.csv 3.27 MB text/csv
UpSac_PT_vp1.csv 3.6 MB text/csv
UpSac_PT_vp2.csv 4.04 MB text/csv

Purpose

This data set is one part of a large field dataset collected for calibration and validation purposes of the NASA / JPL AirSWOT campaign along the Sacamento River, near Colusa, CA, in March - May 2015. The AirSWOT campaign is an airborne precusor to the satellite-based NASA SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) Mission, which when launched, will attempt to measure surface water-related parameters from space. Additional appropriate uses of the data might include investigating the effects of the major California drought (2015) on water stage and temperatures in the Sacramento River, as well as hydraulic modeling during very low water conditions.

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