Quantifying thermal refugia connectivity by combining  temperature modeling, distributed temperature  sensing, and thermal infrared imaging

Dzara, Jessica R.; Neilson, Bethany T.; Null, Sarah E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2965-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2965-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2965-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 7

Research article

|

12 Jul 2019

Research article |

| 12 Jul 2019

Quantifying thermal refugia connectivity by combining temperature modeling, distributed temperature sensing, and thermal infrared imaging

Jessica R. Dzara, Bethany T. Neilson, and Sarah E. Null

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2965-2019-supplement

Data sets

Walker River distributed temperature sensing, thermal infrared imaging, and temperature modeling data S. Null and J. Dzara http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/fe3912e234a84478b767eff5db5fb9b5

Short summary

In Nevada's Walker River, stream temperatures nearly always exceed optimal temperature thresholds for adult trout. We used high-resolution measured data to verify simulated stream temperatures and estimate the spatial distribution of cold-water pockets for fish. Irrigation return canals, beaver dams, and groundwater seeps were river features with cold-water, and the average distance between pockets of cold-water in this river was 2.8 km.