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HESSD

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions

HESSD

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss.

1812-2116

Göttingen, Germany

10.5194/hessd-10-9999-2013

Modeling insights from distributed temperature sensing data

Buck

C. R.

¹ Null

S. E.

Butte County Department of Water and Resource Conservation, Oroville, California, USA

Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Utah, USA

01 08 2013

10 8 9999 10034

2013

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Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) technology can collect abundant high resolution river temperature data over space and time to improve development and performance of modeled river temperatures. These data can also identify and quantify thermal variability of micro-habitat that temperature modeling and standard temperature sampling do not capture. This allows researchers and practitioners to bracket uncertainty of daily maximum and minimum temperature that occurs in pools, side channels, or as a result of cool or warm inflows. This is demonstrated in a reach of the Shasta River in Northern California that receives irrigation runoff and inflow from small groundwater seeps. This approach highlights the influence of air temperature on stream temperatures, and indicates that physically-based numerical models may under-represent this important stream temperature driver. This work suggests DTS datasets improve efforts to simulate stream temperatures and demonstrates the utility of DTS to improve model performance and enhance detailed evaluation of hydrologic processes.

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