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At-site Flood Frequency PeakFQ Estimates in Puerto Rico Through Water Year 2017

The magnitude and frequency of floods at 91 rural, unregulated streamgages in Puerto Rico were updated using annual peak-flows through 2017. The USGS program PeakFQ version 7.3 (U.S. Geological Survey, 2019) was used to estimate the parameters of the Log-Pearson Type III distribution using updated methods outlined in Bulletin 17C (England and others, 2018) and regional skew of 0.28 and a mean-squared error of 0.20. This data release includes (1) a spreadsheet file showing streamgage information, perception thresholds, and intervals used in PeakFQ; (2) raw input files (.txt) and spec file (.psf) loaded into PeakFQ; and (3) output files (.PRT) from PeakFQ showing the magnitude and frequency peak-flow estimates, as well as paramters of the Log-Pearson Type III distribution and Kendall's tau trend test. References Cited: U.S. Geological Survey, 2019, PeakFQ version 7.3, accessed December 17, 2019, at https://water.usgs.gov/software/PeakFQ/. England J.F., Jr., Cohn, T.A., Faber, B.A., Stedinger,J.R., Thomas,W.O.,Jr., Veilleux,A.G., Kiang,J.E., and Mason,R.R., Jr., 2018, Guidelines for determining flood flow frequency —Bulletin 17C: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 4, chap. B5, 148p., https://doi.org/10.3133/tm4B5.

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Author(s) Patrick J Ryan, Cody L Hazelbaker
Publication Date 2021-06-01
Beginning Date of Data 1899
Ending Date of Data 2017
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P91XT14B
Citation Ryan, P.J., and Hazelbaker, C.L., 2021, At-site Flood Frequency PeakFQ Estimates in Puerto Rico Through Water Year 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P91XT14B.
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