;, .: f i-i { ' , . : i . - : . _ r ' : a ,.\: r PB 2lO 112 PB 210 t72 " 1WIrÔ RAGE ?NEPTITY Sf PRPEITY flf Hffi0$ur$IAt n0ir8nrx £NYfiOETL ?DTECT11 UW2Y W$nY RE4IU mgCIx I gil rsnt uil 1XT1 120 t|ll ff111 $IH, Am WAIl. trltl Al t'/ 'No. No. ?0PNPEN Itlar.1970 Mar. 1970 SALINITY, RUNOFF AND MEASUREMENTS SALINITY, RUNOFF AND WIND WIND MEASUREMENTS YAOUINA ESTUARY, OREGON YAQUINA ESTUARY, OREGON CLEA I I ; iI t ] FEl| ERAL WATER WATER FEDERAL Pt|LLUTItlN CtlNTRtlL POLLUTION CONTROL AIl MI 1.II ST RATI (l II ADMINISTRATION N(lRTHWEST REGItliI NORTHWEST REGION Nt|RTHWEST PACIFIG PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABtlRAT[|RY WATER WATERLABORATORY CORVALLIS, C O R V A L L I S , OOREGON REGON SALINITY, SALINITY, RUNOFF RUNOFF AND AND I{IND WIND MEASUREMENTS MEASUREMENTS YAQUINA ESTUARY, YAQUINA ESTUARY, OREGON OREGON A p ri l 1967 1967-- October April 0ctober 1968 1968 by by R . 3. J . Callaway Callaway R. G. R. Ditsworth Ditswor th G. R. . D. D . L. L . Cutchin Cutchin t'{orking PaperNo. Working Paper No. 70 70 United United States States Departnent Department of of the Interior Interior Federal l.later Federal Water Pollution Pollution control Control Administrationn Administration, Northwest Northwest Reqion Region Pacific Pacific Northwest Northwest Water Water Laboratorv Laboratory 200 200 Southwest Southwest Thirty-fifth Thirty-fifth Street Streed C o rvaIl i s, Oregon Corvallis, 0r egon97330 97330 March Mar ch1970 1970 rffi{flilil$ U.S. EP1mRRY REGLON 1OMATERILS ii RX000025696 FEDEML POLLUTION CONTROL FEDERAL WATER WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ADMINISTRATION ADf4INISTMTION NORTHWEST REGION, PORTLAND, NORTHWEST REGION, PORTLAND, OREGON oREGoN JamesL. L. Agee, James Agee, Regional RegionalDirector Director PACIFIC N0RTHWEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST WATER LABORATORY I^IATER LABORAT0RY CORVALLIS, CORVALLIS, OREGON OREGON A . F. F . Bartsch, Bar tsch, Director A. Dir ector NATIONAL THERMAL NATIONAL THERMAL POLLUTION RESEARCH POLLUTION RESEARCH Frank H. H. Rainwater Frank Rainwater NATIONAL EUTROPHICATION NATIONAL EUTROPHICATION RESEARCH RESEARCH A. F. F. Bartsch Bar tsch A. NATIONAL COASTAL NATIONAL COASTAL POLLUTION POLLUTION RESEARCH RESEARCH D a u mg a rtn e r D.. J. J. B Baumgartner hIASTETREATMENT TREATMENT RESEARCH WASTE RESEARCH ANDTECHNOLOGY: TECHN0L0GY: AND Pulp && Pulp Paper; Paper; Food FoodProcessing; Processing; WoodProducts Products&& Logging; Wood Logging; Special Studies Special Studies James James R. R. Boydston Boydston BIOLOGICAL BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS EFFECTS G e ra l dR. Gerald R . Bouck B o u ck I,IANPOI,IER MANPOWER AND TRAINING AND TRAINING Lyman Lyman J. J . Nielson Nielson CONSOL CONSOL IDATED LABORATORY LABORATORY IDATEO SERVICES SERVICES Daniel Daniel F. F. Krawczyk Krawczyk NATIONAL COASTAL NATIONAL COASTAL POLLUTION POLLUTION RESEARCH PROGRAM RESEARCH PROGRAM D . J. 0. J. Baumgartner, Baumgar tnerChief , Chief R R.. J J. Callaway . C allaway H. Feldman M. M. H. Feldm an B . 0. B. D . Clark Clark G. G. R. R. Ditsworth Ditsworth t,l. A. W. A. UeBen lleBen L. L . C. C. Bentsen Bentsen D. D. S. Tr ent S. Trent D. D . L. L . Cutchin Cutchin E.. M M.. G Gruchalla E ruchalla L. L . G. G. Hermes Her mes DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OFTHE THE INTERtOR OF INTERIOR ln its its assigned a3signed functtonas as the the Nation's in function Nation's principal principal natural natural resource agency, resource agency, the the Departrentof of the the Interior Department Interior bears bearsaa special special obligation to obligation assure that to assure that our expendable our expendable resources are resources are conserved, conserved, that that renewable renewable resourcesare produce optimum resources are managed managedto to produce optimum yieldsr and yields, contribute aodthat that all aIl resources resources contribute progress, prosprostheir full full measure measure their to to the the progress, perity, and perity, andsecurity security of of America, America, now nowand and in in the the future. future. A Working presenfsresults ttorkingPaper Paperpresents A results of of lnvestigationswhich Investigations which are are to some extent extent to some limited or incomplete. Therefore, limited or incomplete. Therefore, conclusions conclusions or or recommendations--expressed recommendations--expressed or or implied--are implied--aretentative. tentative. CONTENTS CONTENTS Chapter Chapter II.. III. I. Page Page INTRODUCTION . INTRODUCTION ................... .1I a FIELD FIELD DATA DATA COLLECTION COLLECTION ............... 3 3 Salinity Sal tnity Measurements Measurements ............... 3 3 Locations andDepths Depthsof Locations and of Data DataCollection Collectton Instrumentati Instrumentation on ................ FlowChart Chartof Flow of Data Data Acquisition Acquisition and andReduction Reduction Cal ibration Calibration .................. Maintenance andService Maintenance and Service ............ Problems Associated wfth Instrument Problems Associated with Operation. Instrument 0peration. Lengthof of Record Length Record................. 3 3 7 7 . ' III. III. . . l0 10 l0 10 l0 10 t2 12 12 12 Stream FlowMeasurements Measurements Stream Flow .............. 12 t2 Station Locati.on,Instrumentation, Instrumentation, and Station Location, and T e ch n i q u es.................. Techniques . 14 14 WindMeasurements WindMeasurements . ................ 14 14 DATA DATA QUALITY QUALITY AND AND THE THE NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 1969 OF THE THE 1969STATE STATE OF DATARECORDS RECORDS DATA . 22 ................... - November Condition Condition of of the the Data Data November 1969 ....... 1969 D e scri p ti o nof o f Data Data Block Block Available Available for Description for Use Thr ough UseThrough 0S-3 System OS-3System .................... APPENDIX.Example APPENDIX. Example of of Use Useof Bay File File "Bay" ........... 22 25 34 34 LIST OF LIST OFTABLES TABLES Tabl Table e Page Page l1.. Inserted Durnmy Inserted Dummy Values Values................ 2. 2. Frolander,Bergeron, Bergeron, Frolander, McCormick, Crandal M cConnick, Cr andalSalinity Data DatafPartial (Partial) .................... ). 27 27 29 29 LIST OF OFFItJRES LIST FIGURES Figurg Figure l. 1. 2. 2. Page Page FTIPCA project, Stati.ons-- Estuary FWPCA Stations Diffusion Project, Estuary Diffusion Y a q u i n aEstuary E stu a ry Yaquina .................... 4 4 cross-sections of Estuary at at Conductivity conductivity Monitoring Cross-sections of Estuary Monitoring Sites -- Yaquina YaquinaBay, Sites Bay, Oregon 0regon 5 5 ............. 3. 3. T yp i ca l Installation In sta l l a ti o n for for Monitoring Monitor ingSurface Typical Sur faceand and Bottom Bottom S a l i n i t y. Salinity 6 6 4. 4. ....................... Conducti vity Recorder (Salinometer) .......... Recorder(Salinometer) Conductivity I 8 5. 5. C h a rt S h o w i n gT yp i cal Conductivity ConductivityTr Chart Showing Typical Trace ace 9 9 6. 6. ....... p r o c e s s i n g........... S a l i n i t y and a n dWind W i n dData D a t aProcessing Salinity 1t 11 7 Data Extent 7.. Extent and and Present Present Condition Data Condition ........... 13 l3 8. 8. Exampleof StreamFlow FlowRecord Example of Stream Record 9. 9. S ta g eH e i g h t iin yaquina n Feet F e et Vs. Stage Height Streamfiow C.F.S -- Yaqu-ina Vs. Str eamflowC.F.S. R i ve r a n d Elk River and E l k Creek C reek................. 16 l6 ............. 10. 10. GeodyneWind Recorder Geodyne Wind Recorder Il. 11. P o l a r-H i sto g ra m o { ind Source Polar Histogram off }Wind Sour ceDirection Dir ection -- August August21, 21, t96B -- September 1968 September 30, 30, 1968 1968 . ................. .............. l5 15 17 17 l9 19 1 2 . Example 12. Exampleof of Wind WindRecord Recordfrom from Climet Climet Recorder RecorderRecord Record FromOctober 0ctober 2, From 2, 1967 1961. ................. 13. 13. P ri n to u t o a l f-h our ly !ilind Printout off H Half-hourly Wind Speed and Direction Speedand Direction Values from Recordfor Values from Climet Climet Record for October October 2, 2, 1967 1967 . 14. 14. parameters Daily Averages Averagesfor for Selected Daily SelectedParameters . . . ........ 20 20 21 21 24 24 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION program(NCPRP) The National coastal Pollution Research (NcpRp)of ResearchProgram The National Coastal Pollution of the FWPCA FWPCA has as as one one of the has of its its functions functions in-house in-houseand andextramural extramural development of mathematical mathematfcalmodels development of modelsof purposeof of estuaries. estuaries. The The purpose of such models is in in the such models is the management management and and prediction prediction of of water water quality quality i n estuaries. estuaries. in If a properly verified is properly If a given given model model is verified and andused usedwith with an an eye eye t o its i t s limitations, l i m i t a t i o n s , it i t can to c a nbe b e an a n indispensable i n d i s p e n s a b ltool. teo o l . I f it i t is is If p ro p e rl y verified, n o t properly ve ri fi e d , it i t is is an an ornament; or nament;if not if it is used it is incautiousl y , usedincautiously, it problemsand it can can create create more more problems and waste waste more moretime time than than no no model model a t all. at all. V e ri fi ca ti o n d a ta is i s difficult Verification data difficult to to obtain obtain in most cases and and in m ost cases (e.g., bacteria m o redifficult d i ffi cu l t for fo r some so re (e.g., more bacter ia distribution) distr ibution) than than others other s ((e.g., e . g . , temperature). t e m p e r a t u r e ) .S a l i n i t y , as a s conductivity, c o n d u c t i v i t y ,is i s one Salinity, o n eof o f the the easier easier properties properties to to measure measure continuously continuously and and reliably reliably and and is is of of prime importancein in determining determiningthe prime importance the density density structure structure of water of aa water body. body. programdiscussed The data data collection collection program The discussed in in this this report was was intended purposes: I1)) intended for for two two purposes: provide data to provide to data for for verification verfflcation o f aa solution so l u ti o n o of off the th e advection-diffusion a d vection- diffusionequation, equation, and 2, and 2) to to provide long, long, continuous records on provide continuous records on which which to to test test certain hypothesesrelated related to hypotheses to time-series tirne-seriesanalysis. analysis. During the the course During course of of the field field collection and since since then then collection and we have havehad had several several requests requests for we for the the data data and and for descriptions of for descriptions 2 what collected, where what was was collected, whereand andwhen. when. This This report report is is an aninformal informal processingtechniques summary of data data processing techniquesand summary of andlists lists the the data data available available presentcondition. andits its present and condition. permits,we As time time permits, wewill will use usethe As the data data ourselves ourservesto to verify verify aa modelof of the the Yaquina Yaquina model River RiverEstuary. Estuary. In In the hope the meantinre, meantime, we we hope this indicateto to those thoseinterested this report report will will indicate interestedwhat is available; whatis available; i f sstill t i l l interested, i n t e r e s t e d we'll , e ' l l be w b e happy h a p p to yt o help y o udig if h e l pyou d i g it i t out. out. \}lA 2 z 4 lr, E U c. ,l MILL Legend Legend ConductivityMeter O Conductivity 0 MeterLocation Location -< L'lindRecorder -' RecorderLocation Wind Location E Ti E!J Tide Gauge Location d e Ga u g eL o ca ti o n g Stream GaugeLocation <) Stream Gauge Location Station Stati on (l) (1) (2) (3) (3) (4) (4) (5) (5) (6) (6) (2) (7 (7)) C,REEK River R i v e r Mile* Mile* (Nautic.al) (Nautical) |.5 r .1.5 OSU Dock Dock "' O SU . \ , 3.5 3.5 '' Sawyer's S a w y e r 'Dock D s ock n , 77.0 .0 Fowler's "' F o w l e r ' sDock Dock 9.5 C r i t e s e r ' sDock Criteser's D o c k ' \ ,9.5 nl 4 . 0 Burpee Burpee "14.0 16.0 Charlie's C h a r l i e ' sDock D o c k n16.O ((Fritz) Fritz) q,l Elk k City 'l9.5 El 9.5 City ' * River * RiverMile Mile 0.00 is the seaward 0.00 is the seaward jetty. endof of the end the south southjetty. FIGURE F I GU R1. lE. FWPCA F WP CStations, Diffusion Project, Estuar y SAta ti o ns, Estuary Estuar yDiffusion Pr ojectn Yaquina YaquinaEstuary FIELD FIELD DATA DATA COLLECTION COLLECTION Salinity Measurements Salinity Measurements conductivity data data from from which Conductivity which salinity salinity values values were were computed computed w e r ecollected co l l e cte d at a t 10 were l 0 locations l o cations in in Yaquina YaquinaBay Bayand and estuary estuar y during dur ing the the period period April April 1967 1967-- October October 1968. 1968. L o ca ti o n sand Locations a n d Depths D e p th sof o f Data Data Collection Collection D a ta co l l e cti o n sites si tes are ar e shown shownin Data collection in Figure Figur e 1I and identified and are ar e identified as OSU Bottom, Sawyer, as OSU Surface, Surface, OSU OSU Bottom, Sawyer,Fowler, Fowler, Criteser Criteser Surface, Surface, Criteser BurpeeSurface, Criteser Bottom, Bottom, Burpee Surface, Burpee BurpeeBottom, Bottom,Fritz* Fritz* and and Elk Elk p ri vate or public public floating dock E a chsi te is i s aa private Each site dock located located City. City. n e a rsh o reand ( autom obile) . a n d easily nearshore e a si l y serviced se rvicedby by land land routes r outes (automobile). Data were collected at (about 1.5 at the the water Data were collected water surface surface (about 1.5 feet feet beneath beneath the the surface) surface) at OSU OSU Surface, Surface, Sawyer, Fowler, Criteser Sawyer,Fowler, Surface, Burpee BurpeeSurface, Surface, Surface, Fritz Fritz and andElk Elk City. City. (about Bottomdata Bottom data (about 1.5 feet 1.5 feet off off the bottom) bottom) were were collected at OSU OSU Bottom, Bottom, Criteser Criteser Bottomand BurpeeBottom Bottomat depths of about Bottom and Burpee at depths about 16 16 feet, feet, 77 feet feet and and (Figure2). 7 feet, feet, respectively, respectively, below 7 belowMean MeanLower LowerLow LowWater l,later(Figure 2). probeswere Conductivity were attached attached to Conductivity probes to floating floating docks docksto to obtain obtain s u r fa ce d p i l i n gs to ( Figur e 3). a ta a n d to to pilings surface data and to obtain obtain bottom bottomdata data (Figure 3) . *l l | ehave, h a ve , u n fo rtu n a te l y, also *We unfortunately, also called called this Charlie, Char lie, thus thus Fritz Fr itz and and Charlie refer refer to Charlie to the samestation. the same station. o o I OL g 0 q) ,, /r^-r-lw oro!)N3tidsu (r"=:-r) -! u \2 JE g ; t oo 4 0 0, , tl It 4 r \ i b z I :, a o o a o \} oZ .t Hl dj3o / t F d o 2 a 'r (al io I' IB J t oA ''6 ro$ ON t 'l$[ "[\t iti -*$R X4 Q U/NA 5A )', OEcxOA/ 7V/711w,7zew $/TS (1c-rx,,-) P raQ,q.Y4 r C4' pox J a$$ CR,9.S'$ ..s'4C7/OiVS a SouTh 0 &ot £0 P4O?U4 8*LIC -: Soi'?. Vp.Cl_ _ 300 ftT s b O20 IOLl4. /0 L40gi0st.. o E kw7#/ Sotrn4 I 4.p( 3 SOTh 3J /0 0 p , 40 .1 o v z SOUTh SMIK qf. !x :t $$ x Li : 0 2 I F : [Li tI r6J SPWYE lc E4r8tNI a i: IE AiK £0 2 Ui I : E $ is. uto llo r 7 io a o z E 5 I Lt hit 6 0 , J UI s I-H t 0 Ii llnll LI- )/ 2 SouTh M' v \ b \b s F|(ED __---. FID pLc.s PILES ____=__ aor 'TO r|(t.r ro sct\e GUIDe POL.EFbi, Fb CASLE C&5LE +-CUD€POLE C04z9 c^tr€ CASl EO co{tD OT1OMPiotc Po3e Foi Sorton +- MgDEDioCoMpEMswe XEED€D'nr coir9E{stt€ cDR '.4 Fl'R wBrrc^L Dos( TICMT1DAL flDM t.4OJt4EbIT t ro\i!4c,9t OF DOCK r^/tATt|CR IIhThI.R Str4ELtEgS s$E\.rEFrs SLi'iot'.zTER shLrr{oMETER3 tr,fr$Dl / c.oT'U pocK eocK ,/'*nG :::J wAreR turFAc€ WAtER. $URFPcE .<€-lutnrcc .$VPACE PRO$( PRorg - 2." PLASTIC CowDo1' Fol6r3gq FO C.SI..0519 AD 4 PLASfGCo{Do|f PRoBG. Co,1Du%T PRowS. $OTTO,IFtf€D F*$D Cortor,rT TOTO C'oTTO!4 ptLE. tb 1l) PiLE. - l{o\CS I4O.t$Nii Cow RCULATIO CouDrr|T DUIT FOR tD C.nCsl^rrOrr .--- SOYTO PRo6. trf.uee FLG-UP.E 3 3 Tvgr<.rg LEioato!^ Mow %TI T..L'.'tON FOR FOR Morttroatr.l(' IA$TALLATTON SURFACE. SUE. Pi'LD BOTTO}A ANg BOTTOP'. SNI-TNTTY. 7 Instrurnntati Ins trumentati on on Conductivity data data were Conductivity were collected collected with battery-powered battery-powered Beckman** modelRQ1-7CH2C-R9K RQI-7CHZC-R9K recordingconductivity Beckman** model recording conductivity meters meters ( F i gu re4). 4 ). (Figure T h esystem syste mconsists consists of powersource, of aa recording r ecor dingunit, The unit, power sour ce, a n d associated a sso ci a te delectronics e l e ctro n i cs enclosed enclosedin in aa weather-resistant and metal weather - r esistant m etal h o u si n gand a n d a 100 housing 1 0 0 fo foot o t long'electrical l o ng' electr ical cable cable with attached attached p ro b e . An cconductivity o n d u cti vi ty probe. A n analog analogrecord r ecor d of of the the conductivity conductivity is is r e c o rd e d b e n on polar chart ( r igur e 5), ink p recorded byy a ann ink pen on a a polar which is char t (Figure 5) , which is d r i v e n by b y aa me ch a n i ca l l ywound driven mechanically woundclockworks. clockwor ks. The Theclockworks clockwor ksare ar e gearedsuch such that that the the chart geared chart makes per week. makesone one revolution revolution per week. i n stru me n tw pr inciple that saltwater T h e instrument o rkson the principle on the The works saltwater conducts conducts electricity at proportional to at aa rate rate propOrtional to the the salt electricity salt content content and and temperatemperature of ture the water. of the water. Alternating current, cument, converted Alternating convertedfrom from battery- direct current current by by an direct oscillator, and an oscillator, and transmitted transmitted to an exposed an exposed passesthrough terminal in in the the water, terminal water, passes water and through the the water and is is received received by aa second by secondexposed exposedterminal. terminal. to the the recording to recordingunit. unit. This is transmitted This current cument is transmitted back back (whichis The ambientwater water temperature The ambient temperature(which is not recorded) recordeO)is is measured thermistor and not measured by by aa thermistor and transmitted transmitted to the recording unit. recording unit. A temperature temperaturecompensator A compensator in in the the recording recording unit unit electronically electronically cancels cancels effects effects of temperature temperatureand and causes causesthe the conductivity to recordedat a constant conductivity to be be recorded constant reference temperature reference temperature (2s"c). (25°C). **Use of product and of product and company company namesis **Use names is for for identification identification only and only and does not not constitute constitute endorsement endorsement by the Department does by of the the U. U. S. S. Department the I nte ri o r o F e d e ralWater th e Federal Interior orr the W aterPollution Pollution Control Contr olAdministration. Administr ation. Frontview viewof of salinonieter: salinometer:shows Front shows chart, chart, p e nand probe;footlong i n k i n gpen a n dcable long c a b l ewith w i t h probe;foot inking g i v e sscale. rrule u l e on o n top t o p gives scale. powersource, door removed; removed; Rear source, shows view: door showspower Rear view: paneland probe. rear rear electronic electronicpanel andcable w i t hprobe. c a b l ewith F IGU R4. 4E. FIGURE ( Sali nom eter ) ConductivityRecorder Recor der(Salin6meter) Conductivity FIGURE 5E. F IGU R5. Chart Typical Conductivity Trace C h a rt Showing ShowingTypical ace ConductivityTr lI,J 0 Flow Chart of Data Acquisition and Reduction ste p s involved i n vo l ve din i n collecting collecting salinity Steps salinity and and wind wind data data and and r e du ci n git i t are a re shown sh o w nin i n the reducing diagram the flow ( Figur e 6). flow diagr am(Figure 6) . C a li b ra ti o n Calibration In stru me n tsin i n service se rv ice were wer ecalibrated Instruments car ibr atedweekly weeklybeginning beginningin in D e ce mb e 1r9 6 7 . Prior December 1967. P ri o r to to that that.tim e, they time, they were wer ecalibrated calibr ated once onceaa m o nth . Tertiary T e rti a ry saltwater month. sa l tw a ter standards ( seawaterdilutions) of standar ds(seawater of a p p r o x i m a t e l6, 6y, 112, 2 , 1 18, 8 , 2 424, , and parts p approximately a n d30 3 0 parts e r thousand t h o u s a n (PPT), d( p p T ) , per r e s p e cti ve ]y, were w e reused u se dfor respectively, for calibration. calibr ation. The conductivity pr obe conductivity probe The of instrumentwas inmersedin in each of each each instrument was immersed each solution and andthe the correscorrespondingchart chart reading reading was wasrecorded. ponding recorded. The The data data were were used usedto to derive derive ccoefficients o effi ci e n ts by by w h i ch salinity sa linity data which data were wer ecalculated calculated from fr om the the conductivity chart records. records. The conductivity chart The tertiary tertiary standards standardswere were tested tested w e ekl yagainst a g a i n st secondary se co n d a rystandards weekly standar dsto to insure insur e their their reliability. r eliability. Maintenance and Service Service Maintenance and Servicing Servicing of of meters meters was was done done at at least once once aa week weekand and c o n si ste dof o f changing ch a n g i n gcharts, ch ar ts, cleaning consisted cleaningthe the conductivity pr obes conductivity probes of mud mudand growth, checking and marine marinegrowth, of pen operation checkingpen operation and ink supply, and ink supply, c h e cki n g ,adjusting, a d j u sti n g , if i f necessary, necessar y,and checking, winding clockworks, and winding cr ockwor ks,and and checkingbatteries batteries for proper voltage. for proper checking voltage. Batteries were replaced Batteries were replaced a r e q u i re d . ass required. B a tte ri e s maintained ma i n ta i n edaa ser 9.5 volts m viceablevoltage Batteries serviceable voltage ((9.5 minimum) inimum) p e ri o d of f o r aa period o f 10 l 0 to to 14 for 1 4 days. days. They Theymaintained maintainedthis this voltage voltage InstrumentCalibration Instrument Cali bration and Maintenance Maintenance (wind) Log in Analog Records I I Visual editing comments. Send to Computer Center. W ee kl yServicing Weekly S e rvi ci n g S a l i n i ty Standards S ta n d a rd sCheck Salinity C h e ck Analog digital converAnalogto digital conver (digitizer) sion s i o n (digitizer) Instrument Instrument Calibration Cali bration Input coefficients: Input coefficients: corncomp u t e1/2 pute 1 / 2 hour h o u rsalinities salinitles and/or winds. and/orwinds. I Compute Compute coefficients coefficients Conductivity Conductivity to salinity to salinity ( S == (S A*CB*C2) A*C+B*C2) printer Output to andprinter to tape tape and Output (error) I EDIT I Output to disk disk for for statisstatisOutputto tical andother analyses tical and other analyses FIGURE 6E. F IGU R6. Pr ocesstng Data Processing Salinity and and Wind liind Data Salinity 12 12 f o r the th e mi p e ri o d during n i mu m for minimum period d ur ing cold cold weather. weather . Battery Batter y life r ife was was moredependent dependenton on air air temperature temperaturethan than the the current more cument draw drawdue due to to 'l arge salinity sal i ni ty fluctuations. large fl uctuati ons. P r o b l e ms A sso ci a te dwith w i th Instrument Instr um entOperation Problems Associated Oper ation 0 cca si o n a l l y, an a n instrument i n str umentwould wouldstop stop functioning Occasionally, functioningfor for aa period of of hours hoursor period or days. days. This This seemed seemed to occur occur most most frequently to frequenily p e ri o d s of d u r i n g periods o f cold during co l d weather. w eather . p ro b e sfailed co n d u cti vi ty probes failed on on occasion Conductivity occasionfor for no no known knownreason. r eason. a s e s , ggenerally, e n e r a l l y , aanother IIn n ssuch u c hccases, n o t h e rccable was a b l ew n s t a l l e d aand a s iinstalled n d tthe he iinstrument n s tru me n to p e ra te dsatisfactorily. sa ti sfactor i ly. operated Lengthof Record Length of Record T h e length l e n g th of o f record re co rdat eachstation The at each station is is shown shownin in Figure Figur e7. 7. StreamFlow Flow Measurements lvleasurements Stream S tre a mfl o wdata d a ta of o f the the Yaquina YaquinaRiver Streamfiow River and andElk Elk Creek, Cr eek,the the two two m a jo r tributaries tri b u ta ri e s to to the th e Yaquina YaquinaEstuary, major Estuar y,were wer ecollected collected from fr om April 1967 1967to to November November April 1968 1968by by the the Pacific Pacific Northwest NorthwestWater Water Laboratory. Together, Together, these Laboratory. percent these two two streams streamsdrain drain about about 68 68 percent o f the th e Yaquina Y a q u i n aBay B a ywatershed. of w a te rshed. Flow Flow data data for for Mill Mill Creek, Cr eek, a smaller smaller tributary to to the the estuary, estuary, were tributary were obtained obtained from from the the Geological GeologicalSurvey. Survey. Mr. A C h ri sti a n so nsupervised super visedthe the installation gauges Mr. Alden instal:lation of the l d e n Christianson the gauges and obtained obtained the the stage and stage versus versusflow flow data. data. -*E P=b PE E =E E-H=.rrfrH 6 6 > Y iEH= i; = . =i *F' "F E ii -3. = E ; E :9 E. ;: ! = = == . = . H = = = . ;E- -. \ H ==t 4E F i H *= > I - s 6 o STREAI4FLOW. MILL CREEK a (o o p E 3 (5 I oIL Primitive (u F E ?r = a =:. d J 5 ELK CREEK CD KLKCITY c\l STREAMFLOW. YAQUIM RIVER - FRITZ - BOTTOM SALINITY, BURPEE TOP : E ts CRITESER lOP CRITESER BOTTOM ! FOWLER a SALINITY. SAWYER Iiltl lI IlI l l Il 2 1 n TJ 33 BOTTOM ill il U' o SAI.INITY, OSU DOCK TOP 1 3 9) TIDES. 055 DOCK Good i (u WIND. NORTH JETTY Best E Ju, ilt t l ilil1 il| l IIJU I- s i l!p! I ! o (F I lxl I t\ lrl FIGURE 7. L L 1 -4 4- I I I________________________________________________________________________________ 1 DATA CONDITION SCALE (See page 21 for discussion) c o a a o a +t 'o s o (J +t g (I, a^ (l, tA € E r! +t c o +t lrl Data Extent and Present Condition. ; o x .6 +.' r! o l4 14 St a ti o n L o ca ti o n , Instrumentation, In stru nentation,and Station Location, andTechniques Techniques g a u g i n gstations T e mp o ra ry stations wene Temporary gauging were installed installed immediately ir nm ediaterabove y above t h e tidally-influenced ti d a l l y-i n fl u e n ce d reaches reachesof the of each each of the major tributaries the two two major tr ibutar ies ( F i g u r e1). (Figure 1) . w a te r levels l e ve l s were w e recontinuously continuouslyrecorded ( see r ecor dedin Water in analog analogform for m (See F i g u re 8 i th Leupold L e u p o l dand a nd Stevens stevensType Figure 8)) w with TypeF, Model61, F, Model 6r n water waterlevel r evel rrecorders. e c ord e rs. The T h ew a te r level, l e vel, indicated indicated on water on aa visually-read visually- r ead staff staff g a u g e 'installed i n sta l l e d at e a chsite, a t each site, was gauge, was recorded r ecor dedon on the the analog analogrecord r ecor d e a chtime ti me the i n stru me n twas th e instrument each ( weekly) . wasserviced ser viced(weekly). U si n gthese th e se data d a ta and per iodic discharge a n ddata data from fr omperiodic Using dischar gemeasurements, measur emen ts , t h e continuous co n ti n u o u sflows fl o w s in i n each eachstream the str eamwere wer ecalculated. calculated. Stream str eamflows flows v e r su s stage sta g e fo r th e Y a quinaRiver River and versus for the Yaquina and Elk Elk Creek Cr eekare ar e shown shownin F i g u re9. Figure 9. T h e sestreamfiow stre a mflowdata data have havebeen These digitized and beendigitized and are ar e on on file a a re the th e Geological Ge o l o g i calSurvey flow data file ass are Sur veyflow data from M ill Creek. fr omMill Cr eek. t,{indMeasurements Wind Measurements Wi n dspeed sp e e dand a n d direction d i re ction data data were Wind wer ecollected collected near near the the mouth m outh Ya q u i n aBay o f Yaquina per iodJune B a yduring d u ri n g the th e period of June1967 1967to to January Januar y1969. 1969. FrumJune From June 1967 1967 to to December December 1967, data were were collected 1967,data collected from from e tty (Figure (F i g u re 1) t h e north n o rth jjetty l ) with aa Climet the Climet Model M odel26 26 wind wind recording r ecor ding ssystem. y s te m. F ro mA p ri l 11968 9 6 8to From April to October October 1968, l96, data data were wer ecollected collected (Figure 1) from the the south south jetty from jetty (Figure Wind 1) with aa Geodyne Geodyne WindRecorder Recorder ( F i gu re10). (Figure l 0 ). F ro mJu l y 1968 From July 1968 to to Januar January y1969, 1969, data data wer weree collected collected the same at at the samesite site with the the Climet Climet recorder. recorder. I I. "a Flow Record B. Exampleof Str^eam FIGURE 5000 \ STAGE HEIGHT, H, (FEET) tt, tt 9t, -.n ct>o lrl -= r.o o @ N @ o htJ (5 l! Q = -1 .638249 + 65.93246H + 28.17497H2 - 0.0007828061H3 (J Vs. F 1000 ^ -l! FLOW, Q, (CFS) F lr, lrl E o o F t/t I o ! d t\ <ti <f <l lrt @ o o =f YAQUINA RIVER 0 c) o + ,\ () cn o lrl |! ro st (o ot. ,,o FIGURE 9 + FLOW, Q,(CFS U' @ (\I t\ (\l = v, )(J' J l! Lr- o I 00 Q = -27.34791 - 28.32396H + 69.41383H2 + O.000854127H3 t\l lat + dOr Lrl st >(\l (Y) @ (t H@ d('t sf Or ro =? = ON + >o to or (o ct tCt I (Y) c; (\l I sf (Yt |\^ / (\to) d (Jl. o:z il l [! Cr\ . 5. I w I- = 'H 'lHSItH l9vrs 1.0 10.0 w (tltl) 0.1 +.- / / 'U Ld <tr / ELK CREEK :< lrl / lC/ H>0.9) (}- A4 A-Z\: cs'iF- '3 Qrv Bo-\'\LRx \\J\ RE<ORDEI{ D\g\-fA\F\L\^ \AJ \\JD 5PEED. \4Eq\\)PJ\\(, (" <-osnes'.': c) \REc\\o\.J \\c*- . BEqR\\.lQ '4 I (ro)r/ruorq.H6LE5 F.q-\lL"D\q.BS. liii L-,.;*J cb \ J \-- \'W-V TH\b $JbTRUFJ\EN\ RE<.oRD\\-I(, \N fi HO\JT \J \\ .\J*J\TH \J-J BATTLRY 't SLCiO LqtsJ BL c-a\^Ps.:b'q$.!b \AO\)\-\TEb \\J \ PRO\J\DED /<>R\\-IC-TQII'\4E}.Tf \-\t-r Ce\.oE from Geodyn Geodyne Drawing from Drawlng Corporation Corporation General Catalogue Catalogue FIGURE IEO . F I G U R10. Geodyne l,'|indRecorder Recorder GeodyneWind l1I8 The Geodyne Geodyne The system wind speed systemdigitally digitally recorded recordedwind speedand and photogr aphicfilm d i r e cti o n in direction i n binary b i n a ry code co d eon on photographic half- hour film at half-hour intervals. intervals. data records The data records were The Corporawerereduced reducedby by the the Geodyne Geodyne Corpora- pr intouts, histograms t i o n and to digital tion a n d converted co n ve rte dto d i gital printouts, histogr amsand and analog analog polar histogram rrecords. e co rd s. F i g u re 11 l l sh o wsaa polar histogr amof Figure shows dir ections of wind winddirections '1968. period August recordedduring during the the period recorded 30, August21 2l to 30, 1968. to September September The Climet system systemcontinuously The Climet continuously recorded wind speed and recordedwind speedand d i r e c t i o n in i n analog direction a n a l o gform. form. A g, i v e nin e x a m p l egiven Ann example, i n Figure F i g u r e12, is 1 2 , is from from the the October 2, 1967 0ctober2, 1967record. record. gusty period period Note Note the intense gusty the intense gmu stof w i t h aa maximum ma xi mugust o f'mor with 'moree than than 100 knots. Data Data fr from these rrecords l00knots. om these ecor ds h a v ebeen b e e ndigitized d i g i ti ze d and integr ated over have over half-hour a n d integrated half- hour intervals inter vals and and d a il y averages pr intout for daily a ve ra g e scomputed. co mp u te d. Figur Figuree 13 13 shows shows the the printout for O c to b e r2, October 2 , 1967. 1967. 4 Direction Azimuth TrueAzimuth DirectionTrue N -\--=t--\.\ 9 .0 8.1 occurrences 8.1 occurrences F IGU R11. FIGURE 1E1 . Dir ection Polar Wind Source Histogr amof ldind Sour ceDirection P o l ar Histogram August 21, 1968 September 30, 30, 1968 August 21, 1968 September 196B --r-t :H5.oH c'.j a a 0 a ------i--H - jjtJ ;' - --;-.- \ 00[z (1 i-i - a 'c' 3L (J Lo! q-F Eroro 'Ct ' L(\l 008[ = 1 2 Eg+c 't r. .rO = .Fo oJ- r'€l clL (t' EO ETG J6(' xo Example of Wind Record from Climet Recorder Record 'from (ktober 2, 1967. 00gL .+, F c.i t.tl E s(5 E, FI FIGURE 12. o (r! tlr oo Hours rrI1:TITTi\ LE\44 I- I! Lj Wind SpeedKnots (I) c-I. 0 CD CD Cd, 1. hlind Source Direction True o (, o d' (u o€ G s - WIND COMPUTER PRINTOUT COMPUTER PRINTOUT DATA 10/02/67 hJIND DATA rc/A2/67 (Retyped from actual printout) (Retyped from actual computer computerprintout) H0 u R HOUR SPEED SPEED (K N OT) S (KIOTs) DIRECTION DIRECTION ( .TRUE (°TRUE) HOUR HOUR ) l151 sl SPEED SPEED ( KN0TS (KNOTS) ) DIRECTION DIRECTION ( "TRUE (°TRUE) ) 1.0 1.0 122 1 12 12 l100 1.5 9 9 2.0 2 .0 2.5 2.5 3.0 3 .0 9 9 11 il 122 1 122 12? 14.0 14.0 24 24 24 24 110 il0 145 14.5 1 4.5 15.0 15.0 20 20 3.5 3.5 13 l3 146 146 15.5 I 5.5 20 20 143 1 43 129 129 4.0 4.0 t133 16.0 t6.0 4.5 4.5 13 141 l4t .|30 130 16.5 16.5 5.0 5.0 133 1 118 lt8 17.0 17.0 5.5 5 .5 12 12 105 1 05 17.5 I 7.5 6.0 6.0 13 l3 18.0 18.0 6.5 6.5 15 t5 l101 0t 98 98 7.0 7 .0 7.5 7 .5 18 t8 92 92 18.5 1 8.5 19.0 1 9.0 18 t8 95 95 19.5 19.5 8.0 8.0 17 17 93 93 20.0 20.0 8.5 8.5 16 l6 20.5 2 0 .5 9.0 9.0 9.5 9.5 l14 4 16 16 96 96 100 100 99 99 21.5 21.5 t10.0 0.0 10.5 10.5 il.0 11.0 11.5 ll.5 t199 21 ?1 25 25 288 2 92 92 97 97 93 93 93 93 22.0 2 2.0 211 2 288 2 35 35 46 46 65 65 72 72 60 60 47 47 37 37 31 3l 29 29 29 29 29 29 26 26 36 36 34 34 0 0 ..55 .|.5 t3 .|37 30 30 137 12.0 12.0 12.5 12.5 122 122 123 123 I13.0 3.0 13.5 1 3.5 29 29 102 102 26 26 95 95 96 96 .l36 136 .|45 21.0 21.0 22.5 22.5 23.0 23.0 23.5 23.5 AVERAGE AVERAGE FIGURE F I G U R13. 1E3 . 28 28 25 25 93 93 .|00 100 124 124 131 t3l 140 140 156 156 .|81 181 204 204 222 222 237 237 254 254 262 262 259 259 248 248 241 241 240 240 243 243 245 245 145 145 P r i n t o u t of H a l f - h o u r l yWind o f Half-hourly Printout w i n d Speed s p e e dand a n dDirection D i r e c t i o nValues values fro mC l i me t Record R ecor dfor from Climet for October 0ctober2, 2, 1967. 1967. DATAQUALITY ANDTHE THENOVEMBER DATA AND 1969 NOVEMBER I969 QUALITY STATE OFTHE THEDATA DATARECORDS STATE OF RECORDS T o recapitulate, r e c a p i t u l a t e , the t h e salinity, s a l i n i t y , streamflow, s t r e a m f l o wand , n dsome To a s o m ewind wind d a t a were w e rerecorded re co rd e din papercharts. i n analog a n alogform for mon data onpaper char ts. Thesecharts, These char ts, u p to t o about a b o u tA u g u s t1, l , . |1968, 9 6 8 , were up August d i g i t i z e d at w e r edigitized a t half-hour h a l f - h o u rintervals intervals a n d stored sto re d on o n tape ta p e at a t the th e Oregon and 0r egonState state University univer sity Computer computerCenter. center . R . JJay a y Murray Mu ma yof o f the th e Computer C o m puter R. Center Centerhandled handledthe the digitizing digitizing and and s t o ri n g o p e ra ti o n sand a n d did d id many manyother other magical storing operations computer magicaland and wondrous wondr ous compute r tthings h i ng s in i n the pr ocessing. Without th e way w a yof o f data d a ta processing. t^lithouthis his services ser vices and and t h o se o th e Computer C o mp u teCenter, r enter , we C we would wouldnot those off the not have havebeen beenable able to to u n d e rta kethis p ro j e ct. th i s project. undertake C o n d i ti o nof Data -- November the Data Condition 1969 of the November ]969 F i g u re 7 u tl i n e s the the approximate appr oximate Figure 7 o outlines extent extent of the the data data in in "best" "best" ( t r i p ' l e line); ccondition o n d i t i o n (triple l i n e ) ; data gy o o d ' condition ,c o n d i t i o n d a t a in i n "moderately " m o d e r a t e lgood" ((double d o u b l elline); ( s i n g l eline). ine); a d a t a in and n d data i n aa "primitive" " p r i m i t i v e " condition c o n d i t i o n(single f ,ine). T h e s eclassifications c l a s s i f i c a t i o n s are i n d i c a t e the These a r e meant m e a n to t o indicate t h e relative r e l a t i v e amount amount o a ta re d u cti o n that th a t w be necessary off d data reduction would ouldbe necessar yto bring br ing the r ecor dsto the records ea si l y usable an a n easily u sa b l estate. sta te . For example, For example, there m anyinstrument ther e were wer emany instr um ent ffailures a i l u re s a gaps. The and gaps. n d subsequent su b se q u e ndata t data The "best" weree interdata wer inter "best" data p o l ate d by gapsappeared. polated b y eye e ye where w h e reshort sh o r t gaps appear ed. Where W her einterpolation inter polation p ra cti ca l due w a s not n o t practical d u e to gapor was to the the length length of the the gap or the the complexity complexity ( SeeTable o f the th e record, re co rd , dummy d u mmy d a ta flags f' lags (See of data Table 1) l) were wer einserted inser ted to to iindicate n d i ca te aa record g a p . In pr ocessing,these re co rd gap. In autom automatic aticprocessing, these stretches str etches o f dummy du mmy d a ta should of data sh o u l dcause ca u seonly only minor m inorcomplications. com plications. The The 23 23 "moderatelygood" data have havenot not been beeninterpolated patched "moderately good" data interpolated or or patched with dunrny data and and have havenot not been beenchecked with dummy data checkedthoroughly. thorouohly. These Thesedata data s u ffe r only o n l y from fro m aa lack l a ck of suffer of attention. attention. ,' pr imitive,,data The The "primitive" data ssuffer, u f f e r , in i n addition, a d d i t i o n , from f r o m calibration c a l i b r a t i o n difficulties. difficulties. F i g u re 14 1 4 shows sh o w sdaily d a i ly averages aver agesat at some Figure someselected selectedstations stations o v e r the t h e time t i m e span over s p a nindicated. i n d i c a t e d . Straight s t r a i g h t daily d a i l y averages a v e r a g e sfilter f i l t e r out out m u c hof o f the t h e tides t i d e s and a n dhigher h i g h e rfrequency much f r e q u e n c oscillations. yo s c i l l a t i o n s . Several S e v e r a lof of p l o ts show tthe h e plots sh o wve rti ca 'l bars bar s which indicate the vertical which indicate the salinity salinity extr em es extremes a th a t station sta ti o n over o ve r the th e day att that day indicated. indicated. The extr em esover over aa day day The extremes a re, o o u r s e ,a unctiono i d a l rrange, are, off c course, a ffunction off ttidal wind, a n g e , runoff r u n o f f cconditions, o n d i t i o n s ,w ind, sseiches, e i ch e s, and a n d local l o ca l rainfall. ra i n fall. The difference differ ence between betweenextremes extr em esor The or tthe h e llength e n g th ooff th e b a r may, efor e, change the bar may, ther therefore, change consider considerably ablyover over a few f ew days. d a ys. T a h e high h i g h and a n d low low extremes extr em esin gener aldo in general The do not not extend extend e q ua l a mo u n tsfrom just equal amounts fro m the th e mean meanvalue. value. The The length length of the bars bar s just of the g i v e aa rough ro u g hindication i n d i ca ti o n of give howmuch muchthe of how the curves cur veswere wer esmoothed smoothed by by t h e taking t a k i n g of o f daily the d a i l y averages. averages S i n ce th e tides ti d e s and a n d higher higher frequencies fr equencieshave Since the havebeen beenfiltered filter ed o u t , the th e cu rve s in i n Figure F i g u re 14 14 might out, curves might reasonably r easonablybe be said said to retain r etain i n t e rme d i a tep e ri o d (several (se ver al days to weeks) plus long intermediate period days to weeks) variance var ianceplus long yaquinaRiver p e r io d (months (mo n th sto ye a r) variance. to year) period var iance. The The Yaquina River streamflow str eamflow sseems e emsto to be b e aa fairly fa i rl y smooth smoothfunction function of of time. time. The Thesalinity salinity records r ecor ds sshow, h ow ,h o w e ve r,aa co n si d er ableam ountof however, considerable amount of rroughness oughnessin in the intermediate inter m edia te r a n g e . This range. T h i s ma b e due d u e to to some r esidual tidal someresidual may ybe tidal energy ener gysneaking sneaking t h r o u g hthe t h e daily d a i l y average a v e r a g efilter, f i l t e r , to to w through wind i n d stirring s t i r r i n g of o f stratified stratified water, or or to to some someother water, other mechanism. mechanism. -J J >> J -J h I- <<s 6 r Uo \zc = <<UJ u . H = H d = 5 3 2 0 o=. U O0E w q (,)J __J \L< .== IF<< H r@p .do DF< L (ñ )- 30 fuil\,.r\ '.TrF*flVi OSUDOCK TOPII 25 20 I- 0 o= = H '<o J< -J -@ 0 9- F< g (fl 6= E Its 4> <J t\ t5 c o 10 S 0 :l'4. Drily Parameters. Sel'eetadParameters. Daily Averages Averages for fon Selected FIGURE FISIRE14. 25 25 October 1967was the end October of of 1967 was the end of of an an extremery extremely dry summer. The summer. The s a l i n i t y reached r e a c h e d14 1 4 PPT P P Tat ( n i v e r Mile a t Charlie's c h a r l i e ' s Dock salinity D o c k(River M i ' l e16.0). ]6.0). Soon Soon a f t e r the t h e beginning b e g i n n i n gof o f the t h e fall f a l l rains, after r a i n s , the t h e salinity s a l i n i t y at a t Charlie's charlie,s D o ckand a n dElk E l k City ci ty dropped d ro p p ed Dock to to zero. zer o. Dur ingthe the winter, winter , the the salinity During salinity f l u ctu a te d greatly g re a t'l ywith w i th each eachmajor fluctuated majorstorm. stor m . After After the the beginning beginningof of the d ry season se a so nin i n early e a r'l yApril Apr il of the dry 1968,the of 1968, the salinity salinity began beganto to i n cre a seslowly sl o w l y at a t all a l l locations. increase l ocations. The gener altrend Thegeneral tr end of of the the s a l i n i t y during p e r i o dis d u r i n gthis t h i s period salinity i s aa striking s t r i k i n g feature f e a t u r e in i n spite s p i t e of o f the the .|968 f a ct that th a t the th e summer su mmeo rf 1968 was fact of was anomalously anom alously wet. When whenthe wet. data the data a r e completely co mp l e te l yreduced, re d u ce d ,it it will be interesting inter esting to compare are will be compar this e this w i t h the th e dry d ry summer su mmeof with orf 1967. 1 967. N o t ethat t h a t during d u r i n gthe t h e summer s u m m eof orf 1968, 1 9 6 8 ,salinity Note s a r i n i t y variations v a r i a t i o n s at at i n t e rme d i a tefrequencies fre q u e n ci e sseem seemto to be intermediate be relatively r elatively coherent coher entbetween between t h e stations, s t a t i o n s , i.e., p e a k sand i . e . , peaks a n d troughs the t r o u g h sin i n the t h e salinity s a l i n i t y records r e c o r d sseem seem t o show sh o wup u p at to a t the th e same sa metimes. ti m es. This This suggests suggeststhat that these these variations var iations may be caused causedby may be by the the tides. tides. T h e tra ce s in i n Figure F i g u re 14 The traces 14 begin beginand andend endat at various var ioustimes tim es and and ssome o m eshow sh o wgaps. g a p s. S o meo gapsare ar e interpolated Some off the the gaps inter polatedwith with aa straight str aight d o t t e dline. dotted line. T h i s dotted d o t t e d line l i n e is i s included i n c l u d e das This a s an a n aid a i d to t o keeping keepino t r a ck of o f the track th e traces. tra ce s. T h e extent the excur sionsmakes The extent of of the excursions makes it it a bit bit d i f f i c u l t to t o follow f o l l o w the difficult t h e salinity s a l i n i t y traces. traces. q q l a gBlock ock A D e s c r i p t i o nof o f Data Description Available vailable For Use Through OS-3 System A b l o c k of d a t a from o f data f r o m 000 0 0 0 on A block April on A p r i l 13, 1 3 , 11968, 9 6 8 , until u n t i r 2330 2 3 3 0hours hours o n JJuly u ' l y 5, 5 , 1968, 1 9 6 8 ,has h a s been b e e ncleaned p u t out c l e a n e dup u p and on a n d put o u t on o n disk d i s k file f i l e at a t the the ?6 26 O SUComputer co rn p u teCenter. r n te r. The OSU ce T he block block consists consists of of half half hourly hour ly values values o b se rve dti d e , streamfiows, stre a m flows,and off o observed tide, and surface sur face salinities. salinities. The data The data a re a rra n g e a d cco rd i n gto to the ( 14,9F6.1) : the following follonr ingformat arearranged according for m at(r4,9F6.l): .|2. 1 4 -- Arbitrary A rb i tra ry index i n dexnumber, numberrecycling ,r ecyclingat 14 at 12. Star ts at at Starts 1o 0 0 0 0hours h o ur son Apr il 13, 1 onn 0000 on April 13, 1968. 1968. Is 12 on Is 12 on 0530 0530 hours and and 1I again again at hours at 0600 0600hours hours on on the the same samedate. date. H e l p s in i n scanning pr intouts by scanningprintouts Helps by isolating isolating 66 hour hour b l o cks. blocks. F 6 .l -- Ob se rve dtide ttd e at Osu F6.1 Observed OSU dock dock in tn feet abovea r efer encepoint point feet above a reference 2 9 feet fe e t below b e l o wMLLW. 29 M LLW .Tides Tides are ar e actually actually measured m easur ed to to h u n d re d th sof o f aa foot, foot, but but this this number hundredths num berhas has been beenrounded. r ounded . F 6 .l -- S a l i n fty in i n PPT PPTmeasur F6.l Salinity measureded about about 6 inches inchesbeneath beneaththe the surface sur fac e ( Station "OSU a t the th e OSU OS Udock d ock(Station at Surface Sur faceII"). "OSU II,,) . F6.1 F 6 . 1 -- S Salinity a l i n i t y at a t "Sawyer's " S a w y e r , Dock" sD o c k ,surface. s, u r f a c e . F5.1 F 6 . 1 -- S Salinity a l i n i t y at a t ""Criteser's C r i t e s e r , s Dock" D o c k ,surface. s, u r f a c e . F 6 . I -- S a l i n i t y at F6.l Salinity a t "Burpee" " B u r p e esurface. ,s,u r f a c e . F 6 .1 -- Streamflow S tre a mfl o w o f Yaquina F6.1 of YaquinaRiver Riverin in cubic cubicfeet/second. feet/second. F 6 .l -- Streamflow S tre a mfl o wof F6.l o f Elk Elk Creek. Cr eek F 6 . l -- Streamflow Streamflow F6.l of o f Mill M i l l Creek. Creek. yaquinaRiver. F tt.l-- Sum F.l Sum of o f Elk E ]kCreek creekand andYaquina River . These Thesetwo two water water sourcesenter enter the the estuary estuary system systemand point sources and mix mix at at aa point a b o veany a n y of above the salinity o f the salinity sensors. sensor s. For For simplicity, sim plicity, they they he considered mayhe consideredas may as one oneinput. input. w a sincluded i n the i n c l u d e din d a t afile. was t h e data file. For convenience, convenience,the For the sum sum 27 27 T h efile The 94 days fi l e contai:ns daysof data. co n ta i n s 94 of data. points At half- hour ly points At 48 48 half-hourly p e r day, p o i n t s for d a y , that per t h a t is t o t a l of 4 , 5 1 2points e a c hindividual i n d i v i d u a l series, series, i s aa total f o r each o f 4,512 o r about a b o u t41 or total 4 . l,000 , 0 0 0total. p e r i o d s ,missing d a t a were by Over O v e rcertain s u p p l i e dby s h o r t time w e r esupplied c e r t a i n short t i m e periods, m i s s i n gdata eyeball e y eb a i 'linterpolation. i n te rp o l a tto n . highly variable var iabl e Over lar ger stretches somelarger str etches of of highly 0ver some p r a c t i c a l , dummy d a t a rwhere d u m mflats, e.g. data u h e r eeyeball i n t e r p o l a t i o nwas w a snot fyl a t s , e.g. e y e b a l l interpolation n o t practical, befor e. mentioned 40 before. fo r salinity, w e r einserted inser ted as as has beenmentioned 4 0 PPT P P Tfor sa l i n i ty, were has been TABLE II TABLE INSERTED DUMMY VALUES INSERTED DUI'IMY VALUES Dummy Dummy Data Data Station Station From, To, Times o, T i m e sInclusive Inclusive F r o m ,T 40.0 4 0 . OPPT PPT Sawyer SalvyerSalinity Salinity including 0000 on Apr April 0000hrs hr s on il 13 1 3 to t o && including 0930 0930on Apr il 19 19 on April 40.0 4 O . OPPI PPT Criteser C r i t e s e rSal. Sal. 0630 on June11 Il 0630 on June 1000 J u n e12 12 ] 0 0 0 June 40.0 4 0 . OPPT PPT Sawyer S a w yeSal. rS a l . 0930 J u n e14 l4 0 9 3 0June 40.0 4 0 . OPPT PPT Criteser C ri te se r Sal. S a l. I2 0000 on on June 0000 June 12 '1800 1800 on J u n e16 16 o n June 00.0 CFS OO.O CFS Mill l'li I 1 Cr. Cr. Streamfiow Streamflow 0000 on 0000 July 1I on July 2330 July 15 2330on on July 15 .1700 1700 June J u n e17 17 p l o t of t i d e data data Figure s t r e a m f l o wand a , n dtide F i g u r e 15* i s aa plot t h e salinity, s a l i n i t y , streamfiow, 1 5 * is o f the becaus e wasselected This section selectedbecause over data. This section was sh o rt section se cti o n of o f the the data. o v e r a short long dry dr y spell; spel l ; char acter istics of of aa long att the days characteristics l e ft it i t shows sh o w sseveral se ver al days th e left a fr eshwater lar ge freshwater in r esponseto to aa' large th e center ce n te r it sh o w sthe the system systemresponse i n the i t shows Due to to the system. system. Due ecover yof of the shows the the rrecovery ri .g htlIt iinflux; n f l u x; and th e nIght a n d on o n the it shows * * Streamflow, a n d Streamfiow, Half-Hourly Values Tide, i d e , Salinity, S a l i n i t y , and of T a l u e sof Figure a l f - H o u r l yV F i g u r e15. 15. H ( D u e and. expenseand r epr oductionexpense May 1 7 Until J u n e19, 1 9 6 8 . (Due to reproduction M a y17 U n t i l June 1 9 , 1968. o n l y .) difficulties u p o nrequest r e q u e s tonly.) b e available d i f f i c u l t i e s this a v a i l a b l eupon t h i s figure f i g u r e will w i l l be 28 d r a f t ' i n ga n d reproduction r e p r o d u c t i o nd p l o t is i f f i c u l t i e s , the drafting and difficulties, t h e plot n o t extremely i s not extremely e x a ct and exact a n d should sh o u l donly o n 'l ybe b e used usedfor quantitativeestimates. for rough r oughquantitative estimates. p re ci se enough, I t is i s precise pr ogr essof It e n o u g h however, ,h oweverto ,to see the progress tidal seethe of the the tidal w a v eup u p the t h e estuary; wave are e s t u a r y ; i.e., i . e . , the t h e salinity maximum a sr e shifted to s a l i n i t y maximums s h i ' f t e dto llater a t e r ti pr ogr essivelyfurther me s aass th ey a r ecor dedat fur ther times they are at stations re recorded stations progressively up u p the th e estuary. plot where e stu a ry. There T h e reare data ar e some br eaksin wher edata somebreaks the plot in the were Sawyer's dock n o t available. a v a i l a b l e . The T h eOStJ ock w e r enot O S Uddock o c kssalinity n d tthe he S a w y e r ' sd a l i n i t y aand s a l i n i t y occasionally i s the salinity o c c a s i o n a l l ycross r e v e r s e . The T h elight l i q h t trace t r a c e is the c r o s sand a n dreverse. points wher O S Udock d o ckvalue. OSU Att the where ethe va l u e . A the OSU tr ace crossed cr ossedthe the th e points OSUtrace S a w ye trace, rtra ce , the June10-12, l0- .|2, Sawyer trace th e Sawyer S a w yer tr ace was wasomitted. Ar oundJune om itted. Around plus Elk s o m ebumps b u mp sare a re to b e seen some to be on the the Yaquina Yaquinaplus Cr eekstreamflow se enon Elk Creek str eamflow trace. t r a ce . T h e sew These were by the the interference inter fer ence of extremely e re caused ca u s edby extr enr elyhigh high g a u g eon tides with tides w t h e stream i t h the t h e Yaquina A m p l i t u d eof s t r e a mgauge o n the Y a q u i nRiver. aR i v e r . Amplitude of gauging t h e s e tides tides w a t most m o s tsix these was stations. a sat s i x inches i n c h e sat a t the t h e gauging stations. D r. H. Dr. of has H . Frolander F ro l a n d e rof o f the Depar tm ent of Oceanography 0ceanogr aphy has the OSU OSUDepartment pr ogr ar n m ai n ta i n e daa midstream mi d stre a mtop bottomsalinity maintained top and and bottom salinity sampling samplingprogram year s. in i n Yaquina Y a q u i n aBay B a yfor fo r several se ver al years. water and lJater samples ar e obtained samplesare obtainedand pr eSome prer a n a l ysisby taken shore foranalysis t a ke n to sh o re fo byaa laboratory labor ator ysalinometer. salinometer . Some 'liminary p r o g r a mare i n Table T a b l eII. II. liminary u unpublished off this n p u b l i s h e results d results o a r e listed l i s t e d in t h i s program Times b e g i n n i n of go f the cast. l i s t e d indicate i n d i c a t ethe t h e beginning t h ecast. T i m e slisted A A cast takes c a s t takes D . J. Bergeron. These about u s by b y Mr. M r . D. J . Bergeron. a b o u t12 1 2 minutes. minutes. T h e s edata d a t a were w e r esupplied s u p p l i e dus g i v e s some d e g r e eof stratification Table o f the o f stratification I I gives i n d i c a t i o nof t h e degree T a b l eII s o m eindication r elative' ly unstratified unstr atified va ri o u s times. ti me s. Note the estuary estuar y is is relatively at a t various N o te that the tate May, May, the par t of the storms stor m s at l e a st during d u ri n g the l.lay. In late a t least th e major of May. ma i orpart Ch Ol <J- C! C\l \o 17.20 16.96 1050 14.95 13.80 1151 lf, (o o Ot F\ N, c\j c\t F F tO r.o 24.37 lr} c! U) C\l Ot C\l cf) 24.03 (O c\t (o tC 23.09 <{' cD F 21.99 Cr, c) 18.16 15.00 -- 19.64 19.93 25.93 oO ot 1311 F sl- 24.65 1340 lr, <l'@@c\lNroccn(f) \]@cv(n@(oora F -- 14.53 13.89 --- -- 15.68 1005 6.61 4.60 1010 6.75 cf, 19.60 o vrF_ cc)\o O@Ol lFlF or Ot co 16.85 @ Ol c! rC ftt @<ra\ F 1250 8 29 o- lf) <f 16.37 F & c\.t toroo O ro or cr) !o Ol 24.22 J (tt (o 26.60 o-+J +) >,o P6 23.88 FE o-o Salinity PPT Ion Bottom FROLANDER, BERGERON, McCORMICK, CRANDAL SALINITY DATA (PARTIAL) FE 15.91 Lll lJ) 11.18 C)^ EF .e r |r)o@ l\ro(o (0 r+ 1000 39 V'l- (PSI) c 10 o o.) F C:.. t6Q 21.69 >.o +)co c cr) Sf (.o o!(oN 11.24 P 17.43 COIrTCFA (3 C'r OCOICT)!(Y)-O OP 19.75 Salinity PPT Ion Bottom lJ) f\ Time FE o-o <!C\J F CO (') 1130 Lr) 1237 O 1231 1045 1043 tr)Tf)CAlJ)AC)l\O r+ r+ <l<f oooocf,c\r(\Jc! 1045 EF .- tA l-- o- 1045 4 (PSI) Time (lJ^ F 1300 o (Y) J 32.30 30.87 ? OO c\J oo co L., :\ Ol c\l r$ 31.75 c! cr) OC! 29.18 c\, 30.98 29.61 Or O cr) 29.08 cD 24.10 32.86 26.68 K)Oe@OOl c\t ()t 20.79 u) |- sf c\t ? Lr) cr) l.OO @f\(OLr)NO ('r c\t 28.59 5.5 C\J C\l cf) T\O cr) co 1045 Fe. rr) 21 m Fo(50 Nt 31.63 \l c\J 20.78 c) @tOrO@ ? 9 q(O9 : ? (f) 15.87 d cf) 5 o L(lJ O-.r <c (u {-t ro o O C\J = (o = F ro(d55=5 =EF)F)-.-r Or Or (\, C\l C\l F 1215 cf) (' ll) O) C\l Or OO C! 1300 1541 Or (ucJ(lJ Ca 33.38 c\l cy) 33.35 rr) cf) @ooco@ @@(o'.o(0ro (.o (O OrO)F 33.09 cD oo 32.83 (f) ? cf) ? 1340 31.90 29.85 + cD (f) 927 1148 19.76 FE O(f) (\l cr) 11 July 1968 o-> o Ol O or@ 28 June 1968 o s- (o @ LO Ctt @ o 21 June 1968 x os- 25.95 948 C\.1 11 May 1968 z. May 1968 tUr f.r 'r= 1 J O) FOO +)(u 30.08 CINC\INCDT\O (\J 1443 CO (o Date -o Approximate River Mile (u (u Cf' c)ctorJ)st+c!+o @ ! 30.96 1132 33.31 1146 29.23 1223 25.73 OOf\Cf)OO)Ol (f) C\J cD 12 June 1968 FO- (\.1 NOF€tOtf) LOCOOI'\O 1047 (J1 (ft. 29 May 1968 Time q)^ El- .r (PST) ,rJ o (\J 852 tt1 F- cf) 23 May 1968 cf) lL o ql 33.31 FO- rf) Or 1207 Lr) 3.5 O Lr) (o gr Cf) [r)otcf)otr) (n c! c{ 27.10 = cf, C\l 1232 a cD F\ 18.57 FE o-o o_+) +) >o +r co c d. ul & Salinity PPT Bottom Top FL d. LJJ 6 J (PSI) Time z. O E lrl (5 cr)r.oc\t@ootr)olr} c\tsrca$<f,r+<f,o c\t F ctt 1301 (U^ EF .eA 20 April 1968 o 1400 (J = 15 t-u J(J o_P +) >o .tr co c Buoy Number TABLE II o z. Salinity PPT Bottom Top FE o_o J 23.01 tJ1 Ol F 30 30 c a use daa considerable co n si d e ra b l eamount a mount caused of of stratification. str atifi.cation. This stratif str atifi-IThis c a tto n was w a sdissipated d i ssi p a te dbyh y'late cation late June. June. To the degreethat the degree that the the data data in in Table Table II To with be compared II can can be compared with the time time series data recorded series data good. AA recordedon the shore, the is on the shore, agreement agreement is good. characteristic figure for for this this agreement agreementis t2 PPT. characteristic figure is about about ±2 the In the PPT. In r a n g e20-35 2 0 -3 5PPT sa l i n i ty, it P P Tsalinity, pentraces is difficult difficult to it is range to read r ead the tr aces the pen tl PPT. o th e analog a n a l o gchart ch a rt records re cor dsto to much muchbetter better than onn the than ±1 The PPT. The r e ma i n i n gd i ffe re n ce s mi ght be be explained explainedby by cross-stream remaining differences might cr oss- str eamand and longlongg ra d i ti n tsin sstream t r e a mgradients i n tne th e salinity. s alinity. 'list T a b l e 111* p a r t i a l list of I I I * is i s aa partial Table o f unpublished u n p u b l i s h esalinity data sd a l i n i t y data c o l l e c t e dby b y W. t ^ l .D. D . Clothier, collected C l o t h i e r , G. R . Ditsworth, G . R. D i t s w o r t h ,and h|.A D e B e of nf a n d W. A.. DeBen o the P l i t,'Jl i n connection co n n e cti o nw ith aa 1967-1968 pr ogr am . 1967- lg68nekton the PNWL in with nektonsampling samplingprogram. T h eformat f o r m a tof t h e table o f the t a b l e is The i s similar s i m i l a r to t o that t h a t of r a b l e II. o f Table II. Salinisalini- t i e s, h o w e ve r,w e re sampled sa mpledat at intervals fnter vals of ties, however, were meterfrom of 1I meter fr om 1l meter meter beneath the surface beneath the surface to to the the bottom. bottom. The generally The samples were taken sampleswere taken generally p e ri o d of d u r i n g the th e period o f the th e flood during flood following following the the lowest lowestlow low water water assoassoc i a te d w i th the ciated with th e spring sp ri n g tide. ti de. The The stations weree located stations wer located to to the the side side o the m a i nchannel c h a n n e at la t the off the main t h e river r i v e r miles m i l e s indicated. i n d i c a t e d . The T h eClothier Clothier studya l s o included i n c l u d e dtemperature, t e m p e r a t u r e0.0., D , . 0 . , and study also a n dSecchi d i s k measuremeasureS e c c h idisk ments. m e n ts. T h e nekton n e kto nsamples sa mp leswere wer eclassified, classified, counted, The and counted,measured, measur ed, and punchcards w e ig h e d ithe d a ta are th e data weighed; a re on o n punch car dsat the Pacific at the Pacific Northwest Nor thwest Water Laboratory. The Water Laboratory. The salinity salinity and and temperatures temperatureswere were taken taken with a ckmaInstruments n stru me n tsRS-5 por table inductive In R S- 5portable a Be Beckman inductive salinometer. salinometer . ** Table ( P a r t t a l) . T a b l eIII. lII. C l o t h i e r , Ditsworth, D i t s w o r t h ,DeBen: D e B e n :S Clothier, Salinity a li n i t y Data D a t a(Partial). ( D u eto p ro d u cti o nexpense (Due to re reproduction expensethis this table will table w b e available upon i l l be a v a i l a b l eupon request r e q u e s tonly.) o n l y .) 3t 31 A b s o l u t eaccuracy p p r salinity a c c u r a c ygreater g r e a t e rthan t z PPT Absolute t h a n±2 s a l i n i t y should s h o u l dnot n o t be be o f much mu chimportance i mp o rta n ce to most mostresearchers. of to r esear cher s. The The time tim e stability stability of of the the c a l i b r a t i o n should s h o u l dbe b e significantly calibration s i g n i f i c a n i l y more m o r eimportant. i m p o r t a n t . Weekly w e e k l ycalicalib r a t i o n s show s h o waa w p p r salinity e e k - t o - w e evariation brations week-to-week vka r i a t i o n of o f about a b o u t1I PPT sa]inity ppr salinity g ra d u a ldrift a n d aa gradual and d ri ft of o f 1I or or 22 PPT salinity over over the the three-month thr ee- month p e r i o d . These period. T h e s eweekly w e e k l ycalibrations c a l i b r a t i o n s were w e r eused p r o d u c t i o nof u s e din i n the t h e production of t h e final f i n a l data d a t a file. the file. T h eapparent a p p a r e nchange tc h a n g ein The i n the t h e calibrations c a l i b r a t i o n s may may rtl y d b u e to to air-temperature bee pa partly due a i r-te mper atur evariation var iation on on the the different differ ent calibracalibr attion i o n days. days. T h e time t i m e constant c o n s t a n tof o f the The t h e salinity s a l i n i t y recorder r e c o r d e rwas w a sless l e s s than t h a naa m inute. T minute. h e analog a n a ' l o gtrace, t r a c e , in i n visual The v i s u a l examination, e x a m i n a t i o ndid d, i d not n o t show show y a r i a t i o n s with e v i d e n c eof o f any a n ysignificant s i g n i f i c a n tv-ariations evidence p e r i o d sof w i t h periods o f less l e s s than than o n ehalf h a l f hour. one h o u r . The T h esalinity s a l i n i t y records r e c o r d sare, a r e , therefore, t h e r e f o r e ,uncontaminated uncontaminated b y aliasing. by a l i a si n g . T h e tides ti d e s and and streamflows str eamflowswere The wer eeven evenmore mor eslowly slowly varyvar y- i ng. i ng. In F i g u r e 14, 1 4 , notice n o t i c e how h o win ' i nApril In Figure A p r i l of o f 1968 1 9 6 8the t h e rains r a i n s stop, s t o p , the the sstreamflows t r e a m f l o w ttaper sa p e r off, o f f , and, a n d , most m o s tdramatically, d r a m a t i c a l ] y ,the t h e salinity s a l i n i t y begins begins t o increase i n cre a sealong a l o n g aa fairly to fa i rl y steady steadytrend. tr end. As mentionedbefore, As mentioned befor e, the the s u m meo rf 1968 l 9 6 8 was w a san summer of a n anomalously a n om alous'wet ly summer. wet summ er .Most Mostsummers sur nmerin in s this this region a re characterized ch a ra cte ri ze dby region are by an an almost almosttotal total absence absenceof of rain. r ain. In In vview i e w ooff th is a this and other meteorological nd o th e r meteor ologicalfactors factor s obser vedover observed over several sever al yyears, e a r s, it i t seems se e msreasonable re a so n a bleto to assume assume year is that that the the year is divided divided into into ttwo w o sh a rp l y-d e fi n e dseasons: sharply-defined se a sons: the the wet seasonlasting wet season lasting from fr om about about 0 c t o b e r through th ro u g hApril A p ri l or o r May, October May,and andthe the dry dr y season seasonlasting lasting the the r e m a i n d eof r f the ye a r remainder o th e year. 32 32 S i n c ethe t h e data d a t a block b l o c k on Since o n file f i l e starts s t a r t s in i n mid-April m i d - A p r i land a n dcontinues continues t h r o u g hm i d - J u l y ,it it w through mid-July, would o u r dalmost a r m o s tentirely e n t i r e l y lie l i e in i n the t h e dry d r y season. season. T h i s says s a y sthat t h a t the This t h e stochastic s t o c h a s t i cprocesses p r o c e s s ewhich s h i c hgenerated w g e n e r a t ethis dt h i s d ata data b l o c khhave a v eaa ffighting i g h t i n g cchance block h a n c eof b e i n g stationary. o f being s t a t i o n a r y . If I f the t h e time time p e r io d o th e record re co rd had period off the h a dspanned spanned one of of the the common one transition comm on tr ansition t i m e s , then t h e n the e n e r a t i n gprocess the g p r o c e s scould times, generating c o u l d not n o t have h a v ebeen b e e nassumed assumed sstationary. t a t i o n a r y . AA process p r o c e s sis i s " stationary" p e r . i o dif s t a t i o n a r y " over o v e r aa time t i m e period i f the the m o m e n ts o f the th e distribution d i stri b u ti o n of moments of of the the data data formed for medover over the the ensemble ensemble p o s s i b l eestuary o f all a l l possible of e s t u a r yperformances p e r f o r m a n c eat ast time t i m e tt during d u r i n g that t h a t time time p e r i od are period a re co n sta nconstants ta s t var fr om from the beginning asies t varies the beginning the time time ofofthe p e r i o d to t o the period t h e end. end. T h e data d a ta are a re largely l a rg e l y non-random The due non- r andom due to pr esenceof to the the presence of the the tides. tides. p h a s eof T h ephase o f the The t h e tidal t i d a r constituents c o n s t i t u e n t sis i s very v e r y stable s t a b l e over over periods. O l o n g periods. long n eof o f the t h e most m o s tdiscouraging discouraging One aspects a s p e c t sof problem o f the t h e problem iis s tthat h a t tthe h e system s y s t e mseems s e e m sto t o be b e highly highly n on-linear. N non-linear. o t i c e how h o wthe Notice the e x c u r s i o nof o f salinity s a l i n i t y due excursion d u e to t o the t h e tides t i d e s is i s smashed s m a s h edown ddo w nas a s the the s a l i n i t y nears n e a r sthe t h e fresh salinity f r e s h water w a t e r and a n docean o c e a nwater w a t e rlimits; l i m i t s ; i.e., i . e . , the the e s t u ary w a te r cannot g e t any ca n n o tget estuary water any fresher fr esher than than fresh fr esh water, water ' nor nor any any ssaltier a l t i e r than t h a n ocean o c e a nwater. w a t e r . The T h e salinity s a l i n i t y values v a l u e sat point a a t aa point are re p rimarily d u e tto o large-scale l a r g e - s c a l econvection primarily due c o n v e c t i o nand a n d diffusion. d i f f u s i o n . The T h eeffects effects o f convection c o n ve cti o nand d i ffu si o n are a n d diffusion of ar e modified m odifiedby by the the change changeof the the . i s shuffled l e n g t h - t o - w i d t hratio r a t i o of p a r c e l as length-to-width o f aa water w a t e rparcel a s it i t is s h u f f l e dup u p and and d o w nan a n estuary e s t u a r yof down i m e g u l a r shape. o f irregular s h a p e . It I t is i s interesting f n t e r e s t i n g to t o note note tthat h a t tthe h e diffusion d i f f u s i o n coefficients c o e f f i c i e n t s are p r o b a b l ytime a r e probably t i m e variable v a r i a b l e with with 33 33 ffluctuations l u ctu a ti o n s at a t twice tw i ce the the tidal tidal frequencies, fr equencies,because becauseof of the the iincrease n c r e a s ein f n turbulence t u r b u l e n c eduring d u r i n g the t h e flood f l o o d and a n debb e b b tide. tide. salfnity Salinity v a lu e s are p ro b a b l yaffected a re also a l so probably values affected by by the the minor m inorchanges changes in open in open o c e a nsalinity. s a li n i t y . ocean APPENDI APPENDIX X E X A M PLE OF USEOF EXAMPLE OF USE OF "BAY"FILE FILE "BAY'1 h'*DETREjDh' is a "*DETREI',1D" is a computer computersubroutine subroutine designed designedto to detrend detrend aa t i m e sseries e r i e s either e i t h e r by ( 1 ) removing b y (1) time removing t h e mean, ( 2 ) removing the m e a n ,or o r (2) r e m o v i n the gt h e l i n e a r trend. t r e n d - This linear T h i s subroutine s u b r o u t i n eis part o i s part off the t h e ARAND A R A Nsystem sDy s t e mof o f time time sseries e r i e s analysis a n a l y s i s programs p r o g r a mw s r i t t e n by b y Lyle L y l e Ochs O c h sand written a n dJeff J e f f Ballance B a l l a n c eof of tthe h e Ore g o nS ta te University Oregon State U n i ve rsity Computer computer center . Documentation Center. Docum entation is is a v a i l a b l efrom f r o mthe t h e center. available center. " * C D E T R Ei N *DETREND sis"tthe h e ccalling 'I*CDETRENII a l l i n g program program f o r *DETREND. for I t. is quite i s quite It a versatile v e r s a t i l e routine r o u t i n e and a a n dshould s h o u l dsserve e r v e most p a r t i e s without m o s tparties w i t h o u tmodifimodifi( t ) fThe ccation. a t i o n . (1) t r e input i n p u t and a n doutput o u t p u t logical l 0 g i c a l units ( L U N Sare u n i t s (LUNS) a) r e s p e ci fi e d by b y the th e user. u se r. specified (2) (2) The The user user m ayskip skip aa number number may of of records, r ecor ds, ccall all d o w nthe t h e subroutine down s u b r o u t i n eon o n aa specified s p e c i f i e d number n u m b eof or f records, r e c o r d s ,and a n dskip skip tthe h e rremaining e m a i n i n grecords r e c o r d son t h e input o n the i n p u t data d a t afile. file. (3) T h euser (3) The u s e r may may s p e c i fy input i n p u t and specify a n doutput o u tp u t for mats. The formats. Theoutput output format for m atmust mustbe be specispecif i e d for fo r two tw o numbers, fied n u mb e rs,the th e integer integer sequence sequence number and ,and the number, the floating floating p o i n t detrended d e tre n d e ddata d a ta number. point n u mber . T h e "dummy " d u m mdata" dya t a " feature The f e a t u r e is i s included i n c l u d e das a s an a n aid a i d in passing i n passing o v e r tthe h e placeholder p l a c e h o l d e dummy rd u m mdata over dya t a inserted i n s e r t e d in i n various p l a c e sin v a r i o u splaces i n BAY. BAy. The user informs informs the The user programof the program of the the dummy dummy data data value. value. When whendummy dummy d a t a is is read re a d the p ro g r" a m data th e program stops reading r eadingdata data and stops andacts acts on on the the real r eal d a t a already a l re a d yread. data re a d . Th esample sa mp l erun ru n included The i n cl u d edhere her e demonstrates denionstr ates sever al of several of the the aspects mentionedabove. above. Characters aspects mentioned characterstyped typed in in by by the the operator operator are are u n d e r l i n e d . The underlined. T h e spacing s p a c i n gbetween b e t w e e lines nl i n e s was w a sartificially a r t i f i c i a i l y expanded expanded tto o allow a l l o w for f o r explanatory e x p l a n a t o r ynotes. notes. 35 35 T h edata d a t a on o n "BAY" The a r r a n g e in di n columns. " B A Y is "i s arranged c o l u m n s . The T h efirst f i r s t column column c o n ta i n ssequence se q u e n ce n u mb e rs r epeatin contains numbers which whichrepeat in cycles cyc' lesof lZ. of 12. The The s e c o n dcolumn, c o l u m n ,the t h e first f i r s t data d a t a column, second c o l u m n ,contains c o n t a i n stidal t i d a l information. information. IIn n tthe h e eexample x a m p l errun u n tthe he o p e r a t o rhhas i v e n instructions as g operator given i n s t r u c t i o n s tto o skip skip c o mp l e te l yth e first fi rst 55 records re cor dson BAyand on BAY completely the then to to read and then r ead the the next next 25 25 r e c o r d saccording ( 4 x , F 6 . . | ) . This a c c o r d i n gto t o the t h e format records f o r m a t(4x,F6.1). T h i s will w i l l input i n p u ttidal tidal p o 'i n ts66 through d a t a points th ro u g h30. data 30. The operator oper atorthen then has The has instructed instr ucted the the s u b r o u ti n eto to find fi n d the th e mean meanof points and these 25 subroutine of these 25 points and to to compute com puteaa d a t a series se ri e s with w i th the data th e mean me ansubtracted. subtr acted. The The mean meanis is listed r isted by by the the c o mp u te on r n th e o o p e ra to r' s teletype teletype and computer the operator's and the the mean neandetrended detr endeddata data s e r i e s is i s outed o u t e dto series t o aa file. file. N o te at th i s point p o i n t that a t this that the Note the computer computercame cam eback backwith with aa "LUN 40 "LUN40 * D E T R E writes N rDi t e s out, U N D E F I N E DT "h. e subroutine UNDEFINED". s u b r o u t i n e*DETREND w d o all The o u t , as a s do a l l the t h e ARAND ARAND s u b ro u ti n e s,certain ce rta i n me par am eter on son LUN ssages subroutines, messages and and parameters par LUN40. 40. The Thepar*DETREND tticular ' i c u l a r me p a rameter soutput ssa g eand messages asn d parameters output by by *DETREND ar e to to be are be found found o t h e last p a g eof l a st page onn the th e sample o f the samplerun. r un. Many Manyoperators oper ator schoose chooseto to set set 4O=NUL aLn dtherefore th e re fo redump 40=NULL and all d u mp a1l the the "helpful par am eter s." messages andparameters." and "helpful messages A f t e r .the t h e subroutine s u b r o u t i n eacts After a c t s on o n the t h e data d a t a and program a n dthe t h e 'main m a i nprogram w r i t es the th e output, o u tp u t, the writes th e operator o per atorcan can specify specify aa switching switchingcode. code. S WIT C H IN SWITCHING CODE: CG OD E : =0 O: : N redata pr ocessing;program d a ta for fo r processing; pr ogr amgoes goesto Noo mo more to end. end. =l: l: M o r ed p r o c e s s i n g program ; r o g r a messentially a t a for f o r processing; p More data e s s e n t i a l l y begins b e g i n sagain. again. =.|0 l e xt data d a ta on =10: : lNext is o n LUNIN L UNII{ is dummy pr ogr am"thumbs" dum mdata; y data; program "thumbs"through thr ough iit t u n t f l it i t finds f i n d s some until s o m ereal r e a l data. d a t a . It It b a c k s p a c eLUNIN backspaces LsU N I N and a n dasks a s k sfor for a n o t h e rswitching s w i t c h i n gcode. another code. 36 36 lNote l o te that th a t the th e switching sw i tching code the user to skip codeallows allows the user to r ecor ds, skip records, p r o ce ssrecords, g o back re co rd s, go b a ck to pr ogr am,and to the the beginning beginningof process the program, of the and use use t h e skip ski p feature pr ocessmore fe a tu re again, a g a i n , and dld process m or erecords, the r ecor ds,etc. etc. In the th e sample sa mp l erun ru n the the operator oper atorhas hasset the switching In set the switchingcode code== 1. l. p ro g ra mthen T h e program th e n asks a sksfor fo r input The input and andoutput outputformats for m atsand logical andlogical units. u n i ts. T h e subsequent given by su b se q u e ninstructions i tnstr uctions given The by the the operator oper atorhave have causedthe computerto caused the computer to read read and and act uponthe the first act upon first 27 27 values values of ssalinity a l i n i t y at a t "OSU s u r f a c e . " lUote { o t e tthat " 0 S Usurface. h a t iin h i s ssecond n tthis e c o n dcycle he c y c l e tthe o p era to rhas h a s asked a ske dfor fo r linear operator detr ending. l i near detrending. T h e next p a g eshows n e xt page sh o w saa short listing of par t of the first fir st part BAY. The shor t listing of the of BAY. T h e operations o p e ra ti o n scarried ca rri e d out o ut in in the the sample The sam plerun r un considered data only consider eddata only f r o m the p a rt. th e first from fi rst part. T h e detrended detr endedoutput output data data are ar e listed listed on the The on the page. T n e x t page. next h e helpful h e l p fu l messages The stored messages stor ed on LUN40 40 are on LUN ar e shown shownon on the the page. n e x t page. next TIME T I T,JE T I M E 0.046 TIME 0 . 0 4 6 SECONDS SECCNDS 37 37 NFBLKS M FBLKS 0 CFBLKS 0 CF'BLRS O # U O UIP' IPT =BAY #EQ(J 1 l =BA'r, # E O UI P #EQ(j IP2=F r 2 = F IILE LE # E O UIP, #EQU =F ILE I P r 33=FILE = * C D E T R E N TX = 5 0 # F 0 R T R A N TII=*CDETREN,X=50 #FORTRAN, NC ERRORS ERRCRS FOR NO FCR CDETREN CDETREN = * D E T R E N D TX = 5 1 # F C R T R A N TI 1*DETREND,X=51 #FORTRAN, NO DETREND NO ERRORS ERRCIRS.FOR .FCR DETRENI) # L C A D r 5 0 r51 #LOAD,50, 51 RUN R UN RUN RUN FORMAT INPUT FCRMAT - (4X,F6.1) ( 4 X r F 6 . l) @ @ GSpace tSpace over parentheses. over one, including right one, then then type typ e in i n format, left parentheses. for m at, including r ight and andleft ((4X, 4Xr F F6. 6 . I1)) @ OX? cK? I Hill m e a n s"Yes, formatis is OK" 0K" "Yes,format " l t t means CUTPUT FORMAT OUTPUT FCRMAT ( I14,F6.1 4 r F 6 . 1 )) C plus Note output output format sequence number plus Note formatspecified for two number specified for two numbers, numbers, sequence point floating floating point detrended data data number. number. detrcnded ( I 4 r F 6 . 1 )) (14,F6.1 C K ? ,1 1 OK? .-Reads data data off off of of LUN LUN1. l ' INPUT LUN LUN == 1,'rReads INPur CUTPUTLUN OUTPUT LUN =2 A \Puts plus detrended Puts sequence sequence numbers numbersplus data numbers numberson LUN2. 2. detrendeddata on LUN oF RECORDS REccRDsTOSKIPOVER NUMBER NUMBER OF == TOSKIPCUER MEAN MEAN OR LINEAR DETRENDING? CR LINEAR DETRENDING? I .j - 5 +points before data points - Skips before Skips over over 55 data considering any set data set of of data consideringany points. Points ! tr' *DETREND Indicates to Indicates to subroutine that you wish wish subroutine *DETREND that you "mean" detrending. detrending. "mean" 3B ,IfIf yo e using youu ar are using dummy dummy data data as as a enter a 1placeholder" enter "placeholder" DUMMY DUMMY DATA DATA VALUE VALUE 50 r value possibledata va'l-uehere; not, enter here; if if not, enter value valueabove data aboveany anypossible N U M B S R C OF =25 F PPOINTS C I N T S TTO NUMBER C A ACT C T cON N =25 value. v a lu e . -?- After skipping (S pts.) skippingover points specified over the pts.) the program the number number After of of points above(5 specifiedabove ttreprogram *DETREND (25pts.) applies*DETREND points(25 pts.) following. to this number this number applies to of of points following. D E T R E N DEENTERED N T E R E D WWITH.. = I T H ' . LENGTH LENGTH C DETREND OF F SERIES SERIES = ( l ) M E A N T (2)LINEAR R BiCVED REMOVED I1 € T L I N E A R TREND TFEND (1)MEAN, a5 P5 L U N 40 4 0UNDEFINED LUN U N D S F IN E D A R A Nsubroutines su D br outinesare nowset ar e now up to to wr ARAND write "helpful" set up ite,,helpful,, # EQ U I P T 4O=3 #EQUIP,40=3 n p ssa g es LUN40. 40. messages on on LUN # G0O #G M E A N== 3 MEAN . 1 ? 5 6 O 0 0 O 01 EO l 3.17560000E =t S 1 ' I I T C H I N GCODE SWITCHING C C D E =1 g i v e s mean. S u b r o u t i n egives naan. Subroutine By typing typing "1" indicatesthat operatorindicates that more moredata datais is to to be be By "l" operator processed. processed. FCRMAT INPUT FORMAT (10)bF6,1) (IOXsF6.1) (1OXrF5.l ) (1OX.,F6.1) OK? cK? Input format i.e. reading readingsecond Input format for for new new data, data, i.e. secondcolumn column from BAY. fromBAY. I 1 CUTPUTFORMAT OUTPUT FCRMAT ((14,F6.1 l 4 r F 6 . I )) (CI4,F6.1 I 4 r F 5 . 1 )) cOK? K ? I1 INPUT LUN INPUT LUN= =(ANrrX; (EAK) 4 REWINDr t REWIND,1 Brokehere here to Broke to rewind rewinddata data file file and to equip equip andto newoutput a a new file. outputfile. # E Q UI P r 4 = F I L E #EQUIP,4=FILE # G0C #G rt - r-- 0perator pr ogr am operator i n d i ca tethat s th a tprogram indicates should shouldagain againread LUN1l. r eadoff off LUN I. OUTPUT LUN OUTPUT LUN =Q =4 = NUMBERCF NUMBER OF RECCRDS RECORDS ?CSKIPCVER TOSKIPOVER = 0 39 39 \ r pEArt. DEi1)Dt,J(, L flEf rr,rOon 'tPJEIrkt Dg;Ttz2ltg1SS6 . DUMMY DATA VALUE 50 DUMMY .Q.. =27 A C T ON C N =ai NUMBER POINTS N U M B E R OF OF P T O ACT O I N T S TO 27 2 7 LENGTH DETREND D E T R E N D ENTERED TH.. C F SERIES S E R I E S == E N T E R E D t i IITH.. L E N G T H OF ((1 l )M Z>LINEAR T REND )MEAN, TREND REMOVED RB{CVED 2 E A N T ((2)LINEAR MEAN M E A N == 2.91666667E 2 . 9 1 6 6 6 6 6 7 8 01 01 -B.O647t3O6E-02r Ol B COEFFICIENT= 3 . A 2 9 5 7 2 6 5 8 01 C C E F F I C I E N T = 3.02957265E A COEFFICIENT C O E F F I C I E N T = -8.06471306E-02 =-]8SWITCHING S!'I TCHING CODE CCDE-=0 *DETREND Codeset Code set =- rr0rr 0H ends ends routine. routine. END OF END CF FORTRAN FCRTRAN EXECUTION EXECUTICN 4 gives t Subroutine t *DETREND gives Subroutine plus linear mean plus mean linear coefficients. coefficients.