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Data Series 815

Prepared in cooperation with the Association of Washington Cities and the Washington Department of Ecology

Physiographic and Land Cover Attributes of the Puget Lowland and the Active Streamflow Gaging Network, Puget Sound Basin, Washington

By Christopher Konrad and Maria Sevier

Table 7. Quantiles of attribute values for Regional Stream Monitoring Program catchments, Puget Sound Basin, Washington.


[Abbreviations: AU, analysis units; RSMP, Regional Stream Monitoring Program; km2, square kilometer; km/km2, kilometer per square kilometer; m, meter; m/yr, meter per year]


Fraction of RSMP catchments Area
(km2)
Elevation
(m)
Slope
fraction
Precipitation
(m/yr)
Stream density
(km/km2)
Alluvium
fraction
Coarse-grained
fraction
Fine-grained
fraction
Bedrock
fraction
Forest
fraction
Wetland
fraction
Impervious
fraction
Road density
(km/km2)
Fraction of AU gaged
fraction
0.1 1.1 35 0.03 0.97 0.7 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.09 0.00 0.00 1.2 0.00
0.2 2.3 59 0.04 1.03 1.1 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.19 0.01 0.01 1.8 0.00
0.3 4.1 77 0.05 1.06 1.3 0.00 0.02 0.20 0.00 0.24 0.02 0.02 2.5 0.00
0.4 5.6 98 0.07 1.16 1.6 0.00 0.08 0.33 0.00 0.30 0.03 0.03 2.8 0.00
0.5 6.9 110 0.08 1.21 1.9 0.01 0.11 0.52 0.00 0.43 0.03 0.05 3.9 0.00
0.6 10.2 129 0.10 1.22 2.1 0.03 0.17 0.61 0.07 0.57 0.04 0.11 4.8 0.01
0.7 18.8 175 0.15 1.34 2.6 0.04 0.25 0.70 0.23 0.66 0.05 0.21 6.3 0.05
0.8 31.0 272 0.21 1.50 3.1 0.09 0.36 0.82 0.46 0.74 0.07 0.22 7.3 0.55
0.9 67.9 424 0.29 1.79 3.6 0.43 0.66 0.90 0.70 0.80 0.11 0.33 10.7 0.84
1.0 307.0 812 0.48 3.43 22.0 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.97 0.47 0.48 16.6 1.00