Professional Paper 1573
U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper No. 1573
SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AT GAGING STATIONS NEAR MOUNT ST. HELENS, 1980-90
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
Contents of the Sediment Data Files
File names are given by a gaging-station prefix and a data-type suffix.
All prefixes for gaging stations have 4 characters, as in this list:
CLRW - Clearwater Creek near mouth (14216300)
GREN - Green River above Beaver Creek (14240800)
HW99 - Toutle River at Highway 99 bridge (14242690)
KIDV - North Fork Toutle River at Kid Valley (14241100)
MUD2 - Muddy River below Clear Creek (second gage on Muddy) (14216500)
MUDD - Muddy River above Clear Creek (initial gage on Muddy) (14216350)
PINE - Pine Creek at mouth (14216900)
ROCK - Cowlitz River at Castle Rock (14243000)
SFTB - South Fork Toutle River at Toutle (at bridge) (14241500)
SFTU - South Fork Toutle River at Camp 12 (14241490)
TOWR - Toutle River at Tower Road (14242580)
Suffixes on gaging-station prefixes: _DC, _ISC, or _BMS
DC: Discharge, Concentration
7 files of Daily Mean Discharge, Daily Sediment Discharge, and Daily Mean Concentration, for some period between Jan. 1, 1980 and September 30, 1990. (****_dc.txt)
ISC: Instantaneous Sediment Concentration
11 files of Instantaneous Sediment Concentration (****_isc.txt)
BMS: Bed-material Statistics
7 files of Bed Material statistics (****_bms.txt)
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