These are river engineering data and tools that quantify a parameter or process for a given location.
Examples:
- Models or software
- Data repositories
- Web-based tools
- Engineering spreadsheets
River engineering ‘Data and Tools’ are categorized (5) ways
- Data Sources: The ‘Data Source’ category is subdivided by data type:
- Climate
- Soils and Geology
- Hydrography and Floodplains
- Water Quantity
- Water Quality
- Topography and Bathymetry
- Vegetation
- Aerial Photogrammetry
- Hydrology: The ‘Hydrologic Analysis’ category is subdivided by analysis type:
- Stream Gages
- Download data
- Visualizing time series
- Computing statistics
- Ungaged – gage transfer, regional regressions
- Bankfull regional curves
- Flood Frequency
- Flow Duration
- Rainfall-Runoff
- Flood Routing
- Hydraulics: The ‘Hydraulic Analysis’ category is subdivided by analysis type:
- Normal depth for 1D steady, uniform flow
- Critical depth for 1D steady, uniform flow
- 1D Hydraulics
- 2D Hydraulics
- CFD
- Stormwater and Pipe Flows
- Hydraulic roughness
- Rating curve
- Hydraulic parameters (geometry, shear, power)
- Simple backwater profiles
- Sediment Transport: The ‘Sediment Transport’ category is subdivided by analysis type:
- Particle size analysis
- Pebble counts and bar samples
- Incipient motion
- Sediment competence
- Sediment supply / yield
- Sediment transport capacity
- Effective discharge
- Scour
- Aerial photogrammetry
- Bed and Bank Erosion
- Geomorphology: The ‘Geomorphic Analysis’ category is subdivided by analysis type:
- Reference Reach Approach (Natural Channel Design)
- Hydraulic geometry (bankfull)
- Planform geometry (regime)
- Bed evolution (Exner equations)
- Channel change indices
- Large Wood Design
- Design: The ‘Design’ category is subdivided into:
- Natural Channel Design (Analog Approach)
- In-stream Structures
- Large Wood
- Stabilization