This DATSETNAMEreadme.txt file was generated on 2018-04-17 by Dirceu Reis ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- 1. Title of Dataset : DirceuEtAl_PLOSOneData_2018 2. Author Information Principal Investigator Contact Information Name: Dirceu Reis Institution: University of Brasilia Address: Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Dept. de Engenharia Civil e Ambiental, Brasilia DF 70910.900, Brazil Email: dirceu.reis@gmail.com or dirceureis@unb.br Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information Name: Jery Stedinger Institution: Cornell University Address:213 Hollister Hall, Ithaca NY 14053 Email: jrs5@cornell.edu 3. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date) N/A 4. Geographic location of data collection (where was data collected?): N/A 5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: 1- Brazilian Government agency CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 2- Water Resources Institute Internship Award #07HQAG0161 from the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior. -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- 1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) 2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: 3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: N/A 4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: N/A 5. Was data derived from another source? No If yes, list source(s): 6. Recommended citation for the data: --------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW --------------------- 1. File List ReisEtAl_WRR2018_SkewIL.txt ReisEtAl_WRR2018_SkewSC.txt ReisEtAl_WRR2018_CovarianceMatrixIL.csv ReisEtAl_WRR2018_CovarianceMatrixSC.csv ReisEtAl_WRR2018_ExplanVarIL.csv ReisEtAl_WRR2018_ExplanVarSC.csv 2. Relationship between files: N/A 3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: N/A 4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? No If yes, list versions: Name of file that was updated: i. Why was the file updated? ii. When was the file updated? Name of file that was updated: i. Why was the file updated? ii. When was the file updated? ----------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: ReisEtAl_WRR2018_SkewIL.txt ----------------------------------------- 1. Number of variables: 1 2. Number of cases/rows: 62 3. Description: contains the skew values for the 62 stations used in the Illinois example (no units) ----------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: ReisEtAl_WRR2018_SkewSC.txt ----------------------------------------- 1. Number of variables: 1 2. Number of cases/rows: 89 3. Description: contains the skew values for the 89 stations used in the South Carolina example (no units) ----------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: ReisEtAl_WRR2018_CovarianceMatrixIL.csv ----------------------------------------- 1. Number of variables: 62 2. Number of cases/rows: 62 3. Description: comma-separated value file that contains the sampling covariance matrix (62 x 62) for the Illinois example (dimensionless) ----------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: ReisEtAl_WRR2018_CovarianceMatrixSC.csv ----------------------------------------- 1. Number of variables: 89 2. Number of cases/rows: 89 3. Description: comma-separated value file that contains the sampling covariance matrix for the South Carolina example (dimensionless) ----------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: ReisEtAl_WRR2018_ExplanVarIL.csv ----------------------------------------- 1. Number of variables: 8 2. Number of cases/rows: 62 3. Description: text file that contains values of the explanatory variables used in the Illinois example. Except for the binary variables, all explanatory variables are in log-space. There are 8 lines of header information in this file. 4. Variables: Station - number (1-62) Z1 - The Illinois River basin was divided into three regions, as described in Tasker and Stedinger (1986). The regions and values of the binary variables (Z1, Z2) for each were: Little Wabash (1, 0), Rock (0, 1), and Sangamon (0, 0). Z2 - The Illinois River basin was divided into three regions, as described in Tasker and Stedinger (1986). The regions and values of the binary variables (Z1, Z2) for each were: Little Wabash (1, 0), Rock (0, 1), and Sangamon (0, 0). Area - drainage area, in squared miles Slope - main channel slope, in feet per mile L - area of lakes, expressed as percentage of drainage area and increased by one F - forest cover, expressed as percentage of drainage area and increased by one Sp - soil permeability index ----------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: ReisEtAl_WRR2018_ExplanVarSC.csv ----------------------------------------- 1. Number of variables: 10 2. Number of cases/rows: 89 3. Description: text file that contains values of the explanatory variables used in the Illinois example. Values of all explanatory variables are in real space. There are 10 lines of header information in this file. 4. Variables: Station - number (1-89) Z1 - The analysis for the State of South Carolina included sites from North Carolina and Georgia, and the whole area was divided into four hydrologic regions with three binary variables (Z1, Z2, Z3) as follows: Blue Ridge (0, 0, 0), Piedmont (1, 0, 0), Upper Coastal Plain (0, 1, 0), and Lower Coastal Plain (0, 0, 1) Z2- The analysis for the State of South Carolina included sites from North Carolina and Georgia, and the whole area was divided into four hydrologic regions with three binary variables (Z1, Z2, Z3) as follows: Blue Ridge (0, 0, 0), Piedmont (1, 0, 0), Upper Coastal Plain (0, 1, 0), and Lower Coastal Plain (0, 0, 1) Z3 - The analysis for the State of South Carolina included sites from North Carolina and Georgia, and the whole area was divided into four hydrologic regions with three binary variables (Z1, Z2, Z3) as follows: Blue Ridge (0, 0, 0), Piedmont (1, 0, 0), Upper Coastal Plain (0, 1, 0), and Lower Coastal Plain (0, 0, 1) Area - drainage area, in squared miles Slope - main channel slope, in feet per mile Length - length of the main channel, in miles Elevation - the mean basin elevation, in feet above sea level Precip - annual mean precipitation, in inches at the centroid of the basin Runoff - annual mean runoff, in inches at the centroid of the basin