Sacramento River Chinook Survival Rate Modeling
Modeling
Documents and Background
Flow range (kcfs)
Distance (miles)
Parameters for base survival model
pX
pT
Parameters for XT survival model (in original Steel et al. 2020 units)
λ km
ω cm/s
Velocity (miles per day) of river is related to flow volume (kcfs):
p1
p0 (exponent)
Fish Velocity proportion of River Velocity:
Speed Scalar
X-axis
Flow
Velocity
Fish Velocity Variance: and use this range of the velocity distribution
Velocity variance
vVar effect band (%):
Survival Equations
Steel et al. 2020
Steel et al. results table
Pulse-Flow Model details
Pulse-Flow parameterization (Jan 2021)
COMPASS Documentation (2019)
Columbia Basin Research
School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
University of Washington
Questions? Requests? Contact:
web@cbr.washington.edu
Supported by Bureau of Reclamation