virtual current flow?
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Topic: virtual current flow?
Posted By: imageAK
Subject: virtual current flow?
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2014 at 2:07pm
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I'm not tracking? What does virtual current flow mean?
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Posted By: imageAK
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2014 at 3:02pm
Posted By: Jed Hawkes
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2014 at 3:08pm
Give us an example of where you've seen this. Typically when a gauge says "virtual flow" it means that's it's an approximation drawn from multiple gauges using some math to determine what the flow likely is in a particular drainage. These are not always the most reliable beacause localized rain can change flows dramatically, particularly in the early spring where you might have rain on snow events.
But I may be way off...
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The line will become apparent
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Posted By: James
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2014 at 4:10pm
A simple example before the DOE gauge went online was the Icicle.
We did the following.
(Peshastin - Plain) * .7406
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Posted By: imageAK
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2014 at 9:15pm
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Toutle n fork displays virtual flow
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Posted By: BrianP
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2014 at 10:33pm
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In that case it looks like there just isn't a gauge, not sure why it says "virtual." It says "3rd party" on the river page so maybe there is a stick gauge.
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