This event is the second part of the hydrological part of the summer school. The course will take place online on 12.12.2023, starting at 13:00h Bishkek local time (UTC +6). The event aims to foster collaboration and networking, provide network opportunities for potential new young researchers, and build expertise with Central Asian partners.

This course will:
– Look at the data recorded/measured during the fieldwork
– Learn how to prepare the data for river discharge analysis
– Calculate river discharge from the Fluorometer data
– Calibrate automated water level data to derive river discharge time-series
– Calculate discharge statistics (sum of flow, average flow, maximum/minimum, etc.)

Three softwares are required for this course (they are all freely available):

– R (statistical software);
Download (Windows): https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/old/4.2.1
Download (Mac OSX): https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/base/R-4.2.3.pkg
– RStudio (a graphical user interface for R)
Download page: https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/
– HOBOware (a software to read the water level data)
Download: https://www.onsetcomp.com/support/help-center/software/hoboware

The course will be held online using MS Teams (you

can join via your web browser or via the MS Teams app (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/download-app) ).