Cities on rivers

Code associated with data acquisition and cleaning for socio-hydrology flood risk model used in: Flood Risk Behaviors of US Riverine Metropolitan Areas are driven by Local Hydrology and Shaped by Race by James Knighton, Kelly Hondula, Cielo Sharkus, Christian Guzman, Rebecca Elliot

List of Files

• census-populations.Rmd - population estimates for US metropolitan areas
• gage-locations.Rmd - query USGS NWIS for gages within bbox of metro areas, create static and interactive maps
• dams.R - calculate number and maximum height of dams within each metro area
• percentwhite1970.R - aggregate county level 1970 census data to metropolitan areas

Packges and data sources

• USGS NWIS via dataRetrieval
• NID via dams
• NHGIS via web queries
• TIGER shapefiles from census FTP site
• Population estimates from census website
• American Community Survey via tidycensus

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) under funding received from the National Science Foundation DBI-1639145.