====== Steven Sobus's Senior Project  Meeting Notes ======

===== September 6, 2023 (4:30 pm CST) =====
==== Discussion Items ====
  * Paper Berghuijs, W. R., R. A. Woods, and M. Hrachowitz, 2014: A precipitation shift from snow towards rain leads to a decrease in streamflow. Nature Clim Change, 4, 583–586,https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2246.
  * Tuftedal, Matthew, David J. Delene and Andrew Detwiler, Precipitation Evaluation of the North Dakota Cloud Modification Project (NDCMP) using Rain Gauge Observations, Atmospheric Research, 269, 105996, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105996.
    * Looked at this. What did you think.  Pulled NWS data form two.  Can both rain and snow data.
    * Got USGS site, but just provide short term.
    * Look at Canada, https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/28/11/jcli-d-14-00697.1.xml.
  * 

==== Tasks ====
  * Look at BerghuijsEtAl 2014. for Review. Need to get paper, not easy.
  * Put together draft of comments on at least these papers.
  * Look for stream data.


===== September 27, 2023 (4:30 pm CST) =====

==== Tasks ====
  * Plot similar to Indus River plot, for Grand Forks Red River.


===== October 4, 2023 (4:30 pm CST) =====

==== Discussion Items ====
  * When over doing some plotting in Excel. 
  * Here for the next two week, then emails on Wednesday.

==== Tasks ====
  * Revise plots.
    * Make same 7 years, plot.
    * Make all data times series plot.
    * See about how they "averaged" or "filtered" the data, see if can do the same things, which is a linear polynomial ... with window size 3.

===== October 18, 2023 (4:30 pm CST) =====

==== Discussion Items ====
  * Discussed how to work on topic proposal.
    * Expand the paper review, in introduction section.
      * End introduction, a paragraph that state the objective
        * Objective is follow paper we found, but for Red River Valley.
      * Methods, give overview of the paper's methods.
        * Start with where you are getting river data from ...
        * Where is there precipitation data ...
      * Results,
        * Red River 7 year plot.  Put in if you can.

==== Tasks ==== 
  * Next Wednesday, end of day. Steve email draft of the topic proposal.

Not meeting next week. Gone. Talk with Dr. Zhang if you have questions.  Email draft/version every Wednesday. I'll email comments back.  Meet next Dec 6, to talk about slide show presentation for Dec 11.