A moving window analysis for exploring landscape and geologic controls on spatial patterning of streambank groundwater discharge

<p>Preferential groundwater discharge to streams and rivers is important for a range of  hydrologic and ecological functions, from providing baseflow and thermal refuge to delivering excess nutrients and other contaminants. Improving our understanding of the spatial distribution and longitudinal extent of these groundwater expressions necessitates updated mapping and modeling techniques.  Here we provide the dataset and code that enables the research community to replicate our moving window analysis which was used to analyze riverscape and landscape attributes along 5th order study river sections of the Farmington and Housatonic Rivers (a 26km river section near Tariffville, CT; and a 12km river section near Ashley Falls, MA, USA, respectively).</p><p>This analysis was run using ArcMAP (v.10.8.1; ESRI) using external python scripts ran on Python 2.7.18 Shell. Additional preprocessing was run using R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10). Download the zip file containing the proper file structure and run the pre-analysis and analysis scripts in their correctly numbered order to recreate the moving window analysis. Make sure that the correct file paths are being used when running the scripts.</p>