Bank storage‐loss and recovery of Missouri River discharge during drought of 1934

Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union
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Abstract

Whenever measurements show that the discharge of a stream becomes smaller as it passes downstream to a considerably larger drainage-area and no diversions of water are known to exist between the places of measurement, curiosity is always aroused as to the cause, and a question may be raised as to the accuracy of the measurements purporting to show the decrease.

Small streams sometimes disappear in fault-planes and crevices in rocky regions with relatively high slopes, or in flat sand- and gravel-bars, and then reappear full-size farther downstream. This behavior, however, represents no decrease in the discharge but merely means that the stream is following an underground rather than a surface-course for that part of its travel.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Bank storage‐loss and recovery of Missouri River discharge during drought of 1934
Series title Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union
DOI 10.1029/TR016i002p00513
Volume 16
Issue 2
Year Published 1935
Language English
Publisher American Geophysical Union
Description 3 p.
First page 513
Last page 515
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