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Discharge measurements at gaging stations

U.S. Geological Survey, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations, Book 3, Chapter A8

by T.J. Buchanan and W.P. Somers


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Section 1 -- 1.51 MB

Preface

Contents

Abstract

Instruction

Current meter-measurements

 

Section 2 -- 2.10 MB

Current meter-measurements (cont'd)

 

Section 3 -- 4.54 MB

Current meter-measurements (cont'd)

 

Section 4 -- 5.78 MB

Current meter-measurements (cont'd)

 

Section 5 -- 2.73 MB

Current meter-measurements (cont'd)

 

Section 6 -- 5.28 MB

Current meter-measurements (cont'd)

 

Section 7 -- 1.45 MB

Current meter-measurements (cont'd)

 

Section 8 -- 1.05 MB

Current meter-measurements (cont'd)

Portable weir plates

Portable Parshall flumes, description and theory

Volumetric measurements

Floats

Indirect discharge measurements

Dye-dilution method of measuring discharge

References

 


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