Call number:
ZSP-202-262
In:
Research report
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS: Introduction. - Regional setting. - General description and topography. - Geology. - Soils. - Climate. - Precipitation. - Temperature. - Weather during period of study. - Vegetation. - Hydrology. - Water balance. - Introduction. - Yield. - Precipitation. - Loss of glacial storage. - Evapotranspiration. - Summary. - Flow variability. - Flow-duration curves. - Flood estimation. - Response to rain and meltwater. - Water quality. - Introduction. - Suspended sediment. - Bedload. - Dissolved sediment. - Water temperatures. - Channel shape and process. - General characteristics of braided channels. - Channel material. - Channel shape. - Channel changes. - Introduction. - Channel profiles. - Ground photography. -Vertical aerial photography. - Freeze-up and breakup. - Summary. - Literature cited. - Selected bibliography. - Appendix A: Measurement site locations and methods. - Appendix B: Installation of water-level recorder. - Appendix C: Delta river quicksilts - properties and mode of formation. - Appendix D: Channel shape data. - Abstract.
Description / Table of Contents:
A one-year reconnaissance study was made of a large braided glacial river and its drainage basin (drainage area 1665 m^2; elevation range 1000 - 10,000 ft) for which a minimum of hydrometric and meteorologic data existed. The report includes estimates of the water balance, flow-duration curves, and sediment characteristics, and descriptions of stream response to glacial melt and rain, channel geometry and channel processes. Mean annual basin precipitation is estimated at 40.4 in. and mean annual loss of permanent glacial storage is about 1 in. About 30% of this leaves the basin as evapotranspiration, 50% as stream flow, and 20% as groundwater flow. Characteristics of response to glacial melt are outlined. Flow peaks near the mouth occur within 24 hours of rainfall Greater than 0.5 in./day at foothills meteorological stations; rains of less than that amount do not generally produce discernible stream response. Stream channel geometry is described in detail. Most channels on the lower floodplain are asymmetrical and are roughly triangular or parabolic, and have high width/depth ratios. At-a-station hydraulic geometry is described. Surveys and gr ound and aerial photography are used to describe channel changes.
Type of Medium:
Series available for loan
Pages:
v, 83 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Research report / Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, CRREL, US Army Material Command 262
URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5861449
Language:
English
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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