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Glossary of 2.1 river regimes
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- RIVER REGIMES COLORADO
Constast discharge where - 500 cumecs below Glen Canyon DAM
- RIVER REGIMES COLORADO
How many major dams are along the river, what are they called? - 11, Hoover Dam
- RIVER REGIMES COLORADO
How much snow in winter? - 2.4 m
- RIVER REGIMES COLORADO
Relief near soure - 4km high
- RIVER REGIMES COLORADO
Source length mouth - Rocky Mountains, 1000 km, Gulf of Mexico
- RIVER REGIMES COLORADO
Sudden Peak when? to how many cumecs? why? - 2k cumecs, April unil June; Significant snow melt in Rockies
- RIVER REGIMES THAMES
Cotswolds jan, jun - 100mm, 60mm
- RIVER REGIMES THAMES
How much of the drainage basin is permeable>
- 2/3rds
- RIVER REGIMES THAMES
Reading, {feb, sep} - 150 cumecs, 10 cumecs
- RIVER REGIMES THAMES
sOURCE LENGTH - Cotswolds, 300km
- RIVER REGIMES THAMES
What is a lot of water used for by farmers? - Abstractions for agricultural irrigation
- RIVER REGIMES THAMES
Why does most summer rainfall not reach mouth? - Evapotransipration (18C vs 8C in jan)
