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