Correlation of headwater-streams of north Continental Divide
Abstract
The popular demand for advance information concerning the flow of streams at critical points along their courses, especially during times of critical flow, has imposed on the forecasting engineer the necessity of using all available data which may have value upon which to base his estimates. Therefore, when the remarkable degree of correlation existing between the water-content of the snow-cover on a particular watershed (at the end of the season of accumulation) and the runoff from the watershed during the four- or five-month runoff-season was discovered, it was only natural that attempts would be made to use this information as widely as possible. Snow-surveys are now used as the basis for stream-flow estimates in connection with flood-control hundreds of miles away, and also for water-supply estimates in irrigated valleys at great distances from the location where the water-content measurements were made.
- Publication:
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Transactions, American Geophysical Union
- Pub Date:
- 1939
- DOI:
- 10.1029/TR020i001p00102-2
- Bibcode:
- 1939TrAGU..20..102M