GEOG 1266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Suspended Load, Bed Load, Sediment Transport

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13 Jun 2018

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GEOG NOTES 5/16

STREAMFLOW

III. Floods

Stage – Elevation of the water surface – has units of m or ft and can be absolute or

relative

Discharge- the amount of water that is flowing down

Bankfall –

Flood –when water spills onto a floodplain

Floodplain – surface that is covered by a flood

Sediment transport- bedload vs suspended load

Peak Flow Data

At least 20 years of data

www.Waterdata.usgs.gov

Recurrence Interval

T=(N+1)/M M=RANK OF EVENT

N=# OF YEARS OF RECORD – Aka 10 for 2010

P=1/T

Year Q (M3/SEC) M T P

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