Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program

Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program

Long Term Resource Monitoring

 

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 Rates and Patterns of Net Sedimentation in Backwaters

Figures

Figure 1.  Location of study Pools 4, 8, and 13 in the Upper Mississippi River, USA.
Figure 2.  Mean poolwide sedimentation rates for selected elevation classes for the period 1997 to 2001 in Pools 4, 8, and 13.
Figure 3.  Mean poolwide sedimentation rates during 2000 (low discharge year) and 2001 (high discharge year) for Pools 4, 8, and 13.
Figure 4.  Correlation between poolwide annual sedimentation rates for terrestrial and aquatic portions of transects and annual discharge (as measured by the discharge condition exceeded 5% of the time within each year).  Data derived from Pools 4, 8, and 13.
Figure 5.  Annual discharge (as measured by the discharge condition exceeded 5% of the time within each year) for Pool 8 from 1959 to 2001.
Figure 6.  Mean poolwide sedimentation rates for selected elevation classes during the years 2000 and 2001 for Pools 4, 8, and 13.

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