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Application of stream order numbers to the Merrimack River Basin
Author(s) -
Walsh Fraser
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr008i001p00141
Subject(s) - structural basin , upstream (networking) , hydrology (agriculture) , drainage basin , geology , environmental science , geomorphology , geography , computer science , cartography , geotechnical engineering , telecommunications
This study shows that the Merrimack River basin is a Horton river basin. An amendment to the Scheidegger ordering system is proposed, based on the length of stream source segments. These amended orders can be used to identify incorrectly mapped sources and to identify which junctions in a single Scheidegger order have longer than average sources upstream.