Streamflow

"Water flowing in the stream channel. It is often used interchangeably with discharge." (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2019)

“Water flow within a river channel, for example, expressed in m3 s−1. A synonym for river discharge”. (IPCC, 2022)

Sources

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Glossary of Hydrologic Terms. Accessed February 28, 2019. Available at: https://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hod/SHManual/SHMan014_glossary.htm 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ed. “Annex I: Glossary.” Backmatter. In Climate Change 2022 - Mitigation of Climate Change: Working Group III Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1793–1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Stream
Streamflow characteristics
Equivalent Term (alias)
River discharge

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