Precipitation - Rain, hail, sleet or snow which is input to the drainage basin ... journey through the river profile. The discharge is usually calculated as the cross sectional area (depth x ...

The river gets its water from the Colorado River drainage basin, which spreads some 246,000 square miles. A drainage basin is an area where all precipitation flows to the same river, or set of ...

Here we document how retreat of Kaskawulsh Glacier—one of Canada’s largest glaciers—abruptly and radically altered the regional drainage pattern in spring 2016. We use a combination of ...