| Abstract: | Bivariate relations between annual sediment yield (tons per year per unit drainage area) and drainage-basin area are spurious because drainage-basin area is common to both axes. Two alternative methods for portraying the annual suspended-sediment load of a river are suggested. One method consists of plotting suspended-sediment load (tons per year) against distance downstream. Such plots indicate that annual suspended-sediment load does not necessarily have a linear relationship with distance. The second method consists of plotting annual suspended-sediment load against drainage-basin area. Both methods more accurately portray fundamental relations between annual sediment load and drainage-basin characteristics than does the yield-area relation because spurious correlation is avoided. Plots were made of annual suspended-sediment load versus time for several stations along each of eight rivers for the 10-15 years of available data. The plots are in-phase with respect to relative magnitude of annual sediment loads. ?? 1988. |
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| Citation Author: | Waythomas, C. F.; Williams, G. P. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | Geomorphology |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Sediment yield and spurious correlation-toward a better portrayal of the annual suspendend-sediment load of rivers; 1988; Article; Journal; Geomorphology; Waythomas, C. F.; Williams, G. P. |
| Citation Start Page: | 309 |
| Citation Volume: | 1 |
| Citation Year: | 1988 |
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| Text: | Sediment yield and spurious correlation-toward a better portrayal of the annual suspendend-sediment load of rivers; 1988; Article; Journal; Geomorphology; Waythomas, C. F.; Williams, G. P. |
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| Date Other: | Fri, 1 Jan 1988 00:00 -0600 |
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