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Abstract
Major controls on river salinity (total dissolved solids) in the western United States are climate, geology, and human activity. Climate, in general, influences soil-river salinity via salt-balance variations. When climate becomes wetter, river discharge increases and soil-river salinity descreases; when climate becomes drier river discharge decreases and soil-river salinity increases. This study characterizes the river salinity response to discharge using statistical-dynamical methods. An exploratory analysis of river salinity, using early 1900s water quality surveys in the western United States, shows much river salinity variability is in response to storm and annual discharge. Presumably this is because river discharge is largely supported by surface flow.
| Publication type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | River salinity variations in response to discharge: Examples from Western United States during early 1900s |
| Year Published | 1996 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Interagency Ecological Program for the Sacramento–San Joaquin Estuary |
| Contributing office(s) | San Francisco Bay-Delta, Pacific Regional Director's Office |
| Description | 9 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Conference publication |
| Larger Work Title | Proceedings of the twelfth Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop, Technical Report 46 |
| First page | 145 |
| Last page | 153 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |