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This oversimplifies a complex issue. What about seasonal variation? The Amazon varies in flow rate by a factor of 1-2, other rivers vary by a factor of 20, bet
by photochemsyn 4y ago
This oversimplifies a complex issue. What about seasonal variation? The Amazon varies in flow rate by a factor of 1-2, other rivers vary by a factor of 20, between the months of greatest and least flow. Yearly variation also exists:
https://www.encyclopedie-environnement.org/en/water/hydrometry-measuring-flow-river-why-how/ https://www.encyclopedie-environnement.org/en/water/hydromet...
- giraffe_lady 4y agoWell according to this the amazon is an order of magnitude more than the next highest so for that specific one it may not matter all that much.
- knodi123 4y agoyeah, but is the amazon as big as the next 6 combined (as the wiki suggests), or is it some smaller or larger multiple?