Congo Basin Hydrology, Climate, and Biogeochemistry. Группа авторов

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Название Congo Basin Hydrology, Climate, and Biogeochemistry
Автор произведения Группа авторов
Жанр География
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Издательство География
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isbn 9781119656999



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River and research boat in the Cuvette Centrale."/>

      Credit: CRREBaC/CRuHM.

Schematic illustration of Lomami River at Isangi, where the Lomami River joins the Congo River.

      Credit: CRREBaC/CRuHM.

Schematic illustration of Kisangani where the research team is traveling downstream from Kisangani to Kinshasa, collecting river measurements over 1700 km of flow distance.

      Credit: CRREBaC/CRuHM.

Photo depicts the Cuvette Centrale.

      Credit: CRREBaC/CRuHM.

Photo depicts a river.

      Credit: CRREBaC/CRuHM.

Photo depicts a river.

      Credit: CRREBaC/CRuHM.

Photo depicts the Inga Dam.

      Credit: CICOS.

      The seasonally varying rainfall produces a bimodal river discharge on the mainstem Congo (see Alsdorf et al., 2016, for details). Because it takes between two weeks and two months, depending on flow distance, for local flood waves to migrate downstream, the timing of the flood peaks occur later than the associated rainfall maximums. At Kinshasa‐Brazzaville,