Flows and Transport in Rivers - Hydro-Environmental Analysis: Freshwater Environments - page 105

FIGURE 4.23 Fall water level changes in the Mississippi Alluvial Aquifer, Yazoo Basin, Mississippi
from 1994 to 2004. (From YMD, YMD joint management district annual report 2004, YMD Joint Water
Management District, Stoneville, MS, 2004.)
4.5 TRANSPORT PATTERNS
Generally, the transport patterns in streams and rivers are assumed to be dominated by
advection (lotic system), as opposed to mixing processes, where the dominant transport is in
the longitudinal direction. Streams and rivers are usually described using one-dimensional