River Regimes

• What are river regimes?

  Annual variation in discharge and flow of a river at a particular part of the river
• What is discharge measured in?

  Cumecs
• Equation for discharge:

  Discharge = cross section area x velocity
• French Alps have high water periods in summer due to glacier melt
• In Europe, summer means more evapotranspiration and therefore less run off
• In Ethiopia and Sudan, monsoonal rainfall (seasonal) occurs during the summer, meaning higher discharge