Variability in the discharge of the Mississippi River and tributaries from 1817 to 2020.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Author: R Eugene Turner
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; St. Louis; Orleans; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276513; https://doaj.org/article/3c3b5586d8d44e6cb915ad07c58c5700

There are conflicting predictions of climate change effects and landuse on the discharge of the Mississippi River-the largest river in North America. Are discharges becoming higher or lower, and if they did change, then when? To address these uncertainties I compiled a two-hundred-year long dataset...