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

• Main Author: Turner, Robert Eugene
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Mississippi River; Discharge; long-term; NAO; Bonnet Carré; Climate Change; land use; precipitation; St. Louis; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7232011; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1jwstqjzb

This is a two-hundred-year long dataset of the annual average, minimum, and maximum discharges at five stations draining the Mississippi River watershed: at Clinton, IA, Herman, MO, St. Louis, MO, Louisville, KY, and Vicksburg, MS. The data are useful to test for increases in the three discharge metrics, and correlations with air pressure differentials represented in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Index. These data may be useful for climate change assessments through modeling or synthetic assessments using other data sets. Funding provided by: NOAA ResearchCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100013864Award Number: NA16OP2670Funding provided by: National Science FoundationCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008982Award Number: 2103843 Search of archival records published by the Mississippi River Commission (Corps. of Engineers) and the U.S. Geological Survey