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Everything about Stream
Body of surface water flowing down a channel
A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. The channel is a watercourse, although the watercourse may be seasonally or periodically dry. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. A long, large stream is usually called a river, while a smaller, less voluminous, and more intermittent stream is known as a creek or tributary, among other names. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: StreamA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Recovery, regeneration and sustainable management of spent adsorbents from wastewater treatment streams: A reviewInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Tender ButtonsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999−2000: A National ReconnaissanceCited 6,650 times
- Go sideways: River sourceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Crab CreekA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
Noun All moving waters.
Noun A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
Noun Current, the force of moving water.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999−2000: A National Reconnaissance
EROSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF STREAMS AND THEIR DRAINAGE BASINS; HYDROPHYSICAL APPROACH TO QUANTITATIVE MORPHOLOGY
Streams in the Urban Landscape
Shape and motion from image streams under orthography: a factorization method
Dorsal and ventral streams: a framework for understanding aspects of the functional anatomy of language
Organizational Response to Adversity: Fusing Crisis Management and Resilience Research Streams
Managing Strategic Contradictions: A Top Management Model for Managing Innovation Streams
A hierarchical framework for stream habitat classification: Viewing streams in a watershed context
🆕 Influential since 2022
Recovery, regeneration and sustainable management of spent adsorbents from wastewater treatment streams: A review
Global methane emissions from rivers and streams
A digital twin in transportation: Real-time synergy of traffic data streams and simulation for virtualizing motorway dynamics
The importance of hydrology in routing terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere via global streams and rivers
Chitin and chitosan derived from crustacean waste valorization streams can support food systems and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
📚 Books worth reading
Tender ButtonsGertrude Stein · 1914
Light in AugustWilliam Faulkner · 1931
Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys · 1966
American PsychoBret Easton Ellis, Mariano Antolín Rato · 1991- 📕Surface water supply of the United States, 1966-70United States Geological Survey · 1972
- 📕Surface water supply of the United States 1961-65United States Geological Survey · 1969
Contra CelsumOrigen comm · 1481
Histoire d'un ruisseauÉlisée Reclus · 1882
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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- Crab Creek Crab Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Washington. Named for the presence of crayfish, it is one of the few perennial streams in the Columbia Basin…
- Streamflow Streamflow, or channel runoff, is the flow of water in streams and other channels, and is a major element of the water cycle. It is one runoff component…
- Intermittent river Intermittent, temporary or seasonal rivers or streams cease to flow every year or at least twice every five years. Such rivers drain large arid and semi-arid…
- Coulee Coulee, or coulée (/ˈkuːleɪ/ or /ˈkuːliː/), is any of various different landforms, all of which are kinds of valleys or drainage zones. The word coulee…
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- Drainage density Drainage density is a quantity used to describe physical parameters of a drainage basin. First described by Robert E. Horton, drainage density is defined…
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