Measures of the Vertical Size of River Systems as Indicators of Their Formation Conditions: Case Study of Mountains of Crimea and Caucasian Black Sea Coast
Journal: Water Resources
Year: 2022

The main measure of a river system is commonly accepted to be its catchment area, which determines its main function, i.e., collecting precipitation. However, the river basin also has a volume and a vertical size. The need to take into account the volume of a river basin and to develop the concept of its vertical size (conventionally, “thickness”) stems from both general methodological considerations and the available experience of hydrological studies. A system of new estimates of the “thicknes