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R. W. Davenport

Publications and source records attributed to R. W. Davenport.

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USGS2014

Report of Committee on Runoff—1944–1945

The membership of the committee has been selected to afford good representation of geographic sections and of organizations engaged in runoff research. Some new members were added during the year in order to strengthen the representation of the committee in certain phases of runoff research. Norbert H. Leupold submitted his resignation in April because his work is no longer directly related to runoff‐research. At the beginning of the year members of the committee met to discuss its setup and plans for the future. The committee has two subcommittees, one dealing with floods and the other with subsurface‐flow. The question was considered whether progress might be facilitated by the addition of one or more additional committees dealing with logical classifications of the subject of runoff. The confusion in nomenclature and terminology relating to runoff was discussed,but it was thought that the present time was not fitting for comprehensive consideration of standardization. It was considered important that the writer of a paper dealing with runoff should make clear the usage of terms he follows In his paper. It was emphasized that there is still an important need for better understanding or liaison between groups dealing with the influence of land use on stream‐flow and those dealing with control and development of streams.

Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union↗
USGS2014

Report of the Research Committee on Runoff, 1945–46

The variety of usage and even the confusion in the nomenclature and terminology of some fields of hydrology have been often remarked. The Committee on Runoff conceived the idea that it would be profitable to consider some of the terms which are especially pertinent to the field of runoff. That consideration was the principal Committee project of the past year and is featured in this report. The Chairman sent a letter to the members of the Committee that was planned to draw out a symposium of opinions on the subject. A good starting point seemed to be the classification of water on the Earth. Meinzer's well‐known classification was given: atmospheric water, surface water, and subsurface or subterranean water. Comments were solicited.

Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union↗
USGS2014

Report of Research Committee on Runoff, 1946–1947

The membership of the Committee has remained unchanged during the year. There has been some discussion of committee activities between individual members and in small groups. The further discussion of runoff terminology has resulted in no new developments of special note. The following statements have been received from members of the committee concerning activities of the agencies with which they are associated.

Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union↗
USGS1937

The Ohio-Mississippi floods of 1937

Some of the recent floods in the United States have indicated that, in any appraisal of the potentialities of a river system for producing floods, more significance than has perhaps been customary should be attached to the magnitude of the great floods of the past, as disclosed by Nature's records of them. A conspicuous part of the work of rivers in the processes of dynamic geology is associated with the occurrence of major floods, and significant information with respect to such floods may be appropriately and reliably interpreted from the flood plains, terraces, earlier river channels, and other evidences of erosion and deposition which record a river's past behaviour.

Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, O↗