Stream Ordering: How And Why a Geo-scientist Sometimes Needed to Rank Rivers on a Map

Stream Ordering: How And Why a Geo-Scientist Sometimes Needed to Rank Rivers on a Map

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Dear reader, in this article, I would like to dive into one exciting hydrological topic. I will start with the picture:

Figure 1. River depiction on the map in two versions (a vs b) (image by author)Disclaimer: this article is written both for geographers who face the problem of ranking …

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