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Jan 1929
Rainfall Characteristics of the Mississippi Drainage Basin
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The drainage basin of the Mississippi River comprises about all that portion of the United State lying between the Alleghany and the Rocky Mountains except the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay drain ages, with a total area of 1 250 900 sq. miles, about two-fifths of the total area of the United States proper. Some water from 31 of the 48 States passes into the Gulf of Mexico. For convenience of study it has become customary to divide the entire area into six major sub-divisions, or sub-basins, as follows: the Missouri, the Upper Mississippi, the Ohio, the Arkansas-White, the Red, and the Lower Mississippi. The drainage areas of the sub-basins, together with their percentages of the entire area, are as given in Table 1.
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H. C. Frankenfield
Senior Meteorologist, U. S. Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C.
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