Mississippi, Ohio & Tennessee colourful meeting, USA

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 17 December 2018 at 16:47:09 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 17 March 2019 at 16:40:29 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 21 April 2019 at 16:39:01 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 26 April 2019 at 16:38:49 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 29 August 2019 at 16:39:01 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Hydrology, river, water colour, seasons, erosion, sediments, alluvium, precipitations, flooding, United States
Fig. 1 - S2 (29.08.2019) - The Tennessee (blue, east) flows into the Ohio (green, N-E) itself tributary to the Mississippi (light brown, west).
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Fig. 2 - S2 (17.12.2018) - The Mississippi-Ohio confluence separates Illinois at north from Missouri at west and Kentucky at east.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (17.03.2019) - Absolute records were breaken during 2019 flooding that lasted for months, colouring the rivers with sediments.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (21.04.2019) - The Ohio River is the largest tributary by volume of the Mississippi River, being in fact larger than the Mississippi.
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Fig. 5 - S2 (26.04.2019) - At the confluence, the Ohio long-term mean discharge is 7960 m3/s, as against 5897 m3/s for the Mississippi.
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