EARTH · RIVERS & FLOODS · CHINA
Yellow River River Discharge
The latest reading on the Yellow River at Huayuankou, China — from the Copernicus GloFAS model, reporting river discharge (cubic metres per second). China’s "Mother River" — so heavily drawn down for irrigation and cities that in dry years its flow has failed to reach the sea.The figure below is live, shown with the time it was taken, and framed as a measurement of flow — never a flood verdict.
What this reading means
River dischargeis the volume of water passing this point each second, in cubic metres per second (m³/s) — the standard way hydrologists size a river. GloFAS estimates it by routing rainfall and snowmelt down the whole basin. On the probe, the Yellow River here read about 2,728 m³/s (moderate flow); the live figure above will differ with the season. It is a measure of how big the river is running — not a statement that it is flooding, which depends on the river’s own banks downstream.
About this reading
The Yellow River’s discharge is estimated by the Copernicus Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS), served keyless via the Open-Meteo Flood API. The point used here is the river’s verified main-stem cell near Huayuankou, China— chosen so the reading tracks the trunk of the river rather than a side channel — and the model updates daily.
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