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Task Question: Investigate how and why channel characteristics vary across your chosen river with distance downstream.
You will complete a fieldwork investigation and final report.
Word limit: Make sure that your final report is within 10% of the 2000-word limit.
The purpose of the investigation is to study how the channel characteristics of the Chrysochou
River change downstream and to examine the factors which affect these variations.
Characteristics:
1Discharge
2Occupied channel width
3Channel depth
4Average velocity
5Channel bed roughness
6Slope angle (gradient)
(no possible measurement of load particle size)
Theory : Textbook page 66 and 67
Hypotheses for how the channel characteristics of the Chrysochou River change downstream.
We expected the following characteristics to:
increase downstream
1- Discharge
2- Occupied channel width
3- Channel depth

4- Average velocity
decrease downstream
5- Channel bed roughness
6- Slope angle (gradient)
Hypotheses for why the channel characteristics of the Chrysochou River change downstream
There is a correlation between discharge and variations of the channel characteristics downstream.
Therefore we expect the following to occur from site 1 to site 3: a- positive correlation between discharge and river width and depth b- positive correlation between discharge and velocity
C- negative correlation between discharge and gradient d- negative correlation between discharge and bed roughness
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