The Rivers of the Mississippi Watershed

An animation of the flows along the rivers of the Mississippi watershed. This animation does not show actual flow rates of the rivers. All rivers are shown with identical rates. The river colors and widths correspond to the relative lengths of river segments.

This is the same animation as the previous one, except that the Missouri River is colored blue, the same as the Mississippi River. The animation starts with the reveal of a blue line at the headwaters of the Missouri River, at Brower's Spring near the Montana-Idaho border. The streamline from this point to the mouth of the Mississippi River is the longest streamline in the Mississippi watershed.

Three high resolution images of the MIssissippi watershed, one with all the rivers of the animation and the MIssississippi River in blue, and one with all the rivers of the animation and both the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers in blue, and one with no rivers indicated on the satellite image. If one of the images with rivers is laid over the image with no rivers, it is possible to identify and study the rivers on the bare satellite image of the Missippi watershed.