The rivers that science says shouldn't exist

Rivers join downstream, flow downhill, and eventually meet an ocean or terminal lake: These are fundamental rules of how waterways and basins are supposed to work. But rules are made to be broken. In the journal Water Resources Research, Sowby and Siegel lay out nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations.

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Avoid Backtracking And Burn Your Inputs - CONUS-Scale Watershed Delineation Using OpenMP
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.106244 <-- shared paper
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β€œHIGHLIGHTS
β€’ A memory-efficient watershed delineation algorithm was introduced.
β€’ The new algorithm uses a node-skipping depth-first search to save memory.
β€’ Both input and output data are stored in a shared matrix to reduce required memory.
β€’ It performed 95% faster than its CPU benchmark algorithm using 33% less memory.
β€’ It can solve 50% larger problems than what the CPU benchmark algorithm can handle..."
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Avoid backtracking and burn your inputs: CONUS-scale watershed delineation using OpenMP

The Memory-Efficient Watershed Delineation (MESHED) parallel algorithm is introduced for Contiguous United States (CONUS)-scale hydrologic modeling. D…