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Posted: 27 May 2016

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Yosemite Valley - Yosemite Falls (#0571)

Yosemite Valley - Yosemite Falls (#0571)
One thing that surprised me about Yosemite Falls is that, despite the very loud torrent and seeming great volume of water coming down the falls, the water very rapidly diminishes into a multitude of small, quiet, streams.

I've actually never had a physics class, so don't have a good comprehension of the volume, noise, and mass linkage. It sure sounds like a lot of water coming down, but the evidence on the ground is otherwise.

kiiti, have particularly liked this photo

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 Clint
Clint
You'd think the discharge at Yosemite Falls would be a measurement somebody would put on the internet, but I can't seem to find that anywhere.

I've never seen the falls flowing, and I don't know how everything's arranged. Is this one of several streams that diverge from the falls and come back together either at or before the Merced River? This does seem like an extremely weak flow considering what you saw coming off the falls, but it wouldn't take that many streams this size to add up to that flow, I don't think. And even a small stream of water can build up a lot of energy over the course of a 1,400-foot drop.

I wonder how much of it evaporates on the way down?
7 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
There were multiple streamlets besides this, but I didn't see any gushing stream near the base of the falls. Come to think of it, the Niagara river doesn't look nearly as volatile as Niagara falls...
7 years ago.

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