Sentence examples for catchment drainage from inspiring English sources

Loss of peatland vegetation is a global problem with negative consequences for the quality of catchment drainage waters.

On average, glacier melt contributed 25% to streamflow, although glacier area accounts for only 14% of the catchment drainage area in the MRB.

The Waiapu River catchment (drainage area of 1734-km2) is one of the most prolific conveyors of sediment in the world, annually delivering roughly 35 Mt of fine material to the ocean from eroding gullies, hillslopes, and reworked sediment on valley floors.

Knickpoint retreat has been confirmed in large fluvial settings (drainage areas > 100 km2) and field data suggest that the same applies to the case of small bedrock river catchments (drainage areas < 100 km2).

NRCS GeoHydro is an ArcGIS application that can compute catchments, drainage points, drainage lines, and cross-section details for a storm event hydrologic model (Merkel et al. 2008).

Peaks in catchment soil drainage and bedrock infiltration coincide with rain on snow events.

This study follows field experiments conducted in a small subsurface drained catchment, where drainage discharge and pressure heads were monitored in a buried pipe collector and water table profiles were monitored in the field.

Poor correlations between 3H activities and catchment area, drainage density, mean slope, distance to stream, and landuse, imply that mean transit times are controlled by a variety of factors including the hydraulic properties of the soils and aquifers that are difficult to characterise spatially.

The formation of the East African Rift System has decisively influenced the distribution and evolution of tropical Africa's biota by altering climate conditions, by creating basins for large long-lived lakes, and by affecting the catchment and drainage directions of river systems.

For catchments where drainage areas are small, rainfall DDF relationships with short duration can be established based on rainfall records from automatic raingauges.

First, we implement a geomorphology-based hydrological model (GBHM) in four mountainous catchments with drainage areas that ranges from 493 to 1601 km2.