Sentence examples for dry basin from inspiring English sources

Pools of water still glistened in the normally dry basin.

The term dock is still often used in a generic sense to indicate all waterfront docking facilities, either dry basin or berthing structures.

There, under new sponsorship from Toyota South Africa, the Total Trans-Kalahari became the Toyota 1000 Desert Race, a 1,000km dash across the dry basin near Vryburg, west of Johannesburg.

Residents said some reservoirs were dry basins of cracked mud, while others could be seen filled with water and surrounded by green crops.

They are vital to irrigation on alluvial fans rimming many dry basins, as in the Central Valley of California and the Tarim Basin of the Takla Makan Desert of China: meltwater is released during the planting or growing seasons.

Originally, docks were used for many purposes: as dry basins, isolated from the water by dikes or other means, they served as a place for building and repairing ships (dry docks); as wet basins, open to the water, they provided berthing space for ships in the normal course of traffic and cargo transfer.

The LSMs with smaller biases generally show larger baseflow ratio in wet basins than in dry basins while the LSMs with larger biases generally show smaller baseflow ratio in wet basins than in dry basins.

Denitrification potential was higher in the wet basins (2.27 mg N kg−1 h−1) compared to the dry basins (0.23 mg N kg−1 h−1).

Punctuating this landscape are broad, dry basins, or wadis, and gentle landscape depressions that exhibit localized elevated vegetation productivity and unique edaphic and hydrologic properties.

To overcome this limitation, this study explains the variability of SMM in wet and dry basins, and shows an alternative way to predict the basin scale SMM using observed precipitation and potential evapotranspiration information only.

Almost all ET products (except MERRA_E) reasonably estimated the annual means (especially in the dry basins) but systematically underestimated the inter-annual variability (except for MERRA_E, GCLM_E and ET simulation from the GLDAS 1 with the MOSAIC scheme – GMOS_E) and could not adequately estimate the trends (e.g. GCLM_E and MERRA_E) of ETwb (especially in the energy-limited wet basins).