Sentence examples for flood plume from inspiring English sources

The area of the secondary flood plume was correlated with the Tully daily flow (Figure 13b).

The extent of the secondary flood plume on a weekly basis varied from 1,163 to 9,433 km2.

We used historical flood plume extent data (modelled) to quantify the typical spatial extent of the summer runoff seawater mixing zone of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) lagoon.

The high chlorophyll-a concentrations measured in flood plume waters immediately adjacent to the inshore, highly turbid 'inner' flood plume are a product of sufficient light, given most of the suspended solids have settled from the plume, and the availability of sufficient nutrients, which drive higher phytoplankton production and characterise the formation of secondary stage flood plumes.

The frequency of water types across the flood plume is comparable with our current understanding of water quality gradients and supports the validity of the classification method applied in this study.

The higher frequency associated with the primary flood plume water type (fp) reflects the intensity, duration, and constituent concentrations of the river discharge but is limited to a small near-shore zone (< 10 km across the shelf).

Flood plumes are flooding events associated with higher levels of nitrogen and phosphorus.

Crown of Thorns starfish have always munched through vast swathes of coral and flood plumes loaded with sediment from big wet seasons have been smothering inshore reefs for millennia.

Water sampling focused on the top surface layer of the flood plumes.

Flood plumes were mapped in this work using the method presented in Álvarez-Romero et al. (2013).

The formation and extent of these secondary flood plumes were mapped using MODIS true-colour satellite imagery.