Sentence examples for floodplain used from inspiring English sources
The extreme eastern part of the tableland, however, slopes to the east, and, from a little east of the city of São Paulo, the Paraíba do Sul River turns northeastward and flows parallel to the coast, meandering across a wide floodplain used for the production of rice.
The frequency of the local avulsion (levee breaches) and regional avulsion, and the aggradation rate of the floodplain used in this study are specified Table 2.
However, predicting inundated area in floodplains using a sub-grid model has not been rigorously validated.
Accurate simulations of floodplains using these approaches may imply tremendous advances in global hydrologic studies and in biogeochemical cycling.
The objective of this research was to assess the structure and scale of texture heterogeneity within the vadose zone within the gravel subsoils of alluvial floodplains using resistivity data combined with hydraulic testing and sediment sampling of the vadose zone.
All measured processes and sediment characteristics (chemical and physical) were compared between floodplains using Mann Whitney U tests with the SPSS software package.
In sum, this study demonstrated the complexity of collaborative relationships based on a case study on the maintenance of the Dutch floodplains, using a social network approach.
Fourteen sites were selected in the side arms of the Lobau and Orth floodplains, using the connectivity model, described in Section 2.2 to encompass varying flowing and morphological characteristics.
The immediate surrounding of the floodplain was used by the settlers for their economic requirements (e.g. wood from the riparian forest).
The current morphology of the floodplains was used in combination with a long-term hydrograph.
Some of these limitations of floodplain mapping using hydrodynamic modeling can be overcome by developing computationally efficient statistical methods to identify floodplains in large and ungauged watersheds using publicly available data.
