Sentence examples for glacial runoff from inspiring English sources

During this past research season the scientists recorded unprecedented lake levels caused by higher glacial runoff.

In parts of the world – south Asia and Switzerland, for example – glacial runoff is also used for irrigation: that will change".

The last two days of hiking have carried us over steep barren ridges and into deep gorges filled with streams of glacial runoff.

Some time in the coming decades, the shrinking of glaciers will cause a drop in the level of glacial runoff, reducing the supply of water to urban Chileans.

On its website, Svaice defends its proposal by saying it will power its equipment with biofuel and use green electricity produced at the local hydroelectric plant (powered by glacial runoff).

It predicts that many of the lower glaciers in the Andes will be gone in the next decade or so, and that glacial runoff may dry up altogether within 20 years.

Pleistocene glacial activity transformed the runoff regimes and sediment loads of many river systems in the Mediterranean region.

The two study sites are representative respectively of: i) water runoff on glacial deposits shaping earth pyramids (Pyramides d'Euseigne); ii) water dissolution on gypsum rocks, modelling articulate karst landscapes (Pyramides de gypse du Col de la Croix).

Despite the long-term, average rates obtained by means of roots exposure for both water runoff on glacial deposits (e.g., 5.8 mm/y) and dissolution on gypsum rocks (5.6 mm/y) are comparable.

During the large Middle Pleistocene glaciations, surface runoff from glacial meltwaters would have fed directly into the river channel network because much of the upland limestone terrain was covered by ice, and many conduits in the karst would have been choked with sediment or permanently frozen.

This article presents an investigation of the runoff of a glacial river located in the high Arctic region of Spitsbergen.