Sentence examples for impervious from from inspiring English sources

He said, however, "Our regents at this point seem pretty much impervious from alumni pressure".

It feels impervious from the outside, the fluid freeform interior hermetically sealed from the real world – which is perhaps an apt metaphor for the kinds of places where its graduates will end up.

He would make racist, sexist, off color remarks that most people would lose friends over but his legendary status seemed to make him impervious from condemnation.

Results from the peri-urban catchment showed an increase in impervious cover from 11% in the 1960s to 44% in 2010s, and introduction of a large-scale storm drainage system in the early 2000s, was accompanied by a 50% reduction in the Muskingum routing parameter k, reducing the characteristic flood duration by over 50% while increasing peak flow by over 400%.

Here, the effect of disconnecting impervious areas from a combined sewer in favour of a new open stormwater system is investigated.

This research utilizes an innovative approach for mapping urban extent and its changes through determining impervious surfaces from Landsat satellite remote sensing data.

While a large number of researches have been conducted to estimate the area and distribution of impervious surface from satellite data, the accuracy for impervious surface estimation (ISE) is insufficient due to high diversity of urban land cover types.

Keeping habitat quality similar along the urbanization gradient allowed us to separate the effect of landscape change (e.g. proportion impervious surface) from variation in habitat quality.

Outflows from these storage zones, routed with parallel arrangement of three linear reservoirs, represent different flow components of catchment runoff, i.e., slow drainage (shallow subsurface flow), medium drainage (interflow and saturation excess overland flow), and fast drainage (direct runoff from impervious urban areas or from water table management in agricultural land).

We investigated the relationship of the abundances of 10 invasive species to variables of urban spatial structure [land use (houses, apartments, commercial/industrial, or vacant), impervious surface, distance from city center, distance from forest preserve, income] at an individual block scale of analysis.

The uncalibrated model results show the importance of surface runoff from impervious areas for summer events and flow contributions from rural zones for winter events.