Sentence examples for increase river from inspiring English sources

Landscape-scale, terrestrial modifications of catchments can increase river sediment loads.

Rapid tectonic uplift is known to increase river incision rates and to trigger the propagation of knickpoints along a river profile, augmenting local relief.

This may increase river flow in the short run, but reduce water availability in the long run and change the availability of water throughout the year, probably affecting energy supply.

Both rivers exchange significant amounts of CO2 with the atmosphere (i.e., Anacostia at 0.2 72 mmol m−2 d−1 and Potomac at 0.12 24 mmol m−2 d−1), implying that waterways receiving organic matter and nutrient subsidies from urbanized landscapes have the potential to increase river metabolism and atmospheric CO2 fluxes along the freshwater estuarine continuum.

In the 1950s, due to flood control measures to increase river velocity, large sections of the river were straightened in Salt Lake County.

The installation of ship locks is intended to increase river shipping from ten million to 100 million tonnes annually, as a result transportation costs will be cut between 30 and 37%.

More intense and frequent cyclones, prolonged floods, increased river and coastal erosion, droughts and salinity of farmland are all environmental problems made worse by climate change.

Re "To Make River Boaters Breathe Easier" (letter, Aug. 16) and "Ferries Crowd the Hudson These Days, and There's No Speed Limit" (news article, Aug. 12): Increased wake damage to the Hudson River should not be attributed to increased river traffic.

Running computer models of these results, they found that a combination of decreased evaporation from naturally lower temperatures and a greatly increased river flow caused the salinity to decline.

Increasing river flood areas reduce production in affected sub-regions.

In twelve Baltic Sea mesocosms, we simulated the effects of increased river runoff alone and in combination.