Sentence examples for proportion of runoff from inspiring English sources

Generally, in the semi-arid areas climate change played a decreasing role in runoff reduction comparing with other causes, while in the semi-humid areas it induced a higher and more variable proportion of runoff deviation according to the decade means.

Naturally these resemble the rainfall maps, but the proportion of runoff is greater when the total rainfall is more, so the difference between low and high rainfall is magnified in runoff maps.

The IC s for FC forest and FC grass show similar patterns, both exhibiting a somewhat higher identifiability during the periods when the catchment is already relatively wet and further precipitation increases the proportion of faster runoff components in the total catchment runoff.

Where η is the Pan evaporation conversion coefficient; 1 β1 is the proportion of fast flooding runoff in total runoff; β1×β2 is the proportion of the underground flow from small fractures in total runoff; WM is the average storage capacity; αF is the Fast flooding runoff; αM is the underground flow from large fractures and conduits; αS is the underground flow from small fractures) (Xue, 2010).

The results revealed that the occurrence of the collapse of overhanging layers could be attributed to the development of a scour hole in the open side; the greater the flow rate, the lower the proportion of on-wall runoff.

The analysis illustrates significant variability in the water yield to lakes and reveals a pattern of positively skewed distributions in all six widely spaced blocks, suggesting that a high proportion of lakes have relatively limited runoff whereas relatively few have greater runoff.

The coefficient C is a measure of the proportion of the rain which becomes runoff.

The reliability of water supply was defined as the proportion of demands that are met; and the reliability of runoff capture was defined as the amount stored and reused, but not spilled.

Therefore the factor "risk of runoff" is considered to express a significant proportion of the variability in macroinvertebrate communities caused by stressors of agricultural origin.

Under heavy grazing the river system was less braided and a higher proportion of the river width was unvegetated runoff channels.

Monthly streamflow forecasts are needed to support water resources decision making in the South East of South Australia, where baseflow represents a significant proportion of the total streamflow and soil moisture and groundwater are important predictors of runoff.