Sentence examples for quantity of runoff from inspiring English sources

The ice sheet plumbing – literally a network of pipes, cavities and channels - gets backed up by the sheer quantity of runoff draining into it, leading to flooding and high water pressures, which literally lifts the ice sheet up off its bed, reducing basal friction and sending it on its way.

Changes in the chemistry of runoff inputs had no effect on turnover because the quantity of runoff is significantly less than the quantity of other inputs.

The results obtained are important in designing and evaluating pervious concrete as a paving surface within watershed management systems for controlling the quantity of runoff.

All these relationships imply that in response to a given quantity of runoff, stream systems develop with just the size and spacing required to move the water off each part of the land with greatest efficiency (Skinner and Porter 1987).

"I do not think the effects are significant because I don't expect that washing sidewalks with detergent or bleach or power washing occurs often and I would expect that when it occurs it produces only small quantities of runoff," Mr. Pearsall wrote in an e-mail.

To give one example, Duvigneaud, in his study of the "Écosystème Urbs" (Duvigneaud and Denaeyer-De Smet 1977) in Brussels, shows how the large quantity of rainwater runoff pouring into sewers is due to "the predominance of stone or other hard and impermeable materials, as against soft and water-permeable soil".1.1

The amount of runoff is the rainfall minus the losses, that is: Q (runoff) = P (rainfall) - L (losses).

Atmospheric deposition of OC in catchment may alter the quality and quantity of soil organic matter and consequently the quality of runoff emerging from these land surfaces.

With drinking water beginning to run scarce, Florida is planning to embark on a controversial new effort to store vast quantities of surface runoff underground for dry-season recovery.

High quantities of stormwater runoff containing pollutants from gray cities cause problems including inland flooding and water pollution.

While no raw sewage flows into the creek, the creek is contaminated by large quantities of urban runoff from impervious paved surfaces that collects toxins before pouring untreated into the creek.