Sentence examples for smaller drainage from inspiring English sources

For reservoirs with smaller drainage areas, it takes less time to reach a certain pressure differential than it does for those with larger drainage areas.

The largest rivers draining to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas are at more advanced stages of valley filling than rivers with smaller drainage areas, with corresponding differences in alluvial morphology and architecture, and avulsion style.

In smaller drainage basins, glacial modification is focussed above the mean Quaternary equilibrium line altitude (ELA), where both ridgelines and valley floors have been lowered as a consequence of glaciation.

Stream length (Lu) is a significant hydrological parameter of the any river basin as it divulges surface runoff characteristics of comparatively smaller drainage lengths and characteristics of larger gradients area and finer textures.

Being able to more precisely map the soil burn severity within smaller drainage basins has facilitated modeling increased runoff, projected soil loss due to erosion, and post-fire debris flow hazard.

This paper presents a theoretical analysis showing that fluvial systems with larger drainage areas can produce more advanced stages of infilling than those with smaller drainage areas (but with identical histories and sediment production per unit area) due to the nature of the scaling relationships between drainage basin area and incised valley size, and between basin area and sediment yield.

Traditional management of meadows includes mowing, cleaning, mowing-date rotation of tracts, amelioration with hayseed and Onobrychis viciifolia seeds, manuring, manual thinning of unwanted plants, suppression of mosses, and small-scale drainage.

(80 ha) industrial and institutional sites near Boston's Charles River containing diverse smaller drainages, land uses, and runoff sources were analyzed.

At least half of the world's major river drainages are dammed (Nilsson et al. 2005), and a large number of smaller drainages are heavily affected by hydrological fragmentation.

Japan's rivers are generally short and swift-running and are supplied by small drainage basins.

Three ducklings had indeed fallen through into the small drainage ditch several feet below.