Sentence examples for steep watershed from inspiring English sources

The rainstorm occurred one month after a wildfire that burned about 11 ha of the steep watershed (55 ha), almost entirely mantled by volcaniclastic deposits.

The results showed that the efficiency of the proposed method was significantly superior to that of the conventional algorithm, especially when applied to a steep watershed.

The extremity of the rainfall on steep watersheds covered with shallow soils was hypothesized to result in near-equilibrium runoff conditions where peak runoff rates equal the watershed-average peak rainfall rate minus a small constant loss rate.

Oguchi et al. (2001) characterized Japanese landforms by steep watersheds, heavy storms, frequent slope failures and landslides, large flood discharge and efficient sediment transport, high sediment yields, and catastrophic hydro-geomorphological events associated with earthquakes and volcanic eruption plains.

The relative contribution of TOM from the soil organic horizons also increased in steeper watersheds.

In the relative nearshore (10 to 30 m water depth), coarse-grained strata (Qmsc) underlie laterally coalescing and discontinuous bars at the mouths of steep coastal watersheds.

Five miles into the mountains from the edge of the city is a small, obscure, steep-sided watershed of twenty-five hundred acres which is drained by the Middle Fork of Mill Creek, a tributary of the Big Tujunga.

All partitioned models improved their estimation of low flow when calibrated to a lower range of streamflows but with kw and hsB performing slightly better at the steeper sloped watershed.

Thus, the use of historical river sediment data and sediment rating curves without considerations for time-dependent trends may result in significant errors in sediment yield estimates from the globally-important steep, small watersheds.

We have been carrying out intensive high-frequency monitoring of the water cycle in a small (4000 m2) steep (35o slope) watershed dubbed "Rivendell" in the Angelo Coast Range Reserve in Northern California.

Therefore, forest stands under protection regime or with protective function (where the principal management goal is to offer protection against e.g. landslides, watershed, steep slopes) were excluded for the main analysis.