Sentence examples for streamflows from inspiring English sources

Chris Poehlman, president of Friends of the Gualala River, describes seeing oddly fluctuating streamflows in areas where vineyards and other heavy water users are found.

Streamflow-generation mechanisms have been studied for several decades, and there is now considerable knowledge regarding rainfall runoff processes and their controls.

If the streamflow has been measured regularly over a long period, including times of drought and flood, the studies are greatly simplified.

Streamflow is highly variable, being greatest during the wet summer months and considerably less in the relatively dry winter.

As forests regrow following cutting, increases in streamflow decline as a result of increased transpirational losses.

Conservation reservoirs store water from wet weather periods for use during times of drought and low streamflow.

The absence of snowpack in the south Indian uplands makes the region dependent entirely on rainfall for its streamflow.

From streamflow data, determinations can be made of the minimum, maximum, average daily, and average monthly flows; the size of dams, spillways, and downstream channel; and the seasonal and carry-over storage needed.

Subsurface storm flow can be a dominant streamflow-generation mechanism only when the impeding subsoil horizon laterally diverts infiltrating water downslope.

Streamflow is perennial, averaging more than 10 inches (250 mm) in depth per stream each year.

The water yield of a forest is a measure of the balance between incoming precipitation and outflow of water as streamflow.