Sentence examples for upper flood from inspiring English sources
For the final assessment, we examine the relationship between ground slope and NWI in the upper fluctuation zone and the upper flood pool.
Results indicate that relatively low-sloped ground is classified as wetland in the upper fluctuation zone at 24% greater frequency than in the upper flood pool.
By using the indicators as an upper flood boundary, we have computed cross-sectional profiles showing that the flood in some reaches inundated more than 120 000 m2 of the valley.
Next, we use data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) to characterize wetland composition in the upper fluctuation zone (extent range between the 50th and 75th lake level percentiles) and the upper flood pool (extent range between the 75th percentile and the maximum designed flood pool elevation).
The Research Spotlight highlighting Professor James Smith's paper "Strange Floods: The Upper Tail of Flood Peaks in the United States" has been published on EOS.org, Earth and Space Science News.
The course of these streams is irregular, and, because of massive deforestation on the upper slopes, floods and landslides occur frequently during the spring and fall rains.
This is not surprising given the first wave of mass immigration at the time of the Revolution saw mostly wealthy, upper class Cubans flood into South Florida.
The upper container will flood from the shorter fitting, but never higher than the overflow.
This week Prince William and his brother "bagged" a few sandbags and waded the flooded upper reaches of the Thames.
They're a different breed from the upper-crusters who flood the island in May and take off around Labor Day.
