Sentence examples for upstream drainage from inspiring English sources

Also a larger upstream drainage area increases the chance for slope failure for the same reason.

The upstream drainage area of the river at this location is approximately 180 km2.

Mean widths and gradients of the channels are correlated with upstream drainage area.

At that time, full of danger, the upstream drainage of Taohe River was a remote, wild, inaccessible area.

Of these, sites with no information about upstream drainage area or records for only several months of the year were discarded.

In this study, we present a Geographic Information System GISS) algorithm designed for the semi-automated detection of alluvial fans that are connected to their contributing upstream drainage network, from the analysis of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs).

Through a combination of spatial analysis procedures, the GIS algorithm generates maps of alluvial fans and their upstream source drainage and watersheds.

At Tahaa, we find that many channels, incised into the lagoon floor during Pleistocene sea-level lowstands, are located near the mouths of upstream terrestrial drainages.

Three locations on a river adjacent to the feedlot were chosen for sample collection: a) 572 m upstream from all drainage from the facility, b) a discharge drain that collects run-off from the two sets of buildings, and c) 381 m downstream from the discharge drain.

The change may have some environmental benefits in reducing flood risk and improving coastal drainage upstream, according to the consortium.

We propose that the Jiacha knickpoint represents a wave of incision migrating upstream through the drainage network in response to a downstream base level fall, not a disturbance in the channel to due rift tectonics.