Sentence examples for upstream ground from inspiring English sources

The results show that the roughness blocks both on the hill surface and on the upstream ground affect the speed-up ratio over the hill.

Even though estuarine hydraulic engineering structures can mitigate tidal flats decreased trends, the tidal flats of the Changjiang Estuary will still suffer significant losses due to the decreasing sediment flux from upstream, ground subsidence, sea level rise and recent intensive reclamation.

Luzinski was a star of the 1980 team, which won the Phillies' first world championship with the exhaustion and finality of salmon reaching the upstream spawning grounds.

Dam by dam, Americans in the following centuries walled off upstream spawning grounds, and fish numbers dwindled to the point where most runs of Atlantic salmon qualify for endangered-species status.

The next day, a Thursday, the river had risen six inches overnight, and we moved the van and other vehicles to Glenn's father's farm, which is about three-quarters of a mile upstream on higher ground on the opposite shore.

A zone of particular interest to scientists is just upstream of the grounding line, where the ice flowing off the land starts to float out over the ocean.

But cool, cloudy weather, rain and rising water move them to resume their thrust upstream to spawning grounds.

Streams and rivers were silver with thick schools of river herring — alewives, bluebacks and shad, the largest species of herring — making their annual runs from the Atlantic to freshwater spawning grounds upstream.

Adult salmon swimming to their spawning grounds upstream must be prevented by screens from entering the turbine tailraces at power stations and induced instead to enter a fish pass that allows them to surmount the dam.

"Immediately upstream of the grounding line there is a 7 kilometer long region — we call it an ice plain because the slopes are really flat, and for this part of the glacier, it could retreat very fast, in a couple of decades or so," says Li.

The extinction of the spawning grounds upstream from the dam has prevented the Spokane and other tribes from holding the first salmon ceremony.