Sentences with phrase «amount of runoff»

The amount of runoff provided by a glacier is the product of its surface area and ablation rate.

The lakes receive a large amount of runoff in the spring from the melting snowpack.

A shorter period covered by snow, more spring rain and faster snow melt can combine to release large amounts of runoff that have the potential to stress urban hydrologic systems and cause flooding in urban areas.»

Not exact matches

The team found that, for the last 20 years, the glacier and ice cap mass loss has been exactly equal to the amount of meltwater runoff lost to the sea.

They fell apart a little bit as I loaded them into the baked pie crust, but not too much, and the finished pie had just the right amount of moisture without any liquid runoff.

The agreement to buy Toohey Park permits a certain amount of water runoff from the Sunny Ridge site to flow into a pond at the park, but parks officials said they want to ensure that the project doesn't send too much water into the park.

«We know that during primaries, the amount of people that come out are more representative of the demographics of the city of New York than we get on runoffs, which tend to be whiter, older and richer, and we wan na make sure that the people that represent us are elected by our population as close as possible,» Reynoso said.

«Use of the nanoparticle increases soil diffusion while decreasing the risk of leaching and runoff, reducing the amount of chemical in food crops and reducing the cost to treat crops.»

However, temperatures during the «runoff season» of March - July can have a significant impact on the amount of water that ends up in the river, the researchers found.

Record high temperatures in Pakistan's far north were already producing higher amounts of snowmelt and glacial meltwater runoff from the Karakoram Range and into the Indus River System.

Researchers found that farmed oysters could remove significant amounts of nitrogen in the waters of the Chesapeake delivered there by agricultural and municipal runoff.

Without a crop covering the ground, there is an increased amount of soil exposure that can lead to erosion from winter rains and runoff.

In recent years, some growers already have dramatically reduced the amount of water and synthetic fertilizer they use by practicing precision farming techniques, such as drip irrigation, which reduces the overall amount of water used and therefore nitrate runoff.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

And this is a problem that is only going to get worse, said Castelao, citing scientific models that suggest the amount of meltwater runoff from Greenland could more than double before the end of this century.

Each year, a huge amount of water evaporates from the ocean, then falls over land as rain or snow, and returns to the ocean through runoff and river flows.

The study also looked at the amount of snowpack runoff during the warmer season, compared to what has been seen in the past.

You can do that at a circuit like COTA, where there isn't a lot of risk and danger with a large amount of asphalt runoff.

Fresh grasses from the yard are also OK (in small amounts) as long as the grass is collected from an area free of pesticides, runoff and pet waste.

erm... swampland, and feature a huge amount of tress which reportedly allow you to do some epic wall runs, «Runoff,» which features a number of different «pipes and water,» and «War Games,» which takes place in a Pilot training area.

If we don't work to counter the effects of climate change, California may not have enough water (from the Colorado river and runoff from the Sierra Nevada to continue to grow the amount of food it does now.

From recent research, I would suggest that this is entirely plausible; I could cite several examples of substantial increases (runoff, glacier melt, precipitation, sea - ice loss) which, collectively, amount to a real net increase in the Arctic freshwater budget.

The volume of runoff also increases, reducing the amount of water available during the dry summer months when water demand is higher and supplies are lower.

In fact in a dry year such as 1998 glaciers yielded 28 billion gallons of runoff to Baker Lake, while other sources were below average, which amounted to 45 % of the total basin flow.

In fact in a dry year such as 1998 glaciers yielded 110 million m3 of runoff to Baker Lake, while other sources were below average, which amounted to 45 % of the total basin flow (Pelto, 2008).

The forecast thus is given at the start of the melt season and provides an assessment of the amount of glacier runoff that will be generated.

We estimated annual increases in runoff at the landscape scale by summing stand level amounts for each scenario year, and calculated summary statistics (mean, median, max, cumulative) that allowed for a comparison of scenarios.

The effect is measurable: for example, reduced runoff from snow melt has caused an annual 5 percent decrease in the amount of water entering the Colorado River, which experts say already faces the risk of significantly drying up.

An important contribution to present day sea level rise could result from changes in the amount of water stored in the ground, on the surface in lakes and reservoirs, and by modifications to surface characteristics affecting runoff or evapotranspiration rates.

In turn, the amount of snow - and ice melt influences runoff into lowland rivers and the amounts of water recharging river - fed aquifers.

In case you don't know, the primary cause of the Gulf Dead Zone is the amount of nutrient runoff coming down the Mississippi River from farms upstream.

In the past 50 years, as the Sun Belt boomed, scientists recorded a dramatic rise in the amount of dust being deposited on snow — which forces fundamental changes in how spring runoff occurs.

As part of the city's efforts to reduce the amount of untreated wastewater that flows into NYC's waterways during storms, the metropolis has been busy planting trees, supporting green roofs, and installing huge tanks to deal with the runoff of precipitation.

Peatlands are a natural means of flood control, acting like a sponge to absorb large amounts of rainfall and runoff, while reducing the threat of erosion.