Sentences with phrase «as river basins»

We can now revisit GRACE data related to areas such as river basins and irrigation and soil moisture, not just ice sheets.»

The Big History shows that civilizations flourished in favorable areas for agriculture and trade, such as river basins and coastal areas.

As a river basin soaks up water, the satellites record a stronger gravitational pull.

Not exact matches

The Bonneville Power Administration, which controls electrical transmission in the American side of the Columbia River basin (and supplies a chunk of B.C.'s power under the Columbia River Treaty), has over the past month ordered wind power producers to curtail their production so as not to overload the grid and harm fish.

As of Dec 7, 2011... Most of Central Texas and the Colorado River basin remain in the grips of an extreme drought.

... Based on the conditions in the basin last year, the Lake Ontario — St. Lawrence River Board found no justification to consider increased outflows at that time, as such action would have lowered lake levels even further below average.

A final victory by the plaintiffs could prompt landowners in other river basins, such as the Klamath River in Oregon and California to claim similar damages from restoration efforts, Echeverria river basins, such as the Klamath River in Oregon and California to claim similar damages from restoration efforts, Echeverria River in Oregon and California to claim similar damages from restoration efforts, Echeverria says.

Such river basin regimes could prove vital in other areas of the world undergoing a hydropower boom, as well, Richter says.

Officials in the Colorado River basin states have long treated this liquid treasure as a type of environmental retirement account — an additional supply of water they can raid to get through the driest years and make up for the chronic overuse of the rivers themselves.

Native Americans, such as the Mohawk in upstate New York and the Yakama and Nez Perce in the Columbia River basin, rely heavily on a diet of salmon, trout and other fish that are contaminated with PCBs, dioxins and other chemicals.

As you move from west to east, from the low, scorching deserts of the Colorado River basin to the snow - and pine - topped mountains near the New Mexico border, a range of habitat unfolds.

«Use it or lose it» clauses, as they are known, are common in state laws throughout the Colorado River basin and give the farmers, ranchers and governments holding water rights a powerful incentive to use more water than they need.

«Such is the case with the Columbia River basin between the United States and Canada, whose treaty is recognized as one of the most resilient and advanced agreements in the world.

If levels drop past that point on Jan. 1, 2016, something the government forecasts as a one - in - three chance, the federal government will declare a shortage and every state in the Colorado River basin — including Nevada — will face dramatic cuts in supply.

Every year, as waters drain down the Mississippi River basin, they accumulate 1.2 million pounds of atrazine before reaching the Gulf of Mexico.

The researchers compared trends in the numbers of waterbirds, including Australian pelicans, black swans, different duck species and shorebirds, across both basins, as well as separately in their main river systems and key wetlands.

Using supercomputers, the researchers found that this dense piece of ocean floor material (called a lithospheric slab) is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle and is responsible for the formation of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the Earth's largest internally drained basins and home to the lowest point in Australia at 15m below sea level, as well as the Murray - Darling Basin, home to the largest river system in Australia.

Early studies pegged the amount of meltwater in these river basins as high as 60 or 70 percent.

However, under business - as - usual scenarios, without significant reductions in carbon emissions, the study shows these deadly heat waves could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, including the fertile Indus and Ganges river basins that produce much of the region's food supply.

This will threaten the health of rare species such as the Yangtze River dolphin, as well as millions of people living in the river basin, say campaigRiver dolphin, as well as millions of people living in the river basin, say campaigriver basin, say campaigners.

One major change in this year's annual list is the inclusion of several river basins, such as the Citarum River in Indonesia or the Niger River Delta, rather than just major industrial sriver basins, such as the Citarum River in Indonesia or the Niger River Delta, rather than just major industrial sRiver in Indonesia or the Niger River Delta, rather than just major industrial sRiver Delta, rather than just major industrial sites.

Evolution is a universal phenomenon encompassing technology, river basins and animal design alike, and it is rooted in physics as the constructal law.»

As they migrated southwards, people exploited the interior resources of the hundreds of river basins descending from near - coast mountain ranges, Dillehay and colleagues suggest.

The hallmark doctrine is the 1922 Colorado River Compact, which divided the Colorado River into the upper and lower basins and chose Lee's Ferry, Ariz., as the arbitrary dividing point.

As scientists collect more genetic data, they are beginning to realize that there is not one river dolphin, but multiple species living in isolated basins in the Amazon.

Gauging stations recorded a pulse of water that grew as it traveled down the main stem of the Meramec River, setting all - time record highs in the lower basin in the Missouri cities of Eureka, Valley Park and Arnold.

Thus dispersal is more likely to have occurred when the Basins were completely filled with water, as there would have been limited space for the hominin populations on the tree covered Rift shoulders and river flood plains [34].

The site centres around 2 groups of lagoons; the first consists of Calabash Pond, Revenge, Western Crooked Tree and Southern Lagoons, and Spanish Creek which are all linked to Belize River, via Black Creek, the second consists of Jones and Mexico Lagoons, which also link into the Belize River via Mexico Creek When the Belize River is in flood, the resew acts as an overflow basin.

Dad will spend four nights at a lodge near the Chimán Indian village, fishing in rivers inhabited by two different Dorado species and other fish from the Amazon basin, such as the Pirapitinga or Amazon Pacu and the Yatorana.

Of all the remarkable species that inhabit the Amazon river basin, few are as iconic or as threatened as Amazon river dolphins.

Meteorological scientists warn that the changes in heat composition and air pressure over the Tibetan Plateau may have implications beyond Asia's river basins, as shifting dynamics of the atmospheric circulatory system over the plateau could change wind and monsoon patterns across much of the world.

As a point of reference, let's compare its net carbon content with the Gillette Coalfield in the Powder river basin, one of the largest coal deposits in the world.

Last time, the IPCC warned that there would be less water in most Asian river basins and up to a billion people could experience «increased water stress» as early as the 2020s.

The core questions there now are the same as they were in 1989 and 1990, when I was lucky enough to crisscross the Brazilian portion of that vast river basin for months researching my book on the murder of the forest defender Chico Mendes.

Not to mention that most river deltas are in naturally subsiding basins, such as the Mississippi delta.

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

On its website, Foundation Coal states that «Foundation Affiliates operate multiple mines in the Powder River Basin, Northern Appalachia, and Central Appalachia regions, as well as substantial reserves and an idled mine in the Illinois basin that can be returned to service as market conditions warrant.»

This web platform for exchange of experience between the pilot projects contains some of the first transboundary adaptation strategies developed wordwide, such as those on the Neman and Dniester Basins, developed by UNECE and partners, and those developed by river basin commissions such as the Danube and Rhine.

The web platform for exchange of experience between the pilot projects contains some of the first transboundary adaptation strategies developed wordwide, such as those on the Neman and Dniester Basins, developed by UNECE and partners, and those developed by river basin commissions such as the Danube and Rhine.

Also, he should define what he means by «climate change» in terms of time and space scales, and of what specific societally and environmentally relevant metrics (such as hydrologic drought; agricultural drought; large basin river floods, etc) he is focusing on.

Local topography, bay and river orientation, depth of the sea bottom, astronomical tides, as well as other physical features, are taken into account in a predefined grid referred to as a SLOSH basin.

The Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrologic model set - up for the Fraser River basin, British Columbia, Canada was used as a test - bed for the two systems.

The Variable Infiltration Capacity model (VIC) hydrologic model setup for the Fraser River basin, British Columbia, Canada, was used as a test bed for the two systems.

Various hydrologic models with different complexities have been developed to represent the characteristics of river basins, improve streamflow forecasts such as seasonal volumetric flow predictions, and meet other demands from different stakeholders.

As with rivers in just about every developed part of the world, those that enter Great Salt Lake are used by farmers and cities in the surrounding basin.

As a consequence, its implementation (and maintenance) need be homogeneous within each river basin as local weaknesses would represent preferential triggering points for floodinAs a consequence, its implementation (and maintenance) need be homogeneous within each river basin as local weaknesses would represent preferential triggering points for floodinas local weaknesses would represent preferential triggering points for flooding.

In addition, peak flows are reduced by reservoirs, sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS, e.g., Pasche et al. 2008), retarding basins, infiltration basins, and through targeted land management plans such as afforestation and river renaturation (Reinhardt et al. 2011).

«In comparison to our toy model, a natural system, such as the atmosphere, a river basin, etc.: (a) is much more complex; (b) has time - varying inputs and outputs; (c) has spatial extent, variability and dependence (in addition to temporal); (d) has greater dimensionality (virtually infinite); (e) has dynamics that to a large extent is unknown and difficult or impossible to express deterministically; and (f) has parameters that are unknown.

Complex patterns of locally generated runoff are transformed into horizontal transport as rivers through the drainage basin.

Part of the water flow in these river basins depends on snow and glacial melt to perennial rivers, such as the Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, Mekong and Yangtze (9).