Sentences with phrase «drainage basin»

The new system directs that runoff into a foot - deep drainage basin.

This huge drainage basin may have meant that the outlet glaciers may have responded more slowly to external forcing.

The Shark River tributary pictured here is part of the Shark River Slough, or swamp, one of two major drainage basins for Florida's Everglades National Park.

West Antarctica has three major drainage basins where glaciers reach the ocean: the Ross Sea Embayment, the Weddell Sea Embayment, and the Amundsen Sea Embayment.

Downdraw of the Pine Island Bay drainage basins of the west antarctic ice sheet, Antarctic Journal of the U.S., Vol.

analysis of integrated drainage basin management (trans - boundary rivers) Learning resources used in the lesson are; 1.

Half of the U.S. farms are located in the Mississippi River Basin, whose entire drainage basin empties into the gulf.

Spatial and temporal variability in active layer thickness over the Russian Arctic drainage basin.

In the Eurasian river drainage basins, the correlation between increased river discharge and decreased summer minimum sea ice extent (over the period 1979 - 2008) is greater than the correlation between precipitation and runoff, suggesting that both rivers and sea ice were responding to changes in large - scale hemispheric climate patterns.

But in a new modeling study of 56 glacier drainage basins worldwide, roughly half the studied sites have already reached a kind of tipping point — after which the amount of fresh water that runs off each year begins to decline.

In this data activity, students interpret raw data on snow cover and explore the climatic impact of the «lake effect» - a significant factor determining snowfall amount in the Great Lakes drainage basin is the surface temperature of the lakes... (View More) Step - by - step instructions for use of the MY NASA DATA Live Access Server (LAS) guide students through selecting a data set, importing the data into a spreadsheet, creating graphs, and analyzing data plots.

If they were real spaces for community engagement, then environmental hazards such as the fact that the megatowers would add systemic overload to the Newtown Creek drainage basin, a superfund site, would have been raised.

The town asked Weston & Sampson Engineers, Inc. to come up with an alternative solution that would not involve such a large cost overrun, and the consulting firm recommended a «drainage basin around the front side,» the supervisor said, at a cost of $ 48,803 above the original pricetag.

«If the fourth - largest ice shelf in Antarctica disintegrates, bigger ice shelves with bigger drainage basins could also be in danger,» Khazendar says.

To explore the links between climatic warming and rainfall in drylands, scientists from the Universities of Cardiff and Bristol analysed more than 50 years of detailed rainfall data (measured every minute) from a semi-arid drainage basin in south east Arizona exhibiting an upward trend in temperatures during that period.

The Lake Chad drainage basin depends on monsoon rains to replenish its water, and this rainfall has dropped dramatically since the early 1960s.

Even though STORM was developed using data from a rain gauge network in a single dryland drainage basin, it is applicable anywhere.

To infer the ice sheet's mass, the team measured ice flowing out of Antarctica's drainage basins over 85 percent of its coastline.

Snow - dependent drainage basins that supply much of the world with water are steadily declining.

The timing of discharge from non-glacier and glacier streams is highlighted by this comparison of neighboring drainage basins.

With such a methodology, the average annual direct flood damage for three Australian drainage basins was projected to increase by a factor of four to ten under conditions of doubled atmospheric CO2 concentrations (Schreider et al., 2000).

She received her interdisciplinary PhD from the UAF with a focus on Remote Sensing & Hydrology and was funded by the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Program to characterize water tracks in headwater drainage basins of the Alaskan Arctic.

But when ice accumulation is greater than ice discharge, drainage basins undergo dynamic thickening, and dynamic thickening can occur in response to accumulation events that happened thousands of years ago.

Measurements of glacier discharge are monitored on surface drainage basins on glaciers and beyond the terminus of glaciers.

The future of glaciers and associated runoff is projected for 56 large drainage basins globally, with glacier wastage impacting on runoff and water resources even in basins with limited glacier cover.

The project will involve the realignment of three other runways; the construction of a new terminal; the relocation of at least one cemetery; the soundproofing for up to 800 homes; the draining of part of Lake O'Hare, an airfield drainage basin; the relocation of parts of two roads; and the construction of a new airfield firehouse and a control tower.

The Marguerite Bay drainage basin, in contrast, would have been of the order of 10,000 to 100,000 km2 during the LGM, and the ice streams draining this basin would have responded more rapidly to changes in external forcing [47].

Drainage basin management covers the information dealt with the study of water storage resources, in the form of reservoirs and flood protection.

To understand the hidden costs of corn - based ethanol requires factoring in «the huge, monstrous costs of cleaning up polluted water in the Mississippi River drainage basin and also trying to remedy the negative effects of poisoning the Gulf of Mexico,» says Tad Patzek of the University of California's Civil and Environmental Engineering department.

ESM 235 - Watershed Analysis [4 units] Dunne Hydrologic and geomorphic basis of environmental management problems concerning land surfaces and channels in small drainage basins, particularly the effects of land use and engineered alteration to stream channels.

I was appointed Chair of the Assiniboine River Management Advisory Board charged with developing a management strategy for an entire drainage basin.

Regional - scale modeling of soil freeze / thaw over the Arctic drainage basin.

Even when he turned it in the right direction he would notice many difficulties, the chief one being that it did not at all fit the drainage basin of Amazonia.

This means that the farms capture rainwater and melted snow and direct it to a drainage basin through ditches and an underground drainage system.

The Columbia Basin is the drainage basin of the Columbia River and covers about 260,000 square miles of the Pacific Northwest.

The trail of debris continued down a steep six - foot embankment and into a drainage basin: Buffalo Wild Wings wet wipes, numbing dental cream, scratched - up country music CDs floating in an oil slick, and an ID card issued by the NFL Players Association.

The amount to be returned is to be half the cost of constructing a drainage basin.

Cuomo says that DOT crews have been actively working to clear culverts and drainage basins to help ensure they flow freely.

The field and parking will be right in the middle of a drainage basin and stream that go directly into a DEC protected wetland.

The discovered ice loss in the northeast — which has been largely overlooked to date — is worrisome because the drainage basin there covers 16 percent of the ice sheet and holds the capability of funneling ice deep from Greenland's interior out to sea, the scientists said.

Totten Glacier is East Antarctica's largest glacier, with a drainage basin encompassing about 550,000 square...

The new study suggests that by the end of the century, about a third of all the drainage basins could experience reductions in runoff greater than 10 percent during at least one month of the warm season.

Totten Glacier is East Antarctica's largest glacier, with a drainage basin encompassing about 550,000 square kilometers, an area about the size of France.