Sentences with phrase «fresh water runoff»

This is part way into a question I asked at RC... QUESTION: Do these experiments take into account any heat added to the water by underwater volcanic activity or fumeroles or even fresh water runoff from rain?

QUESTION: Do we know how fresh water runoff effects the Oceans temps?

Finally, if the North American hydrologic cycle is enhanced, and / or Greenland's southern ice caps melt, the increased fresh water runoff from land areas could dilute the ocean surface water and critically reduce its salinity.

Not exact matches

Rain water is shunted into storm drains, pushing the contaminated sediment downstream and delivering a fresh load of toxic runoff and snowmelt from city streets to Little Black Creek.

Growing crops in city skyscrapers would use less water and fossil fuel than outdoor farming, eliminate agricultural runoff, and provide fresh food

Glacial runoff, especially during the spring and summer, can provide a critical source of fresh water downstream.

The thickness of the remaining, multi-year ice, along with its geographic location, will make it more difficult to melt than the ice that was spread across the Arctic, and exposed to Pacific and Atlantic ocean currents, along with runoff from fresh water rivers.

Living out here in the sticks I am blessed with a nearby artesian spring and fresh watercress growing in the cold runoff water.

Doubling the river runoff results to very fresh waters at the shelves restricting the convection to shallow surface layer.

People in Tilwari are fortunate to have access to a relatively clean source of water because of a fresh spring that's fed directly by runoff from the peaks of the Himalayas, but until a gravity - fed pumping system was installed recently, the water was exposed to whatever contaminants might be in the air and open for animals to share the same drinking source as people.

However, with improving techniques, researchers recently estimated total submarine groundwater (saline and fresh water combined) discharges suggesting a rate 3 to 4 times greater than the observed global river runoff, or a volume equivalent to 331 mm / year (13 inches) of sea level rise.

Fresh drinking water could become more and more scarce as polluted floodwater runoff contaminates rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.

Fresh drinking water could become more and more scarce as drought and warming combine to dry up reservoirs, rivers, and groundwater — or polluted floodwater runoff contaminates what they do have to offer.

As you know, salinity affects evaporation and / or may reflect an influx (or lack) of fresh water (by precipitation, riverine, or runoff).

Fresh drinking water could become more and more scarce as polluted floodwater runoff contaminates rivers, lakes, and reservoirs — or drought and warming combine to simply dry it all up.

The thickness of the remaining, multi-year ice, along with its geographic location, will make it more difficult to melt than the ice that was spread across the Arctic, and exposed to Pacific and Atlantic ocean currents, along with runoff from fresh water rivers.