Sentences with phrase «increased runoff»

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«Future warming and increased runoff from precipitation mean that nutrient inputs to many lakes must be reduced if they are to maintain the same ecological state they are in today,» the researchers wrote.

This rapid glacier retreat is evident in the reduced stream flow and increased runoff in the area.

Fields will flood unless the soil geology magically adapts to drain the increased runoff at the exact rate required.

soil erodibility changes due to a decrease in soil organic matter concentrations (which lead to a soil structure that is more susceptible to erosion) and to increased runoff (due to increased soil surface sealing and crusting);

The average relative humidity in cities is usually several percent lower than that of adjacent rural areas, primarily because of increased runoff of precipitation and the lack of evapotranspiration from vegetation in urban areas.

These experiments and others like it demonstrated that reductions in forest basal area of 30 — 100 % in ponderosa forests on basalt - derived soils increased runoff between 15 — 40 % for up to six years after the initial treatment [29].

Mechanical thinning alone or in combination with prescribed fires reduced fire risk, increased runoff, and improved tree water - stress at the plot scale [20]--[23].

A nearby paired - watershed study in mixed conifer forests on sedimentary - derived soils found that overstory removal of 30 - 80 % led to a slightly higher range of increased runoff, 30 — 110 %, that persisted for more years than the Beaver Creek experiments [45], [46].

When coupled with increased runoff from the Sierra, DWR announced it will need to need to put the primary spillway back into operation for 10 to 14 days beginning at 9 a.m. Friday.

These dinoflagellate blooms, which can be thought of as ancient red tides, are a sign of major environmental stress in the coastal zone possibly as a result of the increased runoff of water from the land.

In the first category, physically plausible mechanisms have been proposed that link human activities associated with the creation of the ozone hole1 and increased runoff from the Antarctic ice sheets2 (land ice) to increased sea ice.

«The increased runoff rate is the result of urban land - use changes,» according to Olson.

Dams; rising temperatures and carbon dioxide concentrations; droughts; and increased runoff of nutrients from urban and agricultural lands are all compounding the problem.

MEDDLESOME MERCURY Increased runoff into Earth's oceans could increase methylmercury concentrations in marine ecosystems by altering the food web, new laboratory tests show.

«Increased runoff caused by dust on snowpack acts as a major leak in the reservoir system,» says Thomas Painter, a professor of geography at the University of Utah.

In addition, by paving over previously open space — or farming previously reserved lands — communities in these watersheds contribute to record high waters through increased runoff.

It must have taken a lot of long, very hard work to do that,» Dunsmuir said.Since then, rains and increasing runoff have eroded the lake's banks and filled in the bottom, making it hard for residents to keep their canoes from going aground.

«Whenever you have development, you are going to increase the runoff, increase how much the rivers and streams have to carry,» says civil engineer W. Gene Corley, a senior vice president at CTLGroup, an engineering firm that evaluates infrastructure, such as levees.

Those heavier raindrops also compact the soil, causing it to absorb less water and increasing runoff and sediment, which clog rivers and contribute significantly to lowland flooding.

We find that while the surface stratification strengthens with the increasing runoff, the surface mixed layer thins and warmer water is found closer to the surface.

It reduces infiltration into the soil and increases runoff to conveyance systems, lakes, streams, etc..

Declining beach health and harmful algal blooms: Extreme events increase runoff, adding sediments, pollutants, and nutrients to the Great Lakes.

Mechanical thinning can increase runoff at fine scales, as well as reduce fire risk and tree water stress during drought, but the effects of this practice have not been studied at scales commensurate with recent forest disturbances or under a highly variable climate.

Our study demonstrated that this type of project can increase runoff by approximately 20 % compared to unthinned forests, even under simulated drought conditions.

This study demonstrated that the pace, extent, and intensity of forest thinning that is planned under the first analysis area of 4FRI and at larger scales could measurably increase runoff in ponderosa pine forests in central Arizona.

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Complicating this picture, is that for the first time in modern history, the Fed is concurrently removing accommodation in two ways, by increasing the price of money (Fed funds rate) and reducing the supply of money (balance sheet runoff).

Down the tube with the sewage funds went other provisions of the bill: funding to combat runoff pollution from farms, streets and mines; tighter restrictons on industrial toxics that are transported through sewer lines; increased penalties for polluters.

Some proposed measures to increase voter participation include nonpartisan elections and instant runoff voting as well as stronger voter education.

Their lead increased from five to eight points when people were asked how they would vote in a runoff between Mr Cameron and the chancellor - enough to make them the largest party.

Garcia reached the runoff mostly because of an anti-Emanuel vote, fueled by irritations ranging from an increase in the number of tickets being generated by Chicago's red light cameras * to the tumult in the school system to Emanuel's abrasive personality.

It's extremely rare that turnout increases in a runoff election.

- Drinking water and wastewater infrastructure upgraded - Advanced treatment installed for both drinking water and wastewater, and advanced filtration systems installed for drinking water - Green infrastructure and open spaces built for source water protection - «[E] nsuring proper management and storage of common contaminants like manure and road salt to prevent runoff; and increasing the state Superfund to expedite the cleanup of hazardous waste that may impact sources of drinking water.»

Republicans increased their Senate majority to 52 seats in the 115th Congress and also retained two House seats after Saturday's Louisiana runoffs, the final elections of 2016.

«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.»

Regional climate change models predict an increased freshwater runoff into the Baltic Sea.

No - till systems simultaneously reduce the erosive force of runoff and increase the ability of the ground to hold onto soil, making these methods remarkably effective at curbing erosion.

During and since the 1980s, average Upper Colorado River Basin temperatures during the runoff season have been increasing.

Additionally, as the state's snowpack melts earlier because of warming, Cayan said, there is more runoff from higher elevation, which increases flooding.

But in a new paper in the journal Nature Communications, researchers investigating nutrients in runoff from agricultural land warn that phosphorus losses will increase, due to climate change, unless this is mitigated by making major changes to agricultural practices.

«Thus, annual glacier runoff volume typically increases until a maximum is reached, often referred to as «peak water.»»

The cores showed an increase in abundance of grass in the same sediments that showed a decrease in surface runoff.

A recent study of harmful algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science show a marked increase in these ecosystem - disrupting events in the past 20 years that are being fed by excess nitrogen runoff from the watershed.

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

Warmer water coupled with the increased nutrients from permafrost and soil runoff could bolster aquatic life.

Urbanization increases surface runoff, by creating more impervious surfaces such as pavement and buildings do not allow percolation of the water down through the soil to the aquifer.

Warming temperatures can thaw permafrost, liberating more material into the ocean, and increasing river and groundwater runoff can carry more radium, nutrients, carbon, and other material into the Arctic.

This often involves growing expanses of impermeable concrete that pave over critical environments such as wetlands and prairie lands that absorb floodwaters, thereby increasing downstream runoff.

Turf managers are under increasing pressure to limit irrigation, pesticide and fertilizer runoff, and mower emissions.

«Increased freshwater runoff from the land due to an intensified hydrologic cycle and a humid Arctic would have turned it more brackish pretty quickly,» she said.