Sentences with phrase «less runoff»

With less runoff in their portfolios, balance sheet lenders are viewing this as a prime opportunity to make gains in their commercial mortgage holdings.

This lower - intensity rainfall implies less runoff over the surface, which means we should see a decline in runoff over a whole basin.

One reason: These farms often work to build soil that retains more water and that produces less runoff.

The results confirmed that less runoff on agricultural lands led to higher concentrations of soil organic carbon.

In the long run glacial retreat causes less runoff to be available which in turn reduces overall water supply.

Drs Singer and Michaelides employ STORM to show that the historical rainfall trends likely resulted in less runoff from this dryland basin, an effect they expect to have occurred at many similar basins in the region.

«In this part of the basin, people had long suspected that there was less runoff coming into these streams from ephemeral tributaries — ephemeral meaning they're flowing sometimes but are dry most of the time.»

However, a large majority of streams in glaciated basins in BC showed a statistically significant decrease in August streamflow during 1976 to 1996, which suggests that these glaciers even with increased melt rates are providing less runoff (Stahl and Moore, 2006).

Trees also increase sublimation of snow from branches, reducing effective precipitation, i.e. less runoff and groundwater.

This means more runoff in spring, when hydroelectric dams are already less able to respond to the duck curve; and less runoff in summer, when energy demand is highest.

3rd Street Green Corridor: New Trees, Less Runoff ($ 170,000): 10 trees with enhanced pits will improve storm drainage, and add shade and beauty in Gowanus from Bond Street.

A high risk of forest loss is shown for Central America and Amazonia, more frequent wildfire in Amazonia, more runoff in north - western South America, and less runoff in Central America.