Sentences with phrase «river basin»

In 1993, the Missouri River flooded, in what local residents came to call the «Great Flood,» one of the most destructive in the history of the Mississippi River basin.

Milly, P. C. D. & Dunne, K. A. Trends in evaporation and surface cooling in the Mississippi River basin.

For at least one other region, roughly the Congo River basin, there appears to be some striking differences.

He has conducted scientific projects in the Amazon River basin for nearly 20 years, most recently as a researcher and member of the Science Steering Committee for the Large Scale Atmosphere and Biosphere Experiment.

In Thailand, estimates are that the drought will cut the country's economic growth by 0.6 to 0.8 percent this year and the four largest dams in the Chao Phraya River basin hold only 14 percent of their capacity.

The Yellow River basin only marginally depends on glacial melt; thus there is a notable 9.5 per cent increase in upstream water yield in the basin with an estimate of an increase of 3.0 ± 0.6 million people that can be fed in the Yellow River basin.

A wide variety of modeling efforts have yielded results that suggest, for each 1 °C increase in temperature, runoff will decrease from 2 — 8 % in the Colorado River basin (67).

Decision making under uncertainty: Shortage, stakeholders and modeling in the Colorado River basin

Aiken GR, Spencer RGM, Striegl RG, Schuster PF, Raymond PA (2014) Influences of glacier melt and permafrost thaw on the age of dissolved organic carbon in the Yukon River basin.

«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.

The Colorado River basin is not the only area impacted by this scenario — the Rio Grande basin is in a similar situation, said David Gutzler, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of New Mexico.

Since the turn of the 21st century, the Colorado River basin has been experiencing drought conditions.

The Guardian: In Banke district along the West Rapti river basin in Nepal, farmers have noticed that floods are coming more often, and with greater intensity.

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

The estimate for that is 5 kya which corresponds well with a paper by Amos Frumkin where Dead Sea rainfall reached a maximum about 3000 BCE and then «was followed by gradual drying during the 3rd millennium BCE culminating with extreme climatic crisis» (Frumkin 2009) and a drop of the dead sea in the middle bronze age of > 45m which he says is can be compared with the last century's drop (although anthropogenic due to water diversions in the Jordon River basin) of Dead Sea level.

Decreased flows are projected in the summer months in both basins, with up to a 55 percent decrease in August in the more southern Kootenay river basin due to higher evaporation rates.»

The scientists focused their study on four large glaciers in Nepal's Dudh Kosi river basin, which holds 400 square kilometres of glacial ice.

Modelling spatial and temporal variability of hydrologic impacts of climate change in the Fraser River basin, British Columbia, Canada.

Outputs from seven downscaling methods — bias correction constructed analogues (BCCA), double BCCA (DBCCA), BCCA with quantile mapping reordering (BCCAQ), bias correction spatial disaggregation (BCSD), BCSD using minimum / maximum temperature (BCSDX), the climate imprint delta method (CI), and bias corrected CI (BCCI)-- are used to drive the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model over the snow - dominated Peace River basin, British Columbia.

Several studies focused on the Colorado River basin showed that annual runoff reductions in a warmer western U.S. climate occur through a combination of evapotranspiration increases and precipitation decreases, with the overall reduction in river flow exacerbated by human demands on the water supply.

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.

The results obtained from the five Coupled Global Climate Model, version 3, (CGCM3)- driven CRCM runs are similar, suggesting that the multidecadal internal variability is not a large source of uncertainty for the Peace River basin.

This study analyzed potential hydroclimatic change in the Peace River basin in the province of British Columbia, Canada, based on two structurally different approaches: (i) statistically downscaled global climate models (GCMs) using the bias - corrected spatial disaggregation (BCSD) and (ii) dynamically downscaled GCM with the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM).

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.

NSIDC scientist Tingjun Zhang and colleagues drill boreholes over the upper reaches of Heihe River basin, Qilian Mountains in western China.

This may be compared to (often much larger) changes at the river basin scale (Figures 3.3, 3.4, and 3.7), and global values of runoff change.

See how global warming is undermining the stability of the MacKenzie River basin in Canada — and find other hot spots threatened by higher ground temperature on the Climate Hot Map.

That paper, in particular, showed that the coal reserves in the Powder River basin in the West and the oil in Canada's tar sands had to be left largely untouched, and that there was no climate - friendly scenario in which any oil or gas could be drilled in the Arctic.

Using an ensemble of four high resolution (~ 25 km) regional climate models, this study analyses the future (2021 - 2050) spatial distribution of seasonal temperature and precipitation extremes in the Ganges river basin based on the SRES A1B emissions scenario.

The simulations underestimate the observed snowpack trends in the Columbia River basin, which has the highest mean elevation.

Recent studies at the scale of both the Colorado River basin and the state of Arizona concluded that water supplies for many communities will be inadequate to meet future projected demands [16], [17].

Global Footprint Network collaborated with the Philippine government and the Agence Française de Developpement (AFD) to undertake a study of the Northern Mindanao / Bukidnon river basin region to understand the benefits of integrating Ecological Footprint and biocapacity frameworks into climate resilient...

One region where scientists have consistently failed to accurately predict monsoon behavior in the 21st century is over the sprawling, 860,000 - square - kilometer Ganga river basin in central India.

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.

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.

Livelihoods in Lao PDR are diverse owing to a complex topography and the flows of the Mekong River basin.

Glacier change and glacier runoff variation in the Tuotuo River basin, the source region of Yangtze River in western China.

This represents the potential export terminal for Crow and other Powder River basin resources.

Shrestha, R. R., M. A. Schnorbus, A. T. Werner, and A. J. Berland, 2012: Modelling spatial and temporal variability of hydrologic impacts of climate change in the Fraser River basin, British Columbia, Canada.

Quantifying the contribution of climate - and human - induced runoff decrease in the Luanhe river basin, China

A 3 - day long media workshop, organized by global environment forum Third Pole in Kathmandu, Nepal from 13 - 16 October brought together, for the first time, journalists from China, India and Bangladesh to deliberate upon the effects of climate change in Brahmaputra / Yurlung Zangbo river basin

«Rainfall tends to decrease by 2100 across all of Brazil, including the three basins, with intense reductions in the Amazon region (− 1 mm / day, varying between − 0.7 and − 1.2 mm / day) and the São Francisco River basin (− 1 mm / day, varying between − 0.5 and − 1.5 mm / day).

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.

And public officials secured authorization in 1986 for the Corps of Engineers to build a diversion canal to redirect excess water from the upper Comite River basin to the Mississippi.

My first sustained immersion in an environment dominated by insects and their sounds came in 1989, when I spent several months roaming the westernmost corner of Brazil's portion of the Amazon River basin researching «The Burning Season,» my book on the life, assassincation and legacy of the rain forest defender Chico Mendes.

We reported just this year that this area is the # 1 most threatened river basin, so why would a water bottling company come here of all places?

The Colorado River basin could probably meet most of the water needs of the area if we weren't in a drought situation.

The states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia, along with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, have been at odds over the Apalachicola - Chattahoochee - Flint river basin for 17 years...

(I have got more insights about sustainability of Australian society from Jacques Leslie's «Deep Water», though its scope is limited to water - related issues of the Murray - Darling river basin.

Thursday night I filed a story about a newly realized long - distance connection — between logging deep in the Congo River basin and the nesting grounds of one of the rarest reptilian denizens of the sea, the leatherback turtle.