Sentences with phrase «river drainage basins»
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.
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The Columbia Basin is the drainage basin of the Columbia River and covers about 260,000 square miles of the Pacific Northwest.
Fully differentiated lesson following the AQA Geography GCSE specification on drainage basins and a rivers long profile.
1 - Introduction 2 - Hydrological cycle 3 - Drainage basin 4 - Long profile of river 5 - Upper, middle and lower course 6 - V shaped valleys 7 - Waterfalls 8 - Meanders and ox bow lakes 9 - Mid test 10 - Flooding 11 - Boscastle mystery 12 - Boscastle ICT 13 - Flooding in Bangladesh 14 - Rivers GIS 15 - Revision
Permafrost thawing and precipitation in drainage basins of Arctic rivers are projected to intensify with escalating atmospheric temperatures and thereby enhance the mobilization of soil organic matter to the Arctic Ocean32, 33, 34, 35, 36.
I was appointed Chair of the Assiniboine River Management Advisory Board charged with developing a management strategy for an entire drainage basin.
It is located on Sachigo Lake, which is part of the Sachigo River system and Hudson Bay drainage basin, approximately 425 kilometres (264 mi) north of the town of Sioux Lookout.
Build an ice cap on that; you get water and silt being extruded out of the basins, even flowing «uphill» under that pressure; look at the radar maps, the ice may have pushed a lot of silt out to its edges over time, you can see the pattern of river drainage channels in the radar imagery.
In addition, peak flows are reduced by reservoirs, sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS, e.g., Pasche et al. 2008), retarding basins, infiltration basins, and through targeted land management plans such as afforestation and river renaturation (Reinhardt et al. 2011).
Complex patterns of locally generated runoff are transformed into horizontal transport as rivers through the drainage basin.
Melting snow is an important source of this water as well as all amounts of surface water that move to streams or rivers through any given area of a drainage basin.