Sentences with phrase «stream flows»

OFG techniques reduce local impacts of runoff by allowing water to instead soak into the ground to recharge underground aquifers and restore local stream flows.

In mountain regions that are warming, as most are, a larger fraction of precipitation falls as rain rather than as snow, which means lower stream flows in spring and summer.

Dyer has Pakistan and India, increasingly under the pressure of food insecurity — due to more frequent failures of the monsoon combined with still - growing populations — confronted in the mid-2030s by drastically reduced summer stream flows in the Indus river system.

The researchers say that stagnation of some of the region's ice stream flows is the primary contributor to the ice buildup.

«The stream flows into a liquid - filled reservoir that contains calcium chloride,» Leng says, as a milky - white ribbon appears in a tank at the output end.

«Observations and climate projections indicate that California's climate is warming, with more winter rainfall instead of snow, earlier snow melt, and decreases in spring and summer stream flows.

This condition, known as «overdraft,» has a number of significant consequences, including loss of stream flows, increased costs and energy use as wells are drilled deeper, ecosystem degradation, and potential salinization of groundwater due to seawater intrusion.

In addition, rivers that were experiencing larger stream flows were usually in little - populated areas, such as the Arctic where melting ice is inundating river systems.

Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, examined stream flows from 925 of the world's largest rivers for over fifty years, 1948 to 2004.

Water cascading down a mountain stream flows in eddies and over rocks, forming natural vortexes.

But, not long from now due to the changing climate, what was a thermal shock could be a cool splash of relief, as dam managers increase efforts to mimic the timing and quantity of natural stream flows.

As the climate of the Pacific Northwest warms, more winter precipitation is falling as rain, compared with historical averages.2 With declining snowpack in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, peak stream flows are occurring earlier, and summer flows are declining.2 These changes are expected to continue as heat - trapping emissions grow, putting more stress on already endangered salmon that return to the Columbia and other rivers in the region to spawn.2

Decreasing summer stream flows will reduce hydroelectric generation capacity, which currently accounts for 70 percent of the region's electricity supply.

The lower maritime set showed decreasing snowpacks with earlier stream flows... the continental side showing increasing, later peaking snowpacks and later, higher streamflows.

Snow plots and stream flows broke into 2 categories, the divisor being 8500ft altitude on the western side of the Sierra Nevada crest.

Instead of gathering their migration cues from variables in their environment such as stream flows or water temperatures, the Dolly Varden appear to time their migration based on the presence and numbers of the salmon themselves, the study found.

The recent mortality of up to 20 % of forests and woodlands in the southwestern United States, along with declining stream flows and projected future water shortages, heightens the need to understand how management practices can enhance forest resilience and functioning under unprecedented scales of drought and wildfire.

Some global circulation models also project that mean winter precipitation in the Southwest will decline by up to 10 % [52], but it may take many years to detect effects on stream flows because of precipitation variability [55].

An examination of hydro - climatic trends in the Salt - Verde watersheds revealed that temperatures are non-stationary, increasing significantly in recent decades, but the same is not true for winter precipitation or resulting stream flows [55].

To derive increases in runoff directly associated with thinning using the paired watershed method, researchers in the Beaver Creek experiments first established a relationship between stream flows in the control and treated watersheds before treatments [30].

Certainly stream flows may well be decreasing in some areas where data exists — but this can well be consistent with global warming.

Whether the issue is tracking Arctic methane or American stream flows, there's a vital need for sustained, consistent observations, but — unfortunately — there's a two - edged bias against such investments, given the appeal of focusing on science's frontiers and the tendency to target monitoring programs — which are akin to bridge maintenance — when looking to cut budgets.

I added a slide to the end that shows an example of the impact of urbanization on stream flows in Austin from back then.

He offered these thoughts and studies, which, in the aggregate, point to no robust trend either in extreme downpours or extreme stream flows:

And note in addition that in addition to the warming, there are strong trends toward decreasing rainfall across the Antipodean continent, which are backed up by tragically decreased river and stream flows, severe water restrictions in most states (starting to ease in some places due to recent floods), and a significantly increased farmer suicide rate.

See my 2008 «ode to the value of monitoring» for a broader look at why seemingly boring observations of important parameters, from CO2 concentrations to stream flows, get too little respect, and funding.

now Perth faces reducing stream flows to almost nothing

The underground stream flows out of the cave and it's necessary to take a short swim into the cave (water depth is about 12 feet).

Room size boulders are strewn throughout the cave and a stream flows through forming pools with cascading falls.Canoeing on the Macal River

Room size boulders are strewn throughout the cave and a stream flows through, forming pools with cascading falls.

In summer, a seasonal stream flows past the front porch.

A rocky stream flows down the mountainside, curving around the house to join Snake River.

You pay more attention to the way a stream flows and what surrounds it.

Only if their income stream flows from a number of books can they expect to make a decent living.

In the lower engine speed range, one valve per cylinder remains closed, so that the full exhaust stream flows to the active turbocharger.

If the flap is closed, the whole exhaust stream flows through the HP turbine, meaning that the exhaust - gas energy is available solely for the HP turbine drive.

During May 2013, stream flows in the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers were above normal resulting in more nutrients flowing into the Gulf.

The conclusion: low stream flows might harm aquatic organisms by increasing their exposure to ultraviolet light.

Every percentage point that stream flows drop means a three percent decline in electricity generation.

In summer months the polar jet stream flows mostly across Canada.

Because the future composition of shrub lands and the distribution of shrub species in the Sierra Nevada is unknown, the researchers examined stream flows under multiple possible scenarios of vegetation - type conversion in two Sierra Nevada watersheds.

By midsummer, low stream flows and warm water had killed half the annual sockeye salmon breeding run in the Columbia River.

A flow event in Sept 2016 triggered access to Commonwealth allocations and a total 794 ML of Commonwealth environmental water contributed to in - stream flows, protecting and restoring ecosystem functions and aquatic habitats in the Warrego River system by supporting:

A flow event in January 2016 resulted in access to Commonwealth allocations and approximately 859 ML of Commonwealth environmental water contributed to in - stream flows.

Don't already have revenue streams flowing?

They are the most successful part of the UK church in the last generation, but are the New Church streams flowing to stagnant pools or refreshing rivers?

«There are two streams flowing from Calvary — salvation and healing; but you must come to the meeting place — Christ — believe in Him and confess Him as your Lord» (p. 52).

Just how the Christian stream is to relate to the other streams flowing into the global sea may become clearer when, in the next chapter, we acknowledge the phenomenon of relativity.

They have got to keep the revenue stream flowing, so they will adapt.

1 -11,26-32); or what is surely one of the Old Testament's most sensitive creations, the oracle against the shepherds in chapter 34; or in chapter 47, the moving description of the stream flowing from the Temple, increasing in breadth and volume and majesty as it flows, bringing life, healing, and fruitfulness all along its redemptive course.