Sentences with phrase «total water discharged»
Flows in the major western boundary currents are 50 to 100 times the total water discharged by all the world's rivers.
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The researchers multiplied these concentrations by the rivers» water discharge to calculate the total weight of plastic flowing into the sea.
However, with improving techniques, researchers recently estimated total submarine groundwater (saline and fresh water combined) discharges suggesting a rate 3 to 4 times greater than the observed global river runoff, or a volume equivalent to 331 mm / year (13 inches) of sea level rise.
Glaciers supply about half of the total freshwater input to the Gulf of Alaska.68 Glacier retreat currently increases river discharge and hydropower potential in south central and southeast Alaska, but over the longer term might reduce water input to reservoirs and therefore hydropower resources.67