drainage basin - the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet; "flood control in the Missouri basin" catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, watershed, basin detention basin - a ...
The exact number of sub-basins within the Baltic Sea catchment area is a matter of definition, but Hannerz and Destouni (2006) have delineated 634 river basins of more than 6 km2in area (Fig.5.2). The ten largest river basins draining into the Baltic Sea and some of their characteristics...
1 In this chapter, the terms inflow, runoff and discharge are used as follows. Runoff describes general, long-term and/or regional processes and is typically given as litres per second per square kilometre (l s−1 km−2) (allowing comparisons between rivers of different sizes) or ...
hydroclimatological conditions and flooding. After Hirschboeck (1988) Flood hydroclimatology. In: Baker VR, Kochel RC, and Patton PC (eds.)Flood Geomorphology, pp. 27–49, London: Wiley; and O'Connoret al. (2002) The geology and geography of floods.Water Science and Application5: 359–...
The definition of the five stages of planning yields a conceptual model of the planning process which is shown inFig. 9.2. Here, the stages are a part of a sequential decision process, in which the tasks to be executed in each stage are represented by boxes and the connecting lines denote...
The increased use of hydropower is currently driving the greatest surge in global dam construction since the mid-20th century, meaning that most major rivers on Earth are now dammed. Dams impede the flow of essential nutrients, including carbon, phosphor
(Human Geography) (intr;often foll byuponorwith) to share a common border (with) [C13: from Old Frenchmarche,from Germanic; related to mark1] March (mɑːtʃ) n the third month of the year, consisting of 31 days [from Old French, from LatinMartius(month) of Mars] ...
lake area, and shoreline definition in the HydroLAKES database in defining the lake inventory, and particularly kept eight super-large lake-type reservoirs (TableS2) as reservoirs rather than lakes, considering that changes around these lake-type reservoirs represent changes from rivers to reservoirs...
Geography The Tiber River originates in the Apennine Mountains, in northwest Italy. It winds south across the middle of the peninsula, through Rome, and continues further south where it joins the Aniene River before emptying into the Tyrrhenian Sea on Italy's west coast. The river's source ...
For the consistency plot, grid cells where baseline average annual runoff is less than 10 mm/year are shaded grey Full size image The pattern of change in the return period of the current 100-year flood is similar to the change in the magnitude of the 100-year flood (Supplementary Figure...