Pan-Arctic distributions of continental runoff in the Arctic Ocean. Sci. Rep. 3 (1053).Fichot CG, Kaiser K, Hooker SB, Amon RMW, Babin M, Be´langer S, Walker SA, Benner R (2013) Pan-Arctic distributions of continental runoff in the Arctic Ocean. Sci Rep 3:1053. doi:10-1038-...
Diagram of the role of runoff in the water cycle process. Approximately one-third of the precipitation that falls onto land reaches a river and eventually the ocean via runoff. The remaining two-thirds of precipitation are split in three ways: absorbed by soil and stored as groundwater, evapor...
Additionally, when ARs occur close together in time, the runoff from the second AR is often much higher because the land has not had enough time to release the water brought by the first one. This “back-to-back” effect is expected to become more common as the climate warms, ...
Here, a new optical proxy was developed and implemented with remote sensing to determine the first pan-Arctic distribution of terrigenous dissolved organic matter (tDOM) and continental runoff in the surface Arctic Ocean. Retrospective analyses revealed connections between the routing of North American ...
Urban runoff is any water that flows into storm drains when there are no storms. In Southern California, our weather is dry an average of 347 days per year. However, polluted urban runoff flows to the ocean year-round due largely to inefficient watering of landscaping, hosing down of sidewal...
On Friday, workers placed concrete barriers used to control highway traffic along the Pacific Coast Highway and in Palisades neighborhoods above the coastline to prevent landslides, like those that killed 21 and caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage after a fire seven years ago in Sant...
To prevent polluted parking-lot rain runoff(径流) from polluting soil and underground water, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched decade-long test of permeable (可渗透的) materials to find one that can filter out (过滤掉) pollutants in rainwater before it flows to its fina...
Runoff in the Water Cycle | Definition & Examples from Chapter 10 / Lesson 7 184K What is runoff? In this lesson, learn the definition of runoff and its role in the water cycle. Read several examples of how runoff can occur. Related...
Groundwater can play an important role in the compensation of runoff reduction due to extreme climate events such as droughts, as well as in response to anthropogenic actions such as the construction of a dam. 地下水能够在补偿极端气候事件 (如干旱) 或人类活动 (如水坝建造) 所导致的径流减少中...
What is runoff in the water cycle examples? River runoffoccurs when water falls so quickly that the river bank can no longer hold water. Thus, water spills over the river bank, flooding adjacent land. Eventually, water will infiltrate the soil, flow downstream to eventually reach the ocean, ...