hydrologic cycle in a sentence
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- Hydrology & ndash; study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets, including the hydrologic cycle, water resources and environmental watershed sustainability.
- As such, it also represents the biggest unknown in gauging the effect of global warming and its impact on the hydrologic cycle, said Aqua project scientist Claire Parkinson.
- Runoff through Peace Vallis that made the fan is estimated to be between 600 and 6000 m; therefore a hydrologic cycle probably lasted at least thousands of years.
- SHETRAN is a physically based, distributed model ( PBDM ) that can simulate the entire land phase of the hydrologic cycle including surface water flow and groundwater flow.
- This is because many fail to see that forests, rivers and groundwater are linked in the hydrologic cycle, says World Wide Fund for Nature conservation director Dr Isabelle Louis.
- Plant water can be used to characterize other plant physiological processes that affect the hydrologic cycle; for example, leaf waters are widely used for modeling transpiration and water-use efficiency.
- "' Hydrology "'is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets, including the hydrologic cycle, water resources and environmental watershed sustainability.
- The two resources are by no means disjoint, as knowing where surface water recharges groundwater and where groundwater flows supply surface water is an important aspect of the hydrologic cycle.
- Trees and shrubs along the swale can provide shade which decreases water evaporation, however they increase transpiration, so their net effect on the hydrologic cycle is probably to reduce infiltration.
- Some of the mines he was associated with were experiencing flooding that could not be explained by the hydrologic cycle because of the high elevations in which the flooding occurred.