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2016
Water is the foundation of all ecosystems, whether terrestrial or aquatic. In terrestrial ecosystems freshwater not only provides critical water supply for transpiration during plant photosynthesis and drinking water for animals, but also transports, redistributes and stores energy, nutrients and contaminants.
Pomeroy, John W. +3 more
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Water is the foundation of all ecosystems, whether terrestrial or aquatic. In terrestrial ecosystems freshwater not only provides critical water supply for transpiration during plant photosynthesis and drinking water for animals, but also transports, redistributes and stores energy, nutrients and contaminants.
Pomeroy, John W. +3 more
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2016
The components of the water balance (infiltration, deep percolation, evaporation from the soil surface, etc.) determine the amount of water available to the crop. Water flow in the soil occurs following the gradient of water potential and can be analyzed by the Richards equation, but there are simpler alternative methodologies to quantify the water ...
Francisco J. Villalobos +3 more
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The components of the water balance (infiltration, deep percolation, evaporation from the soil surface, etc.) determine the amount of water available to the crop. Water flow in the soil occurs following the gradient of water potential and can be analyzed by the Richards equation, but there are simpler alternative methodologies to quantify the water ...
Francisco J. Villalobos +3 more
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Water Resources and Water Budgeting
2011This chapter presents a catchment-wise water resource analysis of the Yamuna River basin. Both surface and ground water resources are included. Over-exploitation of ground water resources is causing persistent lowering of the water table in the basin. This major issue is discussed using the indicator of the stage of ground water development.
Raveendra Kumar Rai +3 more
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2012
Performing a water budget on a stormwater treatment practice is often necessary when assessing a practice. A water budget measures or estimates all the flow rates entering and exiting the practice as a function of time and/or the total water volumes entering and exiting the practice through various pathways. If all pathways are measured accurately, the
Andrew J. Erickson +2 more
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Performing a water budget on a stormwater treatment practice is often necessary when assessing a practice. A water budget measures or estimates all the flow rates entering and exiting the practice as a function of time and/or the total water volumes entering and exiting the practice through various pathways. If all pathways are measured accurately, the
Andrew J. Erickson +2 more
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Phosphorus and Water Budgets in an Agricultural Basin
Environmental Science & Technology, 2014Water and phosphorus (P) budgets of a large agricultural basin located in South Florida (Everglades Agricultural Area, EAA) were computed from 2005 to 2012. The annual surface outflow P loading from the EAA averaged 157.2 mtons originating from Lake Okeechobee (16.4 mtons, 10.4%), farms (131.0 mtons, 83.4%), and surrounding basins (9.8 mtons, 6.2 ...
Sayena, Faridmarandi, Ghinwa M, Naja
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2009
In this chapter our goal is to highlight some of the many ways that urbanization affects the water budget and water cycle. A water budget describes the stores or volumes of water in the surface, subsurface and atmospheric compartments of the environment over a chosen increment of time.
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In this chapter our goal is to highlight some of the many ways that urbanization affects the water budget and water cycle. A water budget describes the stores or volumes of water in the surface, subsurface and atmospheric compartments of the environment over a chosen increment of time.
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Water Budget and Dissolved Load
1991The mean effective precipitation in the 50-year period between 1921 and 1970 is 698 mm/a, the mean evaporation rate 48.6%. This results in an average annual runoff of 1278x 106 m3. The mean mineralization of the river waters is 322.6 ppm after the summer period and 221.4 ppm in late winter, 250 ppm being a reliable mean.
Hillert Ibbeken, Ruprecht Schleyer
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1985
Net radiation at the upper boundary of the planet Earth amounts to a heat gain in the tropics and a loss in higher latitudes. Redistribution of energy over the continents takes place exclusively in the atmosphere, whereas in the realm of the vast tropical oceans both atmosphere and hydrosphere cooperate in the heat export to other parts of the globe ...
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Net radiation at the upper boundary of the planet Earth amounts to a heat gain in the tropics and a loss in higher latitudes. Redistribution of energy over the continents takes place exclusively in the atmosphere, whereas in the realm of the vast tropical oceans both atmosphere and hydrosphere cooperate in the heat export to other parts of the globe ...
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Water chemistry and nutrient budgets
1982The study of the chemical limnology of Lake McIlwaine spans some twenty years, and although the chemical records are not continuous throughout this period it is nevertheless reasonable to say that the chemical limnology of the lake is well known. The first studies were conducted in the early 1960s as the lake entered a mesotrophic phase and subsequent ...
J. A. Thornton, W. K. Nduku
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