What's the difference between fluvial and pluvial?
Fluvial
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fluvial On floodplains when a river breaks its banks due to rainfall, snow or ice melt exceeding the capacity of the water course.
(2) Relatively little attention has been given to the long term prospect of fluvial transport processes redistributing Chernobyl-derived radiocaesium within the UK.
(3) The importance of fluvial redistribution as a secondary contamination mechanism is thus highlighted.
(4) The fragment was embedded in a pebbly quartzose sandstone, probably of fluvial origin, in the lower part of the Triassic Fremouw Formation (as yet undefined), which contains Dicroidium in the upper part.
(5) Acanthobdella peledina was first found in the basin of Lake Baikal on the fluvial form of the Balkal grayling Thymallus arcticus baicalensis and Coregonus lavaretus pidschian from the Upper Angara.
(6) Regional investigation of the impact of farming on shallow aquifers in the fluvial deposits of the Elbe River in Bohemia has proved the hydrochemical instability and vertical hydrochemical heterogeneity of these aquifers.
(7) • Fluvial flooding from rivers bursting their banks or overflowing • Groundwater flooding happens when the earth is saturated and can hold no more water • Flash flooding is usually at its worst when drainage systems in urban areas are overwhelmed by sudden heavy rainfall, often worsened by the concreting over of large areas of soil and gardens that would otherwise have helped to absorb the water As the government’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology notes , “the full gamut of flood manifestations – tidal, pluvial (flash), fluvial and groundwater – has been experienced over the last eight weeks.” Who’s at risk of flooding?
(8) During its fluvial life, the ovarian follicular epithelium of Lampetra fluviatilis undergoes polarity formation--in the animal hemisphere the follicular epithelium is flattened, in the vegetative--it undergoes a secretory specialization: as the secrete is accumulating, the follicular cells increase in volume and height, acquiring a cubical form.
Pluvial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to rain; rainy.
(a.) Produced by the action of rain.
(n.) A priest's cope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ironically, when the witness unit's call came out of the blue in August 2011, saying that "the defence" had requested an interview, I was driving through pluvial mist up a mountain track in Bosnia to attend the consecration of a small monument to mark a remote mass grave: a crevice into which the bodies of 124 men had been dropped and concealed – a secret well kept by the Serbs for years.
(2) • Fluvial flooding from rivers bursting their banks or overflowing • Groundwater flooding happens when the earth is saturated and can hold no more water • Flash flooding is usually at its worst when drainage systems in urban areas are overwhelmed by sudden heavy rainfall, often worsened by the concreting over of large areas of soil and gardens that would otherwise have helped to absorb the water As the government’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology notes , “the full gamut of flood manifestations – tidal, pluvial (flash), fluvial and groundwater – has been experienced over the last eight weeks.” Who’s at risk of flooding?
(3) A chill, pluvial wind off the Atlantic whips the streets around Rathmore shopping centre on the slopes of the Creggan estate in "Derry-Londonderry" – as the parlance now calls the city on the Foyle river, just over the border between the Irish Republic and the six counties of the north.