(1) Runner up: University of Reading The Water Cycle project, which ran from 2012 to December 2014, was a special project run by Professor Hannah Cloke, a University of Reading hydrologist, with European weather agency the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
(2) Path of the spill "The mud will react with organic substances in the Danube and will lose its force and turn unharmful," said Professor Huub Savenije, a hydrologist from Delft University in the Netherlands.
(3) An article in the journal Science , by a team of 12 ecologists, hydrologists, and engineers, provides the most comprehensive analysis so far of the damage done by the controversial mining practice.
(4) We all knew that Jakarta was sinking back in the 90s and indeed earlier, but nobody was that worried or really had any idea of the extent,” says JanJaap Brinkman, a hydrologist with the Dutch research institute Deltares, who has spent most of his adult life working on Jakarta’s watery woes.
(5) Terry Marsh, senior hydrologist at the CEH, said: "Late May soils were the driest on record across large parts of eastern and central England, causing substantial agricultural stress [and] impacting on crop yields.
(6) They don't have enough irrigation water," said Robert Criss , a hydrologist at Washington University in St Louis, who has spent his career studying the Mississippi.
(7) They will be measured again in January, but air temperatures in all the high tropics have risen several degrees in a few generations and, says the British hydrologist Richard Taylor of University College London , it's likely that the equatorial ice known to the ancient Greeks will almost certainly have disappeared in 20-30 years.
(8) What we are currently seeing is the Thames exercising its natural sovereignty over its floodplain,” said Terry Marsh, a hydrologist at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology at Wallingford.
(9) "All the ingredients for us getting to an all-time record low are certainly in place," said Mark Fuchs, a hydrologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in St Louis.
(10) Add skyrocketing water use by industry, energy and municipalities to this inefficient system and hydrologists warn that China’s future is in danger of drying up .
(11) What makes it worse, say hydrologists, is that late April and May is the height of the growing season and trees and plants are taking up much of the moisture, so less is getting underground.
(12) A more significant factor, according to hydrologist Paulo Carneiro of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, is the reliability of water supply.
(13) Once Memphis is out of danger, the authorities will be braced for potential floods in the towns of Natchez and Vicksburg, Mississippi, where the river is expected to reach its peak on 19 May and in New Orleans on 23 May Tracey Howieson, a hydrologist in the southern division of the National Weather Service, said the record levels of the Mississippi could force a back-up of tributaries along its route, flooding rural areas.
(14) A huge storm can cause so much infrastructure damage,” said Robert Stallard, a hydrologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City who studies how climate change and land use affect the canal watershed .
(15) We have a wet and volatile climate, 11,073 miles of coastline and little geographical room to manoeuvre on our small island,” said Professor Paul Bates, a hydrologist the University of Bristol.
(16) The identification of organic substances present in mineral water has engaged the interest of hydrologists since the last century.
(17) At the University of California , Irvine, hydrologist James Famiglietti looked over the data from the gravity-sensing Grace satellites with a rising sense of dread.
(18) Developed with hydrologists from Arizona State University, GIST helps companies identify current and future water stresses, such as scarcity, overabundance or pollution within the watersheds in which they operate and then determine the financial, environmental and social costs of their investments in the watershed, according to Dan Hammer, the company’s chief data scientist.
(19) He spent his early years exploring the wilds of Alaska after his father landed a government job as a hydrologist there.
(20) Hydrologists use a complex formula of weather forecasting, stream flows and ground saturation measures to provide early warnings to locations in the path of high water, the Statesman reported.
Hydrology
Definition:
(n.) The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and distribution over the earth's surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is important to remember that the behavior of contaminants in the subsurface is influenced by chemical and hydrologic parameters as well as biotic considerations, and that a wholistic understanding of these processes will be required for successful ground-water quality management.
(2) The equilibrium troubles occuring in connection with cervical locomotoric diseases and their otorhino-laryngologic relations have been studied in the ORL Department of National Institute of Rheumatism and Medical Hydrology.
(3) "If it carries on like this for another few months things may improve [from a hydrological point of view].
(4) The hydrological origin of epidemy was not probable.
(5) Once the landslides have stopped, our technical team in the area will assess the situation, and once we get their report we can try and get the water flowing again,” Rishiram Sharma, head of the department of hydrology and meteorology, said.
(6) In May, the public sector research body, the Centre for Hydrology and Ecology , reported soils were some of the driest seen in England and Wales for at least 50 years.
(7) However we have to consider that during this second research year the hydrological conditions of the river Po have been very similar to the average ones of the last 30-40 years.
(8) The magnitude of that stress, and its spatial extent, will be heavily influenced by rainfall over the next eight to ten weeks," said Terry Marsh, at the centre for Hydrology and Ecology.
(9) This model was validated by comparisons made with density estimates from the literature on the temporal and spatial distribution of various life stages and by correspondence with light trap data gathered during the same time and location as the hydrologic data.
(10) A fortiori, this method may be applied in hydrology to the determination of these metals in water.
(11) What we are currently seeing is the Thames exercising its natural sovereignty over its floodplain,” said Terry Marsh, a hydrologist at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology at Wallingford.
(12) The contested IPCC statement reads: "Up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation (Rowell and Moore, 2000)."
(13) Hydrologic characteristic of Dnepropetrovsk, which is situated in drought steppe zone, is presented.
(14) The relevance of these findings to the hydrological factors which favour red-tide outbreaks is discussed.
(15) Uranium is probably unique in its potential for this approach, which seems to have general usefulness in hydrologic investigations.
(16) In the place of last year's depiction of the hydrological cycle and 2012's flowers , this year's doodle is half a dozen animated illustrations of species, from the photographer's favourite, the Japanese macaque ( Macaca fuscata) , to the Rufous hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ), a small bird found mostly on the west coast of the US.
(17) England and Wales had their driest March in more than 50 years, with some parts of Cambridgeshire having less than 2mm – less than is normally recorded in the Sahara desert at this time of year – according to figures released by the government's centre for hydrology and ecology (CEH).
(18) But this year's particularly early spring – the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology reported that some spring species recorded their earliest appearance since records began in the late 1700s – and a poor summer and drought in parts of the country are all thought to have played a part.
(19) Hydrologic factors, such as frequency, duration, and intensity of rainfall, are very critical in determining the characteristics of runoff events that provide the transportation to move introduced organisms from their application site.
(20) The first model (WaterMod) predicts soil hydrology conditions as a function of weather, agricultural practices, and soil characteristics for a variety of habitats found within the rice agroecosystem which are utilized by Ps.