streamflow

The term streamflow describes the process of water flowing in the organized channels of a stream or river.

Surface runoff of water 2006

The Colorado River basin still faces a seriously difficult future as long as population continues to grow, and as climatic changes become more evident, altering streamflow volumes, timing, and quality.

Peter H. Gleick: What Do You Know? Water Conservation and Efficiency Actually Work Peter H. Gleick 2011

The United States Geological Survey river gage at Fargo — which has continuous flow data since 1902 — recorded new records in both streamflow (28,900 cubic feet per second) and height (40 3/4 feet) at 4: 15 PM EST.

Wonk Room » Global Boiling: Unprecedented Flooding Of Red River Leaves Fargo ‘On The Brink Of Disaster’ 2009

Fronds of vegetation protrude into the waterway, and small vortices spin off their tips, passing a short distance diagonally down the streamflow.

Archive 2009-04-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

This is the eighth “ten-year flood” of Fargo since 1989, with streamflow greater than 10,300 cfs.

Wonk Room » Global Boiling: Unprecedented Flooding Of Red River Leaves Fargo ‘On The Brink Of Disaster’ 2009

Research on the effects of climate change on the watershed pointed to “reductions in snowpack, an earlier peak in spring snowmelt, higher rates of evapotranspiration, reduced late spring and summer flows, and reductions in annual runoff and streamflow,” the National Research Council reported in 2007.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Powell must have known, or at least strongly suspected, that the streamflow estimates he placed before the compact delegates were vastly overstated.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Research on the effects of climate change on the watershed pointed to “reductions in snowpack, an earlier peak in spring snowmelt, higher rates of evapotranspiration, reduced late spring and summer flows, and reductions in annual runoff and streamflow,” the National Research Council reported in 2007.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Her dissertation research, with funding support from NASA, NSF and Phi Beta Kappa, examined the impacts of fire and vegetation recovery on streamflow dynamics in California shrublands using a combination of remote sensing and distributed hydrological modeling.

Contributor: Christine E. McMichael 2010

Height of the Caddo River during the flash flood event on June 11, as shown on a USGS streamflow gauge.

String of floods raise climate change questions 2010