catchment Definition
catch·ment (-mənt)
noun
- the catching or collecting of water, esp. rainfall
- a reservoir or other basin for catching water
- the water thus caught
catchment Usage Examples
Converse of object
- saturate: Widespread minor spates occurred on the 3rd and, with catchments saturated, rivers were very susceptible to further significant rainfall.
- drain: This is reflected in unprecedented June runoff totals for some southern rivers draining permeable catchments.
- gage: Catchment boundaries A database of digital catchment boundaries for all gaged catchments represented in the NRFA has been derived from OS 1:50,000 mapping.
Adjective modifier
- permeable: The river Itchen is an example of a permeable chalk catchment.
- impermeable: Whilst flows in neighboring impermeable catchments responded rapidly to the lack of rainfall, and were notable depressed by month end.
- lowland: Within the context of lowland permeable catchments, a single site would not be sufficient to address all issues satisfactorily.
- ungauged: Our research focuses on encapsulating this process knowledge into models that can be applied without calibration and hence can be applied within ungauged catchments.
- upland: More than 70 % of UK water supplies is sourced from upland catchments.
- forested: Ion mass budgets for small forested catchments in Finland.
Modifies a noun
- hydrology: The HOST classification makes use of the fact that the physical properties of soils have a major influence on catchment hydrology.
- area: Children living in the catchment area will be admitted ahead of them.
- runoff: Of broader water resources significance are the catchment runoff deficiencies since last October.
- population: Within 2 hours drive there is a catchment population of 25 million people.
- basin: This is the only exit from the catchment basin.
- rainfall: Many new local and catchment rainfall records were established, particularly for high intensity events.
Noun used with modifier
- rainwater: The analysis showed that rainwater catchment system technology is an economically feasible venture.
- moorland: Geostatistical prediction will then be used to map C stocks at a previously unachievable resolution for moorland catchments.
- river: The Cornwall Rivers Project is targeted at 15 river catchments, outlined in the list to the left.
- drainage: Major cave systems probably developed while the post-Variscan cover supported large drainage catchments and concentrated water into a few sinks.
- water: The lakes are fed by a series of six natural springs which feed into the local water catchments.
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