catchment

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.