Zusammenfassung der Ressource
River Discharge
- Definition
- The volume of water passing a given point in river at any moment in time
- Influences
- weather
- Amount of rain fall
- High river levels
- Low river levels
- Hydrological Cycle
- High amounts of rain
- Rain saturates the soil and underlying rock
- Drizzle
- There is time for water to infiltrate the soil and underlying rock
- Freeing up space for more rain
- rainfall, temp, conditions
- Physical Factors
- Human Land Use
- Tempreature
- Loss of water from the drainage basin and level of discharge
- Higher
- loss of water via evaporation and transpiration
- Water levels go down
- Previous weather conditions
- Dry
- longer for water to reach river
- amount will be less than if there had been a number of wet days
- Rock Types
- How much water infiltrates and stays on the surface
- Land Use
- Effect of people
- Deforestation
- Trees removed
- water reaches surface faster
- Trees do not extract water from the gorund
- Urbanisation
- Expanding towns create an iimpermeable surface
- Worse
- building drains to take water away from buildings quickly
- Rainfall in Sheffield
- Between 13 June until flooding on 26 June
- 14 June rainfall was 88.2
- Shows it rained most of the day
- Number is very high and its building up from the first day with 30.3mm of rainfall
- Flood may accur
- Some days were high rain fall however others were not.
- Flood could come after days of rain weather its high rain or low.
- The ground can also depend on the flood
- Relief affects rate in which water runs off the land surface and into the rivers
- Slopes
- Fast run off
- Water spills faster due to gravity
- Gravity
- Gentle
- Time for infiltration