Elements of the Drainage Basin
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- Elements of the Drainage Basin
- Inputs
- precipitation - rainfall, hail, sleet or snow
- Stores
- interception by vegetation - when rain is caught on leaves of plants
- Transfers
- surface run off - movement of water across the surface ( fastest of impermeable surfaces )
- infiltration - downward movement of water through soil
- throughflow - sideways movement of water through the soil
- percolation - downward movement of water into underlying rocks if they are permeable
- groundwater flow - sideways movement of water through the rocks
- Outputs
- river discharge - volume of water passing a given point in a river in a given time
- evapotranspiration - the loss of moisture from the system via evaporation and transpiration
- Inputs
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