The drainage basin hydrological cycle
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- Created on: 04-01-15 15:41
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- The drainage basin hydrological cycle
- drainage basin
- is the catchment area from which a river system obtains its water.
- Inputs into the drainage basin
- Energy from the sun for evaporation
- Precipitation - rain & snow
- Outputs move moisture out of the drainage basin
- Evaporation and transpiration from plants (collectively called evapo-transpiration)
- Runoff into the sea
- Water percolating deep into underground stores where it can be effectvely lost from the system
- Stores of water
- On the surface - glaciers, lakes, rivers, puddles
- Vegetation stores water by interception and plants
- The soil can hold water
- Groundwater is stored in permeable rocks
- Transfers and flows
- moves water through the system and enable inputs of water to be processed from one store to another.
- throughfall, stemflow, infiltration, throughflow and groundwater flow
- drainage basin
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