Water Balance shows balance between inputs and outputs
- Created by: avbuck
- Created on: 05-01-14 17:48
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- Water Balance
- Worked out from inputs (precipitation) and outputs (channel discharge)
- Water balance affects how much water is stored in the basin.
- In wet seasons, rain exceeds evaptrans creating water surplus. Ground stores fill so more SA, higher discharge, river levels rise
- In drier seasons, rain lower than evapotrans, ground stores depleted as some water used (plants+humans+flows in river channel) but isnt replaced by precipitation .
- Therefore at the end of a dry season theres a deficit (shortage) of water in the ground. Ground storage recharged next wet season.
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