streamflow

[streem-floh]

noun

1. the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.

Word History and Origins

Origin of streamflow¹

stream + flow

Example Sentences

A scientific framework linking rainfall forecasts to the local impacts, such as streamflow, flood depth and water velocity, could also help decision-makers implement timely evacuations or road closures.

From Salon

By pairing Colorado's water planning model, StateMod, with a new hidden Markov modeling framework, the study created hundreds of thousands of streamflow scenarios under both historical and climate-change conditions.

From Science Daily

The results imply that drought vulnerability analyses relying only on the historical streamflow record may severely underestimate the magnitude of potential drought events and their impacts on water storage, agriculture and municipal water supply.

From Science Daily

"Our work shows that even relatively middle-of-the-road climate change and streamflow declines in these basins flows can threaten to put the system at risk of breaching a tipping point where the basins are no longer able to maintain the levels of deliveries to Lake Powell that we're accustomed to over recent history," Reed said.

From Science Daily

Stillwater’s study identified and assessed 12 barriers to streamflow in the area.

From Los Angeles Times