Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, the ''drainage divide'', made up of a succession of elevated features, such as ridges and hills. A basin may consist of smaller basins that merge at river confluences, forming a hierarchical pattern.Other terms for a drainage basin are catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, water basin, and impluvium. In North America, they are commonly called a watershed, though in other English-speaking places, "watershed" is used only in its original sense, that of a drainage divide.
A drainage basin's boundaries are determined by watershed delineation, a common task in environmental engineering and science.
In a closed drainage basin, or endorheic basin, rather than flowing to the ocean, water converges toward the interior of the basin, known as a sink, which may be a permanent lake, a dry lake, or a point where surface water is lost underground.
Drainage basins are similar but not identical to hydrologic unit code, which are drainage areas delineated so as to nest into a multi-level hierarchical drainage system. Hydrologic units are defined to allow multiple inlets, outlets, or sinks. In a strict sense, all drainage basins are hydrologic units but not all hydrologic units are drainage basins. Provided by Wikipedia
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3by Parlee, Brenda; Mackenzie River Basin Board; University of AlbertaGet access
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8by Pastick, Neal J., Jorgenson, M. Torre, Wylie, Bruce K., Minsley, Burke J., Ji, Lei, Walvoord, Michelle A., Smith, Bruce D., Abraham, Jared D., Rose, Joshua R.Contributors: “...USGS Climate Effects Network Yukon River Basin...”
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9Contributors: “...Humber River Basin Project...”
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10by Parlee, BrendaContributors: “... Committee (TKSPC), Mackzenzie River Basin Board (MRRB), Government of Alberta, Government of the Northwest...”
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11by Parlee, BrendaContributors: “... Committee (TKSPC), Mackzenzie River Basin Board (MRRB), Government of Alberta, Government of the Northwest...”
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12by Liu, Li, Liu, Xiaoguang, Du, Chao, Fang, Haitao, Zhang, Jiyun, Li, Wenjing, Cao, Litong, Gao, LiContributors: “...the Scientific Research Project of the Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High Quality...”
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13by Wang, Mei, Wu, Jianghua, Lafleur, Peter M., Luan, Junwei, Chen, Huai, Zhu, XinbiaoContributors: “...Humber River Basin Research Initiative of NL...”
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14Contributors: “...calculations of snowpack dynamics in the Lena river basin were supported by the Ministry...”
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15by R. S. Chalov, A. S. Zavadsky, D. V. Botavi, P. P. Golovle, E. A. Morozova, V. V. Surkov, Р. С. Чалов, А. С. Завадcкий, Д. В. Ботавин, П. П. Головлев, Е. А. Морозова, В. В. СурковContributors: “... for Maritime and River Transport and Lena River basin inland waterways administration....”
Published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriya geograficheskaya (2019)
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16by Wologo, Ethan AndrewContributors: “... co-authors of the article, 'Groundwater connection and doc transport in the Yukon River Basin...”
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