- A communication facility at a State or local level, operating 24 hours a day, which has the capability to receive alerts and warnings from Reclamation, plus activate the public warning system in its area of responsibility.
- Browse Related Terms: 24-hour warning point, ALERT Flood Warning System, Decision making, Detection, Early warning system feasibility, EWS, IFLOWS, Implementation process, Integrated early warning system, LFWS, Notification, Operations and Maintenance (O&M), Warning
The nation's biological communities, habitats, ecosystems, and processes, and the ecological services, uses, and values they provide to this and future generations.
- Browse Related Terms: [Marine] Natural Heritage, Cultural Heritage, Cultural patrimony, Cultural Resource, Cultural resource(s), Marine Sanctuary, Marine Spatial Planning, National Park Service (NPS), National Register of Historic Places, Nationwide Rivers Inventory (NRI), Special features, Traditional cultural property (TCP)
Any biological or physical component of the marine environment that contributes to the structure, function, or services provided by a marine ecosystem.
- Browse Related Terms: [Marine] Natural Resources, BA, BO, BRD, Human environment, Psychological value., Succession
apparent trace.
- Browse Related Terms: A, Burden, Caldera (crater), Deflagration, Detonator, Fuse, Millisecond delay (short period delay), Spacing
Also listed in:
architectural and engineering.
- Browse Related Terms: A&E (A/E), ACER, ARAR, AS, Hydraulics, Pan evaporation
All American Canal.
- Browse Related Terms: AAC, ACGIH, AIPC, AIRFA, AISC, ANSI, ARWRI, ASCE, ASCII, ASSE, Avoirdupois weight, AWWA, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), Tribe, United States
average annual habitat units.
- Browse Related Terms: AAHU, Acre (ac), Barrel, Biological diversity, BTU, Community, Contract rate, Corps of Engineers., Decibel, Distribution (Hydro)Graph, population density
annual arithmetic mean.
- Browse Related Terms: AAM, AGM, Average, B/C, Capital investment, Index of Wetness
Also listed in:
- Browse Related Terms: AAR, ACR, Alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR), Alkali-carbonate reaction (ACR), Alkali-silica reaction (ASR), Alkali-silicate/silica reaction (ASSR), ASR, ASSR, DI, diatom, Pattern cracking
Also listed in:
- All > Technology > Defense
Assembly Bill.
- Browse Related Terms: °C, AB, Additive effect, Celsius (C), (°C), EEO, Fahrenheit (F), Fly ash, Median, Medium-size water system, Mill, Nominal dollars
Also listed in:
- Browse Related Terms: ABC, ACWA, ag, BADA, Basin States, Crop subsidy, CWA, Nonterritorial communities
Also listed in:
Atypical, departing from the normal type or structure.
- Browse Related Terms: Aberrant, Control house., Dome, Hydraulic height, Instrumentation, Joint, Longitudinal, Streambed at the dam axis, Transverse
The absence of living organisms.
Also listed in:
The process by which ice and snow dissipate owing to melting and evaporation.
- Browse Related Terms: Ablation, Acidified, Aliquot, Erratic, Firn (Snow), Firn Line, Flooded Ice, glacier, Glacier (ice sheet), Metamorphic, Snow Accumulation and Ablation Model, Snow Core, Snow Water Equivalent, Snowmelt Flooding, Snowpack, Water Equivalent, Weighing-type Precipitation Gage
Also listed in:
Wearing away of surfaces by friction.
- Browse Related Terms: Abrasion, Albedo, Erode, Fountainhead, Isobath, MS connectors, Piezometric surface, Reflectivity, Surface Impoundment, Unconfined aquifer, Undercurrent, Wetland
The amount of a chemical that enters the body of an exposed organism.
- Browse Related Terms: absorbed dose, Absorption factor, Acclimation, Baseline profile, Biological magnification (biomagnification), Biotic potential, Biotic pyramid, Biotype, Carnivore, Coliform, Demersal, drift, environment, Food chain, herbicide, Inorganic, Pollutant, Primary production, remote sensing
Also listed in:
Water held mechanically in a soil or rock mass and having physical properties not substantially different from ordinary water at the same temperature and pressure. See adsorbed water.
- Browse Related Terms: Absorbed water, Adsorbed water, Anisotropic mass, Compressibility, Isotropic mass, Plasticity
Taking in of fluids or other substances through, or as if through, cells or tissues. The uptake of water or dissolved chemicals by a cell or an organism (as tree roots absorb dissolved nutrients in the soil). Should not be confused with adsorption.
Also listed in:
- All > Healthcare > Medicine > Cancer
- All > Science > Energy
- All > Science > Weather
- All > Science > Weather > Climate Change
- All > Technology > Telecommunications
The fraction of a chemical making contact with an organism that is absorbed by the organism.
- Browse Related Terms: absorbed dose, Absorption factor, Acclimation, Baseline profile, Biological magnification (biomagnification), Biotic potential, Biotic pyramid, Biotype, Carnivore, Coliform, Demersal, drift, environment, Food chain, herbicide, Inorganic, Pollutant, Primary production, remote sensing