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uspor

English translation: backwater

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Croatian term or phrase:uspor
English translation:backwater
Entered by: eleonora_r

21:23 May 6, 2007
Croatian to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / vodostaj
Croatian term or phrase: uspor
Ove karakteristike utvrđene su na osnovu podataka dugoročnog promatranja vodostaja Dunava i podzemnih voda na desnom priobalju, za režim uspora, a na osnovu koga su projektirani obrambeni nasipi.
eleonora_r
Local time: 00:10
backwater
Explanation:
Garber E, ENGLESKO - HRVATSKI STRUKOVNI RJEČNIK - GRADITELJSTVO:
back water - uspor (hid.)


Answers.com:
backwater, n.
Water held or pushed back by or as if by a dam or current.
A body of water thus formed.
( http://www.answers.com/backwater )


Our Comunity ana Flooding - GLOSSARY:
Backwater: a) A rise in upstream water level caused by an increase in flow downstream. b) An upstream water level rise caused by obstructions downstream, such as ice jams or debris.
( http://www.mwrd.org/Engineering/OurCommunityFlooding/OCFAppe... )


Glossary of Hydrologic Terms:
- backwater effect
The effect which a dam or other obstruction has in raising the surface of the water upstream from it.
- backwater curve
The longitudinal profile of the surface of a liquid in a non-uniform flow in an open channel, when the water surface is not parallel to the invert owing to the depth of water having been increased by the interposition of an obstruction such as a dam or weir. The term is sometimes used in a generic sense to denote all water surface profiles; or for profiles where the water is flowing at depths greater than the critical.
- backwater flooding
Upstream flooding caused by downstream conditions such as channel restriction and/or high flow in a downstream confluence stream.
- backwater flooding
Upstream flooding caused by downstream conditions such as channel restriction and/or high flow in a downstream confluence stream. barrage
( http://www.srh.noaa.gov/wgrfc/resources/glossary/b.html )
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backwater


Explanation:
Garber E, ENGLESKO - HRVATSKI STRUKOVNI RJEČNIK - GRADITELJSTVO:
back water - uspor (hid.)


Answers.com:
backwater, n.
Water held or pushed back by or as if by a dam or current.
A body of water thus formed.
( http://www.answers.com/backwater )


Our Comunity ana Flooding - GLOSSARY:
Backwater: a) A rise in upstream water level caused by an increase in flow downstream. b) An upstream water level rise caused by obstructions downstream, such as ice jams or debris.
( http://www.mwrd.org/Engineering/OurCommunityFlooding/OCFAppe... )


Glossary of Hydrologic Terms:
- backwater effect
The effect which a dam or other obstruction has in raising the surface of the water upstream from it.
- backwater curve
The longitudinal profile of the surface of a liquid in a non-uniform flow in an open channel, when the water surface is not parallel to the invert owing to the depth of water having been increased by the interposition of an obstruction such as a dam or weir. The term is sometimes used in a generic sense to denote all water surface profiles; or for profiles where the water is flowing at depths greater than the critical.
- backwater flooding
Upstream flooding caused by downstream conditions such as channel restriction and/or high flow in a downstream confluence stream.
- backwater flooding
Upstream flooding caused by downstream conditions such as channel restriction and/or high flow in a downstream confluence stream. barrage
( http://www.srh.noaa.gov/wgrfc/resources/glossary/b.html )

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