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River drainage basin stores and processes
Online Lesson | 09 Sep 2026 | Start: 16:00 | DURATION: 1 HOUR Specification content
3.1.1.2 The water cycle
Drainage basins as open systems - inputs and outputs, to include precipitation, evapotranspiration and runoff; stores and flows, to include interception, surface, soil water, groundwater and channel storage; stemflow, infiltration overland flow, and channel flow.
Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to describe and explain:
- The characteristics and inputs, stores, transfers and outputs of a drainage basin system: precipitation, interception store, throughfall, stemflow, infiltration, soil storage, vegetation storage, transpiration, infiltration, surface storage, evapotranspiration, overland flow/sheet flow, throughflow, percolation, groundwater store and flow, channel flow, and run off.
- The difference in scale between the global water cycle, drainage basin and hill slope, and that drainage basins vary hugely in scale.
Suggested timing
1 hour
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Course Module: Water and carbon cycles (Autumn 1) | Lesson River drainage basin stores and processes :
Online Lesson | 09 Sep 2026 | Start: 16:00 | DURATION: 1 HOUR
Specification content
3.1.1.2 The water cycle
Drainage basins as open systems - inputs and outputs, to include precipitation, evapotranspiration and runoff; stores and flows, to include interception, surface, soil water, groundwater and channel storage; stemflow, infiltration overland flow, and channel flow.
Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to describe and explain:
- The characteristics and inputs, stores, transfers and outputs of a drainage basin system: precipitation, interception store, throughfall, stemflow, infiltration, soil storage, vegetation storage, transpiration, infiltration, surface storage, evapotranspiration, overland flow/sheet flow, throughflow, percolation, groundwater store and flow, channel flow, and run off.
- The difference in scale between the global water cycle, drainage basin and hill slope, and that drainage basins vary hugely in scale.
Suggested timing
1 hour
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