Hydrological Cycle Key Terms

Afforestation

Agricultural drought

Aquifer

Base flow

Blue water

Catchment

Closed system

Condensation

Convectional raindfall

Deforestation

Desalination

Desrtification

Dew point

Drought

Economic water scarcity

ENSO

Eutrophication

Evaporation

Evapotranspiration

Falling or recessional limb

Famine drought

Flash flood

Fossil water

Frontal rainfall

Green water

Groundwater flooding

Groundwater flow

Hard engineering

Hydrological drought

Infiltration

Infiltration capacity

Integrated water resource management (IWRM)

Inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ)

Meteorological drought

Monsoon

Orographic rainfall

Peak discharge

Percolation

Potential evaporation (PEVT)

Precipitation

Processes

Residence time

Rising limb

River regime

Saltwater encroachment

Stores

Storm hydrograph

Surface run-off

Surface water flooding

Systems approach

Technological fix

Thermohaline circulation

Throughfall

Throughflow

Transboundary water

Transpiration

Treaty

Water budget

Water conservation

Water insecurity

Water recycling

Water scarcity

Water security

Water stress

Water transfer

Wetland

Watershed