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Preferred term

drainage

Is replaced by

Definition

  • [GEMET] 1) Removal of groundwater or surface water, or of water from structures, by gravity or pumping.2) The discharge of water from a soil by percolation (the process by which surface water moves downwards through cracks, joints and pores in soil and rocks).

Broader concept

Note

  • [controlled by ] Lars Lundin 20130614

Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

French

  • drainage

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/USLterCV_167

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