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DEPLETION PERIOD [7 records]

Record 1 2022-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
  • Accounting
  • Finance
DEF

… the actual units of production(not sales) for the period divided by the total units of production estimated for the total useful life of the asset at the beginning of the depletion period.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière
  • Comptabilité
  • Finances

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Launching and Space Maneuvering
CONT

After providing 13. 5 years of highly successful telecommunications services for Eutelsat, ECS-1 was switched off on 16th of December. By then, the satellite launched on 16 June 1983, had been transmitting for a total of 716 584 hours(cumulative TWTA hours). Over a two-week period, a series of end-of-life tests, and 11 re-orbiting manoeuvres which led to the complete depletion of the spacecraft's hydrazine tanks, were performed. ECS-1's final graveyard orbit is 398 km higher than the operational geostationary orbit that it vacated.

OBS

reorbiting; reorbitation: terms officially approved by the RADARSAT-2 Terminology Approval Group (RTAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lancement et manœuvres dans l'espace
DEF

Manœuvre de remise en orbite d'un engin spatial arrivé en fin de vie, vers une orbite cimetière.

OBS

resatellisation; réorbitation : termes uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de RADARSAT-2 (GTTR).

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Economics
CONT

Incentives for obtaining greater environmental protection now are being incorporated into rulemaking. For example, a major rule recently issued to control pollution from the pulp and paper industry allows companies a compliance delay if they commit to go beyond current requirements and install more advanced technologies.

CONT

An important feature of the [Montreal] Protocol [on Ozone Depletion] is its treatment of developing countries. It permits these countries a ten year grace period in which to comply with the control measures in order to meet their basic domestic needs.

OBS

[For example:] For CFC phaseout in developing countries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie environnementale
CONT

Une caractéristique importante du Protocole [de Montréal sur l'appauvrissement de la couche d'ozone] est le traitement qu'il réserve aux pays en développement. Ces pays se voient en effet octroyer un délai de grâce de dix ans pour leur permettre de se conformer aux mesures préventives afin de satisfaire à leurs besoins intérieurs fondamentaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía del medio ambiente
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Record 4 2010-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Geology
DEF

The emptying-period of a well.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Géologie

Spanish

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Record 5 2009-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

[The] rising of the water level or piezometric surface in and around a pumped well after stoppage of pumping [or the] rising movement of the water table or the piezometric surface caused by recharge following upon a period of depletion.

CONT

... groundwater pumping will continue to be conducted in an environmentally conservative manner as was done during the 1990-91 and 1991-92 runoff years until there has been a substantial recovery in soil moisture and water table conditions in areas of Types B, C, and D vegetation that have been affected by groundwater pumping. The Standing Committee will establish annual pumping programs based on an evaluation of current conditions, including soil moisture level, water table depth, degree of water table recovery, soil type, vegetation conditions, the results of studies pertaining to vegetation recovery, and compliance with the goals of the Agreement.

CONT

The plant communities that we monitor require periodic connection to the groundwater for long-term survival and recovery from drought. Unfortunately, the on/off status often is not an accurate indicator of whether groundwater is reaching the plant root zone, but the rise of water above the water table due to capillarity is detected easily by the monitoring. Using the soil water and groundwater data, we determine which monitoring sites are connected with the water table and which still need water table recovery.

PHR

Recovery cycle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Mouvement ascendant du niveau de l'eau ou de la surface piézométrique à l'intérieur et autour du puits après un arrêt du pompage [ou en raison d'une] réalimentation faisant suite à une période d'épuisement.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
DEF

Elevación del nivel de agua o de la superficie piezométrica en y alrededor de un pozo de bombeo, después de cesar el bombeo [o] movimiento ascendente del nivel freático o de la superficie piezométrica causado por la recarga que sigue a un período de agotamiento.

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Record 6 2006-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

Period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently prolonged to give rise to a shortage of water as evidenced by below normal streamflow and lake levels and/or the depletion of soil moisture and a lowering of groundwater levels.

CONT

Hydrological drought refers to deficiencies in surface and subsurface water supplies. It is measured as streamflow, and as lake, reservoir and ground water levels. There is a time lag between lack of rain and less water in streams, rivers, lakes and reservoirs, so hydrological measurements are not the earliest indicators of drought. When precipitation is reduced or deficient over an extended period of time, this shortage will be reflected in declining surface and subsurface water levels.

CONT

Drought is viewed as a sustained and regionally extensive occurrence of below average natural water availability, either in the form of precipitation, river runoff, or groundwater. Droughts may be classified as meteorological or hydrological : A Meteorological Drought occurs when there is below average availability of precipitation.... A Hydrological Drought is marked by a deficit in the runoff of rivers where discharge(flow) remains below a low threshold or the rivers dry up completely and remain dry for a very long time and a significant natural depletion of aquifers(groundwater). The low threshold flow is the 10-year return period 7-day minimum mean flow.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Période de temps anormalement sec, suffisamment prolongée pour entraîner une pénurie d'eau caractérisée par un abaissement significatif de l'écoulement des cours d'eau, des niveaux des lacs et/ou des nappes souterraines, les amenant à des valeurs inférieures à la normale, et/ou un assèchement anormal du sol.

CONT

[...] si la sécheresse est un risque limité dans le temps, elle n'agit pas moins directement sur l'ensemble du milieu car son impact se transmet de la pluie (sécheresse climatique) au sol (sécheresse édaphique) aux produits de la terre (sécheresse agricole) et aux nappes aquifères (sécheresse hydrologique).

OBS

On écrirait mieux «sècheresse».

OBS

sècheresse : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

Key term(s)
  • sècheresse hydrologique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fenómenos meteorológicos, climáticos y atmosféricos
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
DEF

Período de clima anormalmente seco lo suficientemente prolongado para ocasionar una disminución apreciable en el caudal de los ríos, nivel de los lagos y/o un agotamiento de la humedad del suelo y un descenso en los niveles de aguas subterráneas por debajo de sus valores normales.

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Record 7 1997-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecosystems
  • Environmental Economics
DEF

Accounting for the state and quality of the environment and the natural resource base by bringing the environment into national accounting through deductions from the gross domestic product for various aspects of environmental degradation such as the value of pollution abatement and control expenditure, the value of environmental damage during the accounting period and the depletion of natural resources.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écosystèmes
  • Économie environnementale
DEF

Prise en compte de l'état et de la qualité de l'environnement et des ressources naturelles par l'inclusion des questions d'environnement dans la comptabilité nationale en déduisant du produit intérieur brut la valeur des divers aspects de la détérioration du milieu, par exemple, celle de la lutte contre la pollution, celle des dommages causés à l'environnement durant la période comptable et celle de l'épuisement des ressources naturelles.

Spanish

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