An area adjacent to a stream in which vegetation is maintained or managed to protect water quality. The width depends on slope, but 50 feet is the normal minimum. Trees may be removed from SMZs as long as the stream bed is not disrupted and sufficient vegetation is left to protect water quality.
Stress-testing is an exercise used to gauge the financial resilience of banks under adverse scenarios. Regulators require banks to undergo periodic stress-testing of varying degrees of severity, to ensure they will be able to withstand future economic shocks. In some cases, banks whose stressed capital falls below a minimum set by regulators are prohibited from […]
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Process in which rock and topsoil strata overlying mineral deposits are removed in strips.
Water that originates during rainfall events and snow or ice melt and runs off into water courses, lakes and other water bodies and sewers.
Vertical dimension of a dam as measured from the natural streambed at the downstream toe of a dam to the top of a dam.
A wood panel (mainly softwood plywood, wafer board, or oriented strand board) used in building construction.
Structured products are investments that have multiple components such as options or swaps. The aim is to construct a customised payout profile based on the risk-reward preferences and/or market outlook of a particular investor or group of investors. The most common type of a retail structured product is a bond plus an option – these […]
Structuring means breaking up a large cash transaction into small cash transactions to disguise the true amount of cash involved in the transaction.
A major hydrologic system of the United States in which NAWQA studies are focused. Study Units are geographically defined by a combination of ground
