English translation of "éléments d'échelles" - "tide gauges OR limnimeters OR limnometers"

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61 months ago

Obia Ranndy asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Difficult / demanding
Word or term in question:	éléments d'échelles
Context:	Acquisition de 500 éléments d'échelles pour le suivi des plans d'eau des cours d'eau alimentant le lac et le lac lui même
Keywords:	Water Resources

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61 months ago

RTtranslations wrote:

500 gauges to monitor the water bodies (sources) supplying the lake and the lake (level)

My comment:

Could this be Lake Nubia, at the border with Egypt - a large lake on the Blue Nile into which many tributaries drain?

61 months ago

English -French - English medical, scientific ++ wrote:

Acquisition of 500 scale elements for monitoring the water bodies of the rivers feeding the lake and the lake itself

61 months ago

CMD wrote:

tide gauges OR limnimeters OR limnometers

My comment:

tide gauge : cf https://goecke.de/Products/Marking-material/Tide-gauges/

water level gauges : cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_gauge

limnimeter, limnometer: defined as "a sensitive form of tide gage for measuring variations of level in lakes"
cf https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/limnimeter

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