The two-component extreme value distribution for flood frequency analysis: Derivation of a new estimation method   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

M. Fiorentino  K. Arora  V. P. Singh 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》1987,1(3):199-208

The two component extreme value (TCEV) distribution has recently been shown to account for most of the characteristics of the real flood experience. A new method of parameter estimation for this distribution is derived using the principle of maximum entropy (POME). This method of parameter estimation is suitable for application in both the site-specific and regional cases and appears simpler than the maximum likelihood estimation method. Statistical properties of the regionalized estimation were evaluated using a Monte Carlo approach and compared with those of the maximum likelihood regional estimators.  相似文献   

Rock magnetism and palaeomagnetism of the Oddanchatram anorthosite, Tamil Nadu, South India   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

K. V. V. Satyanarayana  Baldev R. Arora  A. S. Janardhan 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,155(3):1081-1092

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Elastic waves along a cylindrical borehole in a poroelastic medium saturated by two immiscible fluids     

Ashish Arora  S. K. Tomar 《Journal of Earth System Science》2007,116(3):225-234

The propagation of elastic waves along a cylindrical borehole filled with/without liquid and embedded in an infinite porous medium saturated by two immiscible fluids has been studied. The theory of porous media saturated by two immiscible fluids developed by Tuncay and Corapcioglu (1997) is employed. Frequency equations determining the phase velocity of axial symmetric waves are obtained. It is found that the surface waves along cylindrical borehole are dispersive. The dispersion equation of Rayleigh-type surface waves along the boundary of a poroelastic solid half-space saturated by two immiscible fluids is also obtained. Some special cases have been deduced and the dispersion curves are obtained numerically for a peculiar model. It is found that the density of fluids affects the Rayleigh mode.  相似文献   

Semi-annual modulation of earth's magnetic field in the equatorial electrojet region     

B.N. Bhargava  D.R.K. Rao  B.R. Arora 《Planetary and Space Science》1973,21(7):1251-1255

Autospectra in the 2–13 month range, computed from mean monthly horizontal intensity on quiet days at Trivandrum, situated close to the dip equator, suggest an exceedingly large semi-annual modulation of the field confined to an interval of about 5 hr centred at 1000 LT. The amplitude of the semi-annual oscillation at this station, derived from power density, is greater than 19 γ at 1000 LT. Between 1900 and 0500 LT, spectral lines, corresponding to a period of six months, are not observed above the continuum. Spectral densities from observations at two other electrojet stations in India, Kodaikanal and Annamalainagar, and at Alibag, outside the electrojet, establish the existence of an appreciable enhancement of the semi-annual oscillation of the field in the equatorial electrojet belt. Similar computations of spectra using observations on all days, however, suggest a secondary component in the evening sector. This component is not enhanced in the equatorial electrojet belt. It is concluded that while in low latitudes the daytime component is largely associated with the modulation of Sq currents, in the electrojet belt it appears to be due entirely to a semi-annual modulation of the equatorial electrojet. It is also concluded that the secondary component, observed in the evening sector in low latitude and equatorial stations, is associated purely with the modulation of the ring current by disturbance. The two components of the semi-annual variation observed at the Indian stations have also been noticed at several stations between geomagnetic latitudes N54.6° and S41.8°. It is also observed that the association of the semi-annual component with geomagnetic latitude is confined to the evening-night component.  相似文献   

Reactive transport codes for subsurface environmental simulation     

C. I. Steefel  C. A. J. Appelo  B. Arora  D. Jacques  T. Kalbacher  O. Kolditz  V. Lagneau  P. C. Lichtner  K. U. Mayer  J. C. L. Meeussen  S. Molins  D. Moulton  H. Shao  J. Šimůnek  N. Spycher  S. B. Yabusaki  G. T. Yeh 《Computational Geosciences》2015,19(3):445-478

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Utility of Hyperspectral Data for Potato Late Blight Disease Detection   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Shibendu Shankar Ray  Namrata Jain  R. K. Arora  S. Chavan  Sushma Panigrahy 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》2011,39(2):161-169

The study was carried out to investigate the utility of hyperspectral reflectance data for potato late blight disease detection. The hyperspectral data was collected for potato crop at different level of disease infestation using hand-held spectroradiometer over the spectral range of 325–1075 nm. The data was averaged into 10-nm wide wavebands, resulting in 75 narrowbands. The reflectance curve was partitioned into five regions, viz. 400–500 nm, 520–590 nm, 620–680 nm, 770–860 nm and 920–1050 nm. The notable differences in healthy and diseased potato plants were noticed in 770–860 nm and 920–1050 nm range. Vegetation indices, namely NDVI, SR, SAVI and red edge were calculated using reflectance values. The differences between the vegetation indices for plants at different levels of disease infestation were found highly significant. The optimal hyperspectral wavebands to discriminate the healthy plants from disease infested plants were 540, 610, 620, 700, 710, 730, 780 and 1040 nm whereas upto 25% infestation could be discriminated using reflectance at 710, 720 and 750 nm.  相似文献   

Scaling aspects of river flow routing     

Vivek Arora  Frank Seglenieks  Nick Kouwen  Eric Soulis 《水文研究》2001,15(3):461-477

Scaling aspects of river flow routing are studied by comparing two flow routing schemes, one designed for use in coupled general circulation models (GCMs) and operated at large spatial scales (～350 km), and the other designed for use in typical hydrological applications at small spatial scales (～25 km). The same runoff data are used as input into the two routing schemes, and comparisons are made between mean annual, mean monthly and daily streamflow simulated at four locations within the Mackenzie River Basin. The results suggest that for the purpose of realistically modelling monthly streamflow at the mouth of the rivers in GCMs, flow routing at large spatial scales gives similar results. However, the amplitude of the annual streamflow cycle is slightly but characteristically larger, when routing is performed at large spatial scales. Flow routing at large spatial scales also results in overestimation of high flows, while low flows are underestimated. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Mass Balance Estimation of Dokriani Glacier in Central Indian Himalaya Using Remote Sensing Data     

Har Amrit Singh Sandhu  Hemendra Singh Gusain  Manoj Kumar Arora  Arun Bawa 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》2018,46(11):1835-1840

Dokriani Glacier is regarded as one of the important glaciers of Bhagirathi River basin, which fed river Ganges. The length of the glacier is about 4.6 km, and snout elevation is about 4028 m m.s.l. The mass balance of this glacier was calculated using field-based measurements for few years during 1994 to 2000. However, due to remote and poor accessibility, the field-based measurements could not continue; thus, remote sensing-based methods become useful tool to estimate the long-term mass balance of the glacier. In this study, glacier mass balance has been determined using accumulation area ratio (AAR) method. Remote sensing data sets, e.g. Landsat TM, ETM?+?and OLI, have been used to estimate AAR for different years from 1994 to 2014. An attempt has also been made to develop a mathematical relationship between remote sensing-derived AAR and field-observed mass balance data of the glacier. Further, this relationship has been used to estimate mass balance of the glacier for different years using remote sensing-derived AAR. Estimated mass balance was validated from ground-observed mass balance for few years. The field-observed and remote sensing-derived mass balance data are compared and showed high correlation. It has been observed that AAR for the Dokriani Glacier varies from 0.64 to 0.71. Mass balance of the glacier was observed between ??15.54 cm and ??50.95 cm during the study period. The study highlights the application of remote sensing in mass balance study of the glaciers and impact of climate change in glaciers of Central Indian Himalaya.  相似文献   

Effect of pore connectivity on reflection amplitudes of an inhomogeneous wave in a composite porous solid saturated by two immiscible fluids     

Neeru Bala  Ashish Arora 《Journal of Earth System Science》2018,127(4):59

Present paper aims to study the phenomenon of reflection and transmission when an inhomogeneous wave strikes some discontinuity in a composite porous medium saturated by two immiscible viscous fluids. The incident wave splits into six reflected and six transmitted waves at the interface. All reflected and transmitted waves are inhomogeneous in nature with different directions of propagation vector and attenuation vector. A dimensionless parameter \(\varsigma \in [0, 1]\) is introduced to represent the extent of connection among the pores at the interface. Expression of Umov–Poynting vector is derived to obtain energy flux vector. Continuity of energy flux vector at the interface gives the required boundary conditions for the system. Connecting parameter \(\varsigma \) is also employed in boundary conditions to model the partial connection of pores at the interstices of two media. For numerical discussion we consider a porous medium composed of sandstone and ice, saturated with oil and water. The effect of parameter \(\varsigma \) and angle of incidence is determined numerically on the amplitude and the energy ratios of reflected and transmitted waves.  相似文献   

Use of site amplification and anelastic attenuation for the determination of source parameters of the Sikkim earthquake of September 18, 2011, using far-field strong-motion data     

A. Joshi  Parveen Kumar  Sandeep Arora 《Natural Hazards》2014,70(1):217-235

An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 (M _w) occurred in the Sikkim region of India on September 18, 2011. This earthquake is recorded on strong-motion network in Uttarakhand Himalaya located about 900 km away from the epicenter of this earthquake. In this paper acceleration record from six far-field stations has been used to compute the source parameters of this earthquake. The acceleration spectra of ground motion at these far-field stations are strongly affected by both local site effects and near-site anelastic attenuation. In the present work the spectrum of S-phase recorded at these far-field stations has been corrected for anelastic attenuation at both source and site and the site amplification terms. Site amplifications at different stations and near-site shear wave attenuation factor have been computed by the technique of inversion of acceleration spectra given by Joshi et al. (Pure Appl Geophys 169:1821–1845, 2012a). For estimation of site amplification and shear wave quality factor [Q _β (f)] at the recording sites, ten local events recorded at various stations between July 2011 and December 2011 have been used. The obtained source spectrum from acceleration records is compared with the theoretical source spectrum defined by Brune (J Geophys Res 76:5002, 1970) at each station for both horizontal components of the records. Iterative forward modeling of theoretical source spectrum gives the average estimate of seismic moment (M _o), source radius (r _o) and stress drop (Δσ) as (3.2 ± 0.8) × 10²⁶ dyne cm, 13.3 ± 0.8 km and 59.2 ± 8.8 bars, respectively, for the Sikkim earthquake of September 18, 2011.  相似文献