Analysis of Benthic Communities in the Cyclades Plateau (Aegean Sea) Using Ecological and Paleoecological Data Sets     

Argyro  Zenetos  Evangelos  Papathanassiou Jacobus J. Van  Aartsen 《Marine Ecology》1991,12(2):123-137

Abstract. In the Cyclades plateau (Aegean Sea), a qualitative and quantitative analysis of macro-benthic fauna was carried out in 1986. Standard multivariate analysis techniques were applied to both ecological (living benthic fauna) and paleoecological data sets in order to distinguish distribution patterns.
Results showed that caution must prevail in drawing conclusions from a limited data set. The clearest classification was obtained using total living fauna, while the dead molluscan fauna gave a similar pattern; this indicates similar response to the environmental conditions of the area. In the analysis of the living molluscan fauna, the groups failed to show any clusters, probably as an effect of some impoverished sites.
In the two groups delineated, depth seems to be the major factor in the distribution of species.
The fact that two distinct data sets (subfossil assemblages and living communities), when treated separately, produce similar grouping indicates that the subfossil assemblages could be reliably used as a first approach for determination of the living communities' distribution patterns.  相似文献   

Partial pressure and air–sea CO2 flux in the Aegean Sea during February 2006     

Evangelia Krasakopoulou  Spyridon Rapsomanikis  Anastasios Papadopoulos  Evangelos Papathanassiou 《Continental Shelf Research》2009,29(11-12):1477-1488

Data on the distribution of fCO₂ were obtained during a cruise in the Aegean Sea during February 2006. The fCO₂ of surface water (fCO₂^sw) was lower than the atmospheric fCO₂ (fCO₂^atm) throughout the area surveyed and ΔfCO₂ values varied from ?34 to ?61 μatm. The observed under-saturation suggests that surface waters in the Aegean represent a sink for atmospheric CO₂ during the winter of 2006. Higher fCO₂^sw values were recorded in the ‘less warm’ and ‘less saline’ shallow northernmost part of the Aegean Sea implying that the lower seawater temperature and salinity in this area play a crucial role in the spatial distribution of fCO₂^sw.A first estimate of the magnitude of the air–sea CO₂ exchange and the potential role of the Aegean Sea in the transfer of atmospheric CO₂ was also obtained. The air–sea CO₂ fluxes calculated using different gas transfer formulations showed that during February 2006, the Aegean Sea absorbs atmospheric CO₂ at a rate ranging from ?6.2 to ?11.8 mmol m^?2 d^?1 with the shipboard recorded wind speeds and at almost half rate (?3.5 to ?5.5 mmol m^?2 d^?1) with the monthly mean model-derived wind speed. Compared to recent observations from other temperate continental shelves during winter period, the Aegean Sea acts as a moderate to rather strong sink for atmospheric CO₂.Further investigations, including intensive spatial and temporal high-resolution observations, are necessary to elucidate the role of the Aegean Sea in the process of transfer of atmospheric CO₂ into the deep horizons of the Eastern Mediterranean.  相似文献   

A methodology for simple and fast streamflow modelling     

Evangelos Rozos 《水文科学杂志》2020,65(7):1084-1095

ABSTRACT

During the last few decades, hydrological models have become very powerful, capable of spatially analysing the hydrological information and accurately representing the geomorphological characteristics of the studied area. However, one of the drawbacks of this heightened intricacy is the amount of time required to set up a hydrological model. In this study, a simple methodology that requires only a minimum set-up time is presented. This methodology employs linear regression to combine the outputs of simple hydrological models to simulate hydrological responses. Two kinds of simple hydrological models are employed. The first one represents the characteristics of the streamflow attributed to overland flow, and the second the characteristics of the streamflow attributed to interflow and baseflow. The methodology was tested in 4 case studies, and the results were encouraging. The best performance was achieved in the case study with data of fine time step with significant length.  相似文献   

Greek shipping and the accession of Greece to the EEC     

Evangelos T. Pantelidis 《Marine Policy》1979,3(1):3-19

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Algebraic estimation of the specific storage from slug tests in confined aquifers in the overdamped case     

Mazi  Katerina  Akylas  Evangelos  Koussis  Antonis D. 《Hydrogeology Journal》2021,29(7):2545-2553

Hydrogeology Journal - A simple method is presented for estimating the specific storage of a confined aquifer from an overdamped slug test in a fully penetrating well. This method is based on the...  相似文献   

Application of multivariate statistical procedures on major ions and trace elements in a multilayered coastal aquifer: the case of the south Rhodope coastal aquifer     

Evangelos C. Galazoulas  Christos P. Petalas 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2014,72(10):4191-4205

Multivariate statistical techniques including cluster analysis and principal components analysis were applied on 22 variables consisted of 3 physicochemical parameters, 8 major ions and 11 trace elements. Samples were collected from the south Rhodope multilayered coastal aquifer in north Greece which is facing saltwater intrusion and anthropogenic contamination over the last 35 years. Cluster analysis grouped the variables into five main groups while principal components analysis revealed four distinct hydrochemical processes in the aquifer system, explaining 84.5 % of the total variance between the variables. The identified processes correspond to, saltwater intrusion and subsequent reverse cation exchange, the presence of deep connate groundwater masses, application of fertilizers in shallow wells and anthropogenic contamination with heavy metals nearby an improperly constructed landfill. The wells categorized with the above techniques were grouped and five constituent ratios Na/Cl, (Mg + Ca)/Cl, Ca/(HCO₃ + SO₄), Ca/SO₄ and Ca/Mg were utilized to identify the ones which enable the more accurate distinction between the group cases. The results of stepwise discriminant analysis showed that the calculated classification function can distinguish almost 80 % of groundwater samples with the Na/Cl ratio being the most statistically significant grouping variable. All the aforementioned statistical models managed to successfully identify numerous hydrochemical processes in a complex multilayered aquifer system and to explicitly attribute them for every investigated well, allowing a deeper insight into groundwater chemical characteristics with the use of an optimized smaller number of variables.  相似文献   

Trophic State Index derivation through the remote sensing of Case-2 water bodies in the Mediterranean region   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Christiana Papoutsa  Evangelos Akylas  Diofantos Hadjimitsis 《Central European Journal of Geosciences》2014,6(1):67-78

The main goal of this study is the derivation of Carlson’s Trophic State Index (TSI) through the remote sensing of four different Case-2 waters in the Mediterranean region such as Cyprus and Greece. TSI _SD is derived through extensive field ground campaign of Secchi Disk Depth measurements for the Asprokremmos Dam, located in Paphos District in Cyprus; Alyki Salt Lake, located in Larnaca District in Cyprus; and in Karla Lake, located in Volos District in Greece; and finally to three coastal water areas in the Limassol coastal area. Several regression models have been applied in order to develop the best regression model between the TSI _SD and in-band reflectance values for Landsat TM/ETM derived from spectroradiometric measurements using a GER-1500 field spectroradiometer over the main case study area in Asprokremmos Dam in Cyprus. Finally, we apply several regression models for Asprokremmos Dam for retrieving the suitable Landsat TM/ETM band or band combinations (obtained from field spectroradiometric measurements) in which TSI _SD can be determined. Indeed, the best regression model has been obtained by correlating ‘TSI Versus Band2/Band3’, with R²=0.89. All field TSI _SD and in-band reflectance values from the four different water bodies have been used to develop the best fitted model for the established TSI _SD Versus Band2/Band3 model. We find that the exponential regression model provides the best fitted equation over the four different water bodies.  相似文献   

Ineffectiveness of Narrow CMEs for Cosmic Ray Modulation     

Evangelos Paouris 《Solar physics》2013,284(2):589-597

Monthly coronal mass ejection (CME) counts, – for all CMEs and CMEs with widths >?30^°, – and monthly averaged speeds for the events in these two groups were compared with both the monthly averaged cosmic ray intensity and the monthly sunspot number. The monthly P _i-index, which is a linear combination of monthly CME count rate and average speed, was also compared with the cosmic ray intensity and sunspot number. The main finding is that narrow CMEs, which were numerous during 2007?–?2009, are ineffective for modulation. A cross-correlation analysis, calculating both the Pearson (r) product–moment correlation coefficient and the Spearman (ρ) rank correlation coefficient, has been used. Between all CMEs and cosmic ray intensity we found correlation coefficients r=??0.49 and ρ=??0.46, while between CMEs with widths >?30^° and cosmic ray intensity we found r=??0.75 and ρ=??0.77, which implies a significant increase. Finally, the best expression for the P _i-index for the examined period was analyzed. The highly anticorrelated behavior among this CME index, the cosmic ray intensity (r=??0.84 and ρ=??0.83), and the sunspot number (r=+?0.82 and ρ=+?0.89) suggests that the first one is a very useful solar–heliospheric parameter for heliospheric and space weather models in general.  相似文献   

Identification of hydrogeochemical processes and pollution sources of groundwater resources in the Marand plain,northwest of Iran   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Rahim Barzegar  Asghar Asghari Moghaddam  Evangelos Tziritis  Mir Sajjad Fakhri  Shahla Soltani 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2017,76(7):297

The main aims of the present study are to identify the major factors affecting hydrogeochemistry of groundwater resources in the Marand plain, NW Iran and to evaluate the potential sources of major and trace elements using multivariate statistical analysis such as hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA) and factor analysis (FA). To achieve these goals, groundwater samples were collected in three sampling periods in September 2013, May 2014 and September 2014 and analyzed with regard to ions (e.g., Ca²⁺, Mg²⁺, Na⁺ and K⁺, HCO₃ ^?, SO₄ ^2?, Cl^?, F^? and NO₃ ^?) and trace metals (e.g., Cr, Pb, Cd, Mn, Fe, Al and As). The piper diagrams show that the majority of samples belong to Na–Cl water type and are followed by Ca–HCO₃ and mixed Ca–Na–HCO₃. Cross-plots show that weathering and dissolution of different rocks and minerals, ion exchange, reverse ion exchange and anthropogenic activities, especially agricultural activities, influence the hydrogeochemistry of the study area. The results of the FA demonstrate that 6 factors with 81.7% of total variance are effective in the overall hydrogeochemistry, which are attributed to geogenic and anthropogenic impacts. The HCA categorizes the samples into two clusters. Samples of cluster C1, which appear to have higher values of some trace metals like Pb and As, are spatially located at the eastern and central parts of the plain, while samples of cluster C2, which express the salinization of the groundwater, are situated mainly westward with few local exceptions.  相似文献   

Selection of earthquake ground motion records: A state-of-the-art review from a structural engineering perspective     

Evangelos I. Katsanos  Anastasios G. SextosGeorge D. Manolis 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》2010

This paper reviews alternative selection procedures based on established methods for incorporating strong ground motion records within the framework of seismic design of structures. Given the fact that time history signals recorded at a given site constitute a random process which is practically impossible to reproduce, considerable effort has been expended in recent years on processing actual records so as to become ‘representative’ of future input histories to existing as well as planned construction in earthquake-prone regions. Moreover, considerable effort has been expended to ensure that dispersion in the structural response due to usage of different earthquake records is minimized. Along these lines, the aim of this paper is to present the most recent methods developed for selecting an ‘appropriate’ set of records that can be used for dynamic analysis of structural systems in the context of performance-based design. A comparative evaluation of the various alternatives available indicates that the current seismic code framework is rather simplified compared to what has actually been observed, thus highlighting both the uncertainties and challenges related to the selection of earthquake records.  相似文献