Geophysical and hydrogeologic investigation of groundwater in the Karoo stratigraphic sequence at Sawmills in northern Matabeleland,Zimbabwe: a case history     

Jens E. Danielsen  Torleif Dahlin  Richard Owen  Pride Mangeya  Esben Auken 《Hydrogeology Journal》2007,15(5):945-960

Geophysical and hydrogeological investigations have been carried out around Sawmills in Zimbabwe, Africa. The investigations are components of a larger investigation to assess the groundwater potential of the Karoo sedimentary basin with regards to supplying water to Bulawayo City. The Sawmills area was selected due to the availability of borehole logs indicating favourable stratigraphy for groundwater availability and due to the high yields from the aquifers measured from these boreholes. Data collected using two geophysical methods are presented here: transient electromagnetic (TEM) and continuous vertical electrical sounding (CVES) data. The data have also been processed using laterally constrained inversion (LCI). Because the CVES provides greater detail in the shallow subsurface, whereas TEM is more effective at depth, a more accurate image of the entire subsurface profile is provided based on using both methods. The results suggest that LCI of CVES and TEM data, in the subsurface at the required depths at Sawmills, is able to provide a substantially more accurate image of the subsurface than either method alone. The hydrogeological interpretation of the geophysical data is valuable for determining the depth to and thickness of the potential aquifer horizon(s) and for identifying the position of potential recharge zones.  相似文献   

Determination of the convective boundary-layer height with laser remote sensing   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

Andrea Lammert  Jens Bösenberg 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2006,119(1):159-170

Different methods to determine the height of the convective boundary layer from lidar measurements are described and compared. The differences in either aerosol backscatter or in humidity between the boundary layer and the free troposphere are used, and either the variance or the gradient profile of the parameter under study is evaluated. On average the different methods are in very good agreement. Temporal resolution of the gradient methods is very high, on the order of seconds, but often there is an ambiguity in the choice of the “relevant” minimum in the gradient that corresponds to the boundary-layer height. This is avoided by combining the variance and the gradient methods, using the result of the variance analysis as an indicator for the region where the minimum of the gradient is sought. The combined method is useful for automated determination of the boundary-layer height at least under convective conditions. Aerosol backscatter is found to be as good an indicator for boundary-layer air as humidity, so a relatively simple backscatter lidar is sufficient for determination of the boundary-layer height.  相似文献   

Atmospheric variability and binary homogeneous nucleation: A parametrisation and conditions required for a significant effect     

J. Lauros  E.D. Nilsson  H. Vehkamki  M. Kulmala 《Atmospheric Research》2006,82(3-4):503

The binary water–sulphuric acid nucleation has long been considered an important path for new particle formation in the atmosphere. The formation rate depends nonlinearly on temperature and vapour concentrations. We aim to find out if atmospheric small scale and mesoscale spatial and temporal variability can increase the nucleation rate significantly. Simultaneous and separate effects of variation in temperature, humidity and sulphuric acid concentration on the mean nucleation rate have been modelled. We have assumed that the distributions of variables are Gaussian and compare the mean of simulated nucleation rates with the nucleation rate in mean conditions without variation. According to our studies the atmospheric variability can increase the mean nucleation rate by orders of magnitude but the significant effect is limited to specific conditions. The effect seems to be more important in the lower troposphere than in the upper troposphere, where temperature and sulphuric acid concentrations are lower. In addition, our model simulations indicate that the atmospheric variability can only explain part of the difference between measured and theoretically required sulphuric acid concentrations in conditions where particle formation has been observed. We have parametrised the effect of atmospheric variability as a simple correction factor for the effect of temperature and humidity variation.  相似文献   

Effective Roughness Calculated from Satellite-Derived Land Cover Maps and Hedge-Information used in a Weather Forecasting Model     

Charlotte B. Hasager  Niels W. Nielsen  Niels Otto Jensen  Eva Boegh  Jens H. Christensen  Ebba Dellwik  Henrik Soegaard 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2003,109(3):227-254

In numerical weather prediction, climate and hydrologicalmodelling, the grid cell size is typically larger than the horizontal length scales of variations in aerodynamicroughness, surface temperature and surface humidity. These local land cover variations give rise to sub-gridscale surface flux differences. Especially the roughness variations can give a significantly differentvalue between the equilibrium roughness in each of the patches as compared to the aggregated roughness value,the so-called effective roughness, for the grid cell. The effective roughness is a quantity that secures thephysics to be well-described in any large-scale model. A method of aggregating the roughness step changesin arbitrary real terrain has been applied in flat terrain (Denmark) where sub-grid scale vegetation-drivenroughness variations are a dominant characteristic of the landscape. The aggregation model is a physicaltwo-dimensional atmospheric flow model in the horizontal domain based on a linearized version of theNavier Stoke equation. The equations are solved by the Fast Fourier Transformation technique, hence the codeis very fast. The new effective roughness maps have been used in the HIgh Resolution Limited Area Model(HIRLAM) weather forecasting model and the weather prediction results are compared for a number of casesto synoptic and other observations with improved agreement above the predictions based on currentstandard input. Typical seasonal springtime bias on forecasted winds over land of +0.5 m s^-1 and-0.2 m s^-1 in coastal areas is reduced by use of the effective roughness maps.  相似文献   

The response of the subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica, to tidal and atmospheric pressure forcing   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Anja Wendt  Reinhard Dietrich  Jens Wendt  Mathias Fritsche  Valery Lukin  Alexander Yuskevich  rey Kokhanov  Anton Senatorov  Kazuo Shibuya  Koichiro Doi 《Geophysical Journal International》2005,161(1):41-49

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Critical shear stress for mechanical twinning of jadeite—an experimental study     

Jens Orzol  Claudia A. Trepmann  Bernhard Stckhert  Guanghai Shi 《Tectonophysics》2003,372(3-4):135-145

Coarse-grained natural jadeitite samples from Myanmar were experimentally deformed in a Griggs-type solid-medium apparatus at strain rates of 2·10⁻⁵ and 5·10⁻⁶ s⁻¹ and temperatures of 900 and 1000 °C. The microfabrics of the deformed samples are investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) using the electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) technique. The critical shear stress for twinning in the (100) [001] system is derived from the orientation distribution of jadeite crystals with and without mechanical twins. The results indicate a homogeneous stress field within the sample and a critical shear stress of 150±25 MPa, which compares well to that determined by Kollé and Blacic [J. Geophys. Res. 87 (1982) 4019] for mechanical twinning of other clinopyroxenes. With the critical shear stress known, mechanical twinning of jadeite can be used as a paleopiezometer for high stress tectonic environments.  相似文献   

The mass–temperature relation for clusters of galaxies     

Jens Hjorth  Jamila Oukbir  & Eelco van Kampen 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,298(1):L1-L5

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On the distribution of low salinity intermediate waters around the faroes     

Dr. Jens Meincke 《Ocean Dynamics》1978,31(2):50-64

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Serious mercury contamination of sediments in a Norwegian semi-enclosed bay     

Jens M. Skei 《Marine pollution bulletin》1978,9(7):191-193

Thirteen surface sediment samples from a shallow, semi-enclosed bay, Gunnekleivfjorden, South-West Norway, were analysed for total mercury. The concentrations ranged between 90 and 350 ppm dried sediment. The median value (250 ppm mercury) is more than twice the median value of sixteen sediment samples collected in Minamata Bay in 1963. The surface area of Gunnekleivfjorden is approximately 1 km², implying that minimum 10 tons of mercury is accumulated in the upper 5 cm of the sediments of the bay. The extensive contamination is caused by discharge of inorganic mercury from a chlor-alkali plant during the last 25 years.  相似文献   

Reconstructing the historical changes in Daphnia mean size and planktivorous fish abundance in lakes from the size of Daphnia ephippia in the sediment   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Erik Jeppesen  Jens Peder Jensen  Susanne Amsinck  Frank Landkildehus  Torben Lauridsen  Stuart F. Mitchell 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2002,27(1):133-143

The zooplankton community structure in lakes is highly influenced by size-selective predation by fish, with small zooplankton species dominating at high predation pressure. Remains of cladocerans are preserved in the sediment and may be used to trace historical changes in fish predation. We determined how contemporary data on planktivorous fish were related to the size of Daphnia ephippia (dorsal length) in the surface sediment (0-1 cm) of 52 mainly shallow lakes with contrasting densities of fish and nutrients (TP: 0.002-0.60 mg P l^-1). Density of fish expressed as catch per unit effort, in terms of numbers in multiple mesh-sized gill nets (CPUE_n), decreased significantly with increasing mean size of ephippia. The relationship was improved by adding TP as an independent variable, now explaining 90% of the variation in CPUE_n on the full data set covering lakes in Denmark, Greenland and New Zealand, and 78% if only data on Danish lakes were used. CPUE by weight of planktivorous fish and mean weight of Daphnia in the pelagial during summer were also related to ephippial size. By including contemporary data on established relationships between the sizes of egg-bearing female Daphnia and ephippia, we inferred changes in the CPUE_n, mean size of ephippia-bearing Daphnia and summer mean body weight of Daphnia from ephippial size in four lakes during the past 1-2 centuries. In a hypertrophic lake subject to periodic fish kills, Daphnia mean body weight was high and CPUE_n was low compared with those in two eutrophic lakes, while CPUE_n was low and Daphnia body weight was high in the least eutrophic, clearwater lake. Estimated CPUE_n and Daphnia mean weight in the surface sediment of these four lakes corresponded well with contemporary data. Only small changes in ephippial size with time were observed in the clearwater lake and in one of the lakes that had suffered early eutrophication, while major changes occurred in the two other lakes that had been subjected to a major increase in nutrient input or fish kills. We conclude that Daphnia ephippia preserved in the surface sediments of lakes may be a useful and efficient method to quantify the present-day abundance of planktivorous fish and Daphnia mean size. The method is particularly valid in surveys aimed to give a general picture of the fish stock and the ecological state in a set of lakes in a region rather than a precise estimate for a single lake. Though some evidence is provided, more work is needed to evaluate whether the equations are valid for hind-casting in down-core palaeoecological studies.  相似文献