RésuméLa Birket Karoun a été étudiée d’un point de vue biogéologique sur une période de 12 mois. Les données ainsi obtenues, ajoutées à celles de la littérature disponible, permettent de présenter les caractéristiques biogéologiques essentielles de ce bassin original.Le lac n’est alimenté actuellement que par des eaux continentales issues du système nilotique ce qui entraîne des propriétés hydrochimiques assez différentes des corps d’eau paraliques influencés par la mer. Cependant, les caractéristiques hydrologiques, biologiques et sédimen-taires de la Birket Karoun la classent parmi les écosystèmes de type lagunaire. Il est même possible d’y reconnaître une organisation biogéologique zonale très semblable à celle des lagunes, la partie la plus « marine » (ou la moins confinée) se situant à l’opposé de la zone des apports d’eau douce. Une connexion entre le lac et la mer, actuelle ou passée, étant à peu près exclues, il faut admettre que les eaux continentales concentrées peuvent présenter, dans certains cas, des caractéristiques chimiques et biochimiques presque marines vis-à-vis des êtres vivants.Dans cette optique, la Birket Karoun apparaît comme un modèle actuel susceptible de fournir une alternative à l’hypothèse d’une « Mer Saharienne » pour rendre compte de l’existence des lacs sahariens pleistocènes à faunes fossiles lagunaires. 相似文献
The relationship between aquifer hydraulic conductivity and aquifer resistivity, either measured on the ground surface by
vertical electrical sounding (VES) or from resistivity logs, or measured in core samples have been published for different
types of aquifers in different locations. Generally, these relationships are empirical and semi-empirical, and confined in
few locations. This relation has a positive correlation in some studies and negative in others. So far, there is no potentially
physical law controlling this relation, which is not completely understood. Electric current follows the path of least resistance,
as does water. Within and around pores, the model of conduction of electricity is ionic and thus the resistivity of the medium
is controlled more by porosity and water conductivity than by the resistivity of the rock matrix. Thus, at the pore level,
the electrical path is similar to the hydraulic path and the resistivity should reflect hydraulic conductivity. We tried in
this paper to study the effect of degree of groundwater saturation in the relation between hydraulic conductivity and bulk
resistivity via a simple numerical analysis of Archie’s second law and a simplified Kozeny-Carmen equation. The study reached
three characteristic non-linear relations between hydraulic conductivity and resistivity depending on the degree of saturation.
These relations are: (1) An inverse power relation in fully saturated aquifers and when porosity equals water saturation,
(2) An inverse polynomial relation in unsaturated aquifers, when water saturation is higher than 50%, higher than porosity,
and (3) A direct polynomial relation in poorly saturated aquifers, when water saturation is lower than 50%, lower than porosity.
These results are supported by some field scale relationships. 相似文献
There exists an impressive amount of work for Sudan showing the anthropogenic degradation of natural vegetation cover. However,
there are few examples of consequent climatic changes in literature. This work, thus, seeks to assess such effects of environmental
forcing on various climatic patterns over the past few decades. Within the frame of the present analysis, the results are
quite striking and are in concordance with scientific contentions that such land degradation could result in climatic modification.
Higher temperature and less rainfall, sunshine duration and global radiation have been noticed. Evapotranspiration has responded
more to the warming and drying conditions, thus showed signs of increasing rates, especially during the wet season. However,
the extent of increase seems to have been suppressed by the decrease in sunshine duration and solar radiation as well as the
inconsistent behaviour of wind speed. Changes in the variability of the within-year monthly observations have also occurred,
thus suggesting an increase in the occurrence of extremes. The observed climatic modification in the country has exaggerated
the insidious drought conditions. The present findings are hoped to contribute to our understanding of the effects of environmental
problem and assist in considering policy responses.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
The dynamical oscillation and instability of a gas cylinder of zero inertia immersed in a resistive liquid has been developed for symmetric perturbations. In the absence of the magnetic field we have used the conservation of energy to study such problem for all symmetric and asymmetric perturbations. In the latter it is found that the temporal amplification is much lower than that of the full fluid jet. The model is capillary stable for all short and long wavelengths in the asymmetric perturbation while in the symmetric disturbances it is stabilizing or not according the perturbed wavelength is shorter than the gas cylinder circumference or not. The resistivity is stabilizing or destabilizing according to restrictions. The electromagnetic body force is stabilizing for all wavelengths in the rotationally-symmetric disturbances. The Lorentz body force, for high magnetic field intensity, could be suppressing the destabilizing character of the present model. This may be due to the fact that the acting magnetic field is uniform and that the fluid is considered to be incompressible. 相似文献
The fundamental equations are formulated using cylindrical polar coordinates and then solved in the unperturbed state. The perturbation equations are determined, simplified, integrated and the constants of integrations are identified by applying appropriate boundary conditions across the perturbed fluid interface. A cumbersome stability criterion for MHD inviscid compressible self-gravitating streaming fluid cylinder is derived. The magnetic field is stabilizing, the streaming is destabilizing while both of the self-gravitating and compressibility are stabilizing or not according to restrictions and that the gravitational instability of sufficiently long waves will persist. Several approximations are required to obtain Chandrasekhar's and Fermi's dispersion relation (Chandrasekhar and Fermi, 1953). 相似文献
Place-based adaptation planning is an approach to address cross-sectoral and multi-level governance concerns as well as to build local adaptive capacity in vulnerable resource-dependent communities facing the adverse impacts of climate change. In contrast, sector-based adaptation planning focuses on addressing climate change impacts on individual economic sectors (e.g. fisheries or forestry) or sub-sectors (such as lobsters or timber). Yet, linking sectoral approaches with local adaptation policies is challenging. More effort is needed to identify opportunities for complementary adaptation strategies and policy integration to foster multiple benefits. In this article, we use a case study of fishery sector resources and municipal adaptation planning in Nova Scotia to demonstrate how meaningful entry points could catalyse policy integration and lead to co-benefits across multiple levels and stakeholder groups. Drawing on a fisheries systems and fish chain framework, we identify and assess several entry points for policy integration across sector- and place-based adaptation domains within coastal habitats, as well as harvesting, processing, and marketing sectors. The analysis highlights the multiple benefits of integrating local municipal adaptation plans with multi-scale resource sectors especially towards monitoring ecosystem changes, protecting essential infrastructure, and securing local livelihoods.
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Climate change is having a growing impact on coastal communities around the world, with consequences for sea-level rise, critical habitats, essential infrastructure, and multiple economic sectors and industries. This Canadian case study demonstrates how municipal adaptation initiatives can be complementary to sector-based adaptation at both local and regional levels through various entry points across commodity production chains. Policy integration across place-based and sector-based adaptation processes should lead to multiple benefits such as conserving marine biodiversity, protecting essential infrastructure, and securing livelihoods. Our analysis, which focuses specifically on the fishery sector and coastal communities, shows that these co-benefits may arise particularly in such coastal-marine systems and provide policy lessons to terrestrial systems and other sectors. 相似文献
In this work, the X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) technique is utilized to analyze the surface chemical composition of particulate matter (PM) which was collected from various locations at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The main elements found on the surface of PM are carbon (C), oxygen (O) and silicon (Si) with combined percentage of 89.4–94.9 while traces of nitrogen (N), calcium (Ca), aluminum (Al), sodium (Na), chlorine (Cl), manganese (Mg), and sulfur (S) were also present. The analyzed XPS chemical state of C, O and Si was further used to determine their bonding with other elements occurring over the surface of PM. Carbon was found in the form of carbides (18.86%), fluorides (2.39%) and carbonates (78.75%); oxygen was observed as oxides (21.05%) and hydroxides (73.42%) of other metals; and silicon was detected as silicones (12.16%), nitrides (82.53%) and silicates (5.25%). The particle size of a PM is also of great concern for health issues, and thus has been investigated by the Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM). The Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) was employed for cross verification of detected elements by XPS. 相似文献
Although Egypt has the great Nile River, which is the main supply of water, Egypt’s water is limited to 55.5 billion m3 per annum. Owing to the rapid growth of the population and the increasing consumption of water in agriculture, industry,
domestic use, etc., it is expected that Egypt will rely to some extent on groundwater to develop the new projects such as
Tushka in Upper Egypt and East Oweinat. Issues related to groundwater in Egypt are identified with the common geological features
associated with formation of the aquifers and demonstrating the location of the main resources of groundwater, followed by
the main objective of this paper, which is addressing the environmental issues related to groundwater in Egypt. Several studies
have been reviewed and personal communication made with the authorities to introduce this work and provide an overview of
the groundwater quality problems in Egypt with examples from different parts of the country. 相似文献