Wintertime variability of Mediterranean precipitation and its links with large-scale circulation anomalies   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

R. Quadrelli  V. Pavan  F. Molteni 《Climate Dynamics》2001,17(5-6):457-466

A standard principal component analysis has been performed over the Mediterranean and over the larger European region on monthly precipitation anomalies for the winters between 1979 and 1995. The main centres of action of the associated EOFs are very similar for the two regions and the two sets of PCs are highly correlated with each other. Focusing on the Mediterranean region, the same analysis has been performed using 500?hPa geopotential height monthly anomalies taken from the operational NCEP analysis. Comparing the two sets of PCs associated with upper-air and surface data, a strong correlation has been found suggesting the presence of a two-way link between regional precipitation patterns and large-scale circulation anomalies. For both fields, the largest fraction of variance is explained by the North Atlantic Oscillation, while smaller but still substantial fractions are explained by other known patterns of large-scale variability such as the Eastern Atlantic pattern and the Euro-Atlantic blocking. No detectable connection has been found between Mediterranean precipitation patterns and El Niño SST anomalies during winter. With respect to temporal variability, significant trends have been found over most European areas during the winters considered. The associated pattern is characterised by a substantial increase of precipitation over western Scandinavia and a general decrease over southern Europe. This result is confirmed by analysing data from stations located in northern Italy.  相似文献   

The skill of multi-model seasonal forecasts of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation     

F. J. Doblas-Reyes  V. Pavan  D. B. Stephenson 《Climate Dynamics》2003,21(5-6):501-514

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On the origin of saline fluids in the KTB (continental deep drilling project of Germany)     

Manuela Lodemann  Peter Fritz  Manfred Wolf  Miro Ivanovich  Bent T. Hansen  Eckehart Nolte 《Applied Geochemistry》1997,12(6):831-849

Highly saline fluids were encountered during the German Continental Deep Drilling Project (KTB) from depths ranging between 2 and 3 km to about 9 km. The most reliable data were obtained from samples extracted during a long-term pumping test in the 4000-m deep KTB pilot hole. Some 460 m³ CaNaCl brines with about 68 g l⁻¹ total dissolved solids (TDS) and some 270 m³ associated gases, mainly N₂ and CH₄ were pumped to the surface from the main fracture system situated near the bottom of the pilot hole. Geochemical and isotopic data support the hydraulic tests which suggest the presence of an open and large fluid reservoir at depth. The pumped fluids from this main fracture system were released from a deep reservoir situated at more than 5500 m depth which is hydraulically connected with the 9101 m deep KTB main hole, drilled some 250 m to the northeast of the pilot hole.While Ca and Sr contents of the extracted brines may be the result of water-rock interaction, Cl is most likely of external origin. The Cl is hypothesized to derive from geotectonic processes rather than to descending infiltration of paleo-seawater (evaporitic brines). The sampled fluids have probably migrated from a deeper reservoir to their present position since the Cretaceous-Tertiary period due to tectonic activity. However, several isotopic studies have identified an admixture of descending paleowaters down to more than 4000 m depth. The high ³⁶ClCl ratio of the fluids sampled during the long-term pumping test point to a host rock highly enriched in UTh, unlike the sampled KTB country rocks. The fluid reservoir is believed to be in contact with the Falkenberg granite massif situated about 2 km to the E of the KTB holes capable of supplying sufficient neutron flux for considerable subsurface production of 36C1. The NaCl(K, SO₄) precursor fluids of the CaNaCI brines were produced in the course of extensive tectonic processes since the Late Caledonian within the Bohemian Massif.  相似文献   

Correlation between nitrate concentration in groundwater and parameters affecting aquifer intrinsic vulnerability   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Laura Debernardi  Domenico Antonio De Luca  Manuela Lasagna 《Environmental Geology》2008,55(3):539-558

This paper is the result of a study which was carried out in order to verify if the traditional methods to evaluate the intrinsic vulnerability or vulnerability related parameters, are able to clarify the problem of nitrate pollution in groundwater. In particular, the aim was to evaluate limitations and problems connected to aquifer vulnerability methods applied to nitrate contamination prevision in groundwater. The investigation was carried out by comparing NO₃ ⁻ concentrations, measured in March and November 2004 in the shallow aquifer, and the vulnerability classes, obtained by using GOD and TOT methods. Moreover, it deals with a comparison between NO₃ ⁻ concentrations and single parameters (depth to water table, land use and nitrogen input). The study area is the plain sector of Piemonte (Northern Italy), where an unconfined aquifer nitrate contamination exists. In this area the anthropogenic presence is remarkable and the input of N-fertilizers and zootechnical effluents to the soil cause a growing amount of nitrates in groundwater. This approach, used in a large area (about 10,000 km²) and in several monitoring wells (about 500), allowed to compare the efficiency of different vulnerability methods and to verify the importance of every parameter on the nitrate concentrations in the aquifer. Furthermore it allowed to obtain interesting correlations in different hydrogeological situations. Correlations between depth to water table, land use and nitrogen input to the soil with nitrate concentrations in groundwater show unclear situations: in fact these comparisons describe the phenomenon trend and highlight the maximum nitrate concentrations for each circumstance but often show wide ranges of possible nitrate concentrations. The same situation could be observed by comparing vulnerability indexes and nitrate concentrations in groundwater. These results suggest that neither single parameters nor vulnerability methods (GOD and TOT) are able to describe individually the complex phenomena affecting nitrate concentrations in soil, subsoil and groundwater. In particular, the traditional methods for vulnerability analysis do not analyze physical processes in aquifers, such as denitrification and nitrate dilution. According to a recent study in the shallow unconfined aquifer of the Piemonte plain, dilution can be considered as the main cause for nitrate attenuation in groundwater.  相似文献   

Long-term TNT and DNT contamination: 1-D modeling of natural attenuation in the vadose zone: case study,Portugal     

Helena?I.?F.?AmaralEmail author  Ana Claúdia?Gama  Cláudia?Gon?alves  Judite?Fernandes  Maria?Jo?o?Batista  Manuela?Abreu 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2016,75(1):89

The vadose zone of a trinitrotoluene (TNT) and dinitrotoluene (DNT) contaminated site was investigated to assess the mobility of those explosives under natural conditions. Located in the left margin of the River Tejo Basin, Portugal, the site is located on unconsolidated sediments. Wastewaters associated with the 50-year explosives production were disposed in excavated ponds, from where water would infiltrate and pollute the unsaturated and saturated parts of the local aquifers. Two boreholes were drilled to 9 m depth in such a former waste pond to investigate the contaminant’s fate in the vadose zone. Sediment samples were taken every 1–2 m for analysis of the poly-nitroaromatics (p-NACs) and organic volatile compounds, pH, organic carbon content, cation exchange capacity and grain size analysis. The main contaminant was TNT representing >70 % of the total p-NACs concentration that peaked approximately 7 mg/kg in one borehole, even if the median in both boreholes was of ~1 mg/kg. DNT was 4–30 % of the total p-NACs and nitrotoluene (NT), up to 5 %. No other (volatile) organic compound was detected. The predominance of TNT as the main contaminant implies that any natural mass reduction has been inefficient to clean the site. Several 1-D model simulations of p-NACs cleaning of the vadose zone under natural conditions indicated that the most probable scenario of combined advection and partitioning will only remove TNT after 10’s of years, whereas DNT and NT will hardly be removed. Such low concentrations and long times for the p-NACs removal, suggest that by now those compounds have been washed-out to a level below standard limits.  相似文献   

Global risks of Bedellia somnulentella (Lepidoptera: Bedelliidae) invasion: a modeling exercise using a mechanistic model,CLIMEX     

dos Santos  Marinalva Martins  da Silva  Ricardo Siqueira  Soares  Marcus Alvarenga  Lopes  Érika Manuela Gonçalves  Shabani  Farzin 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2022,149(1-2):401-411

Theoretical and Applied Climatology - This study aimed to identify the global risk of invasion and establishment of Bedellia somnulentella, a pest of the sweet potato crop, for the present and...  相似文献   

Meteorological drought analysis over India using analytical framework on CPC rainfall time series     

C. S. Murthy  Jyoti Singh  Pavan Kumar  M. V. R. Sesha Sai 《Natural Hazards》2016,81(1):573-587

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Are changes in the structure of nematode assemblages reliable indicators of moderate petroleum contamination?     

Daniel Silva Leite  Leonardo Sandrini-Neto  Manuela Zeglin Camargo  Micheli Cristina Thomas  Paulo C. Lana 《Marine pollution bulletin》2014

This study assesses through a multiple before-after-control-impact (MBACI) design the effects of diesel oil on the structure of nematode assemblages in unvegetated tidal flats of a subtropical estuary. Oil-exposed treatments were contrasted with controls for a duration of four successive days before and after an experimental spill in three distinct areas of the Paranaguá Estuarine Complex (Southern Brazil). No significant differences were observed in nematode total density, number of taxa and the overall assemblage structure between the control and impact treatments from before to after the experimental spill. This reinforces the idea that, despite being good indicators of environmental stress, free-living marine nematodes are able to tolerate low concentrations of hydrocarbons and to survive in moderately contaminated areas. We also show that robust experimental designs are useful to avoid confounding expected natural variability with the effects of a mild impact.  相似文献   

Spatio-temporal stochastic modelling (METMAVI)     

Raquel Menezes  A. Manuela Gonçalves 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》2014,28(5):1167-1169

Editorial letter for the Special Issue dedicated to the VI International Workshop on Spatio-temporal Modelling (METMAVI), which took place in Guimarães, Portugal, from 12 to 14 September 2012. This SI summarizes the main contributions made at METMAVI, related to spatio-temporal methodology illustrated with environmental applications.  相似文献   

Punica granatum Shell Preparation,Characterization, and Use for Crystal Violet Removal from Aqueous Solution          下载免费PDF全文

Marilice B. Silveira  Flávio A. Pavan  Nilton F. Gelos  Eder C. Lima  Silvio L. P. Dias 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2014,42(7):939-946

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