A Forward Modeling Approach for Interpreting Impeller Flow Logs     

by Alison H. Parker  L. Jared West  Noelle E. Odling  Richard T. Bown 《Ground water》2010,48(1):79-91

A rigorous and practical approach for interpretation of impeller flow log data to determine vertical variations in hydraulic conductivity is presented and applied to two well logs from a Chalk aquifer in England. Impeller flow logging involves measuring vertical flow speed in a pumped well and using changes in flow with depth to infer the locations and magnitudes of inflows into the well. However, the measured flow logs are typically noisy, which leads to spurious hydraulic conductivity values where simplistic interpretation approaches are applied. In this study, a new method for interpretation is presented, which first defines a series of physical models for hydraulic conductivity variation with depth and then fits the models to the data, using a regression technique. Some of the models will be rejected as they are physically unrealistic. The best model is then selected from the remaining models using a maximum likelihood approach. This balances model complexity against fit, for example, using Akaike's Information Criterion.  相似文献   

HEIDEGGER'S TOPOLOGY: Being,Place, World. By Jeff Malpas.     

Miles Richardson 《Geographical review》2010,100(1):129-131

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Summer precipitation for the England and Wales region, 1201–2000 ce,from stable oxygen isotopes in oak tree rings     

Neil J. Loader  Giles H. F. Young  Danny McCarroll  Darren Davies  Daniel Miles  Christopher Bronk Ramsey 《第四纪科学杂志》2020,35(6):731-736

Oxygen isotope ratios from oak tree rings are used to extend the May–August precipitation totals of the England and Wales precipitation series back to 1201 ce. The agreement between instrumental and reconstructed values is unusually strong, with more than half of the variance explained and standard verification tests passed. The stability of this relationship is confirmed using split-period calibration and verification. This allows the reconstruction to be variance-scaled to the full length of the instrumental series back to 1766. Direct comparison with historical reports of very wet and dry summers show good agreement. Near-constant replication, with a minimum of 10 timbers sourced from historic buildings across central southern England ensures signal strength does not change over time. Summers during the late 20th century appear anomalously dry and those of the 21st century very close to the pre-20th century average with no evidence in the record of prolonged ‘megadroughts’ across England and Wales.  相似文献   

广州小北路黑人聚居区社会空间分析   总被引：37，自引：6，他引：31  

李志刚  薛德升  Michael Lyons  Alison Brown 《地理学报》2008,63(2):207-218

1978 年改革开放带来中国城市的快速转型。近年来, 针对经济转型背景下中国大城市 的社会空间研究很多, 但对在全球化影响下出现的跨国移民族裔聚居区的研究尚不多见。对 广州黑人聚居区展开研究, 以越秀区小北路为例, 探讨其社会空间特征与演进机制。研究采 用微观视角, 针对典型案例进行问卷调查和半结构式访谈。研究表明, 广州黑人聚居区与西 方同类族裔社会区存在诸多差异。小北路黑人聚居区因全球化下新的“自下而上”的跨国经 济联系而生, 因广州城市的商贸文化、宗教历史、贸易网络和地理气候条件而兴, 其跨国移 民多为来自西非地区的族裔散居者/ 漂泊者(Diaspora), 其人口构成异质多元, 且流动性强。 小北路的社会空间机制既包含被动隔离也包含主动聚居, 其经济形态已经开始向“族裔聚居 区经济”(ethnic enclave economy) 发展。  相似文献   

Nutrient budgets for European seas: a measure of the effectiveness of nutrient reduction policies   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Artioli Y  Friedrich J  Gilbert AJ  McQuatters-Gollop A  Mee LD  Vermaat JE  Wulff F  Humborg C  Palmeri L  Pollehne F 《Marine pollution bulletin》2008,56(9):1609-1617

Socio-economic development in Europe has exerted increasing pressure on the marine environment. Eutrophication, caused by nutrient enrichment, is evident in regions of all European seas. Its severity varies but has, in places, adversely impacted socio-economic activities. This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of recently adopted policies to reduce anthropogenic nutrient inputs to European seas. Nitrogen and phosphorus budgets were constructed for three different periods (prior to severe eutrophication, during severe eutrophication and contemporary) to capture changes in the relative importance of different nutrient sources in four European seas suffering from eutrophication (Baltic Proper, coastal North Sea, Northern Adriatic and North-Western Black Sea Shelf). Policy success is evident for point sources, notably for P in the Baltic and North Seas, but reduction of diffuse sources has been more problematic.  相似文献   

Ocean urea fertilization for carbon credits poses high ecological risks     

Glibert PM  Azanza R  Burford M  Furuya K  Abal E  Al-Azri A  Al-Yamani F  Andersen P  Anderson DM  Beardall J  Berg GM  Brand L  Bronk D  Brookes J  Burkholder JM  Cembella A  Cochlan WP  Collier JL  Collos Y  Diaz R  Doblin M  Drennen T  Dyhrman S  Fukuyo Y  Furnas M  Galloway J  Granéli E  Ha DV  Hallegraeff G  Harrison J  Harrison PJ  Heil CA  Heimann K  Howarth R  Jauzein C  Kana AA  Kana TM  Kim H  Kudela R  Legrand C  Mallin M  Mulholland M  Murray S  O'Neil J  Pitcher G  Qi Y  Rabalais N  Raine R  Seitzinger S  Salomon PS  Solomon C 《Marine pollution bulletin》2008,56(6):1049-1056

The proposed plan for enrichment of the Sulu Sea, Philippines, a region of rich marine biodiversity, with thousands of tonnes of urea in order to stimulate algal blooms and sequester carbon is flawed for multiple reasons. Urea is preferentially used as a nitrogen source by some cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates, many of which are neutrally or positively buoyant. Biological pumps to the deep sea are classically leaky, and the inefficient burial of new biomass makes the estimation of a net loss of carbon from the atmosphere questionable at best. The potential for growth of toxic dinoflagellates is also high, as many grow well on urea and some even increase their toxicity when grown on urea. Many toxic dinoflagellates form cysts which can settle to the sediment and germinate in subsequent years, forming new blooms even without further fertilization. If large-scale blooms do occur, it is likely that they will contribute to hypoxia in the bottom waters upon decomposition. Lastly, urea production requires fossil fuel usage, further limiting the potential for net carbon sequestration. The environmental and economic impacts are potentially great and need to be rigorously assessed.  相似文献   

Peripheral gully and landslide erosion on an extreme anthropogenic landscape produced by mountaintop removal coal mining     

Miles Reed  Steve Kite 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2020,45(9):2078-2090

Mountaintop removal/valley fill coal mining (MTR/VF) in central Appalachia has buried an estimated 4000 km of headwater streams, but the long-term geomorphic consequences of the anthropogenic valley fills and associated mined landscapes are poorly understood. These anthropogenic landscapes are not intended to be maintained in perpetuity once reclamation is complete. Here we present the first ever field-based study of erosional landforms on this type of mined landscape paired with the subsequent examination of 10 regional LiDAR (light detection and ranging) datasets for gullies and landslides in a transect from eastern Kentucky to central West Virginia. Field observations indicate that overtopping of or intentional discharge from drainage systems and overtopping of valley fill terraces can initiate gullying. We manually extracted 1328 gullies from 512 km² of mined landscape within the LiDAR datasets. Gullies are predominantly located along the perimeter of the mined landscape with the majority of gullies associated with drainage systems. The number of gullies linearly scales with mined area (R² = 0.66). We observed 387 landslides along the perimeter of MTR/VF. Within the datasets, landslides per km² ranged from 0.1 to 3.9. We observed 34 landslides within fully reclaimed valley fills, a heretofore undocumented phenomenon. Over 90% of these landslides were in Kentucky datasets, which covered only 47% of total mined area analyzed. Previously measured regional differences in the angle of friction of mine spoils or construction practices may explain the abundance of gullies and elevated level of landslide occurrence in eastern Kentucky valley fills relative to West Virginia. Observations of erosion on regionally extensive MTR/VF landscapes warrant further study to better ascertain ecological impacts. Large-scale alteration by surface mining in steep landscapes may generally lead to peripheral gully erosion. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Water Treatment Technologies for PFAS: The Next Generation          下载免费PDF全文

John Horst  Jeff McDonough  Ian Ross  Michael Dickson  Jonathan Miles  Jake Hurst  Peter Storch 《Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation》2018,38(2):13-23

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Diagenesis of the Gully Oolite (Lower Carboniferous), South Wales     

Alison Searl 《Geological Journal》1989,24(4):275-293

Deposition of the Gully Oolite was locally interrupted by emergence and a regionally extensive palaeosol is present at the top of the unit. Early diagenetic phases include isopachous, fibrous submarine cements, nonluminescent vadose cements, and mixing zone dolomite. Subsequent nonferroan phreatic cements are non- to dully luminescent and in restricted vertical intervals predate significant compaction. More usually, however, phreatic cements postdate extensive overpacking of allochems. Ooid isotopic composition (δ¹⁸O=-7·80° to -3·10° and δ¹³C = -2·38° to +3·28°) is similar to that of associated phreatic cements and the data suggest that the bulk of ooid stabilization and cementation occurred within meteoric groundwaters. The extensive allochem overpacking appears to have occurred during the first few tens of metres of burial and intergranular macroporosity was eliminated prior to deep burial. Fracturing of the Gully Oolite during the Hercynian Orogeny and subsequent post-orogenic uplift led to localized dolomitization, several generations of calcite veins, and the restricted occurrence of ¹⁸O depleted cements in inter- and intragranular microporosity. Some of the veins clearly relate to Triassic exhumation of the Carboniferous Limestone, but others may be related to post-Mesozoic uplift and erosion of South Wales. Fracture-associated dolomitization may have occurred within a large-scale post-orogenic groundwater system, with Mg²⁺ being supplied through the release of deeply buried diagenetic brines.  相似文献   

Marine Metapopulations     

Celeste Benham  Alison M. Cawood  Geoffrey S. Cook  Ange Darnell  Peter C. Davison  Miriam C. Goldstein  Ayana Elizabeth Johnson  Talina Konotchick  Elisa M. Maldonado  Alexis L. Pasulka  Jennifer C. Prairie  Serena M. Moseman  Vera Tai  Christina A. Tanner  Tali Vardi  Tara S. Whitty  & Lisa A. Levin 《Marine Ecology》2008,29(2):319-320

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