Redatuming Operators Analysis in Homogeneous Media     

Souza de Oliveira  Jose J. S. de Figueiredo  Lucas Freitas 《Acta Geophysica》2015,63(2):414-431

A redatuming operation is used to simulate the acquisition of data in new levels, avoiding distortions produced by near-surface irregularities related to either geometric or material property heterogeneities. In this work, the application of the true-amplitude Kirchhoff redatuming (TAKR) operator on homogeneous media is compared with conventional Kirchhoff redatuming (KR) operator restricted to the zero-offset case. The TAKR and the KR operators are analytically and numerically compared in order to verify their impacts on the data at a new level. Analyses of amplitude and velocity sensitivity of the TAKR and KR were performed: one concerning the difference between the weight functions and the other related to the velocity variation. The comparisons between operators were performed using numerical examples. The feasibility of the KR and TAKR operators was demonstrated not only kinematically but also dynamically for their purposes. In other words, one preserves amplitude (KR), and the other corrects the amplitude (TAKR). In the end, we applied the operators to a GPR data set.  相似文献   

Radiation balance at the surface in the city of S?o Paulo, Brazil: diurnal and seasonal variations     

Mauricio Jonas Ferreira  Amauri Pereira de Oliveira  Jacyra Soares  Georgia Codato  Eduardo Wilde Bárbaro  Jo?o Francisco Escobedo 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2012,107(1-2):229-246

The main goal of this work is to describe the diurnal and seasonal variations of the radiation balance components at the surface in the city of S?o Paulo based on observations carried out during 2004. Monthly average hourly values indicate that the amplitudes of the diurnal cycles of net radiation (Q*), downwelling and upwelling shortwave radiation (SW_DW, SW_UP), and longwave radiations (LW_DW, LW_UP) in February were, respectively, 37%, 14%, 19%, 11%, and 5% larger than they were in August. The monthly average daily values indicate a variation of 60% for Q*, with a minimum in June and a maximum in December; 45% for SW_DW, with a minimum in May and a maximum in September; 50% for SW_UP, with a minimum in June and a maximum in September; 13% for LW_DW, with a minimum in July and a maximum in January; and 9% for LW_UP, with a minimum in July and a maximum in February. It was verified that the atmospheric broadband transmissivity varied from 0.36 to 0.57; the effective albedo of the surface varied from 0.08 to 0.10; and the atmospheric effective emissivity varied from 0.79 to 0.92. The surface effective emissivity remained approximately constant and equal to 0.96. The albedo and surface effective emissivity for S?o Paulo agreed with those reported for urban areas in Europe and North America cities. This indicates that material and geometric effects on albedo and surface emissivity in S?o Paulo are similar to ones observed in typical middle latitudes cities. On the other hand, it was found that S?o Paulo city induces an urban heat island with daytime maximum intensity varying from 2.6°C in July (16:00 LT) to 5.5°C in September (15:00 LT). The analysis of the radiometric properties carried out here indicate that this daytime maximum is a primary response to the seasonal variation of daily values of net solar radiation at the surface.  相似文献   

Hazardous elements and amorphous nanoparticles in historical estuary coal mining area     

Ana L.Duarte  Kátia DaBoit  Marcos L.S.Oliveira  Elba C.Teixeira  Ismael L.Schneider  Luis F.O.Silva 《地学前缘(英文版)》2019,10(3):927-939

In Brazil, intense coal exploitation activities have led to environmental deterioration, including soil mortification, water contamination, loss of ecosystem, and atmospheric contamination. In addition,considerable quantities of sulfur-rich residues are left behind in the mining area; these residues pose grave environmental issues as they undergo sulfide oxidation reactions. When sulfur oxides come in contact with water, extreme acid leachate is produced with great proportions of sulfate, and hazardous elements(HEs), which are identified as coal drainage(CMD). CMD is an environmental pollution challenge, particularly in countries with historic or active coal mines. To prevent CMD formation or its migration, the source must be controlled; however, this may not be feasible at many locations. In such scenarios, the mine water should be collected, treated, and discharged. In this study, data from 2005 to2010 was gathered on the geochemistry of 11 CMD discharges from ten different mines. There are several concerns and questions on the formation of nanominerals in mine acid drainage and on their reactions and interfaces. The detailed mineralogical and geochemical data presented in this paper were derived from previous studies on the coal mine areas in Brazil. Oxyhydroxides, sulfates, and nanoparticles in these areas possibly go through structural transformations depending on their size and formation conditions. The geochemistry of Fe-precipitates(such as jarosite, goethite, and hematite) existent in the CMD-generating coal areas and those that could be considered as a potential source of hazardous elements(HEs)(e.g., Cr) were also studied because these precipitates are relatively stable in extremely low pH conditions. To simplify and improve poorly ordered iron, strontium, and aluminum phase characterization, field emission scanning electron microscopy(FE-SEM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy(HR-TEM), micro-Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction(XRD) and sequential extraction(SE) studies were executed on a set CMD samples from the Brazilian mines. This study aimed to investigate the role of both nanomineral and amorphous phase distribution throughout the reactive coal cleaning rejects profile and HEs removal from the water mine to provide holistic insights on the ecological risks posed by HEs, nanominerals, amorphous phases, and to assess sediments in complex environments such as estuaries.  相似文献   

Determination of Gold in Ores by Isobutyl Methyl Ketone Extraction and Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry: A Stability Study of the Metal in Organic Media     

Maria Inês C. Monteiro  Marcos Paulo A. Lavatori  Nilza Maria M. de  Oliveira 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2003,27(3):245-249

A method involving gold extraction into isobutyl methyl ketone (IBMK), after partial dissolution with aqua regia , with determination by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry is described. The pyrolysis and atomisation temperatures were optimized using a pyrolytic graphite forked platform. The stability study of gold in isobutyl methyl ketone extract indicated that closed polypropylene containers (3% absorbance measurement changes) were better than both open polypropylene and closed glass containers over periods of up to 22 hr. Satisfactory recoveries of 99 and 102% were obtained when Au, in the IBMK extracts from CH-3 and MA-2 reference materials, were determined after storage of the extracts in closed polypropylene containers for 22 hr, respectively.  相似文献   

Diurnal evolution of solar radiation at the surface in the city of São Paulo: seasonal variation and modeling     

A. P. de Oliveira  A. J. Machado  J. F. Escobedo  J. Soares 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2002,71(3-4):231-249

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Off-Line and On-Line Determination of Eleven Rare Earth Elements in Silicate Rocks by ICP-AES Using Dowex Minicolumns for Separation of Interfering Elements in Continuous Flow Systems   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Geraldo R. Boaventura  Robson C. De  Oliveira Ricardo E. Santelli 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2002,26(1):63-73

The methodologies developed in this work comprise ion-exchange separation of interfering elements from rare earth elements (Fe, Al and Ca), by using resin minicolumns (Dowex-50W-X8 200-400 mesh) for the determination of La, Ce, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Yb and Lu by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry, using both off-line and on-line continuous flow systems. These methods can be used to determine rare earth elements in common silicate rocks, such as granite, basalt, rhyolite and andesite. Thirteen geochemical reference materials were used to evaluate the accuracy and precision of the off-line and on-line methods. Chondrite-normalized diagrams were obtained and compared to values reported in the literature. When compared to conventional procedures, the proposed methods provide fast and low cost rare earth elements determinations in the analysis of silicate rocks. Eighteen samples per hour could be analysed by the proposed method using the automated procedure for the determination of the eleven rare earth elements.  相似文献   

A finite element-spherical harmonics model for radiative transfer in inhomogeneous clouds.: Part II. Some applications     

P. A. Cook  C. R. E. de Oliveira  J. D. Haigh  A. J. Goddard 《Atmospheric Research》2004,72(1-4):223

EVENT has been used to examine the effects of 3D cloud structure, distribution, and inhomogeneity on the scattering of visible solar radiation and the resulting 3D radiation field. Large eddy simulation and aircraft measurements are used to create realistic cloud fields which are continuous or broken with smooth or uneven tops. The values, patterns and variance in the resulting downwelling and upwelling radiation from incident visible solar radiation at different angles are then examined and compared to measurements. The results from EVENT confirm that 3D cloud structure is important in determining the visible radiation field, and that these results are strongly influenced by the solar zenith angle. The results match those from other models using visible solar radiation, and are supported by aircraft measurements of visible radiation, providing confidence in the new model.  相似文献   

Impulsive Dirac‐delta forces in the rocking motion     

F. Prieto  P. B. Loureno  C. S. Oliveira 《地震工程与结构动力学》2004,33(7):839-857

In this work the classical theory of one block rocking motion is revisited. A Dirac‐delta type interaction as impact mechanism is found to be an alternative for the traditional model. Numerical computations with this new formulation have shown that the agreement with the classical theory is excellent for the case of slender blocks and small displacements. Good agreement with experimental data has also been found for the case of arbitrary angles and slenderness. The approach presented in this paper opens new lines for further theoretical developments and computational applications. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Rotational components of surface strong ground motion     

Carlos S. Oliveira  Bruce A. Bolt 《地震工程与结构动力学》1989,18(4):517-526

Rotational components of seismic waves have been estimated using the strong motion array in Taiwan, SMART-1. The inner rings of accelerographs, covering an approximately circular area of 3 km², permit a decomposition of travelling waves with wavelengths in the range 0.5 to 5.0 km and frequencies from 0.1 to 5 Hz. Rotational components of the strain field, obtained from station pairs and averaged over the array using stacking techniques, were computed for five different earthquakes with M_s magnitude 5.7 to 7.8, and epicentral distances 6 to 84 km. The results indicate peak rotation values about a vertical axis on the order of 4 × 10^?5 rad at an approximately 2.5 s period. The measured values for pure rotation and rocking are in agreement with the spatial coherency structure observed in these earthquakes. For comparison, significant effects to engineered structures generally appear when curl u > 10^?4 rad. The estimates are important for design of scaled engineered models for soil-structure interaction experiments.  相似文献   

Energy Group optimization for forward and inverse problems in nuclear engineering: application to downwell-logging problems     

Elsa Aristodemou  Christopher Pain  Cassiano de Oliveira  Adrian Umpleby  Tony Goddard  Christopher Harris 《Geophysical Prospecting》2006,54(2):99-120

Simulating radiation transport of neutral particles (neutrons and γ‐ray photons) within subsurface formations has been an area of research in the nuclear well‐logging community since the 1960s, with many researchers exploiting existing computational tools already available within the nuclear reactor community. Deterministic codes became a popular tool, with the radiation transport equation being solved using a discretization of phase‐space of the problem (energy, angle, space and time). The energy discretization in such codes is based on the multigroup approximation, or equivalently the discrete finite‐difference energy approximation. One of the uncertainties, therefore, of simulating radiation transport problems, has become the multigroup energy structure. The nuclear reactor community has tackled the problem by optimizing existing nuclear cross‐sectional libraries using a variety of group‐collapsing codes, whilst the nuclear well‐logging community has relied, until now, on libraries used in the nuclear reactor community. However, although the utilization of such libraries has been extremely useful in the past, it has also become clear that a larger number of energy groups were available than was necessary for the well‐logging problems. It was obvious, therefore, that a multigroup energy structure specific to the needs of the nuclear well‐logging community needed to be established. This would have the benefit of reducing computational time (the ultimate aim of this work) for both the stochastic and deterministic calculations since computational time increases with the number of energy groups. We, therefore, present in this study two methodologies that enable the optimization of any multigroup neutron–γ energy structure. Although we test our theoretical approaches on nuclear well‐logging synthetic data, the methodologies can be applied to other radiation transport problems that use the multigroup energy approximation. The first approach considers the effect of collapsing the neutron groups by solving the forward transport problem directly using the deterministic code EVENT, and obtaining neutron and γ‐ray fluxes deterministically for the different group‐collapsing options. The best collapsing option is chosen as the one which minimizes the effect on the γ‐ray spectrum. During this methodology, parallel processing is implemented to reduce computational times. The second approach uses the uncollapsed output from neural network simulations in order to estimate the new, collapsed fluxes for the different collapsing cases. Subsequently, an inversion technique is used which calculates the properties of the subsurface, based on the collapsed fluxes. The best collapsing option is chosen as the one that predicts the subsurface properties with a minimal error. The fundamental difference between the two methodologies relates to their effect on the generated γ‐rays. The first methodology takes the generation of γ‐rays fully into account by solving the transport equation directly. The second methodology assumes that the reduction of the neutron groups has no effect on the γ‐ray fluxes. It does, however, utilize an inversion scheme to predict the subsurface properties reliably, and it looks at the effect of collapsing the neutron groups on these predictions. Although the second procedure is favoured because of (a) the speed with which a solution can be obtained and (b) the application of an inversion scheme, its results need to be validated against a physically more stringent methodology. A comparison of the two methodologies is therefore given.  相似文献