The Depth of Fractures and Active Ground-Water Flow in a Clayey Till Plain in Southwestern Ontario   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

W. W. Ruland  J. A. Cherry  Stan Feenstra 《Ground water》1991,29(3):405-417

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A Method for Assessing Residual NAPL Based on Organic Chemical Concentrations in Soil Samples   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Stan Feenstra  Douglas M. Mackay  John A. Cherry 《Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation》1991,11(2):128-136

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Determination of Rare Earth Elements and Yttrium in Nine Geochemical Reference Samples Using a Novel Group Separation Procedure Involving Mixed-Acid Elution Ion-Exchange Chromatography   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Ian W. CROUDACE  Stan MARSHALL 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》1991,15(1):139-144

Rare earth data for nine well-known geochemical reference samples were obtained using a rapid and efficient cation exchange chromatographic separation procedure. It involves the use of a mixed-acid eluent (HCI and HNO3) on a 15 x 1 cm column of Bio-Rad AG50–X8 (200–400 mesh) to remove matrix and many trace elements from rock solutions. The rare earth elements are removed from the column using 60 ml 7M HNO3. The pre-concentration procedure described is routinely used in this laboratory for the determination of the rare earth elements by mass spectrometry-isotope dilution, and has been satisfactorily used for their determination using inductively-coupled plasma-source atomic emission spectrometry.  相似文献   

THE IMPACT OF A DIAGNOSTIC CLOUD SCHEME ON FORECASTS WITH A GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE MODEL          下载免费PDF全文

T. L. Hart  Zheng Qinglin  W. Bourke 《Acta Meteorologica Sinica》1990,4(1):38-50

Experiments were conducted to test the impact of a cloud diagnosis scheme in place of prescribed zonalaverage cloud on medium and long range integrations with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology ResearchCentre(BMRC)global atmosphere model.The cloud scheme was shown to improve the temperature bias inthe lower troposphere but there was deterioration in the upper troposphere,especially in the tropics,asso-ciated with underestimation of high cloud amount.Thirty day mean fields in a January integration showed greater amplitude in the Northern Hemisphereplanetary waves and a deeper Antarctic circumpolar trough than the control experiment or a simulation withno cloud.The results for the diagnosed cloud case agree more closely with corresponding observed fields.There was also some reduction in the zonal average zonal wind component reflecting the additional zonalasymmetry introduced by the diagnostic cloud scheme.Similar trends were also noted in medium and longrange forecasts for January and July conditions,although the impact on predictive skill was slight and insome cases detrimental.Areas for improving the diagnostic cloud scheme are noted.  相似文献   

Spatial and Temporal Variability in Estuary Habitat Use by American Alligators     

Ikuko Fujisaki  Kristen M. Hart  Michael S. Cherkiss  Frank J. Mazzotti  Jeff S. Beauchamp  Brian M. Jeffery  Laura A. Brandt 《Estuaries and Coasts》2016,39(5):1561-1569

Estuarine habitat occupied by Alligator mississippiensis, a primarily freshwater species, is spatially and temporally heterogeneous largely due to a salinity gradient that fluctuates. Using long-term night light survey data, we examined seasonal patterns in alligators’ habitat use by size classes in midstream and downstream estuary zones of Shark River, Everglades National Park, in southern Florida. We observed predominantly large-sized alligators (total length?≥?1.75 m); observations of alligators in the small size classes (0.5 m?≤?total length?<?1.25 m) were rare especially in the higher-salinity downstream zone. The density of alligators in the downstream zone was lower than that of the midstream zone during the dry season when salinity increases due to reduced precipitation. Conversely, the density of the large size alligators was higher in the downstream zone than in the midstream zone during the wet season, likely because of reduced salinity. We also found a significant declining trend over time in the number of alligators in the dry season, which coincides with the reported decline in alligator relative density in southern Florida freshwater wetlands. Our results indicated high adaptability of alligators to the fluctuating habitat conditions. Use of estuaries by alligators is likely driven in part by physiology and possibly by reproductive cycle, and our results supported their opportunistic use of estuary habitat and ontogenetic niche shifts.  相似文献   

Investigation of a eutrophic tidal basin: part 2nutrients and environmental aspects     

H. A. C. Montgomery  P. G. Soulsby  I. C. Hart  S. L. Wright 《Marine environmental research》1985,15(4):285-302

The eutrophication of Langstone Harbour, a large tidal basin, has been studied by statistically designed nutrient surveys. Rates of input of nutrients from the sea, from effluent discharges and from other sources, have been estimated. Sediment/water interactions have been shown to be important in the phosphate budget of the basin, but they are less important in the nitrogen budget. Deductions were made about the relative importance of the various inputs and processes affecting concentrations of nutrients in the water column.It is concluded that ecologically or aesthetically detrimental growths of macroalgae are unlikely to occur in Langstone Harbour in the foreseeable future and that the removal of nutrient inputs, formerly thought to be necessary, will not, in fact, be required.The principles of the experimental design and of interpreting the data are of general applicability to tidal waters where the ratio of natural to man-made inputs needs to be known, where eutrophication is, or is expected to become, a problem, or where the progressive accumulation of nutrients by recycling is suspected.  相似文献   

A laboratory study of baroclinic instability     

J. E. Hart 《地球物理与天体物理流体动力学》2013,107(1):181-209

Abstract

Experimental and theoretical results are presented for a simple system which exhibits baroclinic instability. We consider the motion of two immiscible fluids with densities ρ ₁ and ρ ₂ contained in a cylinder rotating with angular frequency ω. The motion is driven by a contact lid rotating with frequency ω + ω. In this paper ω, ω, 2(ρ ₂ – ρ ₁)/(ρ ₂ + ρ ₁), and the geometry are such that the interface does not intersect the “ground” (e.g. an almost horizontal boundary). The motions are described by two-layer quasi-geostrophic equations which are identical, except perhaps for the presence of interfacial friction and tension, with those used in meteorology and oceanography. For small enough internal Froude number F = 4ω² L ²/(g(Δρ/ρ)H) or small enough Rossby number ? = ω/2ω the flow is steady and axisymmetric, the velocity field in each layer being determined primarily by frictional effects in top, bottom, and interfacial Ekman layers. For certain (F, ?) the flow becomes non-axisymmetric. The transition points for the case where the basic potential vorticity gradient is due to interface slope alone have been carefully measured and are in very good agreement with a linear instability theory which neglects sidewall effects. Some preliminary observations of supercritical motion, which include repeatable amplitude and wavenumber vacillation, are reported.  相似文献   

The Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS)     

Michael Dopita  John Hart  Peter McGregor  Patrick Oates  Gabe Bloxham  Damien Jones 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,310(3-4):255-268

This paper describes the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS) under construction at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) of the Australian National University (ANU) for the ANU 2.3 m telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory. WiFeS is a powerful integral field, double-beam, concentric, image-slicing spectrograph designed to deliver excellent throughput, wavelength stability, spectrophotometric performance and superb image quality along with wide spectral coverage throughout the 320–950 nm wavelength region. It provides a 25×38 arcsec field with 0.5 arcsec sampling along each of twenty five 38×1 arcsec slitlets. The output format is optimized to match the 4096×4096 pixel CCD detectors in each of two cameras individually optimized for the blue and the red ends of the spectrum, respectively. A process of “interleaved nod-and-shuffle” will be applied to permit quantum noise-limited sky subtraction. Using VPH gratings, spectral resolutions of 3000 and 7000 are provided. The full spectral range is covered in a single exposure at R=3000, and in two exposures in the R=7000 mode. The use of transmissive coated optics, VPH gratings and optimized mirror coatings ensures a throughput (including telescope atmosphere and detector) >30% over a wide spectral range. The concentric image-slicer design ensures an excellent and uniform image quality across the full field. To maximize scientific return, the whole instrument is configured for remote observing, pipeline data reduction, and the accumulation of calibration image libraries.  相似文献   

Statoliths     

Malcolm B. Hart 《Geology Today》2019,35(3):115-118

Statoliths, in modern cephalopods, are the paired calcareous ‘stones’ that lie in two adjacent cavities (or statocysts) within the cartilage of the head. The stones are generally 0.5–2.0 mm in length and appear to be formed of aragonite. Statoliths often co‐occur with fish otoliths, and being of similar appearance, size, colour, etc., this has caused confusion in the past. It was only towards the latter part of the twentieth century that it was recognized that statoliths could occur as fossils.  相似文献   

Simulation of the South American climate by a coupled model with super-parameterized convection     

V. Krishnamurthy  Cristiana Stan 《Climate Dynamics》2015,44(9-10):2369-2382

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