Geomorphic effects of a large flood on fluvial fans     

Pamela F. Scott  Wayne D. Erskine 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1994,19(2):95-108

The response of 12 fluvial fans near Sydney, Australia to a large storm between 2 and 4 February 1990 was determined by repeating previously surveyed longitudinal profiles and by undertaking detailed field observations of erosion and deposition. Peak rainfall intensities occurred on 3 and 4 February when between 173 and 193·8 mm were recorded. Return periods for 24 h duration peak rainfall ranged between 5·7 and 11·0 years on the annual maximum series at six stations within the study area and return periods for 48 h peak rainfall ranged between 13·5 and 29·4 years. Of the 12 fans, seven were trenched and five untrenched. The most significant geomorphic effects of the storm were recorded on the proximal region of the fans. However, fan response was highly variable, with one fan exhibiting no detectable change, three fans localized deposition, two fans spatially disjunct erosion and deposition, two fans channel avulsions, and seven fans fanhead trench reworking. Some fans exhibited more than one type of response. A four-stage, tentative cyclical model of fanhead development was constructed from the field data. Stage 1 refers to the episodic aggradation of the fanhead by localized deposition, spatially disjunct erosion and deposition and/or channel avulsions. Stage 2 represents the initiation of a fanhead trench when progressive aggradation locally exceeds a threshold slope leading to localized erosion. This erosion initially creates one or more discontinuous flow-aligned scour pools. Over time, the scour pools widen, deepen and extend both up- and downfan. Stage 3 refers to the coalescence of discontinuous scour pools into a continuous trench by the removal of intervening log and boulder steps. Stage 4 represents the backfilling phase of the trench once it has been overwidened and/or slope reduced. Aggradation then continues as for stage one.  相似文献   

The effects of mesoscale convective cells on the surface wind field over the ocean     

Hiroshi Ishida  Wayne V. Burt  Yasushi Mitsuta 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1984,29(1):75-84

Near-surface wind velocities were measured on an array of anchored spar buoys in the East China Sea in February 1975 as a part of the Japanese AMTEX '75 (Air Mass Transformation Experiment), a subprogram of GARP. These data were used to determine the effects of atmospheric convection associated with mesoscale convective cells (MCC) on near-surface winds over the ocean. When MCC were present, a peak occurred in the near-surface wind spectrum in the so-called spectral gap.  相似文献   

Mineralization of organic material and bacterial dynamics in Mississippi River plume water     

Wayne S. Gardner  James B. Cotner  Brian J. Eadie  Joann F. Cavaletto  Ronald Benner  Gerardo Chin-Leo 《Estuaries and Coasts》1994,17(4):816-828

Net remineralization rates of organic matter and bacterial growth rates were observed in dark-bottle incubation experiments conducted in July–August and February with water samples collected from sites in the Mississippi River plume of the Gulf of Mexico. Our objectives were to measure site-specific degradation rates of labile dissolved and particulate organic matter, quantify the potential importance of bacteria in these processes, and examine the kinetics of degradation over time. Unfiltered samples, and samples treated to remove (or dilute out) particles larger than bacteria, were enclosed in 9-1 bottles and incubated in the dark for 3–5 d. Respiration rates and inorganic compound accumulation rates were higher in summer than in winter and were highest in unfiltered surface samples at sites of intermediate salinities where phytoplankton were most abundant. The ratio of ammonium accumulation to oxygen removal in summer experiments suggested that the mineralized organic material resembled “Redfield” stoichiometry. Chemical fluxes were greater in bottles containing large (>1–3 μm) particles than in the bottles with these particles removed, but bacterial activities were generally similar in both treatments. These results suggest that particle consumers were an important component of total organic matter degradation. However, these experiments may have underestimated natural bacterial degradation rates because the absence of light could affect the production of labile organic substrates by phytoplankton. In agreement, with this hypothesis, bacterial growth rates tended to decrease over time in summer in surface plume waters where phytoplankton were abundant. In conjunction with other data, our results indicate that heterotrophic processes in the water column are spatially and temporally dependent on phytoplankton production.  相似文献   

An Emergency Hydrogeologic Evaluation of a Chemical Dump Site     

Greg J. Reuter  Wayne R. Saunders  Richard F. Dalton  William F. Althoff 《Ground water》1983,21(5):545-551

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Potential vorticity aspects of the MJO     

Wayne H. Schubert  Matthew T. Masarik 《Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans》2006,42(1-4):127

Considering linearized motion about a resting basic state, we derive analytical solutions of the equatorial β-plane primitive equations under the assumption that the flow is steady in a reference frame moving eastward with a diabatic forcing resembling a Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) convective envelope. The solutions are analyzed in terms of potential vorticity (PV) dynamics. Because the diabatic source term for PV contains a factor βy, the diabatic heat source is ineffective at generating a PV anomaly at the equator but maximizes the PV response near the poleward edges of the heat source. In this way a moving heat source can produce two ribbons of lower tropospheric PV anomaly, a positive one off the equator in the northern hemisphere and a negative one off the equator in the southern hemisphere, with oppositely signed PV anomalies in the upper troposphere. Associated with these PV anomalies are geopotential anomalies that are shifted several hundred kilometers poleward. In the lower troposphere these zonally elongated geopotential anomalies resemble ITCZ trough zones, which demonstrates the close connection between the MJO wake dynamics and the formation of double ITCZs.To demonstrate that the MJO wake response can be described by simple PV dynamics, we propose an invertibility principle relating the PV to the streamfunction, which in turn is locally related to the geopotential. This equatorial invertibility principle accurately recovers the balanced wind and mass fields found in the MJO wake in the primitive equation model. However, while the invertibility principle highlights the ability of simple PV dynamics to accurately describe the flow in the wake of an MJO convective envelope, it also clearly illustrates the inability of such dynamics to describe the Kelvin-like flow pattern ahead of the convection.  相似文献   

Hurricanes 2004: An overview of their characteristics and coastal change   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Asbury H. Sallenger  Hilary F. Stockdon  Laura Fauver  Mark Hansen  David Thompson  C. Wayne Wright  Jeff Lillycrop 《Estuaries and Coasts》2006,29(6):880-888

Four hurricanes battered the state of Florida during 2004, the most affecting any state since Texas endured four in 1884. Each of the storms changed the coast differently. Average shoreline change within the right front quadrant of hurricane force winds varied from 1 m of shoreline advance to 20 m of retreat, whereas average sand volume change varied from 11 to 66 m³ m⁻¹ of net loss (erosion). These changes did not scale simply with hurricane intensity as described by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. The strongest storm of the season, category 4 Hurricane Charley, had the least shoreline retreat. This was likely because of other factors like the storm's rapid forward speed and small size that generated a lower storm surge than expected. Two of the storms, Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne, affected nearly the same area on the Florida east coast just 3 wk apart. The first storm, Frances, although weaker than the second, caused greater shoreline retreat and sand volume erosion. As a consequence, Hurricane Frances may have stripped away protective beach and exposed dunes to direct wave attack during Jeanne, although there was significant dune erosion during both storms. The maximum shoreline change for all four hurricanes occurred during Ivan on the coasts of eastern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. The net volume change across a barrier island within the Ivan impact zone approached zero because of massive overwash that approximately balanced erosion of the beach. These data from the 2004 hurricane season will prove useful in developing new ways to scale and predict coastal-change effects during hurricanes.  相似文献   

Respiration and denitrification in permeable continental shelf deposits on the South Atlantic Bight: Rates of carbon and nitrogen cycling from sediment column experiments     

Alexandra M.F. Rao  Mark J. McCarthy  Wayne S. Gardner  Richard A. Jahnke 《Continental Shelf Research》2007

Nitrogen (N) cycling and respiration rates were measured in sediment columns packed with southeastern United States continental shelf sands, with high permeability (4.66×10⁻¹¹ m²) and low organic carbon (0.05%) and nitrogen (0.008%). To simulate porewater advection, natural shelf seawater was pumped through columns of different lengths to achieve fluid residence times of approximately 3, 6, and 12 h. Experiments were conducted seasonally at in situ temperature. Fluid flow was uniform in nearly all columns, with minimal dead zones and channeling. Significant respiration (O₂ consumption and ∑CO₂ production) occurred in all columns, with highest respiration rates in summer. Most (78–100%) remineralized N was released as N₂ in the majority of cases, including columns with oxic porewater throughout, with only a small fraction released as NO₃⁻ from some oxic columns. A rate of 0.84–4.83×10¹⁰ mol N yr⁻¹, equivalent to 1.06–6.09×10⁻⁶ mmol N cm⁻² h⁻¹, was calculated for benthic N₂ production in the South Atlantic Bight, which can account for a large fraction of new N inputs to this shelf region. Metal and sulfate reduction occurred in long residence time columns with anoxic outflow in summer and fall, when respiration rates were highest. Because permeable sediments dominate continental shelves, N₂ production in high permeability coastal sediments may play an important role in the global N cycle.  相似文献   

Reply to the comments by Wyatt and Berger on'Use of a bubble tiltmeter as a horizontal seismometer'by Miller et al. (1978)     

Wayne Miller 《Geophysical Journal International》1979,59(2):415-417

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Single clinopyroxene thermobarometry for garnet peridotites. Part I. Calibration and testing of a Cr-in-Cpx barometer and an enstatite-in-Cpx thermometer   总被引：5，自引：2，他引：3  

Paolo Nimis  Wayne R. Taylor 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2000,139(5):541-554

Experimental clinopyroxenes synthesized at 850–1500 °C and 0–60 kbar in the CMS and CMAS-Cr systems and in more complex lherzolitic systems have been used to calibrate a Cr-in-Cpx barometer and an enstatite-in-Cpx thermometer for Cr-diopsides derived from garnet peridotites. The experiments cover a wide range of possible natural peridotitic compositions, from fertile pyrolite to refractory, high-Cr lherzolite. The barometer is based on the Cr exchange between clinopyroxene and garnet. Pressure is formulated as a function of temperature and clinopyroxene composition: where a _CaCrTs ^Cpx=Cr−0.81·Cr#·(Na+K) and Cr#= , with elements in atoms per 6 oxygens. This formulation reproduces the experimental pressures to ±2.3 kbar (1σ) and has a temperature dependence (1.2–2.4 kbar/50 °C, varying with composition) that is weaker than that of the widely used Al-in-Opx barometer (2–3 kbar/50 °C). The enstatite-in-Cpx thermometer includes corrections for the effect of minor components and is formulated as where K)). The thermometer reproduces the experimental temperatures to ±30 °C (1σ). The uncertainties of the present formulations are comparable to, or better than, those of the most widely used thermobarometers for garnet peridotites. P-T estimates obtained for diamond-bearing and graphite-bearing lherzolite xenoliths and peridotitic clinopyroxene inclusions in kimberlitic and lamproitic diamonds confirm the reliability of the thermobarometer. Cr-diopside thermobarometry appears to be a potential tool for obtaining information on the thermal state of the upper mantle and the extent of mantle sampling by deep-seated magmas. We consider the Cr-in-Cpx barometer to be the best alternative to the Al-in-Opx barometer for the evaluation of pressure conditions of equilibration of natural garnet lherzolites. P-T conditions of equilibration can be directly retrieved from the composition of Cr-diopside alone, thus allowing application to partially altered xenoliths, inclusions in diamonds, and loose grains from sediments. We foresee application of the present thermobarometer to evaluation of the diamond potential of kimberlite and lamproite provinces and in diamond exploration where Cr-diopside from deep mantle sources is preserved in the surficial weathering environment. Received: 16 August 1999 / Accepted: 17 March 2000  相似文献   

Biofilm Formation and Effectiveness of Biosand Filtration Systems with Typical and Innovative Filter Media     

Emslie  Derek  Siddiqua  Sumi  Crawford  Bryn  Teece  Wayne 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2022,40(3):1251-1266

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering - Clean drinking water is a necessity and recycling stormwater and greywater has been more appealing in the recent decades to provide filtered water for...  相似文献