Upscaling facies models to preserve connectivity of designated facies     

Erick R. Burns  Larry R. Bentley  Rene Therrien  Clayton V. Deutsch 《Hydrogeology Journal》2010,18(6):1357-1373

An upscaling algorithm has been developed that generates an irregular coarse grid that preserves flow connectivity by applying a rule-based upscaling algorithm to a fine-scale facies distribution. The algorithm is demonstrated using stochastically generated paleo-fluvial facies distributions. First, an irregular grid honoring the channel facies is created, followed by computation of effective anisotropic parameters for all coarse-grid cells. For the apparent layer-cake geometry of overbank deposits seen in outcrop, two local upscaling methods are compared: (1) the layered system approximation and (2) the mode. To assess upscaling performance, flow simulations for the original and upscaled grids are compared. The horizontal layered approximation (arithmetic mean) performs poorly, over-predicting lateral connectivity where even infrequent disconnection becomes important. Performance of the mode as an upscaling algorithm depends on the probability that a coarse-grid cell will be dominated by a single facies, and it performs surprisingly well because the upscaled grid-generation algorithm honors the channels, informing the upscaling process. Lastly, the irregular coarse grid was compared to a uniform coarse grid, showing superior performance with the irregular grid. The reduction in grid size achieved by irregular-grid generation will be a function of the geometrical complexity of the geologic objects to be honored.  相似文献   

In situ multi-frequency measurements of magnetic susceptibility as an indicator of planetary regolith maturity     

Mark S. Bentley  Andrew J. Ball  David K. Potter  John C. Zarnecki 《Planetary and Space Science》2009,57(12):1491-1499

Space weathering is now generally accepted to modify the optical and magnetic properties of airless planetary regoliths such as those on the Moon and Mercury. Under micrometeorite and ion bombardment, ferrous iron in such surfaces is reduced to metallic iron spheres, found in amorphous coatings on almost all exposed regolith grains. The size and number distribution of these particles and their location in the regolith all determine the nature and extent of the optical and magnetic changes. These parameters in turn reflect the formation mechanisms, temperatures, and durations involved in the evolution of the regolith. Studying them in situ is of intrinsic value to understanding the weathering process, and useful for determining the maturity of the regolith and providing supporting data for interpreting remotely sensed mineralogy. Fine-grained metallic iron has a number of properties that make it amenable to magnetic techniques, of which magnetic susceptibility is the simplest and most robust. The magnetic properties of the lunar regolith and laboratory regolith analogues are therefore reviewed and the theoretical basis for the frequency dependence of magnetic susceptibility presented. Proposed here is then an instrument concept using multi-frequency measurements of magnetic susceptibility to confirm the presence of fine-grained magnetic material and attempt to infer its quantity and size distribution. Such an instrument would be invaluable on a future mission to an asteroid, the Moon, Mercury or other airless rocky Solar System body.  相似文献   

Enhancing Data Worth of EM Survey in Site Assessment by Cokriging     

Kevin P. Parks  Laurence R. Bentley 《Ground water》1996,34(4):597-604

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The Bragg Crystal Spectrometer for SOLAR-A     

J. L. Culhane  E. Hiei  G. A. Doschek  A. M. Cruise  Y. Ogawara  Y. Uchida  R. D. Bentley  C. M. Brown  J. Lang  T. Watanabe  J. A. Bowles  R. D. Deslattes  U. Feldman  A. Fludra  P. Guttridge  A. Henins  J. Lapington  J. Magraw  J. T. Mariska  J. Payne  K. J. H. Phillips  P. Sheather  K. Slater  K. Tanaka  E. Towndrow  M. W. Trow  A. Yamaguchi 《Solar physics》1991,136(1):89-104

The Bragg Crystal Spectrometer (BCS) is one of the instruments which makes up the scientific payload of the SOLAR-A mission. The spectrometer employs four bent germanium crystals, views the whole Sun and observes the resonance line complexes of H-like Fexxvi and He-like Fexxv, Caxix, and Sxv in four narrow wavelength ranges with a resolving power (/) of between 3000 and 6000. The spectrometer has approaching ten times better sensitivity than that of previous instruments thus permitting a time resolution of better than 1 s to be achieved. The principal aim is the measurement of the properties of the 10 to 50 million K plasma created in solar flares with special emphasis on the heating and dynamics of the plasma during the impulsive phase. This paper summarizes the scientific objectives of the BCS and describes the design, characteristics, and performance of the spectrometers.After the launch the name of SOLAR-A has been changed to YOHKOH.Tragically Professor K. Tanaka died on January 2, 1990.  相似文献   

A model for Holocene retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet     

Robert H. Thomas  Charles R. Bentley 《Quaternary Research》1978,10(2):150-170

Marine ice sheets are grounded on land which was below sea level before it became depressed under the ice-sheet load. They are inherently unstable and, because of bedrock topography after depression, the collapse of a marine ice sheet may be very rapid. In this paper equations are derived that can be used to make a quantitative estimate of the maximum size of a marine ice sheet and of when and how rapidly retreat would take place under prescribed conditions. Ice-sheet growth is favored by falling sea level and uplift of the seabed. In most cases the buttressing effect of a partially grounded ice shelf is a prerequisite for maximum growth out to the edge of the continental shelf. Collapse is triggered most easily by eustatic rise in sea level, but it is possible that the ice sheet may self-destruct by depressing the edge of the continental shelf so that sea depth is increased at the equilibrium grounding line.Application of the equations to a hypothetical “Ross Ice Sheet” that 18,000 yr ago may have covered the present-day Ross Ice Shelf indicates that, if the ice sheet existed, it probably extended to a line of sills parallel to the edge of the Ross Sea continental shelf. By allowing world sea level to rise from its late-Wisconsin minimum it was possible to calculate retreat rates for individual ice streams that drained the “Ross Ice Sheet.” For all the models tested, retreat began soon after sea level began to rise (～15,000 yr B.P.). The first 100 km of retreat took between 1500 and 2500 yr but then retreat rates rapidly accelerated to between 0.5 and 25 km yr^?1, depending on whether an ice shelf was present or not, with corresponding ice velocities across the grounding line of 4 to 70 km yr^?1. All models indicate that most of the present-day Ross Ice Shelf was free of grounded ice by about 7000 yr B.P. As the ice streams retreated floating ice shelves may have formed between promontories of slowly collapsing stagnant ice left behind by the rapidly retreating ice streams. If ice shelves did not form during retreat then the analysis indicates that most of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would have collapsed by 9000 yr B.P. Thus, the present-day Ross Ice Shelf (and probably the Ronne Ice Shelf) serves to stabilize the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which would collapse very rapidly if the ice shelves were removed. This provides support for the suggestion that the 6-m sea-level high during the Sangamon Interglacial was caused by collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet after climatic warming had sufficiently weakened the ice shelves. Since the West Antarctic Ice Sheet still exists it seems likely that ice shelves did form during Holocene retreat. Their effect was to slow and, finally, to halt retreat. The models that best fit available data require a rather low shear stress between the ice shelf and its sides, and this implies that rapid shear in this region encouraged the formation of a band of ice with a preferred crystal fabric, as appears to be happening today in the floating portions of fast bounded glaciers.Rebound of the seabed after the ice sheet had retreated to an equilibrium position would allow the ice sheet to advance once more. This may be taking place today since analysis of data from the Ross Ice Shelf indicates that the southeast corner is probably growing thicker with time, and if this persists then large areas of ice shelf must become grounded. This would restrict drainage from West Antarctic ice streams which would tend to thicken and advance their grounding lines into the ice shelf.  相似文献   

Resik: A Bent Crystal X-ray Spectrometer for Studies of Solar Coronal Plasma Composition     

J. Sylwester  I. Gaicki  Z. Kordylewski  M. Kowaliński  S. Nowak  S. Płocieniak  M. Siarkowski  B. Sylwester  W. Trzebiński  J. Bakała  J. L. Culhane  M. Whyndham  R. D. Bentley  P. R. Guttridge  K. J. H. Phillips  J. Lang  C. M. Brown  G. A. Doschek  V. D. Kuznetsov  V. N. Oraevsky  A. I. Stepanov  D. V. Lisin 《Solar physics》2005,226(1):45-72

We describe the RESIK (REntgenovsky Spektrometr s Izognutymi Kristalami) instrument, consisting of two double-channel X-ray spectrometers, designed to observe solar active region and flare plasmas. RESIK is one of the instruments making up the scientific payload of the Russian CORONAS-F solar mission. The uncollimated spectrometer uses two silicon and two quartz bent crystals observing flare, active region and coronal spectra in four wavelength bands with a resolving power (/ ) of 1000. The wavelength coverage, 3.3–6.1 Å, includes emission lines of Si, S, Cl, Ar, and K and in the third diffraction order, the wavelength range includes He-like Fe lines (1.85 Å) and Ni lines (1.55 Å) with dielectronic satellites, emitted during intense, hot flares. The instrument is believed to be the best calibrated space-borne crystal spectrometer flown to date. The spectrometer dynamically adjusts the data gathering intervals from 1 s to 5 minutes, depending on the level of solar X-ray emission at the time of observation. The principal aims of RESIK are the measurements of relative and absolute element abundances in the emitting plasma and the temperature distribution of plasma (differential emission measure) over the temperature interval 3 and 50 MK. This paper summarizes the scientific objectives of RESIK and describes the design, characteristics, and performance of the instrument.  相似文献   

Filament Recognition and Image Cleaning on Meudon Hα Spectroheliograms     

Nicolas?FullerEmail author  Jean?Aboudarham  R.?D.?Bentley 《Solar physics》2005,227(1):61-73

This paper presents the techniques developed for the automated detection of filaments on Meudon H spectroheliograms, and, by extension, on any full-disk H Sun observations. Some cleaning processes are first applied to the images to correct them from defects characteristic of the instrument. Indeed, these defects may lead to spurious detections. From the cleaned images, filament areas are then segmented using a region growing method which efficiently returns the full extent of these dark areas. The filaments are finally described by means of their pruned skeleton. This representation allows one to compare the automatically segmented filaments with those manually recorded for Meudon Synoptic Maps. The very good agreement observed on a representative set of images confirms that this method can effectively be used in the frame of the EGSO (European Grid of Solar Observations) project in order to produce a reliable catalog dedicated to solar features.  相似文献   

Temperature structure of active regions deduced from the helium-like sulphur lines     

Tetsuya Watanabe  Hirohisa Haka  Toshifumi Shimizu  Eijiro Hiei  Robert D. Bentley  James Lang  Kenneth J. H. Phillips  C. David Pike  Andrzej Fludra  Barbara J. I. Bromage  John T. Mariska 《Solar physics》1995,157(1-2):169-184

Solar active-region temperatures have been determined from the full-Sun spectra of helium-like sulphur (Sxv) observed by the Bragg Crystal Spectrometer on board theYohkoh satellite. The average temperature deduced from Sxv is demonstrated to vary with the solar activity level: A temperature of 2.5 × 10⁶ K is derived from the spectra taken during low solar activity, similar to the general corona, while 4 × 10⁶ K is obtained during a higher activity phase. For the latter, the high-temperature tail of the differential emission measure of active regions is found most likely due to the superposition of numerous flare-like events (micro/nano-flares).  相似文献   

Analyses of iron oxide assemblages within Namib dune sediments using high field remanence measurements (9 T) and Mössbauer analysis     

John Walden  Kevin H. White  Susan H. Kilcoyne  Phillip M. Bentley 《第四纪科学杂志》2000,15(2):185-195

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The Availability of Critical Minerals for China’s Renewable Energy Development: An Analysis of Physical Supply     

Wang  Jianliang  Yang  Lifang  Lin  Jingli  Bentley  Yongmei 《Natural Resources Research》2020,29(4):2291-2306

Natural Resources Research - In the context of depletion of fossil energy and environmental impacts of its use, society has begun to develop vigorously renewable energy (RE). As a result, concerns...  相似文献