Integration of magnetism and heavy metal chemistry of soils to quantify the environmental pollution in Kathmandu, Nepal   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pitambar  Gautam  Ulrich  Blaha  Erwin  Appel 《Island Arc》2005,14(4):424-435

Abstract Soil profiles of the Kathmandu urban area exhibit significant variations in magnetic susceptibility (χ) and saturation isothermal remanence (SIRM), which can be used to discriminate environmental pollution. Magnetic susceptibility can be used to delineate soil intervals by depth into normal (< 10^?7 m³/kg), moderately enhanced (10^?7–< 10^?6 m³/kg) and highly enhanced (≥ 10^?6 m³/kg). Soils far from roads and industrial sites commonly fall into the ‘normal’ category. Close to a road corridor, soils at depths of several centimeters have the highest χ, which remains high within the upper 20 cm interval, and decreases with depth through ‘moderately magnetic’ to ‘normal’ at approximately 30–40 cm. Soils in the upper parts of profiles in urban recreational parks have moderate χ. Soil SIRM has three components of distinct median acquisition fields (B_1/2): soft (30–50 mT, magnetite‐like phase), intermediate (120–180 mT, probably maghemite or soft coercivity hematite) and hard (550–600 mT, hematite). Close to the daylight surface, SIRM is dominated by a soft component, implying that urban pollution results in enrichment by a magnetite‐like phase. Atomic absorption spectrometry of soils from several profiles for heavy metals reveals remarkable variability (ratio of maximum to minimum contents) of Cu (16.3), Zn (14.8) and Pb (9.3). At Rani Pokhari, several metals are well correlated with χ, as shown by a linear relationship between the logarithmic values. At Ratna Park, however, both χ and SIRM show significant positive correlation with Zn, Pb and Cu, but poor and even negative correlation with Fe (Mn), Cr, Ni and Co. Such differences result from a variety of geogenic, pedogenic, biogenic and man‐made factors, which vary in time and space. Nevertheless, for soil profiles affected by pollution (basically traffic‐related), χ exhibits a significant linear relationship with a pollution index based on the contents of some urban elements (Cu, Pb, Zn), and therefore it serves as an effective parameter for quantifying the urban pollution.  相似文献   

Deep crustal structure in central India using magnetotelluric studies   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

S. G. Gokarn  C. K. Rao  Gautam Gupta  B. P. Singh  M. Yamashita 《Geophysical Journal International》2001,144(3):685-694

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Alternative PWM-estimators of the Gumbel distribution     

Peter F. Rasmussen  Navin Gautam 《Journal of Hydrology》2003,280(1-4):265-271

Probability weighted moments (PWM) are widely used in hydrology for estimating parameters of statistical distributions, including the Gumbel distribution. The classical PWM-approach considers the moments β_i=E[XFⁱ] with i=0,1 for estimation of the Gumbel scale and location parameters. However, there is no reason why these probability weights (F⁰ and F¹) should provide the most efficient PWM-estimators of Gumbel parameters and quantiles. We explore an extended class of PWMs that does not impose arbitrary restrictions on the values of i. Estimation based on the extended class of PWMs is called the generalized method of probability weighted moments (GPWM) to distinguish it from the classical procedure. In fact, our investigation demonstrates that it may be advantage to use weight functions that are not of the form Fⁱ. We propose an alternative PWM-estimator of the Gumbel distribution that maintains the computational simplicity of the classical PWM method, but provides slightly more accurate quantile estimates in terms of mean square error of estimation. A simple empirical formula for the standard error of the proposed quantile estimator is presented.  相似文献   

Hindoli Group of Rocks in the Eastern Fringe of the Aravalli-Delhi Orogenic Belt-Archean Secondary Greenstone Belt or Proterozoic Supracrus tals?     

M. Deb  Ralph Thorpe  Dragan Krstic 《Gondwana Research》2002,5(4):879-883

The very low-grade metamorphic sequence of volcano-sedimentary rocks, sandwiched between the platform sediments of the Vindhyan Supergroup to the east and the Banded Gneissic Complex (BGC) to the west, in the eastern fringe of the Aravalli-Delhi orogenic belt, has remained a stratigraphic enigma in the Precambrian geology of Rajasthan. This sequence known earlier as the Gwalior ‘series’ and in contemporary literature as the Hindoli Group, has been considered by several workers as a Proterozoic supracrustal unit and by some others, as an Archean secondary greenstone belt, based purely on geological considerations. U-Pb zircon geochronology was conducted to find an answer to this controversy on samples of felsic volcanics, conformably intercalated with the Hindoli sediments and hence, considered contemporaneous with them. Zircons from a sample of massive rhyodacite gave a concordia age of 1854k7 Ma though zircons from a sample of felsic tuff gave a wide range of ages between 3259-1877 Ma. Careful consideration of the nature of the samples and their constituent zircons suggests that the Hindoli Group rocks represent a low-grade Proterozoic supracrustal cover sequence in the eastern part of the Bhilwara belt, broadly synchronous to the Aravalli-Bhilwara sedimentation around 1.8 Ga.  相似文献   

Solution of the equation of transfer for coherent scattering in an exponential atmosphere by Eddington's method     

S. Karanjai  T. K. Deb 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1991,178(2):299-302

An approximate solution of the transfer equation for coherent scattering in stellar atmospheres with Planck's function as a nonlinear function of optical depth, viz., $$B_v \left( T \right) = b_0 + b_1 e^{ - \beta \tau } $$ is obtained by Eddington's method. is obtained by Eddington's method.  相似文献   

A Case Study of Turbulence in the Nocturnal Boundary Layer During the Indian Summer Monsoon     

Pramit Kumar Deb Burman  Thara V. Prabha  Ross Morrison  Anandakumar Karipot 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2018,169(1):115-138

Observations from the Cloud-Aerosol Interaction and Precipitation Enhancement Experiment-Integrated Ground Observation Campaign (CAIPEEX-IGOC) provide a rare opportunity to investigate nocturnal atmospheric surface-layer processes and surface-layer turbulent characteristics associated with the low-level jet (LLJ). Here, an observational case study of the nocturnal boundary layer is presented during the peak monsoon season over Peninsular India using data collected over a single night representative of the synoptic conditions of the Indian summer monsoon. Datasets based on Doppler lidar and eddy-covariance are used for this purpose. The LLJ is found to generate nocturnal turbulence by introducing mechanical shear at higher levels within the boundary layer. Sporadic and intermittent turbulent events observed during this period are closely associated with large eddies at the scale of the height of the jet nose. Flux densities in the stable boundary layer are observed to become non-local under the influence of the LLJ. Different turbulence regimes are identified, along with transitions between turbulent periods and intermittency. Wavelet analysis is used to elucidate the presence of large-scale eddies and associated intermittency during nocturnal periods in the surface layer. Although the LLJ is a regional-scale phenomenon it has far reaching consequences with regard to surface-atmosphere exchange processes.  相似文献   

Assessment of the impacts of climate change and brackish irrigation water on rice productivity and evaluation of adaptation measures in Ca Mau province,Vietnam     

Proloy Deb  Duong Anh Tran  Parmeshwar D. Udmale 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2016,124(3-4):641-652

This paper presents applications of the peaks-over-threshold methodology for both the univariate and the recently introduced bivariate case, combined with a novel bootstrap approach. We compare the proposed bootstrap methods to the more traditional profile likelihood. We have investigated 63 years of the European Climate Assessment daily precipitation data for five Hungarian grid points, first separately for the summer and winter months, then aiming at the detection of possible changes by investigating 20 years moving windows. We show that significant changes can be observed both in the univariate and the bivariate cases, the most recent period being the most dangerous in several cases, as some return values have increased substantially. We illustrate these effects by bivariate coverage regions.  相似文献   

Influence of strong motion characteristics on permanent displacement of slopes   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Rana Roy  Debasis Ghosh  Gautam Bhattacharya 《Landslides》2016,13(2):279-292

Landslides triggered by moderate to major earthquakes are a recognized seismic hazard. Arias Intensity (I _a) is a key intensity measure of the ground motion, but significant duration is widely used to define strong motion duration. We calculate Newmark’s displacements using earthquake records bracketing a broad range of Arias Intensity and significant duration employing Newmark’s rigid block method and a number of yield accelerations. Total landslide displacement increases with the increase in the energy content of the ground motion (I _a) above a threshold. Such threshold may be expressed as a function of yield acceleration of the slope regardless of the ground motion characteristics. Newmark displacement decreases with increasing duration for earthquakes with similar energy content. The wide scatter in the results converges when using formal dimensional analysis. Self-similar symmetry may facilitate the assessment of the performance of slopes during earthquakes. The mathematical framework for probabilistic determination of landslides displacement may be a useful aid to estimate the likelihood of landslide hazards provided that the geotechnical properties of the slopes are known.  相似文献   

Geoenvironmental impact analysis of G.B. Pant Sagar reservoir (Rihand Reservoir), U.P. and M.P.     

A M Gautam 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》1995,23(3):93-100

A comparison of aerial photointerpreted data around G.B. Pant Sagar (Rihand Reservoir) for pre-dam (1944) and post-dam (1967) periods and satellite imagery of 1988 shows that slope stability of the hills surrounding the reservoir has not been affected adversely as a result of impounding of the reservoir as no landslides are observed in the area in post-dam period. However, significant changes in the landuse of the area surrounding the reservoir are noticed in the post-dam aerial photographs and satellite imagery. Large areas show decrease in vegetation density as a result of deforestation while the areas bordering the reservoir show increase in vegetation density. The area under cultivation has decreased on the western side due to development of a number of coal fields in post-dam period. Improper management of coal ash disposal from a number of thermal power plants located around the reservoir is causing siltation of the reservoir.  相似文献   

A petrologic model for the constitution of the upper mantle and crust of the Koolau shield,Oahu, Hawaii,and Hawaiian magmatism     

Gautam Sen 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1983,62(2):215-228

A petrological model for the uppermost upper mantle and crust under the Koolau shield to a depth of about 60 km has been derived on the basis of petrology of the upper mantle and crustal xenoliths in nephelinites of the Honolulu Volcanic Series. Three main xenolith suites exist in the Koolau shield: dunites, spinel lherzolites, and garnet-bearing pyroxenites. On the basis of mineralogy, it is inferred that the dunites represent cumulates in shallow crustal tholeiitic magma chambers, the spinel lherzolites form a thick (～ 40 km) layer in the upper mantle, and the garnet pyroxenite suite occurs as veins and stringers in the spinel lherzolites at about 60 km depth.The eruption sequence in a Hawaiian volcano, i.e., tholeiite → transitional basalt → alkali basalt, is generated by partial melting of a volatile-bearing garnet-lherzolite part of a lithospheric plate as it rides over a hot spot. If the tholeiite, transitional, and alkali basalts of Hawaiian volcanoes are generated at the same depth, then the observed sequence of lavas requires replenishment of the source area with volatiles and gradual decrease of the degree of partial melting with time. Post-erosional olivine nephelinites are produced from isotopically distinct, deeper source area, which may be the asthenosphere.  相似文献