Longitudinal velocity patterns and bed morphology interaction in a rill   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Rafael Gimnez  Olivier Planchon  Norbert Silvera  Gerard Govers 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2004,29(1):105-114

Present‐day understanding of rill dynamics is hampered by a lack of detailed data on velocity distributions in rills. The latter are dif?cult to collect with traditional techniques due to the very low water depths and the relatively high ?ow velocities in rills. The objectives of this paper were to investigate the feasibility of miniaturized acoustic Doppler velocimeter (mADV) measurements in rill ?ow and to explore longitudinal variations in ?ow velocities and their relationship with rill bed morphology. Detailed data on longitudinal ?ow velocity were required to achieve these objectives. A 1·8 m long rill was formed freely in a ?ume at 5° slope and 0·001 m³ s^?1 discharge. Rill topography was characterized by an alternation of steps and pools. The ?ume surface was then ?xed to preserve rill roughness. A topographical scanning of the entire ?ume surface was made. Velocity was measured with a mADV along the rill, and at different depths. Flow depth in a longitudinal direction was also measured using an elevation gauge. A strong relationship exists between rill topography and ?ow hydraulics. Over steps, ?ow was unidirectional and rapidly accelerating until a threshold Froude number (Fn) value between 1·3 and 1·7 was reached and a hydraulic jump occurred leading to the formation of a pool. In the pool, the ?ow pattern was multidirectional and complex. The ?ow was subcritical when leaving the pool and accelerated over the next step until the threshold Froude number value was again reached. Energy loss in the rill was concentrated in the pools, mainly due to the action of a hydraulic jump. This mechanism of energy dissipation appeared to be an essential factor in rill formation and bedform evolution. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

The influence of both process descriptions and runoff patterns on predictions from a spatially distributed soil erosion model     

Ingrid Takken  Gerard Govers  Victor Jetten  Jeroen Nachtergaele  An Steegen  Jean Poesen 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2005,30(2):213-229

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HST imaging of the globular clusters in the Fornax cluster: NGC 1379     

Rebecca A. W.Elson  Carl J.Grillmair  Duncan A.Forbes  MikeRabban  Gerard M.Williger  Jean P.Brodie 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,295(1):240-250

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The binary star population of the young cluster NGC 1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud     

Rebecca A. W. Elson  Steinn Sigurdsson  Melvyn Davies  Jarrod Hurley  & Gerard Gilmore 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,300(3):857-862

We determine the binary star fraction as a function of radius in NGC 1818, a young rich cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, using Hubble Space Telescope images in bands F336W (∼ U ) and F555W (∼ V ). Our sample includes binaries with M _primary ∼ 2–5.5 M_⊙ and M _secondary ≳ 0.7 M_primary. The binary fraction increases towards the cluster centre, from ∼ 20 ± 5 per cent in the outer parts, to ∼ 35 ± 5 per cent inside the core. This increase is consistent with dynamical mass segregation and need not be primordial. We compare our results with expectations from N -body models, and discuss the implications for the formation and early evolution of such clusters.  相似文献   

Convective scaling of the average dissipation rate of temperature variance in the atmospheric surface layer     

Gerard Kiely  John D. Albertson  Marc B. Parlance  William E. Eichinger 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1996,77(3-4):267-284

The flux of sensible heat from the land surface is related to the average rate of dissipation of temperature fluctuations in the atmospheric surface layer through the temperature variance budget equation. In many cases it is desirable to estimate the heat flux from measurement or inference of the dissipation rate. Here we study how the dissipation rate scales with atmospheric stability, using three inertial range methods to calculate the dissipation rate: power spectra, second order structure functions, and third order structure functions. Experimental data are analyzed from a pair of field experiments, during which turbulent fluctuations of velocity and temperature were measured over a broad range of neutral and unstable atmospheric flows. It is shown that the temperature dissipation rate scales with a single convective power law continuously from near-neutral to strongly unstable stratification. The dissipation scaling is found to nearly match production in the near-neutral region, but to be consistently lower than production in the more convective regimes. The convective scaling is shown to offer a simplified means of computing sensible heat flux from the dissipation rate of temperature variance.Also at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MarylandAlso at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.  相似文献   

Causes of low-frequency ground motion amplification in the Salt Lake Basin: the case of the vertically incident P wave     

Kim B. Olsen  Gerard T. Schuster 《Geophysical Journal International》1995,122(3):1045-1061

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Oxygen-containing functional groups in land-derived humic acids—I. Evaluation by derivatization methods     

J.M. Portal  P. Pillon  P. Jeanson  B. Gerard 《Organic Geochemistry》1986,9(6)

Determinations of reactive oxygen-containing functional groups were performed by usual chemical derivatization methods of four humic acids isolated from soils and deltaic sediments. Statistical tests and calculations based on elemental analysis demonstrated the validity and limits of these techniques and allowed us to identify from 60 to 71% of the total humic oxygen. Oxygen budgets of humic acids are discussed.  相似文献   

Oxygen-containing functional groups in land-derived humic acids—II. Changes in the oxygen distribution of humic acids during early diagenesis as revealed by derivatization methods     

P. Pillon  J.M. Portal  B. Gerard  P. Jeanson  L. Jocteur-Monrozier   《Organic Geochemistry》1986,9(6)

Extensive functional group analyses were performed on humic acids representative of eight increasing depth levels from a core drilled in the Mahakam delta (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). Oxygen amounts decrease observed during early diagenesis was related chiefly to loss of hydroxyl (lignol?) groups. Comparison between upper and deeper levels shows the following variations: hydroxyl group abundances go from 19 to 6% of humic oxygen. Identified functional groups amounts represent 47 to 32% of weight of moisture- and ash-free humic acids. No evidence of decarboxylation of humic material was detected.  相似文献   

Immunological studies on microbial mats from Solar Lake (Sinai)— A contribution to the organic geochemistry of sediments     

G. Muyzer  S. De Koster  Y. Van Zijl  J.J. Boon  P. Westbroek 《Organic Geochemistry》1986,10(4-6)

Immunological and biochemical techniques were used to investigate organic matter in microbial mats from Solar Lake (Sinai, Egypt). Antibodies, elicited in rabbits against samples taken at different depths from a core of these mats, were used for the detection of immunological determinants preserved in these samples. Special attention was given to an antiserum directed against a top mat fraction (3–10 mm depth) and an antiserum against a fraction from a lower section of the core (380–390 mm depth). Both antisera, tested in a dot-blot immunobinding assay, were found to give positive reactions with organic matter from different depths of the sediment. An immunohistochemical experiment with the antisera points to antigenic determinants on Recent and subfossil sheaths of Microcoleus. In addition, extracts of sediment samples were submitted to electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels in order to characterize the separated macromolecules by immunological means. The results showed a rapid decrease in the number of antigenic determinants from Recent to subfossil samples. However, even in the deepest layers of the sediment (690–700 mm depth) intact biopolymers were detected.  相似文献   

Asbestos in lake and reservoir waters of Staten Island,New York: Source,concentration, mineralogy,and size distribution     

Gerard P. Maresca  John H. Puffer  Mark Germine 《Environmental Geology》1984,6(4):201-210

There is strong evidence indicating that the six commonly recognized varieties of asbestos are cancer-producing agents Epidemiological and experimental data indicate that, although response to inhalation exposure is most marked, exposure by ingestion probably also entails a risk of excess tumor incidence. The toxicity of mineral fibers can be related to fiber dimensions, mineralogy, chemistry, and surface-active properties. In the Silver Lake Reservoir in Staten Island, New York, where chrysotile from serpentinite bedrock exposures is a potential source of contamination, chrysotile asbestos levels of 15 to 86 million fibers per liter (MFL) were measured, with an average of 53 MFL Much lower levels (average 0 3 MFL) were observed in small lakes and ponds with clayey bottoms on the Staten Island Serpentinite.  相似文献