Reply to J.J. Muñoz-Perez et al. Comments on “Confirmation of beach accretion by grain-size trend analysis: Camposoto beach, Cádiz, SW Spain” by E. Poizot et al. (2013) Geo-Marine Letters 33(4)     

Emmanuel Poizot  Giorgio Anfuso  Yann Méar  Carlos Bellido 《Geo-Marine Letters》2014,34(1):79-83

In a novel finding for a beach environment, Poizot et al. (2013) identified an FB+ trend (sediments becoming finer, better sorted and more positively skewed upshore) on a well-developed swash bar on the upper foreshore of the Camposoto beach of Cádiz in SW Spain. In their Discussion of that paper, Muñoz-Perez et al. (2014) provide some supporting arguments and also report grain-size, beach profile and other data from nearby beaches which differ from those of Poizot and colleagues for Camposoto beach, pointing out that a trend observed on one beach may not apply to a neighbouring beach. However, even though the absolute values differ, the overall trends actually do show the same general behaviour. In our Reply to their comments, we also address some difficulties in comparing granulometric datasets generated by different analytical techniques.  相似文献   

A combined methodology for estimating the potential natural aquifer recharge in an arid environment     

Alberto Carletti  Simona Canu  Andrea Motroni  Giorgio Ghiglieri 《水文科学杂志》2013,58(14):1727-1745

ABSTRACT

An innovative methodology that combines an indirect physiography-based method for determining the runoff coefficient at a sub-basin scale and a water balance model applied on a daily time scale was developed to calculate the natural groundwater recharge in three watersheds within the Oum Zessar arid area, Tunisia. The effective infiltration was calculated as part of the water surplus by considering the average available water content (AWC) of soil and an average runoff coefficient for each sub-basin. The model indicates that the sub-basins covered mainly by the “artificial” soils of tabias and jessour, characterized by average AWC values greater than 150 mm, did not contribute to natural groundwater recharge over the 10-year period (2003–2012) considered. The estimated volume for the Triassic aquifer amounted to about 4.5 hm³ year^?1, which is consistent with previous studies. For the Jurassic and Cretaceous aquifers, the estimated volumes amounted to about 200 dm³ year^?1.  相似文献   

Intensity measures for the seismic response prediction of base-isolated buildings   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Fabrizio Mollaioli  Andrea Lucchini  Yin Cheng  Giorgio Monti 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2013,11(5):1841-1866

Base isolation has become a widely applied technique for protecting buildings located in highly seismic areas. Due to the strongly non-linear constitutive behaviour typical of many isolation devices, the seismic response of base-isolated buildings is usually evaluated through non-linear dynamic analysis. In this type of analysis a suitable set of ground motions is needed for representing the earthquake loads and for exciting the structural model. Many methods can be found in the literature for defining the ground motions. When natural accelerograms are used, the methods mainly differ from each other based on the intensity measures used for scaling the records to the defined earthquake intensity level. Investigations have been carried out for evaluating the predictive capability of the intensity measures used in these methods: while many studies focused on ordinary buildings, only a few focused on base-isolated ones. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the most commonly used intensity measures, which are currently available in the literature, with respect to their capability to predict the seismic response of base-isolated buildings. Selected for the investigation are two frame structures characterized by a different number of storeys and base-isolated with systems having different properties. Two sets of accelerograms, consisting of ordinary and pulse-like near-fault records, are used in the analyses and in the evaluation of the intensity measures. Modified versions of existing intensity measures are also proposed, with the intent of improving the correlations between the considered intensity measures and response quantities.  相似文献   

PCDD/Fs in sediments of Central Vietnam coastal lagoons: in search of TCDD     

Piazza R  Giuliani S  Bellucci LG  Mugnai C  Cu NH  Nhon DH  Vecchiato M  Romano S  Frignani M 《Marine pollution bulletin》2010,60(12):2303-2310

Samples from nine Central Vietnam coastal lagoons, together with three soils and sediments collected in two freshwater reservoirs of the Thua Thien-Hué province, were analysed for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs). Total concentrations are low, from 192 to 2912 pg g⁻¹ and depth profiles in Tam Giang-Cau Hai (TG-CH) sediment cores show only minor changes over time in PCDD/F input and composition. Octachloro dibenzo-p-dioxin (OCDD) is the prevailing congener (approximately 90%), indicating combustion as the main PCDD/F source to these coastal systems, whereas natural formation might be partly responsible for the presence at depth. 2,3,7,8-Tetrachloro dibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), largely sprayed together with Agent Orange over the study areas during the war (1961–1971), is absent or very low. This result supports the hypothesis of strong degradation soon after spraying. Multivariate statistical analyses account for the presence of local, short-range sources as observed in the northern part of the TG-CH lagoon.  相似文献   

Seawater dynamics and environmental settings after November 2002 gas eruption off Bottaro (Panarea,Aeolian Islands,Mediterranean Sea)     

Stefano Aliani  Giovanni Bortoluzzi  Giorgio Caramanna  Francesco Raffa 《Continental Shelf Research》2010

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Elemental Composition Analysis of Plants and Composts Used for Soil Remediation by Laser‐Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy          下载免费PDF全文

Giorgio S. Senesi  Marcella Dell'Aglio  Alessandro De Giacomo  Olga De Pascale  Ziad Al Chami  Teodoro M. Miano  Claudio Zaccone 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2014,42(6):791-798

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On A Particular Solution of the Non-Linear Liouville Equations     

Giorgio Spada  Roberto Sabadini  Yanick Ricard 《Geophysical Journal International》1993,114(2):399-404

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Over 10 years of variation in Mediterranean reef benthic communities          下载免费PDF全文

Federico Betti  Giorgio Bavestrello  Marzia Bo  Valentina Asnaghi  Mariachiara Chiantore  Simone Bava  Riccardo Cattaneo‐Vietti 《Marine Ecology》2017,38(3)

During the last several decades, the Mediterranean littoral shallow water benthic communities have suffered significant changes in their structure and taxa composition. Despite numerous studies conducted to characterize these changes at various levels, it has always been very difficult to disentangle the effects of natural factors from anthropic ones. The main purpose of this work was to evaluate possible changes, over a 10‐year scale, in diversity and abundance of the most representative species of the benthic communities considered to be primarily and potentially affected by natural stressors in a highly protected area. Sets of macro‐photographs were taken in 2002–2003 of three sites inside a small bay called Ca’ dell'Oro, which is the “no entry—no take” zone of the Marine Protected Area of Portofino, in order to analyse the structure of the benthic communities at different depths over a short time scale. The same sampling was repeated 10 years later in 2013. In the 10‐year span, a significant change in the macroalgal coverage and composition was observed, while the overall richness and coverage of species remained almost unchanged. This process resulted in a significant reduction of the habitat complexity of the three‐dimensional algal components. Likewise, a remarkable change in terms of presence and abundance occurred among all zoobenthic components. The benthic communities seem to have suffered from detrimental effects probably caused by climatic events that have been occurring in recent years in the Ligurian Sea.  相似文献   

A probabilistic strategy for seismic assessment and FRP retrofitting of existing bridges   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

R. Morbin  M. A. Zanini  C. Pellegrino  H. Zhang  C. Modena 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2015,13(8):2411-2428

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Simplified seismic assessment of multi-span masonry arch bridges     

Paolo Zampieri  Mariano Angelo Zanini  Claudio Modena 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2015,13(9):2629-2646

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