Design of Inclined Covers with Capillary Barrier Effect by S.-E. Parent and A. Cabral     

B. Bussière  M. Aubertin  G. Zhan 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2007,25(6):673-678

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Grain size dependency in the occurrence of sand waves     

Hennie Henriët van der Veen  Suzanne Jacqueline Marie Hélène Hulscher  Michiel Adrianus Frederik Knaapen 《Ocean Dynamics》2006,56(3-4):228-234

Sandy shallow seas, like the North Sea, are very dynamic. Several morphological features are present on the bed, from small ripples to sand waves and large tidal sandbanks. The larger patterns induce significant depth variations that have an impact on human activities taking place in this area. Therefore, it is important to know where these large-scale features occur, what their natural behaviour is and how they interact with human activities. Here, we extend earlier research that compares the results of an idealized model of large-scale seabed patterns with data of seabed patterns in the North Sea. The idealized model is extended with a grain size dependency. The adaptations lead to more accurate predictions of the occurrence of large-scale bed forms in the North Sea. Therefore, grain size dependency and, in particular, critical shear stress are important to explain the occurrence of sand waves and sandbanks in the North Sea. Responsible Editor: Alejandro Souza  相似文献   

A field method for the concurrent measurement of fine sediment content and embryo survival in artificial salmonid redds     

Mylne Levasseur  Francis Brub  Normand E. Bergeron 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2006,31(4):526-530

The infiltration cube method presented in this paper allows concurrent field measurement of fine sediment content and embryo survival in an incubating environment reproducing, as closely as possible, the morphology and grain size composition of a natural salmonid redd. An infiltration cube is made up of a rectangular (30 cm square and 20 cm high) steel frame with no walls, which has a folded plastic bag attached to its base. Each infiltration cube is buried in the substrate using a procedure aimed at reproducing, as closely as possible, the construction and morpho‐sedimentological structure of a natural salmonid redd. Using a tripod installed on the river bed or at the surface of the ice, the infiltration cube method provides a quick, easy and robust way to pull relatively large samples (approximately 65 kg) out of underwater substrate even during tough winter field conditions. The absence of walls on the cube also precludes bias in infiltration rates by both allowing lateral sediment transport within substrate and preventing loss of fine particles during retrieval from underwater. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

High resolution simulation of recent Arctic and Antarctic stratospheric chemical ozone loss compared to observations     

Om Prakash Tripathi  Sophie Godin-Beekmann  Franck Lefèvre  Marion Marchand  Andrea Pazmiño  Alain Hauchecorne  Florence Goutail  Hans Schlager  C. Michael Volk  B. Johnson  G. König-Langlo  Stefano Balestri  Fred Stroh  T. P. Bui  H. J. Jost  T. Deshler  Peter von der Gathen 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》2006,55(3):205-226

Simulations of polar ozone losses were performed using the three-dimensional high-resolution (1^∘ × 1^∘) chemical transport model MIMOSA-CHIM. Three Arctic winters 1999–2000, 2001–2002, 2002–2003 and three Antarctic winters 2001, 2002, and 2003 were considered for the study. The cumulative ozone loss in the Arctic winter 2002–2003 reached around 35% at 475 K inside the vortex, as compared to more than 60% in 1999–2000. During 1999–2000, denitrification induces a maximum of about 23% extra ozone loss at 475 K as compared to 17% in 2002–2003. Unlike these two colder Arctic winters, the 2001–2002 Arctic was warmer and did not experience much ozone loss. Sensitivity tests showed that the chosen resolution of 1^∘ × 1^∘ provides a better evaluation of ozone loss at the edge of the polar vortex in high solar zenith angle conditions. The simulation results for ozone, ClO, HNO₃, N₂O, and NO _y for winters 1999–2000 and 2002–2003 were compared with measurements on board ER-2 and Geophysica aircraft respectively. Sensitivity tests showed that increasing heating rates calculated by the model by 50% and doubling the PSC (Polar Stratospheric Clouds) particle density (from 5 × 10⁻³ to 10⁻² cm⁻³) refines the agreement with in situ ozone, N₂O and NO _y levels. In this configuration, simulated ClO levels are increased and are in better agreement with observations in January but are overestimated by about 20% in March. The use of the Burkholder et al. (1990) Cl₂O₂ absorption cross-sections slightly increases further ClO levels especially in high solar zenith angle conditions. Comparisons of the modelled ozone values with ozonesonde measurement in the Antarctic winter 2003 and with Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement III (POAM III) measurements in the Antarctic winters 2001 and 2002, shows that the simulations underestimate the ozone loss rate at the end of the ozone destruction period. A slightly better agreement is obtained with the use of Burkholder et al. (1990) Cl₂O₂ absorption cross-sections.  相似文献   

Heterogeneous bubble nucleation on Fe-Ti oxide crystals in high-silica rhyolitic melts     

James E. Gardner  Marie-Hélène Denis 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2004,68(17):3587-3597

The nucleation of H₂O bubbles in magmas has been proposed as a trigger for volcanic eruptions. To determine how bubbles nucleate heterogeneously in silicate melts, experiments were carried out in which high-silica rhyolitic melts were hydrated at 740-800°C and 50-175 MPa, decompressed by 20-70 MPa, and held at the lower pressures for ≥10 s before being quenched. The hydration conditions were subliquidus, and all samples contain blocky magnetite + needle-shaped hematite ± plagioclase. Magnetite is abundant at 800°C and high pressures, whereas hematite becomes more abundant at lower temperatures and pressures. Bubbles nucleated in a single event in all samples, with the number density (N_T) of bubbles varying between 2 × 10⁷ and 1 × 10⁹ cm⁻³. At low degrees of supersaturation, one to a few bubbles nucleate on faces of magnetite, but at medium to high degrees of supersaturation, multiple bubbles nucleate on single magnetite grains. On hematite, one to a few bubbles nucleated at the ends of the needle-shaped crystals at medium supersaturations, but formed along their entire lengths at high supersaturations. N_T increases as water diffusivity decreases, indicating that the number of bubbles nucleated is influenced by their growth, which depletes the melt with respect to H₂O and lowers supersaturation. If volcanic eruptions are triggered by bubble formation in magmas stored in shallow-level magma chambers, then the supersaturations needed for heterogeneous nucleation suggest that only small amounts of crystallization are needed, whereas homogeneous nucleation is unlikely to trigger eruptions.  相似文献   

Analyzing Changes in Urban Form and Commuting Time*     

Marie‐Hlne Vandersmissen  Paul Villeneuve  Marius Thriault 《The Professional geographer》2003,55(4):446-463

Urban work trips have changed in important ways during the last decades. In Québec City, a medium‐sized Canadian metropolitan area, commuting distances increased for both male and female workers between 1977 and 1996, while durations increased for male workers and decreased for female workers. This article seeks to identify spatial and social factors responsible for these changes. We develop a disaggregate model of trip duration estimated on the basis of large samples derived from travel surveys comparable through time. Using categorical variables to specify change, we are able to separate change effects from level effects attributable to various dimensions of urban form. Our analysis clearly indicates that, once travel mode and key social factors are controlled for, the shift from a monocentric to a dispersed city form is responsible, in the Québec metropolitan area, for increasing commuting time. This is contrary to findings in larger metropolitan areas, where, it has been argued, the suburbanization of jobs maintains stability in commuting duration.  相似文献   

Présence de Paléocène marin dans les Grands Causses (France)     

Bernard Peybernès  Richard Ciszak  Marie-José Fondecave-Wallez  Pierre-Jean Combes  Hubert Camus  Michel Séranne 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2003,335(8):681-689

In the Grands Causses, incised valleys, lapies, fissures and sinkholes inherited from successive polyphase karstifications were filled by Palaeocene marine sediments overall assigned to the P1c–P3 interval (Upper Danian–Lower Selandian). These sediments are distributed into three detritic facies, generated by extensional tectonics controlling karstic and erosional processes. Upper Cretaceous marine fossils known within these facies are interpreted as reworked from hypothetically pellicular deposits. The probable palaeogeographic connection with the Pyrenean Palaeocene ‘Breccia trough’ supposes the presence of a SE–NW ‘ria’ running across the continental areas of Lower Languedoc and draining towards the northwest the marine waters of the Palaeocene transgression as far as the Rodez region. To cite this article: B. Peybernès et al., C. R. Geoscience 335 (2003).  相似文献   

Observations of Coronal Structures Above an Active Region by Eit and Implications for Coronal Energy Deposition     

Neupert  W.M.  Newmark  J.  Delaboudinière  J.-P.  Thompson  B.J.  Catura  R.C.  Moses  J.D.  Gurman  J.B.  Portier-Fozzani  F.  Maucherat  A.J.  Defise  J.M.  Jamar  C.  Rochus  P.  Dere  K.P.  Howard  R.A.  Michels  D.J.  Freeland  S.  Lemen  J.R.  Stern  R.A. 《Solar physics》1998,183(2):305-321

Solar EUV images recorded by the EUV Imaging Telescope (EIT) on SOHO have been used to evaluate temperature and density as a function of position in two largescale features in the corona observed in the temperature range of 1.0–2.0 MK. Such observations permit estimates of longitudinal temperature gradients (if present) in the corona and, consequently, estimates of thermal conduction and radiative losses as a function of position in the features. We examine two relatively cool features as recorded in EIT's Feix/x (171 Å) and Fexii (195 Å) bands in a decaying active region. The first is a long-lived loop-like feature with one leg, ending in the active region, much more prominent than one or more distant footpoints assumed to be rooted in regions of weakly enhanced field. The other is a near-radial feature, observed at the West limb, which may be either the base of a very high loop or the base of a helmet streamer. We evaluate energy requirements to support a steady-state energy balance in these features and find in both instances that downward thermal conductive losses (at heights above the transition region) are inadequate to support local radiative losses, which are the predominant loss mechanism. The requirement that a coronal energy deposition rate proportional to the square of the ambient electron density (or pressure) is present in these cool coronal features provides an additional constraint on coronal heating mechanisms.  相似文献   

The role of physical-biological coupling in the benthic boundary layer under megatidal conditions: The case of the dominant species of theAbra alba community in the Eastern Baie de Seine (English Channel)     

Frédéric Olivier  Christian Retière 《Estuaries and Coasts》1998,21(4):571-584

Recent evidence has shown that postlarvae and juveniles of the most dominant species of theAbra alba community of the eastern Baie de Seine are able to re-enter the water column after larval settlement and undergo active and/or passive redistribution. However, few subtidal studies have been conducted to investigate and quantify the processes controlling the abundance of drifting postlarvae and juveniles. The purpose of this study was to verify the reproducibility or the variability of this phenomenon and to assess coupling between the intensity of drifting and that of bed shear stress, which is dependent on tidal currents, wave characteristics, and sediment features. This study was conducted in June and July 1995 at two sites in the bay, one located at the center of the muddy fine-sediment community and the other at its external border with the fine clean sands of theOphelia borealis community. At each site, suprabenthic sledge samples were taken during specific tidal conditions (low tide, slack water, and flood and ebb peaks) during a neap and a spring tide. Physical data (current velocity, turbidity, and suspended matter content) and meiobenthic samples were taken at the same time. Under megatidal conditions, drifting was a quantitatively important dispersal mechanism for at least 15 of the fine-sediment dominant species belonging to various groups such as polychaetes, molluscs (gastropods and bivalves), and echinoderms. The fluctuation in abundance of drifters was related to tidal range, tidal period, location of the site, and the recruitment dynamics. However, species differed strongly in theri response to hydrodynamical parameters. Three types of drifting species were observed: species that were only present in the water column (‘undet. cardiids’ and Mytilidae); species that were both drifting and present at the seaded (Abra alba, Phaxas pellucidus, Eteone picta, Mysella bidentata, Ophiura texturata, Owenia fusiformis, Pholoe minuta, Phyllodoce lineata, Pectinaria koreni, andSpisula subtruncata); species that were present at the seabed but did not drift during the sampling period (Acrocnida brachiata, Eteone longa, Eumida sanguinea, Glycinde normanni, Magelona mirabilis, Nemertean sp1,Nephtys sp.,Spiophanes bombyx, andTubulanus polymorphus). Each drifting pattern is related to eco-ethological species characteristics and may have very different consequences on population dynamics.  相似文献   

Dynamics of relativistic jets     

K. -I. Nishikawa  J. Frank  D. M. Christodoulou  S. Koide  J. -I. Sakai  Hlne Sol  Robert L. Mutel 《New Astronomy Reviews》1998,42(9-10)

We discuss the structure and relativistic kinematics that develop in three spatial dimensions when a moderately hot, supersonic jet propagates into a denser background medium and encounters resistance from an oblique magnetic field. Our simulations incorporate relativistic MHD in a four-dimensional spacetime and clearly show that (a) relatively weak, oblique fields (at 1/16 of the equipartition value) have only a negligible influence on the propagating jet and they are passively pushed away by the relativistically moving head; (b) oblique fields in equipartition with the ambient plasma provide more resistance and cause bending at the jet head, but the magnitude of this deflection and the associated backflow are small compared to those identified by previous studies. The new results are understood as follows: Relativistic simulations have consistently shown that these jets are effectively heavy and so they do not suffer substantial momentum losses and are not decelerated as efficiently as their nonrelativistic counterparts. In addition, the ambient magnetic field, however strong, can be pushed aside with relative ease by the beam, provided that the degrees of freedom associated with all three spatial dimensions are followed self-consistently during the simulations. The effect is analogous to pushing Japanese “noren” or vertical Venetian blinds out of the way while the slats are allowed to bend and twist in 3-D space. Applied to relativistic extragalactic jets from blazars, the new results are encouraging since superluminal outflows exhibit bending near their sources and their environments are profoundly magnetized – but observations do not provide support for irregular kinematics such as large-scale vortical motions and pronounced reverse flows near the points of origin.  相似文献