Modelling atmospheric and hydrologic processes for assessment of meadow restoration impact on flow and sediment in a sparsely gauged California watershed          下载免费PDF全文

N. Ohara  M. L. Kavvas  Z. Q. Chen  L. Liang  M. Anderson  J. Wilcox  L. Mink 《水文研究》2014,28(7):3053-3066

The restoration of meadowland using the pond and plug technique of gully elimination was performed in a 9‐mile segment along Last Chance Creek, Feather River Basin, California, in order to rehabilitate floodplain functions such as mitigating floods, retaining groundwater, and reducing sediment yield associated with bank erosion and to significantly alter the hydrologic regime. However, because the atmospheric and hydrological conditions have evolved over the restoration period, it was difficult to obtain a comprehensible evaluation of the impact of restoration activities by means of field measurements. In this paper, a new use of physically based models for environmental assessment is described. The atmospheric conditions over the sparsely gauged Last Chance Creek watershed (which does not have any precipitation or weather stations) during the combined historical critical dry and wet period (1982–1993) were reconstructed over the whole watershed using the atmospheric fifth‐generation mesoscale model driven with the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and US National Center for Environmental Prediction reanalysis data. Using the downscaled atmospheric data as its input, the watershed environmental hydrology (WEHY) model was applied to this watershed. All physical parameters of the WEHY model were derived from the existing geographic information system and satellite‐driven data sets. By comparing the prerestoration and postrestoration simulation results under the identical atmospheric conditions, a more complete environmental assessment of the restoration project was made. Model results indicate that the flood peak may be reduced by 10–20% during the wet year and the baseflow may be enhanced by 10–20% during the following dry seasons (summer to fall) in the postrestoration condition. The model results also showed that the hydrologic impact of the land management associated with the restoration mitigates bank erosion and sediment discharge during winter storm events. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

The impact of rural land management changes on soil hydraulic properties and runoff processes: results from experimental plots in upland UK          下载免费PDF全文

M. R. Marshall  C. E. Ballard  Z. L. Frogbrook  I. Solloway  B. Reynolds  H. S. Wheater 《水文研究》2014,28(4):2617-2629

To develop an evidence base to help predict the impacts of land management change on flood generation, four experimental sites were established on improved grassland used for sheep grazing at the Pontbren catchment in upland Wales, UK. At each site, three plots were established where surface runoff was measured, supplemented by measurements of soil infiltration rates and soil and vegetation physical properties. Following baseline monitoring, treatments were applied to two of the plots: exclusion of sheep (ungrazed) and exclusion of sheep and planting with native broadleaf tree species (tree planted), with the third plot acting as a control (grazed pasture). Due to a particularly dry summer that occurred pre‐treatment, the soil hydrological responses were initially impacted by the effects of the climate on soil structure. Nevertheless, treatments did have a clear influence on soil hydrological response. On average, post‐treatment runoff volumes were reduced by 48% and 78% in ungrazed and tree‐planted plots relative to the control, although all results varied greatly over the sites. Five years following treatment application, near‐surface soil bulk density was reduced and median soil infiltration rates were 67 times greater in plots planted with trees compared to grazed pasture. The results illustrate the potential use of upland land management for ameliorating local‐scale flood generation but emphasise the need for long‐term monitoring to more clearly separate the effects of land management from those of climatic variability. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Erratum to: Experimental Investigation of Seepage Properties of Fractured Rocks Under Different Confining Pressures     

D. Ma  X. X. Miao  Z. Q. Chen  X. B. Mao 《Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering》2015,48(5):2183-2183

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Arsenic and fluorine in groundwater in western Jilin Province,China: occurrence and health risk assessment     

B. Jianmin  W. Yu  Z. Juan 《Natural Hazards》2015,77(3):1903-1914

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Treatment of airborne BTEX by a two-stage biotrickling filter and biofilter,exploiting selected bacterial and fungal consortia     

M. Raboni  V. Torretta  P. Viotti 《International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology》2017,14(1):19-28

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Historical and projected trends of siloxane use in consumer products,associated impacts on municipal solid waste and landfill gas utilization     

B. Tansel  S. C. Surita 《International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology》2017,14(4):795-802

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Geomorphological and geological suitability for inter-basin transfer of water by linking river basins in Maharashtra     

K. S. Misra  Neela Misra  Anshuman Misra 《Journal of the Geological Society of India》2017,90(2):253-255

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A fully coupled THM model based on a non‐equilibrium thermodynamic approach and its application          下载免费PDF全文

Z. Zhang  X. Cheng 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2017,41(4):527-554

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Proceedings of the Panel Discussion on “<Emphasis Type="Italic">Remote Sensing Business Opportunities in the Era of Free and Open Data Access</Emphasis>” organized by Antrix Corporation Limited on September 15, 2017 on the Occasion of Its Silver Jubilee Anniversary     

Ranganath Navalgund 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》2018,46(3):483-489

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Building Earth Observation Cameras     

Kehar Singh 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》2016,44(1):145-146

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