GROUND-WATER QUALITY MONITORING - WHAT INFORMATION IS TO BE OBTAINED?     

Robert C. Ward 《Ground water》1981,19(2):130-132

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The role of megatides and relative sea level in controlling the deglaciation of the British–Irish and Fennoscandian ice sheets          下载免费PDF全文

J. D. Scourse  S. L. Ward  A. Wainwright  S. L. Bradley  K. Uehara 《第四纪科学杂志》2018,33(2):139-149

Key external forcing factors have been proposed to explain the collapse of ice sheets, including atmospheric and ocean temperatures, subglacial topography, relative sea level and tidal amplitudes. For past ice sheets it has not hitherto been possible to separate relative sea level and tidal amplitudes from the other controls to analyse their influence on deglaciation style and rate. Here we isolate the relative sea level and tidal amplitude controls on key ice stream sectors of the last British–Irish and Fennoscandian ice sheets using published glacial isostatic adjustment models, combined with a new and previously published palaeotidal models for the NE Atlantic since the Last Glacial Maximum (22 ka BP). Relative sea level and tidal amplitude data are combined into a sea surface elevation index for each ice stream sector demonstrating that these controls were potentially important drivers of deglaciation in the western British Irish Ice Sheet ice stream sectors. In contrast, the Norwegian Channel Ice Stream was characterized by falling relative sea level and small tidal amplitudes during most of the deglaciation. As these simulations provide a basis for observational field testing we propose a means of identifying the significance of sea level and tidal amplitudes in ice sheet collapse.  相似文献   

Flood risk assessment for delta mega-cities: a case study of Jakarta   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

Yus Budiyono  Jeroen Aerts  JanJaap Brinkman  Muh Aris Marfai  Philip Ward 《Natural Hazards》2015,75(1):389-413

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Corrections to: Interpreting lacustrine bulk sediment δ15N values using metagenomics in a tropical hypersaline lake system     

Chen  Mingfei  Conroy  Jessica L.  Sanford  Robert A.  Chee-Sanford  Joanne C.  Connor  Lynn M. 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2022,67(2):199-199

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Cold-Air Pool Processes in the Inn Valley During Föhn: A Comparison of Four Cases During the PIANO Campaign     

Haid  Maren  Gohm  Alexander  Umek  Lukas  Ward  Helen C.  Rotach  Mathias W. 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2022,182(3):335-362

Boundary-Layer Meteorology - We present a comprehensive analysis of four south föhn events observed during the Penetration and Interruption of Alpine Foehn (PIANO) field campaign in the Inn...  相似文献   

Book review     

Roy C. Ward 《水文科学杂志》2013,58(6):635-636

Abstract

In order to estimate areal evapotranspiration (ET), a system using Landsat MSS and elevation data is developed. After extraction of the study area and its geometric correction, Landsat MSS data are classified into land use categories, which give empirical parameters for calculation of ET. Elevation data, which are originally given at the mesh of 7.5” in latitude by 11.25” in longitude, are interpolated and fitted to each pixel of land use image data. Calculation of ET is executed by using empirical functions in terms of meteorological elements which are linearly regressed with elevation from data at several observatories. The calculated results are represented by the form of not only statistical quantities but also transformed image data. The distribution of ET over mountainous areas, represented as image data, reasonably shows the effect of topography. After comparing with observed data of pan evaporation and with the values estimated by Thornthwaite's method, one can conclude that this system would reliably estimate the actual monthly ET over large areas.  相似文献   

Sea‐rafted pumice on the Australian east coast: Numerical classification and stratigraphy     

W. T. Ward  I. P. Little 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(1):95-109

Sixteen elements (Ca, K, Mg, Na, Al, Fe, Mn, P, Co, Cu, Li, Ni, Rb, Sr, Ti, Zn, determined by atomic absorption) were identified in 453 pumice fragments recovered from Holocene strandplains in southeast Queensland and New South Wales. Eight pumice groups and 13 subgroups are recognised by numerical analysis. Some pumices record known eruptions. Others come from known centres in Tonga and Vanuatu. Several pumice eruptions have occurred from some centres, but there are instances of single episodes. The numerical analyses, combined with carbon dating and soil identification, identify marker horizons in the development of the strandplains. These horizons provide a time‐scale for soil development. Pumice that occurs in middens has an archaeological value. Coke was found with recent pumice. It conveniently identifies the modern industrial age.  相似文献   

Brisbane Airport: an alluvial landscape veiled by marine sediments     

W. T. Ward  J. L. F. Hacker 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(6):1001-1012

At Brisbane Airport, the construction of a diversion channel for Kedron Brook exposed a former beach, low cliff and sand spit, which, with their associated sediments and acid sulfate soils, demonstrate a postglacial high sea-level 1.3 – 1.4 m above present mean sea-level. The beach appears to date from 4000 to 5000 y BP. It varies in level where it lies above soft ground; these variations, and sag depressions that follow buried streamlines, indicate sediment consolidation since withdrawal of the sea from the former shore. Most of the area consists of former estuarine deposits, mangrove and saline marshes, and stranded tidal flats on which acid sulfate soils are widely developed. The modern landforms mostly reproduce subsurface features, to the extent that the surface relief replicates the landscape transgressed by the sea 7000 years ago. A small rise of sea-level possibly to +0.65 m occurred about 2000 – 3000 years ago. Foredunes near the present shore that are related to a slightly lower level 1000 – 500 years ago (?0.25 m) are currently subject to wave erosion.  相似文献   

Vulnerability indicators of sea water intrusion   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Werner AD  Ward JD  Morgan LK  Simmons CT  Robinson NI  Teubner MD 《Ground water》2012,50(1):48-58

In this paper, simple indicators of the propensity for sea water intrusion (SWI) to occur (referred to as "SWI vulnerability indicators") are devised. The analysis is based on an existing analytical solution for the steady-state position of a sharp fresh water-salt water interface. Interface characteristics, that is, the wedge toe location and sea water volume, are used in quantifying SWI in both confined and unconfined aquifers. Rates-of-change (partial derivatives of the analytical solution) in the wedge toe or sea water volume are used to quantify the aquifer vulnerability to various stress situations, including (1) sea-level rise; (2) change in recharge (e.g., due to climate change); and (3) change in seaward discharge. A selection of coastal aquifer cases is used to apply the SWI vulnerability indicators, and the proposed methodology produces interpretations of SWI vulnerability that are broadly consistent with more comprehensive investigations. Several inferences regarding SWI vulnerability arise from the analysis, including: (1) sea-level rise impacts are more extensive in aquifers with head-controlled rather than flux-controlled inland boundaries, whereas the opposite is true for recharge change impacts; (2) sea-level rise does not induce SWI in constant-discharge confined aquifers; (3) SWI vulnerability varies depending on the causal factor, and therefore vulnerability composites are needed that differentiate vulnerability to such threats as sea-level rise, climate change, and changes in seaward groundwater discharge. We contend that the approach is an improvement over existing methods for characterizing SWI vulnerability, because the method has theoretical underpinnings and yet calculations are simple, although the coastal aquifer conceptualization is highly idealized.  相似文献   

Optical emission-line properties of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies and comparison active galactic nuclei     

J. R. Mullaney  M. J. Ward 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,385(1):53-74

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