Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and John G. Gammack,Tourism and the Branded City: Film and Identity on the Pacific Rim     

Chin‐Ee Ong 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2011,32(3):400-402

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Assessing Lakebed Hydraulic Conductivity and Seepage Flux by Potentiomanometer     

John B. Ong  Vitaly A. Zlotnik 《Ground water》2011,49(2):270-274

Potentiomanometers (PMs) are commonly used to determine flux directions across interfaces between surface waters and aquifers. We describe a complementary function: estimating small‐scale hydraulic conductivity (K) in a lakebed, using the constant‐head injection test (CHIT) by Cardenas and Zlotnik (2003) with the PM designed by Winter et al. (1988). A piezometer with a small screen is inserted into the lakebed. Local head potential is obtained by measuring the head difference between the test point and the aquifer interface. The piezometer is then used for water injection. This technique is illustrated by measurements taken from Alkali Lake in the Sand Hills, Nebraska, United States. Lakebed K and seepage fluxes ranged from 0.037 to 0.090 m/d and Darcy velocities ranged from 0.004 to 0.027 m/d. Results were consistent with the supplementary data gathered using a modified CHIT and a cone penetrometer. The compact size of the device and the small volumes used for injection enable this method to estimate lakebed K values as low as 0.01 to 0.1 m/d, a range seldom explored in lake‐aquifer interface systems.  相似文献   

Estuarine Dispersion from Tidal Trapping: A New Analytical Framework     

Lissa J. MacVean  Mark T. Stacey 《Estuaries and Coasts》2011,34(1):45-59

Observations of tidal trapping in a channel connected to large volumes along its perimeter showed that the exchange between them is driven by advection due to tidal flows. Therefore, quantifying the longitudinal dispersion of scalars in the channel that results from tidal trapping was not possible using traditional frameworks, which assume that the exchange is a diffusive process. This study uses the concentration moment method to solve analytically for the dispersion coefficient of a solute in a tidal channel which exchanges advectively with volumes along its edges. This constitutes a new framework for analyzing the longitudinal dispersion that results from tidal trapping in systems such as a branching tidal channel or the breached salt ponds of San Francisco Bay. A comparison of dispersion coefficients from traditional, diffusion-driven frameworks for tidal trapping, the new advective framework derived in the present study, and observations show that the new formulation is best suited to this environment.  相似文献   

A critical examination of worldwide guidelines for minimising the disturbance to marine mammals during seismic surveys     

Ross Compton  Lissa Goodwin  Richard Handy  Victor Abbott 《Marine Policy》2008

Marine seismic exploration has potentially detrimental effects upon marine life and marine mammals in particular. Potential effects range from disturbance that may lead to displacement from feeding or breeding areas, to auditory damage and potential mortality. Nations including the USA, Canada and Brazil have followed the example set by the United Kingdom by introducing guidelines to minimise acoustic disturbance to marine mammals. This paper describes the mitigation measures central to the guidelines currently in place, and identifies the similarities, differences and deficiencies within them. A need for further review by some nations is identified, with a recommendation that an international standard should be produced, benefiting both the geophysical exploration industry and the conservation community.  相似文献   

Scour below marine pipelines in shoaling conditions for random waves   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Dag Myrhaug  Muk Chen Ong  Cecilie Gjengedal 《Coastal Engineering》2008,55(12):1219-1223

This paper provides an approach by which the scour depth below pipelines in shoaling conditions beneath non-breaking and breaking random waves can be derived. Here the scour depth formula in shoaling conditions for regular non-breaking and breaking waves with normal incidence to the pipeline presented by Cevik and Yüksel [Cevik, E. and Yüksel, Y., (1999). Scour under submarine pipelines in waves in shoaling conditions. ASCE J. Waterw., Port, Coast. Ocean Eng., 125 (1), 9–19.] combined with the wave height distribution including shoaling and breaking waves presented by Mendez et al. [Mendez, F.J., Losada, I.J. and Medina, R., (2004). Transformation model of wave height distribution on planar beaches. Coast. Eng. 50 (3), 97–115.] are used. Moreover, the approach is based on describing the wave motion as a stationary Gaussian narrow-band random process. An example of calculation is also presented.  相似文献   

Solvent–water extraction method for the evaluation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons bioavailability in coal–tar-contaminated soils     

P. H. Lee  K. P. Chao  S. K. Ong 《International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology》2014,11(7):1999-2008

A solvent–water extraction method was proposed as an assessment tool to estimate the bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in coal–tar-contaminated soils. The approach taken was to measure the percent of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons extracted by a solvent–water mixture and comparing the results with the percent of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons degraded in a soil slurry reactor. Five soil samples from three former manufactured gas plant sites and a coal–tar disposal site which were operated between 1880 and 1947, and 1945 and 1950, respectively, in Iowa, USA were used in this study. Extraction experiments were conducted using acetone–water or ethanol–water mixtures with solvent volume fractions ranging from 1.0 to 0.4 (v/v). The percent of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons extracted from the various soils decreased as the volume fraction of the solvent in the solvent–water mixture was reduced. An acetone–water mixture of 0.6 was found to be appropriate in correlating the percent of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons degraded to the percent of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons extracted. For the first correlation, the percent extracted and the percent biodegraded were modified by using the molecular weights and log K _ow of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, respectively. For the second correlation, the equation relating the percent extracted and the percent biodegraded was modified using soil properties such as organic carbon content and percent of clay and silt. Although the experiments were conducted for a limited number of soils, the extraction method appeared to be a good starting point in estimating the bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in coal–tar-contaminated soils.  相似文献   

Optimal and Near-Optimal Signal Detection in Snapping Shrimp Dominated Ambient Noise     

Chitre  M.A. Potter  J.R. Ong  S.-H. 《Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of》2006,31(2):497-503

The optimal detection of signals requires detailed knowledge of the noise statistics. In many applications, the assumption of Gaussian noise allows the use of the linear correlator (LC), which is known to be optimal in these circumstances. However, the performance of the LC is poor in warm shallow waters where snapping shrimp noise dominates in the range 2-300 kHz. Since snapping shrimp noise consists of a large number of individual transients, its statistics are highly non-Gaussian. We show that the noise statistics can be described accurately by the symmetric alpha-stable family of probability distributions. Maximum-likelihood (ML) and locally optimal detectors based on the detailed knowledge of the noise probability distribution are shown to demonstrate enhanced performance. We also establish that the sign correlator, which is a nonparametric detector, performs better than the LC in snapping shrimp noise. Although the performance of the sign correlator is slightly inferior to that of the ML detector, it is very simple to implement and does not require detailed knowledge of the noise statistics. This makes it an attractive compromise between the simple LC and the complex ML detector  相似文献   

Characterization of a Malaysian mangrove estuary     

J. E. Ong  W. K. Gong  C. H. Wong  Zubir Hj. Din  B. Kjerfve 《Estuaries and Coasts》1991,14(1):38-48

The Sungai Merbok estuary, in wet tropical Peninsular Malaysia, borders the Straits of Malacca. Tide, current, and salinity data are used to describe the salient hydrographic features of the mangrove-fringed system. The Sungai Merbok estuary is characterized by a 1.7 m semidiurnal tide with a 0.16 form number, peak currents of 1.3 m s^?1, and mean freshwater discharge of 20 m³ s^?1. The system is classified as 2a/2b estuary (Hansen and Rattray 1966) or 1a/1b during periods of low runoff. Gravitational circulation is highly variable (but coincides with the neap stratification) and vertical stratification varies from 10^?2 to 1. The estuary displays a pronounced fortnightly neap-spring stratification-destratification cycle. The effective longitudinal dispersion coefficient is approximately 100 m² s^?1.  相似文献   

Excitation of an electrostatic wave by a cold electron current sheet of finite thickness     

K.S. Hwang  Ernest G. Fontheim  R.S.B. Ong 《Planetary and Space Science》1983,31(3):285-293

Electrostatic waves excited by a field-aligned electron current sheet of finite thickness are investigated. The finite width of the current sheet gives rise to boundary conditions to be satisfied at the sheet edge. This results in a restriction to the number of modes which may be driven unstable. Ducted and evanescent mode solutions are obtained. It is shown that the finite thickness of the current sheet partially stabilizes the system and contributes to the coherence of the excited waves.  相似文献   

The cross sectional salt balance in a tropical estuary during a lunar tide and a discharge event   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

K.R. Dyer  W.K. Gong  J.E. Ong 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》1992,34(6)

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