The Monitor project: rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster M34     

Jonathan Irwin  Suzanne Aigrain  Simon Hodgkin  Mike Irwin  Jerome Bouvier  Cathie Clarke  Leslie Hebb  Estelle Moraux 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,370(2):954-974

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Evaluating Lower Computational Burden Approaches for Calibration of Large Environmental Models     

Randall J. Hunt  Jeremy T. White  Leslie L. Duncan  Connor J. Haugh  John Doherty 《Ground water》2021,59(6):788-798

Realistic environmental models used for decision making typically require a highly parameterized approach. Calibration of such models is computationally intensive because widely used parameter estimation approaches require individual forward runs for each parameter adjusted. These runs construct a parameter-to-observation sensitivity, or Jacobian, matrix used to develop candidate parameter upgrades. Parameter estimation algorithms are also commonly adversely affected by numerical noise in the calculated sensitivities within the Jacobian matrix, which can result in unnecessary parameter estimation iterations and less model-to-measurement fit. Ideally, approaches to reduce the computational burden of parameter estimation will also increase the signal-to-noise ratio related to observations influential to the parameter estimation even as the number of forward runs decrease. In this work a simultaneous increments, an iterative ensemble smoother (IES), and a randomized Jacobian approach were compared to a traditional approach that uses a full Jacobian matrix. All approaches were applied to the same model developed for decision making in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, USA. Both the IES and randomized Jacobian approach achieved a desirable fit and similar parameter fields in many fewer forward runs than the traditional approach; in both cases the fit was obtained in fewer runs than the number of adjustable parameters. The simultaneous increments approach did not perform as well as the other methods due to inability to overcome suboptimal dropping of parameter sensitivities. This work indicates that use of highly efficient algorithms can greatly speed parameter estimation, which in turn increases calibration vetting and utility of realistic models used for decision making.  相似文献   

Shell Middens,Cultural Chronologies,and Coastal Settlement on the Rhode River Sub‐Estuary of Chesapeake Bay,Maryland, USA     

Torben C. Rick  Leslie A. Reeder‐Myers  C. Jane Cox  Stephanie T. Sperling  Alex Jansen  Anson H. Hines 《Geoarchaeology》2014,29(5):371-388

North America's Atlantic Coast has been a focus of human settlement and subsistence for millennia, but sea‐level rise, sedimentation, and other processes pose significant challenges for archaeological research. Radiocarbon dating of 31 shell middens near the Rhode River Estuary, Maryland provides an opportunity to evaluate human land use, settlement, and cultural chronologies on the Chesapeake Bay. Sixty calibrated radiocarbon dates on eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) shell and charcoal demonstrate that Native Americans, colonial, and historic peoples harvested oysters and other shellfish from at least 3200 years ago through the 19th century. The number of dated sites increases during the Late Woodland period after about 1000 cal yr B.P., a factor probably related to greater site visibility and preservation, as well as increased human exploitation of the watershed. Accumulation rates for five of the shell middens provide preliminary indications that some of the sites accumulated rapidly suggesting, along with other evidence, that many of the region's shell middens were logistical or perhaps seasonal camps. Our study demonstrates the importance of regional watershed surveys and radiocarbon dating programs to help build and refine cultural chronologies in coastal regions threatened by sea‐level rise and other processes.  相似文献   

基于生物酶的固土技术在香港的应用研究   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

戴北冰  徐锴  杨峻  谭国焕  邓蕴桥  黄景昌 《岩土力学》2014,35(6):1735-1742

传统加固土体的方法主要是通过在土中加入一定量的高性能掺合剂使之成为一种强度较高的复合土体,但这种方法需要较长的养护时间,且不经济。利用一种新型实用的生物酶固化技术,针对香港地区3种常见的海洋黏土、完全风化花岗岩和完全风化凝灰岩,开展了土体加固试验研究。试验结果表明,生物酶对海洋土的加固效果最好,强度增加最高可达20%,而生物酶对完全风化花岗岩的加固效果则不太理想,抗剪强度指标只有少许改变。此外,海洋土和完全风化凝灰岩的压缩性因为生物酶的作用反而有所增强。最后,从微观上分析了生物酶固土作用的本质,指出固土效果主要缘自于生物酶分子与土中的黏土矿物分子发生相互作用产生的胶结作用。  相似文献   

Flow and Pollutant Transport in Urban Street Canyons of Different Aspect Ratios with Ground Heating: Large-Eddy Simulation   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

Xian-Xiang Li  Rex E. Britter  Leslie K. Norford  Tieh-Yong Koh  Dara Entekhabi 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2012,142(2):289-304

A validated large-eddy simulation model was employed to study the effect of the aspect ratio and ground heating on the flow and pollutant dispersion in urban street canyons. Three ground-heating intensities (neutral, weak and strong) were imposed in street canyons of aspect ratio 1, 2, and 0.5. The detailed patterns of flow, turbulence, temperature and pollutant transport were analyzed and compared. Significant changes of flow and scalar patterns were caused by ground heating in the street canyon of aspect ratio 2 and 0.5, while only the street canyon of aspect ratio 0.5 showed a change in flow regime (from wake interference flow to skimming flow). The street canyon of aspect ratio 1 does not show any significant change in the flow field. Ground heating generated strong mixing of heat and pollutant; the normalized temperature inside street canyons was approximately spatially uniform and somewhat insensitive to the aspect ratio and heating intensity. This study helps elucidate the combined effects of urban geometry and thermal stratification on the urban canyon flow and pollutant dispersion.  相似文献   

Characterization of microstructural and physical properties changes in biocemented sand using 3D X-ray microtomography     

Abdelali Dadda  Christian Geindreau  Fabrice Emeriault  Sabine Rolland du Roscoat  Aurélie Garandet  Leslie Sapin  Annette Esnault Filet 《Acta Geotechnica》2017,12(5):955-970

An experimental study has been performed to investigate the effect of the biocalcification process on the microstructural and the physical properties of biocemented Fontainebleau sand samples. The microstructural properties (porosity, volume fraction of calcite, total specific surface area, specific surface area of calcite, etc.) and the physical properties (permeability, effective diffusion) of the biocemented samples were computed for the first time from 3D images with a high-resolution images obtained by X-ray synchrotron microtomography. The evolution of all these properties with respect to the volume fraction of calcite is analysed and compared with success to experimental data, when it is possible. In general, our results point out that all the properties are strongly affected by the biocalcification process. Finally, all these numerical results from 3D images and experimental data were compared to numerical values or analytical estimates computed on idealized microstructures constituted of periodic overlapping and random non-overlapping arrangements of coated spheres. These comparisons show that these simple microstructures are sufficient to capture and to predict the main evolution of both microstructural and physical properties of biocemented sands for the whole range of volume fraction of calcite investigated.  相似文献   

The Monitor project: rotation of low-mass stars in NGC 2362 – testing the disc regulation paradigm at 5 Myr     

Jonathan Irwin  Simon Hodgkin  Suzanne Aigrain  Jerome Bouvier  Leslie Hebb  Mike Irwin  Estelle Moraux 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,384(2):675-686

We report on the results of a time-series photometric survey of NGC 2362, carried out using the CTIO 4-m Blanco telescope and Mosaic-II detector as part of the Monitor project. Rotation periods were derived for 271 candidate cluster members over the mass range  0.1 ≲ M /M_⊙≲ 1.2  . The rotation period distributions show a clear mass-dependent morphology, qualitatively similar to that in NGC 2264, as would be expected from the age of this cluster. Using models of angular momentum evolution, we show that angular momentum losses over the ∼1–5 Myr age range appear to be needed in order to reproduce the evolution of the slowest rotators in the sample from the ONC to NGC 2362, as found by many previous studies. By incorporating Spitzer IRAC mid-infrared (mid-IR) measurements, we found that three to four objects showing mid-IR excesses indicative of the presence of circumstellar discs were all slow rotators, as would be expected in the disc regulation paradigm for early pre-main-sequence angular momentum evolution, but this result is not statistically significant at present, given the extremely limited sample size.  相似文献   

Factors Influencing Adoption and Implementation of Conservation Development Ordinances in Rural United States     

Heidi E. Kretser  Elliot Dale  Leslie Karasin  Liba Pejchar  Sarah E. Reed 《社会与自然资源》2019,32(9):1021-1039

Conservation Development (CD) is a land-use tool to reduce the impacts of development on natural resources, yetthe use of CD is highly variable. We used a collaborative conservation model to examine factors influencing adoption and implementation to improve the future application of CD. We interviewed 2–3 individuals including planners, board members, and developers (n?=?46) from 16 rural communities in the intermountain west and northeast U.S. Motivations to preserve rural character or comply with state statutes drove adoption. Greater capacity such as outside expertise, model regulations, and iterative revisions of ordinances was associated with stronger ordinances. Adoption processes including ample dialog across diverse constituents, especially those overseeing subdivision development, facilitated higher rates of implementation. Concerns over open space management, lack of successful CD examples, and inexperience with CD posed barriers to implementation. Understanding social context revealed the strengths and shortcomings of CD and provided guidance for strategically engaging communities in private lands conservation.  相似文献   

Uranium transport through fractured silicic tuff and relative retention in areas with distinct fracture characteristics     

English C. Pearcy  James D. Prikryl  Bret W. Leslie 《Applied Geochemistry》1995,10(6)

The Nopal I uranium (U) deposit, in the Pefia Blanca District, Chihuahua, Mexico, has been identified as analogous in some regards to the candidate U.S. high-level waste (HLW) repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Uranium transport at the Nopal I deposit has been studied to investigate mechanisms by which HLW components could be transported through silicic tuff over long time periods. This investigation focused on approximately 1400 m2 of essentially continuous bedrock outcrop spanning the Nopal I deposit and surrounding host tuff. Data collected document: (i) the distributions of U within and around the Nopal I deposit, (ii) the distribution and characteristics of the fracture network within and surrounding the deposit, and (iii) the transport of U away from the deposit mainly along fracture paths. Uranium-series isotopic measurements indicate mobilization of U along the margin of the deposit within the last 1 Ma and significant U transport at about 54 Ka. Transport of U away from the Nopal I deposit along a few relatively continuous mesofractures achieved maximum distances at least 20 times greater than transport through the general fracture network composed of thousands of less continuous microfractures within and surrounding the deposit. Uranium transport away from the deposit appears to be largely independent of variations in the general fracture network pattern. Transport of U away from individual micro- and meso-fractures into homogeneous, unfractured tuff matrix appears limited to distances less than 1 mm. At the Nopal I deposit, matrix diffusion does not appear to have been an important factor for retardation of U. This analysis suggests a ranking for U retention: (i) microfracture network retention mesofracture retention, and (ii) individual microfracture retention matrix retention.  相似文献   

High Arctic sea ice conditions influence marine birds wintering in Low Arctic regions     

Laura McFarlane Tranquilla  April Hedd  Chantelle Burke  William A. Montevecchi  Paul M. Regular  Gregory J. Robertson  Leslie Ann Stapleton  Sabina I. Wilhelm  David A. Fifield  Alejandro D. Buren 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2010

Ocean climate change is having profound biological effects in polar regions. Such change can also have far-reaching downstream effects in sub-polar regions. This study documents an environmental relationship between High Arctic sea ice changes and mortality events of marine birds in Low Arctic coastal regions. During April 2007 and March 2009, hundreds of beached seabird carcasses and moribund seabirds were found along the east and northeast coasts of Newfoundland, Canada. These seabird “wrecks” (i.e. dead birds on beaches) coincided with a period of strong, persistent onshore winds and heavily-accumulated sea ice that blocked bays and trapped seabirds near beaches. Ninety-two percent of wreck seabirds were Thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia). Body condition and demographic patterns of wreck murres were compared to Thick-billed Murres shot in the Newfoundland murre hunt. Average body and pectoral masses of wreck carcasses were 34% and 40% lighter (respectively) than shot murres, indicating that wreck birds had starved. The acute nature of each wreck suggested that starvation and associated hypothermia occurred within 2–3 days. In 2007, first-winter murres (77%) dominated the wreck. In 2009, there were more adults (78%), mostly females (66%). These results suggest that spatial and temporal segregation in ages and sexes can play a role in differential survival when stochastic weather conditions affect discrete areas where these groups aggregate. In wreck years, southward movement of Arctic sea ice to Low Arctic latitudes was later and blocked bays longer than in most other years. These inshore conditions corresponded with recent climate-driven changes in High Arctic ice break-up and ice extent; coupled with local weather conditions, these ice conditions appeared to be the key environmental features that precipitated the ice-associated seabird wrecks in the Low Arctic region.  相似文献