Can climate variability information constrain a hydrological model for an ungauged Costa Rican catchment?          下载免费PDF全文

Beatriz Quesada‐Montano  Ida K. Westerberg  Diana Fuentes‐Andino  Hugo G. Hidalgo  Sven Halldin 《水文研究》2018,32(6):830-846

Long‐term hydrological data are key to understanding catchment behaviour and for decision making within water management and planning. Given the lack of observed data in many regions worldwide, such as Central America, hydrological models are an alternative for reproducing historical streamflow series. Additional types of information—to locally observed discharge—can be used to constrain model parameter uncertainty for ungauged catchments. Given the strong influence that climatic large‐scale processes exert on streamflow variability in the Central American region, we explored the use of climate variability knowledge as process constraints to constrain the simulated discharge uncertainty for a Costa Rican catchment, assumed to be ungauged. To reduce model uncertainty, we first rejected parameter relationships that disagreed with our understanding of the system. Then, based on this reduced parameter space, we applied the climate‐based process constraints at long‐term, inter‐annual, and intra‐annual timescales. In the first step, we reduced the initial number of parameters by 52%, and then, we further reduced the number of parameters by 3% with the climate constraints. Finally, we compared the climate‐based constraints with a constraint based on global maps of low‐flow statistics. This latter constraint proved to be more restrictive than those based on climate variability (further reducing the number of parameters by 66% compared with 3%). Even so, the climate‐based constraints rejected inconsistent model simulations that were not rejected by the low‐flow statistics constraint. When taken all together, the constraints produced constrained simulation uncertainty bands, and the median simulated discharge followed the observed time series to a similar level as an optimized model. All the constraints were found useful in constraining model uncertainty for an—assumed to be—ungauged basin. This shows that our method is promising for modelling long‐term flow data for ungauged catchments on the Pacific side of Central America and that similar methods can be developed for ungauged basins in other regions where climate variability exerts a strong control on streamflow variability.  相似文献   

基于sP前驱震相叠加研究南美中部地区岩石圈-软流圈边界形态   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2       下载免费PDF全文

崔清辉  高雅健  周元泽 《地球物理学报》2017,60(7):2589-2598

岩石圈-软流圈边界(lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary)是上地幔内具有负速度梯度的地震波速度界面.对俯冲带区域LAB开展地震学探测有助于进一步认识岩石圈和软流圈的相互作用以及与板块俯冲有关的地球动力学过程.本文收集了2006-2012年发生于南美中部地区4个深源地震的垂向宽频带波形资料,利用线性倾斜叠加处理得到了相对走时-慢度域的灰度图,并成功提取了sP在LAB底反射的前驱震相S_(LAB)P.基于改进的一维速度模型IASP91-SA计算得出了6个S_(LAB)P震相反射点的水平分布,并划分为西部(Ⅰ)和东部(Ⅱ)分区:分区工内LAB深度位于60~63 km,平均深度为61 km,起伏为3 km;分区Ⅱ内LAB深度位于78~82 km,平均深度为80 km,起伏为4 km.研究结果显示南美中部地区LAB深度自西向东呈变大的趋势,这可能反映了大陆岩石圈受改造程度的差异.我们推测在靠近海沟的地区,软流圈内部分熔融程度较高且熔体较为富集,对大陆岩石圈的侵蚀作用较强;在远离海沟的地区,软流圈内部分熔融程度降低且熔体分布减少,对大陆岩石圈的侵蚀作用减弱.  相似文献   

Evaluating water quality for Amazonian streams along the interoceanic highway in Peru using macroinvertebrates collected by hand and with leaf packs     

《Limnologica》2020

We assessed water quality using physical, chemical, and biological characteristics in 37 streams between Puerto Maldonado and Cusco in Peru. Study sites ranged from ∼200 to 4000 m in elevation, with streams selected as pairs (control/natural vs. human impacted) along this gradient. In general, temperature decreased (R² = 0.82) and other parameters increased [dissolved oxygen (R² = 0.19), conductivity (R² = 0.17), pH (R² = 0.37)] with elevation. Macroinvertebrates were hand collected by professional entomologists and using leaf packs implemented by conservation workers. The professionals identified 213 unique taxa from the hand collections, with 80 species collected only one time. Data from control streams showed that as elevation increased, total richness (p = 0.008) and EPT richness (p = 0.050) decreased whereas Diptera richness increased (p = 0.002). NMS ordination indicated significant differences in macroinvertebrate assemblages when control streams from low and high elevations were contrasted. Hand collections also revealed significant differences between control and impact streams for total richness, EPT richness and % Diptera, but not for % EPT, % EPT richness, or % Diptera richness. The majority of the deployed leaf packs were successfully retrieved and contained many macroinvertebrates (Avg. = 141 individuals per pack). There were 98 unique taxa (family level or higher) identified from the leaf packs by the trained conservation workers. Fourteen of 15 macroinvertebrate community metrics (at the family level) were able to detect significant differences between control and impact sites. All of the family level metrics responded similarly across the elevation gradient except total richness, EPT richness, EPT count, and % Hydropsychids. Both the Costa Rica and the Virginia Save Our Stream Indexes were able to differentiate control from impacted streams using leaf pack data. Although the diversity of macroinvertebrates was higher for hand collections relative to leaf packs (due to greater habitats sampled and higher taxonomic resolution), leaf pack samples were better able to distinguish control from impacted streams. Specifically, leaf packs were able to discern impacts in streams at low elevation better than those at high elevation. Generally, macroinvertebrates indicated impact from urbanization to be worse than impacts from other human activities (i.e., gold mining and agriculture). Overall, hand collections will serve as an important reference of species diversity going forward while leaf packs processed by trained conservation workers are a viable method to monitor stream water quality in Peru and perhaps elsewhere.  相似文献   

全球锂资源综合评述   总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3       下载免费PDF全文

苏彤  郭敏  刘忠  李权 《盐湖研究》2019,27(3):104-111

发展高效清洁能源是解决能源和环境问题的有效途径,交通电力化和能源储存使全球对锂产品的需求持续快速增加,导致全球对锂资源越来越关注。然而,不同文献报道和不同信息来源的全球锂资源量差别较大,我们在对各种最新报道和公开的信息进行系统分析的基础上,对全球锂资源进行了综合评述。全球卤水锂和矿石锂资源总量为3 190～5 190万吨(以金属锂计),卤水锂和矿石锂分别约占62.6%和37.4%,全球70%以上的卤水锂资源在智利、阿根廷、玻利维亚锂三角地区。以卤水为原料生产锂盐能耗低、成本低,对卤水锂资源会越来越关注,卤水提锂将成为未来锂资源提取的重要方向。  相似文献   

Singled Out: Scaling Violence and Social Groups as Legal Borderwork in U.S. Asylum Law     

Cynthia S. Gorman 《Geographical review》2019,109(4):487-506

Through legal interpretation of immigration categories, such as the refugee definition, signatories to the UN Refugee Convention restrict access to political asylum. This paper examines how scalar logics are used in legal interpretation to filter out particular people from national space and control the number legally entitled to enter and remain in the U.S. Scalar logics shape access by requiring asylum seekers to prove they have been ‘singled out’ for persecution and by steering the meaning of the ‘particular social group’ provision of the refugee definition. The restrictive effects of these scalar logics are analyzed in relation to case law involving Central American asylum seekers fleeing gang‐related violence. These cases are often rejected on the basis that the asylum seekers possess identities and experiences exceeding the limited protection offered by asylum. Through analysis of these scalar logics, the paper highlights how interpretations of the refugee definition are an ongoing site of struggle over the scope of asylum protection.  相似文献   

LakeCC: a tool for efficiently identifying lake basins with application to palaeogeographic reconstructions of North America     

Sebastian Hinck  Evan J. Gowan  Gerrit Lohmann 《第四纪科学杂志》2020,35(3):422-432

Along the margins of continental ice sheets, lakes formed in isostatically depressed basins during glacial retreat. Their shorelines and extent are sensitive to the ice margin and the glacial history of the region. Proglacial lakes, in turn, also impact the glacial isostatic adjustment due to loading, and ice dynamics by posing a marine-like boundary condition at the ice margin. In this study we present a tool that efficiently identifies lake basins and the corresponding maximum water level for a given ice sheet and topography reconstruction. This algorithm, called the LakeCC model, iteratively checks the whole map for a set of increasing water levels and fills isolated basins until they overflow into the ocean. We apply it to the present-day Great Lakes and the results show good agreement (∼1−4%) with measured lake volume and depth. We then apply it to two topography reconstructions of North America between the Last Glacial Maximum and the present. The model successfully reconstructs glacial lakes such as Lake Agassiz, Lake McConnell and the predecessors of the Great Lakes. LakeCC can be used to judge the quality of ice sheet reconstructions. © 2019 The Authors Journal of Quaternary Science Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.  相似文献   

与碱性火成岩相关的典型轻稀土矿床研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

费红彩  侯增谦  肖荣阁  李彩霞 《地质与勘探》2007,43(3):11-16

轻稀土矿床和火成碱性岩系密切相关,典型轻稀土矿床以白云鄂博、四川冕宁以及北美西海岸科迪勒拉(Cordillera)矿带的芒廷帕斯、加里诺斯稀土矿(Gallinas Mountains)等为代表,这些矿床表现出一定的相似性,但是也有本质的区别.文章着重对以上矿床在产出环境、含矿岩性、成矿流体和物质来源、地球化学等方面做了对比,分析了它们之间的共性和特殊性,并对目前研究所存在的问题加以总结,这将有助于对轻稀土矿床成矿机制的理解,并对轻稀土找矿工作有一定指导意义.  相似文献