Flow-induced vegetation uprooting in a meandering bend:Experimental investigation     

Donatella Termini  Alice Di Leonardo 《国际泥沙研究》2022,37(3):399-410

Vegetation uprooting is a complex process which depends on many interrelated factors. In this paper,attention is focused on the flow-induced uprooting in river bends, where the flow characteristics vary as effected by the channel’s curvature and its continuous changing in the downstream direction. Results are presented by an experimental work done in a high-amplitude meandering flume with mature herbaceous vegetation on the bed. In the first part of the paper, the variation along the bend of the...  相似文献   

Quantification of aquatic sediment prokaryotes—A multiple-steps optimization testing sands from pristine and contaminated aquifers     

《Limnologica》2016

The total number of prokaryotic cells in aquatic sediments is a crucial measure tightly linked to energetic constraints, microbial productivity, and ecosystem status. While counting cells in water samples is routine, reliable procedures for the determination of prokaryotic cells associated to aquatic sediments are especially needed. A protocol for the direct quantification of prokaryotic cell abundance in aquatic sediments was developed and tested with sandy material from pristine and contaminated aquifers. Individual steps required in sample preparation, including preservation, cell dislodgement, density gradient centrifugation providing sample purification, and staining, were critically evaluated and optimized. Quantification of cells is conducted by flow cytometry promoting a high-throughput sample processing. Although tested for only two different types of aquifer sediments, researchers may easily adapt the protocol for their individual samples and purposes, thus conducting a brief efficiency re-evaluation of individual steps highlighted in this study.  相似文献   

Morphological records of storm floods exemplified by the impact of the 1872 Baltic storm on a sandy spit system in south‐eastern Denmark          下载免费PDF全文

Lars B. Clemmensen  Mette Bendixen  Mikkel U. Hede  Aart Kroon  Lars Nielsen  Andrew S. Murray 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2014,39(4):499-508

Beach‐ridge systems are important geo‐archives providing evidence for past wave climate including catastrophic storm flood events. This study investigates the morphological impacts of the 1872 Baltic storm flood on a beach‐ridge system (sandy spit) in south‐eastern Denmark and evaluates the frequency of extreme storm flood events in the area over a longer time perspective. This paper combines field studies of morphology and sedimentary deposits, studies of historical maps, digital terrain model, ground‐penetrating radar profiles, and luminescence dating. Sea water reached 2.8 m above mean sea level (amsl) during peak inundation and, based on studies of the morphological impacts of the 1872 storm flood, the event can be divided into four phases. Phase 1: increasing mean water levels and wave activity at the beach brought sediments from the beach (intertidal bars and normal berm) higher up in the profile and led to the formation of a storm‐berm. Phase 2: water levels further increased and sediment in the upper part of the profile continued to build up the storm‐berm. Phase 3: water levels now reached the top of the dune ridge and were well above the storm‐berm level. Sea water was breaching the dune ridge at several sites and wash‐over fans were generated until a level where the mean water level had dropped too much. Phase 4: the non‐vegetated wash‐over fans functioned as pathways for aeolian sand transport and relatively high dunes were formed in particular along the margins of the fan where aeolian sand was trapped by existing vegetation. The studied beach‐ridge system records about 4500 years of accumulation; the storm flood sediments described are unique suggesting that the 1872 Baltic storm flood event was an extreme event. Thus studies of beach‐ridge systems form a new source for understanding storm surge risk. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Bedload hysteresis in a glacier‐fed mountain river          下载免费PDF全文

Luca Mao  Andrea Dell'Agnese  Carolina Huincache  Michal Engel  Georg Niedrist  Francesco Comiti 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2014,39(7):964-976

Sediment transport during flood events often reveals hysteretic patterns because flow discharge can peak before (counterclockwise hysteresis) or after (clockwise hysteresis) the peak of bedload. Hysteresis in sediment transport has been used in the literature to infer the degree of sediment availability. Counterclockwise and clockwise hysteresis have been in fact interpreted as limited and unlimited sediment supply conditions, respectively. Hysteresis has been mainly explored for the case of suspended sediment transport, but it was rarely reported for bedload transport in mountain streams. This work focuses on the temporal variability of bedload transport in an alpine catchment (Saldur basin, 18.6 km², Italian Alps) where bedload transport was monitored by means of an acoustic pipe sensor which detects the acoustic vibrations induced by particles hitting a 0.5m‐long steel pipe. Runoff dynamics are dominated by snowmelt in late spring/early summer, mostly by glacier melt in late summer/early autumn, and by a combination of the snow and glacier melt in mid‐summer. The results indicate that hysteretic patterns during daily discharge fluctuations are predominantly clockwise during the snowmelt period, likely due to the ready availability of unpacked sediments within the channel or through bank erosion in the lower part of the basin. On the contrary, counterclockwise hysteresis tend to be more frequent during late glacier melting period, possibly due to the time lag needed for sediment provided by the glacial and peri‐glacial area to be transported to the monitoring section. However, intense rainfall events occurring during the glacier melt period generated predominantly clockwise hysteresis, thus indicating the activation of different sediment sources. These results indicate that runoff generation processes play a crucial role on sediment supply and temporal availability in mountain streams. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Local modeling of instability onset for global finger evolution     

《Advances in water resources》2014

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Flow regime shifts in the Little Piney creek (US)     

《Advances in water resources》2014

Non-stationarity of climate drivers and soil-use strongly affects the hydrologic cycle, producing significant inter-annual and multi-decadal fluctuations of river flow regimes. Understanding the temporal trajectories of hydrologic regimes is a key issue for the management of freshwater ecosystems and the security of human water uses. Here, long-term changes in the seasonal flow regime of the Little Piney creek (US) are analyzed with the aid of a stochastic mechanistic approach that expresses analytically the streamflow distribution in terms of a few measurable hydroclimatic parameters, providing a basis for assessing the impact of climate and landscape modifications on water resources. Mean rainfall and streamflow rates exhibit a pronounced inter-annual variability across the last century, though in the absence of clear sustained drifts. Long-term modifications of streamflow regimes across different periods of 2 and 8 years are likewise significant. The stochastic model is able to reasonably reproduce the observed 2-years and 8-years regimes in the Little Piney creek, as well as the corresponding inter-annual variations of streamflow probability density. The study evidences that a flow regime shift occurred in the Little Piney creek during the last century, with erratic regimes typical of the 30s/40s that had been progressively replaced by persistent flow regimes featured by more dumped streamflow fluctuations. Causal drivers of regime shift are identified as the increase of the frequency of events (a byproduct of climate variability) and the decrease of recession rates (induced by a decrease of cultivated lands). The approach developed offers an objective basis for the analysis and prediction of the impact of climate/landscape change on water resources.  相似文献   

Evapotranspiration and canopy characteristics of two lodgepole pine stands following mountain pine beetle attack   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

Mathew G. Brown  T. Andrew Black  Zoran Nesic  Vanessa N. Foord  David L. Spittlehouse  Arthur L. Fredeen  Rebecca Bowler  Nicholas J. Grant  Philip J. Burton  J. A. Trofymow  Dominic Lessard  Gesa Meyer 《水文研究》2014,28(8):3326-3340

Over the past decade, British Columbia (BC), has experienced the largest mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak on record. This study used the eddy‐covariance (EC) technique to examine the impact of the MPB attack on evapotranspiration (E) and associated canopy characteristics of two lodgepole pine stands with secondary structure (trees, saplings and seedlings surviving the attack) located in central BC. MPB‐06, an 85‐year‐old almost pure stand of pine trees, was first attacked in 2006, and by 2010, ~80% of the trees had been killed. MPB‐03, a 110‐year‐old stand with an overstory consisting of over 90% pine and a developed sub‐canopy, was first attacked in 2003 and by 2007 had > 95% pine canopy mortality. EC measurements began in August 2006 at MPB‐06 and in March 2007 at MPB‐03, and continued for four years. Annual total E ranged from 226 mm to 237 mm at MPB‐06, and from 280 to 297 mm at MPB‐03, showing relatively little year‐to‐year change at both sites over the four years. Increased E from the accelerated growth of the surviving vegetation (secondary structure, shrubs and herbs) compensated for reduction in E due to the death of the overstory. Monthly average daytime canopy conductance, the Priestley–Taylor (α), and the canopy–atmosphere decoupling coefficient (Ω) steadily increased during the growing season reaching approximate maximum values of 5 mm s^?1, 0.75 and 0.12, respectively. Potential evapotranspiration was approximated using a vapour pressure deficit‐dependent α obtained at high soil water content. Calculated water deficits indicated some water‐supply limitation to the surviving trees and understory at both sites. Rates of root zone drainage during the growing season were low relative to precipitation. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

The dynamic response of fluid-saturated porous materials with application to seismically induced soil liquefaction     

《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》2014

The numerical simulation of liquefaction phenomena in fluid-saturated porous materials within a continuum-mechanical framework is the aim of this contribution. This is achieved by exploiting the Theory of Porous Media (TPM) together with thermodynamically consistent elasto-viscoplastic constitutive laws. Additionally, the Finite Element Method (FEM) besides monolithic time-stepping schemes is used for the numerical treatment of the arising coupled multi-field problem. Within an isothermal and geometrically linear framework, the focus is on fully saturated biphasic materials with incompressible and immiscible phases. Thus, one is concerned with the class of volumetrically coupled problems involving a potentially strong coupling of the solid and fluid momentum balance equations and the algebraic incompressibility constraint. Applying the suggested material model, two important liquefaction-related incidents in porous media dynamics, namely the flow liquefaction and the cyclic mobility, are addressed, and a seismic soil–structure interaction problem to reveal the aforementioned two behaviors in saturated soils is introduced.  相似文献   

周至井数字化资料映震效能分析与研究     

彭玉柱  张世民  李建章 《震灾防御技术》2014,9(S1):718-725

地震台站观测人员清理自己的观测资料对促进地震观测资料在地震预报实践中的应用具有十分重要的意义。我们对周至井十多年的地下流体数字化观测资料进行了系统的整理,从固体潮特征、降雨特征、气压效应、同震变化与震前异常等方面进行了分析,初步结果认为周至井是一口很好的地震地下流体观测井孔,只要能对其观测数据出现的各种不正常现象加以分析,就有可能对未来将要发生的中强地震做出有一定价值的预报意见。  相似文献   

基于熵权物元可拓模型的冻土路基热稳定性评价   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

阮国锋  张建明  穆彦虎  张虎  柴明堂 《冰川冻土》2014,36(1):123-129

冻土路基热稳定性评价是一个复杂的工程评价问题.应用可拓理论,选取年平均地温、体积含冰量、天然上限、路基高度及路基走向5个影响路基热稳定性的主要因素作为冻土路基热稳定性的评价指标,将熵权法引入可拓学理论中,避免确定指标权重的主观随意性,从而建立熵权物元可拓模型,并将该模型应用于青藏铁路普通路基的热稳定性评价.将评价结果与青藏铁路现场监测系统中4个普通路基断面热稳定性监测结果进行对比,结果表明应用物元可拓模型可以得到比较可靠的路基热稳定性评价结果.因此,该评价方法可应用于冻土路基热稳定性评价.  相似文献