Making space for unruly water: Sustainable drainage systems and the disciplining of surface runoff     

Phil Jones  Neil Macdonald 《Geoforum》2007,38(3):534-544

This paper explores the disciplining of non-human actors through the example of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) managing surface water runoff. The lens of performativity is used to examine the move from pre-modern repressive forms of discipline, to mechanisms which attempt a more productive disciplinary engagement by finding space to reform water’s more unruly behaviours. After examining the problems with traditional disciplinary approaches to water of rapid transit and exile, the paper explores the implications of a move towards SuDS technology. This change is examined using a case study of Glasgow, Scotland, where there is an attempt to utilise less repressive disciplinary mechanisms and to find spaces in the city for surface water outside the hard drainage infrastructure. New approaches to the disciplining of urban water are conceptualised as being a performance of tension between water and those who would modify its behaviour.  相似文献   

Geospatial Agents, Agents Everywhere . . .   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Raja Sengupta  Renée Sieber 《Transactions in GIS》2007,11(4):483-506

The use of the related terms “agent‐based”, “multi‐agent”, “software agent” and “intelligent agent” have witnessed significant growth in the Geographic Information Science (GIScience) literature in the past decade. These terms usually refer to both artificial life agents that simulate human and animal behavior and software agents that support human‐computer interactions. In this article we first comprehensively review both types of agents. Then we argue that both these categories of agents borrow from Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, requiring them to share the characteristics of and be similar to AI agents. We also argue that geospatial agents form a distinct category of AI agents because they are explicit about geography and geographic data models. Our overall goal is to first capture the diversity of, and then define and categorize GIScience agent research into geospatial agents, thereby capturing the diversity of agent‐oriented architectures and applications that have been developed in the recent past to present a holistic review of geospatial agents.  相似文献   

Rapid Earthquake Information for Bucharest     

Friedemann Wenzel  Gheorge Marmuraenu 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2007,164(5):929-939

Advances in sensor techniques, digital acquisition, communication and computing allowed establishment of the field of real-time seismology (Kanamori et al., 1997) and the design of earthquake information systems that provide rapid information on ground motion and potential damage in an area for which a ground motion estimation data base is available and where the inventory of buildings and infrastructure and its vulnerability to shaking is known. We discuss a system for the Romanian capital of Bucharest, where an early warning system with about 30 seconds lead time, shake maps and a sophisticated damage estimation tool for Bucharest have been developed in the frame of the Collaborative Research Center on Strong Earthquakes ().  相似文献   

Seismic demands on secondary systems in base‐isolated nuclear power plants     

Yin‐Nan Huang  Andrew S. Whittaker  Michael C. Constantinou  Sanjeev Malushte 《地震工程与结构动力学》2007,36(12):1741-1761

Numerical models of a sample nuclear power plant (NPP) reactor building, both conventionally constructed and equipped with seismic protective systems, are analysed for both safe shutdown and beyond‐design‐basis earthquake shaking at two coastal sites in the United States. Seismic demands on secondary systems are established for the conventional and seismically isolated NPPs. The reductions in secondary‐system acceleration and deformation demands afforded by the isolation systems are identified. Performance spaces are introduced as an alternate method for evaluating demands on secondary systems. The results show that isolation systems greatly reduce both the median and dispersion of seismic demands on secondary systems in NPPs. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

新一代天气雷达资料在2003年淮河流域暴雨模拟中的初步应用:模拟降水和风场的对比   总被引：6，自引：2，他引：6  

李柏  周玉淑  张沛源 《大气科学》2007,31(5):826-838

利用时间尺度密集的长沙、常德、合肥、南昌、南京、武汉和宜昌共7个站的新一代天气雷达（CINRAD-SA雷达）观测反演资料、TBB资料、常规的探空和地面观测资料、NCEP分析资料，与中尺度MM5模式相结合，以NCEP格点资料作为大尺度背静场，加入12 h间隔的探空、3 h间隔的常规地面观测资料及1 h间隔的雷达反演风廓线资料，进行全程四维同化模拟，考察中尺度数值模式MM5对2003年梅雨期间发生在湖南、安徽和江苏的暴雨过程（7月8～9日）的模拟能力。分析表明:除了模拟降水与实况接近以外（雨量和雨区），MM5模式输出的风廓线和从雷达观测反演得到的风廓线结果有很好的相似性，加入雷达反演风廓线资料后对模拟结果有一定改进，为进一步利用模式输出结果研究造成2003年江淮流域暴雨洪涝的中尺度对流系统的结构和机理提供了可能。  相似文献   

Fedore Core 4.0下WRF模式系统的配置安装及运行     

邱明宇林建兴  王尚荣 《广西气象》2007,28(4):39-42

介绍操作系统平台为Fedore Core 4.0下,WRF模式的安装和运行。重点介绍了PGI6.16编译器的配置、Fedore Core 4.0的配置和WRF模式的多重嵌套及其运行步骤的关键设置。  相似文献   

Analysis of mesoscale convective systems in Catalonia using meteorological radar for the period 1996–2000     

Tomeu Rigo  Maria-Carmen Llasat   《Atmospheric Research》2007,83(2-4):458-472

The aim of this paper is to show a climatology of Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCS) in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula, on the basis of meteorological radar observations. Special attention was paid to those cases that have produced heavy rainfalls during the period 1996–2000. Identification of the MCS was undertaken using two procedures. Firstly, the precipitation structures at the lowest level were recognised by means of a 2D algorithm that distinguishes between convective and non-convective contribution. Secondly, the convective cells were identified using a 3D procedure quite similar to the SCIT (Storm Cell Identification and Tracking) algorithm that looks for the reflectivity cores in each radar volume. Finally, the convective cells (3D) were associated with the 2D structures (convective rainfall areas), in order to characterize the complete MCS. Once this methodology was presented the paper offers a proposal for classifying the precipitation systems, and particularly the MCS. 57 MCS structures were classified: 49% of them were identified as linearly well-organised systems, called TS (39%), LS (18%) and NS (43%). In addition to the classification, the following items were analysed for each MCS found: duration, season, time of day, area affected and direction of movement, and main radar parameters related with convection. The average features of those MCS show an area of about 25000 km², Z_max values of 47 dBz, an echotop of 12 km, the maximum frequency at 12 UTC and early afternoon and a displacement towards E-NE. The study was completed by analysing the field at surface, the presence of a mesoscale low near the system and the quasi-stationary features of three cases related with heavy rainfalls. Maximum rainfall (more then 200 mm in 6 h) was related with the presence of a cyclone in combination with the production of a convective train effect.  相似文献   

Collisional processes in extrasolar planetesimal discs – dust clumps in Fomalhaut's debris disc     

M. C. Wyatt  W. R. F. Dent 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,334(3):589-607

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Episodic accretion in magnetically layered protoplanetary discs     

Philip J. Armitage  †  Mario Livio  J. E. Pringle 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,324(3):705-711

We study protoplanetary disc evolution assuming that angular momentum transport is driven by gravitational instability at large radii, and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the hot inner regions. At radii of the order of 1 au such discs develop a magnetically layered structure, with accretion occurring in an ionized surface layer overlying quiescent gas that is too cool to sustain MHD turbulence. We show that layered discs are subject to a limit cycle instability, in which accretion on to the protostar occurs in ∼10⁴-yr bursts with ̇ ∼10⁻⁵ M_⊙ yr⁻¹, separated by quiescent intervals lasting ∼10⁵ yr where ̇ ≈10⁻⁸ M_⊙ yr⁻¹. Such bursts could lead to repeated episodes of strong mass outflow in young stellar objects. The transition to this episodic mode of accretion occurs at an early epoch ( t ≪1 Myr), and the model therefore predicts that many young pre-main-sequence stars should have low rates of accretion through the inner disc. At ages of a few Myr, the discs are up to an order of magnitude more massive than the minimum-mass solar nebula, with most of the mass locked up in the quiescent layer of the disc at r ∼1 au. The predicted rate of low-mass planetary migration is reduced at the outer edge of the layered disc, which could lead to an enhanced probability of giant planet formation at radii of 1–3 au.  相似文献   

Significance of strain localization and fracturing in relation to hydrothermal mineralization at Mount Isa, Australia   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Klaus Gessner  Peter A. Jones  Andy R. Wilde  Michael Kühn   《Journal of Geochemical Exploration》2006,89(1-3):129

The rheology of layered meta-sedimentary rocks, and their orientation and position relative to major fault systems were the key controls on Proterozoic hydrothermal copper mineralization at Mount Isa, Australia. Compositional layering in the host rock partitioned mechanical behavior and strain, leading to selective permeability generation and the focusing of fluid flow. Shale layers preferentially failed by plastic shearing, whereas meta-siltstones remained elastic or failed in tension depending on magnitude of deformation and fluid pressure. Numerical simulations support the hypothesis that the orientation of layering and the proximity to major fault systems controlled fracturing and permeability increase in the Urquhart shale. The dilating shale provided a pathway for an upward-flowing, reduced basement fluid, from which quartz was precipitated during cooling. During a later event, the reactivation of steep structures provided access to surface derived oxidized metal-bearing brine, causing the precipitation of dolomite followed by chalcopyrite ore in the brecciated silicified shale.  相似文献