Impact of urban stormwater runoff on estuarine environmental quality     

Hueiwang Anna C. Jeng  Andrew J. Englande  Reda M. Bakeer  Henry B. Bradford 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2005,63(4):513-526

Urban stormwater runoff could contribute to the deterioration of water quality of a receiving water body. In this research, field studies and laboratory experiments were conducted to assess the microbial contamination resulting from urban stormwater runoff into the Lake Pontchartrain estuary. Fecal coliform, Escherichia coli and enterococci were used as indicator organisms. The specific objectives of the research were to examine the distribution of the indicator organisms in different environmental elements (water column, suspended particles and sediment) and to further investigate the mechanisms related to their fate. Results of the research indicated satisfactory water quality at the study sites during dry weather periods. However, a significant increase was observed in the concentrations of the indicator organisms in the water columns and sediment at specific study sites following a given stormwater event. Three to seven days were needed for the elevated indicator organisms to return back to their background levels in the water column and sediment, respectively. The mechanism of sedimentation contributed to a reduction in the microbial concentration in the water column, as the indicator organisms were found to attach to the suspended particles in the stormwater. The percentage of fecal coliform, E. coli and enterococci attached to the suspended particles was found to be within the range of 9.8–27.5%, 21.8–30.4%, and 8.4–11.5% of the total indicator organisms in the stormwater loaded into the estuary, respectively. About 75–80% of the total indicator organisms remained free-floating for some distance in the water column before dying off.  相似文献   

Modeling the environmental susceptibility of landfill sites in California     

Victor Fernandez Nascimento  Nazli Yesiller  Keith C Clarke  Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto  Pedro R. Andrade  Anahi Chimini Sobral 《地理信息系统科学与遥感》2017,54(5):657-677

??The proper management of solid waste (SW) is a global environmental challenge. A major issue is the proper disposal of SW while balancing a wide range of criteria and working with different spatial data. In this study, we used geographic information system as a tool to perform multi-criteria decision analysis with an analytical hierarchy process to develop an environmental impact susceptibility model (EISM) for landfills. The model was applied to the state of California, USA and results are presented herein. In particular, the EISM considers factors such as geology, pedology, geomorphology, water resources, and climate as represented by 13 associated environmental indicators. The results of the EISM indicate that more than 75% of California’s territory is situated in areas with very low, low, and medium environmental impact susceptibility categories. However, in the remaining 25% of the state’s land, 61 landfills are located in the high and very high categories. These results are alarming because during the period from 2000 to 2015, these 61 landfills received approximately 308 million tons of SW, which corresponds to more than 57% of all SW disposed in California. The model results can be used toward mitigating the environmental impacts of these facilities.  相似文献   

The St. Gallen Fault Zone: a long-lived,multiphase structure in the North Alpine Foreland Basin revealed by 3D seismic data     

Stefan Heuberger  Philippe Roth  Olivier Zingg  Henry Naef  Beat P. Meier 《Swiss Journal of Geoscience》2016,109(1):83-102

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New 1982 — 1990 photometry of λ Andromedae and its 11-year cycle     

Douglas S. Hall  Gregory W. Henry  Dietmar Böhme  Peter A. Brooks  Sandy Chang  Ales Dolzan  George L. Fortier  Robert E. Fried  Russell M. Genet  Bruce S. Grim  James Hannon  Darrel B. Hoff  Kevin Krisciunas  Howard J. Landis  Howard P. Louth  Larry P. Lovell  Paul Nielsen  Bobby E. Powell  Harry D. Powell  Don Pray  Thomas R. Renner  Charles W. Rogers  Stephen Shervais  Douglas M. Slauson  Samuel Slote  Harold J. Stelzer  Arthur J. Stokes  Jack C. Troeger  Louis C. Turner  Norman F. Wasson  Kenneth W. Zeigler 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》1991,12(4):281-287

We present photoelectric photometry of λ And never before published, obtained between February 1982 and December 1990 at 29 different observatories. Then we combine it with all other photometry available to us (previously published, contained in the I.A.U. Commission 27 Archives, and obtained with the Vanderbilt 16-inch automatic telescope but not yet published), to yield a 14.8-year data base. Analysis reveals a long-term cycle in mean brightness, with a full range of 0^m.15 and a period of 11.4 ± 0.4 years. Because most of our new photometry was concentrated in the 1983-84 observing season, we analyze that one well-defined light curve with a two-spot model. Spot A keeps a 0^m.04 amplitude throughout four rotation cycles whereas the amplitude of spot B diminishes from 0^m.09 down almost to 0^m.03. The spot rotation periods were 55^d.9 ± 0^d.6 and 520^d.8 ± 1^d.0, respectively.  相似文献   

    

W. A. Heiskanen  J. Lamar Worzel  G. Lynn Shurbert  Paul Herget  Clair E. Ewing  Carl I. Aslakson  Simo Laurila  John R. Williams  David T. Williams  Bertil Hallert  Robert C. Fitzpatrick  W. M. Markowitz  S. P. Worden  Henry Wild Jr  W. Kneissl 《Journal of Geodesy》1955,29(2):55-78

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On the use of the Proudman—Heaps tidal theorem     

M. G. G. Foreman  L. M. Delves  I. Barrodale  R. F. Henry 《Geophysical Journal International》1980,63(2):467-478

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Detection of individual normal modes of oscillation of the Sun in the period range from 2 hr to 10 min in solar diameter studies     

Bos  Randall J.  Hill  Henry A. 《Solar physics》1983,82(1-2):89-102

Solar Physics - New observations of solar oscillations are reported. Power density spectra derived from these observations reveal narrow-band oscillations that are spatially global, have spatial...  相似文献   

Leitfaden der Pollenbestimmung fur Mitteleuropa und angrenzende Gebiete. H.‐J. Beug. Publisher Verlag Friedrich Pfeil,Munich, 2004 (542 pp. 120 plates, 12 tables) ISBN 3 89937 043 0     

Henry Hooghiemstra 《第四纪科学杂志》2006,21(1):105-105

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Norwegian sea‐surface palaeoenvironments of marine oxygen‐isotope stage 3: the paradoxical response of dinoflagellate cysts     

F. Eynaud  J. L. Turon  J. Matthiessen  C. Kissel  J. P. Peypouquet  A. de Vernal  M. Henry 《第四纪科学杂志》2002,17(4):349-359

High‐resolution marine palynological data have been obtained from two very long sediment cores (MD952009 and MD952010) retrieved from the southern Norwegian Sea. The dinoflagellate cyst assemblages show pronounced fluctuations in composition, which correlate strongly with magnetic susceptibility records and also mimic the δ¹⁸O signal of the GISP2 Greenland ice‐core. If focusing on the period from 48 to 30 cal. kyr BP, this correlation suggests a paradoxical response of the sea‐surface environments to the atmospheric conditions over Greenland: when the Greenland δ¹⁸O signal reflects warm interstadial conditions, the Norwegian Sea depicts cold sea‐surface temperatures with quasi‐perennial sea‐ice cover (based on dinoflagellate cysts). In contrast, when the Greenland δ¹⁸O records cold stadial periods, the Norwegian Sea‐surface temperatures are warm (based on dinoflagellate cysts), probably linked to inflow of the North Atlantic Drift. These results, similar in both cores, are contrary to those of previous studies and shed light on a possible decoupling of Norwegian sea surface‐water conditions and atmospheric conditions over Greenland. This decoupling could be linked to an atmosphere–ocean system behaving similar to that which the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing at present, i.e. strongly variable owing to the North Atlantic Oscillation. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Comet searches during four major eclipses     

Henry C. Courten 《Solar physics》1971,21(2):495-495

Photographic observations made during the solar eclipses of 1963, 1966, 1968, and 1970 indicate the presence of previously unidentified celestial objects in the near-angular vicinity of the Sun. Observational data and equipment are described. Possible origins of the objects are enumerated, as well as suggested future experiments to confirm the results.  相似文献