The variation and controls of mean transit times in Australian headwater catchments     

Ian Cartwright  Uwe Morgenstern  William Howcroft  Harald Hofmann  Robin Armit  Michael Stewart  Chad Burton  Dylan Irvine 《水文研究》2020,34(21):4034-4048

Determining mean transit times in headwater catchments is critical for understanding catchment functioning and understanding their responses to changes in landuse or climate. Determining whether mean transit times (MTTs) correlate with drainage density, slope angle, area, or land cover permits a better understanding of the controls on water flow through catchments and allows first-order predictions of MTTs in other catchments to be made. This study assesses whether there are identifiable controls on MTTs determined using ³H in headwater catchments of southeast Australia. Despite MTTs at baseflow varying from a few years to >100 years, it was difficult to predict MTTs using single or groups of readily-measured catchment attributes. The lack of readily-identifiable correlations hampers the prediction of MTTs in adjacent catchments even where these have similar geology, land use, and topography. The long MTTs of the Australian headwater catchments are probably in part due to the catchments having high storage volumes in deeply-weathered regolith, combined with low recharge rates due to high evapotranspiration. However, the difficulty in estimating storage volumes at the catchment scale hampers the use of this parameter to estimate MTTs. The runoff coefficient (the fraction of rainfall exported via the stream) is probably also controlled by evapotranspiration and recharge rates. Correlations between the runoff coefficient and MTTs in individual catchments allow predictions of MTTs in nearby catchments to be made. MTTs are shorter in high rainfall periods as the catchments wet up and shallow water stores are mobilized. Despite the contribution of younger water, the major ion geochemistry in individual catchments commonly does not correlate with MTTs, probably reflecting heterogeneous reactions and varying degrees of evapotranspiration. Documenting MTTs in catchments with high storage volumes and/or low recharge rates elsewhere is important for understanding MTTs in diverse environments.  相似文献   

两种膨润土的土-水特征曲线   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

孙德安  孟德林  孙文静  刘月妙 《岩土力学》2011,32(4):973-0978

用滤纸法和压力板法对Kunigel-V1和高庙子两种膨润土进行试验研究,量测不同孔隙比情况下的土-水特征曲线,研究土-水特征曲线与孔隙比之间的关系以及两种膨润土的土-水特性。试验结果表明:用吸力与含水率的关系表示土-水特征曲线时,在吸力较大的情况下,孔隙比对土-水特征曲线的影响不大;用吸力与饱和度的关系表示土-水特征曲线时,土-水特征曲线随着孔隙比的减小向右上方移动,即在吸力一定的情况下,饱和度随着孔隙比的减小而增加,并且此变化接近于线性变化。另外,孔隙比相同时,Kunigel-V1和高庙子膨润土的土-水特征曲线比较接近,即两种膨润土的持水特性比较相近。  相似文献   

丹凤地区花岗伟晶岩型铀矿区放射性水文地球化学特征及找矿效果     

冯张生 《国外铀金地质》2011,(2):79-83

放射性水文地球化学找矿以其快速、简便、经济和高效的优点在丹凤地区花岗伟晶岩型铀矿勘查的各个阶段发挥了重要作用,浅层地下水放射性异常晕与含矿黑云母花岗伟晶岩分布范围一致,可用于圈定铀成矿远景区、普查区和详查区。近矿中深层地下水具有高U-Rn放射性水文地球化学特征,通过工程放射性水文地球化学找矿,可预测盲矿体大致位置,指导揭露工程布置。  相似文献   

关于尤卡山项目的一些思考     

徐国庆 《国外铀金地质》2011,(2):104-111

简要论述了美国尤卡山项目研发的历史进程,讨论了该项目目前的进展状态,以及由此引出可供我国高放废物地质处置研发工作值得思考的若干问题。笔者认为,目前尤卡山项目进展受阻的主要原因是政治因素,而不是场址的自然条件和科学技术因素。关于该项目的不同意见之争还将会继续下去,最后可能只有通过进一步的科学论证和法律途径得以解决。  相似文献   

土壤-植物系统中氚迁移研究现状与展望     

邱国华 《国外铀金地质》2011,(3):180-186

对土壤-植物系统中氚迁移研究的意义、国内外研究进展作了概括性的介绍与展望,包括氚在不同土壤和植物中的时空分布、迁移规律及其影响因素、氚的化学形态和氚迁移数学模型研究等。总结了已取得的研究成果,并分析、讨论了研究中存在的问题。  相似文献   

放射性废物处置研究进展   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

易树平  马海毅  郑春苗 《地球学报》2011,32(5):592-600

放射性废物的处置是制约核能可持续发展的关键因素,目前已成为国际社会关注的热点问题之一.针对处置场地核素运移污染的风险问题,对放射性废物的处置及其选址、核素运移试验和核素运移模型进行了回顾和论述.指出采用多重屏障系统进行放射性废物的处置,其安全性是可以得到保障的;处置场的选址应遵循就近原则,并应从环境水文地质的角度来构建...  相似文献   

基于ERICA框架的放射性核素环境安全浓度限值的计算     

于宁  郭佩芳 《中国海洋大学学报(自然科学版)》2011,41(3):19-23

本文采用欧盟ERICA框架下评估电离辐射生态风险的ERICA综合法,选用ERICA工具数据库中的参数数据,计算了我国大亚湾等核电站液态放射性流出物中主要的18种放射性核素的环境安全浓度限值。当核电站排水口附近海域中放射性核素浓度低于推荐的环境安全浓度限值时,放射性核素造成的辐射风险被认为是在海洋生态环境所能承受的范围之内。  相似文献   

Rock Mass Characteristics in Beishan, A Preselected Area for China’s High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal     

WEI Xiang  GUO Ying  CHENG Hanlie  MENG Xiangdong  CHENG Mingqian  YANG Ting  XU Chunmei 《《地质学报》英文版》2019,93(2):362-372

Geological and hydrological characteristics, joint geometric features, rock physical and mechanical properties and rock mass quality are studied in the Beishan area, preselected for China’s high-level radioactive waste (HLW) disposal engineering. A comprehensive survey method is developed to study joint geometric features in the outcrop and samples from borehole BS06 into the Xinchang rock mass were tested. The optimal joint sets are determined by rose diagrams and equal-area lower hemisphere plots of joint poles. Results show that: 1) the distribution of joint occurrence obeys a normal distribution, while the distribution of joint spacing obeys a negative exponential distribution; 2) concentric circular and tangent circular sampling windows are applied to study the trace length and the trace midpoint density. Results indicate that tangent circular sampling window is more stable and reasonable; 3) Beishan granite shows high density, low porosity and high strength based on many laboratory tests and the physical properties and mechanical properties are closely related; and 4) a synthesis index, Joint Structure Rating (JSR), is applied to evaluate the quality of rock mass. Through the research results of rock mass characteristics, the Xinchang rock mass in the Beishan preselected area has the favorable conditions for China’s HLW disposal repository site.  相似文献   

Higher tritium concentrations measured in permafrost thaw lakes in northern Alberta          下载免费PDF全文

J. J. Gibson  S. J. Birks  Y. Yi 《水文研究》2016,30(2):245-249

Tritium concentrations were measured in a survey of 24 lakes, 15 wetlands, and 133 groundwaters in the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta and compared with both recent precipitation and precipitation sampled during the 1960s tritium peak caused by atmospheric thermonuclear weapons testing. Water samples from lakes included a group of 14 thaw lakes that had higher runoff attributed to melting of permafrost in peat plateaus within their watersheds. While tritium in all lakes was found to be intermediate between recent and 1960s concentrations, the thaw lakes were found to be significantly enriched in tritium compared with other lakes, as were unfrozen wetlands characterized by a thick sequence of low‐hydraulic conductivity peat. The results provide further evidence of different water sources to the thaw lakes and may indicate that melting of modern permafrost in part formed since the 1950s is occurring in these systems. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

A GLUE‐based uncertainty assessment framework for tritium‐inferred transit time estimations under baseflow conditions          下载免费PDF全文

Francesc Gallart  Maria Roig‐Planasdemunt  Michael K. Stewart  Pilar Llorens  Uwe Morgenstern  Willibald Stichler  Laurent Pfister  Jérôme Latron 《水文研究》2016,30(25):4741-4760

The last decade has seen major technical and scientific improvements in the study of water transfer time through catchments. Nevertheless, it has been argued that most of these developments used conservative tracers that may disregard the oldest component of water transfer, which often has transit times greater than 5 years. Indeed, although the analytical reproducibility of tracers limits the detection of the older flow components associated with the most dampened seasonal fluctuations, this is very rarely taken into account in modelling applications. Tritium is the only environmental tracer at hand to investigate transfer times in the 5‐ to 50‐year range in surface waters, as dissolved gases are not suitable due to the degassing process. Water dating with tritium has often been difficult because of the complex history of its atmospheric concentration, but its current stabilization together with recent analytical improvements open promising perspectives. In this context, the innovative contribution of this study lies in the development of a generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation‐based approach for analysing the uncertainties associated with the modelling of transit time due to both parameter identification and tracer analytical precision issues. A coupled resampling procedure allows assessment of the statistical significance of the transfer time differences found in diverse waters. This approach was developed for tritium and the exponential‐piston model but can be implemented for virtually any tracer and model. Stream baseflow, spring and shallow aquifer waters from the Vallcebre research catchments, analysed for tritium in different years with different analytical precisions, were investigated by using this approach and taking into account other sources of uncertainty. The results showed three groups of waters of different mean transit times, with all the stream baseflow and spring waters older than the 5‐year threshold needing tritium. Low sensitivity of the results to the model structure was also demonstrated. Dual solutions were found for the waters sampled in 2013, but these results may be disambiguated when additional analyses will be made in a few years. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献