Apple orchard characterization using remote sensing and DEM - A case study for the Kotkhai block of the Shimla District     

Nitin Bhatt  N. S. Mehta 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》2005,33(1):127-130

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Long-term changes in the within-season temporal profile of southwest monsoon over western India     

Satyendra Bhandari  Rohit Srivastava  Vikram Mehta 《Journal of Earth System Science》2016,125(7):1313-1319

This paper presents results of a study of long term trends in the characteristics of the within-season temporal profile of southwest monsoon rainfall over western India during the last five decades in relation to global warming induced regional climate change. In contrast to recent climate change analyses and projections, no significant long-term trends have been observed in this study. Slow decadal scale variations observed are analysed in relation to Pacific Decadal Oscillations (PDO). Daily variations in rainfall anomaly show opposite characteristics during negative and positive phases of PDO. The above-normal rainfall (>25%) is found during the starting phase of monsoon in negative PDO. Over the last decade, i.e., during 2000–2007, the seasonal rainfall amount, as well as seasonal span of southwest monsoon over western India is indicative of a gradual increase.  相似文献   

Importance of wave-induced bed liquefaction in the fine sediment budget of Cleveland Bay,Great Barrier Reef   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

J. Lambrechts  C. Humphrey  L. McKinna  O. Gourge  K.E. Fabricius  A.J. Mehta  S. Lewis  E. Wolanski 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2010

Data from a three-year long field study of fine sediment dynamics in Cleveland Bay show that wave-induced liquefaction of the fine sediment bed on the seafloor in shallow water was the main process causing bed erosion under small waves during tradewinds, and that shear-induced erosion prevailed during cyclonic conditions. These data were used to verify a model of fine sediment dynamics that calculates sediment resuspension by both excess shear stress and wave-induced liquefaction of the bed. For present land-use conditions, the amount of riverine sediments settling on the bay may exceed by 50–75% the amount of sediment exported from the bay. Sediment is thus accumulating in the bay on an annual basis, which in turn may degrade the fringing coral reefs. For those years when a tropical cyclone impacted the bay there may be a net sediment outflow from the bay. During the dry, tradewind season, fine sediment was progressively winnowed out of the shallow, reefal waters.  相似文献   

Combined Radar and Landsat data analysis for land use/cover studies over parts of the Punjab plains     

S. Mohan  R. L. Mehta 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》1988,16(4):33-36

L-band (HH) synthetic aperture radar imagery from Shuttle Imaging Radar-B (SIR-B) and Landsat multispectral scanner (MSS) images over parts of the Punjab plains were combined in order to utilize the complementary information contained in multispectral data sets. Among the various combination of Landsat MSS with SIR-B, the combination of Landsat MSS band 5 (0.6–0.7 μm) and band 7 (0.8–1.1 μm) with SIR-B data was found to be optimum in delineating landcover units. The integrated data was found to be superior in providing landcover information in comparison to SIR-B alone or a combination of landsat MSS band 4,5 and 7.  相似文献   

Segmentation of SAR image using statistical separability rule     

Mohan  S.  Mehta  R. L. 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》1989,17(2):55-57

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing - In order to develop fully the application of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, special image analysis techniques are required. In the present...  相似文献   

Mud erosion by waves: a laboratory study     

P.-Y. Maa  A.J. Mehta 《Continental Shelf Research》1987,7(11-12)

The role of mud erosion under waves in governing cohesive sediment transport in estuarial and coastal waters is well known. A laboratory study was conducted in order to elucidate the mechanism by which soft muds erode under progressive waves in a flume. Two types of cohesive sediment were used, a commercial kaolinite and an estuarial mud. Beds were formed by pouring in a pre-prepared sediment-water slurry and allowing the deposit to consolidate for a period ranging from 2 to 14 days. A multi-layered hydrodynamic model, which considers the mud to be viscoelastic, has been developed and used to evaluate the bed shear stress at the oscillating mud-water interface. The viscoelastic property of the mud has been confirmed by rheological measurements, and model results on velocity, pressure and wave attenuation verified against flume data. Concentration profiles indicate a distinct evolutionary pattern resulting in a highly stratified suspension. Just above the bed, a thin layer of fluid mud is generated. Above this layer, the suspension concentration is significantly lower. This two-layered feature of the concentration profile is related to the oscillatory response of the mud and water layers, and the associated momentum exchange and mass diffusion characteristics. An expression relating the rate of erosion to the bed shear stress in excess of bed shear resistance has been developed. Generation of fluid mud during erosion is a significant feature of the role of waves over mud.  相似文献   

Mineralogy and geochemistry of lateritic soil profiles in Kerala, India     

B.C. Raymahashay  K.S. Rao  V.K. Mehta  P.R. Bhavana 《Chemical Geology》1987,60(1-4):327-330

Lateritic soils near Calicut, Kerala, contain halloysite of intermediate hydration, kaolinite, goethite, gibbsite and quartz. The presence of halloysite is responsible for relatively high plasticity and cation-exchange capacity. Fe-hydroxide colloids along with halloysite contribute to significant phosphate uptake by this soil. Composition of local groundwater is consistent with weathering of sodic plagioclase to gibbsite, kaolinite and metastable halloysite.  相似文献   

Comparative Toxicity of Certain Non-Insecticidal Chemicals to Mesocyclops leuckarti,the Carrier Host of Dracunculosis     

S. Mehta  A. N. Gupta  R. C. Srivastava 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》1982,10(4):361-365

The relative toxicities of seven non insecticidal chemicals to Mesocyclops leuckarti were tested. The relative toxicity of each chemical is given as under: Chlorine water > Potassium permanganate > Cetavlon > Quicklime > Common alum > Savlon > Sodium bicarbonate.  相似文献   

Uranium contents in minerals by fission track method     

M. K. Nagpal  K. K. Nagpaul  P. P. Mehta 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1973,102(1):153-160

Summary Uranium concentration in feldspar, pyroxene and carbonate groups of minerals has been studied by using the induced fission track technique. Fractions of homogeneously and heterogeneously distributed uranium have been estimated by differential counting. The suitability of studied minerals for fission track geochronology is discussed.  相似文献   

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of two viscous superposed rotating and conducting fluids     

Vijay Mehta  P. K. Bhatia 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1988,141(1):151-158

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of the interface separating two viscous rotating-conducting fluids has been studied in the presence of finite ion-Larmor radius (FLR) effects. Emloying the normal mode technique, the solutions have been obtained when the fluids are assumed to be permeated by a uniform horizontal magnetic field. For the case of two highly viscous fluids, the dispersion relation has been derived and solved numerically. It is found that the streaming velocity has a stabilizing influence on the potentially unstable arrangement of the fluids. The viscosity and FLR effects are also found to have a stabilizing influence while the Coriolis forces have a destabilizing influence on the system.  相似文献