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Climate impacts of environmental degradation in Sudan 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
There exists an impressive amount of work for Sudan showing the anthropogenic degradation of natural vegetation cover. However,
there are few examples of consequent climatic changes in literature. This work, thus, seeks to assess such effects of environmental
forcing on various climatic patterns over the past few decades. Within the frame of the present analysis, the results are
quite striking and are in concordance with scientific contentions that such land degradation could result in climatic modification.
Higher temperature and less rainfall, sunshine duration and global radiation have been noticed. Evapotranspiration has responded
more to the warming and drying conditions, thus showed signs of increasing rates, especially during the wet season. However,
the extent of increase seems to have been suppressed by the decrease in sunshine duration and solar radiation as well as the
inconsistent behaviour of wind speed. Changes in the variability of the within-year monthly observations have also occurred,
thus suggesting an increase in the occurrence of extremes. The observed climatic modification in the country has exaggerated
the insidious drought conditions. The present findings are hoped to contribute to our understanding of the effects of environmental
problem and assist in considering policy responses.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Chemical data are used to clarify the hydrogeological regime in the Mafraq area in northern Jordan, as well as to determine
the status of water quality in the area. Groundwater from the shallow aquifer in the Mafraq area can be divided into two major
groups according to geographical locations and chemical compositions. Water in the basaltic eastern part of the study area
is characterized by the dominance of chloride, sulfate, sodium, and potassium, whereas waters in the limestone aquifers in
the west are dominated by the same cations but have higher concentrations of bicarbonate. Stable isotopes show that the shallow
aquifers contain a single water type which originated in a distinct climatic regime. This water type deviates from the Global
Meteoric Water Line (MWL), as well as from the eastern Mediterranean meteoric water line. The waters are poor in tritium,
and thus can be considered generally older than 50 years. Chemical mass balance models suggest that water is moving from the
west towards the north of the study area. This suggests that waters from the different basins are separated from each other.
Degradation of water quality can be attributed to agricultural fertilizers in most cases, although the waste-water treatment
plant at Khirbet es Samra is a contributor to pollution in the southwestern part of the study area.
Received: 20 August 1997 · Accepted: 3 February 1998 相似文献
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Nadir Benhamiche Lamia Sahi Sabrina Tahar Hassiba Bir Khodir Madani Benoit Laignel 《水文科学杂志》2013,58(4):775-792
ABSTRACTFive-year monitoring of physicochemical parameters was performed with two campaigns in low and high water periods of the Lower Soummam catchment. Data from 18 wells were processed by multivariate statistical tools in order to identify the principal factors influencing groundwater chemistry. Two matrices of 14 and 8 physicochemical parameters with 18 groundwater samples collected in wells were obtained. The correlation matrix showed strong associations between nine variables: K+, Ca2+, Na+, SO42?, Cl?, Mg2+, NO2?, Zn2+ and Sr2+. Principal component analysis and factor analysis showed that the cumulated variance of high and low water periods was of 83.19% and 78.55%, respectively. The variables assigned to the mineralization effect or to pollution indicators were presented by the factor analysis. The bivariate plots confirmed a mineralization model, ascribed to dissolution of geological materials, and to high levels of saline contamination attributed to leakages from sanitary systems. They also showed an increase “upstream to downstream” of the mineralization, visualization of temporal variations, and a dilution process identification of the natural mineralization during the recharge of the aquifer.
EDITOR D. Koutsoyiannis; ASSOCIATE EDITOR X. Chen 相似文献
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Biotic drivers of river and floodplain geomorphology – New molecular methods for assessing present‐day and past biota 下载免费PDF全文
Geomorphology has increasingly considered the role of biotic factors as controls upon geomorphic processes across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Where timescales are long (centennial and longer), it has been possible to quantify relationships between geomorphic processes and vegetation using, for example, the pollen record. However, where the biotic agents are fauna, longer term reconstruction of the impacts of biological activity upon geomorphic processes is more challenging. Here, we review the prospect of using environmental DNA as a molecular proxy to decipher the presence and nature of faunal influences on geomorphic processes in both present and ancient deposits. When used appropriately, this method has the potential to improve our understanding of biotic drivers of geomorphic processes, notably fauna, over long timescales and so to reconstruct how such drivers might explain the landscape as we see it today. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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Imen?TurkiEmail author Benoit?Laignel Nicolas?Massei Zeneddine?Nouaceur Nadir?Benhamiche Khodir?Madani 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2016,9(6):477
The long-term variability of rainfall in the Soummam watershed (NE Algeria) has been analysed over the past 108 years using continuous wavelet method in order to identify the interannual modes controlling the rainfall variability. Statistical analyses of rainfall timeseries have shown its distribution following five periods of time, limited by a series of discontinuities around 1935, 1950, 1970 and 1990. The continuous wavelet transform have demonstrated different low frequency modes: 2–4, 4–8, 8–16 and 16–32 years.The annual band is expanded during the full study period with some pics around 1905, 1920–1935 and 1960; it shows a negative long-term trend, in particular since the period 1970–1990 when a major change has been identified. Then, the relationships between climate patterns of North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and the hydrological variability in the frequency domain have been investigated; they have shown a mean explained variance of 40 and 24 %, respectively. Such variances are less obvious for the annual mode and increase for the interannual frequencies. The coherence suffer from high perturbations since the period 1970–1990 when the NAO (SOI) shifts from negative (positive) phases to positive (negative) ones. Such anomalies are responsible for significant changes of rainfall variability, emphasising the global warming effects. 相似文献
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