From flood control to flood adaptation: a case study on the Lower Green River Valley and the City of Kent in King County,Washington

Despite massive investment in flood control infrastructure (FCI), neither cities nor rivers have been well served—flooding continues to challenge cities around the world, while riverine ecosystems are degraded by FCI. Although new flood hazard management concepts have shifted the focus away from FCI, many cities continue to count on FCI to prevent flood damage. It is assumed that existing built-up areas can only count on FCI, as large-scale retreat is often impossible. However, flood adaptation—retrofitting the built environment to prevent damage during flooding—as an option is often ignored. This paper argues against the continual use of FCI to prevent flood damage by reviewing FCI’s established problems. The paper examines human–river interactions associated with FCI, focusing on the feedback mechanisms in the interactions, with a case study on the Lower Green River (LGR) valley in King County, Washington, USA. An urban ecology research model is employed to organize the case study, where interactions between floodplain urbanization, FCI, flow and sediment changes, flood risk, and riverine ecosystem are explored and two feedback mechanisms—river adjustment and flood risk perception—are explicitly addressed. The resulting complex dynamics, in terms of cross–scale interactions, emergence, nonlinearity, and surprises, are synthesized and limitations of FCI outlined. Flood adaptation is explored as a plausible alternative to flood control to nurture flood resilience. A management scenario of flood adaptation for the City of Kent—the largest municipality in the LGR valley—is developed to discuss the implications of flood adaptation on flood risk and river restoration.     

Rural-urban governance toward Sustainable Development Goals

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Numerical simulation of a dam break for an actual river terrain environment

A two‐dimensional (2D) finite‐difference shallow water model based on a second‐order hybrid type of total variation diminishing (TVD) approximate solver with a MUSCL limiter function was developed to model flooding and inundation problems where the evolution of the drying and wetting interface is numerically challenging. Both a minimum positive depth (MPD) scheme and a non‐MPD scheme were employed to handle the advancement of drying and wetting fronts. We used several model problems to verify the model, including a dam break in a slope channel, a dam break flooding over a triangular obstacle, an idealized circular dam‐break, and a tide flow over a mound. Computed results agreed well with the experiment data and other numerical results available. The model was then applied to simulate the dam breaking and flooding of Hsindien Creek, Taiwan, with the detailed river basin topography. Computed flooding scenarios show reasonable flow characteristics. Though the average speed of flooding is 6–7 m s^?1, which corresponds to the subcritical flow condition (Fr < 1), the local maximum speed of flooding is 14·12 m s^?1, which corresponds to the supercritical flow condition (Fr ≈ 1·31). It is necessary to conduct some kind of comparison of the numerical results with measurements/experiments in further studies. Nevertheless, the model exhibits its capability to capture the essential features of dam‐break flows with drying and wetting fronts. It also exhibits the potential to provide the basis for computationally efficient flood routing and warning information. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Enhanced anisotropic bounding surface plasticity model considering modified spacing ratio of anisotropically consolidated clay

Acta Geotechnica - The critical state of anisotropically consolidated clay is not well captured by the classical anisotropic bounding surface plasticity model without considering the real...     

西沙群岛西科1井第四纪生物礁中典型暴露面的岩石学与孔隙特征

根据岩心观察、薄片鉴定和图像分析, 对西科1井第四纪发育的典型暴露面及其附近的岩石类型、成岩作用和孔隙类型进行了系统的分析.研究表明: 典型暴露面(埋深68.75~70.24 m)附近的岩石类型为骨架灰岩和泥粒灰岩, 成岩作用类型包括溶解作用、胶结作用、泥晶化作用和新生变形作用, 孔隙类型主要为粒间孔和粒间溶孔、粒内孔及粒内溶孔、生长骨架孔及其溶孔、铸模孔和晶间溶孔.碳酸盐矿物的悬垂状产状、生物体腔孔充填物的方解石化和普遍发育的溶解作用指示该深度段遭受了大气水淋滤的强烈改造.      

An Review of International Climate Change Conference and Analysis on Recent Hot Issues

The international climate change negotiation has been carried out over 20 years. The issue of climate change has shifted from a scientific question into a complex political matter which is related to the sustainable development of mankind. Based on the overview of major processes and stages of international climate conferences, this paper analyzed the key measures that major countries have taken to address climate change, as well as the primary tasks of Paris climate conference and recent international actions. The recent international climate policy issues were also analyzed in order to provide suggestions for China’s activel participation in the development of a new round of international climate change system.     

地面检校场的非量测型数码相机检校

由于相机检校作为非量测型数码相机应用于摄影测量前的必经步骤,其精度直接决定着后续测图的精度,因此针对传统的相机检校方法不能较真实地反映相机的物理状态、检校精度不高的问题,该文给出了基于地面检校场进行检校的流程,并以和静县数据为例,将该方法的检校精度与基于室内三维检校场以及基于纯平液晶显示器的检校精度进行了对比。实验表明:经该方法检校出来的相机参数精度更高,能够满足大比例尺测图要求。     

Parallels plane projection and its geometric features

A new equivalent map projection called the parallels plane projection is proposed in this paper. The transverse axis of the parallels plane projection is the expansion of the equator and its vertical axis equals half the length of the central meridian. On the parallels plane projection, meridians are projected as sine curves and parallels are a series of straight, parallel lines. No distortion of length occurs along the central meridian or on any parallels of this projection. Angular distortion and the proportion of length along meridians (except the central meridian) introduced by the projection transformation increase with increasing longitude and latitude. A potential application of the parallels plane projection is that it can provide an efficient projection transformation for global discrete grid systems.

     

半Lagrange法在数值预报中的应用和近年来的发展(Ⅰ)

本文就五十年代以来半Lagrange法在数值预报中的应用和近年来的发展进行评述,介绍我国在这方面的工作。还就此法和Euler法的优缺点作了比较;指出了存在的问题。     

The space distribution and orbital resonances of asteroids

We have made a detailed numerical analysis of the various orbital resonances of the asteroids and examined the variation in the distribution of trajectories near the equilibrium points in the phase plane, and hence arrived at a preliminary explanation of the features (gaps and clusters) in their distribution in space.