Flow frequency responses to hardwood-to-grass conversion and subsequent succession

A 8.9 ha (22 acre) catchment at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in western North Carolina was cleared of hardwood forest in 1958 and 1959 and seeded to Kentucky 31 fescue grass in 1959 and 1960. Grass production was high in years when fertilizer was applied and water yield was very similar to that expected from the original forest cover. as grass production declined, so water yields rose, with important increases in the magnitude of both low frequency flows and, particularly, in baseflow. in 1967 and 1968, when all vegetation was deadened in the catchment, the discharge levels in all flow frequency classes were higher. Natural revegetation was then allowed and water yields gradually declined towards the expected level, although there remained a tendency for winter flows to remain higher, and for summer flows to be lower than expected. This paper updates the earlier work of Hibbert (1969) and uses flow duration curves to extend his results.     

试用“稳定流”评价区域化探异常

出露地表或近地表的矿体,在遭受风化剥蚀作用时,稳定地向水系补充矿化物质,形成在矿体附近具有浓集中心,含量向下游逐渐衰减的水系沉积物异常,对这种异常的形成作用称之为“稳定流”。应用这一概念,可以筛选化探异常。进一步根据“稳定流”的长度和强度,还能够近似定量地推断未知矿化区面金属量(Ps)以及建立典型矿床水系沉积物元素分带序列,为寻找隐伏矿体,评价区域化探异常提供了一种新的方法。     

华南暴雨试验IOP-6期间6月9日长乐地区强降水风场结构的初步分析

华南暴雨第六次加强观测期间 (IOP-6), 1998年6月9日在福建长乐地区出现了一次局地性的强降水过程.该文应用单多普勒天气雷达资料及其风场反演结果对此次过程进行了初步分析, 从多普勒雷达反演的风场结构看, 这次过程与出现在3~5 km高度上的风切变有关, 在低层雷达回波图像上出现中尺度气旋波的结构, 强降水是气旋波活动的结果.     

The influence of microform bed roughness elements on flow and sediment transport in gravel bed rivers

Pebble clusters are reported widely as characteristic of gravel river beds and are known to influence the initial entrainment of bedload. A field assessment suggests that their distribution is not ubiquitous, favouring channel bars, but also reveals a tendency towards a preferred stream wise spacing. A series of laboratory flume experiments shows that flow resistance rises to, and falls from, a peak value as the longitudinal spacing of pebble clusters decreases, in a manner similar to that shown by others for strip roughness, isolated blocks, and simulated ripples and dunes. The experiments also reveal a strong inverse relationship between bedload flux rates and the flow resistance induced by the concentration of pebble clusters. It is concluded that pebble cluster spacing tends towards an equilibrium that is regulated by a feedback process involving sediment transport rates and that the spatial concentration of these microforms will adjust to the point where they induce maximum flow resistance.     

Flow through anisotropic networks

This paper presents an analysis of Hagen-Poiseulle flow through plane random anisotropic networks of interconnected channels. Macroscopic permeability tensor of the network is expressed in terms of statistico-geometrical characteristics like the degree of anisotropy in channel orientations, average co-ordination number of the network and first two moments of channel length distribution. Analytical results are illustrated and verified using numerical analysis of flow in a simulated random network. The emphasis of the paper is on the effects of anisotropy on distributions of flow rates in channels. It is shown that, due to anisotropy the maximum flow rate generally occurs in channels that are not aligned along the direction of the macroscopic pressure gradient.     

气流过山运动的非线性浅水理论

用一个两层密度不同的流体所组成的非线性浅水模型讨论了过山气流的变化特征。结果表明：在背风坡下游,如果弗罗德数Ｆｒ大于１,则在不同的条件下将会出现波状的、水跃的以及“破裂”的气流,如果Ｆｒ小于１,将只会出现“破裂”气流;在山地上空,地形波关于地形分布是非对称的。     

Fill to spill stratigraphic evolution of a confined turbidite mini-basin succession,and its likely well bore expression: The Castagnola Fm,NW Italy

This study documents the stratigraphic evolution of the Castagnola ponded turbidite mini-basin through analysis of a detailed base-to-top section measured in the central part of the basin. Vertical variations in facies characteristics, thickness ratio of mud cap vs. sandstone of event beds and net/gross are argued to be good proxies for pinpointing the stratigraphic transition from dominantly ponded deposition, where most of the flow is trapped by the confining topography, to a flow-stripping – dominated phase in which an increasingly large part of incoming flows can escape the basin by spilling over the enclosing topography. Thickness statistics of sandstones and mud caps of event beds from the case study show that in the initial stage of turbidite deposition only part of the mud of exceptionally large volume flows escaped the confining topography; as the basin was progressively infilled, nearly all inbound flows were affected by flow stripping, with part of the sand and most of the mud escaping the basin. In the latest recorded stage of deposition the abundance of by-pass features coupled with significant modification of the sandstone bed thickness population suggests that the turbidite system was no longer obstructed frontally, and could step forward onto a healed topography. In order to assess whether the documented trends of turbidite bed characteristics indicative of the ‘fill to spill’ transition could be recognised from wireline log data alone, synthetic logs were prepared by up-scaling the field data to resolutions typical of borehole geophysical log data. Vertical trends of average bed thickness and net/gross recognisable in the synthetic data suggest that the transition from ponded to spill-dominated situations should be resolvable in geophysical log data.     

Standard flow cells to incorporate small-scale heterogeneity (crossbedding) in a reservoir model

Small-scale heterogeneities like crossbedding hamper fluid flow and cause oil to be capillary trapped at the intersections of coarser to finer lamina. These effects are fairly well established, but less well established is the method to construct an adequate flow cell model containing critical hydraulic properties like bed-shape and -size, lamina-shape, -angle and boundaries. Nor is it trivial how to obtain those features from well and core. We therefore propose to systematically describe geometry and distribution of beds. To this end we make use of standard flow cell models that a priori contain all elements and boundaries of beds for a number of bedding types.     

Experimental study of forces on a cylinder in oscillatory flow with a cross current

Forces on a circular cylinder have been measured with nominally two-dimensional current and oscillatory flow at right angles. Previous results for purely oscillatory flow defined by a Keulegan-Carpenter number, Kc, have been extended for reduced velocities, Vr, in the range 3–10. For Kc<7 modification of the Karman street by oscillation is complex and locking-on has a dominant influence. For Kc > 7 simply adding forces due to the current and oscillation as though in isolation generally gives conservative results. The ‘current’ drag shows considerable variation and can even be negative. The Morison fit to the in-line force is generally less satisfactory when there is a current and can be wholly inadequate.