Ancient dams,settlement archaeology and Buddhist propagation in central India: the hydrological background

Abstract

A group of ancient dams (c. second—first century BC) was located during an archaeological study of the Sanchi area in central India. Comparison of reservoir volumes with estimated inflows suggests that their design was based on hydrological understanding.     

近45年全球海域波浪能资源研究及等级区划

基于来自ECMWF的资料将1957年09月---2002年08月风浪、涌浪分离的ERA-40 wave reanalysis,对全球海域的波浪能资源进行重新审视．充分依据涌浪具有能量大、稳定性好等优点,利于波浪能的采集与转换,从提高波浪能资源有效利用率的角度出发,综合考虑能流密度的大小、能级频率、能流密度的稳定性和长期变化趋势等,对全球海域的波浪能资源进行系统性研究,并构建一套波浪能资源评估系统,对全球海域的波浪能资源进行功能区划,为海浪发电、海水淡化等波浪能资源开发工作提供科学依据．     

Simulation and control of the linked systems of water quantity–water quality–socio-economics in the Huaihe River basin

Abstract

This work makes explicit an algebraic expression giving the matrix of transient influence coefficients associated with a one-dimensional semi-confined aquifer model. The domain studied is divided into a series of connected and completely mixed compartments over which the governing equation is discretized. The discrete equations obtained are solved for the compartmental hydraulic head and used to derive the algebraic expression in question. The basic properties of the so-called algebraic influence coefficients are investigated. In particular, their consistency with the exact Green function is highlighted. Finally, the newly derived influence coefficients are applied to a simplified aquifer system in order to formulate and solve the problem of identifying illegal groundwater pumping.     

Dynamic model of mesoscale eddies. Eddy parameterization for coarse resolution ocean circulation models

In the framework of the eddy dynamic model developed in two previous papers (Dubovikov, M.S., Dynamical model of mesoscale eddies, Geophys. Astophys. Fluid Dyn., 2003, 97, 311–358; Canuto, V.M. and Dubovikov, M.S., Modeling mesoscale eddies, Ocean Modelling, 2004, 8, 1–30 referred as I–II), we compute the contribution of unresolved mesoscale eddies to the large-scale dynamic equations of the ocean. In isopycnal coordinates, in addition to the bolus velocity discussed in I–II, the mesoscale contribution to the large scale momentum equation is derived. Its form is quite different from the traditional down-gradient parameterization. The model solutions in isopycnal coordinates are transformed to level coordinates to parameterize the eddy contributions to the corresponding large scale density and momentum equations. In the former, the contributions due to the eddy induced velocity and to the residual density flux across mean isopycnals (so called Σ-term) are derived, both contributions being shown to be of the same order. As for the large scale momentum equation, as well as in isopycnal coordinates, the eddy contribution has a form which is quite different from the down-gradient expression.     

中高山地区滑坡发育地形地貌因子敏感性研究

为分析海拔高度大于1 300m的中高山地区地形地貌因子对滑坡发育的敏感性程度,运用基于因子综合贡献率的敏感性分析方法,研究黔东北中高山地区坡面形态、地形坡度、相对高差三类影响因子对滑坡发育的影响程度.在各类影响因子对滑坡发育频数、面积及体积分量贡献率的基础上,利用顺序赋值法量化各分量贡献率的贡献指数,并以各分量贡献指数的几何平均数构建敏感性系数,定量分析三类地形地貌影响因子对中高山地区滑坡发育的敏感性.研究结果表明,阶梯形和凸形坡面形态的斜坡中后部为地貌演化堆积区,能提供较大重力势能,属滑坡发育的敏感性坡面形态因子;地形坡度在18°～22°之间的较陡坡和相对高差在40～80m之间的矮坡常分布于受地表水强烈冲刷的地带,在一定重力势能和强烈地下水共同作用下,极易诱发浅层小规模滑坡;地形坡度大于27°的极陡坡和相对高差大于120m的高坡由于具备较大重力势能,常诱发深层大规模滑坡.     

Pesticides Removal by Filtration over Cactus Pear Leaves: A Cheap and Natural Method for Small‐Scale Water Purification in Semi‐Arid Regions

This study aims to examine the efficiency of Opuntia ficus‐indica for removing organochlorine pesticides from surface waters. Adsorption properties such as size, dose, and time of O. ficus‐indica for aldrin, dieldrin, and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) were studied through stirring and column methods. Because of their high affinity and swelling characteristics, dried O. ficus‐indica was studied in stirring while fresh unpeeled O. ficus‐indica was applied in both stirring and column experiments and proved to be well‐suited to column application. Before removing pesticides, the column was flashed with distilled water eliminate the turbidity and smell from fresh unpeeled cactus. The removal of pesticides increased with an increasing adsorbent dose and decreased with adsorbent particle sizes. The optimum adsorbent dose is 10 g for dried and 15 g for fresh unpeeled O. ficus‐indica. The experimental results show that O. ficus‐indica possesses strong adsorption ability for aldrin, dieldrin, and DDT, and the adsorption isotherm data obeyed the Freundlich model. The results of our small‐scale experiments suggest a strong potential to develop local small‐scale water treatment units that can be used at the level of individual households or local communities, using a widely available adsorbent.     

基于大比例尺数字高程模型DEM制作方法的经验和体会

大比例尺DEM更能够清晰详细地表述地面高程信息,它在测绘、水文、气象、地貌、地质、土壤、工程建设、通讯、气象、军事等国民经济和国防建设以及人文和自然科学领域有着广泛的应用。针对大比例尺DEM的制作精度要求比较高、制作成本高的特点,本文提供大比例尺数字高程模型DEM制作方法的一些经验和体会。     

非二次幂Curvelet变换及其在地震噪声压制中的应用

本文分析了Curvelet变换在地震数据处理中的优势及不足,提出了非二次幂Curvelet变换.主要有两点改进:(1)将经典Curvelet变换非自适应的二次幂多尺度多角度分解方式改进为基于地震数据特点的、自适应非二次幂可控多尺度多角度分解方式,可以更有效地反映地震信号的主要方向特征和频率特征;(2)在最粗尺度引入各向异性分析,实现了对低频信号的精细处理.本文通过处理合成记录和含有面波干扰的实际数据算例验证了非二次幂Curvelet变换在地震噪声压制中的有效性.     

Dark side of the planet: hidden dimensions of urban agglomeration

ABSTRACT

This intervention probes the hidden, political dimensions of planetary urbanization. Drawing on political theory, it approaches its analysis through the analytic of ‘the political,’ the dimension in which antagonism performs a constitutive function in the social order. In doing so the intervention throws into relief the ways in which group-based differentiation, conflict, and exclusion establish the conditions of possibility for ongoing transformations of urban agglomeration. It then develops a case for further exploring intersections of the political and capitalist agglomeration to generate new knowledge about current mutations in urban economies of space.     

Comparing Traditional and Spatial Segregation Measures: A Spatial Scale Perspective1

Measuring the level of segregation often encounters two methodological issues: measures are sensitive to changes in the geographical scale of the data and the effectiveness of the measure in reflecting spatial segregation. Several spatial measures have been suggested to measure spatial segregation, but whether they are more or less sensitive to changes in spatial scale has not been investigated, while some spatial measures are relatively scale-insensitive. Using the 1990 Census data of 30 selected U.S. metropolitan areas, this paper demonstrates that these spatial measures, similar to the aspatial measure, report higher levels of segregation when smaller areal units are used in the analysis. Some spatial measures are even more sensitive to scale changes than aspatial measures. Certain patterns of the scale sensitivity were identified, but no general rules can be formulated. A preliminary explanation of the scale effect on spatial segregation measures is offered.