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basins, etc ; aerosols; autumn; biomass; cities; coal; combustion; nitrates; organic carbon; particulate emissions; pollution; risk; steel; sulfates; water content; winter; China; Show all 17 Subjects
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... Nowadays, the fine particle pollution is still severe in some megacities of China, especially in the Sichuan Basin, southwestern China. In order to understand the causes, sources, and impacts of fine particles, we collected PM₂.₅ samples and analyzed their chemical composition in typical months from July 2018 to May 2019 at an urban and a suburban (background) site of Chengdu, a megacity in this r ...
... Study Region Poland (representative sample of 146 flow gauges free of major human modifications, located in 12 major river basins) Study Focus The objective was to present trends in selected river flood indicators (magnitude, frequency and timing) in Poland, using the annual maximum daily flow and peak-overthreshold approaches. Two periods (1956–2019 and 1981–2019) were analyzed. The first period ...
... Natural disasters, including droughts and floods, have caused huge losses to mankind. Hydrological modelling is an indispensable tool for obtaining a better understanding of hydrological processes. The DEM-based routing methods, which are widely used in the distributed hydrological models, are sensitive to both the DEM resolution and the computational cell size. Too little work has been devoted to ...
basins, etc ; climate; governance; research coordination; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Climate-driven disturbances threaten the sustainability of coastal communities in the Great Lakes Basin. Because such disturbances are unpredictable, their magnitude, number and intensity are changing, and they occur at varying temporal and spatial scales. Consequently, communities struggle to respond in effective ways. The expected intensification of climate-driven disturbances will require that ...
basins, etc ; mineralization; tectonics; topography; Nigeria; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Tectonic structures controlling mineralization in some parts of Southeast Nigeria were evaluated using airborne potential field data. High- and low-frequency filters and depth determination tools were adopted to evaluate short- and long-wavelength anomalies, resolve the spatial spreading of igneous intrusions, depths to geologic sources and basin topography. The high-frequency results exhibited hi ...
... With the economic expansion and population growth, water basins have encountered environmental issues, and water basin protection and sustainability have achieved more importance. This study aimed to provide a method to develop sustainable plans for water resources. Thus, it needs to determine the sustainability criteria of a water basin plan and then rank them in terms of their role in the basin ...
... Economic development projects in river basins, involving mining, forestry, agriculture and urban developments, invariably impact the aquatic ecosystems of the basin [...] ...
basins, etc ; Oregon; landscapes; rangelands; spatial data; Show all 5 Subjects
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... •Invasive annual grasses pose a widespread threat to western rangelands, and a strategic and proactive approach is needed to tackle this problem.•Oregon partners used new spatial data to develop a geographic strategy for management of invasive annual grasses at landscape scales across jurisdictional boundaries. The geographic strategy considers annual and perennial herbaceous cover along with site ...
Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone; Anna Szécsényi-Nagy; István Koncz; Gergely Csiky; Zsófia Rácz; A.B. Rohrlach; Guido Brandt; Nadin Rohland; Veronika Csáky; Olivia Cheronet; Bea Szeifert; Tibor Ákos Rácz; András Benedek; Zsolt Bernert; Norbert Berta; Szabolcs Czifra; János Dani; Zoltán Farkas; Tamara Hága; Tamás Hajdu; Mónika Jászberényi; Viktória Kisjuhász; Barbara Kolozsi; Péter Major; Antónia Marcsik; Bernadett Ny. Kovacsóczy; Csilla Balogh; Gabriella M. Lezsák; János Gábor Ódor; Márta Szelekovszky; Tamás Szeniczey; Judit Tárnoki; Zoltán Tóth; Eszter K. Tutkovics; Balázs G. Mende; Patrick Geary; Walter Pohl; Tivadar Vida; Ron Pinhasi; David Reich; Zuzana Hofmanová; Choongwon Jeong; Johannes Krause
basins, etc ; ancestry; genetic variation; genome; steppes; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The Avars settled the Carpathian Basin in 567/68 CE, establishing an empire lasting over 200 years. Who they were and where they came from is highly debated. Contemporaries have disagreed about whether they were, as they claimed, the direct successors of the Mongolian Steppe Rouran empire that was destroyed by the Turks in ∼550 CE. Here, we analyze new genome-wide data from 66 pre-Avar and Avar-pe ...
basins, etc ; Eocene epoch; biomarkers; geochemistry; China; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The easternmost extent of the large epicontinental Proto-Paratethys Sea is recorded in Eocene sediments of the Tarim Basin in western China. However, sporadic reports of marine-derived coccoliths in its eastern neighbor Qaidam Basin, which is conventionally considered to be an isolated lacustrine basin, cast doubt on this assumption. Here we present biomarker data on a core drilled in westernmost ...
basins, etc ; Bacillariophyceae; biotopes; rivers; watersheds; Mongolia; Show all 6 Subjects
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... This investigation aimed to assess the diatom diversity, richness, and occurrence for each biotope temporal and spatial variability along the Khara River basin, Mongolia. We collected diatom samples in 19 sites across the Khara River basin every three years for the May and August months. Three hundred thirty-six species of diatoms were recorded in this basin, and 24.4 percent or common species of ...
basins, etc ; evapotranspiration; research; seasonal variation; watersheds; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Eta Regional Model of CPTEC-INPE is used to obtain intraseasonal (30-day) 8-member ensemble forecasts over the Madeira River basin for the period 2002–2012. The initial and boundary conditions are taken from Atmospheric General Circulation Global Model in six members and from Global Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model in two members. The intraseasonal forecasts produced by dynamic downscaling with Eta ...
basins, etc ; hydrology; model validation; prediction; surveys; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The coefficient (k) of the (discharge at time t) power-law relationship is typically computed after fixing the value of the exponent (α). However, recession analysis poses the challenge of finding a suitable α for a basin. Although many recent studies have suggested considering the median of the α distribution as the representative value, a purely logical reasoning for this has not been yet provid ...
basins, etc ; deformation; earthquakes; subsidence; tectonics; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... This study uses the least squares collocation method to fuse the leveling vertical deformation velocity in the Sichuan–Yunnan region with the GNSS observations of this region from 320 stations in the China Crustal Movement Observation Network (CMONOC) and the China Continental Tectonic Environment Monitoring Network (CMTEMN) from 1999 to 2017. Such fusion is to improve the accuracy of the vertical ...
basins, etc ; automation; energy; models; topography; Arctic region; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Lunar craters and rilles are significant topographic features on the lunar surface that will play an essential role in future research on space energy resources and geological evolution. However, previous studies have shown low efficiency in detecting lunar impact craters and poor accuracy in detecting lunar rilles. There is no complete automated identification method for lunar features to explore ...
basins, etc ; climate change; research; temperature; water vapor; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The Asian water tower (AWT hereafter) is one of the world's most important, vulnerable, and at-risk regions with abundant water resources in the world. Climate change affects the terrestrial water availability over the AWT, and also the distribution and variation patterns of Cloud Water Resource (CWR hereafter), the water resources with potential precipitation capacity in the atmosphere. The CWR o ...
basins, etc ; irrigation and drainage; sediment deposition; sediments; Show all 4 Subjects
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... For vortex settling basins (VSBs) installed with a deflector, perforation is an effective retrofit to reduce the self‐weight of the deflector and sediment deposition on it. The current study investigated experimentally the performance of VSBs the deflector of which was perforated at different locations with various opening ratios. The results showed that perforating the outside overflow area of th ...
basins, etc ; Yucca brevifolia; habitats; viability; Mojave Desert; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia, Y. jaegeriana) is a large, evergreen monocot distributed patchily across the southwestern United States. The plant occurs on alluvial fans, plains, and bajadas primarily in the Mojave Desert, but populations can also be found in the Great Basin and Sonoran Deserts. Named by the Mormon pioneers for the branching, supplicating arms reaching toward the sky, the spec ...
basins, etc ; biotopes; chlorophyll; macrophytes; organic matter; sediments; Show all 6 Subjects
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... First data on the concentrations of plant pigments in the top layer of bottom sediments are given for a large, shallow, moderately overgrown by macrophytes (21.5%) the Kostromskoe widening of the Gorky Reservoir. The data were collected from 2009 to 2020. The concentration of chlorophyll a degradation products, i.e., pheopigments, was found to be high (91 ± 3%). The spatial distribution of pigment ...
basins, etc ; water quality; water table; Iberian Peninsula; Show all 4 Subjects
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... This work presents a proposal for the use of spontaneous potential logs to estimate the water quality in permeable layers of a formation that are located below the water table in uncased boreholes. These estimates aim to obtain the values for conductivity and total dissolved solids, which would enable us to learn their distributions with depth and determine the optimal extraction levels prior to c ...