HYDRODYNAMIC CONTROL OF AN EMERGENT AQUATIC PLANT (SCIRPUS ACUTUS) IN OPEN CHANNELS1

ABSTRACT: Control of emergent aquatic plants such as tule (Scirpus acutus Muhl.; Bigel.) is of direct interest to managers of surface waters in Western North America. Where conditions of water velocity and depth occur that permit this and similar species to colonize and grow, their clonal habit may restrict, or even block, open channels within several seasons after their establishment. Fortunately, sufficient flow depth and velocity naturally prevent these plants from growing into and blocking channels. We investigated physical constraints for tule stem growth with the ultimate intent to apply this knowledge in rehabilitating 60 miles of the diverted Owens River in Eastern California, presently choked with emergent growth. Bending stress resulting from hydrodynamic drag on tule stems was found to induce lodging; permanent deformation and consequent loss of function. The depth-velocity envelope describing this process (at 95 percent confidence) is uD/d= 12.8 where u = average velocity acting upon the stem (m/s), D = local depth of flow (m), and d = tule stem diameter at the point of attachment (m). Maintaining a discharge or reconfiguring a channel so this critical depth-velocity-stem diameter envelope is exceeded (predictable using flow models) through the summer growing period should prevent encroachment into an active channel.     

大气采样体积的修正

根据转子流量计的工作原理，推导了大气采样体积的修正公式，固实际采样时的使用状态不同于仪器的校正状态，所以直接读流量计会带来体积误差，须采用本公式修正。经计算证明：采样体积修正是必要的。     

CHANGING WATER BALANCE OVER TIME IN RUSH CREEK,EASTERN CALIFORNIA, 1860–19921

ABSTRACT: Rush Creek, the principal tributary to Mono Lake, has undergone profound hydrologic modifications as a result of flow regulation for hydroelectric generation and irrigation, diversions for irrigated agriculture, and diversions for water export to the City of Los Angeles. Lower Rush Creek (the lowermost 13 km downstream of Grant Lake Reservoir) was dry by 1970, but now receives flow as a result of court-ordered efforts to restore former ecological conditions. Using available historic data and recent field measurements, we constructed the water balance for Lower Rush Creek, identifying six distinct historical periods characterized by very different patterns of gain and loss. The hydrologic patterns must be understood as a basis for modeling ecosystem response to stream-flow alteration. A gradually gaining stream under natural conditions, the advent of irrigation diversions caused the middle reaches of Lower Rush Creek to be often completely dry, while irrigation-recharged springs still maintained a baseflow in the downstream “Meadows” ranch. Increased water exports from the basin subsequently reduced irrigation and dried up the springs.     

江西野生药用植物资源

笔者通过多年调查研究,初步统计了江西药用维管植物约有2400种,隶属166科665属,并分析了各属的区系成分。根据药用植物的用途和药用价值,将它们分成5类,即中草药植物、兽用药用植物、土农药植物、观赏药用植物和珍稀濒危药用植物。分别叙述了各类药用植物的主要种类,为江西药用植物资源合理利用与保护提供了有关科学依据。     

DOCUMENTED AUTUMNAL STREAMFLOW INCREASE WITHOUT MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION1

ABSTRACT: In the south-central interior of British Columbia, the summer and fall of 1987 were very dry. Streamflow was extremely low throughout the region, and an extended rainless period coincided with the onset of the winter dormant period. During a five-day rainless period from October 9 to October 13, which should have been a period of declining streamflow in all watersheds, 19 of 31 small forested watersheds having suitable natural flow record experienced increasing discharge. The data is reviewed and analyzed with an initial attempt made to explain the streamflow changes among the various watersheds quantitatively. The only explanation for the widespread increases in streamflow in the region during this dry period is that greatly reduced transpiration, as the vegetation went dormant, permitted increased volumes of water in the soil to drain into surface streams rapidly enough to be recorded as increased discharge in 61 percent of the study streams.     

Riparian vegetation instream flow requirements: A case study from a diverted stream in the Eastern Sierra Nevada,California, USA

A methodology is described that allows determination of instream flow requirements for maintenance of riparian trees. Tree-ring data revealed strong relationships between tree growth and stream flow volume for riparian species at Rush Creek, an alluvial stream within an arid setting; these relationships allowed development of models that predict growth rates from hydrologic variables. The models can be used to assess instream flow requirements under the assumption that certain levels of growth are necessary to maintain the population. There is a critical need for development and use of instream flow methodologies for riparian vegetation, since present methodologies focus on needs of aquatic animals (e.g., fish) and may underestimate needs of the entire riparian ecosystem.     

POND SIZING FOR RATIONAL FORMULA HYDROGRAPHS1

ABSTRACT: The Modified Rational formula hydrograph and the Yarnell generalized rainfall chart are generally accepted procedures for sizing storm water detention ponds for small drainage areas. A procedure has been developed to choose the rainfall duration which, for a chosen return period, will result in the largest required storage volume of a detention pond. A graphical solution has been provided and its use has been described by application to an example.     

中国大陆及邻区地震活动格架及大地震空间分维特征

本文从板块碰撞观点出发,根据理论与实验的结果,强震震中分布,震源机制解,强震地表破裂带等资料,提出了中国大陆及邻区地震活动格架。它是两簇近似于对数螺线的构造滑移线,即在统一的区域应力场作用下,最大剪切应力和剪切应变集中的区、带。它们是控制和支配现今地震活动和构造运动的空间分布网络。这种网络结构,为我们研究地震活动空间分布规律,进行地震危险性分析,提出了一种新的途径和方法。据这些网络具有某种自相似性特点,进而研究了大地震(M≥7)的空间分维结构,计算了该区地震活动空间分布容量维随时间的变化,发现大地震发生前有降维的现象。     

淮阴开发湖泊水产发展“三高”农业

本文依据淮阴目前农业的发展趋势和境内面大量广的湖泊资源优势，论述大力开发湖泊水产资源是淮阴发展“三高”农业的一条重要途径，并提出围绕“三高”确定开发方向，途径和目标，以及实现目标的战略措施。     

EFFECTS OF WOODY VEGETATION ON SANDY LEVEE INTEGRITY1

he influence of woody vegetation on the reliability of a sandy levee was investigated using field data in seepage and slope stability analyses. Field data were collected from selected sites within a 10-km segment of a channel levee on the Sacramento River near Elkhorn, California. Root architecture and distribution were determined using the profile-wall method in which root cross sections were exposed in the vertical wall of an excavated trench. Transects running both parallel and perpendicular to the crest of the levee were excavated at six sites. Each site was dominated by different plant species: five sites were adjacent to trees or woody shrubs, while one supported only herbaceous growth. Lateral plant roots were primarily restricted to, and modified, the near-surface soil horizons to a depth of approximately 1 meter. Root area ratios (RARs) did not exceed 2.02 percent and generally decreased exponentially with depth. At depths greater than 20 cm, mean RARs for sites dominated by wood species were not significantly different from the mean RAB for the herbaceous site. No open voids clearly attributable to plant roots were observed. Roots reinforced the levee soil and increased shear resistance in a measurable manner. Infinite slope and circular arc stability analyses were performed on the landward and riverward slopes under different hydraulic loading conditions. Infinite slope analyses indicated increasing root area ratio from 0.01 percent to 1 percent increased the factor of safety from less than one to more than seven. Circular arc analyses indicated that even the lower measured root concentrations sufficed to increase safety factors for arcs with maximum depths of about 1 m from less than one to about 1.2. Our findings suggest that allowing woody shrubs and small trees on levees would provide environmental benefits and would enhance structural integrity without the hazards associated with large trees such as wind-throwing.