Atmospheric CO2 consumption by rock weathering over a five year period in a large non-perennial tropical river basin of southern India

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Rivers engage in carbon cycle by transporting the dissolved products of weathering of rocks to the oceans, and this process is sensitive to the global...     

Sublethal,sex-specific,osmotic, and metabolic impairments in embryonic and adult round stingrays from a location exposed to environmental contamination in southern California,USA

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Organic contaminants are known to affect a suite of physiological processes across vertebrate clades. However, despite their ancient lineage and...     

Thermal modeling,characterization, and enviro-economic investigations on inclined felt sheet solar distiller for seawater desalination

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Sustainable desalination can be achieved by adopting renewable energy-based low-cost and low-impact desalting techniques. In this investigation,...     

Generalized gene expression programming models for estimating reference evapotranspiration through cross-station assessment and exogenous data supply

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Adopting methodologies utilizing exogenous data from ancillary stations for determining crop water requirement is a suitable approach to exempt local...     

Driving forces and decoupling indicators for carbon emissions from the industrial sector in Egypt,Morocco, Algeria,and Tunisia

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - North Africa currently accounts for about 40% of Africa’s total CO2 emissions, and the industrial sector is one of the energy-intensive sectors...     

Personal exposure to PM2.5-bound heavy metals associated with cardiopulmonary function in general population

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - To better understand the cardiopulmonary alterations associated with personal exposed PM2.5-bound heavy meals, we conducted a cross-sectional study in...     

Developmental response of Spodoptera litura Fab in response to plant extract of Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) and its effect on non-target organism,earthworm (Eisenia fetida)

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Impact of chloroform extract of Desmostachya bipinnata was evaluated on armyworm Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). The chloroform extract of...     

Heavy metals in playgrounds in Lublin (E Poland): sources,pollution levels and health risk

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - In the paper, the pollution of playgrounds in Lublin with heavy metals was assessed. Since playgrounds are a place of activity of children—the...     

土地利用变化对流域水文过程时空分异的影响 ——以赣江流域为例

土地利用变化引起的水文分量时空变化对认识流域产汇流过程，优化流域土地利用结构和水资源规划具有重要意义。基于SWAT模型，本研究以赣江流域为例，结合1980、2000、2015年3期土地利用数据从水文响应单元的角度，系统分析了单纯土地利用变化对流域产流、蒸发、入渗以及径流等主要水文过程时空分布的影响。结果表明：1980~2015年间，流域内的土地利用变化主要表现为耕地和林地的减少，城乡建设用地的增加；林地的减少和城乡建设用地的增加是产流增加，蒸发和入渗减少的主要原因；总体上，土地利用变化对局部地区水文过程影响较大，但因土地利用类型之间的相互转化和其影响的叠加，流域尺度上的综合水文效应明显降低；土地利用变化导致整个赣江流域平均径流量增加了2.33×108m3，相比较近年来赣江径流的减小幅度其影响十分有限。近年来，赣江入湖径流量的下降主要是由气候变化和其他人类活动作用特别是流域工农业用水的大幅增长所致。流域水文过程模拟应充分考虑土地利用变化水文效应的时空分异，注重天然和社会水循环的耦合，才能更为真实的反映流域水文过程，更好的为流域土地利用结构优化和水资源的高效管理提供科学依据。     

夏热冬冷地区屋顶绿化全年能耗削减及成本效益

绿化屋顶的降温节能效益已有诸多文献报导,但专门针对夏热冬冷地区不同屋顶绿化模式的全年能耗模拟研究并不多见.以南京为例,采用EnergyPlus模型分析粗放、半密集、密集3类典型屋顶绿化的全年建筑能耗削减效应及季节规律,基于降温节能价值开展成本效益分析.结果 表明,屋顶绿化能够通过蒸散与隔离作用调节建筑屋顶表面温度,夏季以降温为主,最大降温幅度为29.3℃,冬季以保温为主,最高升温幅度为13℃.夏冬两季屋顶表面温度的降低/升高分别引起建筑制冷/热负荷的削减:粗放、半密集、密集3种绿化屋顶夏季制冷负荷削减率分别为-0.4％、2％和2.4％,冬季制热负荷分别降低16.5％、23.1％和28.3％,全年建筑能耗削减率为1.9％、4.9％和5.9％,其中,顶层能耗削减占削减总量的11％～71％.成本效益分析结果表明,密集型屋顶绿化的财务净现值最大、投资回报率最高,但3类绿化屋顶在40年生命周期内均无法通过能耗削减效益收回投资成本.研究结果可为同气候区屋顶绿化设计与推广提供参考.