Developing Peak Discharges for Future Flood Risk Studies Using IPCC's CMIP5 Climate Model Results and USGS WREG Program

Extreme climate events, floods, and drought, cause huge impact on daily lives. In order to produce society resilient to extreme events, it is necessary to assess the impact of frequent and high intensity storm events on design parameters. This article describes a methodology to develop future peak “design discharges” throughout the United States that can be used as a guidance to map future floodplains. In order to develop a lower and upper limit for anticipated peak flow discharges, two future growth scenarios — Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs)‐RCP 2.6 and 8.5 were identified as the weak and strong climate scenario respectively based on the output from the global climate models. The Generalized Least Square technique in United States Geological Survey's Weighted Multiple Regression (WREG) program was used to develop regression equations that relate peak discharges to basin and climate parameters of the contributing watershed. The design discharges reflect the most recent climate model results. Number of frost days, heavy rainfall days, high temperature days, and snow depth were found to be the common extreme climate parameters influencing the regression equations. This methodology can be extended to other flood frequency events if rainfall data is available. The future discharges can be utilized in hydraulics models to estimate floodplains that can assist in resilient infrastructure planning and outline climate change adaptation strategies.     

检察院参与生态环境损害赔偿磋商的空间与角色选择

生态环境损害赔偿磋商从试点到全国推行,其地位愈加重要。当前,对于生态环境损害赔偿磋商的性质有颇多争议,其性质决定了是否需要第三力以及需要何种第三力,而在公法说、私法说、双阶构造说、三阶进阶说之上构建的生态环境损害赔偿磋商虽不相同,但建立磋商监督制度与磋商共同参与制度是其共同指向的完善路径,即检察院可作为第三力监督、参与磋商全过程。横向比较各省份对于检察院参与生态环境损害赔偿磋商的立法规定,总体看来检察院在此制度中地位不明、存在边缘化倾向,而实践中检察院具有协调跨区域磋商与促进赔偿义务之履行的作用,且生态环境损害赔偿磋商法律体系为检察院的监督与参与预留了空间,检察院可以法律监督者、公益代表者、社会治理者的身份参与,三种角色在不同阶段相互补充。     

Effects of humic acid coatings on phenanthrene sorption to black carbon

Black carbon (BC) can strongly adsorb hydrophobic organic compounds (HOCs).The HOC sorption to coated BC could be attenuated in soil and sediment compared with that of the parent BC.To study the potential causes of the sorption attenuation,humic acid (HA) and BC were isolated.Phenanthrene (PHE) was selected as the representative of HOCs.BC was coated with the precipitated HA.The PHE sorption to the HA-coated BC was determined.The HA coatings on BC could result in the significant sorption attenuation of PHE to BC.The attenuation varied in different HA origin and was positively correlated to the aromaticity of HA.The attenuation could be explained by the direct competition between HA and PHE for the available sorption sites on BC and the reduction of the available sorption sites as a result of the pore blockage of BC caused by the HA coatings.Therefore,the HA coatings on BC was one potential cause of the attenuation of HOC sorption to BC in soil and sediment.     

北京市三种典型区域大气污染研究

2009年8月至2010年7月,对北京城区、城乡结合部和远郊区3种典型区域大气中的SO。CO、NO。0,浓度和气象因素进行了监测,并分析了其污染特征．结果表明,城区、城乡结合部的SO：、CO、NO。浓度在全年四季都呈双峰型日变化,与人类活动和交通尾气排放特征基本一致,而远郊区没有明显的日变化．SO,、CO、NO。浓度存...     

增城市典型行业化学品使用调查

化学品的使用会对周边环境,特别是水环境,带来一定的潜在污染风险。增城市是一个经济较发达,水系较复杂的城市,为保护其水环境,特对其工业、农业和生活源等典型行业所使用的化学品进行调查,希望由此提出一些保护水环境的建议。     

地下水采样方法比对研究

选取3种地下水采样方法开展方法比对研究。通过系统分析监测数据,指出了3种方法所采水样在基本水质参数、无机离子、金属、挥发性有机物以及感官类指标等项目监测上的显著差异,指出了各种方法的适用性并分析原因。结果表明:与贝勒管法、潜水泵法相比,低流速法有效地解决了采样操作过程中易产生的曝气问题;对井内水体扰动较小,降低了水样浊度;减小了井内水位的大幅度泄降,避免了不同层位间污染物的迁移及周边水和井内滞水的交叉污染;节约了场地操作时间和后期污水处理所需花费。因此,低流速法在采取代表性水质样品方面更具方法优势。     

In-Situ Phytoremediation of Pahs Contaminated Soils Following a Bioremediation Treatment

Phytoremediation of pollutants in soils is an emerging technology, using different soil-plant interaction properties. For organic pollutants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), phytodegradation seems to be the most promising approach. It occurs mostly through an increase of the microbial activity in the plant rhizosphere, allowing the degradation of organic substances, a source of carbon for soil microbes. Despite a large amount of available data in the literature concerning laboratory and short term PAH phytodegradation experiments, no actual field application of such technique was previously carried out. In the present study, a soil from a former coking plant was used to evaluate the feasibility and the efficiency of PAH phytodegradation in the field during a three years trial and following a bioremediation treatment. Before the phytoremediation treatment, the soil was homogenized and split into six independent plots with no hydrological connections. On four of these plots, different types of common plant species were sowed: mixture of herbaceous species, short cut (P1), long cut (P2), ornamental plants (P3) and trees (P4). Natural vegetation was allowed to grow on the fifth plot (P5), and the last plot was weeded (P6). Each year, representative sampling of two soil horizons (0–50 and 50–100 cm) was carried out in each plot to characterize the evolution of PAHs concentration in soils and in soils solution obtained by lixiviation. Possible impact of the phytoremediation technique on ecosystems was evaluated using different eco- and genotoxicity tests both on the soil solid matrix and on the soil solution. For each soil horizon, comparable decrease of soil total PAHs concentrations were obtained for three plots, reaching a maximum value of 26% of the initial PAHs concentration. The decrease mostly concerned the 3 rings PAHs. The overall low decrease in PAHs content was linked to a drastic decrease in PAHs availability likely due to the bioremediation treatment. However, soil solutions concentration showed low values and no signficant toxicity was characterized. The mixture of the herbaceous species seemed to be the most promising plants to be used in such procedure.     

A Freshwater Classification Approach for Biodiversity Conservation Planning

Abstract:  Freshwater biodiversity is highly endangered and faces increasing threats worldwide. To be complete, regional plans that identify critical areas for conservation must capture representative components of freshwater biodiversity as well as rare and endangered species. We present a spatially hierarchical approach to classify freshwater systems to create a coarse filter to capture representative freshwater biodiversity in regional conservation plans. The classification framework has four levels that we described using abiotic factors within a zoogeographic context and mapped in a geographic information system. Methods to classify and map units are flexible and can be automated where high-quality spatial data exist, or can be manually developed where such data are not available. Products include a spatially comprehensive inventory of mapped and classified units that can be used remotely to characterize regional patterns of aquatic ecosystems. We provide examples of classification procedures in data-rich and data-poor regions from the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest of North America and the upper Paraguay River in central South America. The approach, which has been applied in North, Central, and South America, provides a relatively rapid and pragmatic way to account for representative freshwater biodiversity at scales appropriate to regional assessments.     

土石混合体REV尺度数值方法研究

土石混合体是一类较为复杂的宏观二元介质不连续岩土体,不同的块体分布情况及不同的试件尺度导致其具有不同的等效强度特性。基于随机集合体构造(RA S)方法构建了土石混合体的随机模型,编制程序实现了随机模型的输出和数值模型的生成。以西南某大型堆积体滑坡中的典型土石混合体为例,考虑含石量和不同粒径分布规律,建立多组不同尺寸随机模型,进行了大量的数值试验,得到了强度表征单元体积(REV)尺度,在此基础上得到了等效强度参数,并分析了土石混合体受力性能和渐进破坏模式。研究结果表明,土石混合体存在REV尺度,案例所得的REV尺度为1.0 m×1.0 m,不同尺度数值计算结果有一定差别,基于REV尺度的力学参数才符合工程意义。     

公共建筑内群体疏散方法的探讨

笔者将当前公共建筑内的群体疏散的研究成果归纳为两大类:一是比较成熟的4种代表性成果,如元胞自动机模型、格子气模型、社会力模型和流体动力学模型;二是近年来具有革新意义的3种创新性研究视角,即从agent模拟技术角度、从生物实验角度和从博弈论角度.分析成果各自的独特性和适用性,提出未来研究趋势:必将是基于多种模型组合基础上的、多种思想融入的、充分考虑反映人群行为与心理的因素的复杂性系统.同时指出博弈论在群体疏散的研究将是未来的一个亮点.