Technology : Hydrology

Since the late 1980s, shallow lakes in Europe and North America have been receiving concerted attention from limnologists, fishery biologists and lake managers. These developments relate to deterioration of water quality in the lakes due to pollution and accelerated eutrophication, caused by increased urbanization and agriculture in the lake catchments, overexploitation of fish and higher water level fluctuations. The water-quality and management problems of lakes have led to a greater need for fundamental research on shallow lakes in order to gain a deeper insight into the structure and functioning of the food web in these waters. New knowledge relating to littoral???pelagial interactions and the sediment???water interface has facilitated the development of new lake restoration techniques. This volume, with 41 peer-reviewed papers, comprises the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Shallow Lakes, which was held at Dalfsen, The Netherlands, on 5???9 June 2005. It has the theme Shallow Lakes in a Changing World and deals with water-quality issues, such as changes in lake limnology, especially those driven by eutrophication and pollution, increased nutrient loading and productivity, perennial blooms of cyanobacteria and loss of biodiversity. The general consensus is that the lakes under restoration respond by showing an increase in water clarity followed by an increase in macrophyte coverage and biomass. Consequently, there is now ground for theoretical speculations on the so-called ???alternate stable states??? observed in many such lakes under restoration. more...

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Describes the behaviour of tropical cyclones in the South Pacific and investigates the disturbance effects of these violent storms on the physical environments of the islands in their path, and the people who inhabit them. This book links the characteristics of cyclones with their landscape impacts. more...

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Contributors. 1. Fundamentals of Transport Equation Formulation for Two-Phase Flow in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Porous Media, M. Quintard and S. Whitaker. 2. Incorporation of Interfacial Areas in Models of Two-Phase Flow, W.G. Gray, M.A. Celia, and P.C. Reeves. 3. The Statistical Physics of Subsurface Solute Transport, G. Sposito. 4. Soil Properties and Water Movement, J.-Y Parlange, T.S. Steenhuis, R. Haverkamp, D.A. Barry, P.J. Culligan, W.L. Hogarth, M.B. Parlange, P. Ross, and F. Stagnitti. 5. Nonideal Transport of Reactive Solutes in Porous Media: Cutting Across History and Disciplines, M.L. Brusseau. 6. Recent Advances in Vadose Zone Flow and Transport Modeling, M. Th. van Genuchten and E.A. Sudicky. 7. Diffusion-Linked Microbial Metabolism in the Vadose Zone, J.E. Watson, R.F. Harris, Y. Liu, and W.R. Gardner. 8. Persistence and Interphase Mass Transfer of Liquid Organic Contaminants in the Unsaturated Zone: Experimental Observations and Mathematical Modeling, L.M. Abriola, K.D. Pennell, W.J. Weber, Jr., J.R. Lang, and M.D. Wilkins. 9. Coupling Vapor Transport and Transformation of Volatile Organic Chemicals, Y.H. El-Farhan, K.M. Scow, and D.E. Rolston. 10. Evaporation: Use of Fast-Response Turbulence Sensors, Raman Lidar, and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing, M.B. Parlange, J.D. Albertson, W.E. Eichinger, A.T. Cahill, T.J. Jackson, G. Kiely, and G.G. Katul. 11. Emerging Measurement Techniques for Vadose Zone Characterization, J.W. Hopmans, J.M.H. Hendrickx, and J.S. Selker. 12. Microwave Observations of Soil Hydrology, T.J. Jackson, E.T. Engman, T.J. Schmugge. 13. Water and Solute Transport in Arid Vadose Zones: Innovations in Measurement and Analysis, S.W. Tyler, B.R. Scanlon, G.W. Gee, and G.B. Allison. 14. Water Flow in Desert Soils near Buried Waste Repositories, A.W. Warrick, L. Pan, and P.J. Wierenga. 15. Site-Specific Management of Flow and Tranport in Homogeneous and Structured Soils, D.J. Mulla, A.P. Mallawatantri, O.Wendroth, M. Joschko, H. Rog more...

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Switching off the pumps of a mine is one of the last steps in the lifetime of a surface or underground mine. As the water in the open space raises, the water might become contaminated with different pollutants and eventually starts to flow in the open voids. This book addresses the processes related to mine abandonment from a hydrogeological perspective. After an introduction to the relevant hydrogeochemical processes the book gives detailed information about mine closure procedures. Based on in-situ measurements the hydrodynamic processes in a flooded mine are described and some of the mine closure flow models exemplified. As all investigations base on precise data, the book gives some key issues of monitoring and sampling, especially flow monitoring. Then the book shows some new methodologies for conducting tracer tests in flooded mines and gives some hints to passive mine water treatment. At the end 13 well investigated case studies of flooded underground mine and mine water tracer tests are described and interpreted from a hydrodynamic point of view. more...

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