Fresh Water Transport Determination from the Heat Budget with Applications to British Columbia Inlets

1957 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Pickard ◽  
R. W. Trites
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Water Transport ◽  
Heat Budget ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Direct Methods ◽  
Mixing Process ◽  
Budget Analysis ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Good Agreement

Fresh water entering British Columbia inlets moves seaward, mixing with and entraining salt water from below. A new method, based on a heat budget analysis, is developed to determine the mean seaward movement of the brackish layer. The method is also applied to gain information on the mixing process and to determine the depth from which salt water is entrained into the surface layer.The values of mean transport calculated in this way are found to be in good agreement with those derived from other methods. The method offers some distinct advantages over direct methods for determining fresh water inflow and circulation, since results can be obtained quickly, with little effort, and without the necessity for anchoring a ship.

Evolutionary history of threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus spp.) in British Columbia: insights from a physiological clock

1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (11) ◽  
pp. 2154-2158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rees Kassen ◽  
Dolph Schluter ◽  
John Donald McPhail
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Egg Size ◽  
Gasterosteus Aculeatus ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Freshwater Invasion ◽  
Freshwater Population ◽  
Threespine Sticklebacks ◽  
History Of

Geologic and allozyme evidence suggests that threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus complex) in low-lying southwestern British Columbia lakes were founded during two incursions of marine sticklebacks after the retreat of the Pleistocene glaciers (the double-invasion hypothesis). We used the salinity tolerance of embryos, measured as hatchability in salt water, to establish the relative order of freshwater invasion by marine sticklebacks and to test the double-invasion hypothesis. Limnetics and an anadromous population hatched nearly equivalent numbers of young in salt water as in fresh water, whereas benthics and one solitary freshwater population had low hatchability in salt water. We also found that eggs from freshwater populations were larger than those from marine populations and limnetics had smaller eggs than benthics and the solitary population. These results support the double-invasion hypothesis and suggest a trend of increasing egg size with increasing time spent in fresh water.

Current Measurements in Knight Inlet, British Columbia

1959 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 635-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Pickard ◽  
Keith Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Current Profile ◽  
Tidal Period ◽  
Shallow Estuary ◽  
Layer Flow ◽  
Bottom Depth ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Made In

One of the features of the circulation in an estuary is the net outflow in the surface layer of the fresh water discharged into the estuary together with an appreciable volume of salt water entrained. Continuity considerations require that there be an inflow of salt water to compensate for that taken out in the surface. In a shallow estuary, such as Chesapeake Bay, this results in a two-layer flow, out at the surface and in below it.In a deep estuary, the questions arise whether or not it also possesses this simple two-layer flow and what is the depth and extent of the inflow. Measurements have been made in several inlets in the British Columbia coast to obtain information about the circulation in a deep estuary. Preliminary experiments were made in Toba, Bute and Knight Inlets, the series made in Knight Inlet in July 1956 being the most complete. The techniques employed and the results obtained are described and discussed.In a shallow section (75 m), in-and-out (flood-and-ebb) flow occurred in phase from surface to bottom, with a net outflow in the upper half and inflow below this. In the presence of an up-inlet wind, the flow in the surface few metres reversed and became up-inlet, with an increased outflow below it.In a deep section, both oscillatory (tidal period) as well as net currents occurred at all depths from the surface to 300 m (relevant bottom depth was 350 m). In this deeper section, the oscillatory components were not in phase from surface to bottom, and the net flow showed a three- or four-layer pattern, rather than the simple two-layer pattern which has previously been assumed to exist. The wind had a marked direct effect on the upper layers to a depth of about 10 m and possibly deeper.The movement of the ship while at anchor was monitored and found to be considerable. Most of the current observations were corrected for ship motion before analysis.Calculations of the net fresh water transport (in the upper layer) give reasonable values but similar calculations for the deep water show a net transport which is not to be expected. This apparent net transport may be a consequence of assuming that the current profile across the entire inlet is the same as that in the centre where measurements were made. Other possible sources of error are suggested. In addition, several recommendations are made for future work.

Mean Subsurface Upwelling Induced by Intraseasonal Variability over the Equatorial Indian Ocean

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1347-1365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomomichi Ogata ◽  
Motoki Nagura ◽  
Yukio Masumoto
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Heat Budget ◽  
Subsurface Layer ◽  
Intraseasonal Variability ◽  
Heat Advection ◽  
Budget Analysis ◽  
Equatorial Upwelling ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Wave Induced

AbstractA possible formation mechanism of mean subsurface upwelling along the equator in the Indian Ocean is investigated using a series of hierarchical ocean general circulation model (OGCM) integrations and analytical considerations. In an eddy-resolving OGCM with realistic forcing, mean vertical velocity in the tropical Indian Ocean shows rather strong upwelling, with its maximum on the equator in the subsurface layer below the thermocline. Heat budget analysis exhibits that horizontal and vertical heat advection by deviations (i.e., due to deviations of velocity and temperature from the mean) balances with vertical advection caused by mean equatorial upwelling. Horizontal heat advection is mostly associated with intraseasonal variability with periods of 3–91 days, while contributions from longer periods (>91 days) are small. Sensitivity experiments with a coarse-resolution OGCM further demonstrate that such mean equatorial upwelling cannot be reproduced by seasonal forcing only. Adding the intraseasonal wind forcing, especially meridional wind variability with a period of 15 days, generates significant mean subsurface upwelling on the equator. Further experiments with idealized settings confirm the importance of intraseasonal mixed Rossby–gravity (MRG) waves to generate mean upwelling, which appears along the energy “beam” of the MRG wave. An analytical solution of the MRG waves indicates that wave-induced temperature advection caused by the MRG waves with upward (downward) phase propagation results in warming (cooling) on the equator. This wave-induced warming (cooling) is shown to balance with the mean equatorial upwelling (downwelling), which is consistent with simulated characteristics in the OGCM experiments.

Survival of certain naturally acquired freshwater parasites of juvenile sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum), in hosts held in fresh and sea water, and implications for their use as population tags

1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (7) ◽  
pp. 1757-1766 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Bailey ◽  
L. Margolis ◽  
G. D. Workman
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Water Samples ◽  
Sockeye Salmon ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Oncorhynchus Nerka ◽  
The Other ◽  
Maximum Life Span ◽  
Natural Tags

Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) smolts were captured from the outlet streams of Cultus Lake, British Columbia, in 1985 and 1986, and from Fraser Lake, British Columbia, in 1986. Samples collected in 1985 were reared in salt water. Samples collected from each lake in 1986 were divided equally into two groups: one group was reared in fresh water, the other was maintained in salt water. Initially biweekly, and later monthly, subsamples from each group were examined for seven parasite taxa: Myxidium salvelini, Diplostomulum sp. metacercaria, Phyllodistomum umblae, Eubothrium sp. (immature), Proteocephalus sp. (immature), Neoechinorhynchus salmonis, and Salmincola californiensis. The maximum life-span was greater than the duration of the experiments (32–40 weeks) for all species in hosts reared in fresh water (except for S. californiensis, which was removed from all freshwater hosts). Survival of M. salvelini, P. umblae, and S. californiensis was reduced in hosts reared in sea water. No differences in survival of each of Diplostomulum sp. metacercaria, Eubothrium sp., Proteocephalus sp., and N. salmonis were observed between hosts held in fresh water or salt water. Implications for the use of these parasites as natural tags are discussed.

scholarly journals Do CMIP5 Models Show El Niño Diversity?

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1619-1641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Feng ◽  
Tao Lian ◽  
Jun Ying ◽  
Junde Li ◽  
Gen Li
Keyword(s):  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Heat Budget ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Cmip5 Models ◽  
Budget Analysis ◽  
Future Global Warming ◽  
Central Equatorial Pacific ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sst Gradient

AbstractWhether the state-of-the-art CMIP5 models have different El Niño types and how the degree of modeled El Niño diversity would be impacted by the future global warming are still heavily debated. In this study, cluster analysis is used to investigate El Niño diversity in 30 CMIP5 models. As the method does not rely on any prior knowledge of the patterns of El Niño seen in observations, it provides a practical way to identify the degree of El Niño diversity in models. Under the historical scenario, most models show a poor degree of El Niño diversity in their own model world, primarily due to the lopsided numbers of events belonging to the two modeled El Niño types and the weak compactness of events in each cluster. Four models are found showing significant El Niño diversity, yet none of them captures the longitudinal distributions of the warming centers of the two El Niño types seen in the observations. Heat budget analysis of the sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly suggests that the degree of modeled El Niño diversity is highly related to the climatological zonal SST gradient over the western-central equatorial Pacific in models. As the gradient is weakened in most models under the future high-emission scenario, the degree of modeled El Niño diversity is further reduced in the future. The results indicate that a better simulation of the SST gradient over the western-central equatorial Pacific might allow a more reliable simulation/projection of El Niño diversity in most CMIP5 models.

scholarly journals Janus Membrane with Novel Directional Water Transport Capacity for Efficient Atmospheric Water Capture

Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Wu ◽  
Baona Ren ◽  
Haohong Pi ◽  
Xin Zhao ◽  
Miaomiao Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Water Transport ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Transport Capacity ◽  
Atmospheric Water ◽  
Human Survival ◽  
Survival And Development ◽  
Energy Independence

Fresh water scarcity becomes a crisis to human survival and development. Atmospheric water capture with remarkable advantages such as energy-independence, low-cost, etc., has been supposed as a promising way to...

scholarly journals The use of vitreous renal chemistries in the discrimination of postmortem fresh water drowning

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 239784732199752
Author(s):  
Eni-yimini Solomon Agoro ◽  
Charles German Ikimi ◽  
Tommy Edidiong
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Biochemical Parameters ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Diacetyl Monoxime ◽  
Water Pond ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Cover Up

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated drowning as the leading cause of unintentional death in the world, with 372,000 deaths reported annually. Not all drowning are unintentional; some could be disguised to cover up an act of heinous criminality. This study was aimed at using some vitreous renal function biochemical parameters as a discriminant of postmortem fresh water drowning. Twelve albino rabbits constituted the sample size as validated by Mead’s formula. The study was divided into three groups; the control, postmortem-drowned and truly drowned as mimicked using an artificial fresh water pond. Vitreous humours were extracted using Coe method. The vitreous renal chemistries were analysed using diacetyl monoxime, Jaffe’s test, uricase and ion-selective electrode (ISE) methods respectively. Result: The mean of vitreous creatinine, urea, uric acid, Na+, K+, Cl−, Ca2+, glucose and CO2 of the control, postmortem-drowned and truly drowned groups were compared using One-way Anova (post-hoc-LSD) with the aid of SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA; Version 18–21 package. The findings revealed a significant increase in concentrations of vitreous creatinine, glucose, Ca2+ and K+ of the drowned death group, whereas vitreous concentrations of CO2 and urea significantly decreased when compared to the controls and/or postmortem-drowned death. Conclusion: The study has shown that some of the studied vitreous biochemical parameters could be used as an ancillary tool in discriminating death due to fresh water drowning from that of disguised or postmortem-drowned death.

scholarly journals XII. An easy method to distill fresh water from salt water at sea; by Capt. Newland

1772 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 90-92 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Easy Method

The materials necessary for this process are the following; a copper or iron pot of 15 or 20 gallons, an empty cask, some sheet lead, a small jar, a few wood-ashes or soap, and billet-wood for fewel.

Computational Investigation of Different Turbulent Models When Predicting Airflow in an Enclosure

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Wang ◽  
Hassan Naji ◽  
Ahmed Mezrhab
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Investigation ◽  
Turbulence Models ◽  
Turbulent Stress ◽  
Computational Investigation ◽  
Isothermal Case ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Turbulent Models ◽  
Rsm Model ◽  
Cold Case ◽  
Good Agreement

In the present study, a numerical investigation is carried out for an isothermal case, a hot case and a cold case with FLUENT code. Three turbulence models are considered: the k-ε realisable model, the RNG k-ε model and the RSM linear model. The obtained results are compared to experiments and show generally a good agreement for the mean velocities and temperatures, but less satisfactory for the turbulent stress. The performance of the RSM model is remarkable. Even if none of the models is able to give the exact experimental pattern on the map of turbulence, the RSM model seems able to predict such configuration.

Respiratory Exchange and Body Size in the Aldabra Giant Tortoise

1971 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. HUGHES ◽  
R. GAYMER ◽  
MARGARET MOORE ◽  
A. J. WOAKES
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Relative Proportion ◽  
The Body ◽  
O2 Consumption ◽  
Weight Range ◽  
Testudo Hermanni ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Good Agreement

1. The O2 consumption and CO2 release of nine giant tortoises Testudo gigantea (weight range 118 g-35·5 kg) were measured at a temperature of about 25·5°C. Four European tortoises Testudo hermanni (weight range 640 g-2·16 kg) were also used. The mean RQ values obtained were 1·01 for T. gigantea and 0·97 for T. hermanni. These values were not influenced by activity or size. 2. The data was analysed by plotting log/log regression lines relating body weight to O2 consumption. Both maximum and minimum metabolic rates recorded for each individual T. gigantea showed a negative correlation with body weight. For active rates the relation was O2 consumption = 140·8W0·97, whereas for inactive animals O2 consumption = 45·47W0·82. 3. The maximum rates were obtained from animals that were observed to be active in the respirometer and the minimum rates from animals that remained quiet throughout. The scope for activity increased with body size, being 82 ml/kg/h for animals of 100 g and 103 ml/kg/h for 100 kg animals. The corresponding ratio between maximum and minimum rates increases from about 2 to 6 for the same weight range. 4. Values for metabolic rate in T. hermanni seem to be rather lower than in T. gigantea. Analysis of the relative proportion of the shell and other organs indicates that the shell forms about 31% of the body weight in adult T. hermanni but only about 18% in T. gigantea of similar size. The shell is not appreciably heavier in adult T. gigantea (about 20%). 5. Data obtained for inactive animals is in good agreement with results of other workers using lizards and snakes. Previous evidence suggesting that chelonians show no reduction in metabolic rate with increasing size is not considered to conflict with data obtained in the present work.

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