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Hydrological functioning of western African inland valleys explored with a critical zone model
... Abstract. Inland valleys are seasonally waterlogged head- water wetlands, widespread across western Africa. Their role in the hydrological cycle in the humid, hard-rock-dominated Sudanian savanna is not yet well ...
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An observational study of the posterior thyroid anatomy – the critical zone of dissection in thyroidectomy
... The key to safe thyroidectomy lies in the detailed understanding of thyroid anatomy and careful dissection. This study was undertaken to understand the finer nuances of anatomy at the posterior surface of the gland, the ...
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Soil Functions in Earth's Critical Zone: Key Results and Conclusions
... Integrated Critical Zone Model (ICZM) for computational simulation of multiple soil functions, in addition to those simulated with CAST, allowed calculation of process rates associated with water ...
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Soil Functions in Earth's Critical Zone: Key Results and Conclusions
... Figure 2. Ear th’s critical zone soil layer and its functions. Translation of soil functions into mathematical descriptions of flows and transformations applies flux balance equations across hypothetical ...
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Application of Hydrogeophysical Imaging in the Reynolds Creek Critical Zone Observatory
... Creek Critical Zone Observatory (BCCZO) showed that the persistent snowpack on north facing slopes led to a single sustained infiltration pulse in the spring while the intermittent snowpack on south facing ...
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A framework for the regional critical zone classification: the case of the Chinese Loess Plateau
... For example, a site-scale CZ observatory in the USA (the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory) has been en- larged from its original 0.08-km 2 catch- ment to a 164-km 2 watershed to accom- ...
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Soil Functions in Earth's Critical Zone: Key Results and Conclusions
... Policy responses to these pressures on global soils define soil functions as environmental goods and services and identify global soil threats that degrade soil functions ((EC, 2006a,b; Banwart, 2011)). European ...
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Water ages in the critical zone of long term experimental sites in northern latitudes
... water age dynamics. For periods with high ET fluxes that led to low storage volumes, water ages in the soil pores generally increased over time (Bruntland Burn sites in Fig. 6), because the youngest water left the soil ...
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Influences of Climate and Agriculture on Water and Biogeochemical Cycles: Kabini Critical Zone Obser
... of Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) was made and this resulted in developing such observatories in several countries including a global network of ...
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Designing a network of critical zone observatories to explore the living skin of the terrestrial Earth
... One way to review the US program to date is to summarize performance through quantitative metrics. As manifested to- day, the program funds nine CZOs situated across a range of landscapes (Fig. 2). In addition, ...
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An arthroscopic evaluation of the anatomical “critical zone”
... cresenteric critical zones among all pathological types, cresenteric and hemi- spheric critical zones were predominantly observed within the impingement group, with the former pre- senting with a ...
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Distinct stores and the routing of water in the deep critical zone of a snow dominated volcanic catchment
... as Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs), which are part of a network of field-based laboratories arrayed across a variety of rock types, land uses, elevations, and climates (Ander- son et ...the ...
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Soil Microbial Communities and Soil Organic Matter: Composition and Ecological Functions in the Luquillo Critical Zone
... The samples used in this study comprise part of a larger sample set collected in January 2012 from four sites at the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory (LCZO) in northeastern Puerto Rico (18°18’ N, 65°50’ ...
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When multi-functional landscape meets Critical Zone science: advancing multi-disciplinary research for sustainable human well-being
... © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. All rights reserved. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for ...
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Quantifying soil and critical zone variability in a forested catchment through digital soil mapping
... principal component analysis (iPCA) of environmental covariates derived from remotely sensed imagery and topography, and a conditioned Latin hypercube sampling (cLHS) scheme. Samples were collected by genetic horizon ...
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Designing a suite of measurements to understand the critical zone
... 1. Critical zone science investigates the architecture, character, and dynamics of the earth surface from vegetation canopy to deep groundwater on all ...
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Characterizing the heterogeneity of karst critical zone and its hydrological function:an integrated approach
... Fo Figure 4 Variations of flow discharge for hillslope spring HS and catchment outlet and water levels at depression wells W1, W3, W4 and W5.... Fo Figure 5 Variations of air temperature[r] ...
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Partitioning snowmelt and rainfall in the critical zone: effects of climate type and soil properties
... soil zone to minimize this bound- ary condition effect; effects of lower boundary conditions are generally seen in deeper layers of the soil profile and dur- ing transition periods between soil water input events ...
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Lithological influences on contemporary and long-term regolith weathering at the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory
... The solute flux in the granitic 695 ridgetop LG1 regolith was calculated from weathering gradients previously measured Tables 9- 696 10; Schulz and White, 1999; White, 2002 and qh and 69[r] ...
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Enhancement of Voltage Stability through Optimal Location of UPFC
... the critical zone of the system can determine the best location of the hybrid ...the critical zone, helps in improving voltage magnitude, reducing active power losses as well as increasing ...
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