... publish reliable data and information, but the author and the publisher cannot assume responsibility forthe validity of all materials or forthe consequences of their use Neither this book nor any ... is the placement ofthe model development ahead of field studies Preliminary modeling forces the planning team to develop an understanding ofthe data and a coherent theory ofthe mechanism of ... the exception rather than the rule The cause of such inaction may be related to a lack of understanding ofthe mechanism of saltwater intrusion In many coastal areas, such as along the Gulf of...
... Movement ofthe groundwater in the CWCB is from areas of recharge to the areas of discharge The main areas of recharge are from spreading basins located in the northeast portion ofthe Central ... measures The preferences are used to define a value that provides the means to assess the overall valueof an alternative taking into account the impact ofthe alternative on the selected measures The ... stakeholders The degree of acceptability of various alternatives among stakeholders can be evaluated by examining the influence ofthe different value tradeoffs on the overall valueof each alternative...
... govern the movement ofthe surfaces have the same form as the equations forthe head, but with different values forthe transmissivities and pseudo-source term Since the form is the same, the solution ... ofThe Netherlands: position ofthe Rijnland Water Board and ground surface ofthe Netherlands; (b) Map ofthe Rijnland Water Board: position of some polder areas and the sand-dune areas ofthe ... on the island) Contours ofthe elevation ofthe interface after 40 timesteps of year are shown in Figure 10 The well has little effect on the position ofthe interface in the top aquifer, but there...
... range of salinities into coastal waters Of these, Crescent Beach submarine spring off the northeastern coast of Florida (Figure 6) is among the most distinguished, as it delivers on the order of ... (1,031 km2) sits on the central west coast of Florida, and while it has an average depth of only 3.5 m, the navigational channels that extend the full length ofthe bay reach depths of up to 14 m (Figure ... Meisler et al [1984], is the direct dependence ofthe extent of submarine groundwater discharge on elevated potentiometric heads measured at the coast For example, on the northern Atlantic coastal...
... (MLLW) This is a datum determined as zero from the average ofthe lower ofthe two low waters of each day forthe past 19 years Forthe United States the values in popular references such as Reed’s ... salinity of 30 ppt was at the beginning ofthe discharge period At all sites the lower part ofthe seepage zone displayed minimum salinity especially during the lowest part ofthe tidal cycle The ... from the rising tide, which is then a substantial component ofthe beach discharge The rising edge ofthe incoming tide advances shoreward faster than the discharging freshwater can rise Thus, the...
... The geophysicist has to decide whether the improvement in the fit ofthe model to the data set is offset by the reduction of degrees of freedom in the analysis There are quantitative statistical ... justification forthe otherwise reasonable but unproved assumption that the bottom ofthe surficial aquifer is given by the average trend ofthe TDEM surveys in the profile CONCLUSIONS Integration of geophysical ... series of more closely spaced TDEM surveys at the southern end ofthe TDEM profile as shown in Figure [Paillet et al., 1999] Otherwise, the combination of randomly varying conductivity in the lower...
... irrigation during the hot and dry summer months Drawdown coincides with two major abstraction areas, one to the NE ofthe plain, near the lagoon, the other to the SE, in the vicinity ofthe saltworks ... boundaries The most common sources of error in groundwater modeling lie in the conceptualization ofthe model and uncertainty ofthe data Furthermore, the coexistence of several sources of error ... defined The first two are composed ofthe recent and ancient terraced alluvia ofthe Quaternary, the third of fractured granites and metamorphic schists ofthe Palaeozoic, and the fourth of fluvial...
... exceptions noted below, values ofthe groundwater flow parameters are the same as the values used in the calibrated flow model of Milrow The values ofthe parameters required forthe geothermal component ... threedimensional formulation However, the two-dimensional formulation accounts forthe geometry ofthe rubble chimney only in the plane ofthe model, i.e., parallel to the natural flow direction, and therefore ... to the 100 random input values Forthe simulated head and concentration values at the Milrow calibration well, Uae-2, the mean ofthe 100 realizations as well as the standard deviation of the...
... 253 on the costs ofthe failure ofthe system—what will be the cost of loss of water, the cost of restoration, and any environmental consequences? These factors can also be programmed into the objected ... m³/day, and the desirable accuracy ofthe solution is m³/day (which is a rather crude resolution), then for each Qi there exist 82 possible discrete values (including the zero pumping rate) If there ... Here, we report the case study ofthe city of Miami Beach in northeast Spain A large fraction ofthe total population of Spain (about 80% of its million inhabitants) lives along the Catalonia coast...
... reflection ofthe spatial distribution of precipitation on the Yucatan Peninsula The average annual precipitation along the eastern coast ofthe peninsula is on the order of 1,500 mm, whereas the average ... area of interest, the city of Mérida and the north coast, the condition was justified except forthe northern boundary The boundary condition to the north was a head-dependent boundary (Gulf of ... Mexico) Forthe headdependent boundary, equivalent freshwater heads were specified forthe offshore nodal areas This allowed forthe leakage of freshwater through the coastal aquitard to the sea...
... affect the selection of restoration projects, and thevalueofthe weights d and d not affect the selection of risk-reduction projects Thevalueofthe weight d1 relative to thevalueof weight ... affect the solution, as does thevalueofthe weight d3 relative to thevalueof weight d The relative valueof these two groupings of weights does not affect which projects are selected for inclusion ... This approach allows the building of land in one region ofthe coast to compensate for loss of land in another region ofthe coast Objective Function A simplified form ofthe objective function...
... Foraz CLIC 500GeV ILC TeV Unlim Resour Leveled resources Nb of TBM Nb of teams for elec general services 24 Nb of teams for cooling and ventilation 12 Nb of teams for cabling 24 Nb of teams for ... Obviously anything the GDE puts forward at this point in time is in the form of suggestions and intended to provide a general framework for discussions As such there is no requirement for a highly ... FALC is willing to take on this role Until then most ofthe FALC interaction with the GDE is informational The ILCSC (and the PAC) will be responsible for any design reviews and cost estimate verification...
... Management theme of UNEP’s Network for Environmental Training at the Tertiary Level in the Asia-Pacific The mixture of theory and practice of coastal planning and management demonstrates the importance ... 3.3.1 The theoretical basis of planning (a) Rational planning (b) Incremental planning theory (c) Adaptive planning theory (d) The consensual planning approach 3.3.2 Summary ofthe concepts of coastal ... a range of scales are critically examined Chapter This chapter draws together the major findings ofthe book and outlines possible future directions forthe management and planning ofthe coast...
... about the land-sea interface ofthe order of a few hundreds of metres to a few kilometres, or extend from the inland reaches of coastal watersheds to the limits of national jurisdiction in the offshore ... on the coast was the building and maintenance ofthe current urban form of Venice, Italy, from the seventh century AD (Frassetto, 1989) For these civilizations an informal form of resource planning ... ofthe land on the ocean and the ocean on the land; and • are not of uniform width, depth, or height The three above elements are depicted in Figure 1.1, which shows, for a sandy beach coast, the...
... Issues in the Port of Victoria, Seychelles Victoria, the capital ofthe Seychelles, is on the island of Mahe and contains the country’s two international ports—one for fishing and the other for commercial ... exactly how best to manage the platforms will come from the procedural rather than the substantive aspects ofthe decision-making process The implications of these findings for risk assessment and ... prompted the strategy: • • • • access, protection and use ofthe coastline; the need for new road connections; the future use and management ofthe large amount of public land; and the impact of metropolitan...
... strictly part of that hierarchy Nevertheless, statements of principle are often a critical part ofthe family of guiding statements At the top ofthe hierarchy is a statement which describes the overall ... implementing choices is often achieved with the assistance of other planning theories which explicitly recognize the influences ofvalue judgements ofthe participants in the planning process (b) ... described above, there are a variety of ways to formalize this process for example, legislation and theproductionof various types of documents to guide networked approaches The structure of these documents...
... with the law and assumes that the rest ofthe community is the same Clearly there is a sector ofthe community which, for a number of reasons, including a lack of understanding ofthe purposes of ... forms the base information forthe establishment of a zoning plan The complexity ofthe information required varies according to the intensity of use of an area and complexity ofthe zoning plan ... 3, the cultural norms of a coastal nation will shape the boundaries of a coastal programme, often long before notions ofthe exact details of programme design have been considered Much of the...
... zoning plans will be prepared for Sections ofthe park and to meet the following objectives: • conservation ofthe GBR; • regulation ofthe use ofthe park so as to protect the GBR while allowing reasonable ... aspect ofthe plan Such constraints could include the contents ofthe plan, information needs, how the plan should be formatted, who should be consulted, the timeframe for plan finalization, or the ... programme is the regional focus forthe implementation of global initiatives, such as the International Coral Reef Initiative (Box 5.4) and the Global Programme of Action forthe Protection ofthe Marine...