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Solute transport with multisegment, equilibrium-controlled, classical reactions: Problem solvability and feed forward method's applicability for complex segments of at most binary participants

The feed forward (FF) method derives efficient operational equations for simulating transport of reacting solutes. It has been shown to be applicable in the presence of networks with any number of homogeneous and/or heterogeneous, classical reaction segments that consist of three, at most binary participants. Using a sequential (network type after network type) exploration approach and, independen
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Jacob Rubin

A spatial length scale analysis of turbulent temperature and velocity fluctuations within and above an orchard canopy

Turbulent flow within and above an almond orchard was measured with three-dimensional wind sensors and fine-wire thermocouple sensors arranged in a horizontal array. The data showed organized turbulent structures as indicated by coherent asymmetric ramp patterns in the time series traces across the sensor array. Space-time correlation analysis indicated that velocity and temperature fluctuations w
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Y.S. Wang, D.R. Miller, D.E. Anderson, R.M. Cionco, J.D. Lin

Acoustic waveform logging: Advances in theory and application

Full-waveform acoustic logging has made significant advances in both theory and application in recent years, and these advances have greatly increased the capability of log analysts to measure the physical properties of formations. Advances in theory provide the analytical tools required to understand the properties of measured seismic waves, and to relate those properties to such quantities as sh
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F.L. Paillet, C.H. Cheng, W.D. Pennington

Reply to comment on "The surface area of soil organic matter"

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Cary T. Chiou, Jiunn Fwu Lee, Stephen A. Boyd

Natural toxic waters of Poas Volcano, Costa Rica

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Susan L. Brantley, Gary L. Rowe, Leonard F. Konikow, Ward E. Sanford

Herbicide transport in rivers: Importance of hydrology and geochemistry in nonpoint-source contamination

Alachlor, atrazine, cyanazine, metolachlor, and metribuzin were measured at six sites during 1984 and 1985 in large subbasins within the Cedar River, IA. A computer model separated the Cedar River discharge hydrograph into groundwater and overland-flow components. The concentration of herbicides in the river when groundwater was the major flow component was less than 1.0 μg/L and averaged 0.2 μg/L
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P. J. Squillace, E. M. Thurman

Determination of subsurface fluid contents at a crude-oil spill site

Measurement of the fluid-content distribution at sites contaminated by immiscible fluids, including crude oil, is needed to better understand the movement of these fluids in the subsurface and to provide data to calibrate and verify numerical models and geophysical methods. A laboratory method was used to quantify the fluid contents of 146 core sections retrieved from boreholes aligned along a 120
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K.M. Hess, W.N. Herkelrath, H.I. Essaid