The rapid increase of paddy field acreage has led to widely descending of groundwater table in well irrigation paddy area of low-land in Sanjiang Plain recent years. More and more “hanging pump” and partial over pumping phenomenon have been occurring in well irrigation paddy area of low-land. Therefore, the groundwater resources in Sanjiang Plain need to be recharged urgently. For solving the m...

Intensification of the global hydrological cycle with atmospheric warming is expected to increase interannual variation in precipitation amount and the frequency of extreme precipitation events. Although studies in grasslands have shown sensitivity of aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) to both precipitation amount and event size, we lack equivalent knowledge for responses of belowgroun...

Both water and nitrogen (N) availability have significant effects on ecosystem CO2 exchange (ECE), which includes net ecosystem productivity (NEP), ecosystem respiration (ER) and gross ecosystem photosynthesis (GEP). How water and N availability influence ECE in arid and semiarid grasslands is still uncertain. A manipulative experiment with additions of rainfall, snow and N was conducted to tes...

Several multi-decadal simulations have been carried out with the new version of the CCSM climate model. This paper reports an analysis of the land component of these simulations. Global annual averages over land appear to be within the uncertainty of observational data sets but the seasonal cycle over land of temperature and precipitation appear too weak. These departures from observations appe...

This simple, routine assay for measuring cholesteryl ester transfer/exchange activity in human plasma is based on the removal of interfering lipoproteins--very-low-density (VLDL) and low-density lipoproteins (LDL)--by precipitation with polyethylene glycol. High-density lipoproteins (HDL) in the samples do not affect the results. The supernate after precipitation is mixed with [14C]cholesteryl ...

An issue encountered when mapping precipitation is the importance of terrain in defining the patterns of precipitation. In the mountainous western U.S., terrain dominates the spatial patterns of precipitation. In flat or gently rolling areas such as the Great Plains, the role of terrain is more subdued, although precipitation variations have been documented over low hills in Illinois (Changnon ...

[1] Dozens of large, low‐gradient alluvial fans are present within impact crater basins on the cratered highlands of Mars. The timescales and climate conditions that were required to generate such fans are unknown, but testable through our understanding of terrestrial hill slope erosion in the presence of precipitation. Previous estimates of fan formation time vary from years to millions of yea...

A combined active/passive modeling system that converts CloudSat observations to simulated microwave brightness temperatures (TB) is used to assess different ice particle models under precipitating conditions. Simulation results indicate that certain ice models (e.g., low-density spheres) produce excessive scattering and implausibly low simulated TBs for stratiform precipitation events owing to...

Longer, drier summers projected for arid and semi-arid regions of western North America under climate change are likely to have enormous consequences for water resources and river-dependent ecosystems. Many climate change scenarios for this region involve decreases in mean annual streamflow, latesummer precipitation and late-summer streamflow in the coming decades. Intermittent streams are alre...