scholarly journals Ion-specificity and surface water dynamics in protein solutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (48) ◽  
pp. 30340-30350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadeja Janc ◽  
Miha Lukšič ◽  
Vojko Vlachy ◽  
Baptiste Rigaud ◽  
Anne-Laure Rollet ◽  
...  

NMR relaxation of water protons as a sensitive probe of ion-specific effects at protein surfaces.

2019 ◽  
Vol 249 ◽  
pp. 106149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Bonechi ◽  
Gabriella Tamasi ◽  
Alessio Pardini ◽  
Alessandro Donati ◽  
Vanessa Volpi ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 145 (12) ◽  
pp. 124508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Carof ◽  
Mathieu Salanne ◽  
Thibault Charpentier ◽  
Benjamin Rotenberg

Wetlands ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1055-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Heintzman ◽  
S. M. Starr ◽  
K. R. Mulligan ◽  
L. S. Barbato ◽  
N. E. McIntyre

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e4992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liwei Xing ◽  
Xinming Tang ◽  
Huabin Wang ◽  
Wenfeng Fan ◽  
Guanghui Wang

High temporal resolution water distribution maps are essential for surface water monitoring because surface water exhibits significant inner-annual variation. Therefore, high-frequency remote sensing data are needed for surface water mapping. Dongting Lake, the second-largest freshwater lake in China, is famous for the seasonal fluctuations of its inundation extents in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. It is also greatly affected by the Three Gorges Project. In this study, we used Sentinel-1 data to generate surface water maps of Dongting Lake at 10 m resolution. First, we generated the Sentinal-1 time series backscattering coefficient for VH and VV polarizations at 10 m resolution by using a monthly composition method. Second, we generated the thresholds for mapping surface water at 10 m resolution with monthly frequencies using Sentinel-1 data. Then, we derived the monthly surface water distribution product of Dongting Lake in 2016, and finally, we analyzed the inner-annual surface water dynamics. The results showed that: (1) The thresholds were −21.56 and −15.82 dB for the backscattering coefficients for VH and VV, respectively, and the overall accuracy and Kappa coefficients were above 95.50% and 0.90, respectively, for the VH backscattering coefficient, and above 94.50% and 0.88, respectively, for the VV backscattering coefficient. The VV backscattering coefficient achieved lower accuracy due to the effect of the wind causing roughness on the surface of the water. (2) The maximum and minimum areas of surface water were 2040.33 km2in July, and 738.89 km2in December. The surface water area of Dongting Lake varied most significantly in April and August. The permanent water acreage in 2016 was 556.35 km2, accounting for 19.65% of the total area of Dongting Lake, and the acreage of seasonal water was 1525.21 km2. This study proposed a method to automatically generate monthly surface water at 10 m resolution, which may contribute to monitoring surface water in a timely manner.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Schlaffer ◽  
Marco Chini ◽  
Wouter Dorigo

<p>The North American Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) consists of millions of wetlands and holds great importance for biodiversity, water storage and flood management. The wetlands cover a wide range of sizes from a few square metres to several square kilometres. Prairie hydrology is greatly influenced by the threshold behaviour of potholes leading to spilling as well as merging of adjacent wetlands. The knowledge of seasonal and inter-annual surface water dynamics in the PPR is critical for understanding this behaviour of connected and isolated wetlands. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, e.g. used by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, have great potential to provide high-accuracy wetland extent maps even when cloud cover is present. We derived water extent during the ice-free months May to October from 2015 to 2020 by fusing dual-polarised Sentinel-1 backscatter data with topographical information. The approach was applied to a prairie catchment in North Dakota. Total water area, number of water bodies and median area per water body were computed from the time series of water extent maps. Surface water dynamics showed strong seasonal dynamics especially in the case of small water bodies (< 1 ha) with a decrease in water area and number of small water bodies from spring throughout summer when evaporation rates in the PPR are typically high. Larger water bodies showed a more stable behaviour during most years. Inter-annual dynamics were strongly related to drought indices based on climate data, such as the Palmer Drought Severity Index. During the extremely wet period of late 2019 to 2020, the dynamics of both small and large water bodies changed markedly. While a larger number of small water bodies was encountered, which remained stable throughout the wet period, also the area of larger water bodies increased, partly due to merging of smaller adjacent water bodies. The results demonstrate the potential of Sentinel-1 data for long-term monitoring of prairie wetlands while limitations exist due to the rather low temporal resolution of 12 days over the PPR.</p>


Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yijie Sui ◽  
Dongjie Fu ◽  
Xuefeng Wang ◽  
Fenzhen Su

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