Accidental spills of hydrocarbons from underground storage tanks or pipelines are a common cause of subsurface contamination. Anthropogenic hydrocarbon contamination of soil is a global issue throughout the industrialised world. In England and Wales alone, 12% of all serious contamination incidents in 2007 were hydrocarbon related. Biodegradation could be in situ process leading to a decrease of benzene concentrations in groundwater. Recently, monitored natural attenuation has become an effective alternative to the more active remediation methods for the in situ treatment of contaminated subsurface environments. The main objective of this study was to examine the possibility of adopting monitored natural attenuation as a remediation technique for the contaminated groundwater aquifer. In this natural attenuation study, the following tasks were conducted bioremediation investigation, biological first-order decay rates, Mann-Kendall Test model and BIOSCREEN model for the contaminated groundwater aquifer. In this study, a full-scale natural bioremediation investigation was conducted at a petroleum hydrocarbon spill site. In this study, The calculated biodegradation capacity (8.261 mg/L) at this site is much higher than the detected concentrations of petroleum-hydrocarbons (3-4 mg/L) within the most contaminated area inside the plume. Thus, natural biodegradation should be able to remove the contaminants effectively. The calculated biological first-order decay rates for benzene were between 1.7¡Ñ10-3-9.0¡Ñ10-4 day-1 respectively. Mann-Kendall test was applied to analyze the trend of contaminant variations. Results show that the S-value of monitor wells SW-1W, SW-4W, SW-42W, SW-23W, SW-30W, SW-67W and SW-70W were -2.23607, -1.16276, -1.52053, -1.34164, -1.26323, 0 and -1.34164, respectively. The negative S values reveal that the all contaminants tended to decrease. This indicates that the hydrocarbon plume at this site is not expanding, and has been contained effectively by the natural attenuation mechanisms. BIOSCREEN model from the groundwater analyses indicate, a first-order decay model reached the downgradient monitor well located 220 m from the spill location. that approximately 89% of the contaminate removal was due to biodegradation processes. The study of petroleum-hydrocarbons bacterial consortium were include Aquincola tertiaricarbonis L10¡BBosea sp. GR060219¡BBrachymonas petroleovorans strain CHX¡BHydrogenophaga sp. p3(2011)¡BHydrogenophaga sp.¡BMethylibium sp. YIM 61602¡BMycobacterium sp.¡BRhodoferax sp. IMCC1723¡BRhodoferax sp.¡BUncultured Rhodocyclaceae bacterium clone Elev_16S_975¡BUncultured Rhodocyclaceae bacterium clone eub62B1¤ÎUncultured Beggiatoa sp. clone GE7GXPU01BJTWR. Thus, the in situ bioremediation technology has the potential to be developed into an environmentally, economically and naturally acceptable remediation technology. Evidences for the occurrence of natural attenuation include the following: (1) depletion of dissolved oxygen, nitrate, and sulfate; (2) production of dissolved ferrous iron, sulfide, and CO2; (3) decreased BTEX concentrations and BTEX as carbon to TOC ratio along the transport path; (4) increased alkalinity and microbial species; (5) limited spreading of the BTEX plume; and (6) preferential removal of certain BTEX components along the transport path. Results indicate that natural attenuation can effectively contain the plume, and biodegradation processes played an important role on contaminant removal.

Contamination of groundwater by petroleum-hydrocarbons is a serious environmental problem. Monitored natural attenuation (MNA) is a passive remedial approach to degrade and dissipate contaminants in groundwater. In this study, a full-scale natural bioremediation investigation was conducted at a gasoline spill site. Results show that the concentrations of major contaminants [benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX)] dropped to below detection limit before they reached the downgradient monitor well. This indicates that natural biodegradation process was the major cause of the contaminant reduction. In this study, 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene (1,2,4-TMB) was used as tracer to calculate the biological decay rates of BTEX. The calculated biological first-order decay rates for ethylbenzene, m+p-xylene, toluene, benzene, and o-xylene were 1.5¡Ñ10-3, 1.2¡Ñ10-3, 7.0¡Ñ10-4, 6.7¡Ñ10-4, and 1.2¡Ñ10-4, respectively. Mann-Kendall test was applied to analyze the trend of contaminant variations. Results show that the S-value of four monitor wells (CT-4, CT-41, CT-42, and CT-7) were -0.52, -1.57, -0.52, and -1.22, respectively. The negative S values reveal that the all contaminants tended to decrease. This indicates that the hydrocarbon plume at this site is not expanding, and has been contained effectively by the natural attenuation mechanisms. Evidences for the occurrence of natural attenuation include the following: (1) depletion of dissolved oxygen, nitrate, and sulfate; (2) production of dissolved ferrous iron, sulfide, and CO2; (3) decreased BTEX concentrations and BTEX as carbon to TOC ratio along the transport path; (4) increased alkalinity and microbial species; (5) limited spreading of the BTEX plume; and (6) preferential removal of certain BTEX components along the transport path. Results also show that the biodegradation capacity (46.02 mg/L) for BTEX and 1,2,4-TMB was much higher than the detected contaminants within the plume. Results indicate that natural attenuation can effectively contain the plume, and biodegradation processes played an important role on contaminant removal.

Šlapių žemių sausinimo įtaka nuotėkiui Lietuvoje vertinama nevienareikšmiškai. Darbe analizuojama Mūšos upės ties Ustukiais hidrologinės charakteristikos ir žemių sausinimo šioje baseino dalyje įtaka upės nuotėkiui. Darbui atlikti panaudoti 1960 – 2006 metų paros nuotėkio, metinio kritulių kiekio, vidutinės paros oro temperatūros duomenys ir nusausintų plotų apimtys. Sudarytas kritulių įtakos debitui grafikas, kuris parodo, kad šie rodikliai glaudžiai susiję. Nagrinėjami du laikotarpiai 1960-1981 metai iki patvenkiant Mūšos upę, ir 1983-2006 metai po Dvariukų tvenkinio įrengimo. Naudojant DHRAM programinę įrangą, išskirtos ir analizuotos 33 debito charakteristikos. Naudojant Mano–Kendalio testą nustatyti 33-jų hidrologinių charakteristikų kaitos trendai. Tyrimas parodė, kad žemių sausinimas didelės įtakos Mūšos upės nuotėkio pokyčiams nepadarė. Sausinimo poveikis pasireiškia maksimalių debitų sumažėjimu ir paros debitų pokyčiais. / Wet soil drainage on the runoff Lithuania controversial. The paper analyzes the beating of the river at Ustukiai hydrological characteristics and soil drainage in the basin of the river runoff influence. Used to carry out the 1960 - 2006 years of daily runoff, rainfall, average daily air temperature data and the volume of drained areas. Made in rainfall affect the flow graph, which shows that these indicators are closely related. Study of two periods of 1960-1981 years before damming Mūša river, and the 1983-2006 year Dvariukų pond construction. Using DHRAM software identified and analyzed the 33 characteristics of flow. Using Mann-Kendall test to determine their 33-hydrological characteristics of the change in trend. The study showed that the draining of lands affected by high river runoff beating did not change. The drainage effect of maximal decrease in discharges and daily discharges change.

The aim of this study was to analyze the presence of the trend of long-term time series of concentrations and losses of nutrients and their descriptions. The concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds were evaluated. The analysis was performed on selected catchment of large, medium and small areas. All observed catchment are located in the basin of dam Švihov. Trends were tested using non parametric methods - Mann-Kendall test, Seasonal Mann-Kendall test and Kendall's correlation coefficient . In this study there are generally described monitored cycles of nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorous. There are also characterized the factors, which effect leaching of these nutrients to water (from the catchment). The paper also outlines the progression of water quality in the Czech Republic, which was influenced by political and economic changes in Europe in the second half of the 20th century.

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CHANGES OF RAINFALL-RUNOFF REGIME IN THE ŠUMAVA / BOHEMIAN FOREST REGION Abstract: The goal of this thesis is the evaluation of changes in rainfall-runoff regime in the Šumava region from time and spacial point of view. The thesis includes research and applied part. The research part is dedicated to the methods of evaluation of runoff changes and their possible causes in the Šumava region. In the applied part there is an analysis of precipitaion - runoff regime for long-term time series of average annual and monthly discharges and also annual and monthly precipitations for selected gauging stations in Czech, German and Austrian part of Šumava using absolute and relative homogenity tests and Mann - Kendall test for long-term trend. One of the main aims of this thesis is the identification of possible orographical effect or the difference between windward and leeward part of Šumava. In conclusion the achieved results are evaluated, discussed and compared with subject publications. Key words: absolute homogenity, Mann - Kendall test, runoff, discharge, relative homogenity, precipitation, trend, Šumava, changes

The precipitation falling as rain or snow has different impact on regional water resources and their annual distribution. Shift from solid to liquid form of precipitation following the increase of the surface air temperatures could be important because such change could influence the timing of spring runoff and cause water scarcity in summer. In this study, the spatial and temporal variations of ratio of snowfall to total precipitation (Sf), mean air temperature, day of year of melt-out and winter and spring runoff is analysed. Data were examined for 11 meteorological and 6 hydrological stations in the mountains catchment in Czechia for November-April 1965-2014. Data were analyzed using the Mann-Kendall trend test. Major results show that Sf has been decreasing strongly throughout the whole examined area, with the strongest decrease in the foothill area of the northern mountains of Czechia. Stronger decrease is observed in lower elevations, at the stations with meant air temperature close to melt temperature. Strongest decrease was observed in March and the weakest decrease was observed in December and April, The significant decreases in Sf are associated with large increase in mean winter air temperatures. Due to the increasing mean air temperature in the cold season, the total rainfall is...

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This thesis develops an optimal interpolation method that takes daily precipitation values collected from weather stations and produces precipitation estimates on a grid. The method, called Hybrid 2.0, combines EOF-based linear interpolation with the nearest-station method. Gridded monthly precipitation is first obtained via EOF, then distributed among days via nearest station. Hybrid 2.0 builds on an earlier method, called Hybrid 1.0, that applies an inverse-distance weighting method to obtain gridded monthly values. Hybrid 2.0 uses these monthly Hybrid 1.0 values as inputs when constructing EOF functions. The data used in this thesis were obtained from the Meteorological Service of Canada. Few weather stations were located in the northern and mountain regions of Alberta prior to 1950. As a result, the Hybrid 1.0 gridded results underestimate precipitation in these regions for that period. The main contribution of Hybrid 2.0 is a substantial reduction in this bias, obtained by implicitly taking topographic elevation into account. Bias reduction is achieved by extracting EOFs from Hybrid 1.0 output for 1951-2002, when many more stations were present in the northern and mountain regions. Hybrid 2.0 is shown to be more accurate in interpolating both monthly and daily precipitation in Alberta, when compared with Hybrid 1.0 and other methods. The thesis also provides detailed analyses of precipitation trends and droughts using the gridded Hybrid 2.0 daily values. Optimality of the selected EOF modes and sensitivity to data error in the EOF-based linear reconstruction are also discussed in this thesis. Agricultural uses of historical climate data have become extremely important. Applications include: enabling prompt, optimal decisions on market prices and disaster aid, designing future agricultural practices such as adaptation to climate and technology changes, and managing risks for agricultural producers and governments in areas such as drought monitoring. Many applications require a reliable interpolation technique to accurately reconstruct daily climate estimates onto grids of various resolutions. The gridded Hybrid 2.0 daily precipitation values produced by this thesis satisfy this requirement and can be used as inputs for many agricultural applications. / Applied Mathematics

The purpose of the study was to examine the temporal trends of three monthly variables: stream runoff, rainfall and air temperature and to find out if any correlation exists between rainfall and stream runoff in the Blue Ridge and Piedmont provinces of the southeast United States. Trend significance was determined using the non-parametric Mann-Kendall test on a monthly and annual basis. GIS analysis was used to find and integrate the urban and non-urban stream gauging, rainfall and temperature stations in the study area. The Mann-Kendall test showed a statistically insignificant temporal trend for all three variables. The correlation of 0.4 was observed for runoff and rainfall, which showed that these two parameters are moderately correlated.