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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Groundwater Recharge Trends and Variability in Northern Taiwan
In this study, the base flow estimation method was used to assess longâterm changes of groundwater recharge in Northern Taiwan. The MannâKendall test was used to examine the characteristics of the trends. This was followed by trend slope calculation and changeâpoint analysis. The annual groundwater recharge was found to exhibit a significant upward trend for the Fushan and Hengxi stations (Tamsui river basin). On the other hand, the Ximen Bridge station (Lanyang river basin) recorded a significant downward trend. Calculations showed that the rate of change for the Fengshan and Touqian river basins was small (less than 10%). However, that for the following stations was greater than 30%: Fushan, Hengxi, Ximen Bridge, and Niudou (also in the Lanyang river basin). The results of the changeâpoint analysis further indicated a significant changeâpoint for the annual recharge at Fushan, Hengxi, and Ximen Bridge stations in 1999, 1983, and 2001, respectively. The findings can be used for regional hydrological studies and as reference for water resource planning
Investigating the Physical Origin of Unconventional Low-Energy Excitations and Pseudogap Phenomena in Cuprate Superconductors
We investigate the physical origin of unconventional low-energy excitations
in cuprate superconductors by considering the effect of coexisting competing
orders (CO) and superconductivity (SC) and of quantum fluctuations and other
bosonic modes on the low-energy charge excitation spectra. By incorporating
both SC and CO in the bare Green's function and quantum phase fluctuations in
the self-energy, we can consistently account for various empirical findings in
both the hole- and electron-type cuprates, including the excess subgap
quasiparticle density of states, ``dichotomy'' in the fluctuation-renormalized
quasiparticle spectral density in momentum space, and the occurrence and
magnitude of a low-energy pseudogap being dependent on the relative gap
strength of CO and SC. Comparing these calculated results with experiments of
ours and others, we suggest that there are two energy scales associated with
the pseudogap phenomena, with the high-energy pseudogap probably of magnetic
origin and the low-energy pseudogap associated with competing orders.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures. Invited paper for the 2006 Taiwan International
Conference on Superconductivity. Correspondence author: Nai-Chang Yeh
(e-mail: [email protected]
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