Comparison of ground-based and spacecraft observations of the infrared emission from Venus: The nature of thermal contrasts     

David J. Diner  Jerome Apt  Lee S. Elson 《Icarus》1982,52(2):301-319

Comparisons are made between observations of spatial variations in the thermal emission from Venus obtained with ground-based telescopes and those from spacecraft. In particular, we concentrate on measurements of solar-related structure at low and mid-latitudes, limb-darkening, and on the high-contrast polar structure. We conclude that (1) the solar-related emission is predominantly wavenumber 2, although it contains a significant diurnal component; (2) the relative amplitudes of the semidiurnal and diurnal components vary with latitude; (3) thermally excited temperature waves or, alternatively, solar-driven vertical motions of the cloud top are better able to account for the magnitude of the solar-locked emission than brightness temperature contrasts resulting from variations in aerosol microphysical properties; (4) the equatorial limb-darkening shows the top of the main cloud to be diffuse and approximately uniformly mixed with the gas; (5) polar collars are persistent at least for several months but disappear on occasion; and (6) collars have been observed at both poles simultaneously, but whether simultaneous appearance is the exception or the rule is still in question.  相似文献   

Market‐based control of linear structural systems     

Jerome Peter Lynch  Kincho H. Law 《地震工程与结构动力学》2002,31(10):1855-1877

To limit the response of structures during external disturbances such as strong winds or large seismic events, structural control systems can be used. In the structural engineering field, attention has been shifted from active control to semi‐active control systems. Unlike active control system devices, semi‐active devices are compact, have efficient power consumption characteristics and are less expensive. As a result, an environment of a large number of actuators and sensors will result, rendering a complex large‐scale dynamic system. Such a system is best controlled by a decentralized approach such as market‐based control (MBC). In MBC, the system is modelled as a market place of buyers and sellers that leads to an efficient allocation of control power. The resulting MBC solution is shown to be locally Pareto optimal. This novel control approach is applied to three linear structural systems ranging from a one‐storey structure to a 20‐storey structure, all controlled by semi‐active hydraulic dampers. It is shown that MBC is competitive in the reduction of structural responses during large seismic loadings as compared to the centralized control approach of the linear quadratic regulation controller. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

A Rationale for the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis     

Jerome E. Dobson 《The Professional geographer》1993,45(2):207-215

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Chemical oceanography: J. P. Riley and G. Skirrow (editors), second edition. Academic Press, 1975, vol. 3, 564 pp., £18.20 ($32.25)     

Jerome O. Nriagu 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1976,40(12):1583

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Isotopic variations of the nitrogen in Lake Superior     

Patrick C Pang  Jerome O Nriagu 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1977,41(6):811-814

The isotopic compositions of nitrogen in lake water, plankton samples and the organic-N fractions extracted from sediments at selected stations in Lake Superior are presented. The δ¹⁵N values of the Kjeldahl total-N and acid hydrolyzable-N in the lake sediments are similar (range, +4.7–+6.7; mean, +5.5 %.). The δ¹⁵N data for the various extracts are independent of the age and concentration of nitrogen in the sediments. On the other hand, the δ¹⁵N values of lake water (+ 0.6‰), phytoplankton (+ 1.6 %.) and Zooplankton (+ 5.0‰) in the water column suggest significant discrimination against the heavier nitrogen isotope in the food chain of the lacustrine environment. The data emphasize the need for a better understanding of the autogenous isotopic fractionation before the isotopic method can be used to fingerprint the sources of nitrogen in a limnetic ecosystem.  相似文献   

Arsenic enrichment in lakes near the smelters at Sudbury,Ontario     

Jerome O. Nriagu 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1983,47(8):1523-1526

Roughly 200 tonnes of arsenic are produced annually with the base metal ores at Sudbury about 125 tonnes of which are released to the ambient environment via the atmosphere. The dispersion of this highly toxic element in lakes around the smelters is described. The total As concentrations in unfiltered lake waters vary from 0.2 to 0.6 ug 1^?1. The suspended particulates in the water column (with As contents of 2–6 ug g^?1) play a major role in the flux of arsenic to the lake sediments. The present-day rates of As accumulation in the sediments are found to be 1.5–6.4 mg m^?2 yr^?1; these rates exceed those of precolonial times by factors of 5–47. The changes in the rates of As flux to the sediments are shown to parallel the history of Cu and Ni production in the district.  相似文献   

Tertiary systems     

Alan G. Hernried  Jerome L. Sackman 《地震工程与结构动力学》1985,13(4):467-479

Through perturbation theory, results are obtained for the dynamic response of the very light equipment component(s) of tertiary equipment-structure systems. Both the three-degree-of-freedom and multi-degree-of-freedom models are examined. The case of all natural frequencies of the subsystems distinct (detuning) as well as a natural frequency of each subsystem close or equal to one another (tuning) are examined. The results should serve as a reliable and economical alternative to expensive numerical time-integration schemes which may mask significant response due to ill-conditioning of the combined system property matrices.  相似文献   

Distribution and isotopic composition of sulfur in lake sediments of northern Ontario   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Jerome O. Nriagu  Yoong K. Soon 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1985,49(3):823-834

Sediments from unpolluted and highly polluted lakes in northern Ontario have been fractionated into acid volatile sulfide, HCl-soluble sulfur, elemental sulfur, pyrite sulfur, ester sulfate and carbon-bonded sulfur and the isotopic composition of each fraction determined. In general, reduced inorganic S constitutes 25–50% of the total S in the polluted surficial sediments, but is <20% in the unpolluted samples, with pyrite formation being a minor process of S diagenesis in lake sediment ecosystems. Organic S in the form of ester sulfate and carbon-bonded S predominates and both the C/S ratios and the isotopic data suggest that, in unpolluted lakes, plant detritus can be a major contributor of organic-S to the sediments. The depth profiles observed suggest that the more labile ester sulfate is diagenetically converted to the carbon-bonded form. For the polluted sediments from the Sudbury basin, the isotopic data suggest that (a) the elemental S is derived from the oxidation of acid volatile sulfide in the aerobic surficial sediments, and (b) the isotopically light reduced S species are incorporated into the organic material. S diagenesis in lake sediments generally results in the release of ³⁴S to the overlying water. The suggestion is made that sulfate concentrations over 5 mg/1 accompanied by an enrichment of surficial sediments with isotopically different S may signal significant inputs of pollutant S into the lake and its basin.  相似文献   

Some methods for the analysis of equipment-structure interaction     

Tim J. Ingham  Jerome L. Sackman 《地震工程与结构动力学》1984,12(5):583-601

We present some numerical methods which simplify the analysis of equipment-structure systems composed of an equipment component which is light with respect to the structure component. We consider completely general forms of equipment-structure interaction. In particular, we consider that an arbitrary number of natural frequencies of the equipment and the structure are nearly equal (or equal) to each other. We show that this coincidence of natural frequencies implies that the equipment-structure system will itself have several closely spaced natural frequencies. The essence of equipment-structure interaction is the formation of beats, with slowly varying amplitude in each degree of freedom, between these natural frequencies-at least in response to a δ-function ground motion. We derive some differential equations, the solutions of which are a slowly varying envelope function (a vector) which yields the above slowly varying amplitudes. It is obtained by numerical integration using some conventional, but modified, methods and using a step size appropriate to capture its slowly varying nature. This envelope function defines the response to a δ-function ground motion. We show how it may be combined with the properties of an arbitrary ground motion (acceleration record or response spectrum) to yield the response to such a ground motion.  相似文献   

Ionospheric reflection coefficients at vlf from sferics measurements     

A. Glenn Jean Jr.  L. Jerome Lange  James R. Wait 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1957,38(1):147-153

Summary A method for calculating the complex ionospheric reflection coefficients at vlf using sferic waveforms is presented. The mathematical analysis was carried out for a number of different waveforms to illustrate the method. Reflection coefficients determined from sferics observations were compared with those calculated using an ionospheric model. In most cases, the agreement with theory is fairly good although in some cases, reflection coefficients exceeding unity were obtained. The discrepancies are believed to result from horizontally polarized flashes rather than limitations in the ionospheric model.  相似文献