Downscaling reveals diverse effects of anthropogenic climate warming on the potential for local environments to support malaria transmission     

Krijn P. Paaijmans  Justine I. Blanford  Robert G. Crane  Michael E. Mann  Liang Ning  Kathleen V. Schreiber  Matthew B. Thomas 《Climatic change》2014,125(3-4):479-488

The potential impact of climate warming on patterns of malaria transmission has been the subject of keen scientific and policy debate. Standard climate models (GCMs) characterize climate change at relatively coarse spatial and temporal scales. However, malaria parasites and the mosquito vectors respond to diurnal variations in conditions at very local scales. Here we bridge this gap by downscaling a series of GCMs to provide high-resolution temperature data for four different sites and show that although outputs from both the GCM and the downscaled models predict diverse but qualitatively similar effects of warming on the potential for adult mosquitoes to transmit malaria, the predicted magnitude of change differs markedly between the different model approaches. Raw GCM model outputs underestimate the effects of climate warming at both hot (3-fold) and cold (8–12 fold) extremes, and overestimate (3-fold) the change under intermediate conditions. Thus, downscaling could add important insights to the standard application of coarse-scale GCMs for biophysical processes driven strongly by local microclimatic conditions.  相似文献   

A scoping review on the multiplicity of scale in spatial analysis     

Oshan  Taylor M.  Wolf  Levi J.  Sachdeva  Mehak  Bardin  Sarah  Fotheringham  A. Stewart 《Journal of Geographical Systems》2022,24(3):293-324

Journal of Geographical Systems - Scale is a central concept in the geographical sciences and is an intrinsic property of many spatial systems. It also serves as an essential thread in the fabric...  相似文献   

Sea-level and reef accretion history of Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 7 and late Stage 5 based on age and facies of submerged late Pleistocene reefs,Oahu, Hawaii     

Clark E. Sherman  Charles H. Fletcher  Ken H. Rubin  Kathleen R. Simmons  Walter H. Adey 《Quaternary Research》2014

In situ Pleistocene reefs form a gently sloping nearshore terrace around the island of Oahu. TIMS Th–U ages of in situ corals indicate that most of the terrace is composed of reefal limestones correlating to Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 7 (MIS 7, ~ 190–245 ka). The position of the in situ MIS 7 reef complex indicates that it formed during periods when local sea level was ~ 9 to 20 m below present sea level. Its extensiveness and geomorphic prominence as well as a paucity of emergent in situ MIS 7 reef-framework deposits on Oahu suggest that much of MIS 7 was characterized by regional sea levels below present. Later accretion along the seaward front of the terrace occurred during the latter part of MIS 5 (i.e., MIS 5a–5d, ~ 76–113 ka). The position of the late MIS 5 reefal limestones is consistent with formation during a period when local sea level was below present. The extensiveness of the submerged Pleistocene reefs around Oahu compared to the relative dearth of Holocene accretion is due to the fact that Pleistocene reefs had both more time and more accommodation space available for accretion than their Holocene counterparts.  相似文献   

A Fresh Look at the Geobiology & Sedimentary Environments of the Hypersaline Great Salt Lake,USA     

Kathleen NICOLL 《《地质学报》英文版》2014,88(Z1):94-95

正1 Introduction The Great Salt Lake(GSL)is the defining hydrological feature of the Great Basin,North America’s largest desert--and it is the largest waterbody in the western USA.Despite the early(Eardley,1938)recognition of"bioherms,"algal layers,and mats covering hundreds of square km of lake area,these features have not been the  相似文献   

Winter storm structure and melting‐induced circulations     

Ronald E. Stewart  Stephen R. Macpherson 《大气与海洋》2013,51(1):5-23

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The XMM–Newton/2dF survey – V. The radio properties of the X-ray population     

A. Georgakakis  I. Georgantopoulos  I. Leonidaki  A. Akylas  G. C. Stewart  C. Goudis 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,352(3):1005-1014

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A neural network approach to classification of sidescan sonarimagery from a midocean ridge area     

Stewart  W.K. Min Jiang Marra  M. 《Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of》1994,19(2):214-224

A neural-network approach to classification of sidescan-sonar imagery is tested on data from three distinct geoacoustic provinces of a midocean-ridge spreading center: axial valley, ridge flank, and sediment pond. The extraction of representative features from the sidescan imagery is analyzed, and the performance of several commonly used texture measures are compared in terms of classification accuracy using a backpropagation neural network. A suite of experiments compares the effectiveness of different feature vectors, the selection of training patterns, the configuration of the neural network, and two widely used statistical methods: Fisher-pairwise classifier and nearest-mean algorithm with Mahalanobis distance measure. The feature vectors compared here comprise spectral estimates, gray-level run length, spatial gray-level dependence matrix, and gray-level differences. The overall accurate classification rates using the best feature set for the three seafloor types are: sediment ponds, 85.9%; ridge flanks, 91.2%; and valleys, 80.1%. While most current approaches are statistical, the significant finding in this study is that high performance for seafloor classification in terms of accuracy and computation can be achieved using a neural network with the proper combination of texture features. These are preliminary results of our program toward the automated segmentation and classification of undersea terrain  相似文献   

Properties of metre-wavelength solar bursts associated with coronal mass ejections     

R. D. Robinson  R. T. Stewart  N. R. Sheeley Jr.  R. A. Howard  J. Koomen  D. J. Michels 《Solar physics》1986,105(1):149-171

An investigation is made to determine the relationship between a coronal mass ejection (CME) and the characteristics of associated metre-wave activity. It is found that (1) the CME width and leading edge velocity can be highly influential in determining the intensity, spectral complexity and frequency coverage of both type II and continuum bursts; (2) the presence of a CME is possibly a necessary condition for the production of a metric continuum event and (3) metric continuum bursts as well as intense, complex type II events are preferentially associated with strong, long lasting soft X-ray events.  相似文献   

The XMM–Newton/2dF survey – IV. The X-ray spectral properties of the hard sources     

I. Georgantopoulos  A. Georgakakis  A. Akylas  G. C. Stewart  O. Giannakis  T. Shanks  S. Kitsionas 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,352(1):91-100

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Development of the Global Earthquake Model’s neotectonic fault database   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Annemarie Christophersen  Nicola Litchfield  Kelvin Berryman  Richard Thomas  Roberto Basili  Laura Wallace  William Ries  Gavin P. Hayes  Kathleen M. Haller  Toshikazu Yoshioka  Richard D. Koehler  Dan Clark  Monica Wolfson-Schwehr  Margaret S. Boettcher  Pilar Villamor  Nick Horspool  Teraphan Ornthammarath  Ramon Zuñiga  Robert M. Langridge  Mark W. Stirling  Tatiana Goded  Carlos Costa  Robert Yeats 《Natural Hazards》2015,79(1):111-135

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