Comparison of numerical hindcasted severe waves with Doppler radar measurements in the North Sea   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Sonia Ponce de León  João H. Bettencourt  Frederic Dias 《Ocean Dynamics》2017,67(1):103-115

Severe sea states in the North Sea present a challenge to wave forecasting systems and a threat to offshore installations such as oil and gas platforms and offshore wind farms. Here, we study the ability of a third-generation spectral wave model to reproduce winter sea states in the North Sea. Measured and modeled time series of integral wave parameters and directional wave spectra are compared for a 12-day period in the winter of 2013–2014 when successive severe storms moved across the North Atlantic and the North Sea. Records were obtained from a Doppler radar and wave buoys. The hindcast was performed with the WAVEWATCH III model (Tolman 2014) with high spectral resolution both in frequency and direction. A good general agreement was obtained for integrated parameters, but discrepancies were found to occur in spectral shapes.  相似文献   

Identification of a meteoritic component using chromium isotopic composition of impact rocks from the Lonar impact structure,India     

Berengere Mougel  Frederic Moynier  Christian Koeberl  Daniel Wielandt  Martin Bizzarro 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2019,54(10):2592-2599

The existence of mass‐independent chromium isotope variability of nucleosynthetic origin in meteorites and their components provides a means to investigate potential genetic relationship between meteorites and planetary bodies. Moreover, chromium abundances are depleted in most surficial terrestrial rocks relative to chondrites such that Cr isotopes are a powerful tool to detect the contribution of various types of extra‐terrestrial material in terrestrial impactites. This approach can thus be used to constrain the nature of the bolide resulting in breccia and melt rocks in terrestrial impact structures. Here, we report the Cr isotope composition of impact rocks from the ~0.57 Ma Lonar crater (India), which is the best‐preserved impact structure excavated in basaltic target rocks. Results confirm the presence of a chondritic component in several bulk rock samples of up to 3%. The impactor that created the Lonar crater had a composition that was most likely similar to that of carbonaceous chondrites, possibly a CM‐type chondrite.  相似文献   

Lateral terminations of salt walls and megaflaps: An example from Gypsum Valley Diapir,Paradox Basin,Colorado, USA     

Frederic O. Escosa  Mark G. Rowan  Katherine A. Giles  Kyle T. Deatrick  Allison M. Mast  Richard P. Langford  Thomas E. Hearon  Eduard Roca 《Basin Research》2019,31(1):191-212

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Long-term influence of maritime access works on the distribution of cohesive sediments: analysis of historical and recent data from the Belgian nearshore area (southern North Sea)     

Michael Fettweis  Jean-Sébastien Houziaux  Isabelle Du Four  Vera Van Lancker  Cecile Baeteman  Mieke Mathys  Dries Van den Eynde  Frederic Francken  Stanislas Wartel 《Geo-Marine Letters》2009,29(5):321-330

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Effects of Spectral Nudging on Oceanic States in a Coarse-Resolution Model     

Zeliang Wang  Guoqi Han  Frederic Dupont 《大气与海洋》2015,53(3):351-362

A 1-degree global model is used to investigate the skill of spectral nudging at coarse resolution by performing two numerical experiments, one with spectral nudging and the other without. In the spectral nudging experiment, the model temperature and salinity are nudged to an observed climatological monthly-mean field. The study compares the model mean state, as well as the interannual and decadal variability of oceanic quantities with observations, (e.g., sea surface height (SSH) and sea surface temperature (SST)). Spectral nudging is found to be effective in constraining model drift from the observed mean state of temperature and salinity in the global ocean, which has been reported in previous studies. The present study further shows that spectral nudging significantly improves the model skill of topostrophy (a measure of currents flowing along the topography) in water depth below 2000?m with no clear improvement elsewhere. Despite its known ability to damp oceanic variability at various time scales, spectral nudging can still represent the interannual and decadal variability of SSH and SST well, to a degree comparable to the other experiment.  相似文献   

The patchy accretion disc in HT Cassiopeiae     

Sonja Vrielmann  Frederic V. Hessman  Keith Horne 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,332(1):176-192

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Runaway collisions in young star clusters – II. Numerical results     

Marc Freitag †  M. Atakan Gürkan  Frederic A. Rasio 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,368(1):141-161

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Eccentricities of Planets in Binary Systems     

Genya Takeda  Frederic A. Rasio 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2006,304(1-4):239-242

The most puzzling property of the extrasolar planets discovered by recent radial velocity surveys is their high orbital eccentricities, which are very difficult to explain within our current theoretical paradigm for planet formation. Current data reveal that at least 25% of these planets, including some with particularly high eccentricities, are orbiting a component of a binary star system. The presence of a distant companion can cause significant secular perturbations in the orbit of a planet. At high relative inclinations, large-amplitude, periodic eccentricity perturbations can occur. These are known as “Kozai cycles” and their amplitude is purely dependent on the relative orbital inclination. Assuming that every planet host star also has a (possibly unseen, e.g., substellar) distant companion, with reasonable distributions of orbital parameters and masses, we determine the resulting eccentricity distribution of planets and compare it to observations? We find that perturbations from a binary companion always appear to produce an excess of planets with both very high (?0.6) and very low (e ? 0.1) eccentricities. The paucity of near-circular orbits in the observed sample implies that at least one additional mechanism must be increasing eccentricities. On the other hand, the overproduction of very high eccentricities observed in our models could be combined with plausible circularization mechanisms (e.g., friction from residual gas) to create more planets with intermediate eccentricities (e? 0.1–0.6).  相似文献   

The Cu isotopic composition of iron meteorites     

Matthew Cole BISHOP  Frederic MOYNIER  Charlotte WEINSTEIN  Jean‐Gabriel FRABOULET  Kun WANG  Julien FORIEL 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2012,47(2):268-276

Abstract– High‐precision Cu isotopic compositions have been measured for the metal phase of 29 iron meteorites from various groups and for four terrestrial standards. The data are reported as the δ⁶⁵Cu permil deviation of the ⁶⁵Cu/⁶³Cu ratio relative to the NIST SRM 976 standard. Terrestrial mantle rocks have a very narrow range of variations and scatter around zero. In contrast, iron meteorites show δ⁶⁵Cu approximately 2.3‰ variations. Different groups of iron meteorites have distinct δ⁶⁵Cu values. Nonmagmatic IAB‐IIICD iron meteorites have similar δ⁶⁵Cu (0.03 ± 0.08 and 0.12 ± 0.10, respectively), close to terrestrial values (approximately 0). The other group of nonmagmatic irons, IIE, is isotopically distinct (?0.69 ± 0.15). IVB is the iron meteorite group with the strongest elemental depletion in Cu and samples in this group are enriched in the lighter isotope (δ⁶⁵Cu down to ?2.26‰). Evaporation should have produced an enrichment in ⁶⁵Cu over ⁶³Cu (δ⁶⁵Cu >0) and can therefore be ruled out as a mechanism for volatile loss in IVB meteorites. In silicate‐bearing iron meteorites, Δ¹⁷O correlates with δ⁶⁵Cu. This correlation between nonmass‐dependent and mass‐dependent parameters suggests that the Cu isotopic composition of iron meteorites has not been modified by planetary differentiation to a large extent. Therefore, Cu isotopic ratios can be used to confirm genetic links. Cu isotopes thus confirm genetic relationships between groups of iron meteorites (e.g., IAB and IIICD; IIIE and IIIAB); and between iron meteorites and chondrites (e.g., IIE and H chondrites). Several genetic connections between iron meteorites groups are confirmed by Cu isotopes, (e.g., IAB and IIICD; IIIE and IIIAB); and between iron meteorites and chondrites (e.g., IIE and H chondrites).  相似文献   

Fundamental changes in the activity of the natrocarbonatite volcano Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania     

Matthieu Kervyn  Gerald G. J. Ernst  Jörg Keller  R. Greg Vaughan  Jurgis Klaudius  Evelyne Pradal  Frederic Belton  Hannes B. Mattsson  Evelyne Mbede  Patric Jacobs 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2010,72(8):913-931

On September 4, 2007, after 25 years of effusive natrocarbonatite eruptions, the eruptive activity of Oldoinyo Lengai (OL), N Tanzania, changed abruptly to episodic explosive eruptions. This transition was preceded by a voluminous lava eruption in March 2006, a year of quiescence, resumption of natrocarbonatite eruptions in June 2007, and a volcano-tectonic earthquake swarm in July 2007. Despite the lack of ground-based monitoring, the evolution in OL eruption dynamics is documented based on the available field observations, ASTER and MODIS satellite images, and almost-daily photos provided by local pilots. Satellite data enabled identification of a phase of voluminous lava effusion in the 2 weeks prior to the onset of explosive eruptions. After the onset, the activity varied from 100 m high ash jets to 2–15 km high violent, steady or unsteady, eruption columns dispersing ash to 100 km distance. The explosive eruptions built up a ∼400 m wide, ∼75 m high intra-crater pyroclastic cone. Time series data for eruption column height show distinct peaks at the end of September 2007 and February 2008, the latter being associated with the first pyroclastic flows to be documented at OL. Chemical analyses of the erupted products, presented in a companion paper (Keller et al. 2010), show that the 2007–2008 explosive eruptions are associated with an undersaturated carbonated silicate melt. This new phase of explosive eruptions provides constraints on the factors causing the transition from natrocarbonatite effusive eruptions to explosive eruptions of carbonated nephelinite magma, observed repetitively in the last 100 years at OL.  相似文献