On the breakdown of zircon upon “dry” thermal annealing     

Tamás Váczi  Lutz Nasdala  Richard Wirth  Mathias Mehofer  Eugen Libowitzky  Tobias Häger 《Mineralogy and Petrology》2009,97(1-2):129-138

Zircon samples without and with secondary chemical alteration from diverse sources were subjected to heat treatment at 1400 °C for 96 h. Resulting new phases and textures suggest that decomposition of zircon into component oxides occurred in all experiments to various degrees. The crucible material was found to have a strong influence on the extent of breakdown, especially in the case of altered starting materials. In this study the progressive stages of the breakdown of zircon grains are described. The factors that may govern the decomposition are discussed, including radiation damage, secondary alteration and external reaction conditions (sample container, atmosphere). Alumina crucibles should generally be avoided in dry annealing of zircon, to minimise uncontrolled breakdown into oxides.  相似文献   

The Wave-Front Correction System for the Sunrise Balloon-Borne Solar Observatory     

T. Berkefeld  W. Schmidt  D. Soltau  A. Bell  H. P. Doerr  B. Feger  R. Friedlein  K. Gerber  F. Heidecke  T. Kentischer  O. v.?d. L??he  M. Sigwarth  E. W?lde  P. Barthol  W. Deutsch  A. Gandorfer  D. Germerott  B. Grauf  R. Meller  A. ??lvarez-Herrero  M. Kn?lker  V. Mart??nez Pillet  S. K. Solanki  A. M. Title 《Solar physics》2011,268(1):103-123

This paper describes the wave-front correction system developed for the Sunrise balloon telescope, and it provides information about its in-flight performance. For the correction of low-order aberrations, a Correlating Wave-Front Sensor (CWS) was used. It consisted of a six-element Shack??C?Hartmann wave-front sensor (WFS), a fast tip-tilt mirror for the compensation of image motion, and an active telescope secondary mirror for focus correction. The CWS delivered a stabilized image with a precision of 0.04?arcsec (rms), whenever the coarse pointing was better than ???45?arcsec peak-to-peak. The automatic focus adjustment maintained a focus stability of 0.01?waves in the focal plane of the CWS. During the 5.5?day flight, good image quality and stability were achieved during 33?hours, containing 45?sequences, which lasted between 10 and 45?min.  相似文献   

Redox gradients at the low oxygen boundary of lakes   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Mathias K. Kirf  Hans Røy  Moritz Holtappels  Jan P. Fischer  Carsten J. Schubert  Bernhard Wehrli 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》2015,77(1):81-93

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Modeling of magnitude distributions by the generalized truncated exponential distribution   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Mathias Raschke 《Journal of Seismology》2015,19(1):265-271

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Transient Divergent Flow and Transport in an Infinite Anisotropic Porous Formation     

Simon A. Mathias 《Ground water》2010,48(3):438-441

When seeking to predict plume geometry resulting from fluid injection through partially penetrating wells, it is common to assume a steady-state spherically diverging flow field. In reality, the flow field is transient. The steady-flow assumption is likely to cause overestimation of injection plume radius since the accommodation of fluid by increases in porosity and fluid density is ignored. In this paper, a transient solution is developed, resulting in a nonlinear ordinary differential equation expressing plume radius as a function of time. It is shown that the problem can be fully described by one type curve. A critical time, t_c, is identified at which the percentage error of the steady-state flow solution compared to the fully dynamic problem is less than 1%. Only for large injection rates and low permeabilities, does t_c become greater than 1 h. Nevertheless, an improved approximate solution is obtained by a simple linearization procedure. The critical time, t_c for the new approximate solution is 0.3% of that required for the steady-state flow solution.  相似文献   

Multiple Point Metrics to Assess Categorical Variable Models     

Jeff B. Boisvert  Michael J. Pyrcz  Clayton V. Deutsch 《Natural Resources Research》2010,19(3):165-175

Geostatistical models should be checked to ensure consistency with conditioning data and statistical inputs. These are minimum acceptance criteria. Often the first and second-order statistics such as the histogram and variogram of simulated geological realizations are compared to the input parameters to check the reasonableness of the simulation implementation. Assessing the reproduction of statistics beyond second-order is often not considered because the “correct” higher order statistics are rarely known. With multiple point simulation (MPS) geostatistical methods, practitioners are now explicitly modeling higher-order statistics taken from a training image (TI). This article explores methods for extending minimum acceptance criteria to multiple point statistical comparisons between geostatistical realizations made with MPS algorithms and the associated TI. The intent is to assess how well the geostatistical models have reproduced the input statistics of the TI; akin to assessing the histogram and variogram reproduction in traditional semivariogram-based geostatistics. A number of metrics are presented to compare the input multiple point statistics of the TI with the statistics of the geostatistical realizations. These metrics are (1) first and second-order statistics, (2) trends, (3) the multiscale histogram, (4) the multiple point density function, and (5) the missing bins in the multiple point density function. A case study using MPS realizations is presented to demonstrate the proposed metrics; however, the metrics are not limited to specific MPS realizations. Comparisons could be made between any reference numerical analogue model and any simulated categorical variable model.  相似文献   

Probabilistic data integration for characterization of spatial distribution of residual LNAPL     

Amir H. Hosseini  Clayton V. Deutsch  Kevin W. Biggar  Carl A. Mendoza 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》2010,24(5):735-749

The spatial distribution of residual light non-aqueous phase liquid (LNAPL) is an important factor in reactive solute transport modeling studies. There is great uncertainty associated with both the areal limits of LNAPL source zones and smaller scale variability within the areal limits. A statistical approach is proposed to construct a probabilistic model for the spatial distribution of residual NAPL and it is applied to a site characterized by ultra-violet-induced-cone-penetration testing (CPT–UVIF). The uncertainty in areal limits is explicitly addressed by a novel distance function (DF) approach. In modeling the small-scale variability within the areal limits, the CPT–UVIF data are used as primary source of information, while soil texture and distance to water table are treated as secondary data. Two widely used geostatistical techniques are applied for the data integration, namely sequential indicator simulation with locally varying means (SIS–LVM) and Bayesian updating (BU). A close match between the calibrated uncertainty band (UB) and the target probabilities shows the performance of the proposed DF technique in characterization of uncertainty in the areal limits. A cross-validation study also shows that the integration of the secondary data sources substantially improves the prediction of contaminated and uncontaminated locations and that the SIS–LVM algorithm gives a more accurate prediction of residual NAPL contamination. The proposed DF approach is useful in modeling the areal limits of the non-stationary continuous or categorical random variables, and in providing a prior probability map for source zone sizes to be used in Monte Carlo simulations of contaminant transport or Monte Carlo type inverse modeling studies.  相似文献   

Monitoring the regional and temporal variability of winter snowfall in the arid Andes using digital NOAA/AVHRR data     

Mathias Vuille  Michael F. Baumgartner 《国际地球制图》2013,28(1):59-67

Abstract

This paper deals with the spatial distribution and the temporal variability of snowfall in the most arid part of the Andes (18°‐ 28°S) during southern hemisphere winter (May‐September). As the official precipitation data is of poor quality, analyses were carried out by means of digital image processing techniques, using NOAA/AVHRR satellite‐data. Through analysis of 24 different snowfall events from six winters, a previously unknown spatial and temporal precipitation pattern in this remote and unexplored area was revealed. Snowfall is most abundant in the southernmost part of the research area and on the western side of the Andes, indicating the Pacific origin of the snowfall.

Nevertheless, the typical snowfall pattern is modified during different periods of the winter. Three typical time periods could be defined and distinguished from one another. Each of these three periods is characterized by typical weather conditions (cold fronts and “cut‐offs “) leading to a distinct snowfall pattern.

As this study is part of a broader paleoclimatic project, the results will serve as a basis for paleoclimatic reconstruction of past climate. Only by knowing the modern circulation and precipitation patterns is it possible to interpret paleoclimatic signals and archives found in the study area (e.g. paleosol, moraines) correctly.  相似文献   

Implementation aspects of sequential Gaussian simulation on irregular points   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

John G. Manchuk  Clayton V. Deutsch 《Computational Geosciences》2012,16(3):625-637

The increasing use of unstructured grids for reservoir modeling motivates the development of geostatistical techniques to populate them with properties such as facies proportions, porosity and permeability. Unstructured grids are often populated by upscaling high-resolution regular grid models, but the size of the regular grid becomes unreasonably large to ensure that there is sufficient resolution for small unstructured grid elements. The properties could be modeled directly on the unstructured grid, which leads to an irregular configuration of points in the three-dimensional reservoir volume. Current implementations of Gaussian simulation for geostatistics are for regular grids. This paper addresses important implementation details involved in adapting sequential Gaussian simulation to populate irregular point configurations including general storage and computation issues, generating random paths for improved long range variogram reproduction, and search strategies including the superblock search and the k-dimensional tree. An efficient algorithm for computing the variogram of very large irregular point sets is developed for model checking.  相似文献   

Laudation for Olena Babak,Vistelius Award 2011     

Clayton V. Deutsch 《Mathematical Geosciences》2012,44(5):649-650

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