Characteristics of ambient ammonia over Delhi,India     

S. K. Sharma  Manish Kumar  Rohtash  N. C. Gupta  Saraswati  Mohit Saxena  T. K. Mandal 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》2014,124(1-2):67-82

In the present paper, we have characterized the ambient ammonia over Delhi along with other trace gases (NH₃, NO, NO₂, SO₂ and CO) and particulates (PM_2.5 and PM₁₀) measured during December 2011 to June 2012. The average mixing ratios of ambient NH₃, NO, NO₂, SO₂ and CO were recorded as 21.2 ± 5.4, 19.5 ± 4.9, 17.4 ± 1.4, 1.7 ± 0.5 ppb and 1.6 ± 0.7 ppm, respectively, during winter, whereas the average mixing ratios of ambient NH₃, NO, NO₂, SO₂ and CO were recorded as 20.8 ± 4.7, 21.7 ± 6.3, 16.8 ± 3.1, 2.2 ± 0.8 ppb and 1.8 ± 0.9 ppm, respectively, during summer. In the present case, non-significant seasonal and diurnal variations of NH₃, NO, NO₂, SO₂ and CO were observed during both the seasons. The average monthly NH₃/NH₄ ⁺ ratios varied from 0.28 to 2.56 with an average value of 1.46 in winter. The higher NH₃/NH₄ ⁺ ratio (3.5) observed in summer indicates the abundance of NH₃ in the atmosphere during summer. The higher fraction of particulate NH₄ ⁺ observed in winter than summer attributes to the conversion of gaseous NH₃ into NH₄ ⁺. The results emphasized that the traffic could be one of the significant sources of ambient NH₃ at the urban site of Delhi as illustrated by positive correlations of NH₃ with traffic-related pollutants (NO, NO₂ and CO). Surface wind analysis and wind directions also support the roadside traffic and agricultural activities at the nearby area indicating possible major sources of ambient NH₃ at the study site.  相似文献   

Improving Ocean State by Assimilating SARAL/AltiKa Derived Sea Level and Other Satellite-Derived Data in MITGCM     

Abhisek Chakraborty  Raj Kumar  Sujit Basu  Rashmi Sharma 《Marine Geodesy》2015,38(3):328-338

Assimilation of satellite-derived surface datasets has been explored in the study. Three types of surface data, namely sea level anomaly, sea surface temperature and sea surface salinity, have been used in various data assimilation experiments. The emphasis has been on the extra benefit arising out of the additional sea level assimilation and hence there are two parallel runs, in one of which sea level assimilation has been withheld. The model used is a state-of-the art ocean general circulation model (OGCM) and the assimilation method is the widely used singular evolutive extended Kalman filter (SEEK). Evaluation of the assimilation skill has been carried out by comparing the simulated depth of the 20°C isotherm with the same quantity measured by buoys and Argo floats. Simulated subsurface temperature and salinity profiles have also been compared with the same profiles measured by Argo floats. Finally, surface currents in the assimilation runs have been compared with currents measured by several off-equatorial buoys. Addition of sea level has been found to substantially improve the quality of simulation. An important feature that has been effectively simulated by the addition of sea level in the assimilation scheme is the near-surface temperature inversion (2-3°C) in the northern Bay of Bengal.  相似文献   

Projected climate change impacts on vegetation distribution over Kashmir Himalayas   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Irfan Rashid  Shakil Ahmad Romshoo  Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi  N. H. Ravindranath  Raman Sukumar  Mathangi Jayaraman  Thatiparthi Vijaya Lakshmi  Jagmohan Sharma 《Climatic change》2015,132(4):601-613

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Role of 3d-dispersive Alfven waves in coronal heating     

R. P. Sharma  N. Yadav  N. Pathak 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2014,351(1):75-80

Coronal heating is one of the unresolved puzzles in solar physics from decades. In the present paper we have investigated the dynamics of vortices to apprehend coronal heating problem. A three dimensional (3d) model has been developed to study propagation of dispersive Alfvén waves (DAWs) in presence of ion acoustic waves which results in excitation of DAW and evolution of vortices. Taking ponderomotive nonlinearity into account, development of these vortices has been studied. There are observations of such vortices in the chromosphere, transition region and also in the lower solar corona. These structures may play an important role in transferring energy from lower solar atmosphere to corona and result in coronal heating. Nonlinear interaction of these waves is studied in view of recent simulation work and observations of giant magnetic tornadoes in solar corona and lower atmosphere of sun by solar dynamical observatory (SDO).  相似文献   

Radio-continuum study of the nearby sculptor group galaxies. Part 3: NGC 7793 at λ=12.2, 6 and 3 cm     

Timothy J. Galvin  Miroslav D. Filipović  Nicholas F. H. Tothill  Evan J. Crawford  Andrew N. O’Brien  Nicholas Seymour  Thomas G. Pannuti  Alekzander R. Kosakowski  Biswas Sharma 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2014,353(2):603-611

We re-examine a series of archived centimetre radio-continuum observations (λ=16, 6 and 3 cm) focusing on NGC?7793 using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. These new images are both very sensitive (σ=0.011 mJy/beam) and feature reasonably high angular resolution (down to <3″). Using these images, a total of 76 discrete radio sources are identified, of which 57 have been classified. We also studied the radio component of the micro-quasar NGC7793-S26 which shows two distinct regions of somewhat steep spectral index (α) between ?0.3 and ?0.7.  相似文献   

Prospect for UV observations from the Moon     

Margarita Safonova  Joice Mathew  Rekhesh Mohan  A. G. Sreejith  Jayant Murthy  Noah Brosch  Norbert Kappelmann  Arpit Sharma  Rahul Narayan 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2014,353(2):329-346

Space astronomy in the last 40 years has largely been done from spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) for which the technology is proven and delivery mechanisms are readily available. However, new opportunities are arising with the surge in commercial aerospace missions. We describe here one such possibility: deploying a small instrument on the Moon. This can be accomplished by flying onboard the Indian entry to the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition, Team Indus mission, which is expected to deliver a nearly 30 kgs of payloads to the Moon, with a rover as its primary payload. We propose to mount a wide-field far-UV (130–180 nm) imaging telescope as a payload on the Team Indus lander. Our baseline operation is a fixed zenith pointing but with the option of a mechanism to allow observations of different attitudes. Pointing towards intermediate ecliptic latitude (50^° or above) ensures that the Sun is at least 40^° off the line of sight at all times. In this position, the telescope can cover higher galactic latitudes as well as parts of Galactic plane. The scientific objectives of such a prospective are delineated and discussed.  相似文献   

A study of halo orbits at the Sun–Mars L1 Lagrangian point in the photogravitational restricted three-body problem     

Roshan Thomas Eapen  Ram Krishan Sharma 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2014,352(2):437-441

Photogravitational Restricted Three-Body Problem (PGRTBP) is considered and halo orbits are generated in the vicinity of the Sun–Mars L₁ Lagrangian point. Deviation of properties such as time period, size and velocity variation in the halo orbits with Sun as a source of radiation are discussed. With increase in solar radiation pressure, the halo orbits are found to elongate and move towards the Sun and the time period of the halo orbits is found to increase. The variation in the behaviour of invariant manifolds with change in radiation pressure is also computed and it is found that as the radiation pressure increases, the transition from Mars-centric path to heliocentric path is delayed. Certain implications of the velocity profile of the invariant manifolds are also discussed.  相似文献   

Nonlinear effects associated with the finite frequency pump kinetic Alfvén wave and turbulent spectrum in solar wind     

R. P. Sharma  K. V. Modi 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2014,352(1):17-22

The paper contains a numerical simulation of the nonlinear coupling between the kinetic Alfvén wave and the ion acoustic wave for an intermediate β-plasma (m _e/m _i?β?1). For this study, we have introduced the nonlinear ponderomotive force (due to the finite frequency (ω ₀<ω _ci) kinetic Alfvén wave) in the derivation of the ion acoustic wave. The main aim of the present paper is to study the nonlinear effects associated with the different driving finite frequencies (ω ₀<ω _ci) of the pump kinetic Alfvén wave on the formation of localized structures and a turbulent spectrum applicable to the solar wind around 1 AU. As a result, we found that the different driving frequencies of the pump kinetic Alfvén wave affect the formation of the localized structures. We have also studied the turbulent scaling which follows (～k ^?3.6) for ω ₀/ω _ci≈0.2, (～k ^?3.4) for ω ₀/ω _ci≈0.3 and (～k ^?3.2) for ω ₀/ω _ci≈0.4, at small scales. Further, we have also found that different finite driving frequencies of the pump kinetic Alfvén wave affect the turbulence scaling at small scales, which may affect the heating of the plasma particles in solar wind. The present study is correlated with the observation made by the Cluster spacecraft for the solar wind around 1 AU.  相似文献   

Modified Jeans instability of magnetized viscous spin 1/2 quantum plasma with resistive effects and Hall current     

Prerana Sharma  R. K. Chhajlani 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2014,350(1):175-184

Properties of ion acoustic solitons head-on collision in an ultracold neutral plasma composed of ion fluid and non-Maxwellian electron distributions are investigated. For this purpose, the extended Poincare-Lighthill-Kuo (PLK) method is employed to derive coupled Kortweg-de Vries (KdV) equations describing the system. The nonlinear evolution equations for the colliding solitons and corresponding phase shifts are investigated both analytically and numerically. It is found that the polarity of the colliding solitons strongly depends on the type of the non-Maxwellian distribution (via nonthermal or superthermal electron distributions). Especially the phase shift due to solitons collision is strongly influenced by the non-Maxwellian distribution. A new critical nonthermal parameter β _c , characterizing the nonthermal electron distribution, and which is not present for superthermal particle distributions, allows the existence of double polarity of the solitons. The phase shift increases below β _c for compressive solitons, but it decreases above β _c for rarefactive soliton. For superthermal distribution the phase shift increases rapidly for low spectral index κ, whereas for higher values of κ, the phase shift decreases smoothly and becomes nearly stable for κ>10. Around β _c and small values of κ, the deviation from the Maxwellian state is strongest, and therefore the phase shift has unexpected behavior due to the presence of more energetic electrons that are represented by the non-Maxwellian distributions. The nonlinear structure, as reported here, could be useful for controlling the solitons that may be created in future ultracold neutral plasma experiments.  相似文献   

Nonlinear evolution of kinetic Alfvén wave and turbulent spectra: effect of initial conditions     

Nidhi Gaur  R. P. Sharma 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2014,350(2):573-578

Using the 2D numerical simulation we have studied the nonlinear evolution of kinetic Alfvén wave (KAW) in intermediate β plasmas (β?m _e /m _i ?1). The coupled equations of kinetic Alfvén wave (KAW) and ion acoustic wave (IAW) have been studied with different initial conditions using (1) periodic perturbation, (2) Gaussian perturbation and (3) random perturbation. We have studied the effect of initial conditions on the filament formation and on the turbulent scaling laws. The scale size of the localized structures is also obtained under different conditions.  相似文献