Mechanistic and Kinetic Study of the Gas-Phase Reaction of Atomic Chlorine with Cyclohexanone using an Absolute and a Relative Technique; Influence of Temperature     

Ernesto Martínez  Alfonso Aranda  Yolanda Díaz-De-Mera  Ana Rodríguez  Diana Rodríguez  Alberto Notario 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》2004,48(3):283-299

The reaction of Cl with cyclohexanone (1) was investigated, for the first time, as a function of temperature (273–333 K) and at a low total pressure (1 Torr) with helium as a carrier gas using a discharge flow-mass spectrometry technique (DF-MS). The resulting Arrhenius expression is proposed, k ₁= (7.7 ± 4.1) × 10^–10 exp[–(540 ± 169)/T]. We also report a mechanistic study with the quantitative determination of the products of the reaction of Cl with cyclohexanone. The absolute rate constant derived from this study at 1 Torr of total pressure and room temperature is (1.3 ± 0.2) × 10^–10 cm³ molecule^–1 s^–1. A yield of 0.94 ± 0.10 was found for the H-abstraction channel giving HCl. In relative studies, using a newly constructed relative rate system, the decay of cyclohexanone was followed by gas chromatography coupled with flame-ionisation detection. These relative measurements were performed at atmospheric pressure with synthetic air and room temperature. Rate constant measured using the relative method for reaction (1) is: (1.7 ± 0.3) × 10^–10 cm³ molecule^–1 s^–1. Finally, results and atmospheric implications are discussed and compared with the reactivity with OH radicals.  相似文献   

A Logistic Regression Model Applied to Evaluate the Influence of Operating Time of AgI Ground Acetonic Generators on the Size and Hardness of Hail     

Balasch  Sebastián  Romero  Rafael  Ferrer  Alberto 《Natural Hazards》2004,32(3):345-355

In this paper we study the effect of operating time of AgI ground acetonic generatorsbefore hailing on the hail characteristics (size and hardness), and hailfall crop damages.The study was carried out in a large area of northern Spain over an area of 12,000 km².Data are available from 1,984 hailstorms that occurred from May to September in theperiod 1982–1987. By using several Stepwise Logistic Regression Models, a statisticalsignificant (p < 0.05) decrease shows up in hailfall crop damage due to hail prevention.This effect is due to the influence of ground seeding on the hardness and mainly on thesize of hailstones.  相似文献   

On the non-uniqueness of main geomagnetic field determined by surface intensity measurements: the Backus problem     

P. Alberto  O. Oliveira  M. A. Pais 《Geophysical Journal International》2004,159(2):548-554

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Morphological and geological aspects related to large slope failures on oceanic islands: The huge La Orotava landslides on Tenerife, Canary Islands     

Marcel Hürlimann  Joan Martí  Alberto Ledesma 《Geomorphology》2004,62(3-4):143-158

Huge volcanic landslides are one of the most hazardous geomorphological processes that can occur during the evolution of volcanic ocean islands. The causes of these phenomena, however, are very complex and combine non-volcanic and volcanic factors. In the Canary Islands, more than 20 events have been detected during the last decades. A detailed analysis was carried out for La Orotava amphitheatre on Tenerife in order to understand the relationship between geomorphological and geological aspects and huge volcanic landslides. The results indicated four major features that play a significant role in such mass movements: deep erosive canyons, high coastal cliffs, widespread residual soils and structural axes. High coastal cliffs and deep erosive canyons locally reduce the stability conditions and control both the seaward and the lateral boundary of the landslide. Weak residual soils formed above phonolitic pyroclastic deposits occur repeatedly in the stratigraphic column of La Orotava and are characterised by their large extent. Thus, one of these soils may have evolved into the slip surface of the failure. Part of the head scarp of the amphitheatre is defined by a volcanic rift zone, as indicated by the measurement of dike orientation and a density map of eruptive vents. The four features are not able to trigger a failure, but to destabilise the volcano flank and determine the boundary of the slide. Therefore, information on depth and orientation of canyons; location and height of coastal cliffs; stratigraphic repetition, extension and thickness of residual soils and orientation and density of dikes and eruptive vents along structural axes should be incorporated into a hazard assessment on large landslides on volcanic islands.  相似文献   

Retrieving geomagnetic secular variations from lava flows: evidence from Mounts Arso, Etna and Vesuvius (southern Italy)     

Alberto Incoronato  Antimo Angelino  Romolo Romano  Agostino Ferrante  Renata Sauna  Gianpio Vanacore  Claudio Vecchione 《Geophysical Journal International》2002,149(3):724-730

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Solving Kepler’s Equation using Bézier curves     

Daniele Mortari  Alberto Clocchiatti 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2007,99(1):45-57

This paper presents a non-iterative approach to solve Kepler’s Equation, M = E − e sin E, based on non-rational cubic and rational quadratic Bézier curves. Optimal control point coordinates are first shown to be linear with respect to orbit eccentricity for any eccentric anomaly range. This property yields the development of a piecewise (e.g., 3, 4) solving technique providing accuracies better than 10⁻¹³ degree for orbit eccentricity e ≤ 0.99. The proposed method does not require large pre-computed discretization data, but instead solves a cubic/quadratic algebraic equation and uses a single final Halley iteration in only a few lines of code. The method still provides accuracies better than 10⁻⁵ degree for the near parabolic worst case (e = 0.9999) with very small mean anomalies (M < 0.0517 deg). The complexity of the proposed algorithm is constant, independent of the parameters e and M. This makes the method suitable for extensive orbit propagations. Presented at the 7th Dynamics and Control of Systems and Structures in Space Conference, July 18–22, 2006, Greenwich, England.  相似文献   

Asteroid 2002NY40 as a source of meteorite-dropping bolides     

Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez  Esko Lyytinen  Daniel C. Jones  José M. Madiedo  Alberto J. Castro-Tirado  Iwan Williams  Jordi Llorca  Stanislav Vítek  Martin Jelínek  Blanca Troughton  Francisco Gálvez 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,382(4):1933-1939

The existence of asteroidal meteoroid streams capable of producing meteorite-dropping bolides has long being invoked, but evidence is scarce. Recent modelling of previously reported associations suggests that the time-scales to keep the orbital coherence of these streams producing meteorites are too short. We present an unequivocal association between near earth object (NEO) 2002NY40 and at least one bright fireball detected over Finland in 2006 August. Another two additional fireballs recorded from Spain and Finland seem to be related, together producing a fireball-producing stream (β Aquarids). On the basis of historical data, the 2006 finding suggests the existence of a meteoroid complex capable of producing meteorites. Taking into account present time-scales for orbital decoherence, if 2002NY40 has large meteoroids associated with it, such behaviour would be the consequence of a relatively recent asteroidal fragmentation. Supporting our claim, the heliocentric orbits of two recently discovered NEOs, 2004NL8 and 2002NY40, were found to exhibit a good similarity to each other and also to the orbits of the three bolides. The fireball spectra of the two Finish bolides showed that the chemical abundances of these objects are consistent with the main elements found in chondrites. This result is consistent with the probable Low iron, Low metal (LL) chondritic mineralogy of asteroid 2002NY40. Consequently, this asteroid may be delivering LL chondrites to the Earth. Additional fireball reports found in the literature suggest that the associated β Aquarid complex may have been delivering meteorites to the Earth during, at least, the last millennium.  相似文献   

Convergence in a thermally softened thick crust: Variscan intracontinental tectonics in Iberian plate rocks     

Sergio Llana‐Fúnez  Alberto Marcos 《地学学报》2007,19(6):393-400

The subduction phase in the development of the Variscan Orogen in SW Europe was followed by an extended period of ‘intracontinental’ tectonics. The progressive temperature rise in the hinterland during plate convergence was accompanied by widespread partial melting in the lower crust and the nucleation of kilometric buckle folds and crustal‐scale shear zones in the stronger upper crust. Thermal mechanical weakening in the core of the orogen was contemporaneous with shortening and thickening in the foreland fold‐and‐thrust belt. We evaluate lithospheric strength profiles in the hinterland and foreland based on the metamorphic and structural record for three tectonic stages. We find that lower crustal strength varied in space as well as in time during orogenesis. Strength contrasts between the foreland and the hot hinterland during convergence may have led to the additional indentation of the foreland into the hinterland of the Ibero‐Armorican Arc.  相似文献   

Negligent killing of scientific concepts: the stationarity case   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Demetris Koutsoyiannis  Alberto Montanari 《水文科学杂志》2015,60(7-8):1174-1183

Abstract

In scientific vocabulary, the term “process” is used to denote change in time. Even a stationary process describes a system changing in time, rather than a static one that keeps a constant state all the time. However, this is often missed, which has led to misuse of the term “nonstationarity” as a synonym of “change”. A simple rule to avoid such misuse is to answer the question: can the change be predicted in deterministic terms? Only if the answer is positive is it legitimate to invoke nonstationarity. In addition, we should have in mind that models are made to simulate the future rather than to describe the past; the past is characterized by observations (data). Usually future changes are not deterministically predictable and thus the models should, on the one hand, be stationary and, on the other hand, describe in stochastic terms the full variability, originating from all agents of change. Even if the past evolution of the process of interest contains changes explainable in deterministic terms (e.g. urbanization), it is better to describe the future conditions in stationary terms, after “stationarizing” the past observations, i.e. adapting them to represent the future conditions.  相似文献   

Seismic performance assessment of masonry structures with a modified “concrete” model     

Alberto Maria Avossa  Pasquale Malangone 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2015,13(9):2693-2718

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