Fog Prediction for Road Traffic Safety in a Coastal Desert Region: Improvement of Nowcasting Skills by the Machine-Learning Approach     

Ivana Bartoková  Andreas Bott  Juraj Bartok  Martin Gera 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2015,157(3):501-516

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SPIRE point source photometry: within the Herschel interactive processing environment (HIPE)     

Chris Pearson  Tanya Lim  Chris North  George Bendo  Luca Conversi  Darren Dowell  Matt Griffin  Terry Jin  Nicolas Laporte  Andreas Papageorgiou  Bernhard Schulz  Dave Shupe  Anthony J. Smith  Kevin Xu 《Experimental Astronomy》2014,37(2):175-194

The different algorithms appropriate for point source photometry on data from the SPIRE instrument on-board the Herschel Space Observatory, within the Herschel Interactive Processing Environment (HIPE) are compared. Point source photometry of a large ensemble of standard calibration stars and dark sky observations is carried out using the 4 major methods within HIPE: SUSSEXtractor, DAOphot, the SPIRE Timeline Fitter and simple Aperture Photometry. Colour corrections and effective beam areas as a function of the assumed source spectral index are also included to produce a large number of photometric measurements per individual target, in each of the 3 SPIRE bands (250, 350, 500μm), to examine both the accuracy and repeatability of each of the 4 algorithms. It is concluded that for flux densities down to the level of 30mJy that the SPIRE Timeline Fitter is the method of choice. However, at least in the 250 and 350μm bands, all 4 methods provide photometric repeatability better than a few percent down to at approximately 100mJy. The DAOphot method appears in many cases to have a systematic offset of ～8 % in all SPIRE bands which may be indicative of a sub-optimal aperture correction. In general, aperture photometry is the least reliable method, i.e. largest scatter between observations, especially in the longest wavelength band. At the faintest fluxes, <30mJy, SUSSEXtractor or DAOphot provide a better alternative to the Timeline Fitter.  相似文献   

Using selected pharmaceutical compounds as indicators for surface water and groundwater interaction in the hyporheic zone of a low permeability riverbank     

Stefan Banzhaf  Andreas Krein  Traugott Scheytt 《水文研究》2013,27(20):2892-2902

This study investigates the applicability of selected pharmaceutical compounds (e.g. sulfamethoxazole, carbamazepine, ibuprofen) as anthropogenic indicators for the interaction of surface water and groundwater in the hyporheic zone of an alluvial stream. Differences in transport behaviour and the resulting distribution of the pharmaceuticals in the riverine groundwater were evaluated. The investigated field site in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Europe is represented by low permeable sediments and confined aquifer conditions. Water samples from single‐screen and multilevel observation wells installed in the riverbank at the field site were taken and analysed for selected pharmaceuticals and major ions for a period of 6 months. Surface water and groundwater levels were recorded to detect effluent and influent aquifer conditions. Nearly all pharmaceuticals that were detected in the stream were also found in the riverine groundwater. However, concentrations were significantly lower in groundwater than in surface water. A classification into mobile and sorbing/degradable pharmaceuticals based on their transport relevant properties was made and verified by the field data. Gradients with depth for some of these pharmaceuticals were documented and a more detailed understanding of the system stream/riverbank was obtained. It was demonstrated that the selected pharmaceutical compounds can be used as anthropogenic indicators at the investigated field site. However, not all compounds seem to be suitable indicators as their transport behaviour is not fully understood. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Helicopter-borne measurements of sea ice thickness,using a small and lightweight,digital EM system     

Christian Haas  John Lobach  Stefan Hendricks  Lasse Rabenstein  Andreas Pfaffling 《Journal of Applied Geophysics》2009,67(3):234-241

Sea ice is an important climate variable and is also an obstacle for marine operations in polar regions. We have developed a small and lightweight, digitally operated frequency-domain electromagnetic-induction (EM) system, a so-called EM bird, dedicated for measurements of sea ice thickness. It is 3.5 m long and weighs only 105 kg, and can therefore easily be shipped to remote places and operated from icebreakers and small helicopters. Here, we describe the technical design of the bird operating at two frequencies of f1 = 3.68 kHz and f2 = 112 kHz, and study its technical performance. On average, noise amounts to ± 8.5 ppm and ± 17.5 ppm for f1 and f2, respectively. Electrical drift amounts to 200 ppm/h and 2000 ppm/h for f1 and f2, during the first 0.5 h of operation. It is reduced by 75% after 2 h. Calibration of the Inphase and Quadrature ppm signals varies by 2 to 3%. A sensitivity study shows that all these signal variations do affect the accuracy of the ice thickness retrieval, but that it remains better than ± 0.1 m over level ice in most cases. This accuracy is also confirmed by means of comparisons of the helicopter EM data with other thickness measurements. The paper also presents the ice thickness retrieval from single-component Inphase data of f1.  相似文献   

Sea ice as an evaluation target for HEM modelling and inversion     

Andreas Pfaffling  James E. Reid 《Journal of Applied Geophysics》2009,67(3):242-249

We investigate helicopter electromagnetic (HEM) inversion schemes applied to synthetic and measured HEM sea ice profiling data. Direct HEM data-to-ice-thickness inversion is compared to three different formal, least squares layered earth inversion algorithms.By making several approximations, it is possible to directly invert a single channel measurement (i.e., the in-phase or quadrature component of a single frequency measurement) to obtain an estimate of sea ice thickness. Measurements from multiple input channels, however, can be used in a layered earth inversion to simultaneously recover several model parameters such as sea ice thickness, sea ice conductivity and sub-ice bathymetry. Synthetic data sets for a particular two-frequency HEM system showed that simple least squares inversion algorithms produce reliable estimates of sea ice thickness in cases where the ice is thicker than 3 m. These methods could also recover acceptable estimates of sea ice thickness when a thin, conductive, partially melted sea ice layer was present, and could determine shallow, sub-ice bathymetry in brackish water. As expected, 1D transformations and inversions of synthetic data for a three-dimensional pressure ridge keel structure contained artifacts, notably broadening of the apparent width of the keel.Prior to inverting a field data set acquired over rather thin (~ 0.5 m) Antarctic sea ice, we found it necessary to recalibrate the phase angle of the measurements using a phasor diagram-based method. Direct transformation of a single channel from the recalibrated data set produced more accurate estimates of sea-ice thickness than formal inversion of multi-channel data. We suggest that the least squares inversion methods are inferior in this situation because of the particular characteristics of the two-frequency HEM system used in this evaluation; the extreme differences in sensitivity of high and low frequency data components, the overall low sensitivity to sea ice conductivity (especially for thin ice), and the partially low signal-to noise ratios of the measurements. The data sets used in this study will be made available to the public to allow alternate inversion approaches to be applied and evaluated. It is suggested that inclusion of parameter bounds and other forms of regularization could help to improve the inversion results.  相似文献   

Relative sea level changes during the Holocene in the Sisimiut area,south‐western Greenland     

Ole Bennike  Bernd Wagner  Andreas Richter 《第四纪科学杂志》2011,26(4):353-361

Holocene relative sea level (RSL) changes have been investigated by analysing and dating isolation sequences from five lakes near Sisimiut in south‐western Greenland. The transitions between marine and lacustrine sediments were determined from elemental analyses and analyses of macroscopic plant and animal remains. Radiocarbon dating was used to provide minimum ages for the transitions and to construct a RSL curve. Dating of a shell of the marine bivalve Macoma balthica indicates that deglaciation of the lowlands occurred in the early Holocene, at around 10 900 cal a BP. The RSL curve shows initial rapid regression from the marine limit at around 140 m, implying strong glacio‐isostatic rebound. We suggest that the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet was located at the shelf break during the Last Glacial Maximum. Frequent remains of the ostracode Sarcypridopsis aculeata, which is a thermophilous brackish water species that is unknown from the extant fauna of Greenland, in one of the basins around 8500 cal a BP may mark the beginning of the Holocene thermal maximum in the region. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Carbon and oxygen diffusion in calcite: Effects of Mn content and P H2O     

Andreas K. Kronenberg  Richard A. Yund  Bruno J. Giletti 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1984,11(3):101-112

The diffusion rates of carbon and oxygen in two calcite crystals of different Mn contents have been studied between 500° and 800° C in a CO₂-H₂O atmosphere (P _{CO 2}=1?5 bars, P _H2_O=0.02?24 bars) labeled with ¹³C and ¹⁸O. Isotope concentration gradients within annealed specimens were measured using a secondary ion microprobe by depth profiling parallel and perpendicular to the c axis. Despite the anisotropic structure of calcite, the diffusion of carbon and oxygen are both very nearly isotropic. Least-squares fitting of the carbon data to an Arrhenius relation gives an activation energy of 87±2 kcal/mole, with D ₀ terms dependent only slightly upon direction: 1 $$D_{\text{0}} {\text{(}}\parallel c{\text{) = }}\left( {9\frac{{ + 12}}{{ - 5}}} \right){\text{x10}}^{\text{2}} cm^2 /s$$ , 2 $$D_{\text{0}} {\text{(}} \bot c{\text{) = }}\left( {5\frac{{ + 6}}{{ - 3}}} \right){\text{x10}}^{\text{2}} cm^2 /s$$ . These results are in close agreement with previous determinations. Results for oxygen diffusion, however, give D values much larger than those previously reported for dry conditions; at 650° to 800° C the D values are two orders of magnitude larger. The diffusion of oxygen, unlike carbon, is strongly dependent on water pressure, as well as Mn content, and does not fit an Arrhenius relation over the entire temperature range. On the basis of these observations and considerations of the defect chemistry of calcite, it is proposed that carbon migrates as a Frenkel pair. The diffusion of oxygen, however, appears to be more complicated and may depend upon several simultaneous mechanisms.  相似文献   

Mesozoischer Vulkanismus in Nordspanien: Rifting im Keuper und Kreide-Vulkanismus auf Transform-Störungen?     

Dr. Jürgen Boess  Dr. Andreas Hoppe 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1986,75(2):353-369

Zusammenfassung Während des Keupers und des frühen Jura wurden in Nordspanien petrographisch und chemisch recht einheitliche Vulkanite, die sog. Keuper-Ophite, gefördert. Ihre Haupt- und Spurenelement-Chemie weist sie als Tholeiite aus. Diskriminierungs-Diagramme ordnen sie Ozeanboden-Basalten zu, ihre Gehalte an Leichten Seltenen Erden sind sehr gering. Dieser Befund, der zunächst den geologischen Verhältnissen zu widersprechen schien, ließe sich interpretieren als der fehlgeschlagene Versuch einer Ozean-Bildung. Während des Keupers entwickelte sich in Nordspanien ein Rift-Graben. Eventuell stand dieser Rift-Graben von einem Tripelpunkt ausgehend mit dem später einsetzenden Spreading im westlichen Mittelmeer in Verbindung.Während der Kreide (unteres Cenoman bis Coniac) stiegen Alkali-Basalte auf, die in Gängen erstarrten oder als Pillow-Laven ausflössen. In Diskriminations-Diagrammen fallen sie in die Felder der Intraplatten-Basalte. Der Vulkanismus ist eng verknüft mit der Öffnung der Biskaya. In der östlichen Biskaya kam es zu einer Aufspaltung der Spreading-Achse. Ein nördliches Becken (in der heutigen Biskaya gelegen) und ein südliches Becken (der Basko-Kantabrische Trog) wurden von einer Mikroplatte, dem sog. Biskaya-Hoch, getrennt. Zwischen den beiden Divergenz-Zonen vermittelten vermutlich ozeanische Bruchzonen bzw. undichte Transform-Störungen, die stumpfwinklig zu den Beckenachsen verliefen, und auf denen die Kreide-Vulkanite gefördert wurden.

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During Late Triassic and Early Jurassic the so-called Keuper-Ophite volcanics were extruded in North Spain. These volcanics are petrographically and chemically rather uniform with a main and trace element composition which is typical for tholeiites. Their position in discriminationdiagrams shows that they are related to oceanfloor-basalts. The tholeiites show very low contents of light rare earths. This result, which contradicts geological evidence, could be interpreted as an aborted attempt of ocean-forming. A rift-graben developed in North Spain during Late Triassic. Possibly this rift-graben extended into a triple junction, which was connected with the spreading-zone in the western Mediterranean that became active at a later stage.During the Late Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian to Coniacian) alkali basalts formed dykes or extruded forming pillow-lavas. In discrimination-diagrams these basalts plot in the fields of intra-plate basalts. The volcanism is closely related to the opening of the Bay of Biscay. In the eastern Bay the spreading-axes split. A northern basin (situated in the present Bay of Biscay) and a southern basin (the Basco-Cantabrian Trough) were separated by a microplate, the so-called Biscay-High. Both zones of divergence were probably connected by obtusely striking oceanic fracturezones or leaky transform faults along which the Cretaceous volcanics were extruded.

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Résumé Dans le nord de l'Espagne, des roches volcaniques chimiquement et pétrographiquement uniformes ont été extrudées au cours du Keuper et de l'Eo-jurassique; elles sont connues sous le nom de »Keuper-ophites«. Le chimissme de leurs éléments majeurs et en traces les rattachent aux tholéiites. Leurposition dans les diagrammes de discrimination les rattache aux basaltes de la crocute océanique. Leur teneur en terres rares est très faible. Ces données, qui semblement en contradiction avec la situation géologique, peuvent s'interpréter comme témoignant d'une ouverture océanique avortée. Un rift s'est développé dans le nord de l'Espagne au Triassique supérieur. Il est possible que ce rift, formant une des branches d'une tripöe jonction, ait été en relation avec l'expansion qui a eu lieu plus tard en Méditérrannée occidentale.Au cours du Crétacé (du Cénomannien inférieur au Coniacien), des basaltes alcalins se sont mis en place sous forme de filons et de laves en coussins. Sur les diagrammes de discrimination, ils se situent dans les champs des basaltes intra-plaques. Le volcanisme est étroitement asocié à l'ouverture du golfe de Gascogne. Dans la partie E du golfe, l'axe d'ouverture s'est dichotomisé, donnant naissance à deux bassin méridional (la fosse basquo-cantabrique), séparés par une micro-plaque. Ces deux branches étaient probalement reiées par des zones de fractures océaniques ou par des failles transformates, qui faisaient un angle obtus avec les axes des bassins et le long desquelles ont pu monter les basalter crétacés.

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A versatile flow channel for laboratory experiments with running water macroinvertebrates     

Andreas Frutiger 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1984,46(2):301-305

Experiments with running water organisms should be conducted under running water conditions. A flow channel which has proved useful for long-term rearing of running water macroinvertebrates is described. Through its arena-shaped design and water jet drive, damage to drifting animals is practically excluded.  相似文献   

STABILITY OF GRAVEL BED RIVERS BASED ON SIEVE ANALYSIS DATA   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Andreas DITTRICH Institute of Water Resources Management  Hydraulic  Rural Engineering  University of Karlsruhe  Germany. 《国际泥沙研究》2001,16(2)

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