Thorough wetting and drainage of a peat lysimeter in a climate change scenario     

Maurizio Previati  Davide Canone  Edoardo Iurato  Davide Gisolo  Stefano Ferrari  Pietro Teatini  Mario Putti  Stefano Ferraris 《水文研究》2020,34(5):1269-1284

A peat deposit (Zennare basin, Venice coastland, Italy) was monitored in previous field studies to investigate the hydrological response of organic soil to meteorological dynamics. Field tests and modelling predictions highlighted the risk of the complete loss of this peat layer during the next 50 years, due to oxidation enhanced by the increased frequency of warmer periods. Unfortunately, despite the considerable impacts that are expected to affect peat bogs (in this area and worldwide), only a few experimental studies have been carried out to assess the hydrologic response of peat to severe water scarcity. Because of that, an undisturbed 0.7 m³ peat monolith was collected, transferred to the laboratory and instrumented. The total weight (representative of the water content dynamics of the peat monolith as a whole), and two vertical profiles of matric potentials and water content were monitored in controlled water-scarce conditions. After an extended air-drying period, the monolith was used as an undisturbed peat lysimeter and a complete cycle of wetting and drainage was performed. Supplementary measurements of matric potential ψ and water content θ were collected by testing peat subsamples on a suction table apparatus. A set of water retention curves was determined in a range of matric potentials broader (ψ down to −7 m) than the current natural conditions in the field (minimum ψ = −1 m). While water content at saturation showed values similar to those in the original natural conditions (θ ≅ 0.8), a remarkable loss of water holding capacity (even for low potentials) has been highlighted, especially in deep layers that are now permanently below the water table. The retention curves changed shape and values, with a more pronounced hysteresis visible in an increasing distance between wetting and drying data. Hydraulic non-equilibrium between the water content and water potential could be a possible cause and it is worth modelling in future studies. The parameters of the van Genuchten retention curves were obtained for the wetting and the drying phases.  相似文献   

Benefits of the Proposed Magia Mission for Lunar Geology     

M. Massironi  L. Giacomini  S. Ferrari  E. Martellato  G. Cremonese  S. Marchi  A. Coradini 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2010,107(2-4):267-297

Age of geological units, surface mineralogical composition, volcanism, tectonics and cratering are major keys for unravelling the geodynamic and geological history of a planet. Thanks to the extensive exploration of the 1960s and 1970s and the compositional mapping of the 1990s missions (Galileo, Clementine and Luna Prospector), the Moon has a unique geological dataset among the extraterrestrial Solar System bodies. The recent and on-going missions, along with the future plans for lunar exploration, will together acquire an extraordinary amount of data. This should provide a solid basis to meet broad objectives like the constraints on the heterogeneity of Lunar composition and the presence of water deposits, the understanding of volcanic and tectonic evolution as well as more specific issues such as the genetic classification of volcanic domes, origin of the dark-halos craters, lava flow emplacement mechanisms, and the kinematics and deformational styles of tectonic structures. The Italian small mission MAGIA (Missione Altimetrica Gravimetrica geochImica lunAre) will be equipped with an integrated context camera and imaging spectrometer, a high resolution camera and a radar altimeter. The spatial and spectral resolution of these instruments will provide data products complementing past and ongoing Lunar mission data, particularly for the polar regions where a full resolution coverage is planned. A general review of some still unanswered questions on lunar surface composition, cold traps, volcanism, tectonics and cratering records is presented here in order to illustrate the potential contribution of MAGIA to these subjects.  相似文献   

The risk of "genetic pollution" in Mediterranean fish populations related to aquaculture activities     

Cognetti G  Maltagliati F  Saroglia M 《Marine pollution bulletin》2006,52(11):1321-1323

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Relativistic models of magnetars: structure and deformations     

A. Colaiuda  V. Ferrari  L. Gualtieri  J. A. Pons 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,385(4):2080-2096

We find numerical solutions of the coupled system of Einstein–Maxwell equations with a linear approach, in which the magnetic field acts as a perturbation of a spherical neutron star. In our study, magnetic fields having both poloidal and toroidal components are considered, and higher order multipoles are also included. We evaluate the deformations induced by different field configurations, paying special attention to those for which the star has a prolate shape. We also explore the dependence of the stellar deformation on the particular choice of the equation of state and on the mass of the star. Our results show that, for neutron stars with mass   M = 1.4 M_⊙  and surface magnetic fields of the order of 10¹⁵ G, a quadrupole ellipticity of the order of 10⁻⁶ to 10⁻⁵ should be expected. Low-mass neutron stars are in principle subject to larger deformations (quadrupole ellipticities up to 10⁻³ in the most extreme case). The effect of quadrupolar magnetic fields is comparable to that of dipolar components. A magnetic field permeating the whole star is normally needed to obtain negative quadrupole ellipticities, while fields confined to the crust typically produce positive quadrupole ellipticities.  相似文献   

Numerical Simulations of the Interaction of Jets with the Intracluster Medium     

Gianluigi Bodo  Claudio Zanni  Giuseppe Murante  Paola Rossi  Silvano Massaglia  Attilio Ferrari 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2004,293(1-2):247-254

We study, by numerical simulations, the propagation of an axisymmetric supersonic jet in an isothermal King atmosphere and we analyse the evolution of the resulting X-ray properties and their dependence on the jet physical parameters. We show the existence of two distinct regimes of interaction, with strong and weak shocks. In the first case shells of enhanced X-ray emission are to be expected, whereas in the second case we expect deficit of X-ray emission coincident with the cocoon. Analysing the results of our simulations we find that the jet kinetic power is the main parameter controlling the transition between the two regimes. We also discuss, in the same scheme, the ICM heating induced by the jet propagation, considering its effects on the observed relations between the cluster X-ray luminosity and temperature and between cluster entropy and temperature.  相似文献   

Gravitational signals due to tidal interactions between white dwarfs and black holes     

C. Casalvieri  V. Ferrari  A. Stavridis 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,365(3):929-938

In this paper, we compute the gravitational signal emitted when a white dwarf moves around a black hole on a closed or open orbit using the affine-model approach. We compare the orbital and the tidal contributions to the signal, assuming that the star moves in a safe region where, although very close to the black hole, the strength of the tidal interaction is insufficient to provoke the stellar disruption. We show that for all considered orbits the tidal signal presents sharp peaks corresponding to the excitation of the non-radial oscillation modes of the star, the amplitude of which depends on how deep the star penetrates the black hole tidal radius and on the type of orbit. Further structure is added to the emitted signal by the coupling between the orbital and the tidal motions.  相似文献   

Entrainment and Deceleration of Relativistic Jets     

Paola Rossi  Gianluigi Bodo  Silvano Massaglia  Attilio Ferrari  Andrea Mignone 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2004,293(1-2):149-155

Extragalactic radio sources are separated in two classes according to their specific luminosity: Fanaroff-Riley I and II. The origin of this dichotomy can be due either to intrinsec different properties of the AGN or to interaction of the jet with different enviroments. We assume that jets are always relativistic and supersonic close to their source, as recent observations suggest, and we explore the conditions in which the jets decelerate assuming FR I morphology. We have carried out high resolution 3D simulations for a set of parameters and in this paper we concentrate our discussion on two extreme cases.  相似文献   

Tircam:A mid-infrared camera for ground-based astronomy     

P. Persi  M. Ferrari-Toniolo  A. R. Marenzi  M. Busso  L. Corcione  A. Ferrari  M. Gai  G. Nicolini  F. Racioppi  M. Robberto  G. Bonazzola  K. Shivanandan  G. Tofani 《Experimental Astronomy》1995,6(3):293-293

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The determination of the satellite orbit of Mariner 9     

G. H. Born  E. J. Christensen  A. J. Ferrari  J. F. Jordan  S. J. Reinbold 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1974,9(3):395-414

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the Mars orbital phase of the Mariner 9 trajectory as determined from Earth based radio data. Both the method and accuracy of the orbit determination process are reviewed. Analysis is presented to show the effects of Mars gravity model and node in the plane of the sky errors on the accuracy of orbit determination. In addition the long term evolution of the orbit from insertion through the first 500 revolutions is presented, and decomposed into effects from the Mars garvity field,n-body perturbations, and solar radiation pressure. Since the orbit period is nearly commensurable with the Mars rotational period, the orbit experiences significant resonance perturbations. The primary perturbation is in-track with a maximum amplitude of 1000 km and a wavelength of 39 spacecraft revolutions.This paper was presented at the AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Conference, Palo Alto, California, September 11 and 12, 1972. At this time Mariner 9 operations were still underway. The operational life of Mariner 9 ended October 27, 1972, when the supply of nitrogen gas, used for attitude stabilization, was depleted. This paper represents one phase of research carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, under NASA Contract No. NAS 7-100.  相似文献   

Hydrodynamics of hypersonic jets: experiments and numerical simulations     

Marco Belan  Sergio de Ponte  Daniela Tordella  Silvano Massaglia  Andrea Mignone  Eberhard Bodenschatz  Attilio Ferrari 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2011,336(1):9-14

Stars form in regions of the galaxy that are denser and cooler than the mean interstellar medium. These regions are called Giant Molecular Clouds. At the beginning of their life, up to 10⁵–10⁶ years, stars accrete matter from their rich surrounding environment and are origin of a peculiar phenomenon that is the jet emission. Jets from Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) are intensively studied by the astrophysical community by observations at different wavelengths, analytical and numerical modeling and laboratory experiments. Indications about the jet propagation and its resulting morphologies are here obtained by means of a combined study of hypersonic jets carried out both in the laboratory and by numerical simulations.  相似文献