The dynamical range of global circulations—I     

Gareth P Williams 《Climate Dynamics》1988,2(4):205-260

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Pollution control for Indian Ocean     

Gareth Davies 《Marine pollution bulletin》1985,16(9):344-345

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Obituary: Vince Gardiner 1948–2002     

Gareth Lewis 《The Geographical journal》2003,169(1):90-90

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Virtual MHD Jets on Grids     

Thibaut Lery  CÉline Combet  Gareth Murphy  Luke O. C. Drury 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2005,298(1-2):375-378

As network performance has outpaced computational power and storage capacity, a new paradigm has evolved to enable the sharing of geographically distributed resources. This paradigm is known as Grid computing and aims to offer access to distributed resource irrespective of their physical location. Many national, European and international projects have been launched during the last years trying to explore the Grid and to change the way we are doing our everyday work. In Ireland, we have started the CosmoGrid project that is a collaborative project aimed to provide high performance super-computing environments. This will help to address complex problems such as magnetohydrodynamic outflows and jets in order to model and numerically simulate them. Indeed, the numerical modeling of plasma jets requires massive computations, due to the wide range of spatial-temporal scales involved. We present here the first jet simulations and their corresponding models that could help to understand results from laboratory experiments.  相似文献   

Sub-grid scale parameterisation of 2D hydrodynamic models of inundation in the urban area   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Sylvain Néelz  Gareth Pender 《Acta Geophysica》2007,55(1):65-72

This paper presents preliminary results from a study considering the parameterisation of coarse-grid 2D flood models to take into account sub-grid scale flow patterns occurring in the urban area. A simulation of a severe flood in an urbanized coastal floodplain is first run using a fine grid that can resolve the flow around and between buildings. Next, the same model is run again using the same underlying topography, although stripped from any buildings, and a set of 7 values of the roughness parameter (Manning’s n), all larger than (or equal to) the value used in the original run. A further set of simulations is carried out using a five-fold increased grid cell size. It is found that while it may be possible to model the overall effects of the buildings using strongly increased roughness parameter values, using a coarse grid otherwise has implications related to the loss of information about the site topography that results in flood flow routes being incorrectly modelled.  相似文献   

An AOGCM simulation of the climate response to a volcanic super-eruption   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Gareth S. Jones  Jonathan M. Gregory  Peter A. Stott  Simon F. B. Tett  Robert B. Thorpe 《Climate Dynamics》2005,25(7-8):725-738

Volcanic ‘super-eruptions’ have been suggested to have significantly influenced the Earth’s climate, perhaps causing glaciations and impacting on the human population. Climatic changes following a hypothetical ‘super-eruption’ are simulated using a coupled atmosphere ocean general circulation model, incorporating scaled volcanic stratospheric aerosols. Assumptions are made about the stratospheric sulphate aerosol loading, size distribution, lifetime, chemical make up and spatial distribution. As this study is concentrating on the physical climatological impacts over long timescales, microphysics and chemical interactive processes are not simulated. Near-surface temperatures fall by as much as 10 K globally for a few months and a considerable deviation from normal temperatures continues for several decades. A warming pattern is evident over northern land masses during the winter due to increased longwave forcing and a positive AO mode. The overturning rate of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation doubles in intensity. Snow and ice increases in extent to a maximum coverage of 35% of the Earth. Despite these and other impacts longer term climatic changes that could lead to a transition to a glaciation do not occur, for present day boundary conditions and one possible plausible aerosol loading.  相似文献   

Real-Time River Level Monitoring Using GPS Heighting     

Terry Moore  Kefei Zhang  Gareth Close  Roger Moore 《GPS Solutions》2000,4(2):63-67

This paper presents the current progress of the River Level Monitoring using GPS Heighting (RiGHt) project. The aim of the project is to develop an integrated system to allow the continuous monitoring of river heights using a buoy equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) and satellite communications and using Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques. ? 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  相似文献   

Response to Gardner et al.     

Gareth J. Williams  Ingrid S. Knapp  James E. Maragos  Simon K. Davy 《Marine pollution bulletin》2011,62(12):2878-2879

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The effect of impact obliquity on shock heating in planetesimal collisions     

Thomas M. Davison  Fred J. Ciesla  Gareth S. Collins  Dirk Elbeshausen 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2014,49(12):2252-2265

Collisions between planetesimals in the early solar system were a common and fundamental process. Most collisions occurred at an oblique incidence angle, yet the influence of impact angle on heating in collisions is not fully understood. We have conducted a series of shock physics simulations to quantify oblique heating processes, and find that both impact angle and target curvature are important in quantifying the amount of heating in a collision. We find an expression to estimate the heating in an oblique collision compared to that in a vertical incidence collision. We have used this expression to quantify heating in the Rhealsilvia‐forming impact on Vesta, and find that there is slightly more heating in a 45° impact than in a vertical impact. Finally, we apply these results to Monte Carlo simulations of collisional processes in the early solar system, and determine the overall effect of impact obliquity from the range of impacts that occurred on a meteorite parent body. For those bodies that survived 100 Myr without disruption, it is not necessary to account for the natural variation in impact angle, as the amount of heating was well approximated by a fixed impact angle of 45°. However, for disruptive impacts, this natural variation in impact angle should be accounted for, as around a quarter of bodies were globally heated by at least 100 K in a variable‐angle model, an order of magnitude higher than under an assumption of a fixed angle of 45°.  相似文献   

Hydrocode modeling of the Sierra Madera impact structure     

Tamara J. Goldin  Kai Wünnemann  H. Jay Melosh  Gareth S. Collins 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2006,41(12):1947-1958

Abstract— We present the first hydrocode simulations of the formation of the Sierra Madera structure (west Texas, USA), which was caused by an impact into a thick sedimentary target sequence. We modeled Sierra Madera using the iSALE hydrocode, and here we present two best‐fit models: 1) a crater with a rim (final crater) diameter of ?12 km, in agreement with previous authors' interpretations of the original structure, and 2) a crater ?16 km in diameter with increased postimpact erosion. Both models fit some of the geologic observational data, but discrepancies with estimates of peak shock pressure, extent of deformation, and stratigraphic displacement remain. This study suggests that Sierra Madera may be a larger crater than previously reported and illustrates some of the challenges in simulating impact deformation of sedimentary lithologies. As many terrestrial craters possess some amount of sedimentary rocks in the target sequence, numerical models of impacts into sedimentary targets are essential to our understanding of target rock deformation and the mechanics of crater formation.  相似文献