Numerical aspects of a spline-based multiresolution recovery of the harmonic mass density out of gravity functionals     

Volker Michel  Kerstin Wolf 《Geophysical Journal International》2008,173(1):1-16

We show the numerical applicability of a multiresolution method based on harmonic splines on the 3-D ball which allows the regularized recovery of the harmonic part of the Earth's mass density distribution out of different types of gravity data, for example, different radial derivatives of the potential, at various positions which need not be located on a common sphere. This approximated harmonic density can be combined with its orthogonal anharmonic complement, for example, determined out of the splitting function of free oscillations, to an approximation of the whole mass density function. The applicability of the presented tool is demonstrated by several test calculations based on simulated gravity values derived from EGM96. The method yields a multiresolution in the sense that the localization of the constructed spline basis functions can be increased which yields in combination with more data a higher resolution of the resulting spline. Moreover, we show that a locally improved data situation allows a highly resolved recovery in this particular area in combination with a coarse approximation elsewhere which is an essential advantage of this method, for example, compared to polynomial approximation.  相似文献   

Phantom midge-based models for inferring past fish abundances     

Kimmo?T.?TolonenEmail author  Klaus?P.?Brodersen  Tanya?A.?Kleisborg  Kerstin?Holmgren  Magnus?Dahlberg  Ladislav?Hamerlik  Heikki?H?m?l?inen 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2012,47(4):531-547

We sampled living and subfossil phantom midge (Diptera: Chaoboridae) larvae from surface sediments of 21 small lakes in Southern Sweden to examine the influence of fish and selected abiotic variables on the abundance and species composition of chaoborid assemblages. We expected total Chaoborus abundance to be inversely correlated with fish abundance and Chaoborus species most sensitive to fish predation to be found only in fishless lakes. We aimed to use the observed relationships to develop models to reconstruct past fish abundances from chaoborid remains and the abiotic environment. C. flavicans occurred in almost every lake, whereas subfossil C. obscuripes were found in the surface sediments of only one fishless lake. The density of living C. flavicans larvae correlated negatively with fish abundance, lake order and size. The concentration of C. flavicans subfossils was negatively associated with pH, lake size, water transparency and fish abundance. Regression models that included lake morphometry and landscape position as additional predictors of fish abundance performed better than models that used only Chaoborus predictors. The explained variance in fish abundance varied from 52 to 86%. Leave-one-out cross-validation indicated moderate performance of the two best models. These models explained 51 and 56% of the observed untransformed fish density and biomass, respectively. In addition, all Chaoborus models were unbiased in closely following the 1:1 reference line in plots of observed versus predicted values. These results are a promising step in developing midge-based paleolimnological reconstructions of past fish abundance, and the approach might be improved by including chironomid remains in the models.  相似文献   

Holocene climate variability in the Southern Ocean recorded in a deep-sea sediment core off South Australia     

Matthias Moros  Patrick De Deckker  Eystein Jansen  Kerstin Perner  Richard J. Telford   《Quaternary Science Reviews》2009,28(19-20):1932-1940

To understand Holocene climatic development and to determine drivers of climatic changes and climate variability, high-resolution marine proxy records are required from key oceanic locations. However, information on the Holocene climate development from the Southern Hemisphere is still rare and mainly based on terrestrial archives. Here, we present data with a high-resolution of circa 35 years from sediment cores taken east of the Great Australian Bight, where it is possible to determine Southern Ocean Holocene climate and the longer-term trends of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions. For this purpose, we used the oxygen-isotope records of two planktonic foraminifer species Globigerinoides ruber and Globigerina bulloides which inhabit different water masses as well as faunal counts of planktonic foraminifers. After the ocean frontal systems off southern Australia were pushed northward by orbitally-forced insolation changes during the early Holocene, the data indicate increasing ENSO variability during the mid to late Holocene when the fronts shifted polewards again. A strong circa 1550 year cycle is found in the Globigerina bulloides record which reflects the wider Southern Ocean signal with prominent cold phases centred at circa 9.2, 7.3, 5.8, 4.3, 2.7, 1.4 ka BP and, possibly the Little Ice Age, which have global counterparts.  相似文献   

Sulfide variation in the pore and surface waters of artificial salt-marsh ditches and a natural tidal creek     

Jorge R. Rey  John Shaffer  Tim Kain  Robert Stahl  Roy Crossman 《Estuaries and Coasts》1992,15(3):257-269

Pore and surface water sulfide variation near artificial ditches and a natural creek are examined in salt marshes bordering the Indian River Lagoon in east-central Florida. Pore water sulfide concentrations ranged from 0 μg-at I^?1 to 1,640 μg-at I^?1. On average, the natural creek had the lowest sulfide concentrations (mean <1.0 μ-at I^?1) and the perimeter ditch of a managed salt marsh impoundment the highest (436.5 μg-at I^?1). There was a trend of increasing sulfide concentration in the summer, and sharp peaks in late fall-early winter which correspond with peak litter input into the sediments. Significant differences in sulfide concentration between sites are attributed to differences in water flow and in organic matter content. Delaying the seasonal opening of culverts (which connect impounded marshes with the lagoon) until lagoon water levels rise in fall may prevent massive fish kills that have been associated with high sulfide levels in the impoundment perimeter ditches.  相似文献   

Compositional changes and 13C12C fractionations during the degradation of hydrocarbons by bacteria     

W.J. Stahl 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1980,44(11):1903-1907

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Sauerstoff-Isotopenuntersuchungen an Mineralen eines metamorphen Profils der Hohen Tauern, Österreich     

Hans Friedrichsen  Georg Müller  Wolfgang Stahl 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1973,40(2):159-168

Oxygen isotope analyses on minerals of a metamorphic profile from Hohe Tauern, Austria indicate that the oxygen isotopes of the coexisting minerals quartz, garnet, and biotite have been reequilibrated during alpidic metamorphism. The K/Ar-ages of these biotites are in the range of 20–30 my. Metamorphic temperatures can be calculated from the quartz-biotite and quartz-garnet isotopic fractionations. The metamorphic temperature in the northern part of the region under investigation is 440° C and increases in direction to Tauernhauptkamm to about 600° C. Indicated by petrographic investigations, two samples from this area show no remarkable metamorphic influence. K/Ar-determinations on hornblendes and biotites yielded variscan ages.The isotopic temperatures of these samples, calculated by the oxygen isotope fractionations of quartz-biotite, quartz-magnetite, and feldspar-magnetite are equal within the limits of instrumental error and represent the crystallisation temperature of a granodioritic magma of 660–670° C.  相似文献   

Diagenetic Alteration of Magnetic Signals by Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane Related to a Change in Sedimentation Rate   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Natascha Riedinger  Kerstin Pfeifer  Johanna Fredrika Lukina Garming  Christian Hensen 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2005,69(16):4117-4126

Geochemical and rock magnetic investigations of sediments from three sites on the continental margin off Argentina and Uruguay were carried out to study diagenetic alteration of iron minerals driven by anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM). The western Argentine Basin represents a suitable sedimentary environment to study nonsteady-state processes because it is characterized by highly dynamic depositional conditions. Mineralogic and bulk solid phase data document that the sediment mainly consists of terrigenous material with high contents of iron minerals. As a typical feature of these deposits, distinct minima in magnetic susceptibility (κ) are observed. Pore water data reveal that these minima in susceptibility coincide with the current depth of the sulfate/methane transition (SMT) where HS⁻ is generated by the process of AOM. The released HS⁻ reacts with the abundant iron (oxyhydr)oxides resulting in the precipitation of iron sulfides accompanied by a nearly complete loss of magnetic susceptibility. Modeling of geochemical data suggest that the magnetic record in this area is highly influenced by a drastic change in mean sedimentation rate (SR) which occurred during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. We assume that the strong decrease in mean SR encountered during this glacial/interglacial transition induced a fixation of the SMT at a specific depth. The stagnation has obviously enhanced diagenetic dissolution of iron (oxyhydr)oxides within a distinct sediment interval. This assumption was further substantiated by numerical modeling in which the mean SR was decreased from 100 cm kyr⁻¹ during glacial times to 5 cm kyr⁻¹ in the Holocene and the methane flux from below was fixed to a constant value. To obtain the observed geochemical and magnetic patterns, the SMT must remain at a fixed position for ∼9000 yrs. This calculated value closely correlates to the timing of the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. The results of the model show additionally that a constant high mean SR would cause a concave-up profile of pore water sulfate under steady state conditions.  相似文献   

Modelling of Seepage Water Composition from Experiments with an Acid Soil and a Calcareous Sediment     

Kerstin Michel  Bernard Ludwig 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2005,33(6):595-604

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eta Carinae: Binarity Confirmed     

Damineli A  Kaufer A  Wolf B  Stahl O  Lopes DF  de Araújo FX 《The Astrophysical journal》2000,536(2):L101-L104

Gas giant planets have been detected in orbit around an increasing number of nearby stars. Two theories have been advanced for the formation of such planets: core accretion and disk instability. Core accretion, the generally accepted mechanism, requires several million years or more to form a gas giant planet in a protoplanetary disk like the solar nebula. Disk instability, on the other hand, can form a gas giant protoplanet in a few hundred years. However, disk instability has previously been thought to be important only in relatively massive disks. New three-dimensional, "locally isothermal," hydrodynamical models without velocity damping show that a disk instability can form Jupiter-mass clumps, even in a disk with a mass (0.091 M middle dot in circle within 20 AU) low enough to be in the range inferred for the solar nebula. The clumps form with initially eccentric orbits, and their survival will depend on their ability to contract to higher densities before they can be tidally disrupted at successive periastrons. Because the disk mass in these models is comparable to that apparently required for the core accretion mechanism to operate, the models imply that disk instability could obviate the core accretion mechanism in the solar nebula and elsewhere.  相似文献   

A ~565 Ma old glaciation in the Ediacaran of peri-Gondwanan West Africa     

Linnemann  Ulf  Pidal  Agustín Pieren  Hofmann  Mandy  Drost  Kerstin  Quesada  Cecilio  Gerdes  Axel  Marko  Linda  Gärtner  Andreas  Zieger  Johannes  Ulrich  Jens  Krause  Rita  Vickers-Rich  Patricia  Horak  Jana 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2018,107(3):885-911

International Journal of Earth Sciences - In the Cadomian orogen of the NE Bohemian Massif and of SW Iberia, a post-Gaskiers glacial event dated at c. 565&nbsp;Ma has been detected. Such...  相似文献