A geological constraint on relative sea level in Marine Isotope Stage 3 in the Larsemann Hills, Lambert Glacier region, East Antarctica (31 366–33 228 cal yr BP)     

Dominic A. Hodgson  Elie Verleyen  Wim Vyverman  Koen Sabbe  Melanie J. Leng  Matthew D. Pickering  Brendan J. Keely 《Quaternary Science Reviews》2009,28(25-26):2689-2696

In this paper we present geological evidence from the Larsemann Hills (Lambert Glacier – Amery Ice Shelf region, East Antarctica) of marine sediments at an altitude of c. 8 m a.s.l., as revealed by diatom, pigment and geochemical proxies in a lake sediment core. The sediments yielded radiocarbon dates between c. 26 650 and 28 750 ¹⁴C yr BP (31 366–33 228 cal yr BP). This information can be used to constrain relative sea level adjacent to the Lambert Glacier at the end of Marine Isotope Stage 3. These data are compared with the age and altitude of Marine Isotope Stage 3 marine deposits elsewhere in East Antarctica and discussed with reference to late Quaternary ice sheet history and eustatic sea-level change.  相似文献   

Radiation Fog. Part II: Large-Eddy Simulations in Very Stable Conditions   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Aurore Porson  Jeremy Price  Adrian Lock  Peter Clark 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2011,139(2):193-224

Despite the long interest in understanding fog processes and improving fog parametrization, numerical modelling of fog remains an important challenge in short-term forecasts, due to the diversity and scales of the mechanisms involved with fog parametrization. In this study, we focus on the key processes that govern performance in fog modelling in very stable conditions. Large-eddy simulations at very high resolution are tested against the observations from Cardington, UK, presented in Part I of this study. The radiation fog forms in statically stable conditions. Five hours after its formation, the fog deepens rapidly and a significant cooling associated with the formation of positive curvature can be seen in the vertical profiles of potential temperature around 50 m. After roughly 8 h of development, a mixed layer has formed at the base of the fog, driven by surface instability. We show that the model captures well the change in static stability, but fails at capturing correctly the mechanisms associated with the deepening of the fog layer. Different possible mechanisms are discussed and tested with the model, such as additional drainage flow and cold air advection, which might result from local heterogeneity. The sensitivity of these results to different microphysical parametrizations is also briefly addressed.  相似文献   

Post-glacial regional climate variability along the East Antarctic coastal margin—Evidence from shallow marine and coastal terrestrial records     

Elie Verleyen  Dominic A. Hodgson  Koen Sabbe  Holger Cremer  Steven D. Emslie  John Gibson  Brenda Hall  Satoshi Imura  Sakae Kudoh  Gareth J. Marshall  Andrew McMinn  Martin Melles  Louise Newman  Donna Roberts  Steve J. Roberts  Shiv M. Singh  Mieke Sterken  Ines Tavernier  Sergey Verkulich  Evelien Van de Vyver  Wim Van Nieuwenhuyze  Bernd Wagner  Wim Vyverman 《Earth》2011,104(4):199-212

We review the post-glacial climate variability along the East Antarctic coastline using terrestrial and shallow marine geological records and compare these reconstructions with data from elsewhere. Nearly all East Antarctic records show a near-synchronous Early Holocene climate optimum (11.5–9 ka BP), coinciding with the deglaciation of currently ice-free regions and the optimum recorded in Antarctic ice and marine sediment cores. Shallow marine and coastal terrestrial climate anomalies appear to be out of phase after the Early Holocene warm period, and show complex regional patterns, but an overall trend of cooling in the terrestrial records. A Mid to Late Holocene warm period is present in many East Antarctic lake and shallow coastal marine records. Although there are some differences in the regional timing of this warm period, it typically occurs somewhere between 4.7 and 1 ka BP, which overlaps with a similar optimum found in Antarctic Peninsula terrestrial records. The differences in the timing of these sometimes abrupt warm events in different records and regions points to a number of mechanisms that we have yet to identify. Nearly all records show a neoglacial cooling from 2 ka BP onwards. There is no evidence along the East Antarctic coastline for an equivalent to the Northern Hemisphere Medieval Warm Period and there is only weak circumstantial evidence in a few places for a cool event crudely equivalent in time to the Northern Hemisphere's Little Ice Age. There is a need for well-dated, high resolution climate records in coastal East Antarctica and particularly in Terre Adélie, Dronning Maud Land and Enderby Land to fully understand the regional climate anomalies, the disparity between marine and terrestrial records, and to determine the significance of the heterogeneous temperature trends being measured in the Antarctic today.  相似文献   

A re-assessment of the nearest neighbour alignment of the X-ray isophotes of galaxy clusters     

Fred Lombard  Chris Koen 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,370(3):1324-1328

Alignment is defined as the tendency of the distribution of pointing angles between the major axes of clusters and their nearest neighbours to be more concentrated towards small values for small nearest neighbour distances, whereas the distribution is expected to be uniform over all angles at larger distances. Conflicting pronouncements on the reality of this effect have been published in the astronomy literature. A re-assessment of the evidence for alignment is presented, based on three recently published X-ray data sets. We find that whereas there is evidence for alignment, it is not as convincing as previously claimed. In particular, the scale to which the effect has been claimed to extend seems to have been severely overstated.  相似文献   

Observations of Hipparcos short-period red giant stars     

Chris Koen  Dave Laney  Francois van Wyk 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,335(1):223-232

Optical UBV(RI) _C and infrared JHK photometry is presented of a small sample of giant stars with short periods in the Hipparcos catalogue. Observations were limited, but were sufficient to rule out most of the Hipparcos periods. Radial velocity measurement were also made for a few stars, over six successive nights. Low-level variability was detected in a few stars. It is argued that in most cases the brightness variations are primarily due to temperature changes. These findings show that high-overtone pulsations in M giant stars occur, if at all, in a far more limited number of stars than proposed in the authors' previous discussion of the Hipparcos data alone.  相似文献   

An attempt to identify the pulsation modes in the δ Scuti star QQ Tel     

C.Koen  L.Balona  F.van Wyk  F.Marang  E.Paunzen 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,330(3):567-574

We present simultaneous UBVRI photometry and high-dispersion spectroscopy of the δ Scuti star QQ Tel. At least seven periodicities are detected in the light curve, but there are likely to be many more. The line profile variations suggest that some of the observed frequencies may be due to modes of moderately high degree  (ℓ≳4)  .  相似文献   

Pulsations in β Pictoris     

C. Koen  L. A. Balona  K. Khadaroo†  I. Lane†  A. Prinsloo†  B. Smith†  C. D. Laney 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,344(4):1250-1256

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Exploring the hydrological effects of normal faults at the boundary of the Roer Valley Graben in Belgium using a catchment-scale groundwater flow model     

Casillas-Trasvina  Alberto  Rogiers  Bart  Beerten  Koen  Wouters  Laurent  Walraevens  Kristine 《Hydrogeology Journal》2022,30(1):133-149

Hydrogeology Journal - Faults may impact regional groundwater flow and transport, so it is important to include them during aquifer-system conceptualization and while constructing groundwater flow...  相似文献   

The detailed forms of the LMC Cepheid PL and PLC relations     

C. Koen  S. Kanbur  C. Ngeow 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,380(4):1440-1448

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Metallicity estimates for A-, F-, and G-type stars from the Edinburgh–Cape Blue Object Survey     

T. C. Beers  S. Rossi  D. O'Donoghue  D. Kilkenny  R. S. Stobie  C. Koen  R. Wilhelm 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,320(4):451-464

The Edinburgh–Cape Blue Object Survey is an ongoing project to identify and analyse a large sample of hot stars selected initially on the basis of photographic colours (down to a magnitude limit     over the entire high-Galactic-latitude southern sky, and then studied with broad-band UBV photometry and medium-resolution spectroscopy. Due to unavoidable errors in the initial candidate selection, stars that are likely metal-deficient dwarfs and giants of the halo and thick-disc populations are inadvertently included, yet are of interest in their own right. In this paper we discuss a total of 206 candidate metal-deficient dwarfs, subgiants, giants, and horizontal-branch stars with photoelectric colours redder than     and with available spectroscopy. Radial velocities, accurate to ∼10–15 km s⁻¹, are presented for all of these stars. Spectroscopic metallicity estimates for these stars are obtained using a recently recalibrated relation between Ca  ii K-line strength and     colour. The identification of metal-poor stars from this colour-selection technique is remarkably efficient, and competitive with previous survey methods. An additional sample of 186 EC stars with photoelectric colours in the range     composed primarily of field horizontal-branch stars and other, higher gravity, A- and B-type stars, is also analysed. Estimates of the physical parameters T _eff, log  g , and [Fe/H] are obtained for cooler members of this subsample, and a number of candidate RR Lyrae variables are identified.  相似文献