Lightning activity related to satellite and radar observations of a mesoscale convective system over Texas on 7–8 April 2002     

Nikolai Dotzek  Robert M. Rabin  Lawrence D. Carey  Donald R. MacGorman  Tracy L. McCormick  Nicholas W. Demetriades  Martin J. Murphy  Ronald L. Holle 《Atmospheric Research》2005,76(1-4):127

A multi-sensor study of the leading-line, trailing-stratiform (LLTS) mesoscale convective system (MCS) that developed over Texas in the afternoon of 7 April 2002 is presented. The analysis relies mainly on operationally available data sources such as GOES East satellite imagery, WSR-88D radar data and NLDN cloud-to-ground flash data. In addition, total lightning information in three dimensions from the LDAR II network in the Dallas–Ft. Worth region is used.GOES East satellite imagery revealed several ring-like cloud top structures with a diameter of about 100 km during MCS formation. The Throckmorton tornadic supercell, which had formed just ahead of the developing linear MCS, was characterized by a high CG+ percentage below a V-shaped cloud top overshoot north of the tornado swath. There were indications of the presence of a tilted electrical dipole in this storm. Also this supercell had low average CG− first stroke currents and flash multiplicities. Interestingly, especially the average CG+ flash multiplicity in the Throckmorton storm showed oscillations with an estimated period of about 15 min.Later on, in the mature LLTS MCS, the radar versus lightning activity comparison revealed two dominant discharge regions at the back of the convective leading edge and a gentle descent of the upper intracloud lightning region into the trailing stratiform region, apparently coupled to hydrometeor sedimentation. There was evidence for an inverted dipole in the stratiform region of the LLTS MCS, and CG+ flashes from the stratiform region had high first return stroke peak currents.  相似文献   

Self-reversal of remanent magnetization in basalts due to partially oxidized titanomagnetites     

David Krása  Valera P. Shcherbakov  Thomas Kunzmann  Nikolai Petersen 《Geophysical Journal International》2005,162(1):115-136

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Nonstationary Phenomena in the Solar Wind and InterstellarMedium Interaction     

Nikolai V. Pogorelov 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2000,274(1-2):115-122

We discuss the results of numerical modeling of the solar wind with the inhomogeneous interstellar medium. The density of the plasma component in the interstellar cloud is supposed to be space periodic. The interaction pattern is shown to be highly unsteady with hydrodynamic instabilities developing on the side portion of the heliopause. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Accretion Flows: Aspects of Gas Dynamic Modeling     

Nikolai V. Pogorelov  Igor A. Kryukov 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2000,274(1-2):275-284

We present our view on the application of numerical models to accretion flows in astrophysics. Special attention is paid to the problem of existence of steady-state solutions in time-dependent calculations and to origin of numerically induced instabilities. The problem is considered of the supersonic wind accretion onto gravitating objects. We also present the results of the gas dynamic simulation of accretion on a body imitating the shape of the star magnetosphere with holes in its polar regions. This shape can occur as a result of the cusp disintegration owing to theRayleigh–Taylor instability in the equatorial region of the magnetosphere. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Electrical conductivity of polycrystalline Mg(OH)<Subscript>2</Subscript> at 2 GPa: effect of grain boundary hydration–dehydration     

Julien Gasc  Fabrice Brunet  Nikolai Bagdassarov  Victor Morales-Flórez 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》2011,38(7):543-556

The effect of intergranular water on the conductivity of polycrystalline brucite, Mg(OH)₂, was investigated using impedance spectroscopy at 2 GPa, during consecutive heating–cooling cycles in the 298–980 K range. The grain boundary hydration levels tested here span water activities from around unity (wet conditions) down to 10⁻⁴ (dry conditions) depending on temperature. Four orders of magnitude in water activity result in electrical conductivity variations for about 6–7 orders of magnitude at 2 GPa and room temperature. Wet brucite samples containing, initially, about 18 wt% of evaporable water (i.e. totally removed at temperatures below 393 K in air), display electrical conductivity values above 10⁻²–10⁻³ S/m. A.C. electrical conductivity as a function of temperature follows an Arrhenius behaviour with an activation energy of 0.11 eV. The electrical conductivity of the same polycrystalline brucite material dried beforehand at 393 K (dry conditions) is lower by about 5–6 orders of magnitude at room temperature and possesses an activation energy of 0.8–0.9 eV which is close to that of protonic diffusion in (001) brucitic planes. Above ca. 873 K, a non-reversible conductivity jump is observed which is interpreted as a water transfer from mineral bulk to grain boundaries (i.e. partial dehydration). Cooling of such partially dehydrated sample shows electrical conductivities much higher than those of the initially dry sample by 4 orders of magnitude at 500 K. Furthermore, the corresponding activation energy is decreased by a factor of about four (i.e. 0.21 eV). Buffering of the sample at low water activity has been achieved by adding CaO or MgO, two hygroscopic compounds, to the starting material. Then, sample conductivities reached the lowest values encountered in this study with the activation energy of 1.1 eV. The strong dependency of the electrical conductivity with water activity highlights the importance of the latter parameter as a controlling factor of diffusion rates in natural processes where water availability and activity may vary grandly. Water exchange between mineral bulk and mineral boundary suggests that grain boundary can be treated as an independent phase in dehydroxylation reactions.  相似文献   

Polarimetry and Photometry of Comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz)     

Sergey Velichko  Nikolai Kiselev  Feodor Velichko 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2005,97(3-4):379-386

We present results of polarimetry and photometry of comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) obtained with the 0.7-m telescope of Institute of Astronomy at the Karazin Kharkiv National University on February 3 and 4, and March 4 and 14, 2005. The observations were carried out with a one-channel photoelectric photometer-polarimeter. The IHW continuum UC (λ3650/80 Å), BC (λ4845/65 Å), RC (λ6840/90 Å) and emission filters CN (λ3871/50 Å), C₃ (λ4060/70 Å), and C2 (λ5140/90 Å) were used. Degree of the comet polarization at phase angles ≈ 52° and ≈44° in the red continuum was close to that for so called dusty comets. The comet had a typical spectral gradient of polarization ΔP/Δλ=0.86% per 1000 Å. In the framework of the Haser model we have found the gas production rates Q of the CN, C₃ and C₂ species and the dust production rates Afρ on February 4 and March 14, 2005. The ratio log[Afρ (BC)/Q(CN)] was compared with data for other comets. The normalized spectral gradient of cometary dust S’(BC,RC) was 8.7%/1000 Å for February 4 and 17.0%/1000 Å for March 14. We conclude that comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) in many respects is a typical dusty comet.  相似文献   

Comparative Study Of The Dust Polarimetric Properties In Split And Normal Comets     

Kiselev  Nikolai  Jockers  Klaus  Rosenbush  Vera 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2002,90(1-4):167-176

Our polarimetric database contains six comets, C/1975 V1 (West), 16P/Brooks 2,C/1988 A1 (Liller), D/1996 Q1 (Tabur), C/1999 S4 (LINEAR), and C/2001 A2(LINEAR), which can be related to the group of split comets. Comets West, S4(LINEAR) and A2 (LINEAR) were observed during splitting. We compare thepolarimetric measurements of the dust particles in these comets, sometimes togetherwith available photometric and colorimetric data, with those in normal comets. Weconclude that there is no significant evidence for differences of polarization betweentidally split comets (e.g., Brooks 2), dissipating comets (e.g., Tabur), non-tidally splitcomets (e.g., West) and normal comets. The total disintegration of Comet S4 (LINEAR), however, did produce significant changes in the observed properties of dust.  相似文献   

Spectrum of hot water in the 4750–13 000 cm⁻¹ wavenumber range (0.769–2.1 μm)     

Nikolai F. Zobov  Sergei V. Shirin  Roman I. Ovsyannikov  Oleg L. Polyansky  Robert J. Barber  Jonathan Tennyson  Peter F. Bernath  Michel Carleer  Reginald Colin  Pierre-François Coheur 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,387(3):1093-1098

The high resolution laboratory spectrum of hot water vapour has been recorded in the 500–13 000 cm⁻¹ wavenumber range and we report on the analysis of the 4750–13 000 cm⁻¹ (0.769–2.1 μm) portion. The emission spectrum was recorded using an oxy-acetylene welding torch and a Fourier transform spectrometer. Line assignments in the laboratory spectrum as well as in an absorption spectrum of a sunspot umbra were made with the help of the BT2 line-list. Our torch spectrum is the first laboratory observation of the 9300 Å'steam bands' seen in M-stars and brown dwarfs.  相似文献   

Deformation and seismic effects in the ice cover of Lake Baikal     

V.V. Ruzhich  S.G. Psakhie  E.N. Chernykh  S.A. Bornyakov  N.G. Granin 《Russian Geology and Geophysics》2009,50(3):214-221

The mechanics of the ice cover of Lake Baikal has been studied through monitoring of its deformation and seismic effects and full-sizeuniaxial compression and shear tests in 2005–2007. We measured the shear strength of ice specimens and large in situ blocks (σ = 0.2?1.9 MPa) and investigated it as a function of air temperature and ice structure. Deformation was analyzed in terms of various natural controls, such as air temperature and pressure, wind, sub-ice currents, and local earthquakes. Precise strain measurements along ice cracks were used to explore the strain behavior of ice, including the cases of dynamic failure (ice shocks). Measurements by seismic station Baikal-12 were used to monitor diurnal background micro seismicity variations and to record an ice quake with its magnitude (M = 0.3–0.8; E = 104–105 J) comparable to a medium-size rock burst or a small earthquake. Ice quakes were studied in terms of their nucleation, dynamics, and after effects, as well as the strain and seismic responses of the ice, using sub-ice explosions in the latter case. The natural conditions of deformation in the elastoviscoplastic Baikal ice are similar to lithospheric processes and thus can be employed in tectonophysical modeling with scientific and practical implications for hazard mitigation.  相似文献   

Palaeoclimatic record from a loess–soil profile in northeastern Bulgaria—I. Rock magnetic properties     

Diana Jordanova  & Nikolai Petersen 《Geophysical Journal International》1999,138(2):520-532

A detailed record of mineral magnetic properties of a loess–palaeosol profile comprising seven loess horizons, six interbedded palaeosols and recent soil at the top in NE Bulgaria is analysed. A strong contrast between the soil and loess susceptibilities as well as other concentration-dependent hysteresis parameters is present, similar to the well-documented magnetic characteristics of the Chinese loess ( Hus & Han 1992 ; Maher & Thompson 1992 ; Heller & Evans 1995 ; Hunt et al. 1995 ). The magnetic enhancement of the palaeosol units is caused by very fine-grained pedogenic magnetite with superparamagnetic behaviour. Thermomagnetic analyses on bulk material suggest magnetite and maghemite as the main ferrimagnetic carriers in both soil and loess horizons. Their relative proportions are shown to reflect different palaeoclimatic conditions. Chernozem soils, which include recent soil S₀ and first and second palaeosols S₁ and S₂ developed under steppe vegetation, show a high degree of low-temperature oxidation of the pedogenic magnetite to maghemite. This material is characterized by coercive force H _c showing even higher values than those of the parent loess material. The older palaeosols (S₄ to S₆ ) were formed during more humid climatic conditions and therefore probably developed as forest types. Rock magnetic data suggest the existence here of only partly oxidized magnetite grains. The behaviour of the thermomagnetic curves, characterized by a kink at 200 °C, may be due to either a release of internal stress (built up as a result of partial low-temperature oxidation) or interactions between two phases.  相似文献