Lateglacial environmental and climatic changes at the Maloja Pass,Central Swiss Alps,as recorded by chironomids and pollen     

Boris Ilyashuk  Erika Gobet  Oliver Heiri  André F. Lotter  Jacqueline F.N. van Leeuwen  Willem O. van der Knaap  Elena Ilyashuk  Florencia Oberli  Brigitta Ammann 《Quaternary Science Reviews》2009,28(13-14):1340-1353

Chironomids and pollen were studied in a radiocarbon-dated sediment sequence obtained from a former lake near the Maloja Pass in the Central Swiss Alps (1865 m a.s.l.) to reconstruct the Lateglacial environment. Pollen assemblages imply a vegetation development around the Maloja Pass from shrub tundra at the beginning of the Allerød to coniferous forest during the early Holocene with a lowering of the timberline during the Younger Dryas. Chironomid assemblages are characterized by several abrupt shifts in dominant taxa through the Lateglacial. The occurrence of taxa able to survive hypoxia in the second part of the Allerød and during the Preboreal, and their disappearance at the onset of the Younger Dryas cold phase suggest summer thermal stratification and unfavourable hypolimnetic oxygen conditions in the palaeo-lake during the warmer periods of the Lateglacial interstadial and early Holocene. Mean July air temperatures were reconstructed using a chironomid-temperature transfer function from the Alpine region. The pattern of reconstructed temperature changes agrees well with the Greenland δ¹⁸O record and other Lateglacial temperature inferences from Central Europe. The inferred July temperatures of ca 10.0 °C during most of the Allerød were slightly lower than modern values (10.8 °C) and increased up to ca 11.7 °C (i.e., above present-day values) at the end of the Allerød. The first part of the Younger Dryas was colder (ca 8.8 °C) than the second part (ca 9.8 °C). During most of the Preboreal, the temperatures persisted within the limits of 13.5–14.5 °C (i.e., ca 3 °C above present-day values). The amplitudes of temperature changes at the Allerød–Younger Dryas–Preboreal transitions were ca 3.5–4.0 °C. The temperature reconstruction also shows three short-lived cooling events of ca 1.5–2.0 °C, which may be attributed to the centennial-scale Greenland Interstadial events GI-1d and GI-1b, and the Preboreal Oscillation.  相似文献   

Predicting the tails of breakthrough curves in regional-scale alluvial systems   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Zhang Y  Benson DA  Baeumer B 《Ground water》2007,45(4):473-484

The late tail of the breakthrough curve (BTC) of a conservative tracer in a regional-scale alluvial system is explored using Monte Carlo simulations. The ensemble numerical BTC, for an instantaneous point source injected into the mobile domain, has a heavy late tail transforming from power law to exponential due to a maximum thickness of clayey material. Haggerty et al.'s (2000) multiple-rate mass transfer (MRMT) method is used to predict the numerical late-time BTCs for solutes in the mobile phase. We use a simple analysis of the thicknesses of fine-grained units noted in boring logs to construct the memory function that describes the slow decline of concentrations at very late time. The good fit between the predictions and the numerical results indicates that the late-time BTC can be approximated by a summation of a small number of exponential functions, and its shape depends primarily on the thicknesses and the associated volume fractions of immobile water in "blocks" of fine-grained material. The prediction of the late-time BTC using the MRMT method relies on an estimate of the average advective residence time, t(ad). The predictions are not sensitive to estimation errors in t(ad), which can be approximated by L/v , where v is the arithmetic mean ground water velocity and L is the transport distance. This is the first example of deriving an analytical MRMT model from measured hydrofacies properties to predict the late-time BTC. The parsimonious model directly and quantitatively relates the observable subsurface heterogeneity to nonlocal transport parameters.  相似文献   

World space observatory-ultraviolet among UV missions of the coming years     

Boris Shustov  Mikhail Sachkov  Ana I. Gómez?de?Castro  Klaus Werner  Norbert Kappelmann  Alexander Moisheev 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2011,335(1):273-282

Continuous access to the UV domain has been considered of importance to astrophysicists and planetary scientists since the mid-sixties. However, the future of UV missions for the post-HST era is believed by a significant part of astronomical community to be less encouraging. We argue that key science problems of the coming years will require further development of UV observational technologies. Among these hot astrophysical issues are: the search for missing baryons, revealing the nature of astronomical engines, properties of atmospheres of exoplanets as well as of the planets of the Solar System etc. We give a brief review of UV-missions both in the past and in the future. We conclude that UV astronomy has a great future but the epoch of very large and efficient space UV facilities seems to be a prospect for the next decades. As to the current state of the UV instrumentation we think that this decade will be dominated by the HST and coming World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) with a 1.7 m UV-telescope onboard. The international WSO-UV mission is briefly described. It will allow high resolution/high sensitivity imaging and high/low resolution spectroscopy from the middle of the decade.  相似文献   

Gamma-Ray and High-Energy-Neutron Measurements on CORONAS-F during the Solar Flare of 28 October 2003     

Sergei N. Kuznetsov  Victoria G. Kurt  Boris Y. Yushkov  Karel Kudela  Vladimir I. Galkin 《Solar physics》2011,268(1):175-193

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Impact cratering in H2O‐bearing targets on Mars: Thermal field under craters as starting conditions for hydrothermal activity     

Boris A. IVANOV  Elisabetta PIERAZZO 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2011,46(4):601-619

Abstract– We present a case modeling study of impact crater formation in H₂O‐bearing targets. The main goal of this work was to investigate the postimpact thermal state of the rock layers modified in the formation of hypervelocity impact craters. We present model results for a target consisting of a mixture of H₂O‐ice and rock, assuming an ice/water content variable with depth. Our model results, combined with results from previous work using dry targets, indicate that for craters larger than about 30 km in diameter, the onset of postimpact hydrothermal circulation is characterized by two stages: first, the formation of a mostly dry, hot central uplift followed by water beginning to flow in and circulate through the initially dry and hot uplifted crustal rocks. The postimpact thermal field in the periphery of the crater is dependent on crater size: in midsize craters, 30–50 km in diameter, crater walls are not strongly heated in the impact event, and even though ice present in the rock may initially be heated enough to melt, overall temperatures in the rock remain below melting, undermining the development of a crater‐wide hydrothermal circulation. In large craters (with diameters more than 100 km or so), the region underneath the crater floor and walls is heated well above the melting point of ice, thus facilitating the onset of an extended hydrothermal circulation. These results provide preliminary constraints in characterizing the many water‐related features, both morphologic and spectroscopic, that high‐resolution images of Mars are now detecting within many Martian craters.  相似文献   

A new view on gold speciation in sulfur-bearing hydrothermal fluids from in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy and quantum-chemical modeling   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Gleb S. Pokrovski  Boris R. Tagirov  Jacques Schott  Jean-Louis Hazemann  Olivier Proux 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2009,73(18):5406-5427

Despite the common belief that Au^I complexes with hydrogen sulfide ligands (H₂S/HS⁻) are the major carriers of gold in natural hydrothermal fluids, their identity, structure and stability are still subjects of debate. Here we present the first in situ measurement, using X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectroscopy, of the stability and structure of aqueous Au^I–S complexes at temperatures and pressures (T–P) typical of natural sulfur-rich ore-forming fluids. The solubility of native gold and the local atomic structure around the dissolved metal in S–NaOH–Na₂SO₄–H₂SO₄ aqueous solutions were characterized at temperatures 200–450 °C and pressures 300–600 bar using an X-ray cell that allows simultaneous measurement of the absolute concentration of the absorbing atom (Au) and its local atomic environment in the fluid phase. Structural and solubility data obtained from XAFS spectra, combined with quantum-chemical calculations of species geometries, show that gold bis(hydrogensulfide) Au(HS)₂⁻ is the dominant Au species in neutral-to-basic solutions (5.5  pH  8.5; H₂O–S–NaOH) over a wide range of sulfur concentrations (0.2 < ΣS < 3.6 mol/kg), in agreement with previous solubility studies. Our results provide the first direct determination of this species structure, in which two sulfur atoms are in a linear geometry around Au^I at an average distance of 2.29 ± 0.01 Å. At acidic conditions (1.5  pH  5.0; H₂O–S–Na₂SO₄–H₂SO₄), the Au atomic environment determined by XAFS is similar to that in neutral solutions. These findings, together with measured high Au solubilities, are inconsistent with the predominance of the gold hydrogensulfide Au(HS)⁰ complex suggested by recent solubility studies. Our spectroscopic data and quantum-chemical calculations imply the formation of species composed of linear S–Au–S moieties, like the neutral [H₂S–Au–SH] complex. This species may account for the elevated Au solubilities in acidic fluids and vapors with H₂S concentrations higher than 0.1–0.2 mol/kg. However, because of the complex sulfur speciation in acidic solutions that involves sulfite, thiosulfate and polysulfide species, the formation of Au^I complexes with these ligands (e.g., AuHS(SO₂)⁰, Au(HS₂O₃)₂⁻, Au(HS_n)₂⁻) cannot be ruled out. The existence of such species may significantly enhance Au transport by high T–P acidic ore-forming fluids and vapors, responsible for the formation of a major part of the gold resources on Earth.  相似文献   

Comment on anthony G.Lubowe's paper ‘how critical is the critical inclination?’     

Boris Garfinkel 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1969,1(1):11-11

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On The Ideal Resonance Problem     

Boris Garfinkel 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1970,2(3):359-359

The Ideal Resonance Problem in its normal form is defined by the Hamiltonian (1) $$F = A (y) + 2B (y) sin^2 x$$ with (2) $$A = 0(1),B = 0(\varepsilon )$$ where ? is a small parameter, andx andy a pair of canonically conjugate variables. A solution to 0(?^1/2) has been obtained by Garfinkel (1966) and Jupp (1969). An extension of the solution to 0(?) is now in progress in two papers ([Garfinkel and Williams] and [Hori and Garfinkel]), using the von Zeipel and the Hori-Lie perturbation methods, respectively. In the latter method, the unperturbed motion is that of a simple pendulum. The character of the motion depends on the value of theresonance parameter α, defined by (3) $$\alpha = - A\prime /|4A\prime \prime B\prime |^{1/2} $$ forx=0. We are concerned here withdeep resonance, (4) $$\alpha< \varepsilon ^{ - 1/4} ,$$ where the classical solution with a critical divisor is not admissible. The solution of the perturbed problem would provide a theoretical framework for an attack on a problem of resonance in celestial mechanics, if the latter is reducible to the Ideal form: The process of reduction involves the following steps: (1) the ration ₁/n₂ of the natural frequencies of the motion generates a sequence. (5) $$n_1 /n_2 \sim \left\{ {Pi/qi} \right\},i = 1, 2 ...$$ of theconvergents of the correspondingcontinued fraction, (2) for a giveni, the class ofresonant terms is defined, and all non-resonant periodic terms are eliminated from the Hamiltonian by a canonical transformation, (3) thedominant resonant term and itscritical argument are calculated, (4) the number of degrees of freedom is reduced by unity by means of a canonical transformation that converts the critical argument into an angular variable of the new Hamiltonian, (5) the resonance parameter α (i) corresponding to the dominant term is then calculated, (6) a search for deep resonant terms is carried out by testing the condition (4) for the function α(i), (7) if there is only one deep resonant term, and if it strongly dominates the remaining periodic terms of the Hamiltonian, the problem is reducible to the Ideal form.  相似文献   

Ultraviolet spectrophotometry of some stars in the association Orion OBI     

R. Kh. Oganesyan  K. G. Gasparyan 《Astrophysics》1980,16(3):277-284

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The 11-year solar cycle, the Sun's rotation, and the middle stratosphere in winter. Part II: Response of planetary waves     

Boris Soukharev  Karin Labitzke   《Journal of Atmospheric and Solar》2001,63(18):344

The effect of the 11-year solar cycle on the response of planetary wavenumbers 1 and 2 at 10 and 30 hPa in winter to solar activity oscillations on the time scale of the Sun's rotation (27.2 day) is discussed in terms of statistical spectral analysis. The three oscillations studied are the 27.2 d (period of the Sun's rotation), 25.3 d (periodicity caused by modulation of the 27.2 d stratospheric response by annual atmospheric variation), and 54.4 d (doubled period of the solar rotation). A significant effect of the 11-year solar cycle is found for the 54.4 d periodicity in planetary wavenumber 1, and for the 27.2 and 25.3 d periodicities in planetary wavenumber 2. The effect of the 11-year solar cycle is expressed in the evident differences between the amplitudes of responses of planetary waves at maximum and minimum of the solar cycle: the amplitudes are much larger at high than at low solar activity. The 11-year modulation of planetary wave activity is most pronounced at mid-latitudes, mainly at 40–60°N, where the observed variability of planetary waves is large. The results obtained are in good agreement with results of the recent modeling study by Shindell et al. (Science 284 (1999) 305).  相似文献