Subtidal variability of transverse flow off a cape     

Arnoldo?Valle–LevinsonEmail author  Mary Catherine?Brown 《Ocean Dynamics》2003,53(3):166-175

Time series of velocity profiles at two Chesapeake Bay entrance sites were used to characterize the subtidal variability of transverse flows off a cape. A shallow sampling site was located near Cape Henry over 6 m of water and separated from a deep site, 20 m deep, by a distance of 4 km. The velocity profiles showed that wind-induced subtidal variations in general masked curvature effects (centrifugal accelerations) that may produce secondary circulation associated with tidal flow around a cape. Such secondary circulation, consisting of flow away from the cape at surface and toward the cape at depth, was observed only during periods of weak winds. Most of the time, transverse flows were unidirectional throughout the water column and moved in opposite directions at the two sites examined. This caused convergence of transverse flow between the two sites under the influence of northerly winds and divergence of transverse flow with southwesterly winds. In addition to unidirectional and curvature-induced secondary flows, other modes of subtidal variability consisted of (1) two-layered responses with surface flow toward the cape, and (2) three-layered responses. These two- and three-layered structures were observed more frequently at the deep site, where greater stratification is expected, than at the shallow site.Responsible Editor: Iris Grabemann  相似文献   

Malacological records from the Upper Pleistocene at Portelet (Jersey, Channel Islands): comparisons with western and central Europe     

DENIS-DIDIER ROUSSEAU  DAVID HENRY KEEN 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1989,18(1):61-66

New sampling of Mollusca from Portelet, Jersey, Channel Islands, has allowed characterization of local conditions during deposition of the pre-Kesselt Weichselian loess. The Portelet fauna also allows a reassessment of the distribution of the Columella fauna in western Europe. Comparison of the Portelet fauna with those of eastern France and central Europe shows a decrease of the number of species present in this far-western locality which appears to be either a result of the operation of a typical 'peninsula' effect comparable to that seen in other zoological groups or a consequence of their occurrence in a marginal part of the European loess belt.  相似文献   

Comparison of the radiative properties and direct radiative effect of aerosols from a global aerosol model and remote sensing data over ocean   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

GUNNAR MYHRE  NICOLAS BELLOUIN  TORE F. BERGLEN  TERJE K. BERNTSEN  OLIVIER BOUCHER  ALF GRINI  IVAR S. A. ISAKSEN  MONA JOHNSRUD  MICHAEL I. MISHCHENKO  FRODE STORDAL  DIDIER TANRÉ 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2007,59(1):115-129

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Holocene climate as reflected by a malacological sequence at Verrières, France     

NICOLE LIMONDIN  DENIS–DIDIER ROUSSEAU 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1991,20(3):207-229

Though numerous analyses have been made of Holocene pollen sequences, they come from similar environmental contexts, mainly peat deposits. Land snails can provide good palaeoecological and palaeoclimatical data in different drier environmental settings. The Verrières deposits, located in the Seine Valley, southeast of Paris, provide rich and abundant malacofaunas. We compare the well–defined local biostratigraphy with other mollusc stratigraphies from Burgundy, the closet site to the studied region. Multivariate analysis of the malacofaunas indicates that temperature and moisture did not always vary in parallel during the Holocene. On the other hand, Verrières malacofaunas reflect the main Holocene changes, as observed in the classical pollen series, confirming the reliability of the local biostratigraphy. The younger Dryas in Verrières was cold and cry. This was followed by the Preboreal phase, which is not well preserved at Verrières, but shows cool and humid conditions. The Boreal and Subboreal both show a cold and moist event bounded by two temperature phases. The Atlantic is also divided into two temperate phases by a cool and moist event. The Subatlantic shows temperature oscillations with cool peaks, but moisture shows a continuous trend to dryness.  相似文献   

Radar Observations of Taurid Complex Meteor Showers in 2003: Activity and Mass Distribution     

P. Pecina  V. Porub–an  D. Pecinová  J. Toth 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2004,95(1-4):681-688

Results of Ondřejov radar observation of Taurid complex meteor showers, i.e. ζ Perseids, β Taurids, S and N Taurids, performed in 2003, are presented. We have found some mass segregation within ζ Perseid, β Taurid and S Taurid showers. We have also established conspicuous lack of long duration echoes (with T ⩾ 3 s resp. T ⩾ 5 s) in S and N Taurid showers. The lack within remaining showers is not so pronounced but still persists.  相似文献   

Neural network interpolation of the magnetic field for the LISA Pathfinder Diagnostics Subsystem     

Marc Diaz-Aguilo  Alberto Lobo  Enrique García–Berro 《Experimental Astronomy》2011,30(1):1-21

LISA Pathfinder is a science and technology demonstrator of the European Space Agency within the framework of its LISA mission, which aims to be the first space-borne gravitational wave observatory. The payload of LISA Pathfinder is the so-called LISA Technology Package, which is designed to measure relative accelerations between two test masses in nominal free fall. Its disturbances are monitored and dealt by the diagnostics subsystem. This subsystem consists of several modules, and one of these is the magnetic diagnostics system, which includes a set of four tri-axial fluxgate magnetometers, intended to measure with high precision the magnetic field at the positions of the test masses. However, since the magnetometers are located far from the positions of the test masses, the magnetic field at their positions must be interpolated. It has been recently shown that because there are not enough magnetic channels, classical interpolation methods fail to derive reliable measurements at the positions of the test masses, while neural network interpolation can provide the required measurements at the desired accuracy. In this paper we expand these studies and we assess the reliability and robustness of the neural network interpolation scheme for variations of the locations and possible offsets of the magnetometers, as well as for changes in environmental conditions. We find that neural networks are robust enough to derive accurate measurements of the magnetic field at the positions of the test masses in most circumstances.  相似文献   

Approximative analytic study of fermions in magnetar’s crust; ultra-relativistic plane waves, Heun and Mathieu solutions and beyond     

Marina–Aura Dariescu  Ciprian Dariescu 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2012,341(2):429-435

Working with a magnetic field periodic along Oz and decaying in time, we deal with the Dirac-type equation characterizing the fermions evolving in magnetar’s crust. For ultra-relativistic particles, one can employ the perturbative approach, to compute the conserved current density components. If the magnetic field is frozen and the magnetar is treated as a stationary object, the fermion’s wave function is expressed in terms of the Heun’s Confluent functions. Finally, we are extending some previous investigations on the linearly independent fermionic modes solutions to the Mathieu’s equation and we discuss the energy spectrum and the Mathieu Characteristic Exponent.  相似文献   

Book Reviews     

DENIS WHITE  A. JON KIMERLING  KEVIN SAHR  LIAN SONG 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(8):805-806

Regular grid sampling structures in the plane are a common spatial framework for many studies. Constructing grids with desirable properties such as equality of area and shape is more difficult on a sphere. We studied the distortion characteristics of recursive partitions of the surface of the globe starting with the octahedron and icosahedron polyhedral models. We used five different methods for mapping from the polyhedral model to the surface of the sphere: the Gnomonic projection, Fuller's Dymaxion projection, Snyder's equal area polyhedral projection, direct spherical subdivision, and a recursive polyhedral projection. We increased partition density using both a 4-fold and a 9-fold ratio at each level of recursive subdivision by subdividing to the 8th level with the 4-fold density ratio (65 536 cells per polyhedral face) and to the fifth level with the 9-fold density ratio (59 049 cells per polyhedral face). We measured the area and perimeter of each cell at each level of recursion for each method on each model using each density ratio. From these basic measurements we calculated the range and standard deviation of the area measurement, and the mean, range, and standard deviation of a compactness measurement defined as the ratio of (the ratio of the perimeter to the area of the cell) to (the ratio of the perimeter to the area of a spherical circle with the same area). We looked at these basic measurements and their statistics using graphs of variation with recursion level, sums of squares analyses of variation, histograms of the distributions, maps of the spatial variation, and correlograms. The Snyder projection performed best in area distortion and the Gnomonic projection performed best in compactness distortion. The Fuller projection and the Sphere method had moderate distortion in both area and compactness relative to the worst methods. There was little difference in distortion performance between partitions using the 4-fold density ratio and those using the 9-fold density ratio. Partitions based on the icosahedron performed better for all statistics than those based on the octahedron.  相似文献   

Reduction of the thermocline feedback associated with mean SST bias in ENSO simulation   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Baoqiang Xiang  Bin Wang  Qinghua Ding  Fei–Fei Jin  Xiouhua Fu  Hyung-Jin Kim 《Climate Dynamics》2012,39(6):1413-1430

Associated with the double Inter-tropical convergence zone problem, a dipole SST bias pattern (cold in the equatorial central Pacific and warm in the southeast tropical Pacific) remains a common problem inherent in many contemporary coupled models. Based on a newly-developed coupled model, we performed a control run and two sensitivity runs, one is a coupled run with annual mean SST correction and the other is an ocean forced run. By comparison of these three runs, we demonstrated that a serious consequence of this SST bias is to severely suppress the thermocline feedback in a realistic simulation of the El Ni?o/Southern Oscillation. Firstly, the excessive cold tongue extension pushes the anomalous convection far westward from the equatorial central Pacific, prominently diminishing the convection-low level wind feedback and thus the air-sea coupling strength. Secondly, the equatorial surface wind anomaly exhibits a relatively uniform meridional structure with weak gradient, contributing to a weakened wind-thermocline feedback. Thirdly, the equatorial cold SST bias induces a weakened upper-ocean stratification and thus yields the underestimation of the thermocline-subsurface temperature feedback. Finally, the dipole SST bias underestimates the mean upwelling through (a) undermining equatorial mean easterly wind stress, and (b) enhancing convective mixing and thus reducing the upper ocean stratification, which weakens vertical shear of meridional currents and near-surface Ekman-divergence.  相似文献   

Temperature oscillations over the last 10,000 years in western Europe estimated from terrestrial mollusc assemblages     

DENIS-DIDIER ROUSSEAU  NICOLE LIMONDIN  FRÉDÉRIC MAGNIN  JEAN-JACQUES PUISSEGUR 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1994,23(1):66-73

Snail assemblages are used to estimate February and August temperatures during the past 10,000 years in western Europe. We find that a strong warming occurred after the Younger Dryas event, followed by several rapid cooling and warming events. These observations are in agreement with insect and pollen proxy data from the European continent and with estimates of sea-surface temperature from the North Atlantic Ocean as well as with fluctuations of glaciers in western Norway. This study also confirms that terrestrial molluscs can provide reliable climatic data in conjunction with other proxy data.  相似文献