The Fallacy of Drifting Snow     

Edgar L. Andreas 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2011,141(3):333-347

A common parametrization over snow-covered surfaces that are undergoing saltation is that the aerodynamic roughness length for wind speed (z ₀) scales as au_*²/g{\alpha u_\ast^2/g}, where u _* is the friction velocity, g is the acceleration of gravity, and α is an empirical constant. Data analyses seem to support this scaling: many published plots of z ₀ measured over snow demonstrate proportionality to u_*²{u_\ast^2 }. In fact, I show similar plots here that are based on two large eddy-covariance datasets: one collected over snow-covered Arctic sea ice; another collected over snow-covered Antarctic sea ice. But in these and in most such plots from the literature, the independent variable, u _*, was used to compute z ₀ in the first place; the plots thus suffer from fictitious correlation that causes z ₀ to unavoidably increase with u _* without any intervening physics. For these two datasets, when I plot z ₀ against u _* derived from a bulk flux algorithm—and thus minimize the fictitious correlation—z ₀ is independent of u _* in the drifting snow region, u _* ≥ 0.30 ms⁻¹. I conclude that the relation z₀ = au_*²/g{z_0 = \alpha u_\ast^2/g} when snow is drifting is a fallacy fostered by analyses that suffer from fictitious correlation.  相似文献   

Manmade Vulnerability of the Cancun Beach System: The Case of Hurricane Wilma   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Rodolfo Silva Casarin  Gabriel Ruiz Martinez  Ismael Mariño‐Tapia  Gregorio Posada Vanegas  Edgar Mendoza Baldwin  Edgar Escalante Mancera 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2012,40(9):911-919

Climate change and resultant coastal erosion and flooding have been the focus of many recent analyses. Often these studies overlook the effects of manmade modifications to the coastline which have reduced its resilience to storm events. In this investigation, we integrate previous reports, historical photo analysis, field work, and the application of numerical models to better understand the effects of Wilma, the most destructive hurricane to affect Cancun, Mexico. Huge waves (of significant height, >12 m), long mean wave periods (>12 s), devastating winds (>250 km/h), and powerful currents (>2 m/s) removed >7 million cubic meters of sand from the Cancun beach system, leaving 68% of the sub‐aerial beach as bedrock, and the rest considerably eroded. Numerical simulations show that the modifications to the barrier island imposed by tourist infrastructure have considerably increased the rigidity of the system, increasing the potential erosion of the beach under extreme conditions. If there were no structural barriers, a series of breaches could occur along the beach, allowing exchange of water and alleviating storm surge on other sections of the beach. If the effects caused by anthropogenic changes to Cancun are ignored, the analysis is inaccurate and misleading.  相似文献   

The nature of the near-infrared core source in 3C 433     

Edgar A. Ramírez  C. N. Tadhunter  D. Axon  D. Batcheldor  S. Young  C. Packham  W. B. Sparks 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,399(4):2165-2171

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The Near-Surface Stress Profile and Conditional Averaging of Turbulence     

George Treviño  Edgar L. Andreas 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2009,132(3):475-481

Using the conditional average formulation, we suggest a new explanation for why the stress in the atmospheric surface layer is often observed to vary with height. In essence, because turbulence series are always correlated for small lags, the steady-state equations of motion with negligible viscous terms that traditionally require vertical fluxes to be constant with height accordingly now require the vertical fluxes to vary with height. This result has implications for interpreting and validating Monin–Obukhov similarity theory.  相似文献   

Evidence for plunging river plume deposits in the Pahrump Hills member of the Murray formation,Gale crater,Mars     

Kathryn M. Stack  John P. Grotzinger  Michael P. Lamb  Sanjeev Gupta  David M. Rubin  Linda C. Kah  Lauren A. Edgar  Deirdra M. Fey  Joel A. Hurowitz  Marie McBride  Frances Rivera‐Hernndez  Dawn Y. Sumner  Jason K. Van Beek  Rebecca M. E. Williams  Robin Aileen Yingst 《Sedimentology》2019,66(5):1768-1802

Recent robotic missions to Mars have offered new insights into the extent, diversity and habitability of the Martian sedimentary rock record. Since the Curiosity rover landed in Gale crater in August 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory Science Team has explored the origins and habitability of ancient fluvial, deltaic, lacustrine and aeolian deposits preserved within the crater. This study describes the sedimentology of a ca 13 m thick succession named the Pahrump Hills member of the Murray formation, the first thick fine‐grained deposit discovered in situ on Mars. This work evaluates the depositional processes responsible for its formation and reconstructs its palaeoenvironmental setting. The Pahrump Hills succession can be sub‐divided into four distinct sedimentary facies: (i) thinly laminated mudstone; (ii) low‐angle cross‐stratified mudstone; (iii) cross‐stratified sandstone; and (iv) thickly laminated mudstone–sandstone. The very fine grain size of the mudstone facies and abundant millimetre‐scale and sub‐millimetre‐scale laminations exhibiting quasi‐uniform thickness throughout the Pahrump Hills succession are most consistent with lacustrine deposition. Low‐angle geometric discordances in the mudstone facies are interpreted as ‘scour and drape’ structures and suggest the action of currents, such as those associated with hyperpycnal river‐generated plumes plunging into a lake. Observation of an overall upward coarsening in grain size and thickening of laminae throughout the Pahrump Hills succession is consistent with deposition from basinward progradation of a fluvial‐deltaic system derived from the northern crater rim into the Gale crater lake. Palaeohydraulic modelling constrains the salinity of the ancient lake in Gale crater: assuming river sediment concentrations typical of floods on Earth, plunging river plumes and sedimentary structures like those observed at Pahrump Hills would have required lake densities near freshwater to form. The depositional model for the Pahrump Hills member presented here implies the presence of an ancient sustained, habitable freshwater lake in Gale crater for at least ca 10³ to 10⁷ Earth years.  相似文献   

Interpretation of Sa for a Shield Structure     

Fred Schwab  Edgar Kausel  Leon Knopoff 《Geophysical Journal International》1974,36(3):737-742

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Application of new thermodynamic data to grossular phase relations     

Dexter Perkins III  Eric J. Essene  Edgar F. Westrum Jr.  Victor J. Wall 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1977,64(2):137-147

Recent low temperature, adiabatic calorimetric heat capacity measurements for grossular have been combined with DSC measurements to give entropies up to 1000 K. In conjunction with enthalpy of solution values for grossular, these data have yielded H _f ^o (298.15K) and G _f ^o (298.15K) values of –1583.2 ± 3.5 and –1496.74 ± 3.7 kcal mol^–1 respectively. For 15 reactions in the CaO-Al₂O₃-SiO₂-H₂O system, thermodynamically calculated P-T curves have been compared with experimental reversals and have shown good agreement in most cases. Calculations indicate that gehlenite is probably totally disordered. Estimates of zoisite and lawsonite entropies are consistent with the phase equilibrium and grossular data, but estimates of the entropies of pyrope and andradite show large discrepancies when compared with experimental reversals.Contribution no. 600 from the Mineralogical Laboratory, The Department of Geology and Mineralogy, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA  相似文献   

Experimental investigation of the formation of cordierite-orthopyroxene parageneses in pelitic rocks     

Edgar Hoffer  James A. Grant 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1980,73(1):15-22

Cordierite and orthopyroxene (or orthoamphibole) are widespread in migmatitic terranes, and partial melting of pelitic rocks may be important in their production. In particular, the reaction quartz +albite+biotite+garnet+water vapor = cordierite +orthopyroxene or orthoamphibole+melt was among reactions discussed by Grant (1973) but poorly constrained in pressure-temperature space.This reaction involves too many phases to be readily studied experimentally. Therefore simpler melting and dehydration reactions involving quartzalbite-biotite-cordierite-orthopyroxene were investigated.In conjunction with the work of Hoffer (1976, 1978) these experiments place useful constraints on the above reaction and on the reaction quartz+albite+aluminosilicate+biotite+vapor = cordierite+garnet+melt. In pelitic rocks near the second illimanite isograd, cordierite and garnet may coexist with melt as low as 660° C and cordierite and orthopyroxene may coexist with melt at temperatures less than 675° C. In the absence of significant Mn or Ca, in pelitic rocks within the realm of melting, biotite+garnet assemblages are probably limited to pressures greater than 2kb and aluminosilicate+biotite assemblages to pressures greater than 3kb.  相似文献   

The thermodynamic properties and phase relations of some minerals in the system CaO-AI2O3-SiO2-H2O     

Dexter Perkins  Edgar F. Westrum  Eric J. Essene 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1980,44(1):61-84

The heat capacities of lawsonite, margante, prehnite and zoisite have been measured from 5 to 350 K with an adiabatic-shield calorimeter and from 320 to 999.9 K with a differential-scanning calorimeter. At 298.15 K, their heat capacities, corrected to end-member compositions, are 66.35, 77.30, 79.13 and 83.84 cal K^?1 mol^?1; their entropies are 54.98, 63.01, 69.97 and 70.71 cal K^?1 mol^?1, respectively. Their high-temperature heat capacities are described by the following equations (in calories, K, mol): Lawsonite (298–600 K): Cp° = 66.28 + 55.95 × 10^?3T ? 15.27 × 10⁵T^?2 Margarite (298–1000 K): Cp° = 101.83 + 24.17 × 10^?3T ? 30.24 × 10⁵T^?2 Prehnite (298–800 K): Cp° = 97.04 + 29.99 × 10^?3T ? 25.02 × 10⁵T^?2 Zoisite (298–730 K): Cp° = 98.92 + 36.36 × 10^?3T ? 24.08 × 10⁵T^?2 Calculated Clapeyron slopes for univariant equilibria in the CaO-Al₂O₃-SiO₂-H₂O system compare well with experimental results in most cases. However, the reaction zoisite + quartz = anorthite + grossular + H₂O and some reactions involving prehnite or margarite show disagreements between the experimentally determined and the calculated slopes which may possibly be due to disorder in experimental run products. A phase diagram, calculated from the measured thermodynamic values in conjunction with selected experimental results places strict limits on the stabilities of prehnite and assemblages such as prehnite + aragonite, grossular + lawsonite, grossular + quartz, zoisite + quartz, and zoisite + kyanite + quartz. The presence of this last assemblage in eclogites indicates that they were formed at moderate to high water pressure.  相似文献   

Substitution mechanisms and solubility of titanium in phlogopites from rocks of probable mantle origin   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

M. Arima  A. D. Edgar 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1981,77(3):288-295

Previously proposed substitution mechanisms for Ti in phlogopites, based on experimental studies and crystal chemistry, have been examined using data for 81 phlogopites from mantle-derived rocks (primarily as nodules in kimberlites and also from alkali basalts, lamprophyres and carbonatites), 49 phlogopites from high-K rocks with basaltic affinities, and from 32 phlogopites crystallized in high pressure experiments mainly on high-K rock compositions. For the majority of phlogopites from the kimberlite group and for all those crystallized in the experimental studies, the substitution of Ti can be represented by a combination of the mechanisms represented by 2Mg^[VI]⇌ Ti^[VI]□^[VI] and Mg^[VI]2Si^[IV]⇌Ti^[VI]2Al^[IV]. Some phlogopites in ultrapotassic rocks have only the former substitution mechanism. The Ti contents of phlogopites generally increase with decreasing octahedral site occupancy and decreasing Si+Al^[VI]. For the phlogopites crystallized in the experiments on high-K rocks, the solubility of Ti increases with increasing fO₂ and temperature, and possibly with decreasing pressure at constant fO₂. The effect of the composition of the liquids used in the experimental studies from which these phlogopites have crystallized has only minor effect on either the substitution mechanism or the solubility of Ti in phlogopites. This suggests that phlogopite in high-K rocks may be a potential geothermometer and possibly a geobarometer.  相似文献