Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs) are presented as a tool to explore the behaviour of global ocean-ice models under forcing from a common atmospheric dataset. We highlight issues arising when designing coupled global ocean and sea ice experiments, such as difficulties formulating a consistent forcing methodology and experimental protocol. Particular focus is given to the hydrological forcing, the details of which are key to realizing simulations with stable meridional overturning circulations.The atmospheric forcing from [Large, W., Yeager, S., 2004. Diurnal to decadal global forcing for ocean and sea-ice models: the data sets and flux climatologies. NCAR Technical Note: NCAR/TN-460+STR. CGD Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research] was developed for coupled-ocean and sea ice models. We found it to be suitable for our purposes, even though its evaluation originally focussed more on the ocean than on the sea-ice. Simulations with this atmospheric forcing are presented from seven global ocean-ice models using the CORE-I design (repeating annual cycle of atmospheric forcing for 500 years). These simulations test the hypothesis that global ocean-ice models run under the same atmospheric state produce qualitatively similar simulations. The validity of this hypothesis is shown to depend on the chosen diagnostic. The CORE simulations provide feedback to the fidelity of the atmospheric forcing and model configuration, with identification of biases promoting avenues for forcing dataset and/or model development. 相似文献
Late Carboniferous (300–290 Ma) calc-alkaline basalts, andesites, and rhyolites typical of volcanic arc settings occur in
the intermontane Saar-Nahe basin (SW Germany) within the Variscan orogenic belt. The volcanic rock suite was emplaced under
a regime of tensional tectonics during orogenic collapse and its origin has been explained by melting of mantle and crust
in the course of limited lithospheric rifting. We report major, trace and rare-earth-element data (REE), and Nd-Pb-Sr-O isotope
ratios for a representative sample suite, which are fully consistent with an origin closely related to plate subduction. Major
and trace element data define continuous melt differentiation trends from a precursor basaltic magma involving fractional
crystallization of olivine, pyroxene, plagioclase, and magnetite typical of magma evolution in a volcanic arc. This finding
precludes an origin of the andesitic compositions by mixing of mafic and felsic melts as can be expected in anorogenic settings.
The mafic samples have high Mg numbers (Mg# = 65–73), and high Cr (up to 330 ppm) and Ni (up to 200 ppm) contents indicating
derivation from a primitive parental melt that was formed in equilibrium with mantle peridotite. We interpret the geochemical
characteristics of the near-primary basalts as reflecting their mantle source. The volcanic rocks are characterized by enrichment
in the large ion lithophile elements (LILE), negative Nb and Ti, and positive Pb anomalies relative to the neighboring REE,
suggesting melting of a subduction-modified mantle. Initial Nd values of −0.7 to −4.6, Pb, and 87Sr/86Sr(t) isotope ratios for mafic and felsic volcanics are similar and indicate partial melting of an isotopically heterogeneous and
enriched mantle reservoir. The enrichment in incompatible trace elements and radiogenic isotopes of a precursor depleted mantle
may be attributed to addition of an old sedimentary component. The geochemical characteristics of the Saar-Nahe volcanic rocks
are distinct from typical post-collisional rock suites and they may be interpreted as geochemical evidence for ongoing plate
subduction at the margin of the Variscan orogenic belt not obvious from the regional geologic context.
Received: 3 August 1998 / Accepted: 2 January 1999 相似文献
When the National Weather Service (NWS) issues a tornado warning, the alert is rapidly and widely disseminated to individuals in the general area of the warning. Historically, the assumption has been that a false-negative warning perception (i.e., when someone located within a warning polygon does not believe they have received a tornado warning) carries a higher cost than a false-positive warning perception (i.e., when someone located outside the warning area believes they have received a warning). While many studies investigate tornado warning false alarms (i.e., when the NWS issues a tornado warning, but a tornado does not actually occur), less work focuses on studying individuals outside of the warning polygon bounds who believe they received a warning (i.e., false-positive perceptions). This work attempts to quantify the occurrence of false-positive perceptions and possible factors associated with the rate of occurrence. Following two separate storm events, Oklahomans were asked whether they perceived a tornado warning. Their geolocated responses were then compared to issued warning polygons. Individuals closer to tornado warnings or within a different type of warning (e.g., a severe thunderstorm warning) are more likely to report a false-positive perception than those farther away or outside of other hazard warnings. Further work is needed to understand the rate of false-positive perceptions across different hazards and how this may influence warning response and trust in the National Weather Service.
Ordinary chondrites have previously been nondestructively characterized using bulk magnetic susceptibility, broadly reflecting their Fe-Ni alloy content. We seek to expand the information that can be recovered from magnetic susceptibility by using the University of Toronto Electromagnetic Induction Spectrometer (UTEMIS) to measure the complex magnetic susceptibility tensor of 20 ordinary chondrites samples in addition to 16 Gao–Guenie (H5) chondrites at 35 frequencies from 90 Hz to 64 kHz, at variable low applied field strengths <10 A m−1. Following removal of the field-dependent component of susceptibility, frequency dependence, in- and out-of-phase components, and bulk magnetic susceptibility were interpreted. Most meteorites showed no frequency-dependent in-phase responses, but had a frequency-dependent out-of-phase response attributed to eddy currents induced in conductive minerals. Greater in- and out-of-phase frequency dependence correlated with lower fayalite content in olivine and was, in turn, inversely proportional to Fe-Ni alloy content. The uncertainty in the UTEMIS measurements ranges from approximately 0.05% for low-frequency in-phase measurements to a maximum of 3% for low-frequency out-of-phase measurements. This uncertainty level was far lower than the intra-meteorite variability for the Gao–Guenie suite suggesting inhomogeneity at scales of approximately 10 g. 相似文献
Broad-scale movements (10s–100s km) of highly migratory species, such as sharks, present unique management challenges as fish migrate across international boundaries, thereby exposing them to different levels of anthropogenic pressure. Lemon sharks and blacktip sharks are well-studied throughout their range in the western North Atlantic, but broad-scale movements in the Caribbean region are largely unknown. Utilizing 10 years (2004–2014) of acoustic and conventional tagging data, this study presents the post-nursery movements of young of the year (YOY) and juvenile blacktip (n = 198) and lemon (n = 130) sharks tagged in the United States Virgin Islands (USVI). A total of five (2.5%) blacktip sharks were recaptured by recreational and commercial fishers in the greater Caribbean and as far north as the southeastern coast of the United States, moving between 2 and 2,200 km and crossing a minimum of six international boundaries. Of the acoustically tagged blacktip (n = 88) and lemon (n = 45) sharks, 28 (32%) and 16 (24%), respectively, were detected outside the boundaries of the nursery area in which they were tagged, dispersing throughout the USVI territory; blacktip sharks were acoustically detected beyond territorial waters as far as Florida, United States (1,881 km). Both species transited through local marine protected areas but did not establish residency resulting in little protection. This is the first study to examine connectivity between blacktip shark populations of the USVI and the east coast of the United States. 相似文献
Mitre Island samples, Pliocene in age, can be classified together with Anuda samples, of unknown age, as island-arc basaltic andesites with tholeiitic tendencies. The presence of morphologically unusual iron—titanium oxides and of probably xenocrystic plagioclase suggest that at least part of the observed minerals crystallized in a magma chamber underlying the island. The samples apparently represent a mixture of magma fluid, cumulate plagioclase, pyroxene, and iron—titanium oxides which were ponded in a crater lava lake where they were reheated by subsequent eruptions. Many of them show symplectic magnetite formed by high-temperature oxidation of olivine. The morphological complexity and compositional homogeneity of the iron—titanium oxides cannot be explained at present.The presence of sulfide droplets inside olivine, magnetite and ilmenite crystals suggests a formation of an immiscible sulfide liquid in the magma chamber. Droplets of this liquid were overgrown by minerals crystallizing at that time and thus protected against oxidation during and after eruption.Mitre Island is a part of a currently inactive Vitiaz island arc associated in the past with a westward subduction of Pacific plate along the Vitiaz trench. Increased difficulty in subducting the large mass of the Pacific Border Plateau under the northern Fiji Plateau apparently produced counterclockwise rotation of the Vitiaz island arc. Oblique subduction was active until a steep angle was reached between the Vitiaz trench and the motion vector of the Pacific plate. Then a strike-slip fault developed in the Vitiaz trench and the subducted plate was sheared off. Recently the strike-slip zone migrated south from the Vitiaz trench across the northern Fiji Plateau and is presently extending from Aoba Island, in the New Hebrides, northeastward toward the Pacific Border Plateau. 相似文献
In many continental large igneous provinces, giant radiating dyke swarms are typically interpreted to result from the arrival of a mantle plume at the base of the lithosphere. Mafic dyke swarms in the Emeishan large igneous province (ELIP) have not received much attention prior to this study. We show that the geochemical characteristics and geochronological data of the mafic dykes are broadly similar to those of the spatially associated lavas, suggesting they were derived from a common parental magma. Based on the regional geological data and our field observations, we mapped the spatial distribution patterns of mafic dyke swarms in the ELIP, and recognized six dyke sub‐swarms, forming an overall radiating dyke swarm and converging in the Yongren area, Yunnan province. This location coincides with the maximum pre‐eruptive domal uplift, and is close to the locations of high‐temperature picrites. Our study suggests that the Yongren area may represent the mantle plume centre during the peak of Emeishan magmatism. 相似文献
The Naples–Dollar Bay Estuarine System (NDBES), situated in southwestern Florida, has undergone extensive modifications caused directly and indirectly by anthropogenic influences. These alterations include: (1) the substitution of mangrove-forested shorelines with concrete bulkheads and installation of residential canals; (2) installation of a regionally extensive navigational channel; and (3) canalization of the watershed, resulting in annexation of a heavily altered drainage basin ten times the size of the pre-alteration basin and with a significantly different soil and bedrock. The NDBES consists of northern Naples Bay, southern Naples Bay, and Dollar Bay, whose shorelines range from highly developed to undeveloped, respectively. This project explored the geological response of the system to these alterations using data from side-scan sonar, sediment grab samples, and vibracores. In highly urbanized northern Naples Bay, benthic substrates consist primarily of muddy sand with few oyster reefs. Southern Naples Bay and Dollar Bay, however, consist of coarser sediment, and are characterized by extensive mangrove shorelines and numerous fringing oyster reefs. The impact of anthropogenic alterations has significantly shifted sediment distributions in northern Naples Bay from a relatively coarser to a relatively fine grained substrate; to a lesser degree in southern Naples Bay, and Dollar Bay, this transition has not taken place due to the general lack of anthropogenic modifications made to this part of the system. 相似文献
GOCE is ESA’s gravity field mission and the first satellite ever that measures gravitational gradients in space, that is,
the second spatial derivatives of the Earth’s gravitational potential. The goal is to determine the Earth’s mean gravitational
field with unprecedented accuracy at spatial resolutions down to 100 km. GOCE carries a gravity gradiometer that allows deriving
the gravitational gradients with very high precision to achieve this goal. There are two types of GOCE Level 2 gravitational
gradients (GGs) along the orbit: the gravitational gradients in the gradiometer reference frame (GRF) and the gravitational
gradients in the local north oriented frame (LNOF) derived from the GGs in the GRF by point-wise rotation. Because the VXX, VYY, VZZ and VXZ are much more accurate than VXY and VYZ, and because the error of the accurate GGs increases for low frequencies, the rotation requires that part of the measured
GG signal is replaced by model signal. However, the actual quality of the gradients in GRF and LNOF needs to be assessed.
We analysed the outliers in the GGs, validated the GGs in the GRF using independent gravity field information and compared
their assessed error with the requirements. In addition, we compared the GGs in the LNOF with state-of-the-art global gravity
field models and determined the model contribution to the rotated GGs. We found that the percentage of detected outliers is
below 0.1% for all GGs, and external gravity data confirm that the GG scale factors do not differ from one down to the 10−3 level. Furthermore, we found that the error of VXX and VYY is approximately at the level of the requirement on the gravitational gradient trace, whereas the VZZ error is a factor of 2–3 above the requirement for higher frequencies. We show that the model contribution in the rotated
GGs is 2–35% dependent on the gravitational gradient. Finally, we found that GOCE gravitational gradients and gradients derived
from EIGEN-5C and EGM2008 are consistent over the oceans, but that over the continents the consistency may be less, especially
in areas with poor terrestrial gravity data. All in all, our analyses show that the quality of the GOCE gravitational gradients
is good and that with this type of data valuable new gravity field information is obtained. 相似文献