Erratum to: Using meteorological data to forecast seasonal runoff on the River Jhelum,Pakistan [Journal of Hydrology 361 (2008) 10–23]     

D.R. Archer  H.J. Fowler 《Journal of Hydrology》2009,364(1-2):200

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A Simple Thousand-Year Prognosis for Oceanic and Atmospheric Carbon Change     

A. C. Fowler 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2015,172(1):49-56

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The effects of burrowing activity on archaeological sites: Ndondondwane,South Africa     

Kent D. Fowler  Haskel J. Greenfield  Leonard O. van Schalkwyk 《Geoarchaeology》2004,19(5):441-470

Burrowing activity is a widely recognized source of site modification. Most taphonomic studies of burrowers emphasize their destructive aspects on the archaeological record. Excavations at Ndondondwane, South Africa, suggest burrowing activity is destructive in some ways, but may also preserve cultural behavior. Drawing on both direct and indirect sources of evidence, we discuss how burrowing activity by rodents, earthworms, and termites can inform about pedogenic and depositional processes at archaeological sites and both preserve and destroy evidence of intra‐settlement patterns and early African cultigens. Specifically, we demonstrate the limited effect of earthworms on site stratigraphy, how the localized activity of termites have preserved casts of early African cultigens, and how the ability of archaeologists to distinguish the devastating effects of rodent burrowing from remains of architectural features have permitted important inferences about social and ritual life in early African farming communities. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.  相似文献   

Particulate organic matter and ballast fluxes measured using time-series and settling velocity sediment traps in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea     

Cindy Lee  Michael L. Peterson  Stuart G. Wakeham  Robert A. Armstrong  J. Kirk Cochran  Juan Carlos Miquel  Scott W. Fowler  David Hirschberg  Aaron Beck  Jianhong Xue 《Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography》2009,56(18):1420-1436

Prompted by recent data analyses suggesting that the flux of particulate organic carbon sinking into deep waters is determined by fluxes of mineral ballasts, we undertook a study of the relationships among organic matter (OM), calcium carbonate, opal, lithogenic material, and excess aluminum fluxes as part of the MedFlux project. We measured fluxes of particulate components during Spring and Summer of 2003, and Spring of 2005, using a swimmer-excluding sediment trap design capable of measuring fluxes both in a time-series (TS) mode and in a configuration for obtaining particle settling velocity (SV) profiles. On the basis of these studies, we suggest that distinct OM–ballast associations observed in particles sinking at a depth of 200 m imply that the mechanistic basis of the organic matter–ballast association is set in the upper water column above the Twilight Zone, and that the importance of different ballast types follows the seasonal succession of phytoplankton. As in other studies, carbonate appears to enhance the flux of organic matter over opal. Particles must be at least half organic matter before their settling velocity is affected by ballast concentration. This lack of change in ballast composition with SV in particles with <40% OM content suggests that particle SV reaches a maximum because of the increasing importance of inertial drag. Relative amounts of OM and opal decrease with depth due to decomposition and dissolution; carbonates and lithogenic material contribute about the same amount to total mass, or increase slightly, throughout the water column. The high proportion of excess Al cannot be explained by its incorporation into diatom opal or reverse weathering, so Al is most likely adsorbed to particulate oxides. On shorter time scales, dust appears to increase particle flux through its role in aggregation rather than by nutrient inputs enhancing productivity. We suggest that the role of dust as a catalyst in particle formation may be a central mechanism in flux formation in this region, particularly when zooplankton fecal pellet production is low.  相似文献   

Particulate organic carbon–Th relationships in particles separated by settling velocity in the northwest Mediterranean Sea     

J. Szlosek  J.K. Cochran  J.C. Miquel  P. Masqu  R.A. Armstrong  S.W. Fowler  B. Gasser  D.J. Hirschberg 《Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography》2009,56(18):1519-1532

In order to better understand the relationship between the natural radionuclide ²³⁴Th and particulate organic carbon (POC), marine particles were collected in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea (spring/summer, 2003 and 2005) by sediment traps that separated them according to their in situ settling velocities. Particles also were collected in time-series sediment traps. Particles settling at rates of >100 m d⁻¹ carried 50% and 60% of the POC and ²³⁴Th fluxes, respectively, in both sampling years. The POC flux decreased with depth for all particle settling velocity intervals, with the greatest decrease (factor of 2.3) in the slowly settling intervals (0.68–49 m d⁻¹) over trap depths of 524–1918 m, likely due to dissolution and decomposition of material. In contrast the flux of ²³⁴Th associated with the slowly settling particles remained constant with depth, while ²³⁴Th fluxes on the rapidly settling particles increased. Taking into account decay of ²³⁴Th on the settling particles, the patterns of ²³⁴Th flux with depth suggest that either both slow and fast settling particles scavenge additional ²³⁴Th during their descent or there is significant exchange between the particle classes. The observed changes in POC and ²³⁴Th flux produce a general decrease in POC/²³⁴Th of the settling particles with depth. There is no consistent trend in POC/²³⁴Th with settling velocity, such as might be expected from surface area and volume considerations. Good correlations are observed between ²³⁴Th and POC, lithogenic material and CaCO₃ for all settling velocity intervals. Pseudo-K_ds calculated for ²³⁴Th in the shallow traps (2005) are ranked as lithogenic material opal <calcium carbonate <organic carbon. Organic carbon contributes 33% to the bulk K_d, and for lithogenic material, opal and CaCO₃, the fraction is 22% each. Decreases in POC/²³⁴Th with depth are accompanied by increases in the ratio of ²³⁴Th to lithogenic material and opal. No change in the relationship between ²³⁴Th and CaCO₃ was evident with depth. These patterns are consistent with loss of POC through decomposition, opal through dissolution and additional scavenging of ²³⁴Th onto lithogenic material as the particles sink.  相似文献   

Segmented Principal Component Analysis for Parallel Compression of Hyperspectral Imagery   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Qian Du Wei Zhu He Yang Fowler  J.E. 《Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE》2009,6(4):713-717

Principal component analysis (PCA) is widely used for spectral decorrelation in the JPEG2000 compression of hyperspectral imagery. However, due to the data-dependent nature of principal components, the principal component transform matrix is stored in the JPEG2000 bitstream, constituting an overhead that is often negligible if the spatial size of the image is large. However, in parallel compression in which the data set is partitioned to multiple independent processing nodes, the overhead may no longer remain negligible. It is shown that a segmented approach to PCA can greatly mitigate the detrimental effects of transform-matrix overhead and can outperform wavelet-based decorrelation which entails no such overhead.  相似文献   

Vulnerability of pastoral farming in Hawke's Bay to future climate change: Development of a pre‐screening (bottom‐up) methodology     

Anthony M. Fowler  Simon Aiken  Kim Maree 《New Zealand geographer》2013,69(2):120-135

Although future climate change will significantly affect New Zealand's climate, how regional climates will be changed remains highly uncertain. As a consequence, pre‐screening sensitivity analysis is recommended for climate‐sensitive activities. A ‘bottom‐up’ approach intended to serve this purpose in the context of non‐irrigated pasture is developed and demonstrated in the Hawke's Bay context. This is achieved using a simple daily water balance model to simulate near‐surface hydrological processes and empirical relationships between transpiration and pasture dry matter production. The Hawke's Bay case study indicates that the methodology has merit and is worthwhile pursuing nationally (with refinements).  相似文献   

SPATIAL PROPERTIES OF LIGHTNING-CAUSED FOREST FIRES     

Phillip M. Fowler  David O. Asleson 《自然地理学》2013,34(2):180-189

Some 2088 lightning-caused forest fires that occurred between 1960 and 1971 in northern Idaho are described and analyzed relative to the properties of pattern, central tendency, and spatial variability. Pattern analysis reveals that randomness characterizes both the distribution of total fires and of annual mean areal centers. A model is proposed relating the latitudinal and longitudinal behavior of mean areal centers to shifts in storm tracks and resultant adjustments in fuel-moisture conditions. Rank correlation analysis reveals that northwest shifts in mean areal centers are associated with higher fuel-moisture conditions whereas southeast movements in mean areal centers are related to reduced fuel-moisture conditions. No significant differences were revealed in the variability of the annual standard distances of fire distribution, nor was there any association between temperature and azimuthal adjustments in mean areal centers.  相似文献   

THE LOCATION OF LIGHTNING-CAUSED WILDLAND FIRES,NORTHERN IDAHO     

Phillip M. Fowler  David O. Asleson 《自然地理学》2013,34(3):240-252

Elevation, timber type, size and density of stand, position on slope, and slope aspect were assessed as to their effects upon the location of 2088 lightning-caused forest fires in a 1.4 million-hectare tract of northern Idaho. χ² analysis revealed that relative fire frequency was greatest between 1050 and 1650 m on the upper 1/3 of those slopes which lie perpendicular to dominant storm tracks and which are covered with Hemlock, Alpine Fir and Spruce.  相似文献   

QUANTITATIVE LINEARS ANALYSIS IN MINERAL EXPLORATION     

Phillip M. Fowler 《自然地理学》2013,34(1):88-95

Surficial spatial variation in air photo linears is evaluated as a mineral search methodology having potential in differentiating between ore-bearing and non-ore-bearing areas. Linear density, bearing, length, and pattern were compared in equal sized plots of mineralized and adjacent non-mineralized ground in each of 10 study areas. Variance and discriminant analysis indicate that the variables of density and pattern are useful in the prediction and classification of areas as either mineralized or non-mineralized.  相似文献