The characteristics of impulsive solar EUV bursts     

A. Gordon Emslie  Robert W. Noyes 《Solar physics》1978,57(2):373-383

We examine a number of high time resolution intensity-time profiles of EUV impulsive bursts as observed by the Harvard College Observatory EUV Spectroheliometer carried aboard the Skylab Apollo Telescope Mount. These bursts are found to be synchronous (to within the instrumental time resolution of 5.5 s) in all wavelengths observed, corresponding to emissions from temperatures ranging from upper chromospheric to coronal. The distribution with temperature of a suitably defined emission measure parameter is also examined as a function of time throughout the bursts and a marked similarity in the shape of this distribution, both between different events and throughout the time history of any particular event, is noted. The significance of these observations for physical processes associated with EUV bursts is briefly discussed.On leave from Dept. of Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, U.K.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Walther Manshard  Gordon R. Lewthwaite  Gösta A. Erikson  Göran Sidenbladh  Mark Catudal  Keiichi Takeuchi 《GeoJournal》1977,1(2):83-84

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An Equation of State for the Core of the Earth     

Leon Knopoff  Gordon J. F. MacDonald 《Geophysical Journal International》1960,3(1):68-77

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Predictions of exceptionally strong ‘4430’ in the backscattered light from reflection nebulae     

Gordon E. Bromage 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1972,18(2):449-461

The strength of the 4430 interstellar spectrum feature in the backscattered light from certain reflection nebulae is shown to be a sensitive indicator of the feature's origin.Backscattering 4430 profiles have been computed for several, models of silicate, graphite, dirtyice-coated graphite, and silicon carbide grains with impurities. The effect on these profiles of both non-sphericity of the grains and finite optical thickness of the reflection nebula have been considered. For silicate grains, the 4430 central depth is predicted to be up to ten times its value in the corresponding extinction profile, whereas for graphite only a rather weak feature is expected. Some comments are made concerning the future comparison of observations with these theretical results.  相似文献   

Thermally Activated Processes in the Earth: Creep and Seismic Attenuation     

Robert B. Gordon 《Geophysical Journal International》1967,14(1-4):33-43

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Soil feedback drives the mid-Holocene North African monsoon northward in fully coupled CCSM2 simulations with a dynamic vegetation model   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Samuel Levis  Gordon B. Bonan  Céline Bonfils 《Climate Dynamics》2004,23(7-8):791-802

We explore climate-vegetation interactions in mid-Holocene North Africa with a suite of community climate system model (CCSM2) simulations. The CCSM includes synchronously coupled atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, land, and vegetation models. The CCSMs present-day precipitation for North Africa compares well with simulations of other models and observations. Mid-Holocene data reveal a wetter and greener Sahara compared to the present. The CCSM exhibits a greater, closer to the expected, precipitation increase than other models, and in response, grasses advance from 18.75° to 22.5°N in much of North Africa. Precipitation is enhanced locally by the northward advance of grasses, but suppressed regionally mainly due to an insufficient albedo decrease with the expansion of vegetation. Prior studies have always lowered the surface albedo with the expansion of vegetation in North Africa. In the CCSMs mid-Holocene simulations, the albedo decreases more because wetter soils are simulated darker than drier soils than due to expanding vegetation. These results isolate albedo as the key ingredient in obtaining a positive precipitation-vegetation feedback in North Africa. Two additional simulations support this conclusion. In the first simulation, the deserts sandy soil textures are changed to loam to represent increased organic matter. Soil water retention and grass cover increase; albedo decreases somewhat. Precipitation responds with a small, yet widespread, increase. In the second simulation, a darker soil color is prescribed for this region. Now the monsoon advances north about 4°. These results illustrate a North African monsoon highly sensitive to changes in surface albedo and less sensitive to changes in evapotranspiration.  相似文献   

Bioaccumulation of gold by sulfate-reducing bacteria cultured in the presence of gold(I)-thiosulfate complex     

Maggy Lengke  Gordon Southam 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2006,70(14):3646-3661

A sulfate-reducing bacterial (SRB) enrichment, from the Driefontein Consolidated Gold Mine, Witwatersrand Basin, Republic of South Africa, was able to destabilize gold(I)-thiosulfate complex and precipitate elemental gold. The precipitation of gold was observed in the presence of active (live) SRB due to the formation and release of hydrogen sulfide as an end-product of metabolism, and occurred by three possible mechanisms involving iron sulfide, localized reducing conditions, and metabolism. The presence of biogenic iron sulfide caused significant removal of gold from solutions by adsorption and reduction processes on the iron sulfide surfaces. The presence of gold nanoparticles within and immediately surrounding the bacterial cell envelope highlights the presence of localized reducing conditions produced by the bacterial electron transport chain via energy generating reactions within the cell. Specifically, the decrease in redox conditions caused by the release of hydrogen sulfide from the bacterial cells destabilized the solutions. The presence of gold as nanoparticles (<10 nm) inside a sub-population of SRB suggests that the reduction of gold was a part of metabolic process. In late stationary phase or death phase, gold nanoparticles that were initially precipitated inside the bacterial cells, were released from the cells and deposited in the bulk solution as addition of gold nanoparticles that already precipitated in the solution. Ultimately, the formation of micrometer-scale sub-octahedral and octahedral gold and spherical aggregates containing octahedral gold was observed.  相似文献   

Dealing with drought: The challenge of using water system technologies to break dryland poverty traps   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Elin I. Enfors  Line J. Gordon   《Global Environmental Change》2008,18(4):607

We explore strategies among farmers in semi-arid Tanzania to cope with drought, and investigate if access to a local supplemental irrigation system (the Ndiva system) can improve coping capacity. Results show high dependency on local ecosystem services when harvests fail, and indicate that farmers commonly exhaust asset holdings during droughts. Ndiva access did not have any direct effects on coping capacity, but seemed to have some indirect effects. Drawing on our findings we discuss the complexity of escaping persistent dryland poverty, and outline the circumstances under which small-scale water system technologies, such as Ndiva irrigation, may help.  相似文献   

Diurnal thermal tides in a non-synchronized hot Jupiter     

Pin-Gao Gu  Gordon I. Ogilvie 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,395(1):422-435

We perform a linear analysis to investigate the dynamical response of a non-synchronized hot Jupiter to stellar irradiation. In this work, we consider the diurnal Fourier harmonic of the stellar irradiation acting at the top of a radiative layer of a hot Jupiter with no clouds and winds. In the absence of the Coriolis force, the diurnal thermal forcing can excite internal waves propagating into the planet's interior when the thermal forcing period is longer than the sound crossing time of the planet's surface. When the Coriolis effect is taken into consideration, the latitude-dependent stellar heating can excite weak internal waves (g modes) and/or strong baroclinic Rossby waves (buoyant r modes) depending on the asynchrony of the planet. When the planet spins faster than its orbital motion (i.e. retrograde thermal forcing), these waves carry negative angular momentum and are damped by radiative loss as they propagate downwards from the upper layer of the radiative zone. As a result, angular momentum is transferred from the lower layer of the radiative zone to the upper layer and generates a vertical shear. We estimate the resulting internal torques for different rotation periods based on the parameters of HD 209458b.  相似文献   

The 2dF–SDSS LRG and QSO survey: the QSO luminosity function at 0.4 < z < 2.6     

Scott M. Croom  Gordon T. Richards  Tom Shanks  Brian J. Boyle  Michael A. Strauss  Adam D. Myers  Robert C. Nichol  Kevin A. Pimbblet  Nicholas P. Ross  Donald P. Schneider  Robert G. Sharp  David A. Wake 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,399(4):1755-1772

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