Inferred variables in data assimilation: quantifying sensitivity to inaccurate error statistics     

MARTIN JUCKES  BRYAN LAWRENCE 《地球，A辑:动力气象学与海洋学》2009,61(1):129-143

The ability of data assimilation systems to infer unobserved variables has brought major benefits to atmospheric and oceanographic sciences. Information is transferred from observations to unobserved variables in two ways: through the temporal evolution of the predictive equations (either a forecast model or its adjoint) or through an error covariance matrix (or a parametrized approximation to the error covariance). Here, it is found that high frequency information tends to flow through the former route, low frequency through the latter. It is also noted that using the Kalman Filter analysis to estimate the correlation between the observed and unobserved variables can lead to a biased result because of an error correlation: this error correlation is absent when the Kalman Smoother is used.  相似文献   

A propensity for n‐ω‐amino acids in thermally altered Antarctic meteorites     

Aaron S. BURTON  Jamie E. ELSILA  Michael P. CALLAHAN  Mildred G. MARTIN  Daniel P. GLAVIN  Natasha M. JOHNSON  Jason P. DWORKIN 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2012,47(3):374-386

Abstract– Asteroids and their fragments have impacted the Earth for the last 4.5 Gyr. Carbonaceous meteorites are known to contain a wealth of indigenous organic molecules, including amino acids, which suggests that these meteorites could have been an important source of prebiotic organic material during the origins of life on Earth and possibly elsewhere. We report the detection of extraterrestrial amino acids in thermally altered type 3 CV and CO carbonaceous chondrites and ureilites recovered from Antarctica. The amino acid concentrations of the thirteen Antarctic meteorites ranged from 300 to 3200 parts‐per‐billion (ppb), generally much less abundant than in amino acid‐rich CI, CM, and CR carbonaceous chondrites that experienced much lower temperature aqueous alteration on their parent bodies. In contrast to low‐temperature aqueously altered meteorites that show complete structural diversity in amino acids formed predominantly by Strecker–cyanohydrin synthesis, the thermally altered meteorites studied here are dominated by small, straight‐chain, amine terminal (n‐ω‐amino) amino acids that are not consistent with Strecker formation. The carbon isotopic ratios of two extraterrestrial n‐ω‐amino acids measured in one of the CV chondrites (δ¹³C approximately ?25‰) are consistent with ¹³C‐depletions observed previously in hydrocarbons produced by Fischer‐Tropsch type reactions. The predominance of n‐ω‐amino acid isomers in thermally altered meteorites hints at cosmochemical mechanisms for the preferential formation and preservation of a small subset of the possible amino acids.  相似文献   

Unique authigenic mineral assemblages reveal different diagenetic histories in two neighbouring cold‐water coral mounds on Pen Duick Escarpment,Gulf of Cadiz     

LAURA M. WEHRMANN  ANNELEEN FOUBERT  BENJAMIN BRUNNER  DOMINIQUE BLAMART  LIES DE MOL  DAVID VAN ROOIJ  JAN DEWANCKELE  VEERLE CNUDDE  RUDY SWENNEN  PHILIPPE DUYCK  JEAN‐PIERRE HENRIET 《Sedimentology》2012,59(2):578-604

Alpha Mound and Beta Mound are two cold‐water coral mounds, located on the Pen Duick Escarpment in the Gulf of Cadiz amidst the El Arraiche mud volcano field where focused fluid seepage occurs. Despite the proximity of Alpha Mound and Beta Mound, both mounds differ in their assemblage of authigenic minerals. Alpha Mound features dolomite, framboidal pyrite and gypsum, whereas Beta Mound contains a barite layer and predominantly euhedral pyrite. The diagenetic alteration of the sedimentary record of both mounds is strongly influenced by biogeochemical processes occurring at shallow sulphate methane transition zones. The combined sedimentological, petrographic and isotopic analyses of early diagenetic features in gravity cores from Alpha Mound and Beta Mound indicate that the contrast in mineral assemblages between these mounds is caused by differences in fluid and methane fluxes. Alpha Mound appears to be affected by strong fluctuations in the fluid flow, causing shifts in redox boundaries, whereas Beta Mound seems to be a less dynamic system. To a large extent, the diagenetic regimes within cold‐water coral mounds on the Pen Duick Escarpment appear to be controlled by fluid and methane fluxes deriving from layers underlying the mounds and forcings like pressure gradients caused by bottom current. However, it also becomes evident that authigenic mineral assemblages are not only very sensitive recorders of the diagenetic history of specific cold‐water coral mounds, but also affect diagenetic processes in turn. Dissolution of aragonite, lithification by precipitation of authigenic minerals and subsequent brecciation of these lithified layers may also exert a control on the advective and diffusive fluid flow within these mounds, providing a feedback mechanism on subsequent diagenetic processes.  相似文献   

Evolution of a small intraplate basaltic lava field: Jerrabattgulla Creek,upper Shoalhaven River catchment,southeast New South Wales     

I. C. Roach†  S. M. Hill†  A. C. Lewis† 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(8):1049-1061

The Jerrabattgulla Creek basalts are in the upper catchment of the Shoalhaven River of southeastern New South Wales. The basalts erupted into a narrow, north-draining valley and modified the local drainage system, re-routing the paleo-Jerrabattgulla Creek, preserving a series of sub-basaltic quartzose gravels with silcretes in the paleovalley. The paleovalley indicates that a north-flowing drainage existed in this place in the Miocene. The high-relief, narrow valley has preserved a volcanic stratigraphy allowing the magmatic evolution of this small lava field to be determined. The lavas have a large compositional range from olivine nephelinite through to quartz tholeiite, which is unusual in such a small lava field. They represent three distinct magma batches, most likely from an amphibole–apatite metasomatised sub-continental lithospheric mantle, and underwent fractional crystallisation of olivine, clinopyroxene and plagioclase and assimilated upper crust. The lava field underwent temporal change from dominantly alkaline, to mixed alkaline and subalkaline, to dominantly alkaline magmatism over the course of its evolution.  相似文献   

Transport de matières dissoutes et particulaires des Andes vers le Rio de La Plata par les tributaires boliviens (rios Pilcomayo et Bermejo) du Rio Paraguay     

JEAN LOUIS GUYOT  HECTOR CALLE  JOSE CORTES  MARIO PEREBRA 《水文科学杂志》2013,58(6):653-665

Résumé

Les données recueillies à 13 stations hydromètriques des réseaux du SENAMHI et de ENDE, de 1975 à 1983, permettent d'estimer les flux de matières particulaires et dissoutes dans les bassins andins des rios Pilcomayo et Bermejo, formateurs du Rio Paraguay. Les résultats obtenus en Bolivie sur le bassin versant du Rio Pilcomayo, montrent que l'essentiel de l'exportation est le fait des matières en suspension (90%). Le flux de sédiments mesuré à la sortie des Andes sur le Rio Pilcomayo (80 × 10⁶ t an^?1) est du même ordre de grandeur que Celui observé 2000 kilomètres à l'aval sur le Moyen Parana.  相似文献   

Trends and discontinuities in regional rainfall of West and Central Africa: 1951–1989     

GIL MAHE  YANN L'HOTE  JEAN CLAUDE OLIVRY  GEOFFROY WOTLING 《水文科学杂志》2013,58(2):211-226

Abstract

Standardized regional mean annual rainfall series are analysed over the period 1951–1989 from a data set of 891 rainfall stations which covers 23 countries of West and Central Africa. Missing values are estimated by using regionalized indexes computed on the basis of a morpho-climatic delimitation of 44 homogeneous climatic units. Searches for statistical discontinuities in rainfall series show no discontinuity for most units of Central Africa. For several units of West Africa the first discontinuity occurs at the end of the 1950s. The main discontinuity period occurs between 1968 and 1970, followed by a second one at the beginning of the 1980s. Rainfall deficit is greater north of 10°N, and is also important in the Guinean Mountains and on the northern coast of the Gulf of Guinea, west of the Atakora Mountains. Regions leeward of mountainous areas experienced moderate rainfall decrease.  相似文献   

Assessment and control of organic and other contaminants associated with the Stardust sample return from comet 81P/Wild 2     

Scott A. SANDFORD  Saša BAJT  Simon J. CLEMETT  George D. CODY  George COOPER  Bradley T. DEGREGORIO  Vanessa De VERA  Jason P. DWORKIN  Jamie E. ELSILA  George J. FLYNN  Daniel P. GLAVIN  Antonio LANZIROTTI  Thomas LIMERO  Mildred P. MARTIN  Christopher J. SNEAD  Maegan K. SPENCER  Thomas STEPHAN  Andrew WESTPHAL  Sue WIRICK  Richard N. ZARE  Michael E. ZOLENSKY 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2010,45(3):406-433

Abstract– Numerous potential sources of organic contaminants could have greatly complicated the interpretation of the organic portions of the samples returned from comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Stardust spacecraft. Measures were taken to control and assess potential organic (and other) contaminants during the design, construction, and flight of the spacecraft, and during and after recovery of the sample return capsule. Studies of controls and the returned samples suggest that many of these potential sources did not contribute any significant material to the collectors. In particular, contamination from soils at the recovery site and materials associated with the ablation of the heatshield do not appear to be significant problems. The largest source of concern is associated with the C present in the original aerogel. The relative abundance of this carbon can vary between aerogel tiles and even within individual tiles. This C was fortunately not distributed among a complex mixture of organics, but was instead largely present in a few simple forms (mostly as Si‐CH₃ groups). In most cases, the signature of returned cometary organics can be readily distinguished from contaminants through their different compositions, nonterrestrial isotopic ratios, and/or association with other cometary materials. However, some conversion of the carbon indigenous to the flight aerogel appears to have happened during particle impact, and some open issues remain regarding how this C may be processed into new forms during the hypervelocity impact collection of the comet dust.  相似文献   

Chironomids as indicators of the Holocene climatic and environmental history of two lakes in Northeast Greenland     

STEFFI SCHMIDT  BERND WAGNER  OLIVER HEIRI  MARTIN KLUG  OLE BENNIKE  MARTIN MELLES 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》2011,40(1):116-130

Schmidt, S., Wagner, B., Heiri, O., Klug, M., Bennike, O. & Melles, M. 2010: Chironomids as indicators of the Holocene climatic and environmental history of two lakes in Northeast Greenland. Boreas, 10.1111/j.1502‐3885.2010.00173.x. ISSN 0300‐9483. Two Holocene sediment sequences from arctic lakes on Store Koldewey, an island in Northeast Greenland, were investigated for fossil chironomid assemblages. A total of 18 and 21 chironomid taxa were identified in 290‐ and 252‐cm‐long sediment sequences from Duck Lake and Hjort Lake, respectively. The chironomid assemblages were very similar in the two lakes. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) was used to compare fossil chironomid assemblages from Store Koldewey with chironomid assemblages and environmental conditions presently found in Canadian Arctic lakes and, hence, to infer environmental changes for Northeast Greenland. The first chironomids appeared at c. 9500 cal. a BP in Hjort Lake, and 500 years later in Duck Lake. Taxa typical for cold and nutrient‐poor arctic lakes dominated the earliest assemblages. Chironomid assemblages with taxa typical of higher summer air temperatures and lakes with higher nutrient availability occur between 8000 and 5000 cal. a BP. This period probably marks the regional Holocene thermal maximum, which is relatively late compared with some palaeoenvironmental records from East Greenland. One possible reason could be the location of Store Koldewey at the very outer coast, with local climatic conditions strongly influenced by the cold East Greenland Current. From around 5000 cal. a BP, chironomid assemblages in Duck Lake and Hjort Lake again became more typical of those presently found in Northeast Greenland, indicating relatively cold and nutrient‐poor conditions. This shift coincides with an increase of ice‐rafting debris off East Greenland and an intensification of the East Greenland Current.  相似文献   

Turbiditic,clay‐rich event beds in fjord‐marine deposits caused by landslides in emerging clay deposits – palaeoenvironmental interpretation and role for submarine mass‐wasting     

LOUISE HANSEN  JEAN SEBASTIEN L’HEUREUX  ODDVAR LONGVA 《Sedimentology》2011,58(4):890-915

Distinct, clay‐rich beds are common in fjord‐marine deposits in Trondheimsfjorden near the outlet of the Nidelva River. Their characteristic light‐grey colour makes the beds easily distinguishable from the surrounding brownish, bioturbated, muddy fjord sediments. The clay‐rich beds commonly display a clear stratification in clay, silt and very fine sand. The beds are interpreted as originating primarily from large quick‐clay landslides upstream along the Nidelva River. Such events resulted in a sudden increase in the supply of fines to the fjord from disintegrating landslide debris and heavily loaded effluent plumes, possibly favouring hyperpycnal flow. Typical beds can be divided into a clay‐rich lower section, reflecting an initial surge with high concentrations of suspended mud, and a sandier upper section reflecting pulses of higher energy. This development can be explained, for example, by a lowering in the supply of mud, an increasing activity of deltaic sediment gravity flows due to a higher availability of sandy sediments in the landslide‐affected river, and by flooding and/or breaching of landslide dams. The typical, stratified beds are interpreted as the result of one quick‐clay landslide, whereas exceptionally thick, less organized, stratified beds are possibly the result of several large and/or complex landslides. Radiocarbon dating of mollusc shells has helped to establish a chronology for major terrestrial landslides in the area. The frequency of landslides increases towards the end of the Holocene. This is explained by a progressively deeper incision of rivers during glacioisostatic rebound, possibly combined with a change to a wetter climate. The marine core record displays deformation structures and hiati representing submarine mass‐wasting events, and supports the evidence that the clay‐rich beds are weak layers in the fjord‐marine stratigraphy. The inherent weakness of these layers may be explained by their composition, immature texture, loose fabric and contrasting permeabilities in the deposits. Slide‐prone layers similar to the clay‐rich beds described here may be found in other comparable fjord‐marginal settings and are considered to be of importance for geohazard assessments.  相似文献   

SNOWPATCH HOLLOWS AND PRONIVAL RAMPARTS IN THE KRKONOŠE MOUNTAINS,CZECH REPUBLIC: DISTRIBUTION,MORPHOLOGY AND CHRONOLOGY OF FORMATION     

MARTIN MARGOLD  VÁCLAV TREML  LIBOR PETR  PETRA NYPLOVÁ 《Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography》2011,93(2):137-150

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