Climate variability and tropical tuna: Management challenges for highly migratory fish stocks     

Kathleen A. Miller 《Marine Policy》2007

The 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement facilitates the creation of regional fishery management organizations (RFMOs) to govern harvests of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks. The stability and success of these organizations will depend, in part, on how effectively they can maintain member nations’ incentives to cooperate despite the uncertainties and shifting opportunities that may result from climate-driven changes in the productivity, migratory behavior, or catchability of the fish stocks governed by the RFMO. Such climatic impacts may intensify incentives for opportunism, and create other management challenges for the RFMOs now governing tropical tuna fisheries in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.  相似文献   

Three-dimensional,periodic, ‘halo’ orbits     

Kathleen Connor Howell 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1984,32(1):53-71

A largely numerical study was made of families of three-dimensional, periodic, halo orbits near the collinear libration points in the restricted three-body problem. Families extend from each of the libration points to the nearest primary. They appear to exist for all values of the mass ratio , from 0 to 1. More importantly, most of the families contain a range of stable orbits. Only near L₁, the libration point between the two primaries, are there no stable orbits for certain values of . In that case the stable range decreases with increasing , until it disappears at =0.0573. Near the other libration points, stable orbits exist for all mass ratios investigated between 0 and 1. In addition, the orbits increase in size with increasing .  相似文献   

Simulated water budget of a small forested watershed in the continental/maritime hydroclimatic region of the United States          下载免费PDF全文

Liang Wei  Timothy E. Link  Andrew T. Hudak  John D. Marshall  Kathleen L. Kavanagh  John T. Abatzoglou  Hang Zhou  Robert E. Pangle  Gerald N. Flerchinger 《水文研究》2016,30(13):2000-2013

Annual streamflows have decreased across mountain watersheds in the Pacific Northwest of the United States over the last ~70 years; however, in some watersheds, observed annual flows have increased. Physically based models are useful tools to reveal the combined effects of climate and vegetation on long‐term water balances by explicitly simulating the internal watershed hydrological fluxes that affect discharge. We used the physically based Simultaneous Heat and Water (SHAW) model to simulate the inter‐annual hydrological dynamics of a 4 km² watershed in northern Idaho. The model simulates seasonal and annual water balance components including evaporation, transpiration, storage changes, deep drainage, and trends in streamflow. Independent measurements were used to parameterize the model, including forest transpiration, stomatal feedback to vapour pressure, forest properties (height, leaf area index, and biomass), soil properties, soil moisture, snow depth, and snow water equivalent. No calibrations were applied to fit the simulated streamflow to observations. The model reasonably simulated the annual runoff variations during the evaluation period from water year 2004 to 2009, which verified the ability of SHAW to simulate the water budget in this small watershed. The simulations indicated that inter‐annual variations in streamflow were driven by variations in precipitation and soil water storage. One key parameterization issue was leaf area index, which strongly influenced interception across the catchment. This approach appears promising to help elucidate the mechanisms responsible for hydrological trends and variations resulting from climate and vegetation changes on small watersheds in the region. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Stretching in phase space and applications in general nonautonomous multi-body problems     

Cody R. Short  Daniel Blazevski  Kathleen C. Howell  George Haller 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2015,122(3):213-238

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Marine debris collects within the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pichel WG  Churnside JH  Veenstra TS  Foley DG  Friedman KS  Brainard RE  Nicoll JB  Zheng Q  Clemente-Colón P 《Marine pollution bulletin》2007,54(8):1207-1211

Floating marine debris, particularly derelict fishing gear, is a hazard to fish, marine mammals, turtles, sea birds, coral reefs, and even human activities. To ameliorate the economic and environmental impact of marine debris, we need to efficiently locate and retrieve dangerous debris at sea. Guided by satellite-derived information, we made four flights north of Hawaii in March and April 2005. During these aerial surveys, we observed over 1800 individual pieces of debris, including 122 derelict fishing nets. The largest debris concentrations were found just north of the North Pacific Transition Zone Chlorophyll Front (TZCF) within the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone (STCZ). Debris densities were significantly correlated with sea-surface temperature (SST), chlorophyll-a concentration (Chla), and the gradient of Chla. A Debris Estimated Likelihood Index (DELI) was developed to predict where high concentrations of debris would be most likely in the North Pacific during spring and early summer.  相似文献   

Welcome to Woodside: Inverbrackie Alternative Place of Detention and performances of belonging in Woodside,South Australia,and Australia     

Faith Curtis  Kathleen J. Mee 《The Australian geographer》2012,43(4):357-375

Alternative Places of Detention (APODs) are a new way of detaining asylum seekers in Australia. The establishment of APODs creates a new formal structure of belonging in Australia which challenges everyday practices of belonging and senses of belonging at the local and national scale. This paper examines practices of belonging which emerged following the establishment of the Inverbrackie APOD in Woodside, South Australia. Using a critical discourse analysis approach, informed by the insights of theories of performativity, this research explores the competing stories of two broadly defined groups (opponents and supporters of Inverbrackie) engaged in a dialogue about asylum seekers, refugees, immigration detention and belonging. While opposition to the APOD was vocal and frequent in the lead-up to the establishment of the detention centre, once the Inverbrackie APOD became operational opponents’ voices began to fade. On the other hand, supporters continued to say things—and more importantly continued to do things—to nurture belonging for asylum seekers in Inverbrackie, Woodside, and Australia.  相似文献   

Tornado warning dissemination and response at a university campus   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Kathleen Sherman-Morris 《Natural Hazards》2010,52(3):623-638

An online survey was completed by 2,921 students and employees at a large university following a tornado near-miss that required taking shelter. During this event, the university’s emergency alert messaging system was tested. The first alert message was received by over 66% of the sample within 15 min, and cell phones were the most common means of receiving this message—especially for students. Employees relied more on computer instant messaging than did students. Interpersonal communication was also important. The majority could correctly define tornado watch, tornado warning and shelter in place. Age and frequency of use of weather information were of mixed significance as predictors. Finally, over three quarters of respondents reported taking shelter during the event. Being female and being an employee made a respondent more likely to take shelter.  相似文献   

The effect of global warming on mortality     

Jean Calleja-Agius  Kathleen England  Neville Calleja 《Chemie der Erde / Geochemistry》2010

There is a significant relationship between ambient temperature and mortality. In healthy individuals with no underlying co-morbid conditions, there is an efficient heat regulation system which enables the body to effectively handle thermal stress. However, in vulnerable groups, especially in elderly over the age of 65 years, infants and individuals with co-morbid cardiovascular and/or respiratory conditions, there is a deficiency in thermoregulation. When temperatures exceed a certain limit, being cold winter spells or heat waves, there is an increase in the number of deaths. In particular, it has been shown that at temperatures above 27 °C, the daily mortality rate increases more rapidly per degree rise compared to when it drops below 27 °C.This is especially of relevance with the current emergency of global warming. Besides the direct effect of temperature rises on human health, global warming will have a negative impact on primary producers and livestock, leading to malnutrition, which will in turn lead to a myriad of health related issues. This is further exacerbated by environmental pollution.Public health measures that countries should follow should include not only health-related information strategies aiming to reduce the exposure to heat for vulnerable individuals and the community, but improved urban planning and reduction in energy consumption, among many others. This will reduce the carbon footprint and help avert global warming, thus reducing mortality.  相似文献   

Modelling the mean and turbulent structure of the summertime Arctic cloudy boundary layer     

Kathleen L. Mcinnes  Judith A. Curry 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1995,73(1-2):125-143

This paper addresses the problem of modelling the summertime Arctic cloudy boundary layer. Specifically we consider the problem of multi-layered clouds in the boundary layer that includes the decoupling of the turbulence between upper and lower clouds. A high-resolution one-dimensional model with second-order turbulence closure and spectral radiative transfer is used to simulate a case study that was obtained during the 1980 Arctic Stratus Experiment. The effects of radiation, large-scale vertical motion and drizzle are investigated in sensitivity studies. Results of this study show that radiative transfer is important to the maintenance of the multiple cloud layers, and suggest that weak rising vertical motion is the most favorable situation to maintain two separate cloud layers.  相似文献   

Thermal implications for the evolution of the spitsbergen transform fault     

Kathleen Crane  Olav Eldholm  Annik M. Myhre  Eirik Sundvor 《Tectonophysics》1982,89(1-3)

Heat flow taken between Svalbard and Greenland reveal three thermal provinces:

1. (1) the Molloy Ridge within the Spitsbergen Transform,

2. (2) the Yermak Plateau

3. (3) the northeastern margin of Svalbard (Nordaustlandet).

The Molloy Ridge is a short spreading segment and the average heat flow is much above the Sclater et al. (1971), cooling curve but agrees with values from the Norwegian-Greenland Sea. An additional zone of intrusion identified by heat flow lies to the northwest of the Molloy Ridge. It straddles both the visible fracture zone and part of the Yermak Plateau. A thermal boundary lies between the warm western segment of the Yermak Plateau and the shelf off Nordaustlandet. If the thermal subsidence of the western Yermak Plateau can be traced to the latest heating episode then it is likely that the crust is similar to oceanic in composition and not older than 13 m.y. (approximately 20 m.y. younger than the northeastern segment of the plateau). Plate rotation shows that there was no room for the western segment of the plateau prior to anomaly 7. We postulate that the original transform is associated with the Hornsund Fault zone. In response to deviatoric stress across the oblique ridge-transform system, the Nansen Ridge propagated southwestward aborting the old transform trace, and shifted to its present position.It is suggested that this propagation and migration of the ridge-transform system across a zone of extensional deviatoric stress allowed the massive intrusion of basalt forming the Western Yermak Plateau. The propagation phenomenon coincides with large-scale Tertiary volcanic activity on Svalbard.Readjustment and migration of the oblique transform is still taking place. As the transform-ridge system is liberated from continental constraints, the migration rate will diminish as orthogonality is approached.  相似文献