Product formation from the gas-phase reactions of OH radicals and O3 with a series of monoterpenes     

Hannele Hakola  Janet Arey  Sara M. Aschmann  Roger Atkinson 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》1994,18(1):75-102

The formation yields of nine carbonyl products are reported from the gas-phase OH radical-initiated reactions (in the presence of NO _x ) and the O₃ reactions with seven monoterpenes. The products were identified using GC/MS and GC-FTIR and quantified by GC-FID analyses of samples collected on Tenax solid adsorbent cartridges. The identities of products from camphene, limonene and -pinene were confirmed by comparison with authentic standards. Sufficient quantities of products from the 3-carene, limonene, -pinene, sabinene and terpinolene reactions were isolated to allow structural confirmation by proton NMR spectroscopy. The measured total carbonyl formation yields ranged from non-detectable for the OH radical reaction with camphene and the O₃ reactions with 3-carene and limonene to 0.5 for the OH radical reaction with limonene and the O₃ reaction with sabinene.  相似文献   

Orographic and stability effects on valley-side drainage flows     

B. W. Atkinson 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1995,75(4):403-428

The effects of orography and stability on valley-side drainage winds were investigated with the aid of a numerical model. The model is three-dimensional, non-hydrostatic, cast in terrain-following co-ordinates, has a surface energy budget and a 1.5 order TKE closure scheme. Experiments were conducted over a schematic three-dimensional valley to assess the influences on airflow of valley-side slope magnitude, valley cross-section shape, tilt of the valley floor and stability.In drainage flow, magnitudes of horizontal and vertical velocities and heights of their maxima are directly related to slope angle. The velocities are either insensitive to, or slightly inversely related to stability. The cooling which drives the flows is strongest over steep slopes and in large stabilities. The depth of the cooled layer, whilst increasing over steeper slopes, is inversely related to the stability. TKE increases with slope angle and decreases with increasing stability. In the downslope direction, the near-surface cooled layer significantly increases whereas the inversion intensity decreases by about 20%. These two features are due to mixing between the drainage flow and the overlying air. Tha drainage flow accelerates down the slope until it reaches the accumulated pool of cold air in the valley bottom, whereupon it slows down markedly and is accompanied by uplift over the centre of the valley.The cross-valley circulation is influenced by valley-side slope angle, valley cross-section shape and tilt of the valley floor, in addition to the effects of stability. For a given shape, the circulation is a direct function of the valley-side slope and an inverse function of the ambient stability. This relationship is described mathematically.V-shaped valleys generate stronger flows than doU-shaped valleys and a tilted valley floor also leads to a significant increase in velocities.  相似文献   

Alkyl nitrate formation from the atmospheric photoxidation of alkanes; a revised estimation method     

William P. L. Carter  Roger Atkinson 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》1989,8(2):165-173

The available experimental data concerning the yields of alkyl nitrates in the reactions of alkyl peroxy radicals with NO have been used to derive a revised expression for the estimation of alkyl nitrate yields in the atmospheric photooxidation of alkanes as a function of temperature and pressure. This revised expression gives more reasonable predictions of alkyl nitrate yields under high altitude tropospheric conditions than that which has been previously published.  相似文献   

Soils of the world (wall chart), P. Lof,Elsevier, 1987. Price: US $15.50 or dfl. 45.00. ISBN 0–444–42575–6     

Ken Atkinson 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1989,14(4):363-364

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Dielectric constants of chrysoberyl,spinel, phenacite,and forsterite and the oxide additivity rule     

R. D. Shannon  M. A. Subramanian 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1989,16(8):747-751

The dielectric constants and dielectric loss values of BeAl₂O₄ (chrysoberyl), MgAl₂O₄ (spinel), Be₂SiO₄ (phenacite), and Mg₂SiO₄ (forsterite) were measured at 1 MHz using a two-terminal method and empirically determined edge corrections. The results are: chrysoberyl, κ′ _a =9.436, κ′ _b =9.071, κ′ _c =8.269; spinel, κ′ _a =8.18; phenacite, κ′ _a =6.28, κ′ _c =6.06; and forsterite, κ′ _a =6.867, κ′ _b =7.392, κ′ _c =6.739. The agreement between measured dielectric polarizabilities as determined from the Clausius-Mosotti equation and those calculated from the sum of oxide polarizabilities according to α_D(M₂M′X₄) = 2α_D(MX)+α_D(M′X₂) is ~ 1.0%.  相似文献   

Tectonic control on sedimentary evolution of three North Atlantic borderland Mesozoic basins1     

I. K. Sinclair  P. M. Shannon  B. P. J. Williams  S. D. Harker  J. G. Mooren 《Basin Research》1994,6(4):193-217

Multiple episodes of extensional tectonism dominated the formation of Mesozoic fault-bounded basins on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the Irish Continental Shelf and the central North Sea. A range of structural and stratigraphic responses in the Jeanne d'Arc, Porcupine and Moray Firth basins support widespread synchronous tectonic controls on sedimentation during one of these episodes, the Late Cimmerian. Rifting was preceded by a phase of related tectonism during which subsidence rates began to vary across broad areas but without significant fault block rotation. This Late Cimmerian ‘onset warp’ pattern of subsidence is considered to have been essential in the establishment of restricted anoxic basins from latest Oxfordian through Kimmeridgian (sensu gallico) time and the development of one prolific layer of organic-rich source rocks. The most prominent and widely recognized structural/lithostratigraphic response to Late Cimmerian rifting was the deposition of sediment wedges. Tithonian to early Valanginian strata generally thicken- into northerly trending faults in the Jeanne d'Arc and Porcupine basins, indicating that extensional stress was orientated WNW-ESE across a very broad area. The misalignment of this regional Late Cimmerian extensional stress with local inherited structural fabric may be responsible for transpressional uplift of individual fault blocks in the Outer Moray Firth basin. Sedimentological responses to Late Cimmerian rifting were varied, though a common lithofacies stacking pattern is recognized. Variably thick conglomerates and/or sandstones were widely deposited at the start of rift deformation, while palaeoenvironments ranged from alluvial and braid plain to submarine fan even within individual basins. The relatively coarse basal sediments fine upwards into a second layer of commonly organic-rich shales and mark The widest variations in palaeoenvironments and sediment thicknesses occurred during the last phase of Late Cimmerian rift tectonism, though all three basins show evidence of decreasing water depths, increasing oxygen levels and increasing grain size. This lithofacies stacking pattern of relatively coarse to fine to coarse (reservoir/source/reservoir) and the development of bounding unconformities are largely attributable to progressive changes in rift-controlled subsidence. Rift basin subsidence rates are interpreted to increase from a low at initiation of faulting to a mid-rift peak, followed by slowing subsidence to the end of extension. A number of counteracting crustal mechanisms that may account for progressive variations in rift-induced subsidence are considered.  相似文献   

Quaternary palaeoclimatology: Methods of palaeoclimatic reconstruction,R. S. Bradley,George Allen & Unwin,Boston and London, 1985. No. of pages: 472     

T. Atkinson 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1988,13(1):91-92

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New directions in karst (Proceedings of the Anglo-French karst Symposium 1983), Edited by K. Paterson and M. M. Sweeting,Geobooks, Regency House,Norwich NR3 4AP,U.K. No. of pages: 613     

T. C. Atkinson 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1988,13(3):290-290

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A semantic registry using a Feature Type Catalogue instead of ontologies to support spatial data infrastructures     

Kristin M. Stock  Rob Atkinson  Chris Higgins  Mark Small  Andrew Woolf  Keiran Millard 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(2):231-252

The use of a semantically rich registry containing a Feature Type Catalogue (FTC) to represent the semantics of geographic feature types including operations, attributes and relationships between feature types is required to realise the benefits of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs). Specifically, such information provides a more complete representation of the semantics of the concepts used in the SDI, and enables advanced navigation, discovery and utilisation of discovered resources. The presented approach creates an FTC implementation in which attributes, associations and operations for a given feature type are encapsulated within the FTC, and these conceptual representations are separated from the implementation aspects of the web services that may realise the operations in the FTC. This differs from previous approaches that combine the implementation and conceptual aspects of behaviour in a web service ontology, but separate the behavioural aspects from the static aspects of the semantics of the concept or feature type. These principles are demonstrated by the implementation of such a registry using open standards. The ebXML Registry Information Model (ebRIM) was used to incorporate the FTC described in ISO 19110 by extending the Open Geospatial Consortium ebRIM Profile for the Web Catalogue Service (CSW) and adding a number of stored queries to allow the FTC component of the standards‐compliant registry to be interrogated. The registry was populated with feature types from the marine domain, incorporating objects that conform to both the object and field views of the world. The implemented registry demonstrates the benefits of inheritance of feature type operations, attributes and associations, the ability to navigate around the FTC and the advantages of separating the conceptual from the implementation aspects of the FTC. Further work is required to formalise the model and include axioms to allow enhanced semantic expressiveness and the development of reasoning capabilities.  相似文献   

Increasing the spatial resolution of agricultural land cover maps using a Hopfield neural network     

A. J. Tatem  H. G. Lewis  P. M. Atkinson  M. S. Nixon 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(7):647-672

Land cover class composition of remotely sensed image pixels can be estimated using soft classification techniques increasingly available in many GIS packages. However, their output provides no indication of how such classes are distributed spatially within the instantaneous field of view represented by the pixel. Techniques that attempt to provide an improved spatial representation of land cover have been developed, but not tested on the difficult task of mapping from real satellite imagery. The authors investigated the use of a Hopfield neural network technique to map the spatial distributions of classes reliably using information of pixel composition determined from soft classification previously. The approach involved designing the energy function to produce a ‘best guess’ prediction of the spatial distribution of class components in each pixel. In previous studies, the authors described the application of the technique to target identification, pattern prediction and land cover mapping at the sub-pixel scale, but only for simulated imagery. We now show how the approach can be applied to Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) agriculture imagery to derive accurate estimates of land cover and reduce the uncertainty inherent in such imagery. The technique was applied to Landsat TM imagery of small-scale agriculture in Greece and largescale agriculture near Leicester, UK. The resultant maps provided an accurate and improved representation of the land covers studied, with RMS errors for the Landsat imagery of the order of 0.1 in the new fine resolution map recorded. The results showed that the neural network represents a simple efficient tool for mapping land cover from operational satellite sensor imagery and can deliver requisite results and improvements over traditional techniques for the GIS analysis of practical remotely sensed imagery at the sub pixel scale.  相似文献