Reconstruction of pH in the Surface Seawater over the North Pacific Basin for All Seasons Using Temperature and Chlorophyll-<Emphasis Type="Italic">a</Emphasis>     

Yoshiyuki?NakanoEmail author  Yutaka?W.?Watanabe 《Journal of Oceanography》2005,61(4):673-680

We found a simple function of pH that relates to sea surface temperature (SST, K) and chlorophyll-a (Chl, µg l⁻¹) using measured surface seawater pH, SST and Chl data sets over the North Pacific: pH (total hydrogen scale at 2°C) = 0.01325 SST − 0.0253 Chl + 4.150 (R² = 0.95, p < 0.0001, n = 483). Moreover, evaluating the seasonal variation of pH based on this algorithm, we compared the measured pH with the predicted pH at the observational time series stations in subpolar and subtropical regions. The average of ΔpH (measured - predicted, n = 52) was 0.006 ± 0.022 pH. Therefore, the combination of SST and Chl can allow us to determine the spatiotemporal distribution of pH over the North Pacific. Using the climatological data sets of SST and Chl with our pH algorithms, we have described the seasonal distributions of pH at 25°C (pH₍₂₅₎) and pH in situ temperature (pH_(T)) over the North Pacific surface water.  相似文献   

Changes in the lower limit of mountain permafrost between 1973 and 2004 in the Khumbu Himal, the Nepal Himalayas   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Kotaro Fukui  Yoshiyuki Fujii  Yutaka Ageta  Katsuhiko Asahi 《Global and Planetary Change》2007,55(4):251-256

Because the Khumbu Himal of the Nepal Himalayas lacks long-term climate records from weather stations, mountain permafrost degradation serves as an important indicator of climate warming. In 1973, the permafrost lower limit was estimated to be 5200–5300 m above sea level (ASL) on southern-aspect slopes in this region. Using ground-temperature measurements, we examined the mountain permafrost lower limit on slopes with the same aspect in 2004. The results indicate that the permafrost lower limit was 5400–5500 m ASL in 2004. The permafrost lower limit was estimated to be 5400 to 5500 m on slopes with a southern aspect in the Khumbu Himal in 1991 using seismic reflection soundings. Thus, it is possible that the permafrost lower limit has risen 100–300 m between 1973 and 1991, followed by a stable limit of 5400 to 5500 m over the last decade. An increase in mean annual air temperature of approximately 0.2 to 0.4 °C from the 1970s to the 1990s has indicated a rise in the permafrost lower limit of 40 to 80 m at the Tibetan Plateau. The rise in the mountain permafrost lower limit in the Khumbu Himal exceeds that of the Tibetan Plateau, suggesting the possibility of greater climate warming in the Khumbu Himal.  相似文献   

Near-field beam pattern measurement of qualification model of ALMA band 8 (385–500 GHz) cartridge receiver     

Masato Naruse  Tetsuya Ito  Yutaro Sekimoto  Hiroyuki Toba  Naohisa Satou  Masahiro Sugimoto  Wenlei Shan  Yoshizou Iizuka  Toshiaki Kamba  Mamoru Kamikura  Yasutaka Serizawa 《Experimental Astronomy》2009,24(1-3):89-107

We have developed a near-field vector beam measurement system covering the range of frequencies from 385 to 500 GHz. The measurement set-up is capable of measurements with dynamic range exceeding 50 dB and amplitude and phase stability respectively of 0.1 dB/h and 1 degree/5 min at room temperature. Beam patterns of the ALMA band 8 corrugated horns and receiver optics block were measured at room temperature and lately compared with physical optics calculations obtained in the far-field. Both co-polar and cross-polar beam patterns of a qualification model of the ALMA band 8 cartridge cooled in a cartridge-test-cryostat have also been measured in the near-field as a detector of a submillimeter vector network analyzer. The measurements presented in this work refer to the lowest, middle and upper frequencies of band 8. The comparisons between software model and experimental measurements at these frequencies show good agreement down to ?30 dB for the main polarization component. The cross-polarization level of the beam propagating through the receiver optics block was also characterized. We found that a cross-polarization level better than ?28 dB can be achieved at all measured frequencies. The measured beam pattern of this receiver corresponds to efficiency of greater than 92% at the sub reflector (diameter of 750 mm) of the ALMA 12 m optics.  相似文献   

理学ZSX系列X荧光光谱仪中文软件开发   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3  

邓赛文  片冈由行 《岩矿测试》2001,20(3):226-233

介绍了日本理学ZSX系列X荧光光谱仪的特点和新开发的中文版软件的功能。  相似文献   

Tectonic setting of high-Mg andesite magmatism in the SW Japan arc: K–Ar chronology of the Setouchi volcanic belt     

Yoshiyuki Tatsumi  Naoto Ishikawa  Ken Anno  Kyoichi Ishizaka  Tetsumaru Itaya 《Geophysical Journal International》2001,144(3):625-631

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Helium and carbon isotopes in fluorites: implications for mantle carbon contribution in an ancient subduction zone   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Junji Yamamoto  Makoto Watanabe  Yoshiyuki Nozaki  Yuji Sano   《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》2001,107(1-3)

The concentrations of helium and carbon in fluorite associated with Cretaceous to Neogene (90–13 Ma) granitic magmatism in the Japanese arc have been measured. Concentrations of Li, U, Th and Gd were measured to correct for secondary generated ³He. The CO₂/³He of fluorites are almost uniform (1.5×10¹⁰–4×10¹⁰) and in fair agreement with the range of present island arc volcanic gases. The calculated mantle C contribution in the Mesozoic subduction zone appear to have been identical to the present one (7–19%) indicating that the C flux from the mantle in supra-subduction zone environments has remained fairly constant during the past 70 million years.  相似文献   

Rapid and frequent turbidite accumulation in the bottom of Izu-Ogasawara Trench: Chemical and radiochemical evidence   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Yoshiyuki Nozaki  Yoichi Ohta 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1993,120(3-4):345-360

Two sediment cores (pilot gravity and piston) were obtained from the bottom of the Izu-Ogasawara Trench at 9750 m and analyzed for various elements and radioisotopes. The results showed a history of complex and frequent turbidite deposition: In the gravity core, eight layers rich in manganese were observed, of which five are enriched in Cu and Co as well. The other three are also enriched in Mo but no other heavy metals, suggesting the presence of at least two mechanisms of formation. Trapping of iron manganese micronodules can account for the enrichment of Mn, Cu and Co. The other three layers rich in Mn and Mo appear to be formed by a post-depositional diagenetic process of Mn mobilization and redeposition in the sediment column. A strong correlation between ²²⁶Ra and Cu in the gravity core suggests that the ²²⁶Ra was also carried into the bottom of the trench in turbidites in association with Mn micronodules. Little excess of ²¹⁰Pb over ²²⁶Ra was found at the top but the excess was significant at mid-depths from 30 to 70 cm, indicating that those sediments were deposited within the last 200 y.

In the piston core there is a sharp discontinuity of chemical and radiochemical composition around a depth of 250 cm. Below that depth the sediments appear to be dominated by materials derived from terrestrial sources, as compared with those in the upper layer which are of contemporary marine origin. ²²⁶Ra is deficient relative to ²³⁰Th throughout the sediment column down to 6 m. This finding is consistent with the finding that the average rate of sediment accumulation is 1–2 orders of magnitude faster than that in the western North Pacific abyssal plain, suggesting the convergence of materials into the bottom of the trench.  相似文献   

Magnesian andesite and basalt from Shodo-Shima Island,southwest Japan,and their bearing on the genesis of calc-alkaline andesites     

Yoshiyuki Tatsumi  Kyoichi Ishizaka 《Lithos》1982,15(2):161-172

Calc-alkaline andesites and olivine tholeiitic basalts are widely distributed on Shodo-Shima island, southwest Japan. The Fo content of olivine phenocrysts in the andesite is higher than in the basalt. The primary magma of the andesite, estimated on the basis of the olivine fractional crystallization model, is not basaltic but andesitic. The basalt contains both chromite and titanomagnetite as inclusions in olivine phenocrysts, while only chromite appears in the andesite. The Cr content of chromite in the andesite is higher than in the basalt. These facts again indicate that the andesite cannot be a fractionation product of the basalt, and that andesitic and basaltic primary magmas were generated independently.  相似文献   

High precision slip distribution of the 1944 Tonankai earthquake inferred from tsunami waveforms: Possible slip on a splay fault     

Toshitaka Baba  Phil R. Cummins  Takane Hori  Yoshiyuki Kaneda 《Tectonophysics》2006,426(1-2):119

Inversion of tsunami waveforms is a well-established technique for estimating the slip distributions of subduction zone earthquakes, with some of the most detailed results having been obtained for earthquakes in the Nankai Trough, SW Japan. The present study, although it uses a method and tsunami waveform data set almost identical to previous study, aims to improve on previous work by using a more precise specification of initial conditions for the calculation of tsunami Green's functions. Specifically, we incorporated four improvements in the present study: (1) we used a realistic plate model based only on seismic survey results, and assumed it to be the fault plane of the 1944 Tonankai earthquake; (2) the smallest subfaults consistent with the long wavelength approximation were used in the tsunami inversion analysis; (3) we included the effect of horizontal displacement of the ocean bottom on tsunami generation; and (4) we performed a checkerboard resolution test. As obtained in previous studies, a zone of high slip (> 2.0 m) was resolved off the Shima Peninsula. However, the more precise calculation of tsunami Green's functions has revealed additional detail that was not evident in previous studies, which we demonstrate is resolvable and correlates with the position of known faults in the accretionary prism. While there was little or no slip near the trench axis in the eastern part of the rupture zone, there was up to 1.5 m of slip resolved within 30 km of the trough axis in the western part, along the coast of the Kii Peninsula. This troughward slip zone coincides with the position of a large splay fault mapped in multichannel reflection surveys. Furthermore, it is also clear that the upper edge of the Enshu fault off Shima and Atsumi peninsulas is consistent with the up-dip limit of slip in the eastern part of our model. We tested the possibility that slip occurred on the former splay fault instead of on the plate interface during the 1944 Tonankai earthquake, and find that slip on this splay fault is also consistent with the data, although we cannot distinguish whether slip was dominant on the splay fault or on the plate interface. We further suggest that the position of the Enshu fault may be determined by the subduction of topographic highs, and that such faults may have an important influence on the up-dip rupture limit of the 1944 Tonankai and, potentially, other subduction zone earthquakes.  相似文献   

Non-destructive alpha-spectrometry and radiochemical studies of deep-sea manganese nodules     

Yoshiyuki Nozaki  Han-Soeb Yang 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1985,49(8):1765-1774

A deep-sea Mn nodule handpicked from top of a 20 cm diameter North Pacific tripod core was directly counted by an α-spectrometer with a silicon surface barrier detector. A distinct ²¹⁰Po peak was recorded for the nodule upper side in contact with bottom seawater. Based on the spectrum, the ²¹⁰Po (supported by ²¹⁰Pb with 22 year half life) is thought to be confined in the top few microns of the nodule. Since the ²¹⁰Po peak diminishes considerably for the bottom side resting on sediment, nondestructive α-spectrometry is useful for determining the sea floor orientation of nodules. This method was tested for a western North Pacific dredged Mn nodule, and was successful in identifying the orientation (and also surface loss of the nodule by dredging).Radiochemical analysis was also carried out for carefully scraped samples from the top and bottom of the two nodules. The growth rates of the hand-picked nodule based on excess ²³⁰Th and ²³¹Pa profiles were 1 to 4 mm/10⁶ y and apparently varied with time. The dredged sample has grown at 2 to 6 mm/ 10⁶ y and the growth has likely been episodic. The radionuclide composition was significantly different between the top and bottom. Evidence was found that the radionuclide fluxes of ²³⁰Th and ²³¹Pa into the nodules considerably changed during the growing histories. The ²³⁰Th/²³²Th activity ratios in the nodule tops are comparable with those in bottom seawater suggesting that the top is growing with metals of seawater origin. However it remains unresolved whether the nodule bottoms are growing by utilizing metals in the sediment pore water.  相似文献