Organochlorine contaminants in bonnethead sharks (Sphyrna tiburo) from Atlantic and Gulf estuaries on the US east coast     

Gelsleichter J  Szabo NJ  Belcher CN  Ulrich GF 《Marine pollution bulletin》2008,56(2):359-363

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<Emphasis Type="Italic">Wind</Emphasis> Magnetic Clouds for the Period 2013 – 2015: Model Fitting,Types, Associated Shock Waves,and Comparisons to Other Periods     

R. P. Lepping  C.-C. Wu  D. B. Berdichevsky  A. Szabo 《Solar physics》2018,293(4):65

We give the results of parameter fitting of the magnetic clouds (MCs) observed by the Wind spacecraft for the three-year period 2013 to the end of 2015 (called the “Present” period) using the MC model of Lepping, Jones, and Burlaga (J. Geophys. Res.95, 11957, 1990). The Present period is almost coincident with the solar maximum of the sunspot number, which has a broad peak starting in about 2012 and extending to almost 2015. There were 49 MCs identified in the Present period. The modeling gives MC quantities such as size, axial attitude, field handedness, axial magnetic-field strength, center time, and closest-approach vector. Derived quantities are also estimated, such as axial magnetic flux, axial current density, and total axial current. Quality estimates are assigned representing excellent, fair/good, and poor. We provide error estimates on the specific fit parameters for the individual MCs, where the poor cases are excluded. Model-fitting results that are based on the Present period are compared to the results of the full Wind mission from 1995 to the end of 2015 (Long-term period), and compared to the results of two other recent studies that encompassed the periods 2007?–?2009 and 2010?–?2012, inclusive. We see that during the Present period, the MCs are, on average, slightly slower, slightly weaker in axial magnetic field (by 8.7%), and larger in diameter (by 6.5%) than those in the Long-term period. However, in most respects, the MCs in the Present period are significantly closer in characteristics to those of the Long-term period than to those of the two recent three-year periods. However, the rate of occurrence of MCs for the Long-term period is \(10.3~\mbox{year}^{-1}\), whereas this rate for the Present period is \(16.3~\mbox{year}^{-1}\), similar to that of the period 2010?–?2012. Hence, the MC occurrence rate has increased appreciably in the last six years. MC Type (N–S, S–N, All N, All S, etc.) is assigned to each MC; there is an inordinately large percentage of All S, by about a factor of two compared to that of the Long-term period, indicating many strongly tipped MCs. In 2005, there was a distinct change in variability and average value (viewed at \(1/2\) year averages) of the duration, MC speed, axial magnetic field strength, axial magnetic flux, and total current to lower values. In the Present period, upstream shocks occur for 43% of the 49 cases; for comparison, the Long-term rate is 56%.  相似文献   

Frequency dependence of Q in the mantle underlying the shield areas of Eurasia, Part II: analyses of long period data     

Alison C. Lees  Zoltan A. Der  Vernon F. Cormier  Margaret E. Marshall  James A. Burnetti 《Geophysical Journal International》1986,87(3):1085-1101

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Navigating through SPASE to heliospheric and magnetospheric data   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Jan Merka  Thomas W. Narock  Adam Szabo 《Earth Science Informatics》2008,1(1):35-42

Virtual observatories have been introduced by the astrophysics community as an environment connecting distributed data sources with a unified interface. The heliophysics community soon recognized that they faced a similar problem of many distributed data sets with varying amount of information about them and several discipline specific virtual observatories have been established. Two of them, the virtual heliospheric observatory (VHO) and the virtual magnetospheric observatory (VMO), share a common architecture design with development efforts oriented towards a structured data search. This paper describes the VHO/VMO middleware and its components from metadata preparation and processing to the user interface.  相似文献   

Diurnal variations in,and influences on,concentrations of particulate and dissolved arsenic and metals in the mildly alkaline Wallkill River,New Jersey,USA     

Julia L. Barringer  Timothy P. Wilson  Zoltan Szabo  Jennifer L. Bonin  Jeffrey M. Fischer  Nicholas P. Smith 《Environmental Geology》2008,53(6):1183-1199

Diurnal variations in particulate and dissolved As and metal concentrations were observed in mildly alkaline water from a wetlands site on the Wallkill River in northwestern New Jersey. The site, underlain by glacial sediments over dolomite bedrock, is 10 km downstream from a mined area of the Franklin Marble, host to Zn ores, also As and Mn minerals. In mid-September 2005, maxima and minima in dissolved-oxygen-concentration and pH, typically caused by photosynthesis and respiration, occurred at 2000 and 0800 hours. Concentrations of dissolved As (1.52–1.95 μg/L) peaked at dusk (2000 hours), whereas dissolved Mn and Zn concentrations (76.5–96.9 and 8.55–12.8 μg/L, respectively) were lowest at dusk and peaked at 1000 hours. These opposing cycles probably reflect sorption and desorption of As (an anion), and Mn and Zn (cations) as pH varied throughout the 24-h period. Doubly-peaked cycles of B, Cl, SO₄, and nutrients also were observed; these may result from upstream discharges of septic-system effluent. Both recoverable amd particulate Al, Fe, Mn, and Zn concentrations peaked between 0200 and 0600 hours. The particulate metals cycle, with perturbations at 0400 hours, may be influenced by biological activity.  相似文献   

Reef growth and volcanism on the submarine southwest rift zone of Mauna Loa,Hawaii     

James G. Moore  William R Normark  Barney J Szabo 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1990,52(5):375-380

A marine sampling program, utilizing the PISCES-5 submersible operated by the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (NOAA), has confirmed the presence of a major submerged coral reef offshore from Ka Lae (South Point), Hawaii. The top of the reef is now 150–160 m below sea level. Radiocarbon and Useries dating indicates that it drowned about 13.9 ka by the combined effects of island subsidence (2.5 mm/year) and the rapid rise of sea level at the end of the last glaciation so that the relative submergence rate of more than 10 mm/year exceeded the upward growth rate of the reef. The submerged reef caps the offshore part of the southwest rift-zone ridge of Mauna Loa, which has apparently undergone little volcanic activity offshore since 170 ka, and possibly since 270 ka. This fact suggests that rift zone activity is becoming increasingly restricted toward the upper part of the volcano, a condition possibly heralding the end of the shield-building stage.  相似文献   

Relative inactivity during the last 140,000 years of a portion of the La Paz fault,southern Baja California Sur,Mexico     

B. J. Szabo  B. P. Hausback  J. T. Smith 《Environmental Geology》1990,15(2):119-122

Uranium-series dating of corals overlying the undeformed Punta Coyote gravels indicates that the underlying La Paz fault zone has been relatively inactive in this part of the Baja California peninsula during the last 140,000 years, and possibly for a significantly longer period. However, Holocene seismic activities along extensions of the fault zone north of Cabo San Lucas suggest potential seismic hazards for the city of La Paz (population 200,000), which lies about 6 km from the fault.  相似文献   

The Kinetics of the Interaction Between Iron(III)-Ethylenediaminetetraacetate and Peroxynitrite     

Virender K. Sharma  Ria A. Yngard  Zoltan Homonnay  Abhishek Dey  Chun He 《Aquatic Geochemistry》2010,16(3):483-490

The kinetics of the formation of the purple-colored species between Fe^III-EDTA and peroxynitrite were studied as a function of pH (10.4–12.3) at 22°C in aqueous solutions using a stopped-flow technique. A purple-colored species was immediately formed upon mixing, which had an absorbance maximum at 520 nm. The increase in absorbance with time could be fit empirically by a power function with two parameters a and b. The power equation determined was absorbance = a*t ^b , where a increased linearly with pH and the concentration of peroxynitrite, while b almost remained constant with a value of ~0.25. The molar extinction coefficient ε_520 nm for the colored species was determined as 13 M⁻¹cm⁻¹, which is much lower than ε_520 nm = 520 M⁻¹ cm⁻¹ for the [Fe^III(EDTA)O₂]³⁻, a purple species observed in the Fe^III–EDTA–H₂O₂ system. The results of kinetics and spectral measurements of the present study are briefly discussed and compared with those of the reaction between Fe(III)-EDTA and hydrogen peroxide.  相似文献   

Profile of an Average Magnetic Cloud at 1 au for the Quiet Solar Phase: Wind Observations     

Lepping  R.P.  Berdichevsky  D.B.  Szabo  A.  Arqueros  C.  Lazarus  A.J. 《Solar physics》2003,212(2):425-444

Using WIND magnetic field (MFI) and plasma (SWE) data, an `average' profile of an interplanetary magnetic cloud was developed in terms of five physical (scalar) quantities based on appropriately selected individual clouds. The period of study was from early 1995 to late in 1998, primarily during the quiet part of a solar cycle. The physical quantities are: magnetic field magnitude, proton density, solar wind bulk speed, proton thermal speed, and proton plasma beta. Selection of the clouds was based on two considerations: (1) their `quality', determined objectively from the application of a static magnetic field model of cloud field structure, had to be good, and (2) distant spacecraft approaches from the cloud axes were not accepted. Nineteen clouds resulted out of 35 original cases. A superposed epoch analysis was performed on the 5 parameters generating summary profiles of a generic magnetic cloud at 1 AU. The density within the generic magnetic cloud reached a distinct minimum near the center and peaked in the trailing part (closest to Sun) after a slow rise. The individual clouds fall into two classes, those that have such an enhanced density feature (about of them) and those that have an overall nearly flat density profile. For the first 85% of the generic magnetic cloud the bulk speed decreased almost uniformly by 45 km s^–1 indicating marked expansion over 1 AU. The field intensity peaked very near the cloud's center but was noticeably asymmetric. Proton thermal speed was quite symmetric with local maxima at the front, center, and rear. Proton plasma beta was low throughout the cloud (0.12 on average), but had a broad minimum at its center. The relative degree of fluctuation level for the parameters ranged from the most quiet for both speed and field magnitude, to the most `noisy' for proton plasma beta, with fluctuations in density and thermal speed at intermediate levels, all being below 0.2, based on a sample-scale of frac1100 of the cloud duration. These profiles may be useful in constraining future structural and thermodynamic models of clouds with regard to their solar birth conditions and interplanetary evolution.  相似文献   

Strong, localised country-rock contamination and partial homogenisation of a mafic magma: An example from west central Sweden     

Anders Lindh  Anders Kjllerstrm  Zoltan Solyom 《Lithos》2006,86(3-4):212-228

A dolerite sill cutting slightly older basalt in west-central Sweden shows a strong chemical variation (54% < SiO₂ < 73%) within a restricted area (< 100 × 100 m²). The linear correlation among almost all elements is extremely high; in addition, _NdT is strongly correlated with the SiO₂ content. Least-square hyperbolic-ratio and three-element ratio modelling (common denominator) suggests that most of the chemical variation is explained by mixing and/or micro-mingling. In all, we test 407 hyperbolas, of which 402 are fitted. The five ratio pairs, which could not be fitted to a hyperbola using a least-square fitting procedure, have the ratio Th / Eu in common. Testing the goodness of fit is problematic for hyperbolic distributions; for comparing purposes we sum the distances to chords approximating the hyperbola. Mobile and immobile elements behave similarly, suggesting that no elements are lost or added from outside the system. The data suggests that already the most mafic of the analysed rocks is a mixture of the ‘normal’ dolerite and a siliceous crustal rock. A mafic magma intruded into the base of the crust, where it fractionated resulting in a decreased Mg number. The magma was then contaminated with country rocks in an intermediate magma chamber due to country rock melting; during mixing/mingling almost no fractionation took place. The contaminated rock suggests the presence of a fluid phase. This was probably a prerequisite for country-rock melting. Enrichment in some incompatible elements suggests that besides major mixing/mingling a thermochemical separation process has affected the most felsic rock enriching it in light rare earths and Zr.  相似文献