Climatic history of the African and Arabian deserts     

Anne-Marie Lézine 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2009,341(8-9):569-574

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Stellar velocity profiles and line strengths out to four effective radii in the early-type galaxies NGC 3379 and 821     

Anne-Marie Weijmans  Michele Cappellari  Roland Bacon  P. T. de Zeeuw  Eric Emsellem  Jesús Falcón-Barroso  Harald Kuntschner  Richard M. McDermid  Remco C. E. van den Bosch  Glenn van de Ven † 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,398(2):561-574

We use the integral-field spectrograph SAURON to measure the stellar line-of-sight velocity distribution and absorption line strengths out to four effective radii ( R _e) in the early-type galaxies NGC 3379 and 821. With our newly developed observing technique, we can now probe these faint regions in galaxies that were previously not accessible with traditional long-slit spectroscopy. We make optimal use of the large field-of-view and high throughput of the spectrograph: by adding the signal of all ∼1400 lenslets into one spectrum, we obtain sufficient signal-to-noise in a few hours of observing time to reliably measure the absorption line kinematics and line strengths out to large radius.
We find that the line strength gradients previously observed within 1 R _e remain constant out to at least 4 R _e, which puts constraints on the merger histories of these galaxies. The stellar halo populations are old and metal poor. By constructing orbit-based Schwarzschild dynamical models, we find that dark matter is necessary to explain the observed kinematics in NGC 3379 and 821, with 30–50 per cent of the total matter being dark within 4 R _e. The radial anisotropy in our best-fitting halo models is less than in our models without halo, due to differences in orbital structure. The halo also has an effect on the  Mg  b – V _esc  relation: its slope is steeper when a dark matter halo is added to the model.  相似文献   

Book review     

Anne-Marie de Grosbois 《Environmental Geology》2006,50(4):613-615

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Upcoming International Events     

Anne-Marie de Grosbois 《Environmental Geology》2007,52(6):1225-1230

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Impact of partial steps and momentum advection schemes in a global ocean circulation model at eddy-permitting resolution   总被引：4，自引：6，他引：4  

Barnier Bernard  Gurvan Madec  Thierry Penduff  Jean-Marc Molines  Anne-Marie Treguier  Julien Le Sommer  Aike Beckmann  Arne Biastoch  Claus Böning  Joachim Dengg  Corine Derval  Edmée Durand  Sergei Gulev  Elizabeth Remy  Claude Talandier  Sébastien Theetten  Mathew Maltrud  Julie McClean  Beverly De Cuevas 《Ocean Dynamics》2006,56(5-6):543-567

Series of sensitivity tests were performed with a z-coordinate, global eddy-permitting (1/4°) ocean/sea-ice model (the ORCA-R025 model configuration developed for the DRAKKAR project) to carefully evaluate the impact of recent state-of-the-art numerical schemes on model solutions. The combination of an energy–enstrophy conserving (EEN) scheme for momentum advection with a partial step (PS) representation of the bottom topography yields significant improvements in the mean circulation. Well known biases in the representation of western boundary currents, such as in the Atlantic the detachment of the Gulf Stream, the path of the North Atlantic Current, the location of the Confluence, and the strength of the Zapiola Eddy in the south Atlantic, are partly corrected. Similar improvements are found in the Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans, and characteristics of the mean flow are generally much closer to observations. Comparisons with other state-of-the-art models show that the ORCA-R025 configuration generally performs better at similar resolution. In addition, the model solution is often comparable to solutions obtained at 1/6 or 1/10° resolution in some aspects concerning mean flow patterns and distribution of eddy kinetic energy. Although the reasons for these improvements are not analyzed in detail in this paper, evidence is shown that the combination of EEN with PS reduces numerical noise near the bottom, which is likely to affect current–topography interactions in a systematic way. We conclude that significant corrections of the mean biases presently seen in general circulation model solutions at eddy-permitting resolution can still be expected from the development of numerical methods, which represent an alternative to increasing resolution.  相似文献   

Land-sea correlations for the last glaciation inferred from a pollen and dinocyst record from the portuguese margin     

Jean-Louis Turon  Anne-Marie LézineMichelle Denèfle 《Quaternary Research》2003,59(1):88-96

Pollen and dinoflagellate cyst assemblages from Core SU 81-18 recovered off Portugal (37°46′N, 10°11′W; 3135-m water depth) have been used to document the short-term environmental changes that occurred in southwest Europe since 25,000 yr B.P. The relationship between the oceanic and continental environments has been further examined by the use of other marine proxies (coarse sedimentary fraction, foraminifera) and by comparison with proximal land pollen records. Heinrich 2 (H2) and Heinrich 1 (H1) events were the most extreme parts of the highly variable last glacial period, with the maximum extension of dry steppe on land and the occurrence of cool and dilute waters at the core site. Our study shows that H1 and H2 are divided in two distinct phases: one with Neogloboquadrina pachyderma left coiling associated with the maximum input of ice rafted debris, reflecting the in situ release of icebergs and the occurrence of cool and dilute seawater at the core site; the other with dinoflagellate cysts of subpolar affinity, Bitectatodinium tepikiense, reflecting a seasonal control marked by warm summer SST and cold winter SST.  相似文献   

Holocene Lakes from Ramlat as-Sab'atayn (Yemen) Illustrate the Impact of Monsoon Activity in Southern Arabia     

Anne-Marie Lézine  Jean-François Saliège  Christian Robert  Frédéric Wertz  Marie-Louise Inizan 《Quaternary Research》1998,50(3):290-299

Paleoecology and paleohydrology of the Ramlat as-Sab'atayn (Southern Arabia) are reconstructed from a comparative study including sedimentology, mineralogy, stable isotope ratios of carbonates, and palynology of lacustrine sediments recovered from the al-Hawa depression. The section dates from 8700 to 7200 yr B.P. and records an early phase of flooding followed by distinct lacustrine development from 7800 to 7200 yr B.P., coeval with maximum activity of the Indian monsoon. Comparison of the pollen record with modern pollen deposition suggests that regional vegetation was then already of desert type and was related to strong seasonal trade winds.  相似文献   

A Compilation of Silicon and Thirty One Trace Elements Measured in the Natural River Water Reference Material SLRS-4 (NRC-CNRC)   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Delphine Yeghicheyan  Jean Carignan  Michel Valladon  Martine Bouhnik Le  Coz  Florence Le Cornec  Maryse Castrec-Rouelle  Michel Robert  Luc Aquilina  Emmanuel Aubry  Carine Churlaud  Aline Dia  Samuel Deberdt  Bernard Dupré  Rémi Freydier  Gérard Gruau  Odile Hénin  Anne-Marie de  Kersabiec  Joël Macé  Luc Marin  Nicole Morin  Patrice Petitjean  Elodie Serrat 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2001,25(2-3):465-474

The natural river water certified reference material SLRS-4 (NRC-CNRC, National Research Council-Conseil National de Recherches Canada) has been routinely analysed for major and trace elements by six French laboratories. Most measurements were made using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. For silicon and thirty one trace elements (rare earth elements, Ag, B, Br, Cs, Ga, Ge, Li, P, Pd, Rb, Se, Th, Ti, Tl, W, Y and Zr), no certified values are assigned by NRC-CNRC. We propose some compilation values and related uncertainties according to the results obtained by the different laboratories.  相似文献   

Late quaternary vegetation and climate of the Sahel     

Anne-Marie Lzine 《Quaternary Research》1989,32(3)

Pollen and phytogeographic evidence provides a vegetational history of the Sahel for the period 0–18,000 yr B.P. The zonal vegetation fluctuated latitudinally and its most extreme positions occurred at 18,000 and 8500 yr B.P. The first involved a southward shift of the Sahelian wooded grassland to 10°N under the arid conditions of the last glacial maximum. The second change shows a rapid northward migration of humid vegetation: Guinean elements reach 16°N and Sahelo-Sudanian elements extend to the southern margin of the modern Sahara (21°N) when the Atlantic monsoon flux increased. In the middle Holocene the extensive spread of Sudanian elements into the modern Sahelian zone suggests the appearance of a markedly dry season. The modern Sahelian semiarid conditions appeared abruptly at 2000 yr B.P.  相似文献   

Plant migration and plant communities at the time of the “green Sahara”     

Julie Watrin  Anne-Marie Lézine  Christelle Hély 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2009,341(8-9):656-670

Around 8500 cal years BP, at the time of the maximum of the African Humid Period, lakes and wetlands expanded in the present-day Sahara while large paleodrainages were formed or re-actived, in response to an orbitally-induced increase in monsoon rainfall. It has been suggested that the direct consequence of this increase in rainfall was the northward displacement of the Sahara/Sahel boundary, thought to have reached 23°N in central and eastern Africa. Here, we show a more complex situation characterized by an increase in biodiversity as the desert accommodated more humid-adapted species from tropical forests and wooded grasslands: tropical plant species now found some 400 to 500 km to the south probably entered the desert as gallery-forest formations along rivers and lakes where they benefited from permanent fresh water. At the same time, Saharan trees and shrubs persisted, giving rise to a vegetation that has no analogue today. In this article, we present distribution maps of selected plant species to show both the amplitude of the vegetation change compared to the present and the composition of the past plant communities. We also estimate the migration rate of tropical plant taxa to their northernmost position in the Sahara. This study is based on the use of several data sets: a data set of the modern plant distribution in northern Africa and a data set of modern and fossil pollen sites (from the African Pollen Database, http://fpd.mediasfrance.org/ and http://medias.obs-mip.fr/apd/).  相似文献