Spatial pattern of photospheric granules in a sunspot neighborhood     

Ernesto R. Rodríguez Flores  Rafael Gmez Díaz  Ramn E. Rodríguez Taboada 《Journal of Atmospheric and Solar》2005,67(17-18):1728

Based on high-resolution (0.3 arcsec) observations, we studied the behavior of solar granulation in the neighborhood of a sunspot. The bright granules’ spatial distribution and the granules’ surface density as a function of distance from the center of the sunspot umbra were determined.Bright granules distribute delimiting cells of dimensions in the mesogranular scale. The mean diameter of these cells does not show significant variation with the variation of the magnetic field of the sunspot. The granules’ surface density does not show significant variation with distance to the sunspot umbra. Both results point to a very weak, if any, influence of the sunspot magnetic field at distances greater than 20 arcsec.  相似文献   

Tectonic Control of the Triassic Santa Maria Supersequence of the Paraná Basin, Southernmost Brazil, and its Correlation to the Waterberg Basin, Namibia     

Henrique Zerfass  Farid Chemale  Jr.  Ernesto Lavina 《Gondwana Research》2005,8(2):163-176

The Middle and Late Triassic Santa Maria Basin, exposed in southernmost Brazil, and Waterberg Basin, in Namibia, are herein interpreted as part of en échelon small basins in southern West Gondwana. The main structures are the Waterberg-Omaruru Fault which can be connected to a NW-strike anastomosed fault zone in Brazil. Based on field structural and stratigraphic analysis two populations of NW-strike fractures, named A-type and B-type, are recognized. A-type fractures (Az = 280°-290°) occur in the Sanga do Cabral Supersequence, underlying units of Santa Maria Basin, as extension of the Waterberg-Omaruru Fault during the Early Triassic. B-type fractures (Az = 295°-345°) are observed in all studied stratigraphic units, from the Triassic Sanga do Cabral Supersequence to the Early Cretaceous Botucatu/Serra Geral formations. Based on the structural analysis we propose that NNE-SSW extension reactivated structures of the Damara Belt, Namibia, with a propagation towards Rio Grande do Sul State forming an anastomosing normal fault system and related-rift basin by Early-Middle Triassic time. The A-type fractures were preferentially active by this phase and the B-type ones are interpreted as secondary link segments within the anastomosing system. During the Gondwana break-up and South Atlantic opening (rift to proto-oceanic phase, Aptian) the B-type fractures were reactivated as normal faults by N50°E-S50°W extension.  相似文献   

Latent Compositional Factors in The Llobregat River Basin (Spain) Hydrogeochemistry     

R. Tolosana-Delgado  N. Otero  V. Pawlowsky-Glahn  A. Soler 《Mathematical Geology》2005,37(7):681-702

The study of hydrogeochemical data sets frequently calls for statistical dimension reducing techniques. It is well known that hydrochemical parameters are compositions and, for this type of data, the direct application of classical statistical methods based on the correlation matrix yield spurious results. But new results on compositional data analysis have identified the sampling space, the simplex, with an Euclidean space, a fact that allows us to define a simplicial factor analysis strategy, thus overcoming the problem. For illustration, we use samples from the Llobregat River and its tributaries (NE Spain). Three unobservable or latent factorial components are extracted, which are identified with pristine waters, potash-mining influence and urban sewage influence. These three factorial components or compositional factors are plotted in a factorial ternary diagram, which reflects the relative influence of each one of these factors on each observation.  相似文献   

Tropospheric transformation products of a series of hydrofluorocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons     

Ernesto C. Tuazon  Roger Atkinson 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》1993,16(2):179-199

The products of the Cl-atom initiated reactions of a series of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) in air have been investigated at 298 K and one atmosphere (740 Torr total pressure) of air. The products observed and quantified and their yields (%) were as follows: from CHF₂Cl (HCFC-22), C(O)F₂ (100%); from CHFCl₂ (HCFC-21), C(O)FCl (100%); from CH₂FCl (HCFC-31), HC(O)F (100%); from CH₃F (HFC-41), HC(O)F (100%); from CH₃CFCl₂ (HCFC-141b), C(O)FCl (100%); from CH₃CF₂Cl (HCFC-142b), C(O)F₂ (100%); from CH₃CHF₂ (HFC-152a), C(O)F₂ (92%); from CHCl₂CF₃ (HCFC-123), CF₃C(O)Cl (98%); from CHFClCF₃ (HCFC-124), CF₃C(O)F (101%); and from CHF₂CF₃ (HFC-125), C(O)F₂ (100%). The reaction mechanisms are discussed.  相似文献   

Notes on fossil remains from the Early Cretaceous Lohan Cura Formation, Neuquén Province, Argentina     

Agustín G. Martinelli  Alberto C. Garrido  Analía M. Forasiepi  Ernesto R. Paz  Yamila Gurovich 《Gondwana Research》2007,11(4):537-552

In this contribution, we describe an association of fossil remains collected in the locality of Cerro de Los Leones, approximately 8 km southwest of the town of Picún Leufú, Neuquén Province, Argentina, from different levels of the Albian Cullín Grande Member, Lohan Cura Formation. The fossils include pelecypodan (Neocorbicula dinosauriorum, Neocorbicula pehuenchensis, and genus indet.) and gastropodan (Physa wichmanni) molluscs, a mesoeucrocodylian, possible pterosaurs, theropods, and sauropods. The sedimentary environment at Cerro de los Leones is characterized by fluvial deposits corresponding to a sandy meandering fluvial system. The most fossiliferous levels (located in the lower part of the exposed sequence) were developed in a distal flood plain and flood basin areas. Sedimentological and paleopedological features suggest semi-arid conditions during the deposition of the Cullín Grande Member. Despite the fragmentary nature of the specimens described here, the new information provided from the Albian assemblages of the Lohan Cura Formation at the Cerro de Los Leones locality provides a broader panorama of the composition of terrestrial faunas during the Early Cretaceous in Patagonia.  相似文献   

Spatial variation in pore water geochemistry in a mangrove system (Pai Matos island, Cananeia-Brazil)     

X.L. Otero  T.O. Ferreira  P. Vidal-Torrado  F. Macías 《Applied Geochemistry》2006,21(12):2171-2186

Spatial variation in salinity, pH, redox potential, and in the concentrations of dissolved Mn, Fe²⁺ and sulphides in pore water were investigated in a mangrove system in the state of São Paulo (Brazil). Total organic C (TOC), S, Fe and Mn were analyzed in the solid phase, along with acid volatile sulphide (AVS), density of roots and percentage of sand. Five zones, situated along the length of a 180 m transect were considered in the study. Four of these were colonized by different species of vascular plants (Spartina, Laguncularia, Avicennia and Rhizophora) and were denominated soils; the other was not colonized by vegetation, and was denominated sediment. The results indicated important differences between the physicochemical conditions of the pore water in the vegetated zones and the sediment. In the former, two geochemical environments were identified, based on soil depths. The upper 20 cm contained the largest quantity of roots, and the conditions were oxic (Eh > 350 mV) or suboxic (Eh: 100–350 mV), acidic, and with high concentrations of Fe and Mn in the pore water. Below this depth, the soil became anoxic, the concentration of sulphides (HS⁻) increased significantly and the concentrations of dissolved Fe and Mn decreased significantly. The total S and the AVS fraction increased with depth, while TOC concentrations decreased, indicating that the decreases in Fe and Mn were due to the precipitation of metal sulphides. However, clear differences among the vegetated zones were not observed. The sediment was always anoxic, but with low concentrations of sulphide in the interstitial water, and was neutral or slightly alkaline. As in the soils, the concentrations of sulphides and total S increased significantly with depth, indicating that the conditions favoured the synthesis and stability of metal sulphides.  相似文献   

Invariant sets and polhodes in the rigid body problem     

Ernesto A. Lacomba 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1980,21(1):45-53

In this work we will describe the sets in the rigid body phase space where the energy and angular momentum are constant, and it will turn out that in nontrivial cases they will simply take the form of cartesian products of the polhodes byS ¹. These sets are important for the global study of said geodesic mechanical system for being invariant under Euler's equations (energy and momentum are constant along their solutions).To motivate from something more familiar in celestial mechanics, we will begin to relate the problem to Smale's study of the planarn-body problem (Smale, 1970) and Easton's study of the planar 3-body problem (Easton, 1971), exemplifying in particular with the central force problem.In the last Sections 4 and 5, we extent our methods to give results for generalized solids on Lie groups, mentioning the further extensions to transitive mechanical systems.Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Mathematical Methods in Celestial Mechanics held at Oberwolfach (West Germany) from 14 to 19 August, 1978.This work was partially supported by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (México) under grant PNCB-049.  相似文献   

Simulated Urban Climate Response to Historical Land Use Modification in the Basin of Mexico   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Arón Jazcilevich  Vicente Fuentes  Ernesto Jauregui  Esteban Luna 《Climatic change》2000,44(4):515-536

Numerical simulations of thermal field variation due to land use changes, such as the reduction of the lacustrine system and the growth of the urban area, in the Basin of Mexico are presented. It is shown that the historically recorded warming in the basin could be attributed, not only to the growth of the urban area, but more importantly to the drastic reduction in the lacustrine system that existed in the basin.  相似文献   

Landslide susceptibility of volcanic landforms in the Río El Estado watershed,Pico de Orizaba volcano,Mexico     

Gabriel Legorreta Paulín  Marcus I. Bursik  José Juan Zamorano Orózco  José Ernesto Figueroa García 《Natural Hazards》2015,77(2):559-574

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Caribbean hurricanes: interannual variability and prediction     

Mark R. Jury  Ernesto Rodr��guez 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2011,106(1-2):105-115

Climatic conditions that affect the interannual variability of Caribbean hurricanes are studied. Composite meteorological and oceanographic reanalysis fields are constructed for active and inactive seasons since 1979, and differences are calculated for spring and summer periods to provide guidance in statistical analysis. Predictors are extracted for areas exhibiting high contrast between active and inactive seasons, and intercomparisons are made. Zonal winds north of Venezuela exhibit westerly anomalies prior to active years, so coastal upwelling and the north Brazil current are diminished. Rainfall increases in the Orinoco River basin, creating a fresh warm plume north of Trinidad. The predictor time series are regressed onto an index of Caribbean hurricanes, and multivariate algorithms are formulated. It is found that atmospheric kinematic and convective predictors explain only ??20% of hurricane variance at 3?C5-month lead time. Subsurface ocean predictors offer higher levels of explained hurricane variance (42%) at 3?C5-month lead time, using 1?C200-m-depth-averaged temperatures in the east Pacific and southern Caribbean. We place the statistical results in a conceptual framework to better understand climatic processes anticipating Caribbean hurricanes.  相似文献