Climate changes and human activities recorded in the sediments of Lake Estanya (NE Spain) during the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Mario Morell��n  Blas Valero-Garc��s  Pen��lope Gonz��lez-Samp��riz  Teresa Vegas-Vilarr��bia  Esther Rubio  Maria Rieradevall  Antonio Delgado-Huertas  Pilar Mata  ��scar Romero  Daniel R. Engstrom  Manuel L��pez-Vicente  Ana Navas  Jes��s Soto 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2011,46(3):423-452

A multi-proxy study of short sediment cores recovered in small, karstic Lake Estanya (42°02?? N, 0°32?? E, 670 m.a.s.l.) in the Pre-Pyrenean Ranges (NE Spain) provides a detailed record of the complex environmental, hydrological and anthropogenic interactions occurring in the area since medieval times. The integration of sedimentary facies, elemental and isotopic geochemistry, and biological proxies (diatoms, chironomids and pollen), together with a robust chronological control, provided by AMS radiocarbon dating and ²¹⁰Pb and ¹³⁷Cs radiometric techniques, enabled precise reconstruction of the main phases of environmental change, associated with the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), the Little Ice Age (LIA) and the industrial era. Shallow lake levels and saline conditions with poor development of littoral environments prevailed during medieval times (1150?C1300 AD). Generally higher water levels and more dilute waters occurred during the LIA (1300?C1850 AD), although this period shows a complex internal paleohydrological structure and is contemporaneous with a gradual increase of farming activity. Maximum lake levels and flooding of the current littoral shelf occurred during the nineteenth century, coinciding with the maximum expansion of agriculture in the area and prior to the last cold phase of the LIA. Finally, declining lake levels during the twentieth century, coinciding with a decrease in human pressure, are associated with warmer climate conditions. A strong link with solar irradiance is suggested by the coherence between periods of more positive water balance and phases of reduced solar activity. Changes in winter precipitation and dominance of NAO negative phases would be responsible for wet LIA conditions in western Mediterranean regions. The main environmental stages recorded in Lake Estanya are consistent with Western Mediterranean continental records, and show similarities with both Central and NE Iberian reconstructions, reflecting a strong climatic control of the hydrological and anthropogenic changes during the last 800 years.  相似文献   

Separation of Different Contributions to the Total X-ray Luminosity in Gamma-ray Loud Blazars     

Gustavo E.Romero 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2005,5(5):457-462

The relativistic beaming model has been successfully used to explain many of the observational properties of active galactic nuclei. In this model the total emission is formed by two components, one beamed, one unbeamed. However, the exact contribution from each component in unresolved sources is still not clear. In the radio band, the core and extended emissions are clearly separated. We adopt the method proposed by Kembhavi to separate the two contributions in the X-ray emissions in a sample of 19 gamma-ray loud blazars. It is clearly shown that the beamed emission dominates the X-ray flux and the unbeamed X-ray emission is correlated with the extended radio emission of the considered objects. We also find that the ratio of the beamed to the unbeamed X-ray luminosity is correlated with the X-ray spectral index, an effect that should be a consequence of the underlying X-ray emission mechanism.  相似文献   

Gamma-Ray Emission from Be/X-ray Binaries     

M. Orellana  G. E. Romero 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2005,297(1-4):167-178

Be/X-ray binaries are systems formed by a massive Be star and a magnetized neutron star, usually in an eccentric orbit. The Be star has strong equatorial winds occasionally forming a circumstellar disk. When the neutron star intersects the disk the accretion rate dramatically increases and a transient accretion disk can be formed around the compact object. This disk can last longer than a single orbit in the case of major outbursts. If the disk rotates faster than the neutron star, the Cheng-Ruderman mechanism can produce a current of relativistic protons that would impact onto the disk surface, producing gamma-rays from neutral pion decays and initiating electromagnetic cascades inside the disk. In this paper we present calculations of the evolution of the disk parameters during both major and minor X-ray events, and we discuss the generation of gamma-ray emission at different energies within a variety of models that include both screened and unscreened disks.  相似文献   

Gravitational microlensing of γ-ray blazars     

Diego F. Torres  Gustavo E. Romero  Ernesto F. Eiroa  Joachim Wambsganss  Martín E. Pessah 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,339(2):335-352

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Rainfall,run‐off,and sediment transport dynamics in a humid mountain badland area: Long‐term results from a small catchment          下载免费PDF全文

Estela Nadal‐Romero  Dhais Peña‐Angulo  David Regüés 《水文研究》2018,32(11):1588-1606

In this study, we investigated rainfall, run‐off, and sediment transport dynamics (414 run‐off events and 231 events with sediment information) of a humid mountain badland area—the Araguás catchment (Central Pyrenees, Spain)—from October 2005 to September 2016. Use of this long‐term database allows characterization of the hydrological response, which consist of low‐magnitude/high‐frequency events and high‐magnitude/low‐frequency events, and identification of seasonal dynamics and rainfall‐run‐off thresholds. Our results indicate that the Araguás catchment, similarly to other humid badlands, had high hydrological responsiveness (mean annual run‐off coefficient: 0.52), a non‐linear relationship of rainfall with run‐off (common in Mediterranean environments), and seasonal hydrological and sedimentological dynamics. We created and validated a multivariate regression model to characterize the hydrological variables (stormflow and peak discharge) and sedimentological variables (mean and maximum suspended sediment concentrations and total suspended sediment load). In summer and at the beginning of autumn, the response was mainly related to rainfall intensity, suggesting a predomination of Hortonian flows. In contrast, in spring and winter, the responses were mainly related to the antecedent conditions (previous rainfall and baseflow), suggesting the occurrence of saturated excess flow processes, and the contribution of neighbouring vegetated areas. The multivariate analysis also showed that total sediment load is better predicted by a multivariate regression model that integrates pre‐event, rainfall, and run‐off variables. In general, our models provided more accurate predictions of small‐magnitude/high‐frequency events than high‐magnitude/low‐frequency events. This study highlights the high inter‐ and intra‐annual variability response in humid badland areas and that long‐term records are needed to reduce the uncertainty of hydrological and sedimentological responses in Mediterranean badland areas.  相似文献   

Seismicity pattern of the Betic Cordillera （southern Spain） derived from the fractal properties of earthquakes and faults   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

J Henares Romero  C Lopez Casado  J Badal  J A Pelaez 《地震学报(英文版)》2010,(4):309-323

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Sh2-205 – I. The surrounding interstellar medium     

G. A. Romero  C. E. Cappa 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,387(3):1080-1092

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Ubiquity of Endocrine Disruptors Nonylphenol and Its Mono‐ and Di‐Ethoxylates in Freshwater,Sediments, and Biosolids Associated with High and Low Density Populations of Buenos Aires,Argentina          下载免费PDF全文

Paola A. Babay  Raúl F. Itria  Emiliano E. Romero Ale  Elena T. Becquart  Eduardo A. Gautier 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2014,42(6):731-737

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Sh2-205 – II. Quiescent star-formation activity     

G. A. Romero †  C. E. Cappa ‡ 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,395(4):2095-2102

We present a study of active star-forming regions in the environs of the H  ii region Sh2-205. The analysis is based on data obtained from point source catalogues and images extracted from the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), Midcourse Space Experiment ( MSX ) and IRAS surveys. Complementary data are taken from a CO survey. The identification of primary candidates for star-formation activity is made following colour criteria and a correlation with molecular gas emission.
A number of star-formation tracer candidates are projected on to two substructures of the H  ii region: SH 148.83–0.67 and SH 149.25–0.00. However, the lack of molecular gas related to these structures casts doubt on the nature of the sources. Additional infrared sources may be associated with the H  i shell centred at  ( l , b ) = (149°0', −1°30')  .
The most striking active area was found in connection with the H  ii region LBN 148.11–0.45, where star-formation candidates are projected on to molecular gas. The analytical model of the 'collect and collapse' process shows that star-formation activity could have been triggered by the expansion of this H  ii region.  相似文献   

Residues and Organic Contaminants in Agricultural Soils in Intensive Agricultural Areas of Spain: A Three Years Survey          下载免费PDF全文

Juan A. Padilla‐Sánchez  Roberto Romero‐González  Patricia Plaza‐Bolaños  Antonia Garrido Frenich  José L. Martínez Vidal 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2015,43(5):746-753

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