The Intermittently Embedded Herbig Ae/Be Stars ISO and Ground-Based IR Observations     

C.A. Grady  M.R. Pérez  K.S. Bjorkman  M.L. Sitko  P.S. Thé  D. De Winter  V.P. Grinin  R.W. Russell  D.K. Lynch  M.S. Hanner 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1997,255(1-2):35-41

We discuss silicate emission profiles observed with the ISO SWS and ground-based IR observations in a population of intermittently embedded Herbig Ae/Be stars which are viewed edge-on to their polarimetrically identified dust and gas disks. The ISO SWS observations confirm the lack of a simple correlation between system age and the profile shape. Comparison with laboratory silicates suggests that much of the observed variation is due to different annealing histories of the grains. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Water quality in New Zealand rivers: current state and trends     

ST Larned  T Snelder  MJ Unwin  GB McBride 《新西兰海洋与淡水研究杂志》2016,50(3):389-417

River water quality, particularly in lowland catchments, is a matter of concern to the New Zealand public. We assessed river water quality and biological state and trends using data from more than 900 monitoring sites. Parallel state and trend analyses were carried out using all sites and a subset of lowland river sites. Median water-quality state in urban and pastoral land-cover classes was poorer than in exotic forest and natural land-cover classes, and lowland sites in the urban and pastoral classes had the poorest water quality. Nutrient and Escherichia coli concentrations increased and visual clarity and Macroinvertebrate Community Index scores decreased as proportions of catchments in high-intensity agricultural and urban land cover increased. Ten-year trends (2004–2013) indicated recent improvements in ammoniacal nitrogen, dissolved reactive phosphorus and total phosphorus in the pastoral and urban classes, possibly reflecting improved land management. In contrast, trends in nitrate-nitrogen in the exotic forest and cool-dry/pastoral classes indicated worsening conditions.  相似文献   

Summer and winter differences in zooplankton biomass,distribution and size composition in the KwaZulu-Natal Bight,South Africa     

M Pretorius  JA Huggett  MJ Gibbons 《African Journal of Marine Science》2016,38(1):S155-S168

Zooplankton biomass and distribution in the KwaZulu-Natal Bight were investigated in relation to environmental parameters during summer (January–February 2010) and winter (July–August 2010). Mean zooplankton biomass was significantly higher in winter (17.1 mg dry weight [DW] m^–3) than in summer (9.5 mg DW m^?3). In summer, total biomass was evenly distributed within the central bight, low off the Thukela River mouth and peaked near Durban. In winter, highest biomass was found offshore between Richards Bay and Cape St Lucia. Zooplankton biomass in each size class was significantly, negatively related to sea surface temperature and integrated nitrate, but positively related to surface chlorophyll a and dissolved oxygen. Zooplankton biomass was significantly related to bottom depth, with greatest total biomass located inshore (<50 m). Distribution across the shelf varied with zooplankton size. Seasonal differences in copepod size composition suggest that a smaller, younger community occupied the cool, chlorophyll-rich waters offshore from the St Lucia upwelling cell in winter, and a larger, older community occurred within the relatively warm and chlorophyll-poor central bight in summer. Nutrient enrichment from quasi-permanent upwelling off Durban and Richards Bay appears to have a greater influence on zooplankton biomass and distribution in the bight than the strongly seasonal nutrient input from the Thukela River.  相似文献   

A system-level modelling perspective of the KwaZulu-Natal Bight ecosystem,eastern South Africa     

UM Scharler  RC van Ballegooyen  MJ Ayers 《African Journal of Marine Science》2016,38(1):S205-S216

The KwaZulu-Natal Bight comprises the only sizeable shelf region on the eastern coast of South Africa, and is influenced by both the Agulhas Current on its seaward side and rivers and estuaries on its landward side. Established knowledge of the effect of the Agulhas Current includes the influence on nutrient concentrations in the bight of a semi-permanent upwelling cell at its northern border (St Lucia) and, to a much lesser extent, of a semi-permanent eddy feature at its southern extremity. Current modelling efforts, however, point to a very important role of land-derived nutrients, which supplement the productivity of food webs of the bight. This connectivity of the bight to its adjacent ecosystems has various implications. First, its productivity has traditionally been viewed via phytoplankton growth, whereas ecosystem modelling efforts point to a very high reliance on imported detritus (mainly land-derived) in order to sustain especially the rich benthic food web. The benthos in the bight dominates the food web, and is in marked contrast to the upwelling system of the west coast of South Africa (Atlantic Ocean) where water-column productivity dominates. Second, the importance of the connectivity of the Thukela Bank prawn-trawling ground to estuarine nursery areas, which has been modelled quantitatively, highlights the significance of this particular ecosystem connectivity for fisheries and also for the Thukela Bank food web. Heterogeneity across the bight is apparent for nutrient turnover rates (carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus), CNP content and stoichiometry, whereas nitrogen is a limiting nutrient across the entire bight. The food web near the Thukela River is richer in nutrient content and more active (higher turnover rates) compared to the northern and southern parts of the bight. This environmental heterogeneity was also apparent from the CNP content and stoichiometry of the various species and species groups in the bight. Requirements to take the hydrodynamic, biogeochemical and first ecosystem modelling efforts towards a meaningful predictive capability are discussed. The importance of adopting a system-level view of the bight and its connected systems for realistic exploration of global change scenarios is highlighted.  相似文献   

Observations and mechanisms of upwelling in the northern KwaZulu-Natal Bight,South Africa     

MJ Roberts  C Nieuwenhuys 《African Journal of Marine Science》2016,38(1):S43-S63

New in situ time-series data were acquired by two ADCP moorings placed on the shelf off Richards Bay on the east coast of South Africa at depths of 25 m and 582 m between October 2009 and August 2010. The 11-month inshore bottom-temperature record revealed five substantial upwelling events lasting 5–10 days each where temperatures decreased by about 7 °C to 17–18 °C. Satellite sea surface temperature data showed these events to coincide with cold-water plumes occupying the northern wedge of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Bight. Numerous shorter duration (1–2 days) upwelling events with less vivid surface expressions were also observed throughout the entire record where bottom temperature dropped by 2–3 °C. The last four months of the record were characterised by a protracted cool period lacking a seasonal trend but punctuated with oscillations of warm and cooler bottom water. In contrast to earlier studies that suggested upwelling was topographically and dynamically driven by the juxtaposition of the Cape St Lucia offset and the Agulhas Current (a solitary mechanism), our analysis showed almost all major and minor cold-water intrusions to coincide with upwelling-favourable north-easterly winds that simultaneously force a south-westerly coastal current. Ekman veering in the bottom boundary layer of the Agulhas Current, and the concomitant movement of cold water up the slope, was found to coexist at times with coastal upwelling, but its absence did not impede inshore cold-water intrusions, calling into question its role as a primary driver of upwelling. Both major and minor upwelling events were observed to promote phytoplankton blooms in the northern KZN Bight which commonly extended to the Thukela River. Wind-driven upwelling was also observed in the inner bight between Richards Bay and Port Durnford, explaining the ribbon of coastal chlorophyll continuously observed on ocean colour images between Cape St Lucia and the Thukela River. Similarities in upwelling character and mechanisms are observed between the northern KZN Bight and the Florida Current shelf systems.  相似文献   

Änderungen im Sommerklima seit 150 Jahren     

H. Winter 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》1951,3(1):82-90

Zusammenfassung An Hand der 175jährigen Wiener Temperaturreihe wird der Hochsommercharakter seit Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts untersucht und es werden wesentliche Klimaschwankungen in der Dauer von mehreren Jahrzehnten festgestellt. Eine Paralleluntersuchung hinsichtlich Niederschlag im Hochsommer ab 1851 zeigt einen deutlichen Zusammenhang zwischen Juli-Regenmengen und Juli-Temperaturmittel. Die Periode feuchtkühler Sommer in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts ist offensichtlich auf eine verstärkte Nordkomponente innerhalb der allgemeinen mitteleuropäischen Sommerzirkulation zurückzuführen.

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Summary On the basis of the 175-year temperature series of Vienna the midsummer character ever since the end of the 18th century is studied. Considerable variations in climate with periods of several decades were found. A parallel investigation of midsummer precipitations for the time since 1851 shows a distinct connection between the amounts of precipitation and temperature means of July. The period of cool and wet summers in the first decades of the 20th century is obviously due to an intensification of the northern component of the Central European circulation in summer.

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Résumé On étudie, sur la base d'une série d'observations de température à Vienne s'étendant sur 175 ans, le caractère de l'été depuis la fin du 18ème siècle; des variations climatiques assez importantes d'une durée de plusieurs décennies apparaissent alors. Une recherche parallèle concernant les précipitations de l'été depuis 1851 met en évidence une nette relation entre les hauteurs d'eau de juillet et les températures moyennes du même mois. La période d'étés humides et froids des premières décennies du 20ème siècle est due apparemment à un renforcement de la composante Nord à l'intérieur de la circulation générale d'été de l'Europe centrale.

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“Coastal dynamics and human impact: south-eastern North Sea”, an overview     

Christian Winter  Alexander Bartholomä 《Geo-Marine Letters》2006,26(3):121-124

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Zoogeography of marine Bryozoa around South Africa     

MK Boonzaaier-Davids  WK Florence  MJ Gibbons 《African Journal of Marine Science》2020,42(2):185-198

The zoogeography of marine Bryozoa around South Africa was investigated using published distribution records, museum catalogues, and an examination of previously unworked bryozoan material in (mostly) museum collections. Although a total of 276 valid species are recognised, it was not possible to unambiguously assess geographic patterns of diversity. At all depth zones examined (shore and inner-shelf, 0–30 m; mid- and outer-shelf, 31–350 m; bathyal, >500 m), there was a clear geographic structure to communities that mirrored established regional patterns of biogeography. Too few samples were collected from the shelf edge (351–500 m) and they were consequently excluded from zoogeographic analysis. Communities on the shore and inner-shelf and on the mid- and outer-shelf were more similar to each other than they were to bathyal communities, and the pronounced structure in bathyal communities suggests heterogeneity in the deep sea around South Africa.  相似文献   

Periodic orbits for space-based reflectors in the circular restricted three-body problem     

F. J. T. Salazar  C. R. McInnes  O. C. Winter 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2017,127(1):95-119

In this article, we investigate the mathematical part of De Sitter’s theory on the Galilean satellites, and further extend this theory by showing the existence of some quasi-periodic librating orbits by application of KAM theorems. After showing the existence of De Sitter’s family of linearly stable periodic orbits in the Jupiter–Io–Europa–Ganymede model by averaging and reduction techniques in the Hamiltonian framework, we further discuss the possible extension of this theory to include a fourth satellite Callisto, and establish the existence of a set of positive measure of quasi-periodic librating orbits in both models for almost all choices of masses among which one sufficiently dominates the others.  相似文献   

Environmental responses of jellyfish polyps as drivers of medusa populations off the coast of Namibia     

L Ziegler  MJ Gibbons 《African Journal of Marine Science》2018,40(3):323-329

Jellyfish populations in the southeastern Atlantic off the coast of Namibia have increased subsequent to the decline of small pelagic fisheries at the end of the 1960s, although the environment there has also become warmer and the waters off Walvis Bay have become richer in zooplankton in recent years. Laboratory experiments were conducted with the scyphozoan jellyfish Chrysaora fulgida to investigate the effects of food density (0, 30, 70, 100 or 150 Artemia nauplii 200 ml^?1), feeding frequency (once daily or once every third day) and water temperature (12, 16 or 20 °C) on the asexual reproduction, growth and development of polyps. The results of a generalised linear mixed-effects model reveal that all variables impacted asexual reproduction, with greater polyp production attained at higher food concentrations, increased feeding frequencies and increased temperatures. The most common mode of asexual reproduction was by lateral budding. These laboratory results suggest that polyps of C. fulgida may have proliferated off Namibia in recent times, which would contribute to increased numbers of jellyfish there.  相似文献