The effect of submerged plateaux on Pleistocene gyral circulation and sea-surface temperatures in the Southwest Pacific     

Bruce W. Hayward  George H. Scott  Martin P. Crundwell  James P. Kennett  Lionel Carter  Helen L. Neil  Ashwaq T. Sabaa  Kate Wilson  J. Stuart Rodger  Grace Schaefer  Hugh R. Grenfell  Qianyu Li 《Global and Planetary Change》2008,63(4):309-316

Uniquely in the Southern Hemisphere the New Zealand micro-continent spans the interface between a subtropical gyre and the Subantarctic Circumpolar Current. Its 20° latitudinal extent includes a complex of submerged plateaux, ridges, saddles and basins which, in the present interglacial, are partial barriers to circulation and steer the Subtropical (STF) and Subantarctic (SAF) fronts. This configuration offers a singular opportunity to assess the influence of bottom topography on oceanic circulation through Pleistocene glacial – interglacial (G/I) cycles, its effect on the location and strength of the fronts, and its ability to generate significant differences in mixed layer thermal history over short distances.For this study we use new planktic foraminiferal based sea-surface temperature (SST) estimates spanning the past 1 million years from a latitudinal transect of four deep ocean drilling sites. We conclude that: 1. the effect of the New Zealand landmass was to deflect the water masses south around the bathymetric impediments; 2. the effect of a shallow submerged ridge on the down-current side (Chatham Rise), was to dynamically trap the STF along its crest, in stark contrast to the usual glacial–interglacial (G–I) meridional migration that occurs in the open ocean; 3. the effect of more deeply submerged, downstream plateaux (Campbell, Bounty) was to dynamically trap the SAF along its steep southeastern margin; 4. the effects of saddles across the submarine plateaux was to facilitate the development of jets of subtropical and subantarctic surface water through the fronts, forming localized downstream gyres or eddies during different phases in the G–I climate cycles; 5. the deep Pukaki Saddle across the Campbell-Bounty Plateaux guided a branch of the SAF to flow northwards during each glacial, to form a strong gyre of circumpolar surface water in the Bounty Trough, especially during the mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition (MIS 22-16) when exceptionally high SST gradients existed across the STF; 6. the shallower Mernoo Saddle, at the western end of the Chatham Rise, provided a conduit for subtropical water to jet southwards across the STF in the warmest interglacial peaks (MIS 11, 5.5) and for subantarctic water to flow northwards during glacials; 7. although subtropical or subantarctic drivers can prevail at a particular phase of a G–I cycles, it appears that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the main influence on the regional hydrography.Thus complex submarine topography can affect distinct differences in the climate records over short distances with implications for using such records in interpreting global or regional trends. Conversely, the local topography can amplify the paleoclimate record in different ways in different places, thus enhancing its value for the study of more minor paleoceanographic influences that elsewhere are more difficult to detect. Such sites include DSDP 594, which like some other Southern Ocean sites, has the typical late Pleistocene asymmetrical saw-tooth G–I climate pattern transformed to a gap-tooth pattern of quasi-symmetrical interglacial spikes that interrupt extended periods of minimum glacial temperatures.  相似文献   

MACROPORE FLOW AND MASS WASTING OF GULLIES IN THE LOESS PLATEAU, CHINA     

G. V. WILSON Mingxiang XU Yunming CHEN Guobin LIU M. J. M. ROEMKENS 《国际泥沙研究》2005,20(3):249-258

Due to the extensive gullying from historically excessive erosion in the loess plateau of China, much of this region is being converted to native grass and shrub vegetation. Tunnel scour and mass wasting are important gully erosion processes resulting from preferential flow through macropores （ pores 〉 1 mm diameter）. The objective of this study is to assess the changes with time in macropore flow characteristics of soils on the Loess Plateau following conversion to grass vegetation and the associated degree of mass wasting of gully faces. Ridge areas that had been revegetated for 1 year, 6 years, and 〉 15 years following tilling, and for 6 years following contour-ditching and the adjacent gully faces were characterized for their macropore and soil matrix properties on a 50 cm by 50 cm area. The total number of macropores increased from 11.6/m^2 to 39.6/m2 from 1 to 6 years and to 51.6/m2 after 15 years of revegetation following tillage. The macroporosity increased from 0.0008 m^3/m^3 to 0.0018 m^3/m^3 from 1 to 6 years of revegetation following tillage but the lowest macroporosity （0.0005 m3/m3） was 6 years of revegetation following contour-ditching. The contourditched area had the lowest infiltration rate （95 m/d） through the soil matrix （areas without macropores） with the tilled areas having similar infiltration rates regardless of the number of years of revegetation （averaged 146 m/d）. Due to tunnel scour erosion of macropores during infiltration into the area revegetated for 1 year, pore diameters enlarged by more than 200% resulting in this condition having the highest individual macropore infiltration rates （7967 m/d）. Macropores in all other areas were stable with no tunnel scour erosion of macropores. The total capacity for infiltration through macropores increased significantly with time following revegetation. The number of macropores on the gully faces was triple （92.8/m2） and the macroporosity quadruple （0.004 m3/m3） that of the ridge surfaces. The upper gully faces exhibited 1.1 slumps m^-1 for a total soil loss of 48622 kg per ha.  相似文献   

Resource partitioning among cladocerans in a littoral macrophyte zone: implications for the transfer of essential compounds     

Hélène Masclaux  Gilles Bourdier  Pascal Riera  Martin J. Kainz  Lionel Jouve  Emilie Duffaud  Alexandre Bec 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》2014,76(1):73-81

The maintenance of species diversity in a given environment is strongly linked to resource partitioning. Littoral macrophyte zones are heterogeneous environments with high microcrustacean diversity, where zooplankton have dietary access to seston as well as organisms growing on macrophytic surfaces (epiphyton). We conducted a field study in a macrophyte-rich backwater of the river Allier to examine how seston and epiphyton were used as potential food sources by four dominant cladoceran species. Fatty acids were analyzed in these two food sources to assess how their differential uptake affects the trophic trajectory of essential compounds from these resources to cladocerans. Our results showed resource partitioning among the four cladocerans studied; while Eurycercus fed mostly on epiphyton, Daphnia mostly consumed phytoplankton, and Ceriodaphnia and Simocephalus were able to forage on sestonic and epiphytic resources. Based on their polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) content, it was evident that epiphyton was of higher food quality than seston in this macrophyte-rich backwater system. Variability of PUFA compositions of seston and epiphyton, and diversity of foraging strategies of cladoceran species, which represent the major link between microorganisms and consumers at higher trophic levels, affect dietary energy pathways and point to a variable PUFA transfer efficiency in backwater food webs.  相似文献   

Influence of a Two-scale Surface Roughness on a Neutral Turbulent Boundary Layer     

Pietro Salizzoni  Lionel Soulhac  Patrick Mejean  Richard J. Perkins 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2008,127(1):97-110

Flow in the urban boundary layer is strongly influenced by the surface roughness, which is composed principally of isolated buildings or groups of buildings. Previous research has shown that the flow regime depends on the characteristic height of these obstacles (H), and the spacing between them (W). In reality, the urban boundary layer contains roughness elements with a wide range of length scales; in many practical situations these can be classified into large-scale roughness—buildings, or groups of buildings—and small-scale roughness, such as street furniture and elements on the façades and roofs. It is important to understand how the small-scale roughness might modify mass and momentum transfer in the urban boundary layer, but relatively little information is available concerning the potential interaction between large- and small-scale roughness elements in the different flow regimes. This problem has been studied using wind-tunnel experiments, by measuring vertical velocity profiles over a two-dimensional obstacle array, adding small-scale roughness elements to the top of larger parallel square bars. The experiments were performed for different cavity aspect ratios: the results show that the small-scale roughness increases the turbulence intensities and the momentum transfer when the large-scale obstacles are closely packed (H/W > 1) but it has very little effect for more widely-spaced obstacles (H/W < 1).  相似文献   

Flow in a Street Canyon for any External Wind Direction     

Lionel Soulhac  Richard J. Perkins  Pietro Salizzoni 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2008,126(3):365-388

An analytical model has been developed for the flow along a street canyon (of height H and width W), generated by an external wind blowing at any angle relative to the axis of the street. Initially, we consider the special case of a wind blowing parallel to the street. The interior of the street is decomposed into three regions, and the flow within each region is assumed to depend only on the external wind and the distance to the closest solid boundary. This decomposition leads to two different flow regimes: one for narrow streets (H/W > 1/2) and one for wide streets (H/W < 1/2). The theoretical model agrees well with results obtained from numerical simulations using a Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes model. We then generalize the model to the case of arbitrary wind direction. Numerical solutions show that the streamlines of the mean flow in the street have a spiral form, and for most angles of incidence, the mass flux along the street scales on the component of the external wind resolved parallel to the street. We use this result to generalize the model derived for wind blowing parallel to the street, and the results from this model agree well with the numerical simulations. The model that has been developed can be evaluated rapidly using only very modest computing power, so it is suitable for use as an operational tool.  相似文献   

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) ammonites from southern Morocco and south western Algeria     

Christian Meister  André Piuz  Lionel Cavin  Larbi Boudad  Flavio Bacchia  El M. Ettachfini  M. Benyoucef 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2017,10(1):1

On the basis of nine lithostratigraphical profiles, 23 cephalopods taxa (nautilus and ammonites) are described from the Preafrican Trough and the Kem Kem region. Among them, a new species is proposed: Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) asflaensis nov. sp. This fauna is placed in its biostratigraphical framework and correlated with the standard zonation of the late Cenomanian–early Turonian. Moreover, stratigraphic correlations are proposed for the whole Maghreb from the Tarfaya Basin in the west to central Tunisia in the east. Selected taxa reveal the paleogeographical context of the western Tethys; a complex distribution of emerged areas and epicontinental seas impacted by an important marine trangression that constantly modified the costaline.  相似文献   

Nature, origin and age of Holocene aeolian sand on Muckish Mountain, Co. Donegal, Ireland     

PETER WILSON 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1989,18(2):159-168

Dissected sand sheets and flow-aligned sand shadows occur near the summit of Muckish Mountain, Co. Donegal. The sand is of medium to fine size and moderately sorted to moderately well sorted. Sand transport by northerly winds is indicated by the location and morphology of the deposits. The source of the sand is a series of friable quartzite beds immediately below the northern edge of the summit plateau. Minor additions of gravel and very coarse sand, derived from the disintegration of plateau clasts, were probably also incorporated within the deposits by aeolian action, although surface wash associated with heavy rain or snowmelt may have mobilized these particles. The absence of diagnostic aeolian transport textures on quartz grain surfaces reflects the short distance/duration of transport. ¹⁴C dates indicate two phases of sand sheet accumulation: one between c. 5,300 ande. 2,650 B.P. and again after c. 1,910–1,760B.P. The sand shadows have formed within the last hundred years in response to the construction of small cairns across the plateau. Sand sheet dissection suggests erosion is currently occurring, but this began prior to the late nineteenth century. Present-day sand accumulation is also apparent from the widespread scatter of grains trapped by surface Vegetation. The sand represents the first recognition of aeolian deposition in the uplands of Ireland.  相似文献   

Thermodynamic properties of solutions in metastable systems under negative or positive pressures   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Lionel Mercury  Mohamed Azaroual  Yves Tardy 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2003,67(10):1769-1785

Metastable systems are created when the interface between the atmosphere (in which P_atm = 1 bar) and water forms a spherical meniscus either concave toward the air (water filling capillaries, wherein P_water < P_atm) or convex toward the air (fog water droplet, wherein P_water > P_atm). Soil water, undergoing negative pressure (“capillary potential”) remains bound to the solid matrix (instead of flowing downward) by the capillary meniscus, concave toward the undersaturated dry atmosphere. The positive counterpart of tensile water in soils is the pressurized water contained in fine droplets suspended in oversaturated humid air, as in clouds. All these systems are anisobaric domains the phases of which have different pressures. Geochemical consequences of such characteristics are assessed here by calculating the consequences of the positive or negative water potential on the equilibrium constants of reactions taking place in stretched or pressurized aqueous solutions. Thermodynamic properties of aqueous species are obtained by using the TH model, used explicitly for positive pressures but extrapolated to negative ones for soil solutions. It appears that soil water dissolves gases, offering an alternative explanation of the observed enrichment of atmospheric noble gases in groundwater and of carbonic gas in the unsaturated zone below the root zone. Water droplets obviously show the opposite behavior, that is, a decreasing dissolutive capability with decreasing droplet size (water pressure increases), inducing some climatic consequences. An application of this approach to the solid-solution equilibria is performed by comparing experimental solubility of amorphous silica in unsaturated media on the one hand, to theoretical calculations taking account of the negative water pressure on the other hand. This comparison outlines the potential complexity of anisobaric situations in nature and the necessity to develop a suitable approach for solid pressure.  相似文献   

An estimate of space-time correlations     

Lionel V. Baldwin  Gearold R. Johnson 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1973,5(3):373-377

Laboratory measurements of the autocorrelation and space-time correlations for probe separations alined with the mean flow are used to test a hypothesis of Pielke and Panofsky (1970) which relates these measures by means of an empirical decay parameter taken from coherence data. The direct laboratory measurements of the space-time correlations are in good agreement with the functions estimated using the method of Pielke and Panofsky (1970). However, the decay parameters implied for the laboratory measurements are much smaller than those reported for atmospheric turbulence.  相似文献   

Polar bivalves are characterized by high antioxidant defences     

Lionel Camus  Bjørn Gulliksen  Michael H. Depledge  Malcolm B. Jones 《Polar research》2005,24(1-2):111-118

Inevitably, aerobic life leads to the formation of deleterious reactive oxygen species (ROS) which participate in biomolecule oxidation, hence augmenting biomolecule turnover. Organisms have adapted to counteract the noxious effects of ROS by developing a battery of antioxidant defences (AOX) which comprise enzymes and low-molecular weight scavengers. Past studies have reported elevated AOX levels in polar pectinid bivalves compared with temperate congeners. This finding is controversial as mitochondrial ROS generation is low in polar versus temperate species, and, to date, there is no generally accepted explanation of the causes of increased basal AOX levels in polar waters. We suggest that the low food availability in those ecosystems may result in polar marine ectotherms diverting some energy into the maintenance of high AOX. We tested this hypothesis by comparing the total oxyradical scavenging capacity (peroxyl, hydroxyl and peroxynitrite) of three clam species: Laternula elliptica (Antarctic), Mya truncata (Arctic) and Mya arenaria (temperate). The data confirmed that polar bivalves are characterized by higher AOX. Herein, we propose that high AOX is required in environments characterized by low food availability as AOX efficiently protects biomolecules, notably the RNA expressed at high levels by cold-water ectotherms. Also, high AOX may explain the relatively long lifespan of most polar ectotherms.  相似文献