Travelling and hunting in a changing Arctic: assessing Inuit vulnerability to sea ice change in Igloolik, Nunavut     

Gita J. Laidler  James D. Ford  William A. Gough  Theo Ikummaq  Alexandre S. Gagnon  Slawomir Kowal  Kevin Qrunnut  Celina Irngaut 《Climatic change》2009,94(3-4):363-397

The observations of community members and instrumental records indicate changes in sea ice around the Inuit community of Igloolik, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. This paper characterizes local vulnerability to these changes, identifying who is vulnerable, to what stresses, and why, focusing on local and regional use of sea ice for the harvesting of renewable resources and travel. This analysis is coupled with instrumental and sea ice data to evaluate changing temperature/wind/sea ice trends over time, to complement local observations. We demonstrate the relationships between changing sea ice conditions/dynamics and harvesting activities (i.e. dangers and accessibility), with specific emphasis on ringed seal and walrus seasonal hunting, to illustrate current sea ice exposures that hunters are facing. Community members are adapting to such changes, as they have done for generations. However, current adaptive capacity is both enabled, and constrained, by social, cultural, and economic factors that manifest within the modern northern Hamlet. Enabling factors include the ability of hunters to manage or share the risks associated with sea ice travel, as well as through their flexibility in resource use, as facilitated by sophisticated local knowledge and land/navigational skills. Constraining factors include the erosion of land-based knowledge and skills, altered sharing networks, as well as financial and temporal limitations on travel/harvesting. The differential ability of community members to balance enabling and constraining factors, in relation to current exposures, comprises their level of vulnerability to sea ice change.  相似文献   

Phosphorus-rich topaz from fractionated granites (Podlesí, Czech Republic)     

K. Breiter  A. Kronz 《Mineralogy and Petrology》2004,81(3-4):235-247

Summary A detailed electron microprobe study of P, F, Ge and Ga-contents in rock-forming topaz was performed on a suite of Variscan granites at Podlesí in the western Kruné Hory Mts., Czech Republic. Topaz crystals from the relatively less evolved biotite- and protolithionite granites display homogeneous cathodo-luminescence (CL) intensities, whereas topaz from the marginal pegmatite, highly fractionated zinnwaldite granite and greisens show intense oscillatory zoning. Phosphorus contents reach 1.15wt% P₂O₅ in topaz from the zinnwaldite granite. Many topaz crystals are distinctly zoned with a maximum P content in the transition zone between core and rim. Phosphorus is incorporated into the topaz lattice by berlinite substitution: Al³⁺+P⁵⁺=Si⁴⁺+Si⁴⁺. The majority of analysed topazes are highly saturated in F, reaching 90–97% of the theoretical maximum saturation. Topaz from the marginal pegmatite only reaches 87–90% of F-saturation. There is a positive correlation between P_topaz and P_{whole rock}, but no correlation between F_topaz and F_{whole rock}. No difference has been found in P and F contents between magmatic and the hydrothermal (=greisen stage) topaz. Contents of Ge and Ga vary from around the detection limit (50ppm) up to 200ppm Ge and 100ppm Ga, respectively.  相似文献   

Double Material Segment as the Model of Irregular Bodies     

Przemysław Bartczak  Sławomir Breiter 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2003,86(2):131-141

We propose a new, simple model to describe the gravity field of irregular, nonspherical celestial bodies, like small moons or minor asteroids. The simple idea of Duboshin to use a material straight segment for such bodies is extended by combining two perpendicular segments of different lengths and masses. In typical situations, when the longest axis of the body coincides with one segment, the remaining segment must have an imaginary length. The potential remains a real function even if one segment is imaginary. The new model is confronted with the exact form of an ellipsoid's potential and with two alternative simple models for a two-axial and a three-axial ellipsoid.  相似文献   

Ptolemaic Transformation in Keplerian Problem     

Sławomir Breiter  Gilles Métris 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2002,84(4):319-330

We propose the Ptolemaic transformation: a canonical change of variables reducing the Keplerian motion to the form of a perturbed Hamiltonian problem. As a solution of the unperturbed case, the Ptolemaic variables define an intermediary orbit, accurate up to the first power of eccentricity, like in the kinematic model of Claudius Ptolemy. In order to normalize the perturbed Hamiltonian we modify the recurrent Lie series algorithm of HoriuuMersman. The modified algorithm accounts for the loss of a term's order during the evaluation of a Poisson bracket, and thus can be also applied in resonance problems. The normalized Hamiltonian consists of a single Keplerian term; the mean Ptolemaic variables occur to be trivial, linear functions of the Delaunay actions and angles. The generator of the transformation may serve to expand various functions in Poisson series of eccentricity and mean anomaly.  相似文献   

Abstracts     

A. Campo Bagatin  P. Farinella  P. Paolicchi  Yu. V. Barkin  P. Bonnefond  P. Exertier  Eric Bois  Sławomir Breiter  Adrian Brunini  J. Klačka  J. Kaufmannová  Marianne Lefftz  Hilaire Legros  Nina A. Solovaya  Eduard M. Pittich 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1993,57(1-2):403-404

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Keplerian expansions in terms of Henrard's practical variables     

Sławomir Breiter  Gilles Metris 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1994,58(3):237-244

Formulae for the Keplerian expansions in terms of Henrard's practical variables are given. Two different methods were applied: one using the Bessel functions and one based on the Lie transforms. The former involves less series products, but the latter is more flexible and universal.  相似文献   

The extended Lissajous–Levi-Civita transformation     

Slawomir Breiter  Krzysztof Langner 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2018,130(10):68

Action-angle variables for the Levi-Civita regularized planar Kepler problem were introduced independently first by Chenciner and then by Deprit and Williams. The latter used explicitly the so-called Lissajous variables. When applied to the transformed Keplerian Hamiltonian, the Lissajous transformation encounters the difficulty of being defined in terms of the constant frequency parameter, whereas the Kepler problem transformed into a harmonic oscillator involves the frequency as a function of an energy-related canonical variable. A simple canonical transformation is proposed as a remedy for this inconvenience. The problem is circumvented by adding to the physical time a correcting term, which occurs to be a generalized Kepler’s equation. Unlike previous versions, the transformation is symplectic in the extended phase space and allows the treatment of time-dependent perturbations. The relation of the extended Lissajous–Levi-Civita variables to the classical Delaunay angles and actions is given, and it turns out to be a straightforward generalization of the results published by Deprit and Williams.  相似文献   

On the coupling of lunisolar resonances for Earth satellite orbits     

SŁawomir Breiter 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2001,80(1):1-20

The resonance C1 occurs when the longitude of the perigee measured from the equinox becomes a slow angle in the doubly averaged equations of motion. This resonance is one of the critical inclination family with I 46°. For prograde Earth satellite orbits, up to five critical points can be identified. Only simple pitchfork bifurcations occur for the single resonance C1. A two degrees of freedom system is studied to check how a coupling of two lunisolar resonances affects the results furnished by the analysis of an isolated resonance case. In the system with two critical angles (g+h and h,+2 , seven types of critical points have been identified. The critical points arise and change their stability through 11 bifurcations. If the initial conditions are selected close to the critical points, the system becomes chaotic as shown in Poincaré maps.  相似文献   

Ephemeral landform development following rapid coastal uplift in the southern orogen of Taiwan     

Slawomir Jack Giletycz  Andrew Tien-Shun Lin  Katsura Yamada  Liang-Chi Wang  Chih-Wei Chien  Jiann-Yuh Lou  Neng-Wei Huang  Che-Yung Ting  Kuo-Wei Shih 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2021,46(12):2379-2394

Newly emerged landscapes above sea level are characterized by rapidly evolving geomorphic systems where the initial fluvial pattern adapts to a former submarine topography. Such an early formed fluvial system establishes drainage basins and unstable landforms that characterize high topographic asymmetry which are prone to fast removal or reorganization. Transitional landscapes might form depositional systems as lakes or ponds that subsequently are incised, captured and incorporated into drainage basins. In this study we focus on the recently emerged Hengchun Peninsula to survey its paleoenvironment evolution. Three drillings performed in the Gangkou basin with fieldwork revealed several indicators that reconstructed stages of the landscape reorganization. The major finding shows an ephemeral large lake in the central part of the Hengchun Peninsula that was drained to the Pacific c. 6000 bp . The lake belonged to an ephemeral lakeland that was created after the emergence of the peninsula. Currently, several areas as relict landforms indicate this stage of topography evolution that through high rates of incision and subsequent captures, transforms into drainage basins. Furthermore, two drillings show brackish waters at the present estuary of the Gangkou basin. These two different paleoenvironments today build one system – Gangkou catchment. Long-term uplift rates show that a hanging wall of the Hengchun Fault plays a significant role in the creation of a lakeland by tilting the peninsula's surface. The tilt impacts on asymmetrical emergence of the peninsula and catchment development. Our study shows that a new geomorphic system might create depositional ephemeral landforms (lakes) that represent phases of early topography evolution after emergence above a sea level that are subjected to instantaneous rearrangement and evolves through large-scale phases before it reaches a topographic steady-state.  相似文献   

Zircon and whole-rock Zr/Hf ratios as markers of the evolution of granitic magmas: Examples from the Teplice caldera (Czech Republic/Germany)     

Breiter  Karel  Škoda  Radek 《Mineralogy and Petrology》2017,111(4):435-457

Mineralogy and Petrology - Hafnium contents and Zr/Hf ratios were studied in zircons and their parent rocks from three magmatic suites associated with the Teplice caldera, Eastern Erzgebirge:...  相似文献