Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles     

Jonathan J. Tyler  Matthew Jones  Carol Arrowsmith  Tim Allott  Melanie J. Leng 《Climate Dynamics》2016,47(5-6):1971-1987

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Subsurface formation of oxidants on Mars and implications for the preservation of organic biosignatures     

Alfonso F. Davila  Alberto G. Fairn  Luis Gago-Duport  Carol Stoker  Ricardo Amils  Rosalba Bonaccorsi  Jhony Zavaleta  Darlene Lim  Dirk Schulze-Makuch  Christopher P. McKay 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2008,272(1-2):456-463

Hydrogen peroxide can form through the interaction of pyrite and anoxic water. The oxidation of pyrite results in the precipitation of sulfates and iron oxides, high redox potentials (~ 1000 mV) and acidic pH (3–4). The oxidative potential of the resultant solution may be responsible for the oxidation of organic compounds, as observed in the subsurface of the Rio Tinto Mars analog. On Mars subsurface migration of groundwater interacting with volcanogenic massive pyrite deposits would have mobilized acidic and oxidizing fluids through large portions of the crust, resulting in the widespread deposition of sulfates and iron oxides. This groundwater could have leached substantial volumes of aquifer material and crustal rocks, thereby erasing any organic compounds possibly down to depths of hundreds of meters. Therefore, the preservation of organic biosignatures must have been severely constrained in the portions of the ancient Martian crust that were exposed to aqueous processes, calling for a redefinition of the future targets in the search for biomolecular traces of life on Mars.  相似文献   

Natural and anthropogenic nitrogen uptake by bloom-forming macroalgae     

Thornber CS  DiMilla P  Nixon SW  McKinney RA 《Marine pollution bulletin》2008,56(2):261-269

The frequency and duration of macroalgal blooms have increased in many coastal waters over the past several decades. We used field surveys and laboratory culturing experiments to examine the nitrogen content and delta(15)N values of Ulva and Gracilaria, two bloom-forming algal genera in Narragansett Bay, RI (USA). The northern end of this bay is densely populated with large sewage treatment plant nitrogen inputs; the southern end is more lightly populated and opens to the Atlantic Ocean. Field-collected Ulva varied in delta(15)N among sites, but with two exceptions had delta(15)N above 10 per thousand, reflecting a significant component of heavy anthropogenic N. This variation was not correlated with a north-south gradient. Both Ulva and Gracilaria cultured in water from across Narragansett Bay also had high signals (delta(15)N= approximately 14-17 per thousand and 8-12 per thousand, respectively). These results indicate that inputs of anthropogenic N can have far-reaching impacts throughout estuaries.  相似文献   

The ageing body and the homespace     

Graham Mowl  Rachel Pain  Carol Talbot 《Area》2000,32(2):189-197

Summary In this paper, findings are presented from a qualitative study of older people's lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, to examine the place of the body in everyday meanings and constructions of ageing. Focusing on the home, we show how notions about gendered as well as ageing bodies affect the use and meaning of space.  相似文献   

Clast abrasion of a rock shore platform on the Atlantic coast of Ireland          下载免费PDF全文

Niamh Danielle Cullen  Mary Carol Bourke 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2018,43(12):2627-2641

The abrasion of coastal rock platforms by individual or clusters of clasts during transport has not been quantitatively assessed. We present a study which identifies the types of abrasion and quantifies erosion due to the transport of clasts during three storms in February and March 2016. We explore relationships between platform roughness, determined by the fractal dimension (D) of the topographic profiles, geomorphic controls and the type and frequency of abrasion feature observed. Clast transport experiments were undertaken in conjunction with the measurement of wave energy to assess transport dynamics under summer and winter (non‐storm) conditions. Platform abrasion occurred extensively during the storms. We identify two types of clast abrasion trails: simple and complex. In addition, we find two forms of erosion occur on these trails: Scratch marks and Percussion marks. An estimated 13.6 m² of the platform surface was eroded by clast abrasion on simple abrasion trails during the three storms. We attribute approximately two thirds of this to scratch‐type abrasion. The total volume of material removed by abrasion was 67 808 cm³. Despite the larger surface area affected by scratch marks, we find that the volume of material removed through percussion impact was almost seven times greater. We also find that the type and frequency of abrasion features is strongly influenced by the effect of platform morphometry on transport mode, with impact‐type abrasion dominating areas of higher platform roughness. Results of the clast transport experiments indicate that abrasion occurs under non‐storm wave energy conditions with observable geomorphological effects. We suggest that abrasion by clasts is an important component of platform erosion on high energy Atlantic coastlines, particularly over longer timescales, and that the morphogenetic link between the cliff and the platform is important in this context as the sediment supplied by the cliff is used to abrade the platform. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

A perturbed parameter ensemble of HadGEM3-GC3.05 coupled model projections: part 2: global performance and future changes     

Yamazaki  Kuniko  Sexton  David M. H.  Rostron  John W.  McSweeney  Carol F.  Murphy  James M.  Harris  Glen R. 《Climate Dynamics》2021,56(11):3437-3471

This paper provides a quantitative assessment of large-scale features in a perturbed parameter ensemble (PPE) of Met Office Unified Model HadGEM-GC3.05 in coupled global historical and future simulations. The main motivation for the simulations is to provide a major component of the UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18), but they will also be used to make worldwide projections and inform future model development. Initially, a 25-member PPE, with 25 different parameter combinations, was simulated. Five members were subsequently dropped because either their simulated climate was unrealistically cool by 1970 or they suffered from numerical instabilities. The remaining 20 members were evaluated after completing the historical phase (1900–2005) against 13 separately selected Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) models, and five more members were dropped. The final product is a combined projection system of 15 PPE members and 13 CMIP5 models, which has a number of benefits. In particular, the range of outcomes available from the combined set of 28 is often larger than from either of the two constituent ensembles, thus providing users with a more complete picture of plausible impacts. Here we mainly describe the evaluation process of the 20 PPE members. We evaluate biases in a number of important properties of the global coupled system, including assessment of climatological averages, coupled modes of internal variability and historical and future changes. The parameter combinations yielded plausible yet diverse atmosphere and ocean model behaviours. The range of global temperature changes is narrow, largely driven by use of different CO₂ pathways. The range of global warming is seemingly not linked to range of feedbacks estimated from atmosphere-only runs, though we caution that the range of the latter is narrow relative to CMIP5, and therefore this result is not unexpected. This is the second of two papers describing the generation of the PPE for UKCP18 projections. Part 1 (Sexton et al. 2021) describes the selection of 25 parameter combinations of 47 atmosphere and land surface parameters, using a set of cheap atmosphere-only runs at a coarser resolution from nearly 3000 samples of parameter space.

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Micromechanical analysis of sand production     

Daniel Garolera  Ignacio Carol  Panos Papanastasiou 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2019,43(6):1207-1229

We present a micromechanical approach based on zero-thickness interface elements for modelling advanced localization and cracking states of cemented granular materials, such as reservoir sandstones. The proposed methodology is capable of reproducing the complex behaviour of intergranular and intragranular localization, cracking, and fracturing of rock formation that leads to sanding in hydrocarbon production. The model is calibrated at the macroscale, using only a few physical parameters, by reproducing the typical behaviour of compression element tests. The model exhibits clear transition behaviour from brittle dilatant to ductile compactant behaviour with increasing confining stress. The methodology is implemented for sand production prediction analysis based on the simulation of 2D micromechanical models of hollow cylinder cross sections. The obtained results are compared well with published experimental data from hollow cylinder tests characterized by strong scale effect in the range of small perforations.  相似文献   

Vesta's mineralogical composition as revealed by the visible and infrared spectrometer on Dawn     

M. Cristina De Sanctis  Eleonora Ammannito  M. Teresa Capria  Fabrizio Capaccioni  Jean‐Philippe Combe  Alessandro Frigeri  Andrea Longobardo  Gianfranco Magni  Simone Marchi  Tom B. McCord  Ernesto Palomba  Federico Tosi  Francesca Zambon  Francesco Carraro  Sergio Fonte  Y. J. Li  Lucy A. McFadden  David W. Mittlefehldt  Carle M. Pieters  Ralf Jaumann  Katrin Stephan  Carol A. Raymond  Christopher T. Russell 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2013,48(11):2166-2184

The Dawn spacecraft mission has provided extensive new and detailed data on Vesta that confirm and strengthen the Vesta–howardite–eucrite–diogenite (HED) meteorite link and the concept that Vesta is differentiated, as derived from earlier telescopic observations. Here, we present results derived by newly calibrated spectra of Vesta. The comparison between data from the Dawn imaging spectrometer—VIR—and the different class of HED meteorites shows that average spectrum of Vesta resembles howardite spectra. Nevertheless, the Vesta spectra at high spatial resolution reveal variations in the distribution of HED‐like mineralogies on the asteroid. The data have been used to derive HED distribution on Vesta, reported in Ammannito et al. (2013), and to compute the average Vestan spectra of the different HED lithologies, reported here. The spectra indicate that, not only are all the different HED lithologies present on Vesta, but also carbonaceous chondritic material, which constitutes the most abundant inclusion type found in howardites, is widespread. However, the hydration feature used to identify carbonaceous chondrite material varies significantly on Vesta, revealing different band shapes. The characteristic of these hydration features cannot be explained solely by infalling of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites and other possible origins must be considered. The relative proportion of HEDs on Vesta's surface is computed, and results show that most of the vestan surface is compatible with eucrite‐rich howardites and/or cumulate or polymict eucrites. A very small percentage of surface is covered by diogenite, and basaltic eucrite terrains are relatively few compared with the abundance of basaltic eucrites in the HED suite. The largest abundance of diogenitic material is found in the Rheasilvia region, a deep basin, where it clearly occurs below a basaltic upper crust. However, diogenite is also found elsewhere; although the depth to diogenite is consistent with one magma ocean model, its lateral extent is not well constrained.  相似文献   

Physical Geography: crossing from the past to the future     

Carol P. Harden 《自然地理学》2013,34(1)

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Three-dimensional digital imaging of environmental data: selection of gridding parameters     

Carol A. EDDY  B. Looney 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(2):165-172

Abstract. Three-dimensional imaging is a powerful technique for the visualization and interpretation of environmental data. The success of the process is linked to careful, technically-justifiable selection of variable parameters during the gridding and imaging process. The impacts of various approaches to gridding and possible setting of parameters on the final image and volume calculations were examined by generating alternative images for a very well characterized contaminated site in layered coastal plain sediments. To image properly scattered data collected at close intervals in wells from layered geological media, a higher grid density in the z direction is required along with a weighting factor to emphasize the influence of data in the x and y directions. For steeply-varying contaminant concentration data, the best results were obtained by gridding the log of the property value; an anti-log transformation is carried out to restore property values to the correct value before the visualization file is prepared. The techniques and recommendations made in this article were designed for modelling contaminant values with very steep gradients dispersed in a strongly anisotropic media. These recommendations may not apply directly to other sites but the process of selecting parameters should be similar.  相似文献