Atlantic ocean heat piracy and the bipolar climate see‐saw during Heinrich and Dansgaard–Oeschger events     

Dan Seidov  Mark Maslin 《第四纪科学杂志》2001,16(4):321-328

The millennial‐scale asynchrony of Antarctic and Greenland climate records during the last glacial period implies that the global climate system acts as a bipolar see‐saw driven by either high‐latitudinal and/or near‐equatorial sea‐surface perturbations. Based on the results of recent modelling of generic Heinrich and Dansgaard–Oeschger scenarios, we discuss the possibility that oscillations of the deep‐ocean conveyor may have been sufficient to cause this bipolar see‐saw. The bipolar climate asynchrony in our scenarios is caused by the toggle between North Atlantic heat piracy and South Atlantic counter heat piracy. Ocean circulation has an enhanced sensitivity to the northern deep‐water source as the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) cannot enter the Southern Ocean at depths shallower than the bottom of the Drake Passage. Any shoaling of the NADW can, therefore, increase the northward incursion of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW), and trigger an interhemispheric climate oscillation. As hundreds of years are required to warm the respective high latitudes, the observed climate lead and lags between the two hemispheres can be explained entirely by the variability of the meridional overturning and by the corresponding change in the oceanic heat transport. Accordingly, it is entirely feasible for the global climate to work like a pendulum, which theoretically could be controlled by pushing at either of the deep‐water sources. Our model scenarios suggest that it is entirely feasible for the bipolar climate see‐saw to be controlled solely by variations in NADW formation. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

中等质量星演化中的蓝拐和CNO双循环     

许华蓥 《天文研究与技术》2002,(1)

天体物理学家第一次成功地计算中等质量恒星演化到中心氦燃烧阶段 ,就发现蓝拐现象 ,它是赫罗图上形成黄巨星分支的重要理论条件。但由于蓝拐对很多输入物理 ,如对流的混合长理论 ,对流超射 ,初始元素丰度等都十分敏感稍稍不同就会抑制或触发蓝拐 ,因此蓝拐的激发机制一直没有满意的理论。本文回顾了蓝拐的研究历史 ,并对中等质量恒星在演化过程中的蓝拐的激发机制问题进行理论分析 ,给出一个蓝拐整个过程的物理图象。本文探寻了氢燃烧核反应的CNO循环过程对蓝拐的影响 ,用两种不同的方法处理CNO循环 ,在第一种模型中保持14N丰度不变 ;而在第二种模型中计算了16 O向14N的转化过程。结果模型一中出现了蓝拐而模型二中没有蓝拐。在对两种模型的比较中 ,我们进一步研究蓝拐的触发机制。我们注意到蓝拐的一个重要特征 ,恒星内部的核反应产能增加决定了蓝拐光度的上升 ;同时对于一个内部产能恒定的恒星 ,恒星外壳的膨胀和收缩将决定恒星表面的有效温度。根据这点 ,对恒星内部和外壳的各种物理量进行了研究 ,并着重注意了恒星外壳对内部产能变化的反应。我们发现RGB阶段产生的氢丰度不连续区的跳变是恒星光度上升的一个关键因素 ,当氢壳层的外边缘接触到氢跳变的时候 ,突然增加的氢丰度使氢燃烧壳层变宽 ,产能  相似文献   

Carbon dioxide emission and carbon accumulation in coastal wetlands     

C.J. Smith  R.D. DeLaune  W.H. Patrick 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》1983,17(1):21-29

Direct measurements of CO₂ fluxes were made in salt, brackish and freshwater marshes and parallel adjacent open water areas in Barataria Basin, Louisiana. Vertical flux density was determined by monitoring the accumulation of CO₂ in aluminum chambers placed over the water or sediment surfaces. Annual CO₂ fluxes were 418, 180 and 618 g Cm^?2 from the salt, brackish and freshwater marsh, respectively. Water bodies adjacent to the marsh evolved 103, 54 and 242 g CO₂-Cm^?2yr^?1 to the atmosphere from saline, brackish and freshwater lakes, respectively. The role these marshes play in serving as a major carbon sink was determined from the carbon content of the sediment, vertical accretion rates and the bulk density of the sediment. Accretion rates were calculated from the depth in the sediment of the 1963 horizon, the year of peak ¹³⁷Cs fallout. Net carbon accumulation was essentially the same in all three marshes; 183, 296 and 224 g Cm^?2yr^?1 from the salt, brackish and fresh marsh, respectively. Data presented suggest a limited net export of carbon from these coastal marshes. A large percentage of fixed carbon remained on the marsh, being immobilized in accretionary processes or lost to the atmosphere as CO₂.  相似文献   

Sequence in Australian coal seams     

M. Smyth  A. C. Cook 《Mathematical Geology》1976,8(5):529-547

An embedded Markov model is used to test microlithotype analyses of subsections of a wide range of Australian coal seams for the presence of nonrandom sequences of lithologies. The data for individual seams, transformed to give five states (four states if dirt bands are excluded),were summed into geologically and geographically distinct groupings. The results suggest that dirt bands form an essential part of the sequences and that partial or complete cyclicity is present in many seam groupings. The cyclicity is either asymmetric or partially symmetric with the vitrite +clarite content of the coal decreasing upwards within each cycle. A new cycle is marked either by a sharp reversion, or by a slightly gradational reversion, to a vitrite +clariterich lithology. This reversion may or may not be preceded by a dirt band. In virtually all groupings, a vitrite +clarite-rich lithology is the most likely type after a dirt band. The sequences are similar to those that have been described in European coals and it seems probable that the presence of intraseam, cyclic sequences is a normal, rather than an unusual condition, within coal seams. This cyclicity is a response to changes in the sedimentation balance. These changes are probably due in large part to processes originating within the peat-forming environment but processes external to this environment are also likely to produce cyclic sequences of coal lithologies.  相似文献   

Variations of foliar carbon isotope discrimination and nutrient concentrations in Artemisia ordosica and Caragana korshinskii at the southeastern margin of China’s Tengger Desert   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Liangju Zhao  Honglang Xiao  Xiaohong Liu 《Environmental Geology》2006,50(2):285-294

Seasonal variations in foliar stable carbon isotope discrimination (Δ) of Artemisia ordosica and Caragana korshinskii and correlations of foliar Δ with N, P, and K concentrations were studied under different planting regimes at the southeastern margin of China’s Tengger Desert. Foliar Δ, N, P, and K concentrations and the correlations of Δ with N, P, and K differed between the species and planting regimes. Foliar Δ, P and K concentrations in A. ordosica were markedly higher than in C. korshinskii, while foliar N concentrations in C. korshinskii was significantly higher than in A. ordosica. There were no significant differences in N, P, and K concentrations in C. korshinskii between planting regimes, but foliar Δ was significantly increased after June in mixed-species planting. In A. ordosica foliar N concentrations in mixed-species planting and foliar Δ in single-species planting were significantly higher than those of corresponding planting regimes. According to water-use efficiency (WUE) calculated based on foliar Δ, and on N, P, and K concentrations, C. korshinskii’s survival may profit from its higher WUE, whereas A. ordosica can avoid drought damage by its higher P and K concentrations in leaves in arid or semi-arid environments. The complex correlations of foliar Δ with foliar N, P and K suggested that water in C. korshinskii and water and P nutrition in A. ordosica were the key factors limiting their growth.  相似文献   

基准面旋回在砂岩型铀矿勘查中的应用--以东胜铀矿床为例   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3  

杨仁超  韩作振  樊爱萍  常象春 《铀矿地质》2006,22(3):157-162

近年来以基准面旋回为参照面的高分辨率层序地层学迅速发展,其最大的优势在于能够适用于受多重因素控制的陆相沉积盆地,并有效提高层序地层分析的准确度和分辨率。基准面旋回原理也同样适用于砂岩型铀矿的勘探开发研究和实践,它控制了砂岩、泥岩的空间分布和岩石孔渗、封闭性能,决定了地层结构的叠加样式。文章以东胜铀矿床为例,分析了基准面旋回在砂岩型铀矿勘探开发中的应用。认为:基准面升降旋回中形成的砂、泥岩地层结构配置良好;长期基准面上升早期形成的辫状河河道砂岩具连通性好、粒度粗、碎屑含量高、杂基含量低及孔渗条件好等特点,是重要的含矿层。  相似文献   

Suspended basaltic glass–seawater interactions     

Matthildur B. Stefnsdttir  Sigurdur R. Gíslason 《Journal of Geochemical Exploration》2006,88(1-3):332

The objective of this study was to quantify by experiments the initial seawater–suspended basaltic glass interactions following the 1996 outburst flood from the Vatnajökull glacier, Iceland. The altered basaltic glass dissolved in seawater as recorded by the Si release from the glass. The dissolved concentrations of Na, Ca, Si, Ba, Cd, Co, Cu, Hg, Mn, Ni and total dissolved inorganic N increased with time but the concentrations of Mg, K, S, Sr, Fe, Pb and Zn decreased. Calculated 1 to 10 day fluxes for Si range from 38,000 tons/day to 70,000 tons/10 days. The fluxes for other major elements are more uncertain, but the positive flux (release from suspended matter to seawater) of Ca and Na, and negative flux of Mg, K and S are greater than the Si flux.  相似文献   

Studies on the transfer of mineral nutrients from feed, water, soil and plants to buffaloes under arid environments     

M.Y. Ashraf  A. Khan  M. Ashraf  S. Zafar 《Journal of Arid Environments》2006,65(4):632-643

Studies were conducted at a Livestock Farm in an arid region of Pakistan, to determine the uptake of mineral nutrients from the food of buffaloes. Samples of feed, water, forage, soil as well as blood, milk, urine, and faeces of the animals were collected and analysed for K⁺, Ca²⁺, and Fe²⁺ during summer and winter. The results showed that the concentrations of K⁺ and Ca²⁺ in plants were low, whereas that of Fe²⁺ was high. In animals, K⁺ was not found in the milk in significant amounts, rather it was excreted in the urine. The calcium taken in by the animals was used for the synthesis of milk, as a result of which low Ca²⁺ concentrations were detected in urine. Mineral nutrient concentrations (K⁺ and Ca²⁺) in forage plants and water were lower than the optimum requirement of the animals, as a result of which blood plasma contained lower amounts of minerals (K⁺ and Fe²⁺) than that of the normal animals or critical limits. From the findings of the present study, it can be concluded that the buffaloes raised at the livestock farm had a severe deficiency of mineral nutrients, particularly K⁺ in lactating and Fe²⁺ in both lactating and non-lactating animals. Feed supplements, that can overcome these deficiencies, should be used for the optimum growth, milk production and resistance to diseases.  相似文献   

Short term fluctuations in dissolved organic matter concentrations in streamflow draining a forested watershed and their relation to the catchment budget     

I. D. L. Foster  I. C. Grieve 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1982,7(5):417-425

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) concentrations in throughfall, throughflow, and runoff were recorded in a small (95 ha) woodland catchment in North Warwickshire for a period of eight weeks following a prolonged dry spell. DOM is shown to be positively related to stream discharge over the sampling period, although distinctive flushing effects were identified. The net contribution of DOM to total dissolved solids load carried in the river was only 2.4 per cent, and represented significantly less than published carbon losses by mineralization of soil organic matter. Throughfall inputs were some 100 times higher than streamflow outputs from the catchment.  相似文献   

Influence of wetting–drying cycles on swell–shrink behaviour of GPA-reinforced expansive clay beds     

B. R. Phanikumar  M. Muthukumar 《Geomechanics and Geoengineering》2020,15(3):172-185

ABSTRACT

Granular pile-anchor (GPA) technique is an innovative tension-resistant foundation technique which can effectively ward off the dual swell–shrink problem posed by expansive clays. The other tension-resistant foundation techniques are drilled piers, belled piers and under-reamed piles. Laboratory scale model studies and field scale experiments on GPAs revealed that swelling of expansive clay beds could be effectively controlled by GPA technique. This paper presents results obtained from laboratory scale model studies on GPA-reinforced expansive clay beds subjected to alternate cycles of wetting and drying. Swelling and shrinkage of the clay beds were monitored for three wetting–drying cycles (N) spanning a time period of 300 days. The clay beds were reinforced with varying number of GPAs (n = 0, 1, 2 and 3). Swelling (mm) and shrinkage (mm) of the clay beds in a given wetting–drying cycle decreased with increasing number of GPAs. Further, swelling (mm) and shrinkage (mm) significantly decreased with increasing number of wetting–drying cycles (N) also. For a given number of GPAs (n), swelling and shrinkage decreased with increase in depth from the top of the clay bed too.  相似文献