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In the framework of the WFD 2000/60/EC intercalibration process the updated versions of the EEI and R‐MaQI, proposed by Italy and Greece for the transitional waters, have been applied to the macrophytes of the Venice lagoon to test their comparability and relationships with the pressure gradients. Submerged macrophytes were collected during spring 2007 at 60 sites spread within the lagoon. At each site, five random samples were collected and the total coverage of benthic macrophytes in the field was estimated based on a number of tests of the bottom. To assess seagrass epiphytes, five shoots were collected for each replicate. Physico‐chemical data were collected in the water column at 14 sites selected to reflect the main hydro‐geomorphological and trophic gradients of the lagoon. The analyses performed indicated that the two metrics appeared to be weakly intercalibrated and only the 30% of the sampling sites displayed the same quality class. The main differences fell into the Moderate and Low classes and the two indices provided discordant results in the intermediate and confined areas of the lagoon. In contrast, the two indices showed good affinity in the marine areas of inlets, which are characterised by seagrass meadows and late‐successional macroalgae. Similar results were evidenced also in a redundancy analysis by the different relationships between quality classes and the physico‐chemical gradients. The main reason for this seems to be the heterogeneity of species–environment relationships inside the groups of species on which the indices are based. Critical aspects of methodological differences and applicability of the macrophyte indices proposed by Italy and Greece for the transitional waters of the Mediterranean eco‐region are discussed. 相似文献
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Marcello G. Magaldi Tamay M. Özgökmen Annalisa Griffa Michel Rixen 《Ocean Dynamics》2010,60(1):93-122
This numerical study focuses on the response of the Western Adriatic Current to wind forcing. The turbulent buoyant surface
current is induced by the Po river outflow in the Adriatic Sea. Idealized and realistic wind conditions are considered by
retaining the complex geomorphology of the middle Adriatic basin. In the absence of wind, the Adriatic Promontories force
the current to separate from the coast and induce instabilities. Persistent 7-m s − 1 downwelling favorable northwesterly winds thicken and narrow the current. Instabilities whose size is ~10 km develop but
ultimately vanish, since there is not enough across-shore space to grow. On the contrary, 7-m s − 1 upwelling favorable southeasterly winds thin and widen the current, and instabilities can grow to form mesoscale (~35 km)
features. When realistic winds are considered, the same trends are observed, but the state of the sea set up by previous wind
events also plays a crucial role. The turbulent regimes set up by different winds affect mixing and the WAC meridional transport.
With downwelling winds, the transport is generally southward and mixing happens mostly between the fresher (S ≤ 38) salinity classes. With upwelling winds, the transport decreases and changes sign, and mixing mainly involves saltier
(S > 38) waters. In all cases, mixing is enhanced when a finer 0.5-km horizontal resolution is employed. 相似文献
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Annalisa Cherchi Andrea Alessandri Simona Masina Antonio Navarra 《Climate Dynamics》2011,37(1-2):83-101
Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration provided warmer atmospheric temperature and higher atmospheric water vapor content, but not necessarily more precipitation. A set of experiments performed with a state-of-the-art coupled general circulation model forced with increased atmospheric CO2 concentration (2, 4 and 16 times the present-day mean value) were analyzed and compared with a control experiment to evaluate the effect of increased CO2 levels on monsoons. Generally, the monsoon precipitation responses to CO2 forcing are largest if extreme concentrations of carbon dioxide are used, but they are not necessarly proportional to the forcing applied. In fact, despite a common response in terms of an atmospheric water vapor increase to the atmospheric warming, two out of the six monsoons studied simulate less or equal summer mean precipitation in the 16×CO2 experiment compared to the intermediate sensitivity experiments. The precipitation differences between CO2 sensitivity experiments and CTRL have been investigated specifying the contribution of thermodynamic and purely dynamic processes. As a general rule, the differences depending on the atmospheric moisture content changes (thermodynamic component) are large and positive, and they tend to be damped by the dynamic component associated with the changes in the vertical velocity. However, differences are observed among monsoons in terms of the role played by other terms (like moisture advection and evaporation) in shaping the precipitation changes in warmer climates. The precipitation increase, even if weak, occurs despite a weakening of the mean circulation in the monsoon regions (??precipitation-wind paradox??). In particular, the tropical east-west Walker circulation is reduced, as found from velocity potential analysis. The meridional component of the monsoon circulation is changed as well, with larger (smaller) meridional (vertical) scales. 相似文献
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The variability of the surface eddy kinetic energy (EKE) in the Labrador Sea is investigated with a suite of numerical integrations using a regional ocean model. Simulations are performed over the period 1980–2001 and are compared to satellite observations over the last 9 years. The surface EKE pattern in the basin is dominated by a region along the West coast of Greenland where eddies, mainly anticyclonic, are formed by instability of the main currents flowing over the continental slope, consistent with previous idealized results. Here the interannual changes are linked to the shear of the incoming boundary current system imposed as boundary condition to the model domain. The highly variable strength of the East Greenland current at the northeast boundary, derived from the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) reanalysis, strongly influences the vortex formation.In the center of the Labrador Sea, where deep convection occurs, a statistically significant portion of the modeled interannual surface EKE variability is correlated with the local atmospheric forcing, and both heat and wind fluxes play an important role and can be adopted as predictors at a lag of 2–3 months. The Arctic Oscillation index can also be used as a remote indicator of the atmospheric fluxes, but with lower skill than local measurements. In contrast the North Atlantic Oscillation index does not correlate significantly with the surface EKE at intraseasonal and interannual scales. The analysis of altimeter data over the 1993–2001 supports the existence of this asymmetry between the regime locally forced by the atmosphere in the central basin, and the regime remotely forced by the incoming boundary current along the west Greenland coast. Those results have important implications for monitoring and predicting the surface eddy kinetic energy variability in the Labrador Sea. 相似文献
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Paolo D’Adda Andrea Zanchi Maria Bergomi Fabrizio Berra Marco G. Malusà Annalisa Tunesi Stefano Zanchetta 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2011,100(5):1095-1113
The Triassic succession of the central Southern Alps (Italy) is stacked into several units bounded by south-verging low-angle
thrust faults, which are related to two successive steps of crustal shortening. The thrust surfaces are cut by high-angle
extensional and strike-slip faults, which controlled the emplacement of hypabissal magmatic intrusions that post-date thrusts
motions. Intrusion ages based on SHRIMP U–Pb zircon dating span between 42 ± 1 and 39 ± 1 Ma, suggesting close time relationships
with the earliest Adamello intrusion stages and, more in general, with the widespread calc-alkaline magmatism described in
the Southern Alps. Fission-track ages of magmatic apatites are indistinguishable from U–Pb crystallization ages of zircons,
suggesting that the intrusion occurred in country rocks already exhumed above the partial annealing zone of apatite (depth < 2–4 km).
These data indicate that the central Southern Alps were already structured and largely exhumed in the Middle Eocene. Although
we describe minor faults affecting magmatic bodies and local reactivations of older structures, no major internal deformations
have occurred in the area after the Bartonian. Neogene deformations were instead concentrated farther south, along the frontal
part of the belt. 相似文献
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Growth rates and ecology of coralline rhodoliths from the Ras Ghamila back reef lagoon,Red Sea 
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下载免费PDF全文 Rhodoliths are important marine carbonate producers that provide habitat for several marine organisms, and are threatened by ongoing global climate change. Meter‐sized sedimentary patches rich in living rhodoliths, interspersed among corals, were discovered in the back reef of Ras Ghamila lagoon, Southern Sinai, at less than 1 m water depth. In this shallow and relatively sheltered subtropical environment, rhodoliths were found to be monospecific or oligospecific, spheroidal, 3.5 to 9.4 cm in maximum diameter, with warty/lumpy or fruticose (protuberance degree IV) growth forms, and corresponded to the unattached branches or praline type. They grew in bright light under seasonal, moderate, wind‐driven water motion. The dominant rhodolith‐forming species recorded were: Lithophyllum kotschyanum, Porolithon onkodes, Hydrolithon sp. and three species of Neogoniolithon: Neogoniolithon fosliei, Neogoniolithon brassica‐florida, and an undescribed species noted in the text as Neogoniolithon sp. A total of 38 Alizarin‐stained rhodoliths was released in the field and collected after 1 year. They showed different banding patterns (alternating long and short cells) that revealed seasonal growth, with the lowest rates occurring in winter for all species, and an additional summer growth slackening in Neogoniolithon fosliei. Lithophyllum kotschyanum presented evidence of occasional growth cessation, possibly due to temporary burial. The observed annual growth rate of rhodoliths was unrelated to their size. The mean accretion rates were 1.08 mm · year?1 in L. kotschyanum, 0.75 mm · year?1 in P. onkodes, 0.49 mm · year?1 in Hydrolithon sp., 0.85 mm mm · year?1 in N. fosliei, 0.63 mm · year?1 in N. brassica‐florida and 0.57 mm · year?1 in Neogoniolithon sp. The annual mean marginal elongation rate for these taxa was respectively 8.74, 13.92, 3.59, 9.40 and 9.25 mm · year?1, with the exception of Neogoniolithon sp., for which this parameter was not recorded. Maximum marginal elongation occurred in P. onkodes pointing out its greater ability as a space competitor in comparison with the other rhodolith species. The highest accretion rate and common presence of L. kotschyanum indicate its importance as carbonate producer in tropical reef. 相似文献
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Annalisa Celotti 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2005,300(1-3):23-30
This contribution focuses on the evidence for a bimodality in the luminosity believed to be associated with the accretion
process in AGN. In particular, it will be stressed that this behavior does seem to be present in an analogous way both in
radio-loud and radio-quiet AGN, as inferred from samples selected in an independent way. The found bimodality can be naturally
– although not uniquely – interpreted in the frame of the ADIOS solution for radiative inefficient accretion flows. The (so
far) qualitative analogy with the behavior of XRB provides an interesting perspective to find a unique framework for the accretion
and jet production in accreting black hole systems. 相似文献
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Heatwaves in Europe: areas of homogeneous variability and links with the regional to large-scale atmospheric and SSTs anomalies 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
This work presents a methodology to study the interannual variability associated with summertime months in which extremely
hot temperatures are frequent. Daily time series of maximum and minimum temperature fields (T
max and T
min, respectively) are used to define indexes of extreme months based on the number of days crossing thresholds. An empirical
orthogonal function (EOF) analysis is applied to the monthly indexes. EOF loadings give information about the geographical
areas where the number of days per month with extreme temperatures has the largest variability. Correlations between the EOF
principal components and the time series of other fields allow plotting maps highlighting the anomalies in the large scale
circulation and in the SSTs that are associated with the occurrence of extreme events. The methodology is used to construct
the “climatology” of the extremely hot summertime months over Europe. In terms of both interannual and intraseasonal variability,
there are three regions in which the frequency of the extremely hot days per month homogeneously varies: north-west Europe,
Euro-Mediterranean and Eurasia region. Although extremes over those regions occur during the whole summer (June to August),
the anomalous climatic conditions associated with frequent heatwaves present some intraseasonal variability. Extreme climate
events over the north-west Europe and Eurasia are typically related to the occurrence of blocking situations. The intraseasonal
variability of those patterns is related to the amplitude of the blocking, the relative location of the action centre and
the wavetrain of anomalies downstream or upstream of the blocking. During June and July, blocking situations which give extremely
hot climate conditions over north-west Europe are also associated with cold conditions over the eastern Mediterranean sector.
The Euro-Mediterranean region is a transition area in which extratropical and tropical systems compete, influencing the occurrence
of climate events: blockings tend to be related to extremely hot months during June while baroclinic anomalies dominate the
variability of the climate events in July and August. We highlight that our method could be easily applied to other regions
of the world, to other fields as well as to model outputs to assess, e.g. the potential change of extreme climate events in
a warmer climate. 相似文献
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Bruce T. Anderson Jeff R. Knight Mark A. Ringer Clara Deser Adam S. Phillips Jin-Ho Yoon Annalisa Cherchi 《Climate Dynamics》2010,35(7-8):1461-1475
Understanding the historical and future response of the global climate system to anthropogenic emissions of radiatively active atmospheric constituents has become a timely and compelling concern. At present, however, there are uncertainties in: the total radiative forcing associated with changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere; the effective forcing applied to the climate system resulting from a (temporary) reduction via ocean-heat uptake; and the strength of the climate feedbacks that subsequently modify this forcing. Here a set of analyses derived from atmospheric general circulation model simulations are used to estimate the effective and total radiative forcing of the observed climate system due to anthropogenic emissions over the last 50 years of the twentieth century. They are also used to estimate the sensitivity of the observed climate system to these emissions, as well as the expected change in global surface temperatures once the climate system returns to radiative equilibrium. Results indicate that estimates of the effective radiative forcing and total radiative forcing associated with historical anthropogenic emissions differ across models. In addition estimates of the historical sensitivity of the climate to these emissions differ across models. However, results suggest that the variations in climate sensitivity and total climate forcing are not independent, and that the two vary inversely with respect to one another. As such, expected equilibrium temperature changes, which are given by the product of the total radiative forcing and the climate sensitivity, are relatively constant between models, particularly in comparison to results in which the total radiative forcing is assumed constant. Implications of these results for projected future climate forcings and subsequent responses are also discussed. 相似文献