A field examination of acoustical scattering from marine organisms at 70 kHz     

Stanton  T. Nash  R. Eastwood  R. Nero  R. 《Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of》1987,12(2):339-348

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Aquaculture in the united states: Constraints and opportunities: The National Research Council,under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences,Washington, DC 20418, 1978. 123pp     

Colin E. Nash 《Marine Policy》1979,3(3):248-250

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A Godunov-type Finite Volume Scheme for Meso- and Micro-scale Flows in Three Dimensions     

Nash’at Ahmad  John Lindeman 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2008,165(9-10):1929-1939

This short note reports the extension of the f-waves approximate Riemann solver (Ahmad and Lindeman, 2007; LeVeque, 2002; Bale et al., 2002) for three-dimensional meso- and micro-scale atmospheric flows. The Riemann solver employs flux-based wave decomposition for the calculation of Godunov fluxes and does not require the explicit definition of the Roe matrix to enforce conservation. The other important feature of the Riemann solver is its ability to incorporate source term due to gravity without introducing discretization errors. The resulting finite volume scheme is second-order accurate in space and time. The finite-difference schemes currently used in atmospheric flow models are neither conservative nor able to resolve regions of sharp gradients. The finite volume scheme described in this paper is fully conservative and has the ability to resolve regions of sharp gradients without introducing spurious oscillations in the solution. The scheme shows promise in accurately resolving flows on the meso- and micro-scales and should be considered for implementation in the dynamical cores of next generation meso- and micro-scale atmospheric flow models.  相似文献   

Herbicides implicated as the cause of severe mangrove dieback in the Mackay region, NE Australia: consequences for marine plant habitats of the GBR World Heritage Area     

Duke NC  Bell AM  Pederson DK  Roelfsema CM  Bengtson Nash S 《Marine pollution bulletin》2005,51(1-4):308-324

Herbicides, particularly diuron, were correlated with severe and widespread dieback of the dominant mangrove, Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh. var. eucalyptifolia (Val.) N.C. Duke (Avicenniaceae), its reduced canopy condition, and declines in seedling health within three neighbouring estuaries in the Mackay region of NE Australia. This unusual species-specific dieback, first observed in the early 1990s, had gotten notably worse by 2002 to affect >30 km(2) of mangroves in at least five adjacent estuaries in the region. Over the past century, agricultural production has responded well to the demands of increasing population with improvements in farm efficiency assisted by significant increases in the use of agricultural chemicals. However, with regular and episodic river flow events, these chemicals have sometimes found their way into estuarine and nearshore water and sediments where their effects on marine habitats have been largely unquantified. Investigations over the last three years in the Mackay region provide compelling evidence of diuron, and possibly other agricultural herbicides, as the most likely cause of the severe and widespread mangrove dieback. The likely consequences of such dieback included declines in coastal water quality with increased turbidity, nutrients and sediment deposition, as well as further dispersal of the toxic chemicals. The implications of such findings are immense since they describe not only the serious deterioration of protected and beneficial mangrove habitat but also the potential for significant direct and indirect effects on other highly-valued estuarine and marine habitats in the region, including seagrass beds and coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. This article reviews all key findings and observations to date and describes the essential correlative and causative evidence.  相似文献   

Detection of a sulfur dioxide signal in a tree-ring record: a case study from Trail,British Columbia,Canada     

W. B. Kincaid  T. H. Nash III 《GeoJournal》1988,17(2):189-192

Dendroecological analysis of tree-ring chronologies was used to determine radial growth responses of a western larch (Larix occidentalis Nutt.) stand to climate and ambient SO₂ exposure. A unique, 32-year long record of ambient SO₂ concentrations was exploited to estimate annual SO₂ dose with a 0.25 ppm threshold. Tree-ring data were a subset from a previous study including three control sites and one polluted site that was near the location of the SO₂ monitor. An autoregression model was employed in a stagewise procedure that first removed climate effects by autoregression on the average of the controls and then estimated a dose-response relationship by autoregression of the residuals from the first stage on SO₂ exposure. Significant growth losses from air pollution were demonstrated that were approximately equal in magnitude to the variation explained by annual fluctuations of climate.  相似文献   

Shonkin Sag laccolith,Montana     

W. P. Nash  J. F. G. Wilkinson 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1970,25(4):241-269

A variety of rock types is developed in the Shonkin Sag laccolith, with extreme compositions represented by the porphyritic pseudoleucite-bearing chilled margin, shonkinitic in composition, and by the final differentiate, chemically a nepheline syenite. During differentiation the pyroxenes changed in composition from Ca-rich varieties through aegirine-augite to acmite; there is no evidence of an immiscibility gap between Ca-rich and Na-rich pyroxenes. Olivine compositions changed from approximately Fa₂₀ to Fa₄₀, but in marked contrast the coexisting biotites exhibit a more extensive compositional range, from annite₂₄ to annite₁₀₀; the crystal margins of annites in the most evolved rocks are manganophyllite-rich. Titanomagnetites are TiO₂-poor varieties. Arfvedsonite and melanite occur in the most evolved syenites.From mineralogical and thermodynamic data initial and final temperatures of crystallization of the various rock types have been calculated. At an estimated total vapor pressure of 310 bars, the temperature of intrusion was 985° C. Final crystallization of the laccolith took place below 700° C, and crystallization intervals for most rock types are of the order of 170° C. Over the total magmatic temperature range the activity of silica in the melt decreased from 0.13 to 0.09. Oxygen fugacity falls with temperature approximately parallel to the synthetic fayalite-magnetite-quartz oxygen buffer until olivine disappears. The crystallization of Na-rich pyroxenes does not demand an increase in the fugacity of oxygen, but rather requires that the oxygen fugacity fall less rapidly with temperature than would be the case if olivine and magnetite were present.  相似文献   

Ant communities and livestock grazing in the Great Basin, U.S.A.     

Maliha S. Nash  Walter G. Whitford  David F. Bradford  Susan E. Franson  Anne C. Neale  Daniel T. Heggem 《Journal of Arid Environments》2001,49(4):695

The objectives of this study were to determine if metrics for ant species assemblages can be used as indicators of rangeland condition, and to determine the influence of vegetation and ground cover variables, factors often influenced by livestock grazing, on ant communities. The study was conducted in two areas in the Great Basin: a sagebrush-steppe in southeastern Idaho (n=30 sites), and a salt-desert shrub in western Utah (n=27 sites). Sites were selected based on known rangeland condition (i.e. good, fair, poor) associated with livestock grazing. Ant communities differed considerably between the two study areas. Collectively, more ant species occurred at the Idaho sites (30) than at the Utah sites (21), relatively few species (eight) occurred in both areas, species richness was significantly greater at the Idaho sites (mean=12·0 species) than the Utah sites (mean=6·9 species), and Formica spp. were diverse (total of 15 species) at the Idaho sites but rare (one species) at the Utah sites. In Idaho, all species collectively, generalists, and Formica spp. were significantly less abundant on sites in poor condition than that on sites in good or fair condition, whereas in Utah, seed harvesters and Pheidole spp. were significantly more abundant on sites in poor condition than that on sites in good or fair condition. In Idaho, species richness was significantly lower on sites in poor condition. In Idaho, species richness and relative abundances of several ant groups were significantly related to bare patch size and parameters for cover or species richness of several vegetation groups. In contrast to the comparisons involving sites in poor condition, no differences in ant communities in either Idaho or Utah were evident between sites in good and fair condition. Thus, the ant communities responded only to large changes in rangeland condition and to large differences in climatic/edaphic conditions between the two areas. Hence, ant community metrics appear to have limited utility as indicators of rangeland condition in the Great Basin.  相似文献   

Upper wind observing systems used for meteorological operations     

J. Nash 《Annales Geophysicae》1994,12(8):691-710

Methods of upper wind measurements used in operational meteorology have been reviewed to provide guidance to those developing wind profiler radar systems. The main limitations of the various methods of tracking weather balloons are identified using results from the WMO radiosonde comparisons and additional tests in the United Kingdom. Costs associated with operational balloon measurements are reviewed. The sampling and quality of operational aircraft wind observations are illustrated with examples from the ASDAR system. Measurement errors in horizontal winds are quantified wherever possible. When tracking equipment is functioning correctly, random errors in southerly and westerly wind component measurements from aircraft and weather balloons are usually in the range 0.5-2 m s⁻¹.  相似文献   

Intra-seasonal monthly oscillations in stratospheric NCEP data and model results     

H.G. Mayr  J.G. Mengel  F.T. Huang  E.R. Nash 《Journal of Atmospheric and Solar》2009,71(12):1299-1308

Intra-seasonal oscillations (ISO) are observed in the zonal-mean of mesospheric wind and temperature measurements—and the numerical spectral model (NSM) generates such oscillations. Relatively large temperature ISO are evident also in stratospheric CPC (NCEP) data at high latitudes, where the NSM produces amplitudes around 3 K at 30 km. Analyzing the NCEP data for the years 1996–2006, we find in Fourier spectra signatures of oscillations with periods between 1.7 and 3 months. With statistical confidence levels exceeding 70%, the spectral features are induced by nonlinear interactions involving the annual and semi-annual variations. The synthesized data show for the 10-year average that the temperature ISO peak in winter, having amplitudes close to 4 K. The synthesized complete spectrum for periods around 2 months produces oscillations, varying from year to year, which can reach peak amplitudes of 15 and 5 K respectively at northern and southern polar latitudes.  相似文献   

Nested circulation modelling of inter-tidal zones: details of a nesting approach incorporating moving boundaries     

Stephen Nash  Michael Hartnett 《Ocean Dynamics》2010,60(6):1479-1495

Nested circulation models developed to date either exclude the flooding and drying process or prohibit flooding and drying of nested boundaries; they are therefore ill-suited to the accurate modelling of inter-tidal areas. The authors have developed a nested model with moving boundaries which permits flooding and drying of both the interior domain and the nested boundaries. The model uses a novel approach to boundary formulation; ghost cells are incorporated adjacent to the nested boundary cells so that the nested boundaries operate as internal boundaries. When combined with a tailored adaptive interpolation technique, the approach facilitates a dynamic internal boundary. Details of model development are presented with particular emphasis on the treatment of the nested boundary. Results are presented for Cork Harbour, a natural coastal system with an extensive inter-tidal zone and a complex flow regime which provided a rigorous test of model performance. The nested model was found to achieve the accuracy of a high resolution single grid model for a much lower computational cost.  相似文献