Calcareous algae and cyanobacteria     

Michael C. Leaf  Jessica S. A. Gay  Matthew J. Newbould  Owen R. Hewitt  Steven L. Rogers 《Geology Today》2020,36(2):75-80

Algae is an informal term used to describe a broad group of simple organisms from the plant kingdom. The organisms included within this grouping are aquatic photosynthetic biota with an extensive range of life habits and forms. These organisms range from micron-sized unicellular forms to giant seaweeds and kelps, which can grow to several metres long. Both benthic and planktonic modes of life are known and display a wide variety of life cycles.  相似文献   

Comparisons of xylem sap flow and water vapour flux at the stand level and derivation of canopy conductance for Scots pine   总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7  

A. Granier  P. Biron  B. Köstner  L. W. Gay  G. Najjar 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》1996,53(1-3):115-122

Summary Simultaneous measurements of xylem sap flow and water vapour flux over a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) forest (Hartheim, Germany), were carried out during the Hartheim Experiment (HartX), an intensive observation campaign of the international programme REKLIP. Sap flow was measured every 30 min using both radial constant heating (Granier, 1985) and two types of Cermak sap flowmeters installed on 24 trees selected to cover a wide range of the diameter classes of the stand (min 8 cm; max 17.5 cm). Available energy was high during the observation period (5.5 to 6.9 mm.day^–1), and daily cumulated sap flow on a ground area basis varied between 2.0 and 2.7 mm day^–1 depending on climate conditions. Maximum hourly values of sap flow reached 0.33 mm h^–1, i.e., 230 W m^–2.Comparisons of sap flow with water vapour flux as measured with two OPEC (One Propeller Eddy Correlation, University of Arizona) systems showed a time lag between the two methods, sap flow lagging about 90 min behind vapour flux. After taking into account this time lag in the sap flow data set, a good agreement was found between both methods: sap flow = 0.745^* vapour flux,r ² = 0.86. The difference between the two estimates was due to understory transpiration.Canopy conductance (g _c ) was calculated from sap flow measurements using the reverse form of Penman-Monteith equation and climatic data measured 4 m above the canopy. Variations ofg _c were well correlated (r ² = 0.85) with global radiation (R) and vapour pressure deficit (vpd). The quantitative expression forg _c =f (R, vpd) was very similar to that previously found with maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) in the forest of Les Landes, South Western France.With 6 Figures  相似文献   

Preface     

R. Vogt  L. W. Gay  J. D. Tenhunen  Ch. Bernhofer  A. Kessler 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》1996,53(1-3):1-1

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Tests of a robust eddy correlation system for sensible heat flux     

J. H. Blanford  L. W. Gay 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》1992,46(1):53-60

Summary Sensible heat flux estimates from a simple, one-propeller eddy correlation system (OPEC) were compared with those from a sonic anemometer eddy correlation system (SEC). In accordance with similarity theory, the performance of the OPEC system improved with increasing height of the sensor above the surface. Flux totals from the two systems at sites with adequate fetch were in excellent agreement after frequency response corrections were applied. The propeller system appears suitable for long periods of unattended measurement. The sensible heat flux measurements can be combined with net radiation and soil heat flux measurements to estimate latent heat as a residual in the surface energy balance.With 6 Figures  相似文献   

The regression of net radiation upon solar radiation     

Gay  Lloyd W. 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》1971,19(1):1-14

Theoretical and Applied Climatology - A number of studies have sought to relate net radiation over natural surfaces to incoming global radiation. Several deficiencies are noted in interpretation of...  相似文献   

Cataclastic deformation of geological materials in matrices of differing composition: I. Pebbles and conglomerates     

N.C. Gay  J.C. Jaeger 《Tectonophysics》1975,27(4):303-322

Spheres and clylinders of various rock types were embedded in a matrix of crushed rock and the combined samples were then deformed by applying uniaxial compressive loads of up to 4.5 MN. Under these conditions, large confining pressures are built up in the centre of the samples; thus the granular matrix is compressed into relatively hard rock and the objects experience flattening and stretching strains of up to 30%. The rock types used for the objects ranged from weak sandstone and shale to very strong quartzite; matrix materials were crushed adamellite, marble and a marble—salt mixture. The experiments were designed to investigate the relative deformation of the objects and the composite samples and, in particular, the effect of the ductility contrasts (or complete differences) between the objects and the matrix.Spheres and cylinders with a length/diameter ratio of unity are called “pebbles” in the paper. They experience a homogeneous flattening during compression and the ductility contrast controls the load at which yielding occurs and the relative rates at which a pebble and the surrounding matrix deform. The changes in shape of pebble and sample are related linearly and the slope of the straight line graph gives a quantitative estimate of the ductility contrast ; in this way a table of ductility contrasts for the various rock types has been constructed and the relative responses of different pebbles in a granular matrix are nicely illustrated in an artificial deformed conglomerate.Cataclasis is the dominant mode of deformation and much of the large finite strain induced into the objects occurs at surprisingly low applied loads. This suggests that deformed pebbles in natural rock need not necessarily have deformed as a result of tectonic pressures but could have changed shape during diagenesis of the host rocks.  相似文献   

Radiation budgets of desert,meadow, forest,and marsh sites     

Dr. L. W. Gay 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》1979,27(4):349-359

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Objective probabilities about future climate are a matter of opinion     

Carlos Gay  Francisco Estrada 《Climatic change》2010,99(1-2):27-46

In this paper, the unfeasibility of producing “objective” probabilistic climate change scenarios is discussed. Realizing that the knowledge of “true” probabilities of the different scenarios and temperature changes is unachievable, the objective must be to find the probabilities that are the most consistent with what our state of knowledge and expert judgment are. Therefore, subjective information plays, and should play, a crucial role. A new methodology, based on the Principle of Maximum Entropy, is proposed for constructing probabilistic climate change scenarios when only partial information is available. The objective is to produce relevant information for decision-making according to different agents’ judgment and subjective beliefs. These estimates have desirable properties such as: they are the least biased estimate possible on the available information; maximize the uncertainty (entropy) subject to the partial information that is given; The maximum entropy distribution assigns a positive probability to every event that is not excluded by the given information; no possibility is ignored. The probabilities obtained in this manner are the best predictions possible with the state of knowledge and subjective information that is available. This methodology allows distinguishing between reckless and cautious positions regarding the climate change threat.  相似文献   

Difference in petrophysical properties between foliated and dilatant fault rocks in deeply buried clastics: The case of the Grès d'Annot Formation,SW French Alps     

Thibault Cavailhes  Pierre Labaume  Jean‐Pierre Sizun  Roger Soliva  Claude Gout  Jean‐Luc Potdevin  Martine Buatier  Aurélien Gay  Alain Chauvet  Delphine Charpentier  Anna Travé 《地学学报》2014,26(4):298-306

This study describes normal fault zones formed in foreland arkosic turbidites (the Grès d'Annot Formation, SW French Alps) under deep diagenesis conditions (~200 °C) and highlights the occurrence of two markedly different fault‐rock types: (1) the foliated fault rocks of the Moutière‐Restefond area; and (2) the dilatant fault rocks of the Estrop area. The deformation of (1) is dominated by intra‐ and transgranular fracturing, pressure solution of quartz and feldspar grains and syn‐kinematic phyllosilicate precipitation resulting from feldspar alteration. The combination of these mechanisms results in a strongly anisotropic strain with intense shortening normal to the foliation (pressure solution) and extension parallel to the foliation (quartz‐ and calcite‐sealed extension veins). This deformation implies local mass transfer that may be achieved without (or with limited) volume change. The deformation of (2) is expressed as dilatant quartz‐sealed veins and breccia textures in which the main mechanisms are transgranular fracturing and quartz precipitation. Type (2) implies fault volume increase, isotropy of deformation and mass transfer at distances larger than in type (1). This study discusses the origins of (1) and (2) and shows that the permeability of (1) is anisotropic, with higher values than the host rocks parallel to the Y main deformation axis (i.e. perpendicular to the slip vector), whereas the permeability of (2) is isotropic and equivalent to that of the host rocks.  相似文献   

Comparison of the Salinity Structure of the Chesapeake Bay,the Delaware Bay and Long Island Sound Using a Linearly Tapered Advection-Dispersion Model   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Peter Gay  James O’Donnell 《Estuaries and Coasts》2009,32(1):68-87

Long records of monthly salinity observations along the axis of Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, and Long Island Sound are used to test a simple advection–dispersion model of the salt distribution in linearly tapered estuaries developed in a previous paper. We subdivide each estuary into three to five segments, each with linear taper allowing a distributed input of fresh water, and evaluate the dispersion in each segment. While Delaware Bay has weak dispersion and a classical sigmoidal salinity structure, Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay are more dispersive and have relatively small gradients in the central stretches. Long Island Sound is distinguished by having a net volume and salt flux out of its low-salinity end resulting in a smaller range of salinity and increasing axial gradients at its head rather than the usual asymptotic approach to zero salinity. Estimates of residence times based on model transport coefficients show that Long Island Sound has the most rapid response to fresh-water flux variations. It also has the largest amplitude cycle in river discharge fluctuation. In combination, these cause the large seasonal variation in the salinity structure relative to interannual variability in Long Island Sound as compared with Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay.  相似文献