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A Lagrangian technique is developed and applied to calculate stratosphere-troposphere exchange in an extratropical cyclone. This exchange is computed from the potential vorticity or PV along trajectories, calculated from ECMWF circulation data. Special emphasis is put on the statistical significance of the results. The computed field of the cross-tropopause flux is dominated by elongated patterns of statistically significant large downward and small upward fluxes. The downward fluxes mainly occur in the lower part of the considered tropopause folds. The upward fluxes are found near the entrance of the folds, in the tropopause ridges. The ratio between the area averaged downward and upward cross-tropopause fluxes increases with increasing strength of the cyclone. Since the largest fluxes are shown to occur in the regions with the largest wind shear, where PV-mixing is thought to cause large cross-tropopause fluxes, the results are expected to be reliable, at least in a qualitative sense. The position of a tropopause fold along the northwest coast of Africa is confirmed by total ozone observations. The results indicate that the applied Lagrangian technique is an appropriate tool for diagnosing stratosphere-troposphere exchange. 相似文献
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Most of the existing predictive malaria risks spatial models use very broad spatial scales, and they are usually built-up
for continental or national outlines. These models usually do not account for the complexity of socio-economic variables intervening
into the malaria transmission process as well malaria prevention strategies. These spatial and thematic shortcomings are particularly
interesting when looking at urban environments. This paper explains why a focus on urban malaria overcomes these shortcomings.
A set of environmental variables derived from remotely sensed and ground climate station sources was used to build-up an ecological
model. An original data collection process based on GPS measurements and retrospective interviews was introduced for the creation
of various geoepidemiological and geosocial variables. Multinomial logistic models were used to predict and evaluate the contribution
of various thematically separated groups of variables to malaria risk. Finally, it was possible to statistically and spatially
evaluate the contribution of ecologic, socio-ecologic, socio-economic and behavioural characteristics of these groups of variables
to malaria risks. 相似文献
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The coupling between the stratosphere and the troposphere has been investigated by analysing low-frequency variations in: (1) the meridional mass flux into the polar cap (north of 60°N), computed separately for the stratosphere and the troposphere; (2) the polar cap mean surface pressure, and (3) the surface level meridional pressure gradient and zonal wind around 60°N. The analysis has been done for the 1979–93 Northern Hemisphere (NH) winters, using ECMWF reanalysis data. The results show that for all winters the meridional mass flux variations in the stratosphere precede those in the troposphere, by about one day. This result can also be obtained qualitatively with a very simple model, based on the zonally averaged zonal and meridional momentum equations. The lag is not very sensitive to the latitude of the southern boundary of the polar cap. The analysed variations in the polar cap mean surface pressure associated with variations in the meridional mass flux, determine most of the variability in the analysed meridional surface pressure gradient and the associated surface zonal wind around 60°N. The results also show that in the stratosphere the Coriolis force associated with the zonal-mean meridional wind is in near-balance with the convergence of the eddy momentum flux, and in the lower troposphere with the zonal frictional force. In summary, the results indicate that in the extratropical northern winter hemisphere, low-frequency variations in the meridional wind in the stratosphere induce low-frequency variations in the zonal wind near the surface. 相似文献
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S. Osterman J. Green C. Froning S. B��land E. Burgh K. France S. Penton T. Delker D. Ebbets D. Sahnow J. Bacinski R. Kimble J. Andrews E. Wilkinson J. McPhate O. Siegmund T. Ake A. Aloisi C. Biagetti R. Diaz W. Dixon S. Friedman P. Ghavamian P. Goudfrooij G. Hartig C. Keyes D. Lennon D. Massa S. Niemi C. Oliveira R. Osten C. Proffitt T. Smith D. Soderblom 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2011,335(1):257-265
The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) was installed in the Hubble Space Telescope in May, 2009 as part of Servicing Mission 4 to provide high sensitivity, medium and low resolution spectroscopy at far- and near-ultraviolet wavelengths (FUV, NUV). COS is the most sensitive FUV/NUV spectrograph flown to date, spanning the wavelength range from 900 Å to 3200 Å with peak effective area approaching 3000 cm2. This paper describes instrument design, the results of the Servicing Mission Orbital Verification (SMOV), and the ongoing performance monitoring program. 相似文献
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With its small-scale climatic, floristic and geo-ecological differentiation, the island of Fogo is an optimal research area for understanding semi-arid island ecosystems in the marginal tropics. Because of the high variability in precipitation, the archipelago of Cape Verde has a potentially high ecological vulnerability, which is caused mainly by population growth, intensification of agricultural land use and increasing tourism.In this context, a geo-ecological spatial pattern analysis has been conducted for Fogo, including several types of geo-ecological layers like vegetation, elevation, aspect, soil and geology. The different kinds of spatial patterns that are detected can be used as a first tool to display distinctive levels of ecological vulnerability. These levels could constitute a base for sustainable land use planning and the redevelopment of agricultural strategies. 相似文献
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J. C. Raymond J. L. Kohl G. Noci E. Antonucci G. Tondello M. C. E. Huber L. D. Gardner P. Nicolosi S. Fineschi M. Romoli D. Spadaro O. H. W. Siegmund C. Benna A. Ciaravella S. Cranmer S. Giordano M. Karovska R. Martin J. Michels A. Modigliani G. Naletto A. Panasyuk C. Pernechele G. Poletto Peter L. Smith R. M. Suleiman L. Strachan 《Solar physics》1997,175(2):645-665
The Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer on the SOHO satellite covers the 940–1350 Å range as well as the 470–630 Å range in second order. It has detected coronal emission lines of H, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, S, Ar, Ca, Fe, and Ni, particularly in coronal streamers. Resonance scattering of emission lines from the solar disk dominates the intensities of a few lines, but electron collisional excitation produces most of the lines observed. Resonance, intercombination and forbidden lines are seen, and their relative line intensities are diagnostics for the ionization state and elemental abundances of the coronal gas. The elemental composition of the solar corona and solar wind vary, with the abundance of each element related to the ionization potential of its neutral atom (First Ionization Potential–FIP). It is often difficult to obtain absolute abundances, rather than abundances relative to O or Si. In this paper, we study the ionization state of the gas in two coronal streamers, and we determine the absolute abundances of oxygen and other elements in the streamers. The ionization state is close to that of a log T = 6.2 plasma. The abundances vary among, and even within, streamers. The helium abundance is lower than photospheric, and the FIP effect is present. In the core of a quiescent equatorial streamer, oxygen and other high-FIP elements are depleted by an order of magnitude compared with photospheric abundances, while they are depleted by only a factor of 3 along the edges of the streamer. The abundances along the edges of the streamer (‘legs’) resemble elemental abundances measured in the slow solar wind, supporting the identification of streamers as the source of that wind component. 相似文献
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Summary The importance of horizontal and vertical advection of temperature for the Antarctic major stratospheric warming in September
2002 has been investigated, by applying the thermodynamic energy equation to ECMWF temperature and wind data. The analysis,
which is carried out for the one-week period 19–26 September, shows that the large temperature increase in this period in
the polar stratosphere is mainly due to horizontal advection of temperature. In addition, it has been investigated to what
extent the observed temperature increase, as well as the change in the zonal wind, can be simulated with a simple conceptual
model of a moving polar vortex. The model consists of a horizontal, circular vortex whose centre moves with constant meridional
velocity off from the South Pole. The temperature and zonal wind fields are prescribed, stationary and zonally symmetric (relative
to the vortex centre). Despite its simplicity, the model simulates several important aspects of the observations, such as
the zonal-mean temperature increase and zonal-mean zonal wind reversal poleward of 60° S, and the zonal-mean temperature decrease
at middle latitudes. 相似文献
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John Vallerga Jason McPhate Anton Tremsin Oswald Siegmund 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2009,320(1-3):247-250
At the heart of future space-based astronomical UV instruments will be a sensitive UV detector. Though there has been a death of new UV mission opportunities, detector development has continued. Improvements have been made in spatial resolution, dynamic range, detector size, quantum efficiency and background. At the same time the power and mass required to achieve these goals have decreased. We review the current capabilities of microchannel plate based detectors at Berkeley, both in the laboratory and aboard current on-orbit spacecraft. We also discuss what can be expected from the next generation of UV detectors over the next decade. 相似文献
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J. L. Kohl G. Noci E. Antonucci G. Tondello M. C. E. Huber L. D. Gardner P. Nicolosi L. Strachan S. Fineschi J. C. Raymond M. Romoli D. Spadaro A. Panasyuk O. H. W. Siegmund C. Benna A. Ciaravella S. R. Cranmer S. Giordano M. Karovska R. Martin J. Michels A. Modigliani G. Naletto C. Pernechele G. Poletto P. L. Smith 《Solar physics》1997,175(2):613-644
The SOHO Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS/SOHO) is being used to observe the extended solar corona from 1.25 to 10 R⊙ from Sun center. Initial observations of polar coronal holes and equatorial streamers are described. The observations include measurements of spectral line profiles for HI Lα and Lβ, Ovi 1032 Å and 1037 Å, Mgx 625 Å, Fexii 1242 Å and several others. Intensities for Mgx 610 Å, Sixii 499 Å, and 520 Å, Sx 1196 Å, and 22 others have been observed. Preliminary results for derived H0, O5+, Mg9+, and Fe11+ velocity distributions and initial indications of outflow velocities for O5+ are described. In streamers, the H0 velocity distribution along the line of sight (specified by the value at e-1, along the line of sight) decreases from a maximum value of about 180 km s-1 at 2 R⊙ to about 140 km s-1 at 8 R⊙. The value for O5+ increases with height reaching a value of 150 km s-1 at 4.7 R⊙. In polar coronal holes, the O5+ velocity at e-1 is about equal to that of H0 at 1.7 R⊙ and significantly larger at 2.1 R⊙. The O5+ in both streamers and coronal holes were found to have anisotropic velocity distributions with the smaller values in the radial direction. 相似文献