Paleomonsoon precipitation deduced from a sediment core from the equatorial Indian Ocean     

M. Tiwari  R. Ramesh  B. L. K. Somayajulu  A. J. T. Jull  G. S. Burr 《Geo-Marine Letters》2006,26(1):23-30

Rapid shifts in past climate recorded in polar ice sheets have elicited various explanations relating to either thermohaline circulation changes by ice-rafting or natural greenhouse gas concentrations modulated by climatic conditions in the tropics. To compare the tropical paleoclimate record with the polar record, one must choose sediment cores from highly productive ocean regions. Necessarily, such regions reflect the wind records in the tropics, because high productivity is associated with upwelling driven by winds. Comparing tropical precipitation records with high-latitude records is, however, a more difficult task because sediments recording paleoprecipitation usually have low sedimentation rates, and offer coarser resolution relative to polar ice cores. Here, we present δ ¹⁸O data of three planktonic species of Foraminifera (a proxy for precipitation) from such a sediment core, spanning the past 35 ka for the equatorial Indian Ocean, which falls under the southwest monsoon (SWM) realm. Results show that minimum SWM precipitation occurred at the Last Glacial Maximum, with a subsequent increase at Termination IA. During the Holocene, SWM precipitation intensified uniformly up to the core top (∼2.2 ka b.p.), as revealed by generally decreasing δ ¹⁸O values. Variations in precipitation are consistent with climate changes recorded in polar ice sheets. Although the different resolutions of the two records preclude a rigorous comparison, abrupt cooling/warming events appear to be accompanied by sudden reduction/enhancement in (SWM) rainfall. Thus, mechanisms with time scales much shorter than a millennium, such as natural greenhouse warming (e.g., CH₄ concentration), controlled by emissions from the tropics, could have played a major role in high-latitude climate change.  相似文献   

Geochemical cycling in the Hooghly estuary, India     

B. L. K. Somayajulu  R. Rengarajan  R. A. Jani 《Marine Chemistry》2002,79(3-4)

U–Th decay series isotopes, δ¹⁸O and Si measurements in the river estuarine waters and sediments of the polluted Hooghly estuary as well as the surface waters of the Bay of Bengal, its high salinity end member, are reported. Dissolved Si indicates that there are probably two mixing regimes, dissolved U behaviour is nonconservative and δ¹⁸O behaves conservatively in the overall estuarine region. Isotopes of reactive elements, viz. ²³⁴Th and ²¹⁰Po, are removed from the estuarine waters in <2 days and <1 month, respectively, which is due to high suspended matter (30–301 mg l⁻¹). ²²⁸Ra and ²²⁶Ra are profusely released into the estuarine waters in the low to mid-salinity regions.As expected, the opposite trend is observed in the case of estuarine sediments and suspended matter. Reactive isotopes of Th, ²¹⁰Pb and ²¹⁰Po are enriched, whereas Ra isotopes are depleted with respect to their parent nuclides in the estuarine sediments and suspended matter. ²³²Th/Al ratio appears well suited to study the distribution and mixing of the bed load sediments of the Ganga–Brahmaputra (G–B) and the Hooghly rivers with those from other rivers on the Bay of Bengal floor.  相似文献   

Radium and lead-210 in marine barite     

D.V Borole  B.L.K Somayajulu 《Marine Chemistry》1977,5(3):291-296

Measurements of ²²⁶Ra and ²¹⁰Pb in barite samples separated from different depths of a piston core from the eastern equatorial Pacific are reported. ²²⁶Ra is enriched in the barite as would be expected from the chemistries of Ra and Ba; the ${}^{226}\text{Ra}\text{Ba}$ ratio centers around 1.5 · 10¹⁴ atoms/mole. The results suggest that barite is concentrating Ra at a rate comparable to its decay rate, viz. 5.78 · 10^?3 yr^?1. The gross ²¹⁰Pb depletion with respect to ²²⁶Ra is indicative of ²²²Rn loss due to the smallness of the barite crystals.  相似文献   

GEOSECS AtlanticSi profiles     

B.L.K. Somayajulu  R. Rengarajan  D. Lal  R.F. Weiss  H. Craig 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1987,85(4)

Measurements of five cosmogenic³²Si vertical profiles in Atlantic waters (27°N to 60°S) are presented. The amounts of dissolved SiO₂ extracted range from 2 to 54 g; the amounts of water from which SiO₂ was extracted range between 540 kg and 270, 000 kg. In additon, SiO₂ recovered from four surface particulate composites (64°N to 61°S) were also analyzed for³²Si.³²Si measurements were made by milking and counting the daughter activity, ³²P. The net³²P activities range from 0.7 to 6.8 cph; typical errors in measurements of the³²P activities are 20–30%.The³²Si concentrations vary from 0.6 dpm/10⁶ kg of water in the North Atlantic surface waters to 235 dpm/10⁶ kg at 400 m depth in the circumpolar waters. The vertical profiles of³²Si at the five Atlantic stations approximately follow the Si profiles but the depth gradients are different. This would be expected also considering the in-situ release mechanisms due to dissolution and advection/diffusion from the bottom waters. Except for the circumpolar station 89, where the Si and³²Si profiles show the effect of marked vertical mixing (nearly depth independent profiles), the profiles show the following features: (1) specific activities of³²Si (³²Si/SiO₂ ratios) are lowest at intermediate depths, and (2) on an average the surface specific activities are higher, by 2–4 times, than the bottom water values. These data are consistent with generation of the highest specific activity³²Si waters at the surface, where Si concentrations are lowest and precipitation adds cosmogenic³²Si scavenged from the troposphere. Rapid removal of biogenic silica to the water-sediment interface, without much dissolution during transit, leads to the second regime of high³²Si specific activities.The³²Si inventories in the water column in the latitude belt 27°N-27°S are in the range (1–1.4) × 10⁻² dpm³²Si/cm², which is consistent with the expected fallout of cosmogenic³²Si. However, the³²Si column inventories south of 40°S are higher by a factor of 5–7, whereas the corresponding Si inventories increase by only a factor of 3. This excess³²Si in the Southern Ocean cannot be explained by direct fallout from the stratosphere or by melting of Antarctic snow and ice. Instead, this excess is maintained primarily by the southward deep-water transport of³²Si dissolved from sinking particulates.  相似文献   

²¹⁰Pb²²⁶Ra: Radioactive disequilibrium in the deep sea     

H. Craig  S. Krishnaswami  B.L.K. Somayajulu 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1973,17(2):295-305

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Incoherent cerenkov radiation and its amplification via the landau instability     

Manoranjan Rao Lalmani  V.V. Somayajulu  B.A.P. Tantry 《Planetary and Space Science》1973,21(6):1076-1079

Quite often the VLF hiss powers recorded by space probes are some orders of magnitude greater than those predicted by the theory of incoherent Cerenkov radiation. In this note we suggest that the wavegrowth via the Landau instability might satisfactorily account for the disparity between the theory and experiment.  相似文献   

Age of Saurashtra miliolites by U-Th decay series methods: possible implications to their origin     

N. Hussain  N. Bhandari  K. R. Ramanathan  B. L. K. Somayajulu 《Journal of Earth System Science》1980,89(1):23-29

The miliolite deposits of Saurashtra have been dated by²³⁴U,²³⁰Th,²³¹Pa and¹⁴C methods. Concordant ages of 10⁵ years using the U decay series isotopes are obtained which agree with the ages of the coral reefs of Okha-Dwaraka coast suggesting a contemporaneous origin for both. The lower¹⁴C ages (≤40,000 years) may be due to a recent influx of seawater or ground water. Quartz and clay minerals together constitute only ≤10% by weight, as such the aeolian characteristics of quartz grains may not be relevant to the origin of the miliolites.  相似文献   

Investigations of gram quantities of Atlantic and Pacific surface particulates     

S. Krishnaswami  D. Lal  B.L.K. Somayajulu 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1976,32(2):403-419

Particulates amounting to 0.1–2.0 g efficiently collected from large volumes of Atlantic and Pacific surface waters have been analyzed for carbonate, opal, quartz and several natural and man-made radioisotopes.The concentrations of particles range between 10 and 600 μg/kg. In the equatorial regions particle concentrations are low and similar in both the oceans. At higher latitudes (>30°N or S), the Atlantic waters, however, have higher concentrations of particles compared to those in the Pacific. The latitudinal distribution exhibits a north-south symmetry with higher concentrations in the 30°–60° belt. Based on the particulate abundance for CaCO₃ and opal and their sedimentation, we have estimated their production and in-situ integrated dissolution rates for a few regions.Radioisotopes having different source functions, namely¹⁴C and²³⁹Pu injected due to nuclear weapon tests,²³⁴Th,²³⁰Th and²²⁸Th produced in-situ in seawater,²³²Th which derives primarily from land,²¹⁰Pb introduced via wet precipitations and²²⁶Ra introduced through diffusion from deep-sea sediments have been measured in the particulates. The relative enrichment factors for these nuclides in particles vary as Th ? Pu > Pb > Ra. The atmospheric bomb fallout pattern is discernible in the surface particulates; the²³⁹Pu concentration increases with latitude in both the hemispheres; however, the values are about a factor of two lower in the southern hemisphere.The distribution pattern of radioisotopes is found to be complex, even for²³⁴Th whose source function in the oceans is uniform. In view of the differences in the source functions it becomes possible to delineate the principal geochemical/geophysical processes which determine the concentrations of these nuclides in surface waters.  相似文献   

Tropospheric disturbance of 17–21 December 1974 and its effect on microwave propagation     

A. P. Mitra  Y. V. Somayajulu  S. P. Singal  S. C. Majumdar  T. R. Tyagi  B. M. Reddy  S. K. Agarwal  B. S. Gera  A. B. Ghosh  S. K. Sarkar 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1977,11(1):103-116

A number of troposphere-monitoring experiments were pressed into service during a large tropospheric disturbance which lasted for several days in December 1974. The experiments operated intensively included a monostatic Sodar system, a satellite radio beacon receiver at very low elevation angles, Meteorological Radiosondes, a 250-kW weather radar, a microwave LOS link and a microbarograph. This multi-pronged campaign yielded very useful results and the correspondences between various observations were striking. The Sodar and microwave link observations were visibly affected only when N reached a value of about –70 units; however, the satellite beacon observations showed anomalous behaviour even for lower N values. Rather spectacular coincidences occurred on one night: the large fading (up to 10 db) in the LOS link; highly disturbed conditions displayed in the entire Sodar range; the largest tropospheric effect on the satellite beacon system; and the most active superrefraction of the radar echoes. It was also noticed that these effects are obvious only during nights, while they remain masked or dampened in the sun-lit hours.  相似文献   

Sea level changes induced by local winds on the west coast of India     

Prakash Mehra  Michael N. Tsimplis  R. G. Prabhudesai  Antony Joseph  Andrew G. P. Shaw  Y. K. Somayajulu  Paolo Cipollini 《Ocean Dynamics》2010,60(4):819-833

The contribution of atmospheric pressure and local wind to sea level variability at Goa (West coast of India) for the period 2007–2008 is investigated. Sea level data from a tide gauge are compared with measured local surface meteorological as well as oceanographic data. Multilinear regression analysis is used to resolve the dependence of sea level on various forcing parameters. The multilinear regression analysis performed over approx. 2-year data shows that the local surface meteorological data and water temperature account for the sea level variability only up to 6%. The accounted sea level variability increases to 25%, when the local wind and the surface currents obtained from satellite altimetry in the near vicinity of the study area are incorporated in the regression analysis. The contribution of local wind increases substantially when the regression is performed over a 2-month duration, and it is variable within the year. During the summer monsoon season (May–September), the sea level variability attributable to wind is up to 47% and 75%, respectively, for 2007 and 2008; however, it reduces to <20% during the winter monsoon (November–February) season. A significant part of the variability observed in sea level remains unaccounted for and is attributed to remote forcing.  相似文献