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On October 3 and 4, 1986, DSRVAlvin dives encountered a strong current at 2,300 m in South Wilmington Canyon. The current, estimated at 1 knot, transported surficial
sediment and constructed and modified bedforms. It appears to have been constant in its direction of flow from 30 to 40°.
The observed current was probably a burst of fast flow in a region of slow average currents in the Deep Western Boundary Undercurrent.
Such episodic events may have a greater influence on the stratigraphic record than the temporally longer more tranquil flow
conditions. 相似文献
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There is an exceptionally rich aquatic fauna in the epikarst, the skin of karst. High species richness in the epikarst, coupled
with its special vulnerability as the first point of entry of nearly all toxic spills, makes its protection especially important.
The epikarst fauna may also be an useful tool in tracing the potential route of pollutants. Copepods in epikarst have extremely
local distributions, and their body size is such that they are largely at the mercy of directional flows. In a series of caves
in southwest Slovenia and West Virginia, a significant fraction of the copepod species occur in less than 100 m of linear
extent. This suggests a pattern of highly restricted lateral flow under normal conditions and the distribution of copepods
could potentially be used to trace water movement. Under high flow conditions as would often be the case with toxic spill,
mounding of water may increase the lateral radius of flow. Nevertheless, copepods may be useful tracers. 相似文献
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B.P. Horton W.R. Peltier S.J. Culver R. Drummond S.E. Engelhart A.C. Kemp D. Mallinson E.R. Thieler S.R. Riggs D.V. Ames K.H. Thomson 《Quaternary Science Reviews》2009,28(17-18):1725-1736
We have synthesized new and existing relative sea-level (RSL) data to produce a quality-controlled, spatially comprehensive database from the North Carolina coastline. The RSL database consists of 54 sea-level index points that are quantitatively related to an appropriate tide level and assigned an error estimate, and a further 33 limiting dates that confine the maximum and minimum elevations of RSL. The temporal distribution of the index points is very uneven with only five index points older than 4000 cal a BP, but the form of the Holocene sea-level trend is constrained by both terrestrial and marine limiting dates. The data illustrate RSL rapidly rising during the early and mid Holocene from an observed elevation of ?35.7 ± 1.1 m MSL at 11062–10576 cal a BP to ?4.2 m ± 0.4 m MSL at 4240–3592 cal a BP.We restricted comparisons between observations and predictions from the ICE-5G(VM2) with rotational feedback Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) model to the Late Holocene RSL (last 4000 cal a BP) because of the wealth of sea-level data during this time interval. The ICE-5G(VM2) model predicts significant spatial variations in RSL across North Carolina, thus we subdivided the observations into two regions. The model forecasts an increase in the rate of sea-level rise in Region 1 (Albemarle, Currituck, Roanoke, Croatan, and northern Pamlico sounds) compared to Region 2 (southern Pamlico, Core and Bogue sounds, and farther south to Wilmington). The observations show Late Holocene sea-level rising at 1.14 ± 0.03 mm year?1 and 0.82 ± 0.02 mm year?1 in Regions 1 and 2, respectively. The ICE-5G(VM2) predictions capture the general temporal trend of the observations, although there is an apparent misfit for index points older than 2000 cal a BP. It is presently unknown whether these misfits are caused by possible tectonic uplift associated with the mid-Carolina Platform High or a flaw in the GIA model. A comparison of local tide gauge data with the Late Holocene RSL trends from Regions 1 and 2 support the spatial variation in RSL across North Carolina, and imply an additional increase of mean sea level of greater than 2 mm year?1 during the latter half of the 20th century; this is in general agreement with historical tide gauge and satellite altimetry data. 相似文献
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The Ocean Sampling Mobile Network (SAMON) simulator testbed has been developed at Penn State for designing and evaluating multirobot ocean-mapping missions, in realistic underwater environments, prior to in-water testing. The goal in developing the testbed is to enable web-based integration of high-fidelity simulators of heterogeneous autonomous undersea vehicles from multiple organizations and a variety of on-board and fixed sensors in a realistic ocean environment in order to formulate and evaluate intelligent control strategies for mission execution. A formal control language facilitates real-time interactions between heterogeneous autonomous components. A simulation experiment is described that demonstrates multistage inferencing and decision/control strategies for spatio-temporal coordination and multilayered adaptation of group behavior in response to evolving environmental physics or operational dynamics 相似文献
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Summary All of the barium and marginal barium stars in the 1972 MacConnell, Frey, and Upgren (1972: MFU) list of such objects which
are located south of the celestial equator were examined for visual duplicity. Over 200 objects were observed, and a total
of six possible candidates for wide pair visual binaries were found. Of these, four are most likely optical in nature. These
data suggest that the incidence of wide binaries among barium stars is of the order of 1%. 相似文献
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The Marine Physical Laboratory has designed, fabricated, and taken to sea self-contained, freely drifting acoustic sensors which can measure signal propagation and ambient ocean noise in the 1-20-Hz band for up to 25-hour periods. The deployment of several freely drifting floats forms an array of sensors whose outputs can be combined after the experiment with a beamformer. A Kalman filter and a least-squares estimator have been developed to estimate float positions from travel-time measurements. Computer simulation is used to compare filter performance-under several deployment scenarios. Results show that the Kalman filter performs better than the least-squares filter when the floats are subjected to small-magnitude accelerations between measurements. Neither filter was sensitive to relatively major changes in deployment geometry as long as the sound-speed profile is known exactly 相似文献
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Joseph D. Conroy Leon Boegman Hongyan Zhang William J. Edwards David A. Culver 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》2011,73(2):289-304
Calculated hypolimnetic oxygen depletion (HOD) rates depend not only on environmental factors but also logistical ones. In
particular, lack of understanding of the effects of weather in addition to how sampling effort determines calculated HOD rates
complicates ecological understanding and environmental management of lake ecosystems. To better determine the roles of weather
and sampling effort, we combined (1) weekly measurements of temperature and dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations from seven
stations in the Sandusky subbasin of Lake Erie’s central basin during 2005, (2) contemporaneous measures of storm activity
and tributary discharge, and (3) a two-dimensional coupled hydrodynamic, chemical, and biological model of Lake Erie to investigate
(1) how increased storm activity and tributary discharge affected short- (daily) and long-term (seasonal) dynamics of hypolimnetic
hypoxia, and (2) how spatial (number of sites sampled) and temporal (sampling frequency) sampling effort affected calculated
HOD rates. Our model closely replicated field-observed DO dynamics. When comparing baseline modeled dynamics to those in a
second simulation with twice the number of days with high winds, however, we found that with more storm activity (1) periods
of entrainment became more frequent, (2) the hypolimnion was warmer, (3) thermal stratification occurred 1 month later, whereas
autumnal turnover occurred at least 1 week earlier shortening the duration of stratification by 1–2 months, and (4) HOD rates
increased 12%. Further, spatial and temporal sampling intensity also affected calculated HOD rates. Consequently, adequately
quantifying actual HOD rates requires sufficient sampling effort and the particular role of weather should be assessed with
rigorous field and simulation studies, especially if HOD rates are used to indicate management success. 相似文献
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A reassessment of the stratigraphy, structure and metamorphism of the Pan-African Rokelides tectono-thermal belt in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia indicates that the belt developed not as a plate-margin collision orogen but as either an aulacogen or a back-arc basin oblique to the main trend of the West African fold belt. The main southern part of the late Proterozoic to mid-Phanerozoic West African fold belt trends southwestwards via the Koulountou belt of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau into South America, where relics of Pan-African age occur within the Andean cordilleras. 相似文献
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A framework for karst ecohydrology 总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7
Ecohydrology can be defined as the science of integrating hydrological and biological processes over varied spatial and temporal
scales. There exists in karst a strong and direct interaction between the circulation and storage of groundwater and surface
water. These fluxes in turn affect the spatial distribution of organisms in these habitats. Because of the fact that the appearance,
storage and circulation of water in karstified areas is significantly different from other more homogenous and isotropic terrains,
karst ecohydrology should develop original methods and approaches. At the same time, traditional approaches are also very
useful. Large karst underground geomorphological patterns occur in many sizes and varieties, ranging from a few meters long
or deep to very large, the deepest being deeper than 1 km and longer than hundreds of kilometres. In this article, special
attention is paid to ecohydrological functions of karst underground features (caves, pits, conduits, etc.), which play a crucial
dual role in (1) hydrology and hydrogeology of water circulation and storage and (2) ecology of many rare and endangered species.
Differences in morphology, hydrology, hydrogeology and climate have resulted in a range of different environments, which provide
the opportunity for the coexistence of different species. The role of the epikarst and vadose zones, as well as caves in ecohydrological
processes, is discussed. The importance of the flood factor in karst ecology is analysed. The aim of this article is to move
forward the discussion among different disciplines to promote and develop a conceptual framework for karst ecohydrology. 相似文献