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Links Between Snow Cover, Surface Skin Temperature, And Rainfall Variability In The North American Monsoon System, Toshi Matsui, Venkataraman Lakshmi, Eric Small Jun 2003

Links Between Snow Cover, Surface Skin Temperature, And Rainfall Variability In The North American Monsoon System, Toshi Matsui, Venkataraman Lakshmi, Eric Small

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The influence of land–atmosphere interactions on the variability of the North American monsoon system(NAMS) is investigated using the Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) Operational Vertical Sounder(TOVS) Pathfinder, the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) gauge precipitation, and observed snow water equivalent(SWE). Three hypotheses are tested regarding the connection between land surface variables and precipitationin the NAMS region. First, there is a weak negative correlation between 1 April SWE and subsequent surfacetemperature in the southern Rocky Mountains (SRM) region. However, this connection persists only until Juneand, therefore, cannot directly influence monsoon rainfall in July and August. Second, there is a negativecorrelation between SRM …


Eocene To Miocene Magnetostratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, And Chemostratigraphy At Odp Site 1090 (Sub-Antarctic South Atlantic), J E T Channell, S Galeotti, Ellen E. Martin, K Billups, Howie Scher, J S. Stoner May 2003

Eocene To Miocene Magnetostratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, And Chemostratigraphy At Odp Site 1090 (Sub-Antarctic South Atlantic), J E T Channell, S Galeotti, Ellen E. Martin, K Billups, Howie Scher, J S. Stoner

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At Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1090 (lat 42854.89S, long 8854.09E) locatedin a water depth of 3702 m on the Agulhas Ridge in the sub-Antarctic South Atlantic, ~300 m of middle Eocene to middle Miocenesediments were recovered with the advancedpiston corer (APC) and the extendedcore barrel (XCB). U-channel samplesfrom the 70–230 meters composite depth(mcd) interval provide a magnetic polaritystratigraphy that is extended to 380 mcd byshipboard whole-core and discrete sampledata. The magnetostratigraphy can be interpretedby the fit of the polarity-zone patternto the geomagnetic polarity time scale(GPTS) augmented by isotope data andbioevents with documented correlation tothe GPTS. Three normal-polarity subchrons(C5Dr.1n, C7Ar.1n, …


Influence Of A Cyclonic Eddy On Microheterotroph Biomass And Carbon Export In The Lee Of Hawaii, Robert R. Bidigare, Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson, Carrie L. Leonard, Paul D. Quay, Michael L. Parsons, David G. Foley, Michael P. Seki Mar 2003

Influence Of A Cyclonic Eddy On Microheterotroph Biomass And Carbon Export In The Lee Of Hawaii, Robert R. Bidigare, Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson, Carrie L. Leonard, Paul D. Quay, Michael L. Parsons, David G. Foley, Michael P. Seki

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[1] A multi‐platform sampling strategy was used to investigate carbon cycling in a cold‐core eddy that formed in the lee of Hawaii during September 2000. Microheterotroph biomass and 234Th‐derived carbon export rates within the eddy were 2 to 3 times higher than those observed for adjacent waters. If this eddy is representative of other cyclonic eddies that are frequently formed in the lee of Hawaii, then eddy activity may significantly enhance the areal efficiency of the biological pump and facilitate the transfer of organic carbon to organisms inhabiting the mesopelagic and abyssal‐benthic zones of this subtropical ecosystem.


Probing Tectonic Topography In The Aftermath Of Continental Convergence In Central Europe, S Cloetingh, F Horvath, C Dinu, R A. Stephenson, G Bertotti, G Bada, L Matenco, D Garcia-Castellanos, P Andriessen, R Wortel, W Spakman, V Mocanu, C Langereis, W Krijgsman, J Fokkema, G Drykoningen, B Ambrosius, F Neubauer, L Fodor, T Dunai, E Willingshofer, A Nador, K Leever, M Tarapoanca, I Panea, I Vasiliev, G Paicu, A Van Der Hoven, James H. Knapp, Camelia C. Diaconescu, St Freimueller Mar 2003

Probing Tectonic Topography In The Aftermath Of Continental Convergence In Central Europe, S Cloetingh, F Horvath, C Dinu, R A. Stephenson, G Bertotti, G Bada, L Matenco, D Garcia-Castellanos, P Andriessen, R Wortel, W Spakman, V Mocanu, C Langereis, W Krijgsman, J Fokkema, G Drykoningen, B Ambrosius, F Neubauer, L Fodor, T Dunai, E Willingshofer, A Nador, K Leever, M Tarapoanca, I Panea, I Vasiliev, G Paicu, A Van Der Hoven, James H. Knapp, Camelia C. Diaconescu, St Freimueller

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Continental topography is at the interface of processes taking place at depth in the Earth,at its surface,and above it.Topography influences society, not only in terms of slow processes of landscape change and earthquakes,but also in terms of how it affects climate.The Pannonian Basin–Carpathian Orogen System in Central and Eastern Europe represents a key natural laboratory for the development of a new generation of models for ongoing orogeny and its effect on continental topography development (Figure 1).This system comprises some of the best documented sedimentary basins in the world,located within the Alpine orogenic belt, at the transition between the western European …


Magmatic Subsidence Of The East Pacific Rise (Epr) At 18˚14'S Revealed Through Fault Restoration Of Ridge Crest Bathymetry, S M. Carbotte, William B F Ryan, Wen Jin, Marie-Helene Cormier, Eric Bergmanis, John Sinton, Scott M. White Jan 2003

Magmatic Subsidence Of The East Pacific Rise (Epr) At 18˚14'S Revealed Through Fault Restoration Of Ridge Crest Bathymetry, S M. Carbotte, William B F Ryan, Wen Jin, Marie-Helene Cormier, Eric Bergmanis, John Sinton, Scott M. White

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The fault restoration technique of De Chabalier and Avouac [1994] is applied to an ultra-highresolution bathymetry data set from the East Pacific Rise (EPR) at 18140S. Fault offsets are calculated and subtracted from the original seafloor bathymetry to examine the morphology of the unfaulted seafloor surface within an area encompassing the ridge axis 400 [1] 1600 m in dimension. The restored topography reveals a gently sloping seafloor 200 m wide, which slopes 5 inward toward the spreading axis. We attribute this inward sloping seafloor to subsidence within the axial trough due to subsurface magmatic deflation. The vertical deformation field extracted …


Methods And Models For Estimating Advective Pore Water Exchange In Tidal Flats, Timothy J. Shaw Jan 2003

Methods And Models For Estimating Advective Pore Water Exchange In Tidal Flats, Timothy J. Shaw

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