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Detection Of An So2 Plume Over Sapporo, Japan From The Eruption Of Mt. Kasatochi Using A Balloon Sounding Technique, Gary A. Morris, Jun Hirokawa, Masatomo Fujiwara, Fumio Hasebe, Keisuke Ishida, Nicholay Krotkov, Mark R. Schoeberl, Walter Komhyr, Barry Lefer, James Flynn Dec 2008

Detection Of An So2 Plume Over Sapporo, Japan From The Eruption Of Mt. Kasatochi Using A Balloon Sounding Technique, Gary A. Morris, Jun Hirokawa, Masatomo Fujiwara, Fumio Hasebe, Keisuke Ishida, Nicholay Krotkov, Mark R. Schoeberl, Walter Komhyr, Barry Lefer, James Flynn

Gary A. Morris

During the month of August 2008, 10 ozonesondes were launched from Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan as part of a study to examine regional pollution during the Olympic period. Seven of these soundings included a second instrument with a filter designed to remove SO2 from the intake air stream. SO2 interferes with the normal chemistry of the electrochemical cell (ECC) method for ozone detection, with the net result being that each molecule of SO2 registers as minus one molecule of O3. Thus the unfiltered sonde reports [O3] - [SO2] while the filtered sonde reports [O3]. Laboratory tests prior to launch …


Geology And Hydrology Of Karst In West-Central And North-Central Florida, Lee J. Florea Aug 2008

Geology And Hydrology Of Karst In West-Central And North-Central Florida, Lee J. Florea

Lee J Florea, PhD, P.G.

The state of Florida is blessed with the highest density of large springs in North America and hundreds of smaller springs where the water from limestone aquifers returns to the surface (Scott et al., 2004). Spectacular underwater caves supply water to these springs. Lesser known are the equally fantastic air-filled caves of Florida and South Georgia (Florea, 2006; Lane, 1986). This paper features these underwater and airfilled caves, explores the impact of changes in sea level on karst in this near-coastal environment, and establishes several geologic and hydrologic characteristics that distinguish karst in the limestones of the southeast from karst …


W(H)Ither Fossils? Studying Morphological Character Evolution In The Age Of Molecular Sequences, Elizabeth J. Hermsen, Jonathan R. Hendricks Mar 2008

W(H)Ither Fossils? Studying Morphological Character Evolution In The Age Of Molecular Sequences, Elizabeth J. Hermsen, Jonathan R. Hendricks

Jonathan R. Hendricks

A major challenge in the post-genomics era will be to integrate molecular sequence data from extant organisms with morphological data from fossil and extant taxa into a single, coherent picture of phylogenetic relationships; only then will these phylogenetic hypotheses be effectively applied to the study of morphological character evolution. At least two analytical approaches to solving this problem have been utilized: (1) simultaneous analysis of molecular sequence and morphological data with fossil taxa included as terminals in the analysis, and (2) the molecular scaffold approach, in which morphological data are analyzed over a molecular backbone (with constraints that force extant …


Radar Imagery Filtering With Use Of The Mathematical Morphology Operations, Przemysław Kupidura, Piotr Koza Jan 2008

Radar Imagery Filtering With Use Of The Mathematical Morphology Operations, Przemysław Kupidura, Piotr Koza

Przemysław Kupidura

This paper concerns the application of mathematical morphology operations for suppression of speckle from radar satellite images. Different traditional widely-used filters are compared with the morphological alternate filters, especially with the filter with multiple structuring function. The comprehensive comparison of the traditional filters is presented, as well as the background on mathematical morphology and morphological filters. Then the evaluation of compared filters applied on TerraSAR-X images is presented.


Wybrane Przykłady Wykorzystania Morfologii Matematycznej W Przetwarzaniu Obrazów W Teledetekcji, Przemysław Kupidura, Jacek Marciniak, Piotr Koza Jan 2008

Wybrane Przykłady Wykorzystania Morfologii Matematycznej W Przetwarzaniu Obrazów W Teledetekcji, Przemysław Kupidura, Jacek Marciniak, Piotr Koza

Przemysław Kupidura

The paper presents the results of the scientific project concerning the application of mathematical morphology in remote sensing. Mathematical morphology has been created in the sixties of the last century by two french scientists: Jean Serra and George Matheron. Since then, the great progress of this discipline leaded to creation of many different operators. Their most important advantage is taking into account such important features of objects in the image as size, shape, texture or neighbourhood. Thanks to that, selected morphological operators are used in digital image processing in many fields, also in remote sensing. However, the analyse shows even …


Visualization Of Groundwater Flow Within Touching-Vug And Matrix Porosity In An Eogenetic Karst Aquifer, Lee J. Florea, Kevin J. Cunningham, Stephen Altobelli Jan 2008

Visualization Of Groundwater Flow Within Touching-Vug And Matrix Porosity In An Eogenetic Karst Aquifer, Lee J. Florea, Kevin J. Cunningham, Stephen Altobelli

Lee J Florea, PhD, P.G.

In this study, we use an innovative, non-invasive technology, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI), to visualize the direction and magnitude of groundwater flow in field samples of late Pleistocene limestone of the Biscayne aquifer. Specific goals of the first set of NMRI experiments are to map the advective velocity of water flowing at two rates of specific discharge (0.00025 and 0.00013 m/s) through a 10-cm-diameter cylindrical, epoxy-resin model. The model interior accurately reproduces a well-connected maze of ichnologically influenced, centimeter-scale, touching-vug macroporosity common within preferred flow zones in parts of the Biscayne aquifer. A second set of NMRI experiments investigates …


Focus Group On Karst Hydrology - Conceptual Models, Aquifer Characterization, And Numerical Modeling, Martin Sauter, Lee J. Florea, Others Jan 2008

Focus Group On Karst Hydrology - Conceptual Models, Aquifer Characterization, And Numerical Modeling, Martin Sauter, Lee J. Florea, Others

Lee J Florea, PhD, P.G.

No abstract provided.


Biogenic Porosity And Its Lattice Boltzmann Method Permeability In The Karst Biscayne Aquifer, Kevin Cunningham, Mike Sukop, Haibo Huang, Pedro Alvarez, Allen Curran, Michael Waker, Lee J. Florea, Robert Renken, Joann F. Dixon Jan 2008

Biogenic Porosity And Its Lattice Boltzmann Method Permeability In The Karst Biscayne Aquifer, Kevin Cunningham, Mike Sukop, Haibo Huang, Pedro Alvarez, Allen Curran, Michael Waker, Lee J. Florea, Robert Renken, Joann F. Dixon

Lee J Florea, PhD, P.G.

No abstract provided.


Climate Change And Freshwater Resources, Noah D. Hall, Bret B. Stuntz, Robert H. Abrams Jan 2008

Climate Change And Freshwater Resources, Noah D. Hall, Bret B. Stuntz, Robert H. Abrams

Noah D Hall

The Earth’s climate is warming. This is the unequivocal conclusion of climate scientists. Despite the complexities of climatology, certain consistent trends emerge with implications for water availability: as the world gets warmer, it will experience increased regional variability in precipitation, with more frequent heavy precipitation events and more susceptibility to drought. These simple facts will have a profound impact on freshwater resources throughout the United States, as the warmer climate will reduce available water supplies and increase water demand. Unfortunately, current water law and policy are not up to the new challenges of climate change and resulting pressures on freshwater …


Wind Deposition Of Mud Aggregates And Their Role In Development Of Lamellae In The Fair Oaks Dunes, Indiana, Zoran Kilibarda, Erin Argyilan, Joseph Blockland Jan 2008

Wind Deposition Of Mud Aggregates And Their Role In Development Of Lamellae In The Fair Oaks Dunes, Indiana, Zoran Kilibarda, Erin Argyilan, Joseph Blockland

Zoran Kilibarda

Three parabolic dunes from the Fair Oaks Dune field in northern Indiana were excavated, in order to study the properties and genesis of lamellae. Reddish lamellae with sharp upper boundaries and diffuse lower boundaries are intercalated with yellowish sand layers within the upper 3–5 m of each dune. The thicknesses of the lamellae decrease from N2 cm in the east (Winamac dune) to b0.3 cm in the west (Shelby dune). In deeper parts of the dunes lamellae were absent, but straight or slightly convex, clay rich depositional laminae were present. Thin sections of lamellae reveal thatmost of the clays are …


Late Triassic To Late Jurassic Evolution Of The Adriatic Carbonate Platform And Budva Basin, Southern Montenegro, Damjan Cadjenovic, Zoran Kilibarda, Novo Radulovic Jan 2008

Late Triassic To Late Jurassic Evolution Of The Adriatic Carbonate Platform And Budva Basin, Southern Montenegro, Damjan Cadjenovic, Zoran Kilibarda, Novo Radulovic

Zoran Kilibarda

Southeastern Montenegro is the only part of the Adriatic Carbonate Platform (AdCP) that bears record of its evolution from a ramp, through a distally steepened ramp to a platform. In this paper we present the sequence stratigraphy of the Late Triassic to Late Jurassic rocks from this part of Tethys for the first time in the literature.We discovered and described three new facies: hardground and cerebroid oolites of the Livari Supersequence, and black pebble conglomerate of the Tejani Supersequence. The mid-ramp and lower ramp cherty oolite, wackestone and mudstone facies of the Livari Supersequence, as well as Oolite Conglomerate facies …


Bench-Scale Disinfection Of Bacteria And Viruses With Pulsed Arc Electrohydraulic Discharge, L H. Lee, A J. Arnold, C A. Santillan, M B. Emelko, Sarah E. Dickson, J. -S Chang Jan 2008

Bench-Scale Disinfection Of Bacteria And Viruses With Pulsed Arc Electrohydraulic Discharge, L H. Lee, A J. Arnold, C A. Santillan, M B. Emelko, Sarah E. Dickson, J. -S Chang

Sarah E Dickson

Pulsed arc electrohydraulic discharge (PAED) offers concurrent treatment of chemical and microbial target compounds in water by several mechanisms. Here, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis spore, and MS2 bacteriophage inactivation by PAED were investigated using two bench-scale reactors (0.7 and 3 L). A plasma channel was created between a pair of iron electrodes set 0.5 mm apart in these reactors. Pulsed applied voltage was supplied at approximately 0.3 kJ/pulse (~100 ìsec). In the 0.7-L reactor, median E. coli, B. subtilis, and MS2 reductions of 2.4-, 4.6-, and 3.7-log, respectively, were observed after approximately 80 seconds of treatment in water with a …


Expansion Of The Discontinuous Gas Phase And Its Effect On Mass Flux From A Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid (Napl) Pool, Kevin G. Mumford, James E. Smith, Sarah E. Dickson Jan 2008

Expansion Of The Discontinuous Gas Phase And Its Effect On Mass Flux From A Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid (Napl) Pool, Kevin G. Mumford, James E. Smith, Sarah E. Dickson

Sarah E Dickson

The partitioning of non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) compounds to a discontinuous gas phase results in the repeated spontaneous expansion, snap-off, and vertical mobilization of the gas phase. This mechanism has the potential to significantly affect the mass transfer processes that control the dissolution of NAPL pools by increasing the vertical transport of NAPL mass and increasing the total mass transfer rate from the surface of the pool. The extent to which this mechanism affects mass transfer from a NAPL pool depends on the rate of expansion and the mass of NAPL compound in the gas phase. This study used well-controlled …


On The Appropriate “Equivalent Aperture” For The Description Of Solute Transport In Single Fractures: Laboratory-Scale Experiments, Qinghuai Zheng, Sarah E. Dickson, Yiping Guo Jan 2008

On The Appropriate “Equivalent Aperture” For The Description Of Solute Transport In Single Fractures: Laboratory-Scale Experiments, Qinghuai Zheng, Sarah E. Dickson, Yiping Guo

Sarah E Dickson

Three distinct definitions of ‘‘equivalent aperture’’ have been used in the literature to describe variable-aperture fractures; however, significant inconsistencies exist in the literature as to which ‘‘equivalent aperture’’ is appropriate for simulating solute transport. In this work, a systematic series of hydraulic and tracer tests was conducted on three laboratory-scale fracture replicas, and the cubic law, mass balance, and frictional loss apertures were calculated. The analytical solution of the one-dimensional advectiondispersion equation was fit to the experimental breakthrough curves. Additionally, one of the experimental aperture fields was measured directly using a light transmission technique. The results clearly demonstrate that the …


Slow Gas Expansion In Saturated Natural Porous Media By Gas Injection And Partitioning With Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids, Kevin G. Mumford, Sarah E. Dickson, James E. Smith Jan 2008

Slow Gas Expansion In Saturated Natural Porous Media By Gas Injection And Partitioning With Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids, Kevin G. Mumford, Sarah E. Dickson, James E. Smith

Sarah E Dickson

The partitioning of volatile non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) compounds to a discontinuous gas phase can result in the expansion of that gas phase, and the resulting gas flow can significantly affect the mass transfer from NAPL source zones. This recently reported gas flow generated by the spontaneous expansion of a discontinuous gas phase has not been extensively characterized in the literature. This study measured the expansion rate of a single gas cluster in a 1.1 mm sand above a pool of trans-1,2-dichloroethene (tDCE) in small-scale flow cell experiments. To characterize the gas flow, gas injection experiments in three sizes of …


Spontaneous Expansion And Mobilization Of Gas Above Dnapl, Kevin G. Mumford Jan 2008

Spontaneous Expansion And Mobilization Of Gas Above Dnapl, Kevin G. Mumford

Sarah E Dickson

No abstract provided.


Climate Change And Carbon Sequestration: Assessing A Liability Regime For Long-Term Storage Of Carbon Dioxide, Alexandra B. Klass, Elizabeth J. Wilson Jan 2008

Climate Change And Carbon Sequestration: Assessing A Liability Regime For Long-Term Storage Of Carbon Dioxide, Alexandra B. Klass, Elizabeth J. Wilson

Alexandra B. Klass

As the nation struggles with how to address climate change, one of the most significant questions is how to reduce increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. One promising technology is carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”), which consists of capturing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and industrial sources and sequestering them in deep geologic formations for long periods of time. Areas for potential CO2 sequestration include oil and gas fields, saline aquifers, and coal seams. As Congress and the private sector begin to spend billions of dollars to research and deploy this technology, there has been insufficient attention …


Important, But Odd And Obscure, Reasons To Use The Library, Maxine G. Schmidt Jan 2008

Important, But Odd And Obscure, Reasons To Use The Library, Maxine G. Schmidt

Maxine G Schmidt

No abstract provided.