Ein neues Gerät für störungsfreie meteorologische Messungen auf dem Meer

Zusammenfassung Die Bedeutung ungestörter meteorologischer Beobachtungen auf offener See wird erörtert und die Anforderungen an den dafür notwendigen Instrumententräger werden fixiert. Die konstruktive Lösung wird geschildert: 2,5 m hoher Schwimmkörper, etwa elliptischer Querschnitt (Längsachse des Querschnitts in allen Höhen 1,5 m, Querachse an der Oberfläche 1 m, unten 0,5 m), mit (auf 7,5 m Tiefgang) ausfahrbarem Stabilisierungsgewicht von 500 kg, Leitflossen, Dämpfungsplatten und Handwinde zum Fieren des Gewichtes; 9 m langer Aluminiummast mit waagrechten Spieren zur Gerätehalterung. Eigenschwingungsperiode der Apparatur ist etwa 10 sec.Bei mehreren mehrwöchigen Einsätzen bis Windstärke 6 anläßlich von Messungen der Wind-, Temperatur- und Feuchteschichtung in der maritimen Grenzschicht der Atmosphäre zeigte das Gerät (auf der Deutschen Bucht und Ostsee) maximale Schwankungen des Mastes von 10° und Vertikalbewegungen von ±25 cm, es folgte dem Wellengang auch bei kurzen Wellen gut. Die Apparatur wird vom Forschungsschiff geschleppt, Messungen geschehen (über Kabel) im Treiben, wobei das Gerät sich (etwa 50 m entfernt) automatisch in Luv des Schiffes legt. Man erhält so ungestörte Messungen.Beispiele für die Windabhängigkeit der Driftgeschwindigkeit des Systems Forschungsschiff-Meßboje (relativ zur Wasseroberfläche) und für die Windgeschwindigkeitsunterschiede in derselben Höhe am Forschungsschiff und an der Tonne (als Beispiel für die Größe der Schiffsstörung) werden mitgeteilt. Ein charakteristisches Viertelstundenprofil von Windgeschwindigkeit, Lufttemperatur und Luftfeuchtigkeit zwischen 0,8 und 16 m Wasserabstand wird gezeigt.

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Summary The importance of undisturbed meteorological observations on the open sea is discussed and the requirements for an adequate instrument buoy are specified. The constructive solution is as follows: a floater 2,5 m high, approximately elliptical cross section (longer axis of the cross section at all heights 1,5m, transverse axis on the surface 1 m, below 0,5 m) with a stabilizing weight of 500 kg, movable (to 7,5 m draught), guiding fins, damping plates, and windlass for hoisting the weight; mast of aluminium 9 m long, with horizontal spars on which the instruments are fixed. Characteristic period of the apparatus about 10 sec.It was used (in the German Bay and in the Baltic Sea) at various times for several weeks up to wind-force 6 for measuring wind, temperature, and humidity distributions in the maritime boundary layer of the atmosphere and it showed maximum oscillations of the mast of 10 degrees and vertical movements of ±25 cm, following well the wave motion even with short waves. The instrument buoy is trailed by the research ship, measurements are carried out (by cable) in drifting while the buoy places itself automatically on the windward side of the ship (at a distance of about 50 m). In this way undisturbed measurements were obtained.Examples are communicated showing the influence of the wind on the drifting velocity of the system research ship — instrument buoy (relative to the water surface) and the difference of wind velocity at the same height at the ship and the buoy (from which the disturbing influence of the ship can be seen). A characteristic quarter-hour profile of wind velocity, air temperature, and air humidity between the levels 0,8 m and 16 m above water is given.

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Résumé Considérant l'importance de mesures météorologiques exemptes d'erreurs en haute mer, l'auteur a développé un support à instruments adéquat dont les caractéristiques sont les suivantes: flotteur de 2,5 m. de haut à section elliptique, muni d'une dérive escamotable de 500 kg. et de 7,5 m. de tirant d'eau; gouverhails, ailerons amortisseurs et treuil; mât d'aluminium de 9 m. muni de petites vergues à instruments. La période propre de l'engin est de 10 s. env.Lors d'essais dans la baie d'Helgoland et en mer Baltique par vent de force 6 en vue de mesures de vent, de température et d'humidité de la couche limite au-dessus de l'eau, le mât de l'engin a oscillé de 10 degrés et les déplacement verticaux furent de ±25 cm.; le flotteur suit la houle, même par vagues courtes. L'engin est remorqué par le bateau explorateur et les mesures se font en dérive; distant d'environ 50 m. de son remorqueur, le flotteur se place automatiquement au vent du bateau ce qui assure des mesures correctes.L'effet perturbateur du remorqueur ressort d'exemples illustrant comment la vitesse du système bateau-flotteur dépend du vent et montrant les différences de vitesse du vent au même niveau sur l'un et sur l'autre. Un profil caracteristique d'un quart d'heure de la vitesse du vent, de la température et de l'humidité de l'air entre 0,8 et 16 m. au-dessus de l'eau est montré.

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Das Gondwana-Inlandeis in Südbrasilien

Zusammenfassung Entgegen den früheren Annahmen wird gezeigt, daß das südbrasilianische Gondwana-Inlandeis vom Süden (Riograndensischer Schild) stammt. Die mächtige, weder durch Glazialstauchungen noch durch glaziale oder interglaziale Erosion gestörte und unterbrochene Ablagerungsfolge, die damit ein vom europäischen Glazialdiluvium völlig abweichendes Verhalten zeigt, ist dadurch bedingt, daß das Eis in ein weiträumiges, fortschreitende epirogene Absenkung zeigendes Becken hineinfloß.Mit Unterstützung des Conselho Nacional d. Pesquisas, Rio de Janeiro.     

Exploring socio-hydrological determinants of crop yield in under-performing irrigation schemes: pathways for sustainable intensification

ABSTRACT

Understanding the human–water–food–climate nexus is central to achieving sustainable intensification (SI) in agriculture. This research uses a socio-hydrological approach to understand the underpinning for implementing SI in the Gezira Irrigation Scheme, Sudan, by integrating vegetation indices derived from remote sensing, ancillary, gridded soil and precipitation data, supplemented by interviews with 393 farmers. The productivity gap was estimated as the difference between the potential and actual productivities. Based upon data on farmers’ socio-economic status and field practices, a regression tree model was built to determine the factors that control the sorghum yield. The model revealed that the financial status of farmers and access to water are the most influential factors on sorghum yield. A conceptual framework that elucidates SI and its bi-directional feedback to the environment, society and the economy is proposed. Implementing SI in the scheme has implications on water and food security in Sudan and beyond its borders.     

Narrow-band photometry and the stellar populations in elliptical galaxies

The modified Strömgrenuvby filter system, which has been used to investigate the spectrophotometric evolution of elliptical galaxies, is also found to be a powerful tool for the determination of stellar parameters in elliptical galaxies, especially metal content and the stellar type of the dominant population. We present an introduction to the behaviour of the filter system based on comparison to stellar libraries and then explore the results with respect to composite systems: globular clusters, spirals, and ellipticals.Paper presented at the 11th European Regional Astronomical Meetings of the IAU on New Windows to the Universe, held 3–8 July, 1989, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.     

Platform-induced clay-mineral fractionation along a northern Tethyan basin-platform transect: implications for the interpretation of Early Cretaceous climate change (Late Hauterivian-Early Aptian)

High-resolution clay-mineral analyses were performed on upper Hauterivian to lower Aptian sediments along a platform-to-basin transect through the northern Tethyan margin from the Neuchâtel area (Switzerland), to the Vocontian Trough (France) in order to investigate links between climate change, carbonate platform evolution, and fractionation patterns in clay minerals during their transport.During the Hauterivian, the northern Tethyan carbonate platform developed in a heterozoan mode, and the associated ramp-like topography facilitated the export of detrital material into the adjacent basin, where clay-mineral assemblages are dominated by smectite and kaolinite is almost absent, thereby suggesting dry-seasonal conditions. During the Late Hauterivian Balearites balearis ammonite zone, a change to a more humid climate is documented by the appearance of kaolinite, which reaches up to 30% of the clay fraction in sediments in the Vocontian Trough. This prominent change just preceded the Faraoni Oceanic Anoxic Event and the onset of the demise of the Helvetic Carbonate Platform, which lasted to the late early Barremian.From the Late Barremian onwards, the renewed growth of the northern Tethyan carbonate platform in a photozoan mode and the associated development of a marginally confined platform topography fractionated the clay-mineral assemblages exported into hemipelagic settings: kaolinite particles were preferentially retained in proximal, platform settings, due to their size and their relatively high specific weight. In the inner platform environment preserved in the Swiss Jura, an average of 32% of kaolinite in the clay fraction is observed during the latest Barremian–earliest Aptian, whereas clay-mineral assemblages of coeval sediments from deeper depositional settings are dominated by smectite and show only minor amounts of kaolinite.This signifies that besides palaeoclimate conditions, the morphology and ecology of the carbonate platform had a significant effect on the distribution and composition of clay assemblages during the Late Hauterivian–Early Aptian along the northern Tethyan margin.     

Defining a Digital Earth System

In a 1998 speech before the California Science Center in Los Angeles, then US Vice‐President Al Gore called for a global undertaking to build a multi‐faceted computing system for education and research, which he termed “Digital Earth.” The vision was that of a system providing access to what is known about the planet and its inhabitants’ activities – currently and for any time in history – via responses to queries and exploratory tools. Furthermore, it would accommodate modeling extensions for predicting future conditions. Organized efforts towards realizing that vision have diminished significantly since 2001, but progress on key requisites has been made. As the 10 year anniversary of that influential speech approaches, we re‐examine it from the perspective of a systematic software design process and find the envisioned system to be in many respects inclusive of concepts of distributed geolibraries and digital atlases. A preliminary definition for a particular digital earth system as: “a comprehensive, distributed geographic information and knowledge organization system,” is offered and discussed. We suggest that resumption of earlier design and focused research efforts can and should be undertaken, and may prove a worthwhile “Grand Challenge” for the GIScience community.     

Potential forest fire danger over Northern Eurasia: Changes during the 20th century

Significant climatic changes over Northern Eurasia during the 20th century have been reflected in numerous variables of economic, social, and ecological interest, including the natural frequency of forest fires. For the former USSR, we are now using the Global Daily Climatology Network and a new Global Synoptic Data Network archive, GSDN, created jointly by U.S. National Climatic Data Center and Russian Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information. Data from these archives (approximately 1500 of them having sufficiently long meteorological time series suitable for participation in our analyses) are employed to estimate systematic changes in indices used in the United States and Russia to assess potential forest fire danger. We use four indices: (1) Keetch–Byram Drought Index, (KBDI; this index was developed and widely used in the United States); (2) Nesterov, (3) Modified Nesterov, and (4) Zhdanko Indices (these indices were developed and widely used in Russia). Analyses show that after calibration, time series of the days with increased potential forest fire danger constructed using each of these three indices (a) are well correlated and (b) deliver similar conclusions about systematic changes in the weather conditions conducive to forest fires. Specifically, over the Eastern half of Northern Eurasia (Siberia and the Russian Far East) statistically significant increases in indices that characterize the weather conditions conducive to forest fires were found. These areas coincide with the areas of most significant warming during the past several decades south of the Arctic Circle. West of the Ural Mountains, the same indices show a steady decrease in the frequency of “dry weather summer days” during the past 60 yr. This study is corroborated with available statistics of forest fires and with observed changes in drought statistics in agricultural regions of Northern Eurasia.     

Improved normalization of time‐lapse seismic data using normalized root mean square repeatability data to improve automatic production and seismic history matching in the Nelson field

Updating of reservoir models by history matching of 4D seismic data along with production data gives us a better understanding of changes to the reservoir, reduces risk in forecasting and leads to better management decisions. This process of seismic history matching requires an accurate representation of predicted and observed data so that they can be compared quantitatively when using automated inversion. Observed seismic data is often obtained as a relative measure of the reservoir state or its change, however. The data, usually attribute maps, need to be calibrated to be compared to predictions. In this paper we describe an alternative approach where we normalize the data by scaling to the model data in regions where predictions are good. To remove measurements of high uncertainty and make normalization more effective, we use a measure of repeatability of the monitor surveys to filter the observed time‐lapse data. We apply this approach to the Nelson field. We normalize the 4D signature based on deriving a least squares regression equation between the observed and synthetic data which consist of attributes representing measured acoustic impedances and predictions from the model. Two regression equations are derived as part of the analysis. For one, the whole 4D signature map of the reservoir is used while in the second, 4D seismic data is used from the vicinity of wells with a good production match. The repeatability of time‐lapse seismic data is assessed using the normalized root mean square of measurements outside of the reservoir. Where normalized root mean square is high, observations and predictions are ignored. Net: gross and permeability are modified to improve the match. The best results are obtained by using the normalized root mean square filtered maps of the 4D signature which better constrain normalization. The misfit of the first six years of history data is reduced by 55 per cent while the forecast of the following three years is reduced by 29 per cent. The well based normalization uses fewer data when repeatability is used as a filter and the result is poorer. The value of seismic data is demonstrated from production matching only where the history and forecast misfit reductions are 45% and 20% respectively while the seismic misfit increases by 5%. In the best case using seismic data, it dropped by 6%. We conclude that normalization with repeatability based filtering is a useful approach in the absence of full calibration and improves the reliability of seismic data.