Der Wärme- und Wasserdampfhaushalt der freien Atmosphäre

Zusammenfassung Die Zahlenwerte des horizontalen Wärmetransportes durch Großaustausch, die man bisher kennt, sind schwierig zu deuten; insbesondere gilt dies für die Umkehr des meridionalen Stromes in der mittleren Troposphäre. Es wird deshalb ein Verfahren angegeben, aus den Radiosondenaufstiegen eines Stationsdreiecks die Wärmebilanz in der freien Atmosphäre zu bestimmen. Für das Jahr von April 1949 bis März 1950 wird in einem England, die Nordsee und Nordwestdeutschland überdeckenden Gebiet eine Abkühlung der Troposphäre von 0,5°/Tag am Boden, zunehmend auf 1,8°/Tag bei 300 mb gefunden; die Stratosphäre zeigt eine leichte Erwärmung. Über dem Ozeangebiet westlich Englands besteht am Boden Erwärmung von 0,4°/Tag, in 300 mb Abkühlung von 1,3°/Tag. In beiden Gebieten ist der Wärmeentzug größer als nach den bekannten Abschätzungen der Wärmehaushaltsüberschüsse zu erwarten war.Eine ähnliche Bestimmung des Feuchtigkeitshaushaltes erlaubt die Angabe der Differenz Verdunstung minus Niederschlag, die sich für das Nordseegebiet im Jahresmittel negativ, für den Nordostatlantik positiv ergibt; die Jahresgänge beider Gebiete sind nahezu entgegengesetzt. Die Verdunstung selbst hat über der Nordsee das Maximum im Sommer, das Minimum im Spätwinter, über dem NE-Atlantik das Maximum etwa im November, das Minimum im Mai und Juni.

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Summary The numerical values of the horizontal heat transport by large scale mass exchange, as known until now, are difficult to interpret; this is the case particularly for the reversal of the meridional stream in the middle troposphere. Therefore a method is described to determine the heatbalance in the free atmosphere from ascents of radio-sondes in a triangle of stations. A cooling of the troposphere of 0.5°/day at ground, increasing to 1.8°/day at 300 mb, is found in the period from April 1949 to March 1950 in an area covering England, the North Sea and northwestern Germany; the stratosphere shows a slight warming. Above the ocean west of England there is a warming of 0.4°/day at ground and a cooling of 1.3°/day at 300 mb. In both these areas loss of heat is greater than was to be expected from the hitherto known estimates of the balance of thermal economy.A similar determination of the economy of humidity yields the difference between evaporation and precipitation which results, in the annual mean, to be negative for the North Sea area and positive for the northeastern Atlantic Ocean; the annual variation of these two areas is almost contrary. Evaporation over the North Sea has its maximum in summer, its minimum towards the end of winter; over NE-Atlantic maximum is roughly in November, minimum in May and June.

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Résumé Il est difficile d'interpréter les valeurs numériques du transport horizontal de chaleur dû à l'échange turbulent à grande échelle; cela est particulièrement vrai de l'inversion du flux méridien dans la troposphère moyenne. On expose donc ici un procédé capable de déterminer le bilan thermique dans l'atmosphère libre à partir de radiosondages de trois stations. On trouve que d'avril 1949 à mars 1950, dans une région comprenant l'Angleterre, la Mer du Nord et le Nord-Ouest de l'Allemagne, il y a eu refroidissement de la troposphère de 0,5° par jour au sol et atteignant 1,8° par jour au niveau de 300 mb; il y a eu léger réchauffement de la stratosphère. Sur l'Océan à l'Ouest de l'Angleterre, il y a èu au sol un réchauffement de 0,4° par jour et un refroidissement de 1,3° par jour à 300 mb. Dans les deux régions la perte de chaleur est plus grande que ne le voudraient les estimations connues des excédents du bilan thermique.Une détermination analogue de l'humidité fournit la différence entre l'évaporation et les précipitations qui, dans la Mer du Nord, est négative en moyenne annuelle, positive pour le Nord-Est atlantique. Les marches annuelles des deux domaines sont à peu près contraires. L'évaporation présente un maximum en été sur la Mer du Nord et un minimum à la fin de l'hiver; sur le Nord-Est atlantique le maximum est à peu près en novembre et le minimum en mai et juin.

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Beiträge zur Petrographie des Odenwaldes. II.

Ohne ZusammenfassungDer erste Teil dieser Beiträge ist erschienen in den S.ber. Heidelbg. Akad. Wiss. Math.-naturw. Kl., 1941 Abh. 1, unter dem Titel: Schollen und Mischgesteine im Schriesheimer Granit.Der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften vogelegt am 29. Juli 1944.     

Über das Vorkommen des Aluminiums in einer ooidische Eisenerze enthaltenden marinen Schichtfolge

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Equilibrium and structural studies of silicon(iv) and aluminium(iii) in aqueous solution. V. Acidity constants of silicic acid and the ionic product of water in the medium range 0.05–2.0 M Na(CI) at 25°C

The apparent ionization constants for silicic acid, k₁ and k₂, and the ionic product of water, k_w, have been determined in 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4 and 2.0 M Na(CI) media at 25°C. The medium dependence of these constants was found to fit equations of the form

$\text{log}\text{k}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{=}\text{log}\text{K}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{+a}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{I}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>1</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}\text{(1+I}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>1</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}\text{)+b}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{I}$

where K₁ is the ionization constant in pure water, α_i and b_i are parameters of which b_i has been adjusted to present data. The following results were obtained (α_i, b_i): pK₁ = 9.84, (1.022, ?0.11); pK₂ = 13.43, (2.044, ?0.20); and pK_w = 14.01 (1.022, ?0.22). k_i values are collected in Tables I and II. Attempts have been made to explain the medium dependence of k₁ and k₂ with weak sodium silicate complexing according to the equilibria

$\text{Na}{}^{\mathrm{+}}\text{+}\text{SiO(OH)}{}^{\mathrm{?}}{}_3\text{?}\text{NaSiO(OH)}{}_3\text{;k}{}_{11}$

$\text{Na}{}^{\mathrm{+}}\text{+}\text{SiO}{}_2\text{(OH)}{}^2{}_2\text{?}\text{NaSiO}{}_2\text{(HO)}{}^{\mathrm{?}}{}_2\text{; k}{}_{21}$

giving k₁₁ = 0.37M^?1 and k₂₁= 3.0M^?1. However, these weak interactions cannot be interpreted unambiguously from potentiometric data at different 1-levels. Probably the medium dependence could equally well be expressed by variations in the activity coefficients.The measurements were performed as potentiometric titrations using a hydrogen electrode. The average number of OH^- reacted per Si(OH)₄, Z, has been varied within the limits 0 ? Z ? 1.1 and B₁, the total concentration of Si(OH)₄, between 0.001 M and 0.008 M. k₁ was evaluated from experimental data with B ? 0.003 M, and k₂ with B ? 0.008 M and Z ? 0.95.     

Upper cretaceous and paleogene sediments from the Northern Kerguelen Plateau

Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene pelagic sediments sampled from the Northern Kerguelen Plateau during cruise MD35 of theMarion Dufresne are described and correlated with the Late Paleogene sequence drilled at site ODP 737 (Leg 119). Taking into account geophysical data obtained by the cruise MD26, a Lower Cretaceous age is computed for the unsampled acoustic basement. A major tectonic/volcanic event in the Late Paleogene, related to rifting, gave rise to a marked unconformity and hiatus termed the “Acoustic Discordance.” Tertiary sediment facies changes were strongly influenced by the evolution of the Antarctic environment.     

Efficiency of reduced-order, time-dependent adjoint data assimilation approaches

Applications of adjoint data assimilation, which is designed to bring an ocean circulation model into consistency with ocean observations, are computationally demanding. To improve the convergence rate of an optimization, reduced-order optimization methods that reduce the size of the control vector by projecting it onto a limited number of basis functions were suggested. In this paper, we show that such order reduction can indeed speed up the initial convergence rate of an assimilation effort in the eastern subtropical North Atlantic using in situ and satellite data as constraints. However, an improved performance of the optimization was only obtained with a hybrid approach where the optimization is started in a reduced subspace but is continued subsequently using the full control space. In such an experiment about 50% of the computational cost can be saved as compared to the optimization in the full control space. Although several order-reduction approaches seem feasible, the best result was obtained by projecting the control vector onto Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOFs) computed from a set of adjusted control vectors estimated previously from an optimization using the same model configuration.     

2-D and 3-D modelling of wide-angle seismic data: an example from the Vøring volcanic passive margin

This study presents the modelling of 2-D and 3-D wide-angle seismic data acquired on the complex, volcanic passive margin of the Vøring Plateau, off Norway. Three wide-angle seismic profiles were shot and recorded simultaneously by 21 Ocean Bottom Seismometers, yielding a comprehensive 3-D data set, in addition to the three in-line profiles. Coincident multi-channel seismic profiles are used to better constrain the modelling, but the Mesozoic and deeper structures are poorly imaged due to the presence of flood basalts and sills. Velocity modelling reveals an unexpectedly large 30 km basement high hidden below the flood basalt. When interpreted as a 2-D structure, this basement high produces a modelled gravity anomaly in disagreement with the observed gravity. However, both the gravity and the seismic data suggest that the structure varies in all three directions. The modelling of the entire 3-D set of travel times leads to a coherent velocity structure that confirms the basement high; it also shows that the abrupt transition to the slower Cretaceous basin coincides in position and orientation with the fault system forming the Rån Ridge. The positive gravity anomaly over the Rån Ridge originates from the focussed and coincident elevation of the high velocity lower crust and pre-Cretaceous basement. Although the Moho is not constrained by the seismic data, the gravity modelled from the 3-D velocity model shows a better fit along the profiles. This study illustrates the interest of a 3-D acquisition of wide-angle seismic over complex structures and the benefit of the subsequent integrated interpretation of the seismic and gravity data.