A simple model of mass fractionation may explain the isotopic ratios of rare gases in volcanic materials. Single-stage mass fractionation of atmospheric rare gases predicts an upper limit for20Ne/22Ne of 10.3 and a lower limit for40Ar/36Ar of 280. The rare gas data in volcanic materials seem to support this interpretation.Relatively low40Ar/36Ar ratios, as low as 282, have been observed in recent Japanese volcanic rocks. Such a low40Ar/36Ar ratio may be explained by mass fractionation of the atmospheric value if the rare gases represent those which were transported into the magma chamber with other volatile elements.Both the amounts and the fractionated rare gas abundance pattern of lighter elements which are observed in pumices from the recent eruption of Mt. Usu, Southern Hokkaido, Japan, suggest the possibility of air injection into its magma chamber. Thus, the fractionation of rare gases in volcanic materials may be a common occurrence, and it must be considered in models for the origin of isotopic differences between rare gases in volcanic materials and the atmosphere. 相似文献
In several xenolithic ultramafic rocks from the Kola Peninsula, including a magnetic separate, abnormally high40Ar/39Ar ratios persisted at low and high temperatures. The lowest40Ar/39Ar ratio was consistently observed at intermediate temperatures (900–1100°C), indicating an apparent age of 2.8–3.1 b.y.; however, this may not indicate the formation age.The quantity of excess40Ar was estimated at each temperature fraction, adopting ages inferred from published Rb-Sr ages or the minimum40Ar/39Ar age. Excess40Ar is abundantly trapped both in mineral lattices and nonretentive trapping sites, but the trapping sites are different from those of in-situ radiogenic40Ar. The high temperature component of excess40Ar is considered to represent Ar dissolved during mineral formation in the upper mantle or the lower crust.A correlation between the amount of high temperature excess40Ar and36Ar exists for some samples. The40Arexcess/36Ar ratios of the rocks of probable upper mantle or lower crust origin vary from about 10 000 to 35 000, which may suggest large fluctuations of this ratio in the deep interior of the earth. The high value implies that most36Ar was already degassed from the earth's interior at least 2 or 3 b.y. ago. 相似文献
Climate Dynamics - The interannual-decadal variability of the wintertime mixed layer depths (MLDs) over the North Pacific is investigated from an empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of an... 相似文献
Six newly developed floats, which were set to drift on the 26.7 σθ isopycnal surface and to profile temperature, salinity and pressure above 1000 dbar once a week, were deployed in the Oyashio
and Kuroshio Extension (KE) in order to examine the circulation, formation site and time scale of newly formed North Pacific
Intermediate Water (NPIW). The floats were deployed in February or May 2001, and the data from their deployments to December
2002 are analyzed here. Four of the six floats were deployed near the KE axis at around the first meander crest, and they
moved eastward to 157°E–176°W at latitudes of 30°N–45°N. The other two floats deployed in the Oyashio water with low-potential
vorticity near the south coast of Hokkaido moved southward to reach the KE front and then moved eastward to the same region
as the first four floats. The temperature and salinity at 26.7 σθ measured by the profiling floats indicate that the source waters of NPIW, Oyashio and Kuroshio waters are drastically mixed
and modified in the mixed water region west of 160°E. The floats were separated into the three paths east of 160°E between
the Kuroshio Extension front and the north of Water-Mass front (nearly subarctic front). New NPIW is judged to be formed along
these three paths since the vertical profiles of temperature and salinity are quite smooth, having a salinity minimum at about
26.7σθ along each path. Kuroshio-Oyashio isopycnal mixing ratios of the new NPIW are 7:3, 6:4 and 5:5 at 26.7σθ along the southern, middle and northern paths, respectively. Potential vorticity converges to about 14–15 × 10−11 m−1s−1 along these paths. The time scale of new NPIW formation is estimated to be 1–1.5 years from the merger of Oyashio and Kuroshio
waters to the formation of the new NPIW.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
The concentrations of butyltins along the Japanese coastline were investigated from 1997 to 1999, 7 to 9 years after implementation of legislation limiting the use of tributyltin (TBT) in Japan. Seawater was sampled at 0.5 m depth, and Caprella spp. were collected from Sargassum spp. and aquaculture facilities from 18 areas within four broad areas along the coastline of Japan, i.e., the Pacific coast of northern Japan, the coast along the Sea of Japan, Tokyo Bay and adjacent areas, and western Japan. Butyltins (MBT, DBT and TBT) were detected in 32 of the 63 seawater samples with average concentrations of 4.6 ng MBT/l, 4.5 ng DBT/l and 6.8 ng TBT/l, respectively. Butyltin concentrations in seawater from western Japan indicate "hot spots" even in unpopulated areas. Butyltins (MBT, DBT and TBT) were detected in all samples of Caprella spp., varying from 2.3 ng BTs /g wet wt in C. penantis R-type from Tobishima Island in the Sea of Japan to 464 ng BTs /g wet wt in C. decipiens Mayer from Amakusa, western Kyushu. The BT concentrations in Caprella spp. form western Japan were significantly higher than those from other areas, including Tokyo Bay and adjacent areas, where large scale industry and international ports are located. These results indicate that butyltin contamination still remains even in unpopulated areas after the regulation on TBT usage, and that the regulation governing TBT usage since 1990 has not been effective enough to concede recovery of shallow water ecosystems around Japan. 相似文献
The behavior of the isolated vortices over the topographic-is considered with the quasi-geostrophic two-layer model, in the limit of very shallow upper layer, in the absence of planetary-. The results are compared with the observed Kurshio warm-core rings. When a ring drifts southward (northward) relative to the meridional mean current, it radiates (does not radiate) Rossby waves in the lower layer. Even when the lower layer is radiating, the decaying is very slow as long as the ring drifts closely to a background current.Current affiliation (from Feb. 1, 1992): NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000, U.S.A. 相似文献
The mixing processes in the Mixed Water Region (MWR) that lead to changes in the properties of North Pacific Intermediate
Water (NPIW) have been studied using observational data sets obtained in May–June 1998. Neutral surfaces, the equation of
water mass conversion rate on neutral surfaces and the equation of vertical velocity across neutral surfaces have been used
to distinguish dominant processes by assuming the horizontal scale to be the streamer scale (under 100 km). The possibility
of double diffusive convection is also discussed in relation to the density ratio. These results may be summarized as follows:
(1) the difference between the potential density surface and the neutral surface may rise to −0.04 kg/m3 around the source water of NPIW; (2) horizontal diffusion causes strong modifications of the source water of NPIW; (3) the
density range within which strong modification of the source water of NPIW occurs becomes dense from the northern part of
MWR near the Oyashio Front to the southern part near the Kuroshio Front, and to the eastern part. Our modeling of these processes
shows that cabbeling has effects on the density increment of the source water of NPIW in the northern and southern part of
MWR. Double diffusive convection has effects on the density increment of the source water of NPIW, mainly in the northern
part of MWR. The possible density increment due to cabbeling in these areas is estimated to be 0.01≈0.03 kg/m3. The possible density increment due to double diffusive convection is 0.01≈0.03 kg/m3. The total density increment due to cabbeling and double diffusive convection amounts to 0.06 kg/m3.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
Water quality of Osaka Bay is greatly influenced by freshwater discharge from rivers, to the effect of salinity playing a major role in forming the stratification. The tidal front is expected to appear in such an area even in winter considering the theory of the formation of a tidal front. From the field observation, we recognized a tidal front in winter for the first time in Osaka Bay. The critical value of a parameter log(H/U3) for generation of a tidal front is obtained as a function of river discharge and cooling effect through sea surface. Differences of nutrients (NH4–N, PO4–P) concentration across the front are not clear, probably because they are utilized by phytoplankton easily. But in (NO2–N)+(NO3–N), DIN, PP and T–P, there is a discontinuity structure across the front, even if the absolute value of concentration difference is small. 相似文献
Hydrographic structure and transport of intermediate water were observed in the Kuroshio region south of Japan, focusing on
the 26.6–27.5σθ density in six cruises from May 1998 through September 2001. In the section off the Boso Peninsula where the Kuroshio exfoliates
eastward, the intermediate water was clearly clustered into three groups meridionally composed of the coastal water, the Kuroshio
water and the offshore water. Compared with the Kuroshio water characterized by warm, salty water transported by the Kuroshio,
the coastal and offshore waters significantly degenerated due to mixing with cold, fresh waters originated from the subarctic
region: the former was affected by alongshore spread of the coastal Oyashio and the latter by direct intrusion of the new
North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) into the southern side of the Kuroshio current axis. Particularly the offshore water
showed higher apparent oxygen utilization (AOU) in layers deeper than 26.9σθ while it showed lower AOU in layers shallower than 26.9σθ, which indicated that colder, fresher and higher AOU water was distributed on the southeastern side of the Kuroshio in deeper
layers. In May 1998, the Oyashio-Kuroshio mixing ratio was estimated to be typically 2:8 for the offshore water on the assumption
of isopycnal mixing. Moreover, northeastward volume transport of the Kuroshio water was obtained from geostrophic velocity
fields adjusted to lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler (LADCP) data to yield 6.1 Sv at 26.6–26.9σθ and 11.8 Sv at 26.9–27.5 σθ.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
Slope monitoring and early warning systems are a promising approach toward mitigating landslide-induced disasters. Many large-scale sediment disasters result in the destruction of infrastructure and loss of human life. The mitigation of vulnerability to slope and landslide hazards will benefit significantly from early warning alerts. The authors have been developing monitoring technology that uses a micro-electro-mechanical systems tilt sensor array that detects the precursory movement of vulnerable slopes and informs the issuance of emergency caution and warning alerts. In this regard, the determination of alarm thresholds is very important. Although previous studies have investigated the recording of threshold values by an extensometer which installation of an extensometer at appropriate sites is also difficult. The authors prefer tilt sensors and have proposed a novel threshold for the tilt angle, which was validated in this study. This threshold has an interesting similarity to previously reported viscous models. Additionally, multi-point monitoring has recently emerged and allows for many sensors to be deployed at vulnerable slopes without disregarding the slope’s precursory local behavior. With this new technology, the detailed spatial and temporal variation of the behavior of vulnerable slopes can be determined as the displacement proceeds toward failure.