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Long-period fluctuations in ionospheric absorption and their relation with planetary activity in the stratosphere

Summary By investigating the quasi-regular variations in ionospheric absorption along three distant radio paths with approximately one and the same equivalent frequency during the winters 1983/84 and 1984/85, an attempt is made to study the stratospheric-mesospheric relations at typical geographic mid latitudes. It is shown that the quasi-regular oscillations of ionospheric absorption, investigated in this paper, reach maximum development in each time series at one and the same time. This means, that if they are provoked by an external source when it starts acting, a spectrum of frequencies is generated rather than a definite fixed frequency. By studying the variation of the instantaneous amplitudes of the quasi-regular oscillations in ionospheric absorption with time, their connection with the amplification of the quasi-stationary planetary waves in the stratosphere with a zonal wave number 2 during the winter periods under investigation is shown.

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Subsidence of Surtsey volcano, 1967–1991

The Surtsey marine volcano was built on the southern insular shelf of Iceland, along the seaward extension of the east volcanic zone, during episodic explosive and effusive activity from 1963 to 1967. A 1600-m-long, east-west line of 42 bench marks was established across the island shortly after volcanic activity stopped. From 1967 to 1991 a series of leveling surveys measured the relative elevation of the original bench marks, as well as additional bench marks installed in 1979, 1982 and 1985. Concurrent measurements were made of water levels in a pit dug on the north coast, in a drill hole, and along the coastline exposed to the open ocean. These surveys indicate that the dominant vertical movement of Surtsey is a general subsidence of about 1.1±0.3 m during the 24-year period of observations. The rate of subsidence decreased from 15–20 cm/year for 1967–1968 to 1–2 cm/year in 1991. Greatest subsidence is centered about the eastern vent area. Through 1970, subsidence was locally greatest where the lava plain is thinnest, adjacent to the flanks of the eastern tephra cone. From 1982 onward, the region closest to the hydrothermal zone, which is best developed in the vicinity of the eastern vent, began showing less subsidence relative to the rest of the surveyed bench marks. The general subsidence of the island probably results from compaction of the volcanic material comprising Surtsey, compaction of the sea-floor sediments underlying the island, and possibly downwarping of the lithosphere due to the laod of Surtsey. The more localized early downwarping near the eastern tephra cone is apparently due to greater compaction of tephra relative to lava. The later diminished local subsidence near the hydrothermal zone is probably due to a minor volume increase caused by hydrous alteration of glassy tephra. However, this volume increase is concentrated at depth beneath the bottom of the 176-m-deep cased drillhole.     

Non-hydrostatic model of airflow over irregular topography — Theoretical bases

Summary This article deals with some problems connected with the formulation of a non-hydrostatic mesoscale model of airflow in the atmosphere. Due to an irregular surface a terrain-following coordinate system is used and the equations of the model are transformed into this system. Sound waves are eliminated by the use of the anelastic approximation. The influence of boundaries is minimized by the use of open boundary conditions at the lateral boundaries of the computational domain and of the absorbing layer beneath the upper boundary.     

A possible rotation period for the minor planet 164 Eva

The minor planet 164 Eva passed through opposition on December 1, 1975 with a magnitude B_opp = 11.3 mag. Photoelectric observations at the Observatory of Torino, Italy, were carried out in two nights on Oct. 27/28 and Nov. 11, each with a run of about 3 hr. Two further successful photoelectric observations were carried out at the OHP, France, each with a run of about 6 hr. From all observed parts of the lightcurve a resulting synodic period of rotation of about 27.3 hr can be deduced, with a range of the total amplitude of at least Δm = 0.07 mag. With this period of 27.3 hr the minor planet 164 Eva is one more long period object, falling now between 654 Zelinda (H. J. Schober, 1975, Astron. Astrophys.44, 85–89) and 139 Juewa (J. Goguen et al., 1976, Icarus29, 137–142), at the high end in the histogram of the distribution of minor planet rotation periods.     

An upper‐ocean general circulation model for the north pacific: Preliminary experiments

Abstract

A model with two active layers, a mixed layer and a pycnocline layer, over a semipassive deep ocean is described. The model is used to simulate a climatological seasonal cycle in the upper North Pacific. The formulation is similar to that in Cherniawsky et al. (1990). The model resolution is 1° latitude by 1.5° longitude, extending from 62°N to the equator. It is driven with monthly wind stress (Hellerman and Rosenstein, 1983) and with Newtonian heat and freshwater fluxes, which were inferred from climatological (Levitus, 1982) sea‐surface monthly temperatures and annual mean salinities. The monthly temperature anomalies (without the annual mean) are multiplied by a prescribed gain factor and advanced in time, compensating for time delay in the response of the mixed layer. No‐slip and no‐flux constraints are applied on north, east, west and land boundaries, while the following open boundary conditions are used at the equator: (a) free‐slip on zonal velocities in the two layers; (b) a prescribed meridional transport, due to local curl of the wind stress, in the mixed layer; (c) an antisymmetric meridional velocity plus a small flux‐balancing term in the second layer; and (d) across‐equator symmetry for layer depths, temperatures and salinities. Sensitivity to two aspects of parametrization is investigated: (1) the change to horizontal diffusion/viscosity coefficients that depend on the velocity deformation field (as in Smagorinsky, 1963), and (2) the use of idealized piecewise‐linear profiles for second‐layer temperatures and salinities for calculating mixed layer entrainment fluxes.     

Numerical Modeling and Observations of Tsunami Waves in Alberni Inlet and Barkley Sound, British Columbia

Alberni Inlet is a long and narrow fjord adjacent to Barkley Sound on the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. Port Alberni, at the head of the inlet, was affected in 1964 by the largest Pacific tsunami waves in Canadian history. We use observations and results from two numerical models to investigate the resonant characteristics of the region and amplification of tsunami waves in Barkley Sound and Alberni Inlet. The first model (A) was forced at its open boundary with a stationary autoregressive signal, similar to the observed background noise. The second model (B) used an initial sea-level deformation from a potential earthquake off California in the southern segment of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, producing transient tsunami waves. Spectral, cross-spectral and frequency-time (f-t) analyses of the observations were used to examine the resonant properties and topographic response of the local area. The respective results show large admittance functions over a wide 0.5–0.9 cph frequency band, implying a low Q factor but high amplification of arriving waves. This unusual behavior is a result of two effects: A quarter-wave resonance of the system for its fundamental Helmholtz mode and amplification due to the narrowing of the channel cross section from Barkley Sound to Alberni Inlet. The model A numerical results agree favorably with the observations, indicating an energetic resonant mode at frequency of ~0.53 cph (112 min), with its nodal line located near the entrance to Barkley Sound and amplification factor value close to 12. The results from the tsunami propagation model (B) yield spectral characteristics similar to those from the model A and from the observations. The maximum tsunami current speed for this scenario is 2.4 ms^?1 in Sproat Narrows, which divides Alberni Inlet into two parts, while the largest computed wave height is 1.6 m in the northern Alberni Inlet, in the area of Port Alberni.     

从极化区的功能探讨长江三角洲的扩展范围

极化区作为一种具有全球意义的区域发展模式和空间组合形式,日益成为集聚经济要素和支配国家乃至全球经济命脉的巨大载体,承担着引领国家经济发展、参与世界竞争的功能.长江三角洲地区经过了近30年的高速发展,已经初具极化区的特征.但是,与其它世界级极化区相比,长江三角洲地区整体实力和带动能力仍然不足,国际竞争力还很有限.通过扩展极化区范围,可以扩大长江三角洲核心地区的腹地,缓解极化区资源环境瓶颈约束.关于长江三角洲地区的合理范围,各界意见纷纭,争论较多.基于"长三角"作为世界极化区的要求,从极化氏的科学概念、条件和以提高国际竞争力、完善极化区功能的目标出发,通过区域内城市之间的功能互补和经济联系分析,结合区域一体化的现实性,研究了扩大"长三角"的合理范围,得出了应把温州、金华、盐城、淮安、马鞍山、芜湖、铜陵、巢湖、合肥、滁州、宣城等城市作为扩展优先选择区,把宿迁、徐州、连云港、丽水、衢州、池州、安庆、蚌埠、黄山、宿州等城市作为扩展保留资格区,从而把长江三角洲地区从16个城市逐步扩大到37个城市的结论.     

The Western Bohemia/Vogtland Region in the Light of the Webnet Network

The local network of digital seismic stations WEBNET monitors the seismic activitv of practically the whole region of Western Bohemia/Vogtland swarms. The network consists of ten short-period stations and one very broadband station. The paper describes the configuration of the network, instrumental equipment and the basic parameters of the stations. The method of and formula for computing the local magnitudes from the WEBNET and KRASLICE seismograms are also given. Based on continuous WEBNET observations in the period 1995-1999, we were able to improve the model of temporal and spatial energy release in the region, the principal characteristics of which are summarised in the paper. Apart from direct P and S waves, the WEBNET seismograms also contain other significant P- and S-type waves, provisionally interpreted as reflected PxP, SxS and SxP waves. The fundamental characteristics of these waves are given in the paper, and tentative mechanisms of their origination are discussed. The large residua in the travel times of the P and S waves, and the discrepancies in the seismograms recorded at stations located east of the principal focal zone are pointed out.