Über die Vertikalverteilung und jahreszeitliche Entwicklung der Larvendichte vonDreissena polymorpha Pallas im Pelagial des unteren Zürichseebeckens im Jahre 1974

The freshwater musselDreissena polymorpha Pallas was sighted for the first time in Lake Zürich about 1969. This meant a real problem for the water treatment of lake water. By means of a pump and vertical net hauls it was tried to add more information to the scarce results on Lake Zürich. Additional dates about temperature, depth of Secchi disk visibility and beam transmittance were collected. There was a first appearance of the larvae ofD. polymorpha at the beginning of June. Following the mean temperature of the epilimnion the number of individuals/m² reached max. 210,000. The greatest concentration measured in 1974 of larvae/m³ was 54,375 at a depth of 4 m. The last appearance ofD. polymorpha was observed at the end of October.

     

The variation of the blocking temperature in models of thermoremanence (TRM)

The simplest non-interactive forms of Néel's domain-reversal and wall-motion models are examined and the variations of their respective blocking temperatures as functions of applied field and coercivity are compared. Both models show remarkably similar blocking temperature behavior, but the remanence acquisition mechanisms are so different as to produce diametrically opposed results when the Lowrie-Fuller stability criterion is considered. In particular, in low fields the wall-motion model selectively activates high-coercivity fractions while the domain-reversal model favors the low coercivities. This results in the paradox that the wall-motion model predicts behavior experimentally associated with the single-domain and pseudo-single-domain size range while the domain-reversal model predicts behavior usually associated with the large multidomain range. The paradox can be partly resolved within the multidomain model alone, but this would not apply for the smallest grain sizes. Several alternative approaches to the problems of this size range are suggested.     

Amethod of estimating leaf temperatures in a plant community

Summary A method was devised for using profiles of directional long-wave radiation to estimate plant radiating temperatures at any height in a crop. Limited testing of the method was carried out using tubular net radiometers which had one hemisphere covered by a radiation shield equipped with a temperature sensor.The results indicated that, in the absence of solar radiation, profiles of effective radiating temperature in a crop could be obtained to an accuracy of between 0.2 and 0.3°C at any level while day time values were of the order of 0.3 to 0.4°C.

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Eine Methode zur Abschätzung der Blattemperatur in einer Pflanzengemeinschaft

Zusammenfassung Es wurde eine Methode entwickelt, die es erlaubt, die Strahlungstemperatur von Pflanzen in beliebiger Höhe innerhalb eines Bestandes aus Profilen der langwelligen Strahlungsbilanz abzuschätzen. Eine beschränkte Zahl von Versuchen wurde ausgeführt, bei denen zylinderförmige Strahlungsbilanzmesser verwendet wurden, deren eine Hemisphäre durch einen Strahlungsschirm verdeckt war, an dem ein Temperaturmeßgerät angebracht war. Die Resultate zeigen, daß bei fehlender Sonnenstrahlung Profile der effektiven Strahlungs-temperatur in beliebiger Höhe innerhalb eines Bestandes bis zu einer Genauigkeit von 0.2 bis 0.3°C gemessen werden können. Untertags wurden Genauigkeiten von 0.3 bis 0.4° erzielt.

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