Explanation of the internal air pressure effect on the worden gravity meter dial constant

Summary A model, explaining the effect of air pressure changes in the space of the measuring system on the fine dial counter constant of the Worden and similar gravity meters, is presented. It is based on the changes of the bellows volume with compensating the gravity changes. It is shown that the resetting the gravity meter in the whole range has practically no influence on the fine dial counter constant.

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Provision,transport and deposition of debris in urban waterways

The transport of woody debris from urban surfaces,through local urban waterways,to constriction and blockage risk locations is not well understood.Flume trials have identified debris and watercourse dimensions as influential factors on debris movement,and large woody debris movement has been traced in the natural rural environment using time series photography,active transponders,and field surveys.Using novel passive transponder technology,small woody debris has been traced through an urban case study watercourse to establish key influential factors on urban debris transport.Through incorporating urban debris transport detail into the source and deposition process,a complete picture of urban debris transport can be created,supporting effective culvert and trash screen design,watercourse maintenance and blockage risk assessment.This case study highlights that factors beyond watercourse depth and velocity are influential in debris movement within an urban watercourse.Debris dimension and source location upstream are shown to significantly affect the potential for debris to reach a downstream constriction,illustrating a possible distance limitation in nuisance flow debris blockage risk.     

Insights into the structure of the Wyville Thomson Ridge overflow current from a fine-scale numerical model

One of the major pathways in the northern part of the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) is that of the deep water in the Nordic Seas that runs through the Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC) and Faroe Bank Channel (FBC), as well as crossing the Wyville Thomson Ridge (WTR), on its way into the Atlantic Ocean. The WTR overflow cascades down the southern side of the ridge via the narrow Ellett Gully to the Cirolana Deep (CD) which, at 1700 m, is the deepest hole in the extreme north of the Rockall Trough. The overflow accounts for nearly 1/10th of the total Faroe-Shetland Channel Bottom Water (FSCBW) discharged through the Faroese channels and is an important intermediate water mass in the Rockall Trough. Over a period of only seven days in April 2003 bottom water temperatures cooled dramatically, from 4.46 to 3.03 °C in the CD and from 3.93 to 2.54 °C in the Ymir Trough (YT). A numerical general circulation model (MITgcm) has been applied in order to reproduce the details of this dense water overflow event. Model results were consistent with the observed cooling and total water transport. It was found that the descending gravity current forms a pair of mesoscale eddies with cyclonic and anticyclonic vorticity at the exit to the CD. Analysis of mixing processes were obtained when a passive tracer was included in the model. It was found that downstream flow is characterized by an explosive detrainment regime in the CD. The model sensitivity runs revealed that the final depth to which the overflow descends depends on the initial upstream velocity of the overflow, as well as the buoyancy difference. It is argued that models of overflows need to have realistic representations of the density structure of the overflow, and sufficiently fine vertical resolution, for the subsequent fate of the overflow to be accurately represented.     

Late-Pleistocene tidewater glaciers and glaciomarine sequences from north County Mayo,Republic of Ireland

Late-Pleistocene deposits in north County Mayo were deposited in three main glacigenic environments. 1. Drumlins and basal tills were formed when ice moved from the Irish lowlands and local mountain catchments into Donegal Bay. 2. Gilbert-type deltas accumulated up to 80m I.O.D. on the lowlands and subaqueous moraines formed across minor valleys when marine-based ice grounded inland. 3. A thick drape of fossiliferous glaciomarine mud along the coastal fringe was deposited from meltwater plumes and by ice-rafting immediately outside of these ice limits. The muds contain an Elphidium clavatum-dominated, low-diversity microfauna which is characteristic of cold-water conditions adjacent to glacier termini. Valves of Macoma calcarea from the mud have been ¹⁴C dated at 16940 ± 120 and 17300 ± 100 BP. The high-level delta complex was deposited from tidewater glaciers in a peripheral depression adjacent to the drumlin ice limits of north County Mayo. Although the field evidence cannot be used to determine former sea level history with any accuracy, it poses general problems for sea level history and isostatic effects of the last major ice sheet in the west of Ireland. Raised glaciomarine sequences commonly occur in close association with drumlin ice limits elsewhere in Ireland and represent marine transgressions prior to glacial unloading. It is suggested that the magnitudes and patterns of crustal depression are greater and geometrically more complex at the margins of ice sheets in Ireland than hitherto realised.     

12-μm fine-structure emission line and continuum images of G333.6–0.2

We present high spatial resolution (∼0.8 arcsec) diffraction-limited 12.8-μm Ne  ii fine-structure emission line and 12.5-μm continuum images of the bright southern compact H  ii region G333.6–0.2, taken with the mid-infrared imaging polarimeter NIMPOL. The two images show remarkably similar, compact, yet asymmetric, flux distributions. The [Ne  ii ] image shows a complex structure near the ionizing source(s) which we interpret in terms of the ionization structure of the H  ii region. It is found that G333.6–0.2 is more likely to be excited by a cluster of O and B stars than by a single star.