Correction to: Leveraging HPC accelerator architectures with modern techniques — hydrologic modeling on GPUs with ParFlow

Computational Geosciences - A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-021-10065-y     

Epikarst communities: biodiversity hotspots and potential water tracers

There is an exceptionally rich aquatic fauna in the epikarst, the skin of karst. High species richness in the epikarst, coupled with its special vulnerability as the first point of entry of nearly all toxic spills, makes its protection especially important. The epikarst fauna may also be an useful tool in tracing the potential route of pollutants. Copepods in epikarst have extremely local distributions, and their body size is such that they are largely at the mercy of directional flows. In a series of caves in southwest Slovenia and West Virginia, a significant fraction of the copepod species occur in less than 100 m of linear extent. This suggests a pattern of highly restricted lateral flow under normal conditions and the distribution of copepods could potentially be used to trace water movement. Under high flow conditions as would often be the case with toxic spill, mounding of water may increase the lateral radius of flow. Nevertheless, copepods may be useful tracers.     

Experimental and thermodynamic study of heterogeneous and homogeneous equilibria in the system NaAlSiO4-SiO2

Internally consistent thermodynamic datasets available at present call for a further improvement of the data for nepheline (Holland and Powell 1988; Berman 1991). Because nepheline is a common rock-forming mineral, an attempt has been made to improve on the present state of knowledge of its thermodynamic properties. To achieve that goal, two heterogeneous reactions involving nepheline, albite, jadeite and a-quartz in the system NaAlSiO₄-SiO₂ have been reversed bylong duration runs in the range 460 ≤ T(°C) ≤ 960 and 10 ≤ P(kbar) ≤ 22. Given sufficiently long run times, thealbite run products approach internal equilibrium with respect to their Al,Si order-disorder states. Using appropriate thermochemical, thermophysical, and volumetric data, Landau expansion for albite, and the relevant reaction reversals, a refined thermodynamic dataset (Δ_fH_i⁰ and S_i⁰) has been derived for nepheline, jadeite, a-quartz, albite, and monalbite. Our refined data agree very well with theircalorimetric counterparts, but have smaller uncertainties. The refined dataset for Δ_fH_i⁰ and S_i⁰, including their uncertainties and correlation, help generate the NaAlSiO₄-SiO₂ phase diagram including 2a confidence interval for eachP-T curve (Fig. 5). Editorial responsibility: W. Schreyer     

Die Bodenstruktur des Indischen Ozeans und dessen Geschichte

Zusammenfassung Grundzüge des Bodenreliefs und geophysikalisch-geotektonische Kenntnisse im Bereiche des Indischen Ozeans ermöglichen es, Art und Reihenfolge seiner Entwicklung zu skizzieren. Eine erste, parallel den Breitengraden während der Alttrias-Zeit aufgerissene Tiefspaltenzone unter dem Riesenkontinent Gondwanaland trennte die Antarktis von Südamerika-Afrika-Indien-Australien. Durch Querdehnung der Spalten drangen gewaltige basaltische Magmamassen empor. Sie erweiterten wie in Island die aufklaffenden Brüche und drängten die Kontinente auseinander, so daß die vier genannten Großschollen bis über die heutige Lage des 50.° Süd nordwärts verlagert wurden. Hinter ihnen blieb ihre alte, basische und vulkanisch tätige Unterlage zurück als erster Südteil des Indischen Neu-Ozeans. Unregelmäßige Hemmungen bei der Norddrift der Teilschollen dürften zwischen diesen méridionale Blattspalten erzwungen haben.Deren östlichste trennte zunächst jungtriassisch Australien ab von Indien und den anderen westlichen Kontinentalschollen. Diese méridionale Blattspalte wurde zu einer mittelozeanischen Schwelle und drängte einerseits Australien an seinen Platz gegen Osten, andererseits Indien zusammen mit Lemurien gegen Westen. Dann riß die Carlsberg-Mittelindische Schwelle auf und rückte Lemurien westwärts, Indien ostwärts bis zum 90.° Ost. Von der Mittelkreidezeit an wurde die Indische Scholle gegen Norden bis vor den Himalaya verlagert. Sie kam in der Oberkreidezeit an.Dies bewirkte keine neue Mittelozeanische Spaltenschwelle mehr. Vielmehr hatte sich eine regional das gesamte Untergrundsgebiet des Indischen Ozeans erfassende Unterströmung gegen Norden entwickelt. Sie floß unter Himalaya und Tibet noch weiter gegen N und E, wo sie das bekannte Dach der Erde im Tertiär emporstemmte.Die möglichen Begründungen enthält der nachfolgende Text.

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It is possible to reconstruct the nature and sequence of development of the Indian Ocean through knowledge of the topology and through geophysical-geotectonic research.The first deep fault zone situated under the great continent Gondwanaland, went parallel to the latitude during the lower Triassic Period and separated the Antarctic from South America, Africa, India and Australia. The basaltic magma was pushed up through the transverse expansion of the crevices. The opened cracks were widened like in Iceland and presed the continents apart. In this way the 4 great continents mentioned above, were pushed northwards farther than the 50° lat. S of today. Behind them remained the old, basic, and volcanicaly active foundation as the first southern floor of the Indian Ocean. Irregular retardations during the northern drift of parts of the continents probably had caused meridial fissures (Blatt-Spalten).The eastern most part of the fissures first divided in the Upper Triassic Period Australia from India and the other western continental blocks. These meridial fissures grew to a middle ocean rise and pushed on one side Australia to the east, and on the other side India together with Lemur to the west.The Carlsberg-Middle-Ocean Rise then shoved Lemur westward and India eastward to 90° E. Beginning in the Middle Cretaceous Period, the Indian block moved to the north and reached the Himalayas in the Upper Cretaceous Period. This did not cause any new middle ocean Spaltenschwelle. On the contrary, in the underground region of the Indian Ocean an underflow to the north had developed. It flowed under the Himalaya and Tibet and even more to the north and east where the famous roof of the Earth originated.The possible reasons are given in the following text.

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Résumé Le relief du fond de la mer et des faits géophysicaux et géotectoniques dans la région de l'Océan Indien rendent possible d'esquisser la façon de laquelle cet Océan s'est formé. Une zone primaire de fissures profondes formée pendant le Trias inférieur et située parallèle aux degrés de latitude au-dessous du continent gigantesque Gondwanaland séparait la région antarctique d'une part et l'Amérique du Sud, l'Afrique, les Indes et l'Australie d'autre part. A la suite d'une expansion de fissures d'énormes masses basaltiques se levèrent. Celles-ci élargirent les fentes, comme en Islande, et renforcèrent la séparation des continents. C'est pourquoi les quatre boucliers cités furent poussés au-delà de 50° degré de latitude vers le Nord. Leur soubassement basique et volcanique restait à sa place et formait la première partie méridionale du nouvel Océan Indien. Des obstacles irréguliers freinèrent le mouvement vers le Nord des divers boucliers, ce qui peut avoir causé les décrochements parallèles aux méridians.Le décrochement le plus oriental séparait d'abord, au Trias supérieur, l'Australie des Indes et des autres boucliers continentaux à l'Ouest. Le linéament décroché se transforma en un seuil au milieu de l'Océan et poussa d'une part l'Australie vers sa place orientale, d'autre part les Indes avec la Lémurie vers l'Ouest. Puis le linéament Carlsberg au milieu de l'Océan Indien s'ouvrit et transporta la Lémurie vers l'Ouest, les Indes vers l'Est. Dès le Crétacé moyen le bouclier indien a été transporté vers le Nord jusqu'au Himalaya. Il y arriva pendant le Crétacé supérieur.Ceci ne causa plus une nouvelle élévation au milieu de l'Océan. Plutôt il s'était produit une subfluence générale dirigée vers le Nord et emportant le soussol entier de l'Océan Indien. Cette subfluence se prolongea au-dessous de l'Himalaya et du Tibet vers le NE, soulevant au Tertiaire le célèbre Toit de la Terre.Dans la suite les raisons de cette opinion seront exposées.

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Fifteen days of continuous activity survey at Stromboli volcano, Italy, in late September 2000: Doppler radar, seismicity, infrared, soil humidity, and mapping of the crater region

The intention of our study was to gain new insight into the complex interplay between different types of eruption of the Stromboli volcano by combining detailed field observation with different geophysical methods. We recorded more than 600 eruptions by use of continuous Doppler radar measurements. We detected the onset of the seismic precursor and the beginning of the visible eruption by use of seismic and infrared data. Two soil samples per day were used to monitor the effect of humidity on the eruptive style. We mapped the crater region as a reference base for the long-term morphological changes of the active region and for the exact positions of our measurement systems. Two distinct types of eruption were distinguished from each other on the basis of seismic and radar data - short, wide-angle Strombolian explosions and pulsating, sharp angle fountain-like eruptions. Data and visual observations imply that weather conditions significantly effect volcanic activity. We also interpret the intensification of eruptive activity during our field study as replenishment of the reservoir with a new batch of magma in late September 2000.     

Climatological aspects of the tropical convective boundary layer

The characteristics of a boundary layer depend both on conditions at the surface and in the interior of the medium. In the undisturbed tropics, the latter are largely determined by subsidence and by infrared radiational cooling. One-dimensional models are used to establish relationships between the inversion height, subsidence, upper-air humidity and sea-surface temperature. In particular, it is shown that a universally colder tropical ocean would probably be covered by more extensive clouds.Contribution No. 1700 Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami.