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    Universität Göttingen,Abteilung Bodenphysik
    In:  Universität Göttingen
    Publication Date: 2024-06-17
    Description: research
    Keywords: Depth ; Time Function ; MicrobialBiomass ; Ploughed ; Grassland Typudalfs ; Lower Saxony ; Germany
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-30
    Description: Past vegetation, fire, and climate dynamics, as well as human impact, have been reconstructed for the first time in the highlands of the Gilan province in the Alborz mountains (above the Hyrcanian forest) for the last 4,300 cal yrs bp. Multi-proxy analysis, including pollen, spores, non-pollen palynomorphs, charcoal, and geochemical analysis, has been applied to investigate the environmental changes at 2,280 m a.s.l., above the Hyrcanian forest. Dominant steppe vegetation occurred in the study area throughout the recorded period. The formation of the studied mire deposits, as well as vegetation composition, suggest a change to wetter climatic conditions after 4,300 until 1,700 cal yrs bp. Fires were frequent, which may imply long-lasting anthropogenic activities in the area. Less vegetation cover with a marked decrease of the Moisture Index (MI) suggests drier conditions between 1,700 and 1,000 cal yrs bp. A high proportion of Cichorioideae and Amaranthaceae, as well as the reduction of trees, in particular Fagus and Quercus, at lower elevations, indicate human activities such as intense livestock grazing and deforestation. Soil erosion as the result of less vegetation due to dry conditions and/or human activities can be reconstructed from a marked increase of Glomus spores and high values of K and Ti. Since 1,000 cal yrs bp, the increasing MI, as well as the rise of Poaceae and Cyperaceae together with forest recovery, suggest a change to wetter conditions. The occurrence of still frequent Cichorioideae and Plantago lanceolata along with Sordaria reflect continued intense grazing of livestock by humans.
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DE)
    Description: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1018)
    Keywords: ddc:561 ; Late Holocene ; Northern Iran ; Multi-proxy studies ; Hyrcanian mountain vegetation ; Climate change ; Human impact
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-30
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is a central component of the atmospheric general circulation, but remarkably little is known about the dynamical and thermodynamical structure of the convergence zone itself. This is true even for the structure of the low‐level convergence that gives the ITCZ its name. Following on from the major international field campaigns in the 1960s and 1970s, we performed extensive atmospheric profiling of the Atlantic ITCZ during a ship‐based measurement campaign aboard the research vessel 〈italic toggle="no"〉SONNE〈/italic〉 in summer 2021. Combining data collected during our north–south crossing of the ITCZ with reanalysis data shows the ITCZ to be a meridionally extended region of intense precipitation, with enhanced surface convergence at its edges rather than in the center. Based on the location of these edges, we construct a composite view of the structure of the Atlantic ITCZ. The ITCZ, far from being simply a region of enhanced deep convection, has a rich inner life, that is, a rich dynamical and thermodynamic structure that changes throughout the course of the year, and has a northern edge that differs systematically from the southern edge.〈/p〉
    Description: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
    Description: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme CONSTRAIN http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010661
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7051674
    Description: https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47
    Keywords: ddc:551.5 ; ITCZ ; Atlantic ; convergence ; observations ; reanalysis
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2024-05-30
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Mass transfer across the crust‐mantle boundary is a fundamental process governing planetary differentiation, the evolution of geochemical reservoirs and ore formation, controlled by physicochemical conditions at the crust‐mantle interface. In situ trace‐element, clinopyroxene 〈sup〉87〈/sup〉Sr/〈sup〉86〈/sup〉Sr and garnet Fe〈sup〉3+〈/sup〉/ΣFe of kimberlite‐borne eclogite xenoliths from the deep (∼50 km) crust‐mantle transition below the ca. 1.2–1.0 Ga Namaqua‐Natal Fold Belt (southwestern Kaapvaal craton margin) were determined to elucidate their origin and evolution, and to constrain the oxygen fugacity of this pivotal but largely inaccessible environment. Based on a garnet source signature (NMORB‐normalized Er/Lu > 1) in pristine “gabbroic” eclogites with pronounced positive Eu, Sr, and Pb anomalies, the suite is interpreted as originating as plagioclase‐rich cumulates in oceanic crust from melts generated beneath mature oceanic lithosphere, subsequently subducted during the Namaqua‐Natal orogeny. Enriched eclogites have higher measured 〈sup〉87〈/sup〉Sr/〈sup〉86〈/sup〉Sr in clinopyroxene (up to 0.7054) than gabbroic ones (up to 0.7036), and show increasing bulk‐rock Li, Be and Pb abundances with increasing δ〈sup〉18〈/sup〉O in clinopyroxene, and muted Eu‐Sr‐Pb anomalies. These systematics suggest interaction with a siliceous fluid sourced from seawater‐altered oceanic sediment in a subduction mélange setting. Garnet Fe〈sup〉3+〈/sup〉/ΣFe in deep crustal eclogites is extremely low (0.01–0.04, ±0.01 1〈italic〉σ〈/italic〉), as inherited from the plagioclase‐rich cumulate protolith, and owing to preferred partitioning into clinopyroxene at low temperatures (∼815–1000°C). Average maximum oxygen fugacities (∆logƒO〈sub〉2〈/sub〉(FMQ) = −3.1 ± 1.0 to −0.5 ± 0.7 relative to the Fayalite‐Magnetite‐Quartz buffer) are higher than in deeper‐seated on‐craton eclogite xenoliths, but mostly below sulfate stability, limiting the role of S〈sup〉6+〈/sup〉 species in oxidizing the mantle wedge.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Subduction zones represent the main interface between Earth's surface and its deep interior. Metamorphic reactions during subduction cause fluid or melt loss from seawater‐altered oceanic crust and sediment, which enriches the overlying mantle, and possibly oxidizes it. This would explain why the mantle sources of subduction zone magmas appear to be more oxidized than in other tectonic settings. However, the details of the mass transfer in this deep environment are difficult to constrain because it is inaccessible. Using rare deep‐seated magmas (kimberlites) as probes of a ca. 1.2 billion year old southern African subduction zone, we investigated eclogite fragments that originated as subducted oceanic crust and were much later plucked from the wallrocks by the ascending magma. These eclogites show elemental and isotopic signatures of interaction with subducted sediments, pointing to mingling processes similar to those observed in modern subduction zones. We also estimated their oxygen fugacity, a measure of the chemical potential of oxygen. We find that sulfur, which has been implicated in mantle oxidation, would have only been stable in these rocks in its reduced form, making even seawater‐altered eclogites sinks rather than sources of oxygen, with implications for the transfer of sulfur‐loving metals across the mantle‐to‐crust‐boundary.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Eclogite xenoliths sampling deep crust‐mantle transition below Namaqua‐Natal Fold Belt have plagioclase‐rich oceanic protoliths〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Enriched xenoliths show signatures of interaction with siliceous, subducted sediment‐derived fluids under shallow fore‐arc conditions〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Fe〈sup〉3+〈/sup〉‐based eclogite oxybarometry with oxygen fugacities below sulfate stability limits the role of S〈sup〉6+〈/sup〉 species in mantle wedge oxidation〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Description: https://doi.org/10.60520/IEDA/113077
    Keywords: ddc:552.4 ; kimberlite‐borne eclogite xenoliths ; crust‐mantle transition ; subduction zone processes ; redox budget ; metallogeny ; mantle wedge oxidation
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-30
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The interaction of the northern Nazca and southwestern Caribbean oceanic plates with northwestern South America (NWSA) and the collision of the Panama‐Choco arc (PCA) have significant implications on the evolution of the northern Andes. Based on a quantitative kinematic reconstruction of the Caribbean and Farallon/Farallon‐derived plates, we reconstructed the subducting geometries beneath NWSA and the PCA accretion to the continent. The persistent northeastward migration of the Caribbean plate relative to NWSA in Cenozoic time caused the continuous northward advance of the Farallon‐Caribbean plate boundary, which in turn resulted in its progressive concave trench bending against NWSA. The increasing complexity during the Paleogene included the onset of Caribbean shallow subduction, the PCA approaching the continent, and the forced shallow Farallon subduction that ended in the fragmentation of the Farallon Plate into the Nazca and Cocos plates and the Coiba and Malpelo microplates by the late Oligocene. The convergence tectonics after late Oligocene comprised the accretional process of the PCA to NWSA, which evolved from subduction erosion of the forearc to collisional tectonics by the middle Miocene, as well as changes of convergence angle and slab dip of the Farallon‐derived plates, and the attachment of the Coiba and Malpelo microplates to the Nazca plate around 9 Ma, resulting in a change of convergence directions. During the Pliocene, the Nazca slab broke at 5.5°N, shaping the modern configuration. Overall, the proposed reconstruction is supported by geophysical data and is well correlated with the magmatic and deformation history of the northern Andes.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: The tectonic reconstruction in convergent triple junctions is a particularly challenging task as the relative motion between plates could define highly changing boundaries. Indeed, the resulting interaction between these convergent plates may induce important changes in the disposition of the trenches, and in turn in the three‐dimensional geometry of the subducting plates. Therefore, these highly dynamic conditions throughout geological time may be accommodated by different phases of plate fragmentation and reorganization. These factors could explain the complex spatial‐temporal distribution of subduction‐related magmatism and the different episodes of deformation in the upper plates. This reasoning is validated in the northwestern corner of South America (SA), where the continent has been converging against the Caribbean and Farallon‐derived oceanic plates since Cretaceous time. Additionally, we study the effects of the collision and accretion of the Panama‐Choco arc with SA. To accomplish that, we review the kinematic history of the Farallon/Nazca and Caribbean oceanic plates relative to stable Guiana Craton (SA) and integrate these results with the magmatic and deformation evolution of the northern Andes, which allow us to propose a model of the geometrical evolution of the subducting slabs. The obtained model is additionally constrained by seismological data and published velocity anomalies.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The tectonics of convergent triple junctions is complicated by the relative plate motion and interaction of the involved plates〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We propose a model for the kinematic and geometric evolution of the Farallon/Nazca and Caribbean plates throughout the Cenozoic〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The interaction between the Caribbean, Nazca and South American plates is closely related to the deformation history in the Northern Andes〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Helmholtz‐Zentrum Potsdam‐Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010956
    Description: Ecopetrol
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7411340
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8129751
    Keywords: ddc:551.8 ; plate kinematics ; convergent margins ; slab geometry ; Northern Andean deformation episodes
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-30
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Deep‐ploughing far beyond the common depth of 30 cm was used more than 50 years ago in Northern Germany with the aim to break root‐restricting layers and thereby improve access to subsoil water and nutrient resources. We hypothesized that effects of this earlier intervention on soil properties and yields prevailed after 50 years. Hence, we sampled two sandy soils and one silty soil (Cambisols and a Luvisol) of which half of the field had been deep‐ploughed 50 years ago (soils then re‐classified as Treposols). The adjacent other half was not deep‐ploughed and thus served as the control. At all the three sites, both deep‐ploughed and control parts were then conventionally managed over the last 50 years. We assessed yields during the dry year 2019 and additionally in 2020, and rooting intensity at the year of sampling (2019), as well as changes in soil structure, carbon and nutrient stocks in that year. We found that deep‐ploughing improved yields in the dry spell of 2019 at the sandy sites, which was supported by a more general pattern of higher NDVI indices in deep‐ploughed parts for the period from 2016 to 2021 across varying weather conditions. Subsoil stocks of soil organic carbon and total plant‐available phosphorus were enhanced by 21%–199% in the different sites. Root biomass in the subsoil was reduced due to deep‐ploughing at the silty site and was increased or unaffected at the sandy sites. Overall, the effects of deep‐ploughing were site‐specific, with reduced bulk density in the buried topsoil stripes in the subsoil of the sandy sites, but with elevated subsoil density in the silty site. Hence, even 50 years after deep‐ploughing, changes in soil properties are still detectable, although effect size differed among sites.〈/p〉
    Description: BonaRes http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100022576
    Keywords: ddc:631.4 ; aggregates ; carbon sequestration ; deep‐ploughing ; macronutrients ; subsoil ; Treposol
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-30
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The interpretation of stalagmite δ〈sup〉18〈/sup〉O in terms of reflecting Asian summer monsoon (ASM) precipitation is still elusive. Here, we present high‐resolution stalagmite trace element ratios (X/Ca, X = Mg, Sr, Ba) records from southwest China covering 116.09 to 4.07 ka BP. δ〈sup〉18〈/sup〉O, δ〈sup〉13〈/sup〉C, and X/Ca values exhibit clear precessional cycles, with δ〈sup〉18〈/sup〉O values reflecting ASM circulation/intensity, while X/Ca ratios capture local precipitation or evapotranspiration variations. Our results show that Northern Hemisphere summer insolation (NHSI) is the main driver of ASM intensity and precipitation phase variation, but global ice volume modulates the response magnitude of summer precipitation to insolation. During the Last Glacial Maximum, high ice volumes caused significant monsoon precipitation to decrease. In contrast to modern observations of the tripolar distribution of precipitation in China, our record is consistent with paleo‐precipitation records in southern and northern China.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: While it is well known that global changes have led to variations in the intensity and spatial distribution of Asian monsoon precipitation, the mechanisms behind this are not well understood. Paleoclimate records are essential for revealing the drivers behind monsoon variation. However, speleothem records from the Asian monsoon region rarely provide direct information on the amount of rainfall. Here we report on multiple indicator data sets from a stalagmite in southwestern China. It could help explore the variation of monsoon precipitation over the last ∼100,000 years. We find that the increase/decrease of Northern Hemisphere summer insolation controls the increase/decrease of Asian summer monsoon rainfall. In addition, global ice volume moderates the magnitude of rainfall response to insolation, and precipitation decreases significantly during high ice volume periods. Based on the present paleo‐precipitation records evidence, the existence of the spatial pattern of increasing/decreasing rainfall in central China corresponding to decreasing/increasing rainfall in northern and southern China remains ambiguous on the orbital scales, although the feature has been captured by some of the model simulations.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Stalagmite trace elements are indicators of regional hydrological environmental variations in Southwestern China〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Northern Hemisphere summer insolation and global ice volume modulate the phase and amplitude variations of regional hydrological environment〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The meridional tripolar spatial pattern of precipitation in monsoon region in China on the orbital scale remains ambiguous〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: German Science Grant
    Description: Structure and Innovation Fund of the Region of Baden Württemberg
    Description: China Scholarship Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004543
    Description: National Nature Science Foundation of China
    Description: Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects
    Description: Young and Middle‐age Academic and Technical Leader in Yunnan Province
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10072475
    Keywords: ddc:551 ; stalagmite ; trace elements ; Asian summer monsoon ; Northern Hemisphere summer insolation ; global ice volume ; regional hydrological environment
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉NASA's Juno mission delivered gravity data of exceptional quality. They indicate that the zonal winds, which rule the dynamics of Jupiter's cloud deck, must slow down significantly beyond a depth of about 3,000 km. Since the underlying inversion is highly non‐unique additional constraints on the flow properties at depth are required. These could potentially be provided by the magnetic field and its Secular Variation (SV) over time. However, the role of these zonal winds in Jupiter's magnetic field dynamics is little understood. Here we use numerical simulations to explore the impact of the zonal winds on the dynamo field produced at depth. We find that the main effect is an attenuation of the non‐axisymmetric field, which can be quantified by a modified magnetic Reynolds number Rm that combines flow amplitude and electrical conductivity profile. Values below Rm = 3 are required to retain a pronounced non‐axisymmetric feature like the Great Blue Spot (GBS), which seems characteristic for Jupiter's magnetic field. This allows for winds reaching as deep as 3,400 km. A SV pattern similar to the observation can only be found in some of our models. Its amplitude reflects the degree of cancellation between advection and diffusion rather than the zonal wind velocity at any depth. It is therefore not straightforward to make inferences on the deep structure of cloud‐level winds based on Jupiter's SV.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: The dynamics in Jupiter's cloud layer is dominated by eastward and westward directed wind jets that circumvent the planet and reach velocities of up to 150 m per second. For the first time, NASA's Juno mission could measure the tiny gravity changes caused by these winds. The data show that the winds reach down to a depth of about 3,000 km, roughly 4% of Jupiter's radius. However, the interpretation is difficult and several alternative wind profiles have been suggested. In this paper we use numerical simulations to explore how these winds would affect Jupiter's magnetic field, which has also been measured with high precision by Juno. The field shows a strong inward‐directed local patch just south of the equator, called the GBS. The impact of the winds on the magnetic field rapidly increases with depth because of the increase in the electrical conductivity. Our simulations show that winds reaching deeper than about 3,400 km would practically wipe out the GBS. This confirms that they have to remain shallower. Juno also observed an east‐ward drift of the GBS. While some of our simulations also show an east‐ward drift it is typically much too slow.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We study the magnetic field variations caused by Jupiter's deep‐reaching surface winds for various flow and electrical conductivity models〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Zonal winds reaching deeper than 3,400 km would yield a very axisymmetric surface field and are thus unrealistic〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉It seems questionable that Jupiter's secular variation carries any useful information on the zonal winds〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000266
    Description: https://doi.org/10.17617/3.CNVRWD
    Keywords: ddc:523 ; Jupiter ; magnetic field ; atmospheric dynamics ; zonal winds
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The microphysical structure of the lunar regolith provides information on the geologic history of the Moon. We used remote sensing measurements of thermal emission and a thermophysical model to determine the microphysical properties of the lunar regolith. We expand upon previous investigations by developing a microphysical thermal model, which more directly simulates regolith properties, such as grain size and volume filling factor. The modeled temperatures are matched with surface temperatures measured by the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The maria and highlands are investigated separately and characterized in the model by a difference in albedo and grain density. We find similar regolith temperatures for both terrains, which can be well described by similar volume filling factor profiles and mean grain sizes obtained from returned Apollo samples. We also investigate a significantly lower thermal conductivity for highlands, which formally also gives a very good solution, but in a parameter range that is well outside the Apollo data. We then study the latitudinal dependence of regolith properties up to ±80° latitude. When assuming constant regolith properties, we find that a variation of the solar incidence‐dependent albedo can reduce the initially observed latitudinal gradient between model and Diviner measurements significantly. A better match between measurements and model can be achieved by a variation in intrinsic regolith properties with a decrease in bulk density with increasing latitude. We find that a variation in grain size alone cannot explain the Diviner measurements at higher latitudes.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: The Moon is covered by a layer of fine grained material called regolith. To extract information about the regolith, such as grain size or stratification, we used data from the Diviner instrument on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Diviner measures the surface temperature of the regolith for each location on the Moon and all times during day and night. To derive regolith properties, we developed a model and varied its model parameters until the simulated surface temperatures matched the measured ones. We applied the model up to a latitude of 80° and find as the best solution a decrease in regolith packing density with increasing latitude. We also find that a variation of regolith grain size alone cannot explain the measurements. These predictions are valuable for planning future missions targeting higher latitudes and can be compared with future in situ measurements and returned samples. However, the fraction of sunlight that actually heats the regolith is quite unknown, especially at high latitudes. A variation of this fraction can explain the measured surface temperatures reasonably well even without a variation of the regolith properties with latitude.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We developed a microphysical thermal model accounting for regolith grain size and volume filling factor〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The best match between model and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/Diviner data was achieved with a decrease in bulk density between 30° and 80° latitude〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We also found a reasonable agreement between observed and modeled surface temperatures when varying the solar incidence dependent albedo〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: LRO project
    Description: https://doi.org/10.17189/WJ0S-W188
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8433837
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10781188
    Keywords: ddc:523 ; Moon ; regolith ; Diviner ; thermal modeling ; lunar
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The Ries impact structure (Germany) contains well‐preserved ejecta deposits consisting of melt‐free lithic breccia (Bunte Breccia) overlain by suevite. To test their emplacement conditions, we investigated the magnetic properties and microstructures of 26 polymict breccia clasts and a stratigraphic profile from the clasts into the suevite at the Aumühle quarry. Remanent magnetization directions of the Bunte Breccia clasts fall into two groups: those whose directions mostly lie parallel to the reversed field during impact carried mostly by magnetite, and those whose directions vary widely among each clast carried by titanohematite. Basement clasts containing titanohematite acquired a chemical remanent magnetization (CRM) during the ejection process and then rotated during turbulent deposition. Clasts of sedimentary rocks grew magnetite after turbulent deposition, with CRM directions lying parallel to the paleofield. Suevite holds a thermal remanent magnetization carried by magnetite, except for ∼12 cm from the contact with the Bunte Breccia, where hematite concentrations increase due to hydrothermal alteration. These observations lead us to propose a three‐stage model of (a) turbulent deposition of the melt‐free breccia with clast rotation 〈580°C, (b) deposition of the overlying suevite, which acted as a semi‐permeable barrier that confined hot (〈300°C) oxidizing fluids to the permeable breccia zone, and (c) prolonged hydrothermal activity producing further alteration which ended before the next geomagnetic reversal. Basement outcrops have significantly different magnetic properties than the Bunte Breccia basement clasts with similar lithology. Two basement blocks situated near the inner ring may have been thermally overprinted up to 550°C.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: The 26‐km‐diameter, ∼15‐million‐year‐old Ries meteorite impact structure in southern Germany is characterized by well‐preserved ejecta deposits expelled from the crater within seconds after the impact. These deposits consist of two main layers: melt‐free, lithic breccia (Bunte Breccia), overlain by melt‐bearing breccia (suevite). To understand the formation conditions of the ejecta deposits, we performed paleomagnetic and rock magnetic measurements and microstructural experiments on clasts within Bunte Breccia and on the overlying suevite at the Aumühle quarry. We found that clasts derived from crystalline basement materials experienced high pressures during the impact. These clasts had randomly oriented magnetization directions carried by titanohematite. In contrast, clasts derived from sedimentary rocks experienced only low pressures and had coherent magnetization directions oriented parallel to the reversed field during the impact that are carried by magnetite. Our findings can be interpreted by a three‐stage model that explains the thermal and structural formation of impact ejecta at the Ries impact structure.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Randomly oriented paleomagnetic directions in basement clasts in ejecta deposits suggest turbulent emplacement〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Bunte Breccia was chemically altered and locally heated by the overlying suevite, resulting in hydrothermal activity up to 300°C〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Basement rocks near the inner ring may have experienced temperatures up to 550°C from cratering〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: https://earthref.org/MagIC/19984
    Keywords: ddc:622.153 ; Paleomagnetism ; remanent magnetization ; chemical remanence ; impact crater ; impact ejecta ; hydrothermal activity
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Hydrochemical data of karst springs provide valuable insights into the internal hydrodynamical functioning of karst systems and support model structure identification. However, the collection of high‐frequency time series of major solute species is limited by analysis costs. In this study, we develop a method to retrieve the individual solute concentration time series and their uncertainty at high temporal resolution for karst springs by using continuous observations of electrical conductivity (EC) and low‐frequency ionic measurements. Due to the large ion content and non‐negligible concentrations of aqueous complexes in karst systems, the concentration of each solute species occurring as free ion and as part of aqueous complexes are computed separately. The concentration of species occurring as free ions are computed considering their contributions to the total EC, whereas the concentration of the species as part of complexes are obtained from speciation calculations. The pivotal role of the complexation processes for the reconstruction of solute concentration time series starting from the EC signal is investigated in two karstic catchments with different geologies and temporal resolution of the available hydrochemical datasets, that is the Kerschbaum dolostone system in Austria and the Baget limestone system in France. The results show that complexation processes are significant and should be considered for the estimation of the total solute concentration in case of SO〈sub〉4〈/sub〉, Ca, Mg and HCO〈sub〉3〈/sub〉. The EC signal of a karst spring can be used to interpolate and quantify the dynamics of those solutes characterized by large contribution (approximately >6%) to the total EC and low relative variability, that is HCO〈sub〉3〈/sub〉, Ca and Mg. Moreover, the presented method can be used to estimate concentrations of solutes when applied to karst systems with stationary and hydrogeochemical homogeneous contributing area. On the contrary, the method is affected by large uncertainty in case of dynamic systems characterized by varying contributions of water from different geological areas. This study aims to contribute to the problem of hydrogeochemical data availability and to support future works on karst systems conceptualization.〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001703
    Description: European Regional Development Fund http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008530
    Description: http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/fb92daaffced415fb7a991747e73adfa
    Keywords: ddc:551.9 ; electrical conductivity decomposition ; high‐resolution hydrochemical data ; hydrochemical modelling ; karst
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The Bakreswar geothermal province represents a medium enthalpy geothermal system with its Bakreswar and Tantloie hot springs. It lies within the Chotanagpur Granite Gneissic Complex in the eastern part of the Indian Peninsula. The province has a high heat flow and a high geothermal gradient of 90°C/km. Magnetotelluric data from 95 sites in a frequency range of 10 kHz–10 Hz were acquired over the Bakreswar geothermal province to obtain an electrical conductivity model and map the geothermal reservoir with its fluid pathways and related geological structures. Subsurface conductivity models obtained from three‐dimensional inversions of the Magnetotelluric data exhibit several prominent anomalies, which are supplemented by gravity results. The conductivity model maps three features which act as a conduit (a) a northwest–southeast trending feature, (b) an east–west trending feature to the south of the northwest–southeast trending feature (which lies 1 km north of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation fault marked by previous studies) and (c) shallow conducting features close to Bakreswar hot spring. The northwest–southeast trending feature coincides with the boundary of the high‐density intrusive block. This northwest–southeast trending feature provides the pathway for the meteoric water to reach a maximum depth of 2.7 km, where it gets heated by interacting with deep‐seated structures and then it rises towards the surface. The radiogenic process occurring within the granites of Chotanagpur Granite Gneissic Complex provides the heat responsible for heating the meteoric water. The northwest–southeast and east–west trending features are responsible for the transport of meteoric water to deeper depths and then towards the shallow regions of the Earth. The near surface features close to the Bakreswar hot spring are responsible for carrying the water further towards the hot spring. The resistivity of these structures plotted as a function of salinity and temperatures for saline crustal fluids suggests the involvement of meteoric water. Further, applying Archie's law to this resistivity suggests that the conduit path has a porosity greater than 10%. This study successfully maps the anomalous structures which might foster the migration of geothermal fluid in Bakreswar geothermal province.〈/p〉
    Description: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
    Keywords: ddc:622.15 ; electromagnetics ; geothermal ; gravity ; inversion ; magnetotellurics ; modelling
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Despite extensive investigation, the tectono‐thermal evolution of the Archean crust in the Lewisian Gneiss Complex in NW Scotland (LGC) is debated. Most U–Pb zircon geochronological and metamorphic studies have focused on rocks from the central region of the mainland LGC, where granulite facies assemblages associated with the oldest (Badcallian) tectono‐metamorphic event at c. 2.75 Ga are overprinted by younger amphibolite facies assemblages related to the Inverian (c. 2.5 Ga) and subsequent Laxfordian (c. 1.9–1.65 Ga) tectono‐thermal events. In the southern and northern regions of the mainland LGC, deformation and metamorphism associated with the Laxfordian event are pervasive, although the timing and conditions are poorly constrained. Here, we present new field, petrographic and structural data, U–Pb zircon and titanite geochronology and phase equilibrium modelling of amphibolite samples from the northern and southern regions. Our field observations show that in both regions, pre‐Laxfordian structures are significantly reworked by steep NW‐striking fabrics that are themselves pervasively overprinted by co‐axial deformation and amphibolite facies metamorphism related to the Laxfordian event. In situ U–Pb titanite geochronology yields Laxfordian ages of 1853 ± 20 Ma in the southern region (P = 6–8 kbar and T = 640–690°C) and 1750 ± 20 Ma and 1776 ± 10 Ma in the northern region (P = 6–7.5 kbar and T = 740–760°C). While U–Pb dating of zircon rims from felsic gneisses in the central region shows a dominant Inverian metamorphic overprint at c. 2500 Ma, zircon rims in felsic gneisses from the northern and southern regions commonly yield Laxfordian dates as young as c. 1800 Ma. Combined, the results support the idea that, during the Palaeoproterozoic, the central region of the LGC acted as low‐strain domain, in which intense deformation and metamorphism were restricted to crustal‐scale shear zones. By contrast, in the southern and northern regions, early (c. 1.85 Ga) and late (c. 1.75 Ga) Laxfordian deformation and fluid‐mediated metamorphism were much more pervasive and at higher P–T conditions than previously proposed. The diachronous Laxfordian evolution of the southern and northern regions indicate that they reflect early and late snapshots of collisional to transpressional tectonics in the mainland LGC. The long‐lasting Laxfordian evolution documents the collision of the Rae and North Atlantic cratons during the Palaeoproterozoic amalgamation of the supercontinent Nuna, with implications for the palaeogeographic configuration of NW Scotland during Palaeoproterozoic Nuna.〈/p〉
    Description: Australian Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000923
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Keywords: ddc:552.4 ; in situ titanite petrochronology ; Laxfordian metamorphism ; North Atlantic Craton ; strain partitioning ; supercontinent assembly
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The 6 February 2023, 〈italic〉M〈/italic〉〈sub〉〈italic〉w〈/italic〉〈/sub〉 7.8 Pazarcık earthquake in the Turkey‐Syria border region raises the question of whether such a large earthquake could have been foreseen, as well as what is the maximum possible magnitude (〈italic〉M〈/italic〉〈sub〉max〈/sub〉) of earthquakes on the East Anatolian Fault (EAF) system and on continental transform faults in general. To answer such questions, knowledge of past earthquakes and of their causative faults is necessary. Here, we integrate data from historical seismology, paleoseismology, archeoseismology, and remote sensing to identify the likely source faults of fourteen 〈italic〉M〈/italic〉〈sub〉〈italic〉w〈/italic〉〈/sub〉 ≥ 7 earthquakes between 1000 CE and the present in the region. We find that the 2023 Pazarcık earthquake could have been foreseen in terms of location (the EAF) and timing (an earthquake along this fault was if anything overdue), but not magnitude. We hypothesize that the maximum earthquake magnitude for the EAF is in fact 8.2, that is, a single end‐to‐end rupture of the entire fault, and that the 2023 Pazarcık earthquake did not reach 〈italic〉M〈/italic〉〈sub〉max〈/sub〉 by a fortuitous combination of circumstances. We conclude that such unusually large events are hard to model in terms of recurrence intervals, and that seismic hazard assessment along continental transforms cannot be done on individual fault systems but must include neighboring systems as well, because they are not kinematically independent at any time scale.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: On 6 February 2023, there was a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Turkey‐Syria border region. It surprised many people, including many Earth scientists, because of where it happened (on the East Anatolian fault [EAF]) and because of how large it was. People wondered whether it could have been foreseen, and how large an earthquake on this fault can really be. To figure this out, we looked at the history of earthquakes in the region in the last 1,000 years. We used information from historical seismology, paleoseismology, archeoseismology, and remote sensing to identify the faults that caused 14 earthquakes with magnitude 7 or greater in this region. We found that the location (EAF) and timing (it was due any time) of the 2023 earthquake were foreseeable, but not the magnitude. In fact, we believe that the maximum magnitude for the EAF is 8.2, and that the 2023 earthquake was below this maximum just by accident. It is hard to say how often such large events can happen, because many different things need to align. We also believe that it is necessary to look at neighboring fault systems when estimating seismic hazards, because they interact.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We identified the source faults of 14 large earthquakes along the East Anatolian and northern Dead Sea fault systems〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Maximum magnitude for the East Anatolian Fault (EAF) zone is approximately 8.2〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Continental transforms may be described as having a collective memory〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5270/ESA-c5d3d65
    Description: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA000658
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4489-2022
    Description: https://doi.org/10.25577/EWT8-KY06
    Description: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/df93e92a3adc46b9a5c4bd3a547cd242
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5066/P985I7U2
    Description: https://app.box.com/v/textureshading
    Keywords: ddc:551.22 ; East Anatolian fault ; Dead Sea fault ; seismic gap ; seismic hazards ; source fault ; maximum earthquake magnitude
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Teleseismic back‐projection imaging has emerged as a powerful tool for understanding the rupture propagation of large earthquakes. However, its application often suffers from artifacts related to the receiver array geometry. We developed a teleseismic back‐projection technique that can accommodate data from multiple arrays. Combined processing of P and pP waveforms may further improve the resolution. The method is suitable for defining arrays ad‐hoc to achieve a good azimuthal distribution for most earthquakes. We present a catalog of short‐period rupture histories (0.5–2.0 Hz) for all earthquakes from 2010 to 2022 with 〈italic〉M〈/italic〉〈sub〉〈italic〉W〈/italic〉〈/sub〉 ≥ 7.5 and depth less than 200 km (56 events). The method provides automatic estimates of rupture length, directivity, speed, and aspect ratio, a proxy for rupture complexity. We obtained short‐period rupture length scaling relations that are in good agreement with previously published relations based on estimates of total slip. Rupture speeds were consistently in the sub‐Rayleigh regime for thrust and normal earthquakes, whereas a tenth of strike‐slip events propagated at supershear speeds. Many rupture histories exhibited complex behaviors, for example, rupture on conjugate faults, bilateral propagation, and dynamic triggering by a P wave. For megathrust earthquakes, ruptures encircling asperities were frequently observed, with downdip, updip, and balanced patterns. Although there is a preference for short‐period emissions to emanate from central and downdip parts of the megathrust, emissions updip of the main asperity are more frequent than suggested by earlier results.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Back‐projection is an earthquake imaging method based on seismic waveforms recorded remotely at a group of seismometers (seismic array). Here, we develop a new approach to combine backprojections from multiple arrays and seismic waveforms and use it to derive a catalog of large earthquake rupture histories from 2010 to 2022, providing a map view of the high‐frequency radiation emitted along the fault. The method automatically estimates the earthquake rupture length, speed, directivity, and aspect ratio. Based on these estimates, we obtained scaling relations between the earthquake magnitude and rupture length that agree with classical relationships. We identified strike‐slip earthquakes propagating at supershear, that is, faster than the shear wave speed, the usual limit for self‐sustaining rupture propagation. We observed complex rupture behaviors, for example, multiple faults activated, bilateral ruptures, and triggering of the main phase of a rupture by a primary (P) wave from the earliest part of the rupture. For subduction earthquakes, high‐frequency emissions were often observed, forming a ring around the fault interface patches (asperities) where the main slip occurs. There was a preference for high‐frequency radiation to emanate from central and deeper parts of the subducting plate interface, but shallower emissions were more frequent than expected from previous literature.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We provide a complete catalog of high‐frequency rupture histories for 〈italic〉M〈/italic〉 ≥ 7.5 events 2010–2022〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We develop a semi‐automatic method for estimating rupture length, speed, directivity, and aspect ratio〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Both encircling ruptures and emissions updip of slip asperities common in megathrust earthquakes〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: National Agency for Research and Development (ANID)
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.4.2024.001
    Keywords: ddc:551.22 ; back‐projection ; megathrust earthquakes ; complex ruptures ; supershear ruptures ; scaling relations ; earthquake rupture catalog
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Craters on the lunar surface can provide valuable information about the timing and sequence of surface‐forming processes on the Moon. A commonly used method for age determination is the analysis of the crater size‐frequency distribution (CSFD) to which a production function (PF) is fitted that represents the size‐frequency distribution of the impactors. However, the commonly used PF of Neukum (1983) is valid for crater diameters between 10 m and 300 km. Neukum et al. (2001, 〈ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1035-0_3"〉https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1035-0_3〈/ext-link〉) revised the PF for crater diameters of 100 m–200 km. However, it is suggested to also be valid for the diameter range of 10 m–300 km as well. To assess whether we can extend a PF to craters ≤10 m in diameter, we investigated the slopes of the CSFDs of small craters formed on ejecta of young Copernican‐aged craters Giordano Bruno, Moore F, North Ray, and South Ray. A PF for smaller diameters would allow dating of young geological units, which are typically small, and would reduce the statistical error in age determinations, since smaller craters are more abundant. However, small craters are strongly influenced by geological factors, such as target properties, crater degradation, and secondary craters. For craters between 10 and 20 m we obtain a steeper CSFD slope than Neukum's proposed −3 slope (cumulative), whereas for craters ≤10 m the slope is about −3. We conclude that the PF of Neukum (1983) provides a reasonable CSFD slope for smaller craters, although it was not developed for this crater diameter range.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Since the formation of the Moon, impactors have randomly hit the lunar surface. Older areas have larger and more abundant craters compared to younger areas. This relationship allows the determination of relative ages for different surfaces. A mathematical function can be fitted to the number and size of craters. This function has a specific shape and can be used to date a surface. Frequently used functions are valid between crater diameters of 10 m and 300 km. Dating young geological units is only possible if the observed craters are 〈bold〉≥〈/bold〉10 m in diameter. Therefore, an extension of these functions to crater diameters ≤10 m would be beneficial. However, small craters are strongly influenced by geological factors, such as target properties, crater degradation, and secondary craters. We consider these influences in our investigation. To compare our results with previous findings, we look more closely at the slope of the function that results from the number and size of the craters. Generally, we find that one function fits well for craters ≤10 m, even though it was not designed for this diameter range. This allows a more robust age determination because small craters are more abundant, reducing the statistical error.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We studied small craters on young ejecta blankets to evaluate if the lunar production function (PF) is viable for craters ≤10 m〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The crater size‐frequency distributions (CSFDs) indicate that the PF can indeed be extended to crater diameters ≤10 m〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Our observed slopes of CSFDs at the studied Copernican‐aged craters are consistent with previous findings〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft‐ und Raumfahrt http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002946
    Description: https://doi.org/10.35003/V9AFAZ
    Description: https://doi.org/10.17189/1520341
    Description: https://ode.rsl.wustl.edu/moon/
    Description: https://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/rdr_product_select
    Description: https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Moon/Clementine/UVVIS/Lunar_Clementine_UVVIS_Warp_ClrRatio_Global_200m
    Description: https://aaronclauset.github.io/powerlaws/
    Keywords: ddc:523 ; crater size‐frequency distribution ; production function ; slope ; small craters ; Moon
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉To understand the global response of thermospheric‐ionospheric (TI) parameters to variations in solar irradiance measurements from the Global‐Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) ultraviolet imaging spectrograph, solar radio flux F10.7, predictions from the Coupled Thermosphere Ionosphere Plasmasphere electrodynamics (CTIPe) model, and International Global Navigation Satellite System Service total electron content maps (TEC) have been used. Various parameters such as GOLD 〈italic〉O〈/italic〉/〈italic〉N〈/italic〉〈sub〉2〈/sub〉, 〈italic〉O〈/italic〉〈sub〉2〈/sub〉, and the nighttime peak electron density (Nmax) have been compared with the CTIPe model simulations. The GOLD observed Nmax shows a number of significant features including a winter anomaly and an equatorial ionization anomaly. The comparison with solar proxies showed that the GOLD 〈italic〉Q〈/italic〉〈sub〉〈italic〉EUV〈/italic〉〈/sub〉 correlates very well with the EUV observations compared to the F10.7 index. The study also examined the relationship between the solar proxies and Nmax on different time scales and found that Nmax responded significantly to 〈italic〉Q〈/italic〉〈sub〉〈italic〉EUV〈/italic〉〈/sub〉 at both medium‐ and long‐term timescales. Furthermore, a low correlation between Nmax in the equatorial region and solar proxies was found. A delayed ionospheric TEC response against solar flux variations within the 27‐day solar rotation was investigated. This ionospheric delay of TEC with respect to solar flux was observed to be less than 1 day, which was reproduced in model simulations. The current study has shown that the GOLD observations can be used to investigate the delayed ionospheric response and to gain a better understanding of the influence of solar activity on the TI system.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Ionospheric‐thermospheric parameters observed by Global‐Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) ultraviolet imaging spectrograph are compared with Coupled Thermosphere Ionosphere Plasmasphere electrodynamics model simulations〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The delayed ionospheric response against the solar flux is less than 1 day at the time scale of the 27 days solar rotation period〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The integrated 1–45 nm solar energy flux values observed by GOLD correlate well with the F10.7 and EUV〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: http://cddis.nasa.gov/Data_and_Derived_Products/GNSS/atmospheric_products.html
    Description: http://gold.cs.ucf.edu/search/
    Description: https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/form/dx1.html
    Description: https://lasp.colorado.edu/lisird/
    Description: http://guvitimed.jhuapl.edu/data/products
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8145356
    Keywords: ddc:538.7 ; CTIPe model ; O/N2 ratio ; ionospheric delay ; solar activity ; thermosphere‐ionosphere ; GOLD
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-22
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Mineral dust is one of the most abundant atmospheric aerosol species and has various far‐reaching effects on the climate system and adverse impacts on air quality. Satellite observations can provide spatio‐temporal information on dust emission and transport pathways. However, satellite observations of dust plumes are frequently obscured by clouds. We use a method based on established, machine‐learning‐based image in‐painting techniques to restore the spatial extent of dust plumes for the first time. We train an artificial neural net (ANN) on modern reanalysis data paired with satellite‐derived cloud masks. The trained ANN is applied to cloud‐masked, gray‐scaled images, which were derived from false color images indicating elevated dust plumes in bright magenta. The images were obtained from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager instrument onboard the Meteosat Second Generation satellite. We find up to 15% of summertime observations in West Africa and 10% of summertime observations in Nubia by satellite images miss dust plumes due to cloud cover. We use the new dust‐plume data to demonstrate a novel approach for validating spatial patterns of the operational forecasts provided by the World Meteorological Organization Dust Regional Center in Barcelona. The comparison elucidates often similar dust plume patterns in the forecasts and the satellite‐based reconstruction, but once trained, the reconstruction is computationally inexpensive. Our proposed reconstruction provides a new opportunity for validating dust aerosol transport in numerical weather models and Earth system models. It can be adapted to other aerosol species and trace gases.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Most dust and sand particles in the atmosphere originate from North Africa. Since ground‐based observations of dust plumes in North Africa are sparse, investigations often rely on satellite observations. Dust plumes are frequently obscured by clouds, making it difficult to study the full extent. We use machine‐learning methods to restore information about the extent of dust plumes beneath clouds in 2021 and 2022 at 9, 12, and 15 UTC. We use the reconstructed dust patterns to demonstrate a new way to validate the dust forecast ensemble provided by the World Meteorological Organization Dust Regional Center in Barcelona, Spain. Our proposed method is computationally inexpensive and provides new opportunities for assessing the quality of dust transport simulations. The method can be transferred to reconstruct other aerosol and trace gas plumes.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We present the first fast reconstruction of cloud‐obscured Saharan dust plumes through novel machine learning applied to satellite images〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The reconstruction algorithm utilizes partial convolutions to restore cloud‐induced gaps in gray‐scaled Meteosat Second Generation‐Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager Dust RGB images〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉World Meteorological Organization dust forecasts for North Africa mostly agree with the satellite‐based reconstruction of the dust plume extent〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
    Description: University of Cologne
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6475858
    Description: https://github.com/tobihose/Masterarbeit
    Description: https://dust.aemet.es/
    Description: https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/cams-global-reanalysis-eac4?tab=overview
    Description: https://navigator.eumetsat.int/product/EO:EUM:DAT:MSG:DUST
    Description: https://navigator.eumetsat.int/product/EO:EUM:DAT:MSG:CLM
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5067/KLICLTZ8EM9D
    Description: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets?project=MERRA-2
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD08_D3.061
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MYD08_D3.061
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8278518
    Keywords: ddc:551.5 ; mineral dust ; North Africa ; MSG SEVIRI ; machine learning ; cloud removal ; satellite remote sensing
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-22
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉ABSTRACT〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉During the Middle Devonian, reef growth reached an acme, and corals and stromatoporoids colonized depositional niches commonly considered unfavourable for reefal organisms. This paper documents the detailed facies architecture and palaeoecology of a stratigraphically thin (〈italic toggle="no"〉ca〈/italic〉 12 m, ‘carpet reef’), lower Givetian reefal body exposed along the walls and ceilings of the labyrinthine passages in the Klutert Cave in western Germany. The cave exposures (〈italic toggle="no"〉ca〈/italic〉 26 000 m〈sup〉2〈/sup〉 of rock surface) and data from short cores, neighbouring caves and outcrops document the growth and demise of an autoparabiostrome. The reef forms part of a parasequence with a lower carbonate and an upper clastic unit, bounded by flooding surfaces. Despite the comparatively small study area (〈italic toggle="no"〉ca〈/italic〉 1 km〈sup〉2〈/sup〉), the exceptional exposure quality reveals facies changes over relatively short distances both vertical and lateral. The sedimentary matrix of the reefal build‐up contains between 20 to 95 wt.‐% of clay and quartz of silt to sand fraction. Based on this observation, the corals and stromatoporoids thrived in murky waters and under sediment‐stressed conditions. Stromatoporoids, for example, display irregular ragged flanks, a feature that is in agreement with a sediment‐stressed environment. No evidence of reduced growth rates, decreased calcification rates, or lower numbers of species is found. In fact, coral diversity and density are highest within one of the two biostromal units that show peak clastic matrix values, indicating a remarkable adaptation of reef builders to sediment‐stressed conditions. The initial settlement of rugose phaceloid corals took place on a mixed clastic–carbonate substrate (the basal flooding surface). Up‐section, a succession of coral–stromatoporoids is present that is here described in great detail. Reef collapse occurred when much of the accommodation space was filled, and argillaceous sediments suffocated stromatoporoids and corals in a protected, low‐energy environment.〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Keywords: ddc:560 ; Biostrome ; corals ; Givetian ; mixed clastic–carbonate system ; reef model ; stromatoporoids
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-22
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The movement of active dunes is tightly linked to climatic conditions (e.g., wind regime, temperature and precipitation) as well as human influence (e.g., grazing, dune fixation and greening). Dune migration rates can be studied to draw conclusions of changing wind conditions over time. The Gonghe Basin (GB), located on the north‐eastern Tibetan Plateau (TP), offers a good testing ground for these assumptions. The intramontane basin is highly influenced by two major wind regimes: the mid‐latitude Westerlies and the East Asian summer monsoon. To investigate environmental changes, this study combines optical remote sensing techniques with climatic datasets. High‐resolution satellite images of the last five decades, such as CORONA KH‐4B, are used to map dunes and calculate their respective migration rates. Further, height information was extracted as well. Climatic changes from the ERA‐5 reanalysis dataset and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) values were processed alongside. Relating the dunes' surface processes to climate model data shows an accordance between slowing migration, expanding vegetation and a decrease in sand drift potential. From 1968 to present time, an average dune migration rate of 7.3 m a〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉 was extracted from the satellite images, with an overall reduction of −1.81 m a〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉. The resultant drift potential (RDP) values for the GB are calculated to be below 10 m〈sup〉3〈/sup〉 s〈sup〉−3〈/sup〉 with a spatial decrease, following a direction from the NW to the SE, fitting well with a corresponding decrease in the migration rates. Our results indicate a good agreement between the development of aeolian landforms and the ERA‐5 climate reanalysis model data, even in a high‐altitude setting with complex topography, which is known to influence such datasets.〈/p〉
    Description: 〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉We investigate climatic changes of the past 5 decades in the Gonghe Basin by using a wide range of remote sensing data. Era‐5 data is compared with dune migration rates. The dunes' behaviour is very well represented within the ERA‐5 data and shows a slowing migration over the past five decades. This fits well to climatic developments, like increasing precipitation and temperature. Sand drift potential was calculated and interpolated to pinpoint resultant drift potential (RDP) values to individual barchans. 〈boxed-text position="anchor" content-type="graphic" id="esp5651-blkfxd-0001" xml:lang="en"〉 〈graphic position="anchor" id="jats-graphic-1" xlink:href="urn:x-wiley:01979337:media:esp5651:esp5651-toc-0001"〉 〈/graphic〉 〈/boxed-text〉〈/p〉
    Description: Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF)
    Description: National Key Research and Development Program of China http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100012166
    Keywords: ddc:551.3 ; climate change ; CORONA KH‐4B ; dunes ; ERA‐5 ; satellite remote sensing ; Tibetan Plateau
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-22
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Erzgebirge ultrahigh‐pressure (UHP) garnet peridotite includes scarce layers of garnet pyroxenite, nodules of garnetite and, very rarely, of eclogite. Peridotite‐hosted eclogite shows the same subalkali‐basaltic bulk rock composition, mineral assemblage and peak conditions as gneiss‐hosted eclogite present in the same UHP unit. Garnetite has considerably more Mg, moderately enhanced Ca and Fe and significantly lower contents of Na, Ti, P, K and Si than eclogite, whereas Al is very similar. In addition, the compatible trace elements (Ni, Co, Cr, V) are elevated and most incompatible elements (Zr, Hf, Y, Sr, Rb and rare Earth elements [REE]) are depleted in garnetite relative to eclogite. In contrast to other large ion lithophile elements (LILEs), Pb (+121%) and Ba (+83%) are strongly enriched. The REE patterns of garnetite are characterized by depletion of light and heavy REE and a medium REE hump indicative of metasomatism, features being absent in eclogite. An exceptional garnetite sample shows an REE distribution similar to that of eclogite. Garnetite is interpreted to have formed from the same, but metasomatically altered, igneous protolith as eclogite. Except for Ba and Pb, the chemical signature of garnetite is explained best by metasomatic changes of its basaltic protolith caused by serpentinization of the host peridotite. Garnetite is chemically similar to basaltic rodingite/metarodingite. Although rodingite is commonly more enriched in Ca, there are also examples with moderately enhanced Ca matching the composition of Erzgebirge garnetite. Limited Ca metasomatism is attributed to the preservation of Ca in peridotite during hydrous alteration. This can be explained by incomplete serpentinization favouring metastable survival of the original clinopyroxene. In this case, most Ca is retained in peridotite and not available for infiltration and metasomatism of the garnetite protolith. This inescapable consequence is supported by the fact that clinopyroxene is part of the garnet peridotite UHP assemblage, which would not be the case if Ca had been removed from the protolith prior to high‐pressure metamorphism. The enrichment of compatible elements in garnetite is attributed to decomposition of peridotitic olivine (Ni, Co) and spinel (Cr, V) during serpentinization. Enrichment of Ba and Pb contrasts the behaviour of other LILEs and is ascribed to dehydration of the serpentinized peridotite (deserpentinization). This requires two separate stages of metasomatism: (1) intense chemical alteration of the basaltic garnetite precursor, together with serpentinization of peridotite at the ocean floor or during incipient subduction; and (2) prograde metamorphism and dehydration of serpentinite during continued subduction, thereby releasing Pb–Ba‐rich fluids that reacted with associated metabasalt. Finally, subduction to >100 km and UHP metamorphism of all lithologies led to formation of garnetite, eclogite and garnet pyroxenite hosted by co‐facial garnet peridotite as observed in the Erzgebirge.〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Keywords: ddc:552.4 ; Erzgebirge ; garnetite ; rodingitization ; serpentinization ; UHP metamorphism
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-22
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Due to the inherently fluid‐mobile nature of W, the 〈sup〉182〈/sup〉W record of the early Earth may have been obscured by fluid‐induced mobilization of W. To investigate W mobilization in Archean greenstone sequences, we analyzed 〈sup〉182〈/sup〉W isotope systematics and major and trace element concentrations in samples from the 3.53 Ga old Onverwacht Group of the Kaapvaal Craton (South Africa) and the >3.51 Ga old Badampahar Group of the Singhbhum Craton (India). Our results for mafic and ultramafic metavolcanic rocks show W/Th ratios significantly higher than primary magmatic values, which suggests fluid‐induced W enrichment. Samples least affected by secondary W enrichment (W/Th 〈 0.26) show no resolvable W isotope anomalies from modern mantle values in both cratons. Samples from the Kaapvaal Craton with elevated W/Th exhibit deficits in 〈sup〉182〈/sup〉W as low as −8.1 ± 4.3 ppm compared to the modern mantle. Covariations of μ〈sup〉182〈/sup〉W with W/Th, and Ce/Pb suggest that negative isotope signatures were introduced during secondary fluid‐mediated processes. The enrichment of W is most evident in altered ultramafic rocks comprising serpentine, resulting in additional covariations between MgO, LOI, and W/Th. The W isotope composition of serpentinized komatiites reflects the composition of younger intruding granitoids. We therefore infer the latter as a possible source of W‐rich fluids. The Badampahar Group samples exhibit little W isotope variability. A well‐resolved 〈sup〉182〈/sup〉W deficit of −6.2 ± 2.9 ppm was determined in a single komatiite sample, which indicates an unknown fluid source, currently not represented in any other unit of the Singhbhum Craton.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: The tungsten (W) isotope composition of ancient rocks can be used to trace processes that occurred during Earth's early evolution. However, interactions between rocks and fluids may alter the W concentration and therefore influence the interpretation of W isotope data. To identify the source of such fluids and the processes by which they affect the W isotope composition of rocks, we analyzed ancient rock samples from South Africa and India. The isotope composition of rocks with a low W concentration reflects that of the modern Earth. Therefore, they do not trace the processes that occurred during Earth's early evolution. Samples from South Africa with untypically high W concentrations show a different isotopic composition. The variation in the W isotope signature correlates with other chemical indices that are susceptible to modification by fluid‐related processes. This shows that the W within the rocks is derived from an external fluid source and not from their original magmatic source. Samples with the highest W enrichment have a similar isotope composition as spatially associated intrusive rocks. By inference, the latter likely represent the source of W‐rich fluids. The samples from India show similar enrichment in W, indicating similar fluid‐related processes and W sources at both localities.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The magmatic sources of metavolcanic rocks from the Onverwacht Group and the Badampahar Group do not exhibit W isotope anomalies〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Negative W isotope signatures in the Onverwacht Group are likely derived from fluids sourced from younger intrusive granitoids〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Felsic intrusive rocks are a major source of W‐rich fluids in Paleoarchean greenstone units〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5880/digis.2023.005
    Keywords: ddc:551.9 ; fluid‐mobility ; Kaapvaal ; Singhbhum ; 182W ; tungsten isotopes
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-22
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Coastal protection in the form of dike constructions has a long history at the German North Frisian coast dating back to the High Middle Ages. As the vast majority of the dikes built prior to the devastating storm surges of the Middle Ages have been irretrievably destroyed, mostly sparse remains and only a few well preserved of these medieval dikes are found along the German North Frisian coast and within the Wadden Sea. Not all details of their construction and dimensions are yet understood. In the present case study, we investigate the historical Schardeich on the island of Pellworm in the German North Sea in a noninvasive way using shear waves (SH‐waves). For the data interpretation, we applied a combination of seismic full waveform inversion and classical seismic reflection imaging to determine the interior structure of the dike and its underlying layers at the highest possible resolution. The results obtained on land are compared with dike remains found in the tidal flats. These remains show up in marine seismic sections as characteristic reflections, which probably represent a compaction layer caused by the load of the former dike. For ground truthing, we compare the seismic results with internal dike structures found in nearby excavations. The comparison highlights that FWI is a reliable tool for near‐surface archaeological prospecting. We find that SH‐wave FWI provides decimetre‐scale velocity and density models that allow, together with the seismic reflection section, to determine distinct construction phases of the dike. The investigated dike further shows a depression at base level of about 0.75 m, which is of the same order as observed for the dike base reflections in the tidal flats. Transferring these findings to the dike remains mapped in the tidal flats, we derive a height of the former dike from 2.2 to 4.4 m.〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Keywords: ddc:622.1592 ; archaeogeophysics ; high‐resolution seismic reflection imaging ; seismic full waveform inversion ; shear‐wave seismic
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-22
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Regardless of the steady increase of computing power during the last decades, numerical models in a 3D spherical shell are only used in specific setups to investigate the thermochemical convection in planetary interiors, while 2D geometries are typically favored in most exploratory studies involving a broad range of parameters. The 2D cylindrical and the more recent 2D spherical annulus geometries are predominantly used in this context, but the extent to how well they reproduce the 3D spherical shell results in comparison to each other and in which setup has not yet been extensively investigated. Here we performed a thorough and systematic study in order to assess which 2D geometry reproduces best the 3D spherical shell. In a first set of models, we investigated the effects of the geometry on thermal convection in steady‐state setups while varying a broad range of parameters. Additional thermal evolution models of three terrestrial bodies, namely Mercury, the Moon, and Mars, which have different interior structures, were used to compare the 2D and 3D geometries. Our investigations show that the 2D spherical annulus geometry provides results closer to models in a 3D spherical shell compared to the 2D cylindrical geometry. Our study indicates where acceptable differences can be expected when using a 2D instead of a 3D geometry and where to be cautious when interpreting the results.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: In geodynamic modeling, numerical models are used in order to investigate how the interior of a terrestrial planet evolves from the earliest stage, after the planetary formation, up to present day. Often, the mathematical equations that are used to model the physical processes in the interior of rocky planets are discretized and solved using geometric meshes. The most commonly applied geometries are the 3D spherical shell, the 2D cylinder, and the 2D spherical annulus. While being the most accurate and realistic, the 3D geometry is expensive in terms of computing power and time of execution. On the other hand, 2D geometries provide a reduced accuracy but are computationally faster. Here we perform an extensive comparison between 2D and 3D geometries in scenarios of increasing complexity. The 2D spherical annulus geometry shows much closer results to the 3D spherical shell when compared to the 2D cylinder and should be given preference in 2D modeling studies.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Interior dynamics models using the 2D spherical annulus geometry match the results of a 3D spherical shell better than the 2D cylinder〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The difference between 2D and 3D geometries decreases when models are heated from below by the core and from within by radioactive elements〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The 2D spherical annulus shows negligible differences to 3D for the thermal evolution of Mercury and the Moon, and acceptable values for Mars〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden‐Württemberg
    Description: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8047757
    Keywords: ddc:523 ; mantle convection ; thermal evolution ; spherical annulus ; Mars ; Moon ; Mercury
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-22
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉As projected by multiple climate models, short‐duration heavy precipitation events (SDHPEs) are expected to intensify particularly quickly under the changing climate posing substantial risk to natural and human systems. Yet over the years, SDHPEs have received less scientific attention than long‐duration heavy precipitation events (LDHPEs), mainly due to the limitations of measurement systems. Our aim is to provide insight into spatial and temporal variability of SDHPEs detected by the radar network of the 〈italic toggle="no"〉Deutscher Wetterdienst〈/italic〉 (DWD) in Germany from 2001 to 2020 as well as to explore their links to circulation patterns (CPs). The study is based on the Catalogue of Radar‐based heavy Rainfall Events (CatRaRE) generated using reprocessed gauge‐adjusted data of the DWD radar network as well as a new numerical method for classifying CPs over Central Europe called “〈italic toggle="no"〉Großwetterlagen〈/italic〉 for Reanalyses” (GWL‐REA). The results have demonstrated that SDHPEs, which are defined based on either locally valid precipitation values with a return period of 5 years (CatRaRE T5) or absolute precipitation values equal to DWD Warning Level 3 (CatRaRE W3), are common phenomena occurring most frequently in the afternoon hours of the summer season. They constitute up to 90% of all heavy precipitation events included in the catalogues covering relatively small areas—the median area of SDHPEs ranges from 22 km〈sup〉2〈/sup〉 (CatRaRE T5) to 24 km〈sup〉2〈/sup〉 (CatRaRE W3), while the median area of LDHPEs ranges from 175 km〈sup〉2〈/sup〉 (CatRaRE W3) to 184 km〈sup〉2〈/sup〉 (CatRaRE T5). As compared to LDHPEs, SDHPEs are generated by a wider spectrum of circulation conditions, including not only cyclonic but also anticyclonic CPs. In the warm season, the anticyclonic CPs, often accompanied by air mass advection from the south, can induce high thermal instability leading to the development of relatively small, isolated convective cells, which often cannot be captured by rain gauge stations.〈/p〉
    Description: Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV)
    Description: https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/catrare/catrare.html
    Keywords: ddc:551.6 ; CatRaRE ; circulation patterns ; GWL‐REA ; heavy precipitation events ; long‐duration precipitation ; radar data ; short‐duration precipitation
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    In:  Herausgeberexemplar
    Publication Date: 2024-05-08
    Description: Inhaltsübersicht : Helmut Keupp & Daria Ivanova: Calcareous dinoflagellate cysts from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of the Western Forebalkan, Bulgaria … 3-31 ; Helmut Keupp & Rolf Kohring: Kalkige Dinoflagellatenzysten aus dem Obermiozän (NN 11 ) W von Rethimnon (Kreta) … 33-53 ; Dimitris Frydas, Helmut Keupp & Spyridon M. Bellas: Biostratigraphical research in Late Neogene marine deposits of the Chania Province, western Crete, Greece … 55-67 ; Glenn Fechner: "Microforaminiferal" lining taphonomy: A cautionary note … 69-81 ; Uwe Gloy & Rolf Kohring: Py-GC-Analysen an einem fossilen Harz aus dem Oberen Jura (Grube Guimarota/Portugal) … 83-88 ; Joachim Gründel: Truncatelloidea (Littorinimorpha, Gastropoda) aus dem Lias und Dogger Deutschlands und Nordpolens … 89-119 ; Helmut Keupp, Martin Röper & Adolf Seilacher: Paläobiologische Aspekte von syn vivo-besiedelten Ammonoideen im Plattenkalk des Ober-Kimmeridgiums von Brunn in Ostbayern … 121-145 ; Nikolaus Malchus: Identification of larval bivalve shells by means of simple statistics … 147-160 ; Carsten Helm, John W.M. Jagt & Manfred Kutscher: Early Campanian ophiuroids from the Hannover area (Lower Saxony, Northern Germany) … 161-173 ; Christian Neumann: New spatangoid echinoids (Echinodermata) from the Upper Cretaceous of Jordan: taxonomy and phylogenetic importance … 175-189 ; Oldrich Fejfar und Daniela C. Kalthoff: Aberrant cricetids (Platacanthomyines, Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Eurasia … 191-206 ; Thekla Pfeiffer: Sexualdimorphismus, Ontogenie und innerartliche Variabilität der pleistozänen Cervidenpopulationen von Dama dama geiselana Pfeiffer 1998 und Cervus elaphus L. (Cervidae, Mammalia) aus Neumark-Nord (Sachsen-Anhalt, Deutschland) … 207-313 ; Beiträge zur Baikal-Rift-Forschung : MJ. Kuzmin et al.: Climatic events in Siberia during upper Brunhes according to the Lake Baikal sedimentary record … 315-323 ; S. K. Krivonogov et al.: The prospects of GIS use in investigation of the Baikal area … 325-328 ; Y. Masuda et al.: Perspective Studies of Freshwater Sponges in Lake Baikal … 329-332 ; Oleg A. Timoshkin: Biology of Lake Baikal: „White Spots“ and Progress in Research … 333-348 ; Bibliographie : Uwe Gloy: Bibliographie 1997, Institut für Paläontologie, FU Berlin … 349-352 ;
    Description: thesis
    Description: DFG, SUB Göttingen
    Keywords: ddc:560 ; Paläobiologie ; Paläontologie
    Language: German , English
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-08
    Description: [...] ROR stands for Research Organization Registry and is an open registry for research organizations. The registry is developed and operated as a joint initiative of the California Digital Library, Crossref and DataCite. ROR already references more than 103,000 organizations, ranging from universities and extramural research institutions to government agencies, research funders and government departments. [...] This publication is a translation of the FID GEO article in 〈a href="http://doi.org/10.23689/fidgeo-5750"〉GMIT 91.〈/a〉
    Description: research
    Keywords: ddc:550 ; GMIT ; Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen
    Language: English
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    Selbstverlag Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, FU Berlin
    In:  Herausgeberexemplar
    Publication Date: 2024-05-06
    Description: Klaus Bandel & Thorsten Kowalke: Systematic value of the larval shell of fossil and modern Vanikoridae, Pickworthiidae and the genus Fossarus (Caenogastropoda, Mollusca) … 3 ; R. Thomas Becker: Eine neue und älteste Glatziella (Clymeniida) aus dem höheren Oberdevon des Nordsauerlandes (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge) … 31 ; Glenn G. Rechner: Eine Dinoflagellaten-Zysten-Vergesellschaftung des tieferen Rupelium (Unter-Oligozän) aus transgressiven Ablagerungen nördlich von Altenhausen in Sachsen-Anhalt (Blatt 3733, Erxleben) … 43 ; Joachim Gründel: Zur Kenntis einiger Gastropoden-Gattungen aus dem französischen Jura und allgemeine Bemerkungen zur Gastropodenfauna aus dem Dogger Mittel- und Westeuropas … 69 ; Joachim Gründel: Heterostropha (Gastropoda) aus dem Dogger Norddeutschlands und Nordpolens. I. Mathildoidea (Mathildidae) … 131 ; Joachim Gründel: Heterostropha (Gastropoda) aus dem Dogger Norddeutschlands und Nordpolens. III. Opisthobranchia … 177 ; C. M. Hampton & J. E. Rae: Genesis of the fossiliferous Pleistocene Hima Limestone, western Uganda, as indicated by its isotopic composition … 225 ; Helmut Keupp: Anomal kiellose Hildoceratidae (= „Subfamilie Monestierinae SAPUNOV 1965“): Ursache taxonomischer Konfusionen (Ammonoidea, Toarcium) … 233 ; Helmut Keupp: Paläopathologische Analyse einer „Population“ von Dactylioceras athleticum (SIMPSON) aus dem Unter-Toarcium von Schlaifhausen/Oberfranken … 243 ; Rolf Kohring: Eischalen neognather Vögel aus dem mitteleozänen Geiseltal (Deutschland) … 269 ; Rolf Kohring: Eggshell Structure as Evidence in Avian Systematics - Preliminary Results … 281 ; Jürgen Kriwet: Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fischfauna des Oberjura (unteres Kimmeridgium) der Kohlengrube Guimarota bei Leiria, Mittel-Portugal: 2. Neoselachii (Pisces, Elasmobranchii) ... 293 ; Thomas Schlüter: Validity of the Paratrichoptera - an extinct Insect Order related to the Mecoptera, Diptera, Trichoptera or Lepidoptera? Suggestions based on discoveries in the Upper Triassic Molteno Formation of South Africa … 303 ; Rolf Kohring: Bibliographie 1996, Institut für Paläontologie, Freie Universität Berlin … 313 ;
    Description: thesis
    Description: DFG, SUB Göttingen
    Keywords: ddc:560 ; Paläobiologie ; Paläontologie
    Language: German , English
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    Selbstverlag Fachbereich Geowissenschaften Freie Universität Berlin
    In:  SUB Göttingen | 98 B 4059
    Publication Date: 2024-05-03
    Description: Die Andenkordillere entstand entlang des westlichen Randes von Südamerika aufgrund der Subduktion der ozeanischen Nazca-Platte unter die kontinentale Südamerikaplatte seit dem Jura. Als solche werden die Anden als ein klassisches Beispiel eines Orogens entlang eines aktiven Kontinentalrandes betrachtet. Obwohl die gegenwärtige Physiographie das Ergebnis der Andinen Tektonik ist, sind die Zentralanden das Ergebnis von einem komplexen Zusammenspiel von Präkambrischen und Paläozoischen Terrane-Akretionen und Phasen von Kompression und Extension. Die Puna und die Ostkordillere spielen in diesem Zusammenhang eine entscheidende Rolle in der tektonischen Entwicklung der Zentralanden. Die vorliegende Untersuchung befasst sich mit dem Gebiet der nördlichen argentinischen Puna und der Ostkordillere, von etwa 22°S bis 24°S und 65 °W bis 66°30' W. Es wurden etwa 1200 km Seismik interpretiert, deren Ergebnis als Randbedingung in die Konstruktion des gravimetrischen 3D Modells des Gebietes einging.
    Description: The Andes Mountains developed along the western margin of SouthAmerica in response to the subduction of the oceanic Nazca Plate below the South American plate since the Jurassic times. It is considered as one of the classic examples of a mountain chain developed in an active continental margin. Although their present physiography is given by the Andean tectonics, the Central Andes are the result of complex interplay of Precambrian and Paleozoic terrane accretion and phases of compression and extension. The Puna and Eastern Cordillera represent key elements in the tectonic evolution of the Central Andes. The present study covers a region of the northern Puna and Eastern Cordillera extending from approximately 22°S to 24°S and 65 °W to 66°30'W in Argentina. About 1200 km of seismic lines were interpreted and were used as a geometrical constraint for the construction of a 3D gravity model of the area.
    Description: thesis
    Description: DFG, SUB Göttingen
    Keywords: ddc:558 ; Anden ; Argentinien ; Seismik
    Language: English
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    Selbstverlag Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, FU Berlin
    In:  Herausgeberexemplar
    Publication Date: 2024-05-02
    Description: In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Krustenstruktur im östlichen Andenvorland untersucht. Das Gebiet umfaßt den Nordwesten Argentiniens, zwischen dem 22° und 25° südlichen Breitengrad und dem 66° und 62° westlichen Längengrad. Aus morphologischer Sicht befindet sich das Untersuchungsgebiet im Übergang zwischen dem Subandin (Sierras Subandinas) und der südlichen Ostkordillere zum Chaco Vorland (Llanura Chaqueña). Im Untersuchungsgebiet zeichnet sich ein Wechsel in den tektonischen Strukturen ab, welcher als Interaktion zwischen der tertiären Andenorogenese und kretazischen Riftbildungen gedeutet wird. Dieser als Inversionstektonik bekannte tektonischer Stil hat nicht nur oberflächennahe Strukturen hervorgerufen, sondern auch tiefgreifende Massenveränderungen verursacht. Teile dieser Modifikationen sind in der Signatur des Schwerefeldes erhalten geblieben, und somit ist die Interpretation gravimetrischer Meßergebnisse zusammen mit den geologischen Randbedingungen eine Grundvorraussetzung zur Untersuchung dieser tektonischen Interaktion. Zum Verständnis dieser Strukturen war es notwendig, sowohl den Teil des Beckens zu untersuchen, welcher nicht von der andinen Orogenese betroffen ist, als auch jenen der direkt in die letztere miteinbezogen wurde. Aus gravimetrischer Sicht ist die Bougueranomalie des Gebietes stark vom Effekt der Andenwurzel geprägt. Jedoch deuten einige Abweichungen auf die Existenz lokalerer Störkörper hin, die Ziel der Modellierung waren. Ein solcher Störkörper wurde am südöstlichen Rand des kretazischen Rifts identifiziert. Die Modellierung wurde einerseits zweidimensional durchgeführt um einen Überblick über das Gebiet zu bekommen. Eine regionale 3D Modellierung führte dann zu einer präziseren Interpretation des Gebietes. Insbesondere wurde dabei der Effekt überschobener Riftschollen am Ostrand des Beckens untersucht. Diese Überschiebungen drücken sich im gravimetrischen Restfeld als deutliche positive Anomalie aus. Allerdings kann diese Anomalie nicht direkt mit einem Astenosphärenanstieg, welcher durch Riftbildung entstanden sein könnte, in Einklang gebracht werden - wie von einigen Autoren vermutet wurde. Eine weitere modellierte Struktur bildete die Vortiefe, welche durch die Auflast der andinen Überschiebung enstanden ist. Die dadurch hervorgerufenen negativen Anomalien bilden einen deutlichen Kontrast zu der beschriebenen positiven Anomalie im Vorland, der sich auch im Restfeld als starker Gradient äußert. Die 2D Modellierung erbrachte folgende Ergebnisse: im anorogenen Breich des Untersuchungsgebietes wurde die Existenz einer deutliche Asymmetrie des Beckens bestätigt, mit einer nach Südosten geneigten Riftabscherungsfläche. Die Orogenese hinterließ deutliche Spuren in der Reaktivierung der Abscherungen wobei entlang der südostvergenten Störungen tieferes Krustenmaterial emporgeschoben wurde. Mit einer größeren Dichte wird dieser Vorgang als Ursache der positiven Anomalie intepretiert. Westvergente Störungen scheinen nur oberflächennahe Bereiche miteinbezogen haben. Im regionalen 3D Modell wurde ein Ansteigen der Unterkruste unterhalb des Beckens angenommen. Die asymmetrische Anordnung dieses Anstiegs deutet eher auf einen kompressive tektonischen Effekt hin als auf eine residuale Krustenverdünnung. Zusammenfassend kann gesagt werden, daß sich in diesem Breich im Schwerefeld die Effekte des Andengradienten mit denen der überschobenen Basement-Tektonik und der Vorlandtief kombinieren und als solche fur einen starken lokalen Gradienten am Rande des Effekts der Andenwurzel verantwortlich sind.
    Description: In the present study, the structure of the crust beneath the eastern Andean foreland is analyzed. The area comprises part of northwest Argentina, between 22° and 25° S and 66° and 62° W. In terms of morphotectonics, the area studied covers the transition between the Sierras Subandinas (Subandean Ranges) and the southern part of the Cordillera Oriental (Eastern Cordillera) to the Chaco plains (Llanura Chaqueña). In the area, a pervasive change controls the tectonic features, which is interpreted as a consequence of the interaction between the Andean orogeny and preexistent Cretaceous rifting. This inversion tectonics did not only result in a particular suite of near to surface structures but also modified deeply the mass distribution within the crust. This changes in mass distributions and hence density contrasts is evidenced by the gravity field. As such, a careful analysis of gravity data together with the geological boundary conditions are the basis for an analysis of this tectonic interaction. Understanding these structures implied to analyse not only the part of the rift involved in the Andean compressive orogenesis but also that part where original extensional features are still preserved. From a gravimetrical point of view, the Bouguer-anomaly of the area shows a strong overprint related with the Andean root. Some smaller changes in the field however indicate the existence of local sources, which where the target of the modelling. Such a change had been indentified at the southeastern edge of the Cretaceous rift. Modelling was performed towfold. As such, a 2D model was made in order to get an insight into the regional aspects of the area. A more detailed 3D model led to a more precise interpretation of the area. In particular, the effect of the inverted rift tectonics at the eastern edge of the basin was studied. These upthrusts correlate with a readily identifiable positive anomaly within the residual field. The anomaly neverthless cannot be directly related with an astenospheric uprise, preserved since the rifting stage, as suggested by some authors. In addition, the foredeep related with the tectonic load of the Andean overthurst, was modelled. The negative anomalies generated during this process, show a strong contrast in comparison with the positive anomaly described above, depicted also by a prominent gradient in the residual field. 2D modelling led to the following results. In the region, where Creataceous rifting structures were not overprinted by the Andean orogeny an obvious asymmetry of the basin was defined, being the master detachment dipping to the northeast. The orogeny left evidences of reactivation, where the structures of the southeastern edge were the pathways of the uplift if deeper crustal material with a higher density. This process may be responsible for a part of the positive anomaly mentioned. Structures located at the western and northwestern edge of the basin seem to have only involved nearer-to surface structures. The 3D model assumed a slight uprise of the lower crust beneath the basin. The asymmetry in goemetty seem to stand more for a tectonic effect than for a remanent thinned crust. As a summary, the gravity field in this area shows the combined effects of the regional Andean gradient with the more local effects of the basement tectonics (inverted rifting) and the overthrusted foredeep. Hence, at least these three factors seem to be responsible for the strong local gradient in a lateral position of the Andean root.
    Description: thesis
    Description: DFG, SUB Göttingen
    Keywords: ddc:550 ; Geophysik
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-25
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Vegetation classification is an essential prerequisite for understanding vegetation‐water relations at a range of spatial scales. However, in site‐specific applications, such classifications were mostly based on a single Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight, which can be challenging in grasslands and/or herbaceous‐dominated systems, as those communities are small in size and highly mixed. Here, we conducted monthly UAV flights for two years in a riparian wetland in Germany, with acquired imagery used for vegetation classification on a monthly basis under different strategies (with or without auxiliary information from other flights) to increase understanding in ecohydrology. The results show that multi‐flight‐based classification outperformed single‐flight‐based classification due to the higher classification accuracy. Moreover, improved sensitivity of temporal changes in community distribution highlights the benefits of multi‐flight‐based classification ‐ providing a more comprehensive picture of community evolution. From reference to the monthly community distribution, we argue that a combination of two or three flights in early‐ and late‐summer is enough to achieve comparable results to monthly flights, while mid‐summer would be a better timing in case only one flight is scheduled. With such detailed vegetation mapping, we further interpreted the complex spatio‐temporal heterogeneity in NDVI and explored the dominant areas and developmental progress of each community. Impacts from management (mowing events) were also evaluated based on the different responses between communities in two years. Finally, we explored how such vegetation mapping could help understand landscape ecohydrology, and found that the spatio‐temporal distribution of minimal soil moisture was related to NDVI peaks of local community, while grass distribution was explained by both topography and low moisture conditions. Such bi‐directional relationships proved that apart from contributing to an evidence base for wetland management, multi‐flight UAV vegetation mapping could also provide fundamental insights into the ecohydrology of wetlands.〈/p〉
    Description: Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC)
    Description: Einstein Foundation Berlin and Berlin University Alliance
    Description: Leverhulme Trust http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275
    Keywords: ddc:551.48 ; ecohydrology ; remote sensed vegetation dynamics ; soil moisture ; UAV ; unmanned aerial vehicles ; wetlands
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-25
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉To evaluate how the presence of pseudotachylytes affects the strength of crustal rocks, deformed pseudotachylytes and their relationship with pristine pseudotachylytes at the base of the Silvretta nappe are analyzed. Pseudotachylytes formed associated with high‐stress crystal plasticity (〈italic〉σ〈/italic〉〈sub〉〈italic〉d〈/italic〉〈/sub〉 > 400 MPa), as indicated by twinned amphiboles in gneisses. Mylonitic quartz clasts enclosed within deformed pseudotachylytes and mylonitic vein‐quartz, hosting folded pseudotachylyte injection veins, reflect creep at lower stresses (ca. 100 MPa) after seismic rupturing. Deformed pseudotachylytes can be crosscut by pristine pseudotachylytes, indicating a second, independent stage of coseismic rupturing after creep. The evidence of dynamic dislocation creep of quartz and the presence of stilpnomelane and epidote associated with all fault rocks indicate similar ambient greenschist facies conditions during all deformation stages. Whereas the intermediate stage of creep is interpreted to represent deformation at large distance to the propagating thrust tip, the pristine pseudotachylytes represent the last stage of rupturing eventually leading to nappe decoupling from its basement. Gneiss clasts in an ultramylonitic matrix (i.e., deformed pseudotachylyte) reveal that pseudotachylytes have a lower strength during creep in relation to the hosting gneisses. In contrast, during coseismic high‐stress crystal plasticity, the coarse gneisses accumulate a higher amount of strain. This strength‐relationship explains that only those rocks rupture, which have not been previously deformed before. The study demonstrates the importance of different strengths of crustal rocks at specific stress‐ and strain‐rate conditions in dependence on the distance to the propagating fault tip.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Ultramylonites (deformed pseudotachylytes) and mylonites represent creep at large distance to the propagating thrust tip〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Pristine pseudotachylytes represent final deformation at the tip of the propagating thrust fault associated with nappe decoupling〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Pseudotachylytes are weak during aseismic creep and strong during coseismic high‐stress plasticity〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: https://doi.org/10.17632/xhh2ktks9g.4
    Description: https://nano.oxinst.com/products/aztec/
    Description: https://www.horiba.com/aut/scientific/products/detail/action/show/Product/labspec-6-spectroscopy-suite-software-1843/
    Keywords: ddc:551.8 ; (deformed) pseudotachylytes ; (ultra‐)mylonites ; creep ; multiple high‐stress events ; seismic cycle ; nappe decoupling
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-25
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉There have been a number of theories proposed concerning the loss of relativistic electrons from the radiation belts. However, direct observations of loss were not possible on a number of previous missions due to the large field of view of the instruments and often high‐altitude orbits of satellites that did not allow researchers to isolate the precipitating electrons from the stably trapped. We use measurements from the ELFIN‐L suit of instruments flown on Lomonosov spacecraft at LEO orbit, which allows us to distinguish stably trapped from the drift loss cone electrons. The sun‐synchronous orbit of Lomonosov allows us to quantify scattering that occurred into the loss cone on the dawn‐side and the dusk‐side magnetosphere. The loss at MeV energies is observed predominantly on the dawn‐side, consistent with the loss induced by the chorus waves. The companion data publication provides processed measurements.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: There have been a number of models proposed concerning the loss of relativistic electrons from radiation belts. However, the direct observations of loss have been missing, as for most of the previous missions; the large aperture telescopes could not isolate the precipitating electrons from being stably trapped. In this study, we use measurements from ELFIN‐L on Lomonosov that allow for such separation and allow us to distinguish stably trapped from precipitating particles. We can also identify the particles that will be lost within one drift around the Earth, the so‐called drift loss cone. For understanding the loss processes and differentiating between them, it's crucially important to quantify where in local magnetic time these electrons will be scattered into the drift loss cone. Measurements from the ELFIN‐L instrument show that the loss at MeV energies is observed predominantly on the dawn side, consistent with the loss induced by the so‐called chorus plasma waves.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉ELFIN‐L measurements allow comparing scattering into the loss cone on the dawn and dusk side〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Processed Level‐3 measurements are provided in the data publication〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Most of the relativistic electrons are scattered into the drift loss cone on the dawn side〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: National Science Foundation
    Description: Russian University Satellite Mission
    Description: Helmholtz Association
    Description: European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.7.2023.002
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.7.2023.003
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.7.2023.004
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.7.2023.005
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.7.2023.006
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.7.2023.007
    Description: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/poes-metop-space-environment-monitor/access/l1b/v01r00/
    Keywords: ddc:538.7 ; Electron Particle Detector ; ELFIN-L ; radiation belts ; electron loss ; drift loss cone
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-25
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet of our solar system and has a dipole‐dominated internal magnetic field that is relatively weak, very axisymmetric and significantly offset toward north. Through the interaction with the solar wind, a magnetosphere is created. Compared to the magnetosphere of Earth, Mercury's magnetosphere is smaller and more dynamic. To understand the magnetospheric structures and processes we use in situ MESSENGER data to develop further a semi‐empiric model of the magnetospheric magnetic field, which can explain the observations and help to improve the mission planning for the BepiColombo mission en‐route to Mercury. We present this semi‐empiric KTH22‐model, a modular model to calculate the magnetic field inside the Hermean magnetosphere. Korth et al. (2015, 〈ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JA021022"〉https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JA021022〈/ext-link〉, 2017, 〈ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl074699"〉https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl074699〈/ext-link〉) published a model, which is the basis for the KTH22‐model. In this new version, the representation of the neutral sheet current magnetic field is more realistic, because it is now based on observations rather than ad‐hoc assumptions. Furthermore, a new module is added to depict the eastward ring shaped current magnetic field. These enhancements offer the possibility to improve the main field determination. In addition, analyzing the magnetic field residuals allows us to investigate the field‐aligned currents and their possible dependencies on external drivers. We see increasing currents under more disturbed conditions inside the magnetosphere, but no clear dependence on the z‐component of the interplanetary magnetic field nor on the magnetosheath plasma 〈italic〉β〈/italic〉.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We present a revised model of Mercury's magnetospheric magnetic field〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The model now includes an eastward ring shaped current and the neutral sheet current is calculated more precisely with Biot Savart's law〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The strength of the field‐aligned currents increases with higher magnetic activity〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: German Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz and the German Zentrum für Luft‐ und Raumfahrt
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: ESA Research Fellowship
    Keywords: ddc:523 ; Mercury ; magnetosphere ; field‐aligned currents ; modeling ; neutral sheet current ; planetary dipole moment
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-25
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Recent observations and modeling increasingly reveal the key role of cold pools in organizing the convective cloud field. Several methods for detecting cold pools in simulations exist, but are usually based on buoyancy fields and fall short of reliably identifying the active gust front. The current cold pool (CP) detection and tracking algorithm (CoolDeTA), aims to identify cold pools and follow them in time, thereby distinguishing their active gust fronts and the “offspring” rain cells generated nearby. To accomplish these tasks, CoolDeTA utilizes a combination of thermodynamic and dynamical variables and examines the spatial and temporal relationships between cold pools and rain events. We demonstrate that CoolDeTA can reconstruct CP family trees. Using CoolDeTA we can contrast radiative convective equilibrium (RCE) and diurnal cycle CP dynamics, as well as cases with vertical wind shear and without. We show that the results obtained are consistent with a conceptual model where CP triggering of children rain cells follows a simple birth rate, proportional to a CP's gust front length. The proportionality factor depends on the ambient atmospheric stability and is lower for RCE, in line with marginal stability as traditionally ascribed to the moist adiabat. In the diurnal case, where ambient stability is lower, the birth rate thus becomes substantially higher, in line with periodic insolation forcing—resulting in essentially run‐away mesoscale excitations generated by a single parent rain cell and its CP.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Cold pools are cooled air masses below thunderstorm clouds, produced when rain evaporates underneath such clouds. Cold pools are important, as they produce strong gusts and have been associated with clumping of rain cells, whereby heavy rainfall over relatively small areas could be generated—with implications for flooding. The current work describes a method that helps identify such cold pools in computer simulation data. In contrast to earlier methods, we here show that the interaction between a CP and its surroundings can be reconstructed by the method. We show that this identification works under a range of contexts, such as when horizontal wind is applied in the simulations or when the surface temperature is not constant—as might often be the case over a land surface. The identification reveals interesting dynamical effects, such as that in some cases, cold pools can kick‐start a form of chain reaction, by which “rain cell children” of it give rise to additional cold pools that again produce children, and so forth. The dynamics revealed is in line with expectations of widespread, so‐called mesoscale convective systems over land, whereas over an ocean surface the dynamics is much less explosive.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Our CoolDeTA algorithm reliably detects and tracks cold pools and their causal chains〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We propose a simple conceptual model which reproduces the cascade‐like mesoscale cold pool dynamics identified by CoolDeTA〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉CoolDeTA opens for new studies into the dynamics of convective self‐organization through cold pools〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Villum Fonden http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100008398
    Description: European Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000781
    Description: Novo Nordisk Foundation Interdisciplinary Synergy Program
    Description: Scientific Steering Committee
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6513224
    Description: https://github.com/Shakiro7/coldPool-detection-and-tracking
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10115957
    Description: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.453
    Keywords: ddc:551.6 ; cold pools ; detection ; tracking ; cloud resolving simulation ; convective organization
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-25
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The seasonal deposition and sublimation of CO〈sub〉2〈/sub〉 constitute a major element in the Martian volatile cycle. Here, we propose to use the shadow variations of the ice blocks at the foot of the steep scarps of the North Polar Layered Deposits (NPLD) to infer the vertical evolution of the seasonal deposits. We conduct an experiment at a steep scarp centered at (85.0°N, 151.5°E). We assume that no snowfall remains on top of the selected ice blocks, the frost ice layer is homogeneous around the ice blocks and their surroundings, and no significant moating is present. We show that the average thickness of the seasonal deposits due to snowfalls in Mars Year 31 is 0.97 ± 0.13 m at Ls = 350.7° in late winter. The large depth measured makes us wonder if snowfalls are more frequent and violent than previously thought. Meanwhile, we show that the average frost thickness in Mars Year 31 reaches 0.64 ± 0.18 m at Ls = 350.7° in late winter. Combined, the total thickness of the seasonal cover in Mars Year 31 reaches 1.63 ± 0.22 m at Ls = 350.7° in late winter, continuously decreases to 0.45 ± 0.06 m at Ls = 42.8° in middle spring and 0.06 ± 0.05 m at Ls = 69.6° in late spring. These estimates are up to 0.8 m lower than the existing Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter results during the spring. Meanwhile, we observe that snow in the very early spring of Mars Year 36 can be 0.36 ± 0.13 m thicker than that in Mars Year 31. This study demonstrates the dynamics of the Martian climate and emphasizes the importance of its long‐term monitoring.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Like Earth, Mars also has seasons. Up to one third of the atmospheric CO〈sub〉2〈/sub〉 annually exchanges with the polar surface through seasonal deposition/sublimation processes. Deposition can be either atmospheric precipitation as snowfall or direct surface condensation as frost. At the steep scarps of the North Polar Layered Deposits (NPLD), fractured ice fragments can detach and fall to form ice blocks. We propose to use variations in the shadows of these ice blocks, observed in the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment images, to infer the thickness evolution of the seasonal deposits. We make reasonable assumptions about the distribution of snowfall and frost around the ice blocks and their surroundings, which allow us to separately measure the thickness of snowfall and frost. Meanwhile, we introduce a novel approach that allows us to estimate the thickness of the seasonal deposits during late winter and early spring when image quality is insufficient. This approach also enables us to peer into the interannual thickness variations of snowfall. We carry out a successful experiment at a scarp centered at (85.0°N, 151.5°E). The obtained thickness measurements demonstrate the dynamics of the Martian volatile cycling and can be used to constrain the Martian climate models.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We propose to examine the shadow variations of the ice blocks at the Martian polar region to infer the thickness of the seasonal deposits〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Maximum thickness of the seasonal deposits at the study scarp in MY31 is 1.63 ± 0.22 m to which snowfalls contribute 0.97 ± 0.13 m〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Seasonal deposits at the study scarp are up to 0.8 m shallower than previous measurements during spring〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: HX, LML, and PJG
    Description: https://doi.org/10.17189/1520303
    Description: https://doi.org/10.17632/5yy475dbry.1
    Description: https://doi.org/10.17632/x953mzxxvv.1
    Description: https://doi.org/10.17189/1520101
    Description: http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/2001
    Keywords: ddc:523 ; Mars ; seasonal polar caps ; thickness ; ice blocks ; HiRISE ; CO2
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  • 37
    Publication Date: 2024-04-25
    Description: 〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉〈italic〉INSIGHT〈/italic〉 is a Python‐based software tool for processing and reducing 2D grazing‐incidence wide‐ and small‐angle X‐ray scattering (GIWAXS/GISAXS) data. It offers the geometric transformation of the 2D GIWAXS/GISAXS detector image to reciprocal space, including vectorized and parallelized pixel‐wise intensity correction calculations. An explicit focus on efficient data management and batch processing enables full control of large time‐resolved synchrotron and laboratory data sets for a detailed analysis of kinetic GIWAXS/GISAXS studies of thin films. It processes data acquired with arbitrarily rotated detectors and performs vertical, horizontal, azimuthal and radial cuts in reciprocal space. It further allows crystallographic indexing and GIWAXS pattern simulation, and provides various plotting and export functionalities. Customized scripting offers a one‐step solution to reduce, process, analyze and export findings of large 〈italic〉in situ〈/italic〉 and 〈italic〉operando〈/italic〉 data sets.〈/p〉
    Keywords: ddc:548 ; grazing‐incidence X‐ray scattering ; time‐resolved studies ; in situ studies ; operando studies ; computer programs
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-25
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Dansgaard‐Oeschger (D‐O) climate variability during the last glaciation was first evidenced in ice cores and marine sediments, and is also recorded in various terrestrial paleoclimate archives in Europe. The relative synchronicity across Greenland, the North Atlantic and Europe implies a tight and fast coupling between those regions, most probably effectuated by an atmospheric transmission mechanism. In this study, we investigated the atmospheric changes during Greenland interstadial (GI) and stadial (GS) phases based on regional climate model simulations using two specific periods, GI‐10 and GS‐9 both around 40 ka, as boundary conditions. Our simulations accurately capture the changes in temperature and precipitation as reconstructed by the available proxy data. Moreover, the simulations depict an intensified and southward shifted eddy‐driven jet during the stadial period. Ultimately, this affects the near‐surface circulation toward more southwesterly and cyclonic flow in western Europe during the stadial period, explaining much of the seasonal climate variability recorded by the proxy data, including oxygen isotopes, at the considered proxy sites.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: The climate during the last ice age varied between colder and warmer periods on timescales ranging from hundreds to thousands of years. This variability was first detected in Greenland ice cores and marine sediment cores of the North Atlantic, as well as in continental geological records in Europe. The variation between the colder and warmer periods occur mostly simultaneously in Greenland and in Europe, which is why the atmosphere is assumed to have an important role in transferring the climate signals. We simulated two different periods of the last ice age, one colder and one warmer around 40,000 years ago, using a regional climate model. The aim was to study how the climate and atmospheric circulation changed during these two periods. We find the eddy‐driven jet over the North Atlantic intensified and shifted southward during the colder period. The jet influences the near‐surface atmospheric circulation and leads to more southwesterly and cyclonic flow in western Europe. Oxygen isotope variations observed in western European paleoclimate records may be partly explained by different, more southern moisture sources on top of changes in seasonal temperatures.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Simulated temperatures agree with proxy data; precipitation is biased but GI‐10 versus GS‐9 differences are well captured〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The stadial winter jet stream is intensified and shifted southward, consistent with dominant southwesterly/cyclonic flow in western Europe〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Oxygen isotope signal changes at western European proxy sites may be explained not only by temperature but also by varying moisture sources〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: NRDIO
    Description: AXA Research Fund http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001961
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5065/1dfh-6p97
    Keywords: ddc:551.6 ; Dansgaard‐Oeschger cycle ; regional atmospheric dynamics ; regional climate modeling ; continental paleoclimate proxy ; Europe
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-25
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉In this contribution we report the first systematic study of zircon U‐Pb geochronology and δ〈sup〉18〈/sup〉O‐〈italic〉ε〈/italic〉Hf〈sub〉(〈italic〉t〈/italic〉)〈/sub〉 isotope geochemistry from 10 islands of the hot‐spot related Galapagos Archipelago. The data extracted from the zircons allow them to be grouped into three types: (a) young zircons (0–∼4 Ma) with 〈italic〉ε〈/italic〉Hf〈sub〉(〈italic〉t〈/italic〉)〈/sub〉 (∼5–13) and δ〈sup〉18〈/sup〉O (∼4–7) isotopic mantle signature with crystallization ages dating the islands, (b) zircons with 〈italic〉ε〈/italic〉Hf〈sub〉(〈italic〉t〈/italic〉)〈/sub〉 (∼5–13) and δ〈sup〉18〈/sup〉O (∼5–7) isotopic mantle signature (∼4–164 Ma) which are interpreted to date the time of plume activity below the islands (∼164 Ma is the minimum time of impingement of the plume below the lithosphere), and (c) very old zircons (∼213–3,000 Ma) with mostly continental (but also juvenile) 〈italic〉ε〈/italic〉Hf〈sub〉(〈italic〉t〈/italic〉)〈/sub〉 (∼−28–8) and δ〈sup〉18〈/sup〉O (∼5–11) isotopic values documenting potential contamination from a number of sources. The first two types with similar isotopic mantle signature define what we call the Galápagos Plume Array (GPA). Given lithospheric plate motion, this result implies that GPA zircon predating the Galápagos lithosphere (i.e., >14–164 Ma) formed and were stored at sublithospheric depths for extended periods of time. In order to explain these observations, we performed 2D and 3D thermo‐mechanical numerical experiments of plume‐lithosphere interaction which show that dynamic plume activity gives rise to complex asthenospheric flow patterns and results in distinct long‐lasting mantle domains beneath a moving lithosphere. This demonstrates that it is physically plausible that old plume‐derived zircons survive at asthenospheric depths below ocean islands.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Our data define the Galápagos Plume Array defined by mantle 〈italic〉ε〈/italic〉Hf〈sub〉(〈italic〉t〈/italic〉)〈/sub〉 and δ18O values in the range ∼0–164 Ma〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉This finding allows dating back plume activity to, at least, early Middle Jurassic (∼164 Ma)〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Numerical experiments confirm it is plausible that old Plume‐derived zircons survive in the asthenosphere for extended periods of time〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital, Gobierno de España http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010198
    Description: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004837
    Description: European Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000781
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7047729
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6967187
    Keywords: ddc:551.9 ; mantle plume ; galapagos zircon ages ; asthenospheric zircon ; oceanic islands ; thermo‐mechanical numerical experiments
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Description: Purpose: The surface store governs the rainwater partition, e.g., water storage and evaporation on paved surfaces, especially for low-intensity and low-sum rain events, which account for the greatest part of the total rainfall in a temperate climate city like Berlin, Germany. The surface store S is a fixed value, dependent on surface relief and pore system characteristics. Contrary, in this study, the surface storage was assumed to depend also on the rain intensity, thus being variable from event to event. Materials and methods: The surface store filling dynamics for dense (DP), porous (PP), and highly infiltrative (IP) paving materials were studied in a rainfall simulator. Irrigation intensities p ranged from 0.016 to 0.1 mm min〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉 which represent the 25 to 88% quantiles of the rain event distribution in Berlin, Germany (1961 to 1990). Results and discussion: Three surface stores can be separated: storage until initial runoff, S〈sub〉f〈/sub〉, at maximum filling, S〈sub〉m〈/sub〉, and for steady-state runoff, S〈sub〉eq〈/sub〉—all of them can be regarded as effective stores depending on the aim of its use. The equilibrium store varies from 0.2 to 3 mm for DP, PP, and IP for the investigated rainfall intensities. Conclusions: For all pavers, the surface store depends on rainfall intensity, which was shown experimentally and confirmed by numerical simulation of the infiltration. We introduce a simple and robust method to describe S〈sub〉f〈/sub〉, S〈sub〉m〈/sub〉 = f(p) for different pavers. Pavers can evaporate a multiple of their surface store per day, depending on the rainfall distribution, which implicates the need for high temporal resolutions in urban hydrology modeling. Pavers can evaporate a multiple of their surface store per day, depending on the rainfall distribution. That implicates the need for high temporal resolutions in urban hydrology modeling.
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
    Keywords: ddc:551.48 ; Evaporation ; Paved soils ; Paving material ; Precipitation intensity ; Surface store ; Water storage
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Horizontal wavenumber spectra across the middle atmosphere are investigated based on density measurements with the Airborne Lidar for Middle Atmosphere research (ALIMA) in the vicinity of the Southern Andes, the Drake passage and the Antarctic peninsula in September 2019. The probed horizontal scales range from 2000 to 25 km. Spectral slopes are close to 〈italic〉k〈/italic〉〈sup〉−5/3〈/sup〉 in the stratosphere and get shallower for horizontal wavelengths 〈200 km in the mesosphere. The spectral slopes are shown to be statistically robust with the presented number of flight legs despite the unknown orientation of true wave vectors relative to the flight track using synthetic data and a Monte Carlo approach. The largest spectral amplitudes are found over the ocean rather than over topography. The 2019 sudden stratospheric warming caused a critical level for MWs and a reduction of spectral amplitudes at horizontal wavelengths of about 200 km in the mesosphere.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: The spectral analysis of observations along extended flight tracks helps to determine the contribution of different length scales to atmospheric processes. In this study we calculate horizontal wavenumber spectra in the altitude range between 20 and 80 km, the middle atmosphere, based on observations from the Airborne Lidar for Middle Atmosphere research onboard the HALO aircraft. The observations were performed in the vicinity of the Southern Andes, the Drake passage and the Antarctic peninsula during September 2019. The observed horizontal scales range from 2000 km to about 25 km and cover almost the entire mesoscale range of atmospheric dynamics in the middle atmosphere. This study finds that vertical oscillations in the atmosphere, called gravity waves, cause the slopes and power of the spectra at the observed horizontal scales in the middle atmosphere. The slopes and power of the horizontal spectra vary with varying gravity wave activity during the period of observations.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Horizontal wavenumber spectra across the middle atmosphere are computed using airborne lidar observations during the 2019 sudden stratospheric warming (SSW)〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Horizontal wavenumber spectra are close to 〈italic〉k〈/italic〉〈sup〉−5/3〈/sup〉 in the stratosphere, and become shallower in the mesosphere during the SSW〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Observational evidence is provided that the mesoscale spectral slope in the middle atmosphere is caused by the occurrence of gravity waves〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
    Description: Internal Funds of the German Aerospace Center
    Description: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    Description: Forschungszentrum Jülich
    Description: German Science Foundation
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7861915
    Keywords: ddc:551.5 ; gravity waves ; middle atmosphere ; airborne lidar ; horizontal wavenumber spectrum ; SSW
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Description: The stable water isotopic composition in firn and ice cores provides valuable information on past climatic conditions. Because of uneven accumulation and post‐depositional modifications on local spatial scales up to hundreds of meters, time series derived from adjacent cores differ significantly and do not directly reflect the temporal evolution of the precipitated snow isotopic signal. Hence, a characterization of how the isotopic profile in the snow develops is needed to reliably interpret the isotopic variability in firn and ice cores. By combining digital elevation models of the snow surface and repeated high‐resolution snow sampling for stable water isotope measurements of a transect at the East Greenland Ice‐core Project campsite on the Greenland Ice Sheet, we are able to visualize the buildup and post‐depositional changes of the upper snowpack across one summer season. To this end, 30 cm deep snow profiles were sampled on six dates at 20 adjacent locations along a 40 m transect. Near‐daily photogrammetry provided snow height information for the same transect. Our data shows that erosion and redeposition of the original snowfall lead to a complex stratification in the δ〈sup〉18〈/sup〉O signature. Post‐depositional processes through vapor‐snow exchange affect the near surface snow with d‐excess showing a decrease in surface and near‐surface layers. Our data suggests that the interplay of stratigraphic noise, accumulation intermittency, and local post‐depositional processes form the proxy signal in the upper snowpack.
    Description: Plain Language Summary: We study the process of the formation of the stable water isotope signal in surface snow on the Greenland Ice Sheet to better understand temperature information which is stored as a climate proxy in snow and ice. Our data consist of high‐resolution surface topography information illustrating the timing and location of snowfall, erosion, and redeposition along a transect of 40 m, as well as stable water isotope records of the upper 30 cm of the snowpack sampled biweekly on 20 positions at the same 40 m long transect. The data cover a 2‐month period during the summer of 2019. We find that the isotopic composition shows spatial variability of layers with low and high values, presumably winter and summer layers. We further observe that prevailing surface structures, such as dunes, influence the snow deposition and contribute to the found variable structure of the climatic information. Eventually, snow accumulation alone cannot explain all of the observed patterns in the isotopic data which is likely related to exchange processes between the snow and the atmosphere which modify the signal in the snow column after deposition.
    Description: Key Points: Combining digital elevation models and repeated snow sampling reveals the heterogeneous buildup of δ〈sup〉18〈/sup〉O signal in the snow column. Surface structures (stratigraphic noise) substantially contribute to internal heterogeneity in δ〈sup〉18〈/sup〉O signature in the upper snowpack. Proxy signals are formed in the surface layer by local processes, advected downwards with limited post‐depositional influences below 10 cm.
    Description: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010661
    Description: A. P. Møller Foundation, University of Copenhagen
    Description: US National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs
    Description: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
    Description: National Institute of Polar Research and Arctic Challenge for Sustainability
    Description: University of Bergen
    Description: Trond Mohn Foundation
    Description: Swiss National Science Foundation
    Description: French Polar Institute Paul‐Emile Victor, Institute for Geosciences and Environmental Research
    Description: University of Manitoba
    Description: Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Description: Beijing Normal University
    Description: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.954944
    Description: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.954945
    Description: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.951583
    Description: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.925618
    Description: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.928827
    Description: https://www.agisoft.com/downloads/installer/
    Keywords: ddc:551 ; proxy ; Greenland ; isotopes ; structure‐from‐motion ; snow accumulation ; ice core
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Heavy‐mineral suites are used widely in sandstone provenance and are key when connecting source and sink. When characterizing provenance related signatures, it is essential to understand the different factors that may influence a particular heavy‐mineral assemblage for example, chemical weathering or diagenetic processes. Hydrodynamics, causing size‐density sorting, exert major control on the distribution of heavy minerals. Here, we highlight the effect of grain‐size inheritance, essentially the absence of certain grain sizes within a specific heavy‐mineral species, on two distinct types of sediments. Modern deposits from a high‐energy beach in NW Denmark give an analog for heavily reworked sediment, primarily controlled by hydrodynamic processes. In contrast, three Palaeogene turbidite successions in the Eastern Alps were sampled, presenting a more complex history that includes diagenesis. All samples were processed for their heavy‐mineral compositions using Raman spectroscopy, and several techniques applied to determine the effect of grain‐size inheritance. Results show that (a) even within the hydrodynamically well‐sorted beach and placer deposits, evidence of grain‐size inheritance is apparent, and (b) turbidites of variable heavy‐mineral composition show strong effects of grain‐size inheritance for several mineral species. Moreover, considerable intersample contrasts within single turbidite beds are observed. We enforce the importance of understanding grain‐size inheritance, as well as other processes effecting size‐density relations in clastic sediment that go well beyond purely hydrodynamic control of intrasample heavy‐mineral variability.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Heavy minerals are commonly found within sediments and sedimentary rocks and can tell us from which source regions the sediment may have originated. However, it is important to understand that the type, size, and abundance of particular heavy minerals can change depending on factors such as environmental conditions. The size, shape, and density of the heavy minerals also limits when and where they will settle and/or stay. A lack of big or small grains of a particular heavy mineral in the source rocks dictates the size of the minerals deposited; this is known as grain‐size inheritance. Using both ancient and modern sediment, we are looking for traces of grain‐size inheritance. Surprisingly, in all samples investigated we noted effects of grain‐size inheritance, for different heavy‐mineral types. The modern beach sediments, as expected, show more impact of hydraulic processes, but inherited grain sizes are still apparent. Within the ancient examples, grain‐size inheritance is more obvious, with further variations even observed between samples collected from the same area. Having identified this control on grain size, we can highlight the importance of understanding this effect when analyzing clastic sediments.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Understanding factors that can modify a heavy‐mineral assemblage is fundamental in provenance analysis〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Heavy minerals of two distinct sedimentary environments were analyzed and compared to their “ideal” hydrodynamically sorted compositions〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Several heavy‐mineral species of modern and ancient settings were identified to be influenced by grain‐size inheritance from the source〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: https://doi.org/10.25625/MVUIJQ
    Keywords: ddc:552.5 ; heavy minerals ; provenance ; grain‐size inheritance ; hydrodynamics ; diagenesis
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The transboundary region of the Iishana system in the western Cuvelai Basin, between southern Angola and northern Namibia, is frequently affected by floods at irregular intervals. As a result, the predominantly rural, subsistence farming population has experienced crop failures, human, and economic losses. To date, very little is known about the generation of floods, flood concentration, and stormwater drainage dynamics in this region. In this study, 2D‐hydrodynamic modeling was applied to reconstruct one of the latest major flood events during the rainy season from November 2008 to March 2009 in order to study the runoff behavior and interconnectivity of the Iishana system. The model focused on the eastern part of the Iishana system, which was most affected by floods and flood damage due to the high population density in and around Oshakati, the regional capital. Two main streams were identified noteworthy because they merge and subsequently affect Oshakati. Regarding the simulated flood event water depths vary from 0.1 m to 14 m, with an average of 0.2 m, while water depths above 5 m were attributed to borrow pits. The inundation area ranged up to 1860 km〈sup〉2〈/sup〉 and the amount of water left after the rainy season on March 25th, 2009, was determined between 0.116 and 0.547 km〈sup〉3〈/sup〉, depending on the amount of evapotranspiration considered in the model. Thus, in the Angolan part of the Iishana system, significantly larger quantities of water are available for longer periods of time during the subsequent dry season, whereas the system in Namibia stores less water, resulting in a shorter water retention period.〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Hydrologische Gesellschaft (DHG)
    Description: Freie Universität Berlin http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007537
    Description: https://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-35737
    Keywords: ddc:551.48 ; flood ; FloodArea11 ; SCS‐CN ; TanDEM‐X ; TRMM
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The Ismenius Lacus region of Mars has a diverse geological history, and we present the first high‐resolution map of Deuteronilus Cavus (36.2°N; 14.0°E, ∼120 km diameter) in the fretted terrain south of the dichotomy boundary. Strong evidence suggests a volcanic origin of the regional plains, based on the ∼50 m thick volcanic bed underlying 180–300 m of sublimation residue associated with Amazonian plateau glaciation. Pervasive external volcanic flooding, internal erosional modification, and enlargement of a pre‐existing crater by up to 175%–200% resulted in the cavus' present shape. The phyllosilicates detected within Deuteronilus Cavus could be primary materials associated with the surficial aqueous activity, subsurface alteration products excavated by impacts, or a combination of both. We observe branching fluvial channels that are more recent than the traditional valley networks and may be related to fretted terrain resurfacing during the waning period of a high‐obliquity glaciation phase. This is consistent with our interpretation of the ∼600 m thick lobate and lineated deposits, which are remnants of receding glaciers. The glacial ice, protected by a 15–20 m insulating layer of debris cover, is of significant interest for future landing missions because of its potential to preserve biological and climatological signatures, to provide a critical test of Amazonian plateau glaciation, and to be used for in situ resource utilization. With our detailed geological mapping, we improved our understanding of the geological evolution and climatic conditions in the enigmatic fretted terrain near the dichotomy boundary.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: The ∼120 km long Deuteronilus Cavus was initiated by an impact event. The resulting impact crater was modified by glacial erosional and fluvial processes, leading to the enlargement of 175%–200% of the pre‐existing crater. In addition, we find strong evidence for recent glaciation (〈1 Ga) that left 180–300 m of sublimation residue on the plateau superimposed on a ∼50 m thick volcanic bed, suggesting a volcanic origin of the regional plains. During the waning period of a high‐glacial phase, the meltwater ponded on the surface of the cavus, altered surface rocks to produce phyllosilicates, formed channels (now observed as inverted sinuous ridges), and locally distributed branched fluvial channels that are more recent than the traditional valley networks. Glacial landforms still contain up to 600 m of remnant ice from the retreating glaciers at the end of the last glacial period. The relatively pure ice, protected by a 15–20 m insulating layer of debris cover, is critical for future landing missions because of its potential to preserve biological and climatological signatures and to be used for in situ resource utilization. Overall, this research enhances our understanding of the geological evolution and climatic history of Mars.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉We have produced the first high‐resolution map of Deuteronilus Cavus in the fretted terrain south of the Martian dichotomy boundary〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The region records a complex erosional and depositional history, including fluvial and glacial processes in the Amazonian period〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉This study provides a framework for exploration of high‐obliquity mid‐latitude plateau glaciation〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft‐ und Raumfahrt http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002946
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8205276
    Description: https://doi.org/10.17189/1520332
    Description: https://doi.org/10.17189/1520266
    Description: https://doi.org/10.17189/1520303
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-pm8ptbq
    Keywords: ddc:523 ; Mars ; Deuteronilus Cavus ; geological mapping ; glaciation
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    Description: Gerhard Hahn & Renate Hahn: Neue Beobachtungen an Plagiaulacoidea (Multituberculata) des Ober-Juras 1 . Zum Zahn-Wechsel bei Kielanodon. ... 1 ; Gerhard Hahn & Renate Hahn: Neue Beobachtungen an Plagiaulacoidea (Multituberculata) des Ober-Juras 2. Zum Bau des Unterkiefers und des Gebisses bei Meketibolodon und bei Guimarotodon. ... 9 ; Gerhard Hahn & Renate Hahn: Neue Beobachtungen an Plagiaulacoidea (Multituberculata) des Ober-Juras 3. Der Bau der Molaren bei den Paulchoffatiidae. ... 39 ; Gerhard Hahn & Renate Hahn: Neue Beobachtungen an Plagiaulacoidea (Multituberculata) des Ober-Juras 4. Ein Vertreter der Albion baataridae im Lusitanien Portugals. … 85 ; Bernard Krebs: Drescheratherium acutum gen. et sp. nov., ein neuer Eupanthotherier (Mammalia) aus dem Oberen Jura von Portugal. ... 91 ; Rolf Kohring: Neue Schildkröten-Eischalen aus dem Oberjura der Grube Guimarota (Portugal). ... 113 ; Thomas Martin: The premolars of Crusafontia cuencana (Dryolestidae, Mammalia) from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Spain. ... 119 ; Spyridon M. Bellas, Karina Kussius, Julia K. Kommerell & Jürgen Kriwet: Integrated biostratigraphical approach of the Neogene Pigadia basin of Karpathos Island (Dodecanes Group, Greece) - Implications on the depositional palaeoenvironment based on calcareous nannofossils, ostracodes and facies development data with special references to Messinian fish assemblages. ... 129 ;
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    Description: REITNER, Joachim & KOHRING, Rolf: Prof. Dr. Gundolf ERNST zum 65. Geburtstag. Eine kritische Würdigung des Jubilars ... 5 ; VOIGT, Ehrhard & GORDON, Dennis P.: Ascancestor and Confusocella - two new genera of cheilostomate Bryozoa from the Upper Cretaceous with transitional frontal-shield morphologies ... 15 ; KENNEDY, William J. & KAPLAN, Ulrich: Pseudojacobites farmeryi (CRICK, 1905), ein seltener Ammonit des westfälischen und englischen Ober-Turon ... 25 ; SEIBERTZ, Ekbert & SPAETH, Christian: Die Kreide-Belemniten von Mexiko II. Belemniten des Turon Nord-Mexikos ... 45 ; WIESE, Frank & WILMSEN, Markus: Erstnachweis aus Europa von Litophragmatoceras incomptum (Ammonoidea, Kreide) aus dem Mittel-Cenoman von Liencres (Kantabrien, Nordspanien) ... 53 ; WIESE, Frank: Das mittelturone Romaniceras kallesi-Event im Raum Santander (Nordspanien): Lithologie, Stratigraphie, laterale Veränderung der Ammonitenassoziationen und Paläobiogeographie ... 61 ; KRÜGER, Fritz J.: Leere Oberkretazische Echiniden-Coronen als Habitat benthonischer Organismen ... 79 ; MEHL, Dorte & NIEBUHR, Birgit: Diversität und Wachstumsformen bei Coeloptychium (Hexactinellida, Lychniskosa) der Meiner Mulde (Untercampan, NW-Deutschland) und die Palökologie der Coeloptychidae ... 91 ; REHFELD, Ursula & OTTO, Armin: Distribution and preservation of siliceous sponges of the rhythmically bedded spongiolitic rocks in the Lower Campanian of northern Spain (Cantabria, Santander area): Response to autecology and sea level development ... 109 ; FECHNER, Glenn G.: Phytoplankton und Sporomorphen aus dem Cenoman-Basiskonglomerat von Bochum (Nordrheinwestfalen, Deutschland) ... 129 ; KEUPP, Helmut: Die kalkigen Dinoflagellaten-Zysten aus dem Ober-Alb der Bohrung Kirchrode 1/91 (zentrales Niedersächsisches Becken, NW-Deutschland) ... 155 ; VOIGT, Silke: Verbreitung humider und arider Klimate der nördlichen Hemisphäre während der Oberkreide ... 201 ; HORNA, Frank: Komplexer Nachweis einer Tufflage im Turon von Hoppenstedt ... 207 ; WRAY, David S. & WOOD, Christopher J.: Geochemical identification and correlation of tuff layers in Lower Saxony, Germany ... 215 ; MUTTERLOSE, Jörg & WIEDENROTH, Kurt: Die Bio- und Lithofazies der Unterkreide (Hauterive bis Apt) in NW-Deutschland ... 227 ; TRÖGER, Karl-Armin & VOIGT, Thomas: Event-und Sequenzstratigraphie in der Sächsischen Kreide... 255 ; SEIBERTZ, Ekbert: Towards the single-species boundary definition - a concept proposal with application to the Turonian-Coniacian stage boundary (Upper Cretaceous) ... 269 ; WOOD, Christopher J. & MORTIMORE, Rory N.: An anomalous Black Band succession (Cenomanian - Turonian boundary interval) at Melton Ross, Lincolnshire, eastern England and its international significance ... 277 ; KUTZ, Andreas: Kalk-Mergel-Rhythmite der Oberkreide (Campan und Maastricht) am Massiv von Oroz Betelu (N-Spanien, Provinz Navarra). Ein Exkursionsführer ... 289 ; WOLF, Ernst-Otto.: Sedimentologie, Paläogeographie und Faziesentwicklung der Allochthonite des Campan von Beckum/Zentrales Münsterland ... 305 ; KRIWET, Jürgen & GLOY, Uwe: Zwei mesopelagische Raubfische (Actinopterygii: Euteleostei) aus dem Unterturon der Kronsberg-Mulde bei Hannover / Misburg (NW-Deutschland) ... 335 ; RAUHUT, Oliver W.M.: Zur systematischen Stellung der afrikanischen Theropoden Carcharodontosaurus STROMER 1931 und Bahariasaurus STROMER 1934 ... 357 ; WERNER, Christa: Neue Funde von mesozoischen Wirbeltieren in Äthiopien... 377 ;
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-17
    Description: Contents ; List of Contributors ; Introduction ; I. General Problems of Sponge Biology. S. M. Efremova: Once more on the position among Metazoa - Gastrulation and germinal layers of sponges ; N. N. Marfenin: Sponges viewed in the light of up-to-date conception on coloniality ; A. V. Ereskovsky & G. P. Korotkova: The reasons of sponge sexual morphogenesis peculiarities II. Developmental Biology of Sponges. O. M. Ivanova-Kazas: Analysis of the sponges ontogeny at sexual reproduction ; R. P. Anakina: The cleavage specifity in embryos of the Barents Sea sponge Leucosolenia complicata Montagu (Calcispongiae, Calcaronea) ; L. V. Ivanova: New data about morphology and metamorphosis of the spongillid larvae (Porifera, Spongillidae). 1. Morphology of the free-swimming larvae ; L. V. Ivanova: New data about morphology and metamorphosis of the spongillid larvae (Porifera, Spongillidae). 2. The metamorphosis of the spongillid larvae ; L. V. Ivanova & V. V. Semenov: Feeding habits of the larvae of sponges ; N. A. Sizova & A. V. Ereskovsky: Ultrastructural peculiarities of the early embryogenesis in a White Sea sponge Halisarca dujardini (Demospongiae, Dendroceratida) ; III. Ecology of Sponges. R. P. Anakina & E. I. Slepian: Spiculas' malformations of freshwater sponges as indicators of water environment in St. Petersburg City ; A. S. Plotkin & A. V. Ereskovsky: Ecological aspects of asexual reproduction of the White Sea sponge Polymastia mammillaris (Demospongiae, Tetractinomorpha) in Kandalaksha Bay ; I. S. Smirnov & V. M. Koltun: Symbiosis of the antarctic sponge genus lophon (Porifera) and ophiuroid genus Ophiurolepis (Ophiuroidea, Echinodermata) ; IV. Palaeontology and Systematics. L. V. Bolshakova: Stromatoporoids - the fossil sponges ; E. V. Veinberg, 0. M. Khlystov, S. S. Vorobyova, E. G. Kornakova, 0. V. Levina, S. M. Efremova, & M. A. Grachev: Distribution of sponge spicules in sediments of the underwater Akademichesky ridge of Lake Baikal ; K. R. Tabachnik & C. Levi: Amphidiscophoran Hexasterophora (Part I & II) ;
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-17
    Description: Baron-Szabo, R.C. & Steuber, T.: Korallen und Rudisten aus dem Apt im tertiären Flysch des Pamass-Gebirges bei Delphi-Arachowa (Mittelgriechenland) … 3 ; Fechner, G.G.: Septarienton und Stettiner Sand als Fazieseinheiten im Rupelium der östl. Mark Brandenburg: Palynologisch-fazielle Untersuchungen bei Bad Freienwalde ... 77 ; Fischer, K.: Das Mammut (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach, 1799) von Klinge bei Cottbus in der Niederlausitz (Land Brandenburg) ... 121 ; Frydas, D. & Keupp, H.: Biostratigraphical results in Late Neogene deposits of NW Crete, Greece, based on calcareous nannofossils ... 169 ; Kohring, R.: Structure and Biomineralization of Eggshell of Elaphe guttata (Linnö 1766) (Serpentes: Colubridae) ... 191 ; Kriiger, F.J.: Parietale Modifikationen bei Echinocorys obliqua (Nilssohn 1828) (Echinoidea, Holasterida) und ihre Beziehungen zur Weichkörper-Organisation ... 201 ; May, A. & Becker, R.T.: Ein Korallen-Horizont im Unteren Bänderschiefer (höchstes Mitteldevon) von Hohenlimburg-Elsey im Nordsauerland (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge) ... 209 ; Mehl, D. & Reitner, J.: Observations on Astraeospongium meniscum (Roemer, 1848) from the Silurian of western Tennessee: Constructional morphology and palaeobiology of the Astraeospongiidae (Calcarea, Heteractinellidae) 243 ; Neumann, C.: The mode of life and paleobiogeography of the genus Douvillaster Lambert (Echinoidea: Spatangoida) as first recorded in the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Spain ... 257 ; Niebuhr, B.: Die Scaphiten (Ammonoidea, Ancyloceratina) des höheren Obercampan der Lehrter Westmulde östlich Hannover (N-Deutschland) ... 267 ; Rehfeld, U.: Der Ausgangschemismus fossiler peloidaler und aphanitischer Zemente - eine geochemische Analyse an jurassischen und kretazischen Karbonatgesteinen ... 289 ; Rehfeld, U.: Steuerungsfaktoren bei der Dissoziierung des Skelettes und der Zementation des Gewebes bei jurassischen und kretazischen Kieselschwämmen ... 303 ; Rehfeld, U.: Paläoredoxpotential während der Diagenese von jurassischen und kretazischen spongiolithischen Biokonstruktionen ... 321 ; Werner, C. & Bardet, N.: New record of elasmosaurs (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) in the Maastrichtian of the Western Desert of Egypt ... 335 ; Wiese, F.: Preliminary Data on the Turanian Ammonite Biostratigraphy of the Liencres Area (Province Cantabria, Northern Spain) ... 343 ; Wilmsen, M.: Flecken-Riffe in den Kalken der „Formaciön de Altamira“ (Cenoman, Cobreces/Tofianes-Gebiet, Prov. Kantabrien, Nord-Spanien): Stratigraphische Position, fazielle Rahmenbedingungen und Sequenzstratigraphie ... 353 ; Rauhut, O.W.M.: Bibliographie 1995, Institut für Paläontologie, Freie Universität Berlin ... 375 ;
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-17
    Description: SCHUDACK, Michael E.: Neue mikropaläontologische Beiträge (Ostracoda, Charophyta) zum Morrison-Ökosystem (Oberjura des Western Interior, USA) ... 389 ; BARTHOLDY, Jan, BELLAS, Spyridon M., MERTMANN, Dorothee, MACHANIEC, Elsbieta & MANUTSOGLU, Emmanuil: Fazies- Entwicklung und Biostratigraphie einer Sequenz eozäner Sedimente im Steinbruch Pod Capkami, Tatra-Gebirge, Polen ... 409 ; SCHULZ, Eberhard: Palynologische Untersuchungen des marinen Mittelrhäts im Creuzburger Graben bei Eisenach (W-Thüringen) ... 427 ; KRUTZSCH, Wilfried: Verbreitung der Trockenzonen im Kainophytikum - Eine Skizze ... 439 ; KOHRING, Rolf & SCHLÜTER, Thomas: Erhaltungsmechanismen känozoischer Insekten in fossilen Harzen und Sedimenten ... 457 ; ZILS, Wolfgang, WERNER, Christa, MORITZ, Andrea & SAANANE, Charles: Orientierende Tendaguru-Expedition 1994 ... 483 ; KIENEL, Ulrike, REHFELD, Ursula & BELLAS, Spyridon M.: The Miocene Blue Clay Formation of the Maltese Islands: Sequence-stratigraphic and palaeoceanographic implications based on calcareous nannofossil stratigraphy ... 533 ; SOUJON, Andr6, MANUTSOGLU, Emmanuil, REITNER, Joachim & JACOBSHAGEN, Volker: Lithistide Demospongiae aus der metamorphen Plattenkalk-Serie der Trypali Ori (Kreta/Griechenland) … 559 ; BARON-SZABO, Rosemarie C.: Taxonomy and Palaeoecology of Late Miocene corals of NW-Crete (Gramvoüssa, Roka- and Koukounaras- Fms.) ... 569 ; MANUTSOGLU, Emmanuil, MERTMANN, Dorothee, SoujON, Andre, DORNSIEPEN, Ulrich Friedrich & JACOBSHAGEN, Volker: Zur Nomenklatur der Metamorphite auf der Insel Kreta, Griechenland ... 579 ; FRYDAS, D., KONTOPOULOS, N., STAMATOPOULOS, L., GUERNET, C. & VOLTAGGIO, M.: Middle-Late Pleistocene sediments in the northwestern Peloponnesus, Greece. A combined study of biostratigraphical, radiochronological and sedimentological results ... 589 ; BECKER, R. Thomas: Taxonomy and Evolution of Late Famennian Tornocerataceae (Ammonoidea) ... 607 ; GRÖSCHKE, Manfred & KAPILIMA, Saldi: Ammoniten aus dem Septarienmergel (Kimmeridgium) des Mandawa-Mahokondo-Gebietes bei Nchia, Südtansania ... 645 ; KEUPP, Helmut & RIEDEL, Frank: Nautilus pompilius in captivity: a case study of abnormal shell growth ... 663 ; KRIWET, Jürgen: Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fisch-Fauna des Ober-Jura (unteres Kimmeridge) der Kohlengrube Guimarota bei Leiria, Mittel-Portugal: 1 . Asteracanthus biformatus n. sp. (Chondrichthyes: Hybodontoidea) ... 683 ; MARTIN, Thomas: Incisor enamel microstructure and phylogenetic interrelationships of Pedetidae and Ctenodactyloidea (Rodentia) ... 693 ; ERESKOVSKY, Alexander V.: Materials to the Faunistic Study of the White and Barents seas sponges. 5. Quantitative Distribution ... 709 ; ERESKOVSKY, Alexander V.: Materials to the Faunistic Study of the White and Barents seas sponges. 6. The origin of the White and Barents seas sponge faunas ... 715 ; WÖRHEIDE, Gert: Bi- und multivariate Analyse borealer und mediterraner Populationen der Echinocardium cordatum - Gruppe (Echinoidea; Spatangoida) ... 731 ; HILBRECHT, Heinz: Computergestützte Methoden in der Morphometrie ... 765 ; CLAUSING, Andreas: Some critical notes on qualitative versus quantitative analysis in terrestrial palaeoecology ... 781 ; GLOY, Uwe: Bibliographie 1994, Institut für Paläontologie, Freie Universität Berlin ... 787 ;
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-17
    Description: At the beginning of Late Jurassic both the Lochen (LA) and the Cracow areas (CA) were palaeotopographic highs in an epicontinental basin located at the stable northern margin of the Tethyan Ocean. The topographically high position of the LA was probably caused by intensive carbonate production which proceeded on a small sea-floor bulge located close to the boundary between middle and lower parts of the low-angle carbonate ramp. Lack of deep structural control of this rise caused prograding facial unification during the Oxfordian and Kimmeridgian and led to gradual disappearance of the LA individuality in relation to the neighbouring areas. The topographical high of the CA resulted from anomalously low subsidence rate in comparison to the adjacent areas which has lasted at least for the whole Oxfordian. Low subsidence directly gave rise to the development of a barrier (so-called Cracovian Platform) which separated the interior basin in the north from the deeper parts of the basin in the south. Topography of the Polish part of epicontinental basin along the Czestochowa-Cracow line corresponds to the low-gradient rimmed carbonate shelf which graded laterally (to the northeast and east) into the low-angle carbonate ramp. Stratigraphic subdivision of Upper Jurassic strata is very precise in the LA and rather poor in the CA due to scarcity of ammonites in the massive facies which predominates in the latter area. However, ammonite fauna from both areas belongs to the same German-Polish Submediterranean Subprovince which allows to attempt the correlation of lithologies and determination of factors which controlled deposition. Both the studied areas show distinct differences in the development of carbonate buildups. In the LA the main components of carbonate buildups during whole Oxfordian and the Early Kimmeridgian were siliceous sponges and microbolites whilst in the CA the flourishing growth of microbolites and gradual decline of siliceous sponges domination took place during the Late Oxfordian. The sediment was initially diversified into the two varieties: that formed by siliceous sponges and the microbolites incipient rigid framework, and the soft mud. In such carbonate buildups stromatactis cavities might have developed even in early diagenesis due to internal erosion of the soft mud. The principal reason of the internal erosion was turbulent water flow through the sediment. However, in generally low-energy sedimentary environments such flow could be triggered by submarine gravity flows or strong bottom currents. Pseudonodular textures encountered in carbonate buildups in both the areas resulted from shallow-burial diagenesis. During the burial diagenesis some parts of the sediment has been disintegrated under the pressure of overlying strata owing to the existing open spaces and different susceptibility to compaction showed by the incipient rigid framework and the soft sediment. Deposition in the LA was controlled mainly by sea-level pulses and ecological factors. In the CA principal control was provided by subsidence rate supported by synsedimentary tectonics, sea-level changes and ecological factors. All these controlling factors were variable in time which provoked changes in carbonate production rates from intensive, aggradational growth of the buildups to drowning of the carbonate ramp and rimmed shelf. The drowning of carbonate ramp on which the LA was located took place at the Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian break. It is documented by spectacular development of redeposited pelagites of skeletal-calciturbidites type with abundant fragments of Saccocoma sp. which have appeared for the first time in mass quantities in the Upper Jurassic. By analogy, it can be inferred that in the CA similar Saccocoma-calciturbidites prove the drowning of rimmed shelf related to the same trangressive event at the Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian break.
    Description: Zu Beginn des Ober-Jura waren das Lochengebiet (Schwäbische Alb) und der Raum Krakau (Südpolen) übereinstimmend Hochgebiete eines epikontinentalen Beckens auf dem passiven nördlichen Schelf der Tethys. Die topographische Hochposition des Lochengebietes war vermutlich durch eine hohe Karbonat-Produktion bedingt, welche auf einer schmalen submarinen Schwelle nahe dem Übergangsbereich zwischen unterem und mittlerem Abschnitt einer flach geneigten Karbonatrampe erfolgte. Während des Oxfordiums und Kimmeridgiums war die Lochenschwelle tektonisch inaktiv und ermöglichte einen zunehmenden Faziesausgleich mit den benachbarten Gebieten und führte dadurch zu einer successiven Aufgabe ihrer individuellen Entwicklung. Die Hochposition der Krakau-Region resultierte aus ihrer im Vergleich zur Umgebung ungewöhnlich geringen Subsidenzrate, welche mindestens während des gesamten Oxfordiums anhielt. Die geringe Subsidenz war unmittelbare Ursache für die Entwicklung einer Barriere (die sogenannte Krakau-Plattform), welche das seichtere Innenschelf-Becken im Norden von den tieferen Beckenanteilen im Süden trennte. Die Topographie des polnischen Anteils dieses epikontinentalen Beckens entsprach entlang der Czestochowa-Krakau-Linie einem „low-gradient rimmed carbonate shelf, der nach Nordosten und Osten lateral in eine flache Karbonatrampe überging. Die stratigraphische Gliederungsmöglichkeit der Ober-Jura-Schichfolge ist im Lochengebiet gut und feinauflösend, in der Krakau-Region dagegen, in der die Massenfazies vorherrscht, aufgrund der selteneren Ammonitenfunde zum Teil problematisch. Ungeachtet dessen, gehören die Ammoniten-Vergesellschaftungen beider Regionen derselben deutsch-polnischen, submediterranen Faunensubprovinz an und ermutigen zu einer Korrelation beider lithologischer Abfolgen und einer vergleichenden Abstraktion der Steuermechanismen für die Sedimentation. Beide Gebiete zeigen deutliche Unterschiede in der Entwicklung von karbonatischen Buildups. Im Lochen-Gebiet stellen während des Oxfordiums und Unter-Kimmeridgiums Kieselschwämme und Mikrobolithe die Hauptkomponenten der Riffstrukturen, während in der Krakau-Region die Bedeutung der Mikrobolithe und Kieselschwämme während des Ober-Oxfordiums successive abnimmt. Ursprünglich erfolgte eine Differenzierung der Riffstrukturen in einen autochthonen Hartsubstrat-Anteil, in dem Kieselschwämme und Mikrobolithe eine rigides Gerüst stellten, und in schlammiges Weichsubstrat. Innerhalb der Riffkörper konnten sich wohl frühdiagenetisch durch die interne Erosion der Schlamm-Anteile Stromatactis-Gefüge bilden. Grundsätzlich kann eine solche interne Erosion auf turbulente Porenwasserströme zurückgeführt werden. In den vorliegenden sedimentären Stillwasser-Milieus könnte ein solcher Porenwasserstrom durch submarine Schuttströme oder starke Bodenströmungen ausgelöst worden sein. Pseudonodulare Strukturen, wie sie in den Buildups beider Untersuchungsgebiete angetroffen wurden, werden durch eine flache Versenkungsdiagenese erklärt. Während dieser Vorgänge wurden unter dem Druck der Sedimentauflast aufgrund des vorhandenen, offenen Porenraumes und der unterschiedlichen Kompaktion von primär zementierten Riffkalken und des mergeligen Weichsubstrates Karbonatanteile gelöst. Das Sedimentationsgeschehen wurde in der Lochen-Region vor allem durch Meeresspiegel-Schwankungen und ökologische Parameter beeinflußt. In der Krakau-Region konnte als hauptsächlicher Kontrollfaktor die Subsidenzrate erkannt werden, in deren Gefolge synsedimentäre Tektonik, Änderungen von Meeresspiegel und der ökologischen Faktoren einhergingen. Veränderungen dieser Steuerfaktoren in der Zeit beeinflußten jeweils die Rate der Karbonatproduktion von intensiv (Aggradation der Buildups) bis zum Ertrinken der Karbonatrampe bzw. des Schelfrandes. Das Abtauchen der Karbonatrampe setzte in der Lochen-Region an der Oxfordium-Kimmeridgium-Wende ein. Es wird durch eine auffällige sedimentäre Entwicklung dokumentiert: Resedimentation pelagischer Kalke (skeletal calciturbidites), die häufig Saccocoma-Reste enthalten. Erste Massenvorkommen von Saccocoma treten in der Erdgeschichte im Oberjura auf. Ähnliche Saccoco/na-Kalkturbidite an der Oxfordium-Kimmeridgium-Grenze markieren in der Krakau-Region das Abtauchen des „rimmed shelf. Sie können auf dasselbe transgressive Ereignis zurückgeführt werden.
    Description: thesis
    Description: DFG, SUB Göttingen
    Keywords: ddc:560 ; ddc:554 ; Paläobiologie
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-17
    Description: The present study considered calcareous nannofossils from material represented by outcrops of Flysch successions of the External Hellenides belt in the area of the Ionian Zone (I.Z.), northwestern Greece. The studied outcrops are located in Epirus mainland and the Ionian island Korfu. Three subdivisions have been traditionally in literature distinguished in the I.Z., the Internal, Middle and External (moving from east to the west), each of which was subsequently recognized in the Flysch deposits as well. Aim of the study was, a refinement of the current biostratigraphic resolution of the area through detailed taxonomic descriptions and consequently, a reliably better correlation of the investigated sedimentary deposits with the help of calcareous nannofossils. The biostratigraphic data were also processed semiquentitatively (frequency variations and distributions), in order to accurately determine important biohorizons. For this purpose, the nannofossils were studied under the LM and the SEM, from ten closely sampled sections representing clastic sequences of all the three subdivisions of the I.Z. The investigated sections are situated at about 39° northern mid latitudes, a fact which resulted to mixed nannoflora assemblages of low and high latitudes character. The sections are namely: Elatos, Korfovouni (Internal I.Z. subdivision), Kato Despotiko, Strouga Goumenou and Ekklisia (Middle I.Z. subdivision), lower and upper Argyrotopos, National Road, Monos and Anacharavi (External I.Z. subdivision). They were found to range in age from the latest Eocene to the Early Miocene. Based on the systematic palaeontology, 107 species of calcareous nannofossils were observed and documented in the studied material. Among them, a new species Rhabdosphaera epirotica sp. nov. was described, and four recombinations were proposed. Moreover, two calcareous dinoflagellate cysts, Cervisiella saxea and Obliquipithonella sp. were reported for the first time from the I.Z. in Greece. Despite the mid latitude palaeogeographic position of the sections, all the conventional calcareous nannofossil zonal markers for the Oligocene and Early Miocene were recorded, although some in fewer abundances than in low latitudes. Improving the biostratigraphic reliability, a new zonational scheme was here developed and proposed for the Oligocene to Early Miocene interval. It was mainly established on use of redefined biohorizons and composed of five zones and five subzones following below: 1. Latest Eocene: Ericsonia formosa Partial-range Zone, 2. Oligocene: llselithina fusa / Ericsonia formosa Concurrent-range Zone, Ericsonia formosa-Reticulofenestra umbilicus/R. hillae Interval Zone, Cyclicargolithus abisectus Partial-range Zone, including the subzones: Rhabdosphaera spp. Interval Subzone, and Sphenolithus predistentus Interval Subzone, Reticulofenestra scissura Interval Zone, including the Sphenolithus delphix Abundance Subzone, and 3. Earliest Miocene: Triquetrorhabdulus spp. Partial-range Subzone Sphenolithus conicus Interval Subzone. Based on a new biohorizon of the absolute First Occurrence (FO) of llselithina fusa, the Eocene/Oligocene (E/O) boundary was identified in the lower part of the Argyrotopos section. On the absence of disc-shaped discoasters, the I. fusa biohorizon represented a better approximation of the boundary, which was clearly correlated with the other studied sections of the three subdivisions of the I.Z. The Oligocene/Miocene (O/M) boundary was identified in the Monos section located in the Plataria syncline (External I.Z.), but Early Miocene strata were recorded in the Middle I.Z. as well. This boundary was placed at the Last Common Occurrence (LCO) biohorizon of the Reticulofenestra scissura. Moreover, six associate bioevents were reported near the O/M boundary, among them the highest occurrence of I. fusa, located above the boundary, in the Anacharavi section of Korfu island (western part of the External I.Z.). For the first time were evaluated reworked together with „autochton“ taxa of calcareous nannofossils in Greece. Maximum diversity values along each of the studied sections, have shown increased reworking and erosional processes in the Internal subdivision of the I.Z. than in the Middle and the External ones. This is interpreted to be connected with the higher tectonic instability along the Pindos thrust to the east, in relation to the central and western parts of the Ionian basin mainly during the Oligocene.
    Description: Die der vorliegenden Arbeit zugrundeliegenden kalkigen Nannofossilien stammen von Flyschabfolgen der Externen Helleniden (Ionische Zone) Nordwest-Griechenlands.So wurden in die Untersuchung Aufschlüsse des Festlandes in Epirus und der Ionischen Insel Korfu aus dem stratigraphischen Intervall vom obersten Eozän bis zum untersten Miozän einbezogen. Die Ionische Zone (I.Z.) wird traditionell von Osten nach Westen in die Interne, Mittlere und Externe Subzone unterteilt. Diese Einteilung läßt sich auch auf die Flyschablagerungen übertragen. Ziel der Arbeit ist eine Verfeinerung der bestehenden Biostratigraphie durch detaillierte taxonomische Beschreibungen, um damit eine bessere Korrelation der untersuchten Ablagerungen mit Hilfe der kalkigen Nannofossilien zu erreichen. Mit einer halbquantitativen Erfassung der biostratigraphischen Daten (Häufigkeitsvariation und -Verteilung) gelingt es darüberhinaus, einzelne Biohorizonte genauer zu definieren. Zu diesem Zwecke wurde das kalkige Nannoplankton von zehn eng-beprobten Profilen aus klastischen Abfolgen aller drei Subzonen der I. Z. unter dem Licht- und Elektronenmikroskop (REM) untersucht. Die Profile im einzelnen sind: Elatos und Korfovouni (Interne Subzone), Kato Despotiko, Strouga Goumenou und Ekklisia (Mittlere Subzone), Unter bzw. Ober Argyrotopos, National Road, Monos und Anacharavi (Externe Subzone). Zur Ablagerungszeit befanden sich die untersuchten Profile in einer nördlichen Paläobreite um 39°, was zu einer gemischten Nannoflora aus charakteristischen Vertretern niedriger und höherer Breiten führte. In dem untersuchten Material konnten insgesamt 107 Spezies von kalkigem Nannoplankton gefunden und dokumentiert werden. Die Art Rhabdosphaera epirotica nov. sp.wird neu beschrieben und vier Rekombinationen werden vorgeschlagen. Darüberhinaus konnten zwei kalkige Dinoflagellatenzysten Cervisiella saxea und Obliquipithonella sp. zum ersten Mal in der I.Z. nachgewiesen werden. Trotz der paläogeographischen Position der Profile in mittleren Paläobreitenbereich konnten alle konventionellen Zonenleitformen des kalkigen Nannoplanktons für das Oligozän und das Untermiozän gefunden werden, einige davon jedoch in geringerer Häufigkeit als in den niedrigeren Breiten. Durch die Verbesserung der biostratigraphischen Genauigkeit wird hier ein neues mediterranes Zonenschema für das Oligozän und das Untermiozän entwickelt, das im wesentlichen auf neu definierten Biohorizonten basiert. Es enthält fünf Zonen und fünf Subzonen: 1. Jüngstes Eozän: Ericsonia formosa Partial-range Zone, 2. Oligozän: llselithina fusa/Ericsonia formosa Concurrent-range Zone, Ericsonia formosa-Reticulofenestra umbilicus/R. hillae Interval Zone, Cyclicargolithus abisectus Partial-range Zone, gegliedert in den Subzonen: Rhabdosphaera spp. Interval Subzone, und Sphenolithus predistentus Interval Subzone, Reticulofenestra scissura Interval Zone, die eine Subzone enthält: Sphenolithus delphix Abundance Subzone, und 3. Ältestes Miozän: Triquetrorhabdulus spp. Partial-range Subzone Sphenolithus conicus Interval Subzone. Mit dem ersten Auftreten (FO) von llselithina fusa wird ein neuer Biohorizont definiert, mit dem die Grenze Eozän/Oligozän (E/O) in dem unteren Teil des Argyrotopos-Profils nachgewiesen wird. Trotz der Abwesenheit von scheibenförmigen Discoasteriden läßt sich nun diese Grenze mit dem I. fusa-Biohorizont besser fassen und kann eindeutig mit den Profilen in den beiden anderen Subzonen der I.Z. korreliert werden. Die Oligozän/Miozän-Grenze (O/M) konnte im Monos-Profil der Plataria-Synklinale (Externe I.Z.) charakterisiert werden. Untermiozän ließ sich aber auch in der Mittleren Subzone nachweisen. Die Grenze O/M ist durch das letzte Vorkommen (LCO) von Reticulofenestra scissura bestimmt. Sechs assoziierte Bioevents fallen in diesen Grenzbereich, darunter im Anacharavi-Profil der Insel Korfu (Westteil der Externen Subzone) das jüngste Vorkommen von I. fusa, unmittelbar über der Grenze O/M. Zum erstem Mal für Griechenland konnten aufgearbeitete Taxa von kalkigen Nannofossilien zusammen mit den autochthonen Taxa nachgewiesen werden. Ein Vergleich der maximalen Diversitätswerte in den untersuchten Profilen zeigt eine signifikant höhere Aufarbeitungsrate in der Internen Subzone gegenüber der Mittleren und Externen Subzonen. Dieser Umstand dürfte mit der höheren tektonischen Instabilität entlang der Pindos-Decken-Front im Osten des Arbeitsgebietes Zusammenhängen.
    Description: thesis
    Description: DFG, SUB Göttingen
    Keywords: ddc:560 ; Tertiär ; Flysch ; Nannofossil ; Biostratigraphie ; Systematik ; Paläobiologie ; Paläontologie
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-09
    Description: thesis
    Keywords: ddc:550 ; GEOMIN ; Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft – Geologische Vereinigung ; Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: The novel Aeolus satellite, which carries the first Doppler wind lidar providing profiles of horizontal line‐of‐sight (HLOS) winds, addresses a significant gap in direct wind observations in the global observing system. The gap is particularly critical in the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). This article validates the Aeolus Rayleigh–clear wind product and short‐range forecasts of the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) with highly accurate winds from the Loon super pressure balloon network at altitudes between 16 and 20 km. Data from 229 individual balloon flights are analysed, applying a collocation criterion of 2 hr and 200 km. The comparison of Aeolus and Loon data shows systematic and random errors of -0.31 and 6.37 m·s〈sup〉-1〈/sup〉, respectively, for the Aeolus Rayleigh–clear winds. The horizontal representativeness error of Aeolus HLOS winds (nearly the zonal wind component) in the UTLS ranges from 0.6–1.1 m·s〈sup〉-1〈/sup〉 depending on the altitude. The comparison of Aeolus and Loon datasets against ECMWF model forecasts suggests that the model systematically underestimates the HLOS winds in the tropical UTLS by about 1 m·s〈sup〉-1〈/sup〉. While Aeolus winds are currently considered as point winds by the ECMWF data assimilation system, the results of the present study demonstrate the need for a more realistic HLOS wind observation operator for assimilating Aeolus winds.
    Keywords: ddc:551.6 ; Aeolus ; data assimilation ; ECMWF forecasts ; HLOS winds ; Loon ; super pressure balloon observations ; systematic and random errors
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: The main sources of the ambient seismic wavefield in the microseismic frequency band (peaking in the ∼0.04–0.5 Hz range) are earth's oceans, namely the wind‐driven surface gravity waves (SGW) that couple oscillations into the seafloor and the upper crust underneath. Cyclones (e.g., hurricanes, typhoons) and other atmospheric storms are efficient generators of high ocean waves that in turn generate distinct microseismic signatures. In this study, we perform a polarization (i.e., three‐component) beamforming analysis of microseismic (0.05–0.16 Hz) retrograde Rayleigh and Love waves during major Atlantic hurricanes using a virtual array of seismometers in Eastern Canada. Oceanic hindcasts and meteorological data are used for comparison. No continuous generation of microseism along the hurricane track is observed but rather an intermittent signal generation. Both seismic surface wave types show clear cyclone‐related microseismic signatures that are consistent with a colocated generation at near‐coastal or shallow regions, however the Love wavefield is comparatively less coherent. We identify two different kinds of intermittent signals: (a) azimuthally progressive signals that originate with a nearly constant spatial lag pointing toward the trail of the hurricanes and (b) azimuthally steady signals remaining nearly constant in direction of arrival even days after the hurricane significantly changed its azimuth. This high complexity highlights the need for further studies to unravel the interplay between site‐dependent geophysical parameters, SGW forcing at depth and microseismic wavefield radiation and propagation, as well as the potential use of cyclone microseisms as passive natural sources.
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Ocean waves are responsible for the generation of microseisms, faint ground vibrations with complex characteristics and which comprise a major portion of the background seismic noise of the earth. In this study, we implement an onshore seismic detection method to study microseisms generated by cyclones in the North Atlantic ocean (hurricanes), as these are known to be major generators of large ocean waves. We observed that cyclones only seem to generate detectable microseisms as they move over certain regions in the ocean, namely near coastal or shallow water regions. The direction of arrival of these microseisms is sometimes constant, at other times it shifts azimuth along with the hurricanes. Understanding the relationship between ocean waves and cyclone‐related microseisms is an important step for the potential use of these vibrations to study the earth, ocean and atmosphere.
    Description: Key Points: Primary and secondary microseismic Love and Rayleigh waves excited by Atlantic cyclones were detected via onshore polarization beamforming. We observed microseisms related to cyclones as they pass over the northwestern Atlantic margin off Newfoundland. Some microseisms have constant direction of arrival, others are azimuthally progressive and reflect the advance of the cyclone.
    Description: German Research Foundation
    Description: https://doi.org/10.7289/V5NK3BZP
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    Description: http://ds.iris.edu/wilber3/
    Description: ftp://ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/ww3/HINDCAST
    Keywords: ddc:551.22 ; ambient seismic noise ; ocean microseisms ; hurricanes ; ocean gravity waves ; array seismology ; marine geophysics
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: To complement the information provided by deterministic seismic imaging at length scales above a certain resolution limit we present the first application of adjoint envelope tomography (AET) to experimental data. AET uses the full envelopes of seismic records including scattered coda waves to obtain information about the distribution of absorption and small‐scale heterogeneity which provide complementary information about the investigated medium. Being below the resolution limit this small‐scale structure cannot be resolved by conventional tomography but still affects wave propagation by attenuating ballistic waves and generating scattered waves. Using ultrasound data from embedded sensors in a meter‐sized concrete specimen we image the distribution of absorption and heterogeneity expressed by the intrinsic quality factor Q〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉 and the fluctuation strength ɛ that characterizes the strength of the heterogeneity. The forward problem is solved by modeling the 2‐D multiple nonisotropic scattering in an acoustic medium with spatially variable heterogeneity and attenuation using the Monte‐Carlo method. Gradients for the model updates are obtained by convolution with the back‐propagated envelope misfit using the adjoint formalism in analogy to full waveform inversion. We use a late coda time window to invert for absorption and an earlier time window to infer the distribution of heterogeneity. The results successfully locate an area of salt concrete with increased scattering and concentric anomalies of intrinsic attenuation. The resolution test shows that the recovered anomalies constitute reasonable representations of internal structure of the specimen.
    Description: Plain Language Summary; No matter how small the structures are that a seismic imaging method is able to resolve, there is structure with smaller length scale. On the one hand this small‐scale structure causes unwanted signals for conventional imaging approaches. But on the other hand it provides complementary information about the investigated medium. To turn this to our advantage we, for the first time, apply a new imaging method that uses the waves which are caused by the small‐scale structure. Using data of an experiment in a concrete block we demonstrate that we can identify areas of anomalous small‐scale structure. The results may help in the future to locate minute perturbations in the medium as they occur in the advent of volcanic eruptions or after earthquakes and to obtain new information about the geologic history of subsurface materials. The approach can be transferred to investigate man‐made materials and structures, such as deteriorating concrete constructions.
    Description: Key Points: Adjoint envelope tomography is for the first time applied to image the scattering and absorption structure with the real data. The iterative inversion uses envelopes of ultrasound signals from embedded transducers in a meter‐sized reinforced concrete specimen. We successfully image the distribution of statistical parameters characterizing the small‐scale heterogeneity and attenuation.
    Description: China Scholarship Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004543
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7152278
    Keywords: ddc:550.78 ; seismic tomography ; adjoint method ; small‐scale heterogeneity ; attenuation ; ultrasonic experiment ; reinforced concrete
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉On 15 January 2022, the Hunga volcano produced a massive explosion that generated perturbations in the entire atmosphere. Nonetheless, signatures in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) have been challenging to identify. We report MLT horizontal wind perturbations using three multistatic specular meteor radars on the west side of South America (spanning more than 3,000 km). The most notorious signal is an exceptional solitary wave with a large vertical wavelength observed around 18 UT at all three sites, with an amplitude of ∼50 m/s mainly in the westward direction. Using a customized analysis, the wave is characterized as traveling at ∼200 m/s, with a period of ∼2 hr and a horizontal wavelength of ∼1,440 km in the longitudinal direction, away from the source. The perturbation is consistent with an 〈italic〉L〈/italic〉〈sub〉1〈/sub〉 Lamb wave mode. The signal's timing coincides with the arrival time of the tsunami triggered by the eruption.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: The eruption of the Hunga volcano in January 2022 had a widespread impact on the atmosphere, affecting various layers. We describe a perturbation in horizontal winds caused by the event, which was observed over the west coast of South America by three different meteor radar systems separated by more than 3,000 km between them. The perturbation behaved similarly in the altitude range of 80–100 km, and the wave parameters observed were consistent with high‐order Lamb wave solutions from simulations carried out using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with thermosphere/ionosphere extension. This finding complements other studies that have explored the impacts of the eruption on different atmospheric levels. Overall, this study provides valuable insights into the complex and far‐reaching effects of volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Hunga eruption generated extreme horizontal wind perturbations at 80–100 km of altitude over South America〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The signal was detected almost simultaneously by three multistatic meteor radar systems spanning more than 3,000 km〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The perturbation had a period of ∼2 hr, a horizontal phase velocity of ∼200 m/s, and a horizontal wavelength of ∼1,440 km〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Leibniz SAW project FORMOSA
    Description: https://doi.org/10.22000/956
    Keywords: ddc:551.5 ; South America ; 2022 Hunga Eruption ; mesosphere ; lower thermosphere ; horizontal wind perturbations
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: Aufeis is a common phenomenon in cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere that develops during winter by successive water overflow and freezing on ice‐covered surfaces. Most studies on aufeis occurrence focus on regions in North America and Siberia, while research in High Mountain Asia (HMA) is still in an exploratory phase. This study investigates the extent and dynamics of icing processes and aufeis in the Tso Moriri basin, eastern Ladakh, India. Based on a combination of 235 Landsat 5 TM/8 OLI and Sentinel‐2 imagery from 2008 to 2021 the occurrence of icing and aufeis was classified using a random forest classifier. A total of 27 frequently occurring aufeis fields with an average maximum extent of 9 km〈sup〉2〈/sup〉 were identified, located at a mean elevation of 4,700 m a.s.l. Temporal patterns show a distinct accumulation phase (icing) between November and April, and a melting phase lasting from May until July. Icing is characterized by high seasonal and inter‐annual variability. Successive water overflow mainly occurs between January and March and seems to be related to diurnal freeze–thaw‐cycles, whereas higher daytime temperatures result in larger icing areas. Aufeis feeding sources are often located within or in close vicinity to wetland areas, while vegetation is largely absent on surfaces with frequent aufeis formation. These interactions require more attention in future research. In addition, this study shows the high potential of a machine learning approach to monitor icing processes and aufeis, which can be transferred to other regions.
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Keywords: ddc:551.3 ; icing ; Landsat ; remote sensing ; time‐series ; Trans‐Himalaya ; water resource
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: In this paper, fluoride geochemistry and health risk of groundwater in Coimbatore district is studied. The order of dominance of ions were HCO〈sub〉3〈/sub〉 〉 Cl 〉 SO〈sub〉4〈/sub〉 〉 CO〈sub〉3〈/sub〉 and Na 〉 Ca 〉 Mg 〉 K. Alkaline groundwater and the dominance of HCO〈sub〉3〈/sub〉 and Na is favourable for the fluoride enrichment. Around 46% of the samples, N–NE regions, have F〈sup〉−〈/sup〉 higher than permissible limit of 1.5 mg/L. Pink granites, charnockite and gneisses in lithology is the possible origin of F〈sup〉−〈/sup〉. However, NO〈sub〉3〈/sub〉 vs F plot shows positive trend in some samples, indicating anthropogenic inputs of F〈sup〉−〈/sup〉. Correlation plots of F〈sup〉−〈/sup〉 was trending positive with pH, HCO〈sub〉3〈/sub〉 and Na and but negative for Ca, indicating the control of these ions in F〈sup〉−〈/sup〉 mobility. This result is supported by undersaturation of fluorite and supersaturation of carbonates. Four significant principal components were derived, which have explained 87% of the total variation. PC1 has high factor loadings for EC, Ca, Mg Na, Cl, SO〈sub〉4〈/sub〉, NO〈sub〉3〈/sub〉 indicating both natural and anthropogenic influences. PC2, PC3 and PC4 have higher loading for pH and HCO〈sub〉3〈/sub〉, K and HCO〈sub〉3〈/sub〉 and F〈sup〉−〈/sup〉, respectively, indicating geogenic factors in the F〈sup〉−〈/sup〉 enrichment. Human health risk assessment (HHRA) by ingestion and dermal pathways were calculated using Hazard Quotient HQ and Hazard Index (HI). 27% of males, 36% of females and 39% of the children have HI 〉 1, posing noncarcinogenic risks.
    Description: Freie Universität Berlin (1008)
    Keywords: ddc:551.9 ; Fluoride ; Geochemistry ; Multivariate analysis ; Human health risk assessment (HHRA) ; Revised permissible limits ; Coimbatore
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: We present a new discretization of sea ice dynamics on the sphere. The approach describes sea ice motion in tangent planes to the sphere. On each triangle of the mesh, the ice dynamics are discretized in a local coordinate system using a CD‐grid‐like non‐conforming finite element method. The development allows a straightforward coupling to the C‐grid like ocean model in Icosahedral Non‐hydrostatic‐Ocean model, which uses the same infrastructure as the sea ice module. Using a series of test examples, we demonstrate that the non‐conforming finite element discretization provides a stable realization of large‐scale sea ice dynamics on the sphere. A comparison with observation shows that we can simulate typical drift patterns with the new numerical realization of the sea ice dynamics.
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Sea ice in polar regions plays an important role in the exchange of heat and freshwater between the atmosphere and the ocean and hence for climate in general. Therefore climate models require a description (a set of equations) to express the large‐scale sea ice motion. We present a mathematical framework for describing sea ice flow in a global three‐dimensional Cartesian system. The idea is to express the sea ice motion in tangent planes. In this reference system, we solve the mathematical equations that describe the sea ice motion. The equations are approximated on a computational grid, that consists of triangles covering the surface of the sphere. On each triangle the sea ice velocity is placed at the edge midpoint. The development is motivated by the infrastructure of the ocean and sea ice model Icosahedral Non‐hydrostatic‐Ocean model. The old representation of sea ice dynamics uses a different design principle. Therefore, the communication between the sea ice and ocean model is computationally expensive. To circumvent this problem we have developed a numerical realization of sea ice dynamics that uses the same infrastructure as the ocean model. We show that the new realization of the sea ice dynamics is capable of capturing the sea ice drift.
    Description: Key Points: First realization of sea ice dynamics in tangent planes to the sphere. Discretization of the sea ice dynamics in a three‐dimensional Cartesian framework. Realization of the sea ice dynamics in the ocean and sea ice model Icosahedral Non‐hydrostatic‐Ocean model.
    Description: Max Planck Society
    Description: DFG
    Description: Collaborative Research Center TRR 181
    Description: Scientific Steering Committee
    Description: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/2v5shnnmwx
    Description: https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/modeling-with-icon/code-availability
    Description: https://thredds.met.no/thredds/osisaf/osisaf_cdrseaiceconc.html
    Description: http://dx.doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/input4MIPs.10842
    Description: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/INAWUWO7QH7B
    Keywords: ddc:551.3 ; CD‐grid like finite elements ; sea ice dynamics ; ICON‐O
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The radiocarbon analysis of uranium‐thorium‐dated cold‐water corals (CWCs) provides an excellent opportunity for qualitative reconstruction of past ocean circulation and water mass aging. While mid‐depth water mass aging has been studied in the Atlantic Ocean, the evolution of the thermocline is still largely unknown. Here we present a combined 〈sup〉14〈/sup〉C and 〈sup〉230〈/sup〉Th/U age record obtained from thermocline dwelling CWCs at various sites in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, with intermittently centennial resolution over the last 32 ka. Shallow dwelling CWCs off Angola, located in the South Atlantic, infer a link between the mid‐depth equatorial Atlantic and Southern Ocean. They confirm a 〈sup〉14〈/sup〉C drawdown during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and advocate for a consistent Southern Hemisphere radiocarbon aging of upper thermocline waters, as well as strong depth gradients and high variability. Direct comparison with 〈sup〉14〈/sup〉C simulations carried out with an Ocean General Circulation Model yield good agreement for Angola. In contrast, the North Atlantic thermocline shows well‐ventilated water with strong variations near the position of today's Azores Front (AF), neither of which are captured by the model. During the Bølling‐Allerød, we confirm the important role of the AF in separating North and South Atlantic thermocline waters and provide further evidence of a 500 year long deep convection interruption within the Younger Dryas (YD). We conclude that the North and South Atlantic thermocline waters were separately acting carbon reservoirs during the LGM and subsequent deglaciation until the modern circulation was established during the YD.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉North Atlantic cold‐water corals trace well‐ventilated thermocline waters near major oceanic fronts since the Last Glacial Maximum〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Across the South Atlantic into the Southern Ocean, aged waters with large variability and connectivity are evident during the last glacial〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The modern state of radiocarbon ventilation of the thermocline Atlantic is initiated during the Younger Dryas cold reversal〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: German Ministry of Education and Research
    Description: DFG‐ANR
    Description: PalMod project
    Description: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.959508
    Keywords: 14C dating ; 230Th/U dating ; Alboran Sea ; Angola ; Atlantic ; Azores Front ; Batm age ; cold-water coral ; Mauritania ; ventilation ; radiocarbon dating ; U/Th
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: Trees are the fundamental element of forest ecosystems, made possible by their mechanical qualities and their highly sophisticated conductive tissues. The evolution of trees, and thereby the evolution of forests, were ecologically transformative and affected climate and biogeochemical cycles fundamentally. Trees also offer a substantial amount of ecological niches for other organisms, such as epiphytes, creating a vast amount of habitats. During land plant evolution, a variety of different tree constructions evolved and their constructional principles are a subject of ongoing research. Understanding the “natural construction” of trees benefits strongly from methods and approaches from physics and engineering. Plant water transport is a good example for the ongoing demand for interdisciplinary efforts to unravel form-function relationships on vastly differing scales. Identification of the unique mechanism of water long-distance transport requires a solid basis of interfacial physics and thermodynamics. Studying tree functions by using theoretical approaches is, however, not a one-sided affair: The complex interrelationships between traits, functionality, trade-offs and phylogeny inspire engineers, physicists and architects until today.
    Description: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (SMNS) (4944)
    Keywords: ddc:634.9 ; Trees ; Xylem ; Water transport ; Branching structure ; Soil-plant-atmosphere continuum ; Epiphytes
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: International climate policy is increasingly shaped by alternative forms of governance. Coalitions of national, subnational, and/or non-state actors have the potential to address the global challenge of climate change beyond the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. While initially such “clubs” spurred hope that they could be an option to achieve climate action more effectively than the UNFCCC, more recently, their role has been seen as preparing and orchestrating climate policy. In spite of its conceptual proliferation, literature on climate clubs stops short in examining practical evidence and conducting analyses beyond categorization and labelling of climate clubs. This article aims at contributing to filling this gap with a comparative perspective on three specific governance initiatives that act on different governance levels: the G20, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), and the Under2 Coalition. What contribution do these club-like initiatives make to global climate governance and how does it relate to existing structures such as the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC process? Our paper applies central aspects of clubs research, namely, membership, public goods, and the provision of additional benefits as an analytical framework to examine the three cases. We find that these club initiatives, though highly diverse in their origin and membership, make a similar contribution to international climate governance. Their largest contribution lies in preparing emissions reductions through raising awareness, orchestrating different actors and actions, and establishing a large cooperation network. They complement the UNFCCC and especially the Paris Agreement.
    Description: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS) (5377)
    Keywords: ddc:363.7 ; International climate policy ; Climate governance ; Climate clubs ; Minilateral policy approaches ; Case study
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: Mass developments of toxic cyanobacteria have increased in frequency due to global warming and eutrophication. Such cyanobacterial blooms impact whole freshwater ecosystems, especially reducing the abundance of herbivory species of the genus Daphnia. These negative effects on Daphnia have frequently been attributed to cyanobacterial secondary metabolites, among them hepatotoxic microcystins and protease inhibitors. Protease inhibitors inhibit major digestive proteases in the gut of Daphnia which results in reduced fitness, that is, population growth. To date evidence for local adaptation of Daphnia to cyanobacteria is confined to microcystin‐producing cyanobacteria and based on comparison of individual clones from different populations but lacks evidence from multiclone microcosm experiments. In the present study, D. magna clones from a Swedish lake where they coexist with the microcystin‐free Microcystis sp. strain BM25 were compared to clones from a Polish population without cyanobacteria, first in single‐clone experiments and subsequently in a multiclonal experimental population. The Swedish clones were assumed to be locally adapted to this protease inhibitor‐producing cyanobacterium and indeed showed higher population growth rates, a proxy for fitness, and dominated the population in the presence of dietary Microcystis sp. BM25, but not in the absence of this cyanobacterium. The results indicate an adaptive tolerance of the Swedish population and point at local adaptation to locally co‐occurring protease inhibitor‐producing cyanobacteria.
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Keywords: ddc:577.7 ; Daphnia magna ; multiclonal study ; toxic cyanobacteria ; adaption ; experiments
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: Wind energy is a key option in global dialogues about climate change mitigation. Here, we combined observations from surface wind stations, reanalysis datasets, and state‐of‐the‐art regional climate models from the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX Africa) to study the current and future wind energy potential in Zambia. We found that winds are dominated by southeasterlies and are rarely strong with an average speed of 2.8 m·s〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉. When we converted the observed surface wind speed to a turbine hub height of 100 m, we found a ~38% increase in mean wind speed for the period 1981–2000. Further, both simulated and observed wind speed data show statistically significant increments across much of the country. The only areas that divert from this upward trend of wind speeds are the low land terrains of the Eastern Province bordering Malawi. Examining projections of wind power density (WPD), we found that although wind speed is increasing, it is still generally too weak to support large‐scale wind power generation. We found a meagre projected annual average WPD of 46.6 W·m〈sup〉−2〈/sup〉. The highest WPDs of ~80 W·m−2 are projected in the northern and central parts of the country while the lowest are to be expected along the Luangwa valley in agreement with wind speed simulations. On average, Zambia is expected to experience minor WPD increments of 0.004 W·m〈sup〉−2〈/sup〉 per year from 2031 to 2050. We conclude that small‐scale wind turbines that accommodate cut‐in wind speeds of 3.8 m·s〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉 are the most suitable for power generation in Zambia. Further, given the limitations of small wind turbines, they are best suited for rural and suburban areas of the country where obstructions are few, thus making them ideal for complementing the government of the Republic of Zambia's rural electrification efforts.
    Description: Wind speed is very slow in Zambia. It is increasing but remains unlikely to support large commercial wind farms especially not at the 100‐m hub height. Any efforts for wind power generation in Zambia should be towards ultra‐tall wind turbines fitted with larger rotors.
    Description: Alexander von Humboldt‐Stiftung
    Keywords: ddc:333.9 ; CORDEX Africa ; renewable energy ; wind speed ; Zambia
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: In 1989, Steve Rayner chided fellow anthropologists for “fiddling while the world warms.” This was the starting point of a decades‐long application to human‐made climate change of the cultural theory that he had developed with Mary Douglas and Michael Thompson. It culminated in a call to develop “clumsy” solutions for addressing the issue. Since then, the concept of clumsy solutions has been applied, praised, and criticised. To clarify its strengths and weaknesses, I first set out cultural theory and explain how the notion of clumsy solutions was derived from it. I then assess the extent to which this notion has increased our understanding of climate change governance. I do so by breaking up the application of this concept into seven predictions, concerning: (1) the major perspectives among stakeholders on how to resolve climate change; (2) the fate of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; (3) the feasibility of international emissions trading; (4) the possibility of making renewable energy competitive; (5) the need for domestic governmental action to realize this possibility; (6) the effectiveness of a nonbinding global treaty to combat climate change; and (7) the need to explore adaptation, carbon capture, and geoengineering. I show that these predictions have stood the test of time. Finally, I discuss the roles that the concept of clumsy solutions can play in future climate change governance. This article is written in memory of Steve Rayner, one of the first social scientists to focus on climate change. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge 〉 Sociology/Anthropology of Climate Knowledge Climate, History, Society, Culture 〉 Thought Leaders
    Keywords: ddc:363.7 ; clumsy solutions ; energy transition ; Steve Rayner
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: This study aims to experimentally investigate the possibility of combining two extended continuum theories for two‐phase flow. One of these theories considers interfacial area as a separate state variable, and the other explicitly discriminates between connected and disconnected phases. This combination enhances our potential to effectively model the apparent hysteresis, which generally dominates two‐phase flow. Using optical microscopy, we perform microfluidic experiments in quasi‐2D artificial porous media for various cyclic displacement processes and boundary conditions. Specifically for a number of sequential drainage processes, with detailed image (post‐)processing, pore‐scale parameters such as the interfacial area between the phases (wetting, non‐wetting, and solid), and local capillary pressure, as well as macroscopic parameters like saturation, are estimated. We show that discriminating between connected and disconnected clusters and the concept of the interfacial area as a separate state variable can be an appropriate way of modeling hysteresis in a two‐phase flow scheme. The drainage datasets of capillary pressure, saturation, and specific interfacial area, are plotted as a surface, given by f (P〈sup〉c〈/sup〉, s〈sup〉w〈/sup〉, a〈sup〉wn〈/sup〉) = 0. These surfaces accommodate all data points within a reasonable experimental error, irrespective of the boundary conditions, as long as the corresponding liquid is connected to its inlet. However, this concept also shows signs of reduced efficiency as a modeling approach in datasets gathered through combining experiments with higher volumetric fluxes. We attribute this observation to the effect of the porous medium geometry on the phase distribution. This yields further elaboration, in which this speculation is thoroughly studied and analyzed.
    Description: Key Points: A large number of two‐phase displacement microfluidic experiments under different boundary conditions are performed. A code has been developed in order to spatially and temporally resolve the experiments with high accuracy. Including both connectivity and interfacial area as state variables in two‐phase flow continuum theories improves modeling hysteresis.
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science, Universität Stuttgart http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100022175
    Description: https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-2250
    Keywords: ddc:550.78 ; microfluidic experiments ; optical microscopy ; two‐phase flow in porous medium ; image processing ; extended theory of porous medium ; phase connectivity
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: Ground‐level ozone is a major air pollutant harmful to human health. In the scope of climate change, it is essential to provide high‐quality local‐scale assessments of the anticipated changes for public health and policy interventions. Assessments and projections of ground‐level ozone usually rely on numerical modeling, but statistical approaches are also available. The present study enhances the validity of statistical downscaling by taking climate change as well as air pollution changes into account. Besides considering meteorological predictors such as air temperature, short‐wave radiation, humidity, and wind, ozone trends from changes in precursor emissions were included in the statistical models. Meteorological and ozone predictor information extracted from reanalysis data for the observational period and output of seven Earth System Models (ESMs) for the projection periods were used, with three of them having interactive chemical modeling, while the other four used prescribed ozone changes. Ground‐level ozone, more precisely daily maximum 8‐hr running means (MDA8) as well as daily maximum 1‐hr values (MDA1), at 798 measurement stations across the European area in the “ozone season” from April to September were assessed. Results depended strongly on whether only meteorological information or additional information about emission changes were considered. As a general picture under the consideration of climate and emission changes, decreasing ground‐level ozone concentrations were projected under the moderate SSP2‐4.5 scenario, while for the more pessimistic scenario SSP3‐7.0 increasing ozone concentrations over Europe, especially at the end of the 21st century, were assessed.
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Ground‐level ozone is a gaseous air pollutant that is formed under sunlight from other air pollutants. Ground‐level ozone is harmful to human health. There are concerns that under climate change, ground‐level ozone will increase. To assess changes on local‐scale various methods are available, which can roughly be divided into numerical models and statistical approaches. The present study developed statistical models further, to give a more realistic picture of future changes in ground‐level ozone in the European area. Information about meteorological changes such as air temperature, atmospheric humidity, and wind as well as changes in air pollutants like nitrogen oxides was considered. During the 21st century decreasing ground‐level ozone concentrations were projected under a moderate climate change scenario, while for a more pessimistic scenario increasing ozone concentrations over Europe, especially at the end of the century, were assessed. This result highlights the necessity to further reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution, bringing forth better protection of human health.
    Description: Key Points: Precursor emission changes are represented by the inclusion of ozone trend in the statistical downscaling models. Statistical projections results are sensitive to the predictor types and Earth System Model output used. Climate change scenarios have a major impact on future ozone, and greenhouse gas and air pollution reductions can mitigate health risks.
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: Projekt DEAL
    Description: https://aqportal.discomap.eea.europa.eu/
    Description: https://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExport.htm
    Description: https://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExportAirBase.htm
    Description: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/
    Description: https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/search?type=dataset
    Description: https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/projects/cmip6/
    Keywords: ddc:363.7 ; ground‐level ozone ; regional climate change ; statistical downscaling ; European area ; human health
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The Arctic near‐surface air temperature increases most strongly during the cold season, and ocean heat storage has often been cited as a crucial component in linking the ice‐albedo radiative feedback, which is active in summer, and near‐surface air temperature increase in winter, when the lapse rate feedback contributes to Arctic warming. Here, we first estimate how much local heat storage and ocean heat transport contribute to net surface energy fluxes on a seasonal scale in CMIP6 models. We then compare contributions in a base state under weak anthropogenic forcing to a near‐present‐day state in which significant Arctic amplification is simulated. Our analysis indicates that, in a few regions, ocean heat transport plays a larger role for cold‐season net surface energy fluxes compared with local heat storage. Analyzing differences between past and near‐present‐day conditions suggests that the lapse rate feedback, which mainly acts during the cold season in warm water inflow regions, may be more strongly influenced than previously thought by increased ocean heat transport from lower latitudes.〈/p〉
    Description: 〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Arctic Ocean net upward surface energy fluxes in the cold season were decomposed into contributions from local heat storage (yellow, see schematic) and ocean heat transport (red). Our analysis of CMIP6 model output suggests that, in a few inflow regions, ocean heat transport contributes more to cold‐season net surface energy fluxes compared with local heat storage. In parts of these inflow regions, the relative contribution of ocean heat transport increased with time. 〈boxed-text position="anchor" id="qj4496-blkfxd-0001" content-type="graphic" xml:lang="en"〉〈graphic position="anchor" id="jats-graphic-1" xlink:href="urn:x-wiley:00359009:media:qj4496:qj4496-toc-0001"〉 〈/graphic〉 〈/boxed-text〉〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/projects/cmip6/
    Description: https://nsidc.org/data/g10010
    Keywords: ddc:551.46 ; Arctic amplification ; CMIP6 ; heat storage and transport
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: Assessments of water and energy security over historical and future periods require hydrologic models that can accurately simulate reservoir operations. However, scare reservoir operation data limits the accuracy of current reservoir representations in simulating reservoir behaviors. Furthermore, the reliability of these representations under changing inflow regimes remains unclear, which makes their application for long future planning horizons questionable. To this end, we propose a synergistic framework to predict the release, storage, and hydropower production of ungauged reservoirs (i.e., reservoirs without in‐situ inflow, release, storage, and operating rules) by combining remotely sensed reservoir operating patterns and model‐simulated reservoir inflow with conceptual reservoir operation schemes within a land surface‐hydrologic model. A previously developed reservoir operation scheme is extended with a storage anomaly based calibration approach to accommodate the relatively short time series and large time intervals of remotely sensed data. By setting up controlled experiments in the Yalong River Basin in China, we show that remote sensing can improve the parameter estimation and simulations of ungauged reservoirs for all selected reservoir operation schemes, thereby improving the downstream flood and streamflow simulations. However, most of these schemes show degraded accuracies of reservoir operation simulations under a changing inflow regime, which could lead to unreliable assessments of future water resources and hydropower production. In comparison, our newly extended reservoir operation scheme can be more adaptable to flow regime variations. Our study provides a practical framework for reservoir impact assessments and predictions with the ongoing satellite altimetry projects such as Surface Water and Ocean Topography.
    Description: Key Points: Satellite remote sensing can improve the representation of ungauged reservoirs and streamflow simulations in hydrologic models. A reservoir operation scheme for ungauged reservoirs is extended and tailored to the use of remotely sensed reservoir operation data. Reservoir operation schemes with storage‐based model structures can be more reliable in reservoir simulations under a changing flow regime.
    Description: National Key Research and Development Program of China http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100012166
    Description: Belt and Road Special Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Hydrology‐Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering
    Description: German Research Foundation
    Description: German Federal Ministry of Science of Education
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7190469
    Description: https://global-surface-water.appspot.com/download
    Description: https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/DF80WG
    Description: https://aviso-data-center.cnes.fr/
    Keywords: ddc:551.48 ; reservoir operation schemes ; remote sensing ; satellite altimetry ; SWOT ; hydrologic prediction ; hydrologic simulation
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: We use interferometric synthetic aperture radar observations to investigate the fault geometry and afterslip evolution within 3 years after a mainshock. The postseismic observations favor a ramp‐flat structure in which the flat angle should be lower than 10°. The postseismic deformation is dominated by afterslip, while the viscoelastic response is negligible. A multisegment, stress‐driven afterslip model (hereafter called the SA‐2 model) with depth‐varying frictional properties better explains the spatiotemporal evolution of the postseismic deformation than a two‐segment, stress‐driven afterslip model (hereafter called the SA‐1 model). Although the SA‐2 model does not improve the misfit significantly, this multisegment fault with depth‐varying friction is more physically plausible given the depth‐varying mechanical stratigraphy in the region. Compared to the kinematic afterslip model, the mechanical afterslip models with friction variation tend to underestimate early postseismic deformation to the west, which may indicate more complex fault friction than we expected. Both the kinematic and stress‐driven models can resolve downdip afterslip, although it could be affected by data noise and model resolution. The transition depth of the sedimentary cover basement interface inferred by afterslip models is ∼12 km in the seismogenic zone, which coincides with the regional stratigraphic profile. Because the coseismic rupture propagated along a basement‐involved fault while the postseismic slip may activate the frontal structures and/or shallower detachments in the sedimentary cover, the 2017 Sarpol‐e Zahab earthquake may have acted as a typical event that contributed to both thick‐ and thin‐skinned shortening of the Zagros in both seismic and aseismic ways.
    Description: Plain Language Summary: The 2017 Mw 7.3 Sarpol‐e Zahab earthquake is the largest instrumentally recorded event to have ruptured in the Zagros fold thrust belt. Although much work has been conducted for a better understanding of the relationship between crustal shortening and seismic and aseismic slip of the earthquakes in the Zagros, active debate remains. Here, we use interferometric synthetic aperture radar observations to study the fault geometry and afterslip evolution within 3 years after the 2017 Mw 7.3 Sarpol‐e Zahab earthquake. For postseismic deformation sources, afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation are considered to be possible causes of postseismic deformation. Our results show that the kinematic afterslip model can spatiotemporally explain the postseismic deformation. However, the mechanical afterslip models tend to underestimate the earlier western part of the postseismic deformation, which may indicate a more complex spatial heterogeneity of the frictional property of the fault plane. We find that there is deep afterslip downdip of coseismic slip from both the kinematic and stress‐driven afterslip models, although it could be affected by data noise and model resolution. We additionally find that the viscoelastic response is negligible. Postseismic slip on more complex geological structures may also be reactivated and triggered, combined with geodetic inversions, geological cross‐section data and local structures in the Zagros.
    Description: Key Points: The Spatiotemporal evolution of postseismic observations favors a ramp‐flat structure in which the flat angle should be lower than 10°, Depth‐varying friction is required to better simulate the rate‐strengthening afterslip evolution. Downdip afterslip can be resolved by afterslip models, although it relies on data accuracy and model resolution.
    Description: National Natural Science Foundation of China http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809
    Description: China Scholarship Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004543
    Description: Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan
    Description: https://www.asf.alaska.edu/
    Description: http://irsc.ut.ac.ir/
    Description: https://www.globalcmt.org/
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7113073
    Keywords: ddc:551.22 ; Zagros fold thrust belt ; Sarpol-e Zahab earthquake ; postseismic observations ; postseismic deformation ; InSAR
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Description: Soil fauna drives crucial processes of energy and nutrient cycling in agricultural systems, and influences the quality of crops and pest incidence. Soil tillage is the most influential agricultural manipulation of soil structure, and has a profound influence on soil biology and its provision of ecosystem services. The objective of this study was to quantify through meta‐analyses the effects of reducing tillage intensity on density and diversity of soil micro‐ and mesofaunal communities, and how these effects vary among different pedoclimatic conditions and interact with concurrent management practices. We present the results of a global meta‐analysis of available literature data on the effects of different tillage intensities on taxonomic and functional groups of soil micro‐ and mesofauna. We collected paired observations (conventional vs. reduced forms of tillage/no‐tillage) from 133 studies across 33 countries. Our results show that reduced tillage intensity or no‐tillage increases the total density of springtails (+35%), mites (+23%), and enchytraeids (+37%) compared to more intense tillage methods. The meta‐analyses for different nematode feeding groups, life‐forms of springtails, and taxonomic mite groups showed higher densities under reduced forms of tillage compared to conventional tillage on omnivorous nematodes (+53%), epedaphic (+81%) and hemiedaphic (+84%) springtails, oribatid (+43%) and mesostigmatid (+57%) mites. Furthermore, the effects of reduced forms of tillage on soil micro‐ and mesofauna varied with depth, climate and soil texture, as well as with tillage method, tillage frequency, concurrent fertilisation, and herbicide application. Our findings suggest that reducing tillage intensity can have positive effects on the density of micro‐ and mesofaunal communities in areas subjected to long‐term intensive cultivation practices. Our results will be useful to support decision making on the management of soil faunal communities and will facilitate modelling efforts of soil biology in global agroecosystems. HIGHLIGHTS Global meta‐analysis to estimate the effect of reducing tillage intensity on micro‐ and mesofauna Reduced tillage or no‐tillage has positive effects on springtail, mite and enchytraeid density Effects vary among nematode feeding groups, springtail life forms and mite suborders Effects vary with texture, climate and depth and depend on the tillage method and frequency
    Description: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
    Description: https://doi.org/10.20387/bonares-eh0f-hj28
    Keywords: ddc:631.4 ; agricultural land use ; conservation agriculture ; conventional agriculture ; soil biodiversity ; soil cultivation
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Description: Thermomagnetic curves of magnetic susceptibility (κ) are key to characterizing magnetic properties. We report hump‐shaped κ‐T curves of magnetite‐bearing basalt during heating‐cooling cycles to ∼340°C, with a large thermal hysteresis and similar starting and ending values, even in multiple repeated cycles, ruling out changes in magnetic mineralogy. Based on FORC diagrams and published results of engineered materials, we propose that thermal hysteresis arises from configurations of magnetic moments in clusters of single‐domain particles due to dipolar coupling, with different collective behavior during heating and cooling. This effect modifies the hump‐shaped thermal relaxation behavior of the individual nanoparticles. FORC and κ‐T results indicate an increase in effective particle sizes after 700°C‐heating. Our results are a warning against premature interpretation of a decreasing trend in κ‐T curves by maghemite inversion. Instead, fine particle behavior should be considered when a hump‐shaped κ‐T behavior is detected.
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Thermomagnetic curves of magnetic susceptibility (κ) are key to characterizing magnetic properties. A marked drop in κ‐T curves at ∼300–400°C is often considered to indicate the inversion of maghemite to hematite. Such a drop is often preceded by an increase in κ, creating a hump shape that is rarely noted in discussions. We report hump‐shaped κ‐T curves in magnetite‐bearing basalt. When heating up to ∼340°C and cooled subsequently, a large thermal hysteresis was observed. This hump shape and the thermal hysteresis behavior occur in a very similar way in repeated κ‐T cycles, ruling out changes in magnetic mineralogy. We hypothesize that the thermal hysteresis arises from configurations of coupled magnetic moments in clusters of fine particles, which is partly irreversible upon cooling. This effect modifies the hump‐shaped thermal relaxation behavior of the individual particle moments. When heated to 700°C, grain boundaries may weld and internal stress effects are reduced, increasing the effective particle sizes and shifting the hump‐peak to a higher temperature. Our results indicate that fine particle behavior should be considered for all types of natural materials when a hump‐shaped κ‐T curve is observed rather than interpreting the drop in κ as maghemite inversion.
    Description: Key Points: We observed reversible thermal hysteresis behavior in hump‐shaped partial magnetic susceptibility cycles of magnetite‐bearing basalts. The thermal hysteresis may be caused by blocked states of coupled nanoparticle moments modulating thermal activation. Descending susceptibility in hump‐shaped curves is often due to single‐domain thermal relaxation rather than maghemite inversion.
    Description: National Natural Science Foundation of China http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/zx7y6g9rdv.2
    Keywords: ddc:538.7 ; magnetite-bearing basalt ; magnetic susceptibility (κ) ; thermomagnetic curves ; thermal hysteresis
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Heat flow is estimated at eight sites drilled int the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California, during the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 385. The expedition sought to understand the thermal regime of the basin and heat transfer between off‐axis sills intruding the organic‐rich sediments of the Guaymas Basin, and the basin floor. The distinct sedimentation rates, active tectonics, and magmatism make the basin interesting for scientific discoveries. Results show that sedimentation corrected heat flow values range 119–221 mW/m〈sup〉2〈/sup〉 in the basin and 257–1003 mW/m〈sup〉2〈/sup〉 at the site of a young sill intrusion, denominated Ringvent. Thermal analysis shows that heat in the Guaymas Basin is being dissipated by conduction for plate ages >0.2 Ma, whereas younger plate ages are in a state of transient cooling by both conduction and advection. Drilling sites show that Ringvent is an active sill being cooled down slowly by circulating fluids with discharge velocities of 10–200 mm/yr. Possible recharge sites are located ca. 1 km away from the sill's border. Modelling of the heat output at Ringvent indicates a sill thickness of ca. 240 m. A simple order‐of‐magnitude model predicts that relatively small amounts of magma are needed to account for the elevated heat flow in non‐volcanic, sediment‐filled rifts like the central and northern Gulf of California in which heating of the upper crust is achieved via advection by sill emplacement and hydrothermal circulation. Multiple timescales of cooling control the crustal, chemical and biological evolution of the Guaymas Basin. Here, we recognize at least four timescales: the time interval between intrusions (ca. 10〈sup〉3〈/sup〉 yr), the thermal relaxation time of sills (ca. 10〈sup〉4〈/sup〉 yr), the characteristic cooling time of the sediments (ca. 10〈sup〉5〈/sup〉 yr), and the cooling of the entire crust at geologic timescales.〈/p〉
    Description: Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003089
    Description: German Research Center for Geosciences
    Description: https://web.iodp.tamu.edu/LORE/
    Description: https://mlp.ldeo.columbia.edu/logdb/scientific_ocean_drilling/
    Keywords: ddc:551.1 ; Guyamas Basin ; Heat Flow ; Heat Transfer ; IODP Expedition 385
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Description: We present high‐resolution profiles of dissolved, labile, and total particulate trace metals (TMs) on the Northeast Greenland shelf from GEOTRACES cruise GN05 in August 2016. Combined with radium isotopes, stable oxygen isotopes, and noble gas measurements, elemental distributions suggest that TM dynamics were mainly regulated by the mixing between North Atlantic‐derived Intermediate Water, enriched in labile particulate TMs (LpTMs), and Arctic surface waters, enriched in Siberian shelf‐derived dissolved TMs (dTMs; Co, Cu, Fe, Mn, and Ni) carried by the Transpolar Drift. These two distinct sources were delineated by salinity‐dependent variations of dTM and LpTM concentrations and the proportion of dTMs relative to the total dissolved and labile particulate ratios. Locally produced meltwater from the Nioghalvfjerdsbræ (79NG) glacier cavity, distinguished from other freshwater sources using helium excess, contributed a large pool of dTMs to the shelf inventory. Localized peaks in labile and total particulate Cd, Co, Fe, Mn, Ni, Cu, Al, V, and Ti in the cavity outflow, however, were not directly contributed by submarine melting. Instead, these particulate TMs were mainly supplied by the re‐suspension of cavity sediment particles. Currently, Arctic Ocean outflows are the most important source of dFe, dCu, and dNi on the shelf, while LpTMs and up to 60% of dMn and dCo are mainly supplied by subglacial discharge from the 79NG cavity. Therefore, changes in the cavity‐overturning dynamics of 79NG induced by glacial retreat, and alterations in the transport of Siberian shelf‐derived materials with the Transport Drift may shift the shelf dTM‐LpTM stoichiometry in the future.
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Trace metals (TMs) including cobalt (Co), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), and nickel (Ni) are essential micronutrients for marine productivity. The Northeast Greenland shelf is a climatically sensitive region, influenced by both outflowing Arctic waters and local glacier melting. We lack knowledge on how these Arctic surface waters affect TM dynamics on the Greenland shelf and how climatic shifts may influence TM dynamics. Here, we distinguish local submarine meltwater from Arctic surface waters using distinct tracers; noble gases and radium isotopes. We show that the TM dynamics on the shelf are largely controlled by the intrusion of Arctic surface waters which creates a near‐surface plume of dissolved and labile particulate TMs. Conversely, submarine meltwater creates a subsurface plume enriched in dissolved TMs but depleted in particulate TMs, which is exported from underneath a floating ice tongue. In the future, increasing Arctic river discharge and local glacial melting may both significantly change shelf micronutrient ratios demonstrating downstream impacts of a changing cryosphere on marine biogeochemical cycles.
    Description: Key Points: The overall dissolved and particulate trace metal (TM) dynamics were mainly regulated by the mixing with Arctic surface waters. Resuspension of cavity sediments is a major localized source of labile and total particulate Cd, Co, Fe, Mn, Ni, Cu, Al, V, and Ti. Whilst dissolved and particulate TMs are mostly coupled on the Greenland shelf, cavity outflow decouples both phases.
    Description: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Description: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.871030
    Description: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.871030
    Description: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.871028
    Description: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.905347
    Description: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.933431
    Description: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.948466
    Description: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.936029
    Description: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.936027
    Description: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931336
    Keywords: ddc:551.9 ; Arctic ; trace metals ; labile particulate ; glacier ; meltwater ; GEOTRACES
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-18
    Description: Theropods were the dominating apex predators in most Jurassic and Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems. Their feeding ecology has always been of great interest, and new computational methods have yielded more detailed reconstructions of differences in theropod feeding behaviour. Many approaches, however, rely on well‐preserved skulls. Dental microwear texture (DMT) analysis is potentially applicable to isolated teeth, and here employed for the first time to investigate dietary ecology of theropods. In particular, we test whether tyrannosaurids show DMT associated with more hard‐object feeding than compared to Allosaurus; this would be a sign for higher levels of osteophagy, as has often been suggested. We find no significant difference in complexity and roughness of enamel surfaces between Allosaurus and tyrannosaurids, which conflicts with inferences of more frequent osteophagic behaviour in Tyrannosaurus as compared to other theropods. Orientation of wear features reveals a more pronounced bi‐directional puncture‐and‐pull feeding mode in Allosaurus than in tyrannosaurids. Our results further indicate ontogenetic niche shift in theropods and crocodylians, based on significantly larger height parameters in juvenile theropods which might indicate frequent scavenging, resulting in more bone–tooth contact during feeding. Overall, DMT is found to be very similar between theropods and extant large, broad‐snouted crocodylians and shows great similarity in feeding ecology of theropod apex predators throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous.
    Description: European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010663
    Description: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001691
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7d7wm37xk
    Keywords: ddc:567 ; dental wear ; diet reconstruction ; microwear ; DMTA ; theropod ; dinosaur
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-18
    Description: Various environmental variables drive gross primary productivity (GPP) and light use efficiency (LUE) of forest ecosystems. However, due to their intertwined nature and the complexity of measuring absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (APAR) of forest canopies, the assessment of LUE and the importance of its environmental drivers are difficult. Here, we present a unique combination of measurements during the 2021 growing season including eddy covariance derived GPP, sap flow, Sentinel‐2 derived canopy chlorophyll content and in situ measured APAR. The importance of environmental variables for GPP models is quantified with state‐of‐the‐art machine learning techniques. A special focus is put on photosynthesis‐limiting conditions, which are identified by a comparison of GPP and sap flow hysteretic responses to Vapor pressure deficit (VPD) and APAR. Results demonstrate that (a) LUE of the canopy's green part was on average 4.0% ± 2.3%, (b) canopy chlorophyll content as a seasonal variable for photosynthetic capacity was important for GPP predictions, and (c) on days with high VPD, tree‐scale sap flow and ecosystem‐scale GPP both shift to a clockwise hysteretic response to APAR. We demonstrate that the onset of such a clockwise hysteretic pattern of sap flow to APAR is a good indicator of stomatal closure related to water‐limiting conditions at the ecosystem‐scale.
    Description: Plain Language Summary: The efficiency by which a forest uses sunlight to perform photosynthesis is an important feature for climate and ecosystem modeling. However, the light that is actually captured by forests and is useable for photosynthesis is difficult to assess. Here, we show a sophisticated approach to estimate the light use efficiency of a spruce forest in Germany and analyze environmental influences on it and on photosynthesis. Our results indicate that about 4% of the light useable for photosynthesis was actually used by the forest during the 2021 growing season and that seasonal variations of chlorophyll in the canopy are a good indicator for carbon capture.
    Description: Key Points: A seasonal variable such as canopy chlorophyll content was useful to predict gross primary productivity with machine learning models. A clockwise hysteretic pattern of sap flow to radiation is a good indicator of water‐related stomatal closure. The light use efficiency of green parts of a spruce forest was 4.0% with a standard deviation of 2.3% during the 2021 growing season.
    Description: RWTH Aachen University http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007210
    Description: University of Alberta http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000190
    Description: Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the Länder
    Description: Waldklimafonds http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010297
    Description: German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
    Description: German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
    Description: TERENO project
    Description: Helmholtz research infrastructure Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems
    Description: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7014604
    Description: https://www.opengeodata.nrw.de/produkte/geobasis/hm/3dm_l_las/3dm_l_las/
    Description: https://scihub.copernicus.eu/
    Keywords: ddc:634.9 ; photosynthetically active radiation ; canopy chlorophyll content ; hysteresis ; sap flow ; variable importance ; Picea abies
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-18
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Temperature and soil moisture are known to control pesticide mineralization. Half‐life times (DT〈sub〉50〈/sub〉) derived from pesticide mineralization curves generally indicate longer residence times at low soil temperature and moisture but do not consider potential changes in the microbial allocation of pesticide‐derived carbon (C). We aimed to determine carbon use efficiency (CUE, formation of new biomass relative to total C uptake) to better understand microbial utilization of pesticide‐derived C under different environmental conditions and to support the conventional description of degradation dynamics based on mineralization. We performed a microcosm experiment at two MCPA (2‐methyl‐4‐chlorophenoxyacetic acid) concentrations (1 and 20 mg kg〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉) and defined 20°C/pF 1.8 as optimal and 10°C/pF 3.5 as limiting environmental conditions. After 4 weeks, 70% of the initially applied MCPA was mineralized under optimal conditions but MCPA mineralization reached less than 25% under limiting conditions. However, under limiting conditions, an increase in CUE was observed, indicating a shift towards anabolic utilization of MCPA‐derived C. In this case, increased C assimilation implied C storage or the formation of precursor compounds to support resistance mechanisms, rather than actual growth since we did not find an increase in the 〈italic toggle="no"〉tfdA〈/italic〉 gene relevant to MCPA degradation. We were able to confirm the assumption that under limiting conditions, C assimilation increases relative to mineralization and that C redistribution, may serve as an explanation for the difference between mineralization and MCPA dissipation‐derived degradation dynamics. In addition, by introducing CUE to the temperature‐ and moisture‐dependent degradation of pesticides, we can capture the underlying microbial constraints and adaptive mechanisms to changing environmental conditions.〈/p〉
    Description: 〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Changing environmental conditions alter the MCPA degradation dynamics and the allocation of pesticide‐derived carbon to anabolic or catabolic metabolism.〈boxed-text position="anchor" content-type="graphic" id="ejss13417-blkfxd-0001" xml:lang="en"〉 〈graphic position="anchor" id="jats-graphic-1" xlink:href="urn:x-wiley:13510754:media:ejss13417:ejss13417-toc-0001"〉 〈/graphic〉 〈/boxed-text〉〈/p〉
    Description: Collaborative Research Center 1253 CAMPOS (DFG)
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: DFG Priority Program 2322 “Soil System”
    Description: Ellrichshausen Foundation
    Description: Research Training Group “Integrated Hydrosystem modeling”
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5081655
    Keywords: ddc:631.4 ; anabolism ; carbon use efficiency ; catabolism ; effect of soil moisture and temperature ; gene‐centric process model ; MCPA biodegradation
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-13
    Description: The PERCIVAL detector is a CMOS imager designed for the soft X‐ray regime at photon sources. Although still in its final development phase, it has recently seen its first user experiments: ptychography at a free‐electron laser, holographic imaging at a storage ring and preliminary tests on X‐ray photon correlation spectroscopy. The detector performed remarkably well in terms of spatial resolution achievable in the sample plane, owing to its small pixel size, large active area and very large dynamic range; but also in terms of its frame rate, which is significantly faster than traditional CCDs. In particular, it is the combination of these features which makes PERCIVAL an attractive option for soft X‐ray science.
    Keywords: ddc:548 ; X‐ray detectors ; soft X‐rays ; ptychography ; holographic imaging ; XPCS ; detectors
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-13
    Description: Using the global and coupled ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic model with the Sapphire configuration (ICON‐S) and a grid spacing of 5 km, we describe seasonal and diurnal features of the tropical rainbelt and assess the limits of ICON‐S in representing tropical precipitation. ICON‐S shows that, by resolving meso‐beta scale process, the rainbelt structure and its seasonality (zonal and meridional migration and enlargement) is reproduced, with better performance over land than over ocean and with a very high degree of agreement to observations. ICON‐S especially struggles in capturing the seasonal features of the tropical rainbelt over the oceans of the Eastern Hemisphere, an issue associated with a cold sea surface temperature (SST) bias at the equator. ICON‐S also shows that a perfect representation of the diurnal cycle of precipitation over land is not a requirement to capture the seasonal features of the rainbelt over land, while over the ocean, 5 km is sufficient to adequately represent the diurnal cycle of precipitation.
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Over the tropics, precipitation falls in distinct bands, that span the circumference of the Earth. These bands migrate from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa following the seasonal migration of the sun. Their center of mass also varies east‐west, as well as their area. Where rain ends up falling is of key importance but conventional climate models relying on statistical approaches to simulate convection cannot represent these characteristics. Here we report on the results of simulations on a global domain and, to our knowledge, for the first time integrated with an atmosphere‐ocean coupled over a full seasonal cycle and with a grid spacing fine enough to explicitly represent convection and Mesoscale Ocean eddies. We show that such simulations can reproduce many aspects of the seasonal migration of the rainbelt over land. For instance, the north‐south and east‐west migration of the rainbelt as well as its expansion during the summer season are well captured. This is also the case for the rainbelt in the eastern Pacific and the Atlantic, but not in the Eastern Hemisphere, where the poor representation of the sea surface temperature pattern distorts the representation of the rainbelt and its seasonal characteristics.
    Description: Key Points: In one year of simulation, the ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic model with the Sapphire configuration (ICON‐S) reproduces the seasonal features of the tropical rainbelt over land with high agreement with observations. In the eastern Pacific and Atlantic, the seasonal structure and movement of the rainbelt are also reproduced by ICON‐S. Biases in sea surface temperature explain the struggles of ICON‐S in simulating the oceanic rainbelt of the Eastern Hemisphere.
    Description: Hans‐Ertel Centre for Weather Research
    Description: European Union's Horizon 2020
    Description: DKRZ compute time
    Description: https://doi.org/10.17617/3.1XTSR6
    Description: https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/modeling-with-icon/code-availability
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5067/GPM/IMERG/3B-HH/06
    Description: https://www.cen.uni-hamburg.de/en/icdc/data/atmosphere/imerg-precipitation-amount.html
    Description: https://www.cen.uni-hamburg.de/en/icdc/data/ocean/hadisst1.html
    Description: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-4BAE-E
    Keywords: ddc:551.6 ; tropical precipitation ; rainbelt ; seasonal migration ; ICON-S ; modeling
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-13
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Improving the environmental performance and energy efficiency of cooling towers requires systematic evaluation. However, methodological challenges emerge when applying typical environmental assessment methods to cooling towers. Hence, this paper compares the methods, analyzes their strengths and weaknesses, and proposes adaptions for evaluating cooling towers. As a case study, we applied five methods for assessing the wet cooling system of the high‐performance data center in Stuttgart. These are material flow analysis (MFA), life cycle inventory, life cycle assessment (LCA), exergy analysis, and life cycle exergy analysis (LCEA). The comparison highlights that the LCA provides the most comprehensive environmental evaluation of cooling systems by considering several environmental impact dimensions. In the case of the wet cooling tower, however, electricity and water consumption cause more than 97% of the environmental impacts in all considered impact categories. Therefore, MFA containing energy flows suffices in many cases. Using exergy efficiency is controversially debated because exergy destruction is part of the technical principle applied in cooling towers and, therefore, difficult to interpret. The LCEA appears inappropriate because construction and disposal barely affect the exergy balance and are associated with transiting exergy. The method comparison demonstrates the need for further methodological development, such as dynamic extensions or the efficiency definition of cooling towers. The paper highlights that the methodological needs depend on the specific application.〈/p〉
    Description: Ph.D. scholarship by the Graduate and Research School for Energy Efficiency Stuttgart (GREES)
    Keywords: ddc:333.7 ; cooling tower ; data center ; exergy analysis ; industrial ecology ; life cycle assessment ; material flow analysis
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-12
    Description: Simulations of the global climate system at storm-resolving resolutions of 2 km are now becoming feasible and show promising realism in clouds and precipitation. However, shortcomings in their representation of microscale processes, like the interaction of cloud droplets and ice crystals with radiation, can still restrict their utility. Here, we illustrate how changes to the ice microphysics scheme dramatically alter both the vertical profile of cloud-radiative heating and top-of-atmosphere outgoing longwave radiation (terrestrial infrared cooling) in storm-resolving simulations over the Asian monsoon region. Poorly-constrained parameters in the ice nucleation scheme, overactive conversion of ice to snow, and inconsistent treatment of ice crystal effective radius between microphysics and radiation alter cloud-radiative heating by a factor of four and domain-mean infrared cooling by 30 W m−2. Vertical resolution, on the other hand, has a very limited impact. Even in state-of-the-art models then, uncertainties in microscale cloud properties exert a strong control on the radiative budget that propagates to both atmospheric circulation and regional climate. These uncertainties need to be reduced to realize the full potential of storm-resolving models.
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4808394
    Description: https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/products.php?product=SYN1deg
    Description: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datasets/era5
    Keywords: Atmospheric dynamics ; Climate and Earth system modelling
    Language: English
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  • 83
    Publication Date: 2024-03-12
    Description: Three‐dimensional (3d) numerical models are state‐of‐the‐art for investigating complex hydrodynamic flow patterns in reservoirs and lakes. Such full‐complexity models are computationally demanding and their calibration is challenging regarding time, subjective decision‐making, and measurement data availability. In addition, physically unrealistic model assumptions or combinations of calibration parameters may remain undetected and lead to overfitting. In this study, we investigate if and how so‐called Bayesian calibration aids in characterizing faulty model setups driven by measurement data and calibration parameter combinations. Bayesian calibration builds on recent developments in machine learning and uses a Gaussian process emulator as a surrogate model, which runs considerably faster than a 3d numerical model. We Bayesian‐calibrate a Delft3D‐FLOW model of a pump‐storage reservoir as a function of the background horizontal eddy viscosity and diffusivity, and initial water temperature profile. We consider three scenarios with varying degrees of faulty assumptions and different uses of flow velocity and water temperature measurements. One of the scenarios forces completely unrealistic, rapid lake stratification and still yields similarly good calibration accuracy as more correct scenarios regarding global statistics, such as the root‐mean‐square error. An uncertainty assessment resulting from the Bayesian calibration indicates that the completely unrealistic scenario forces fast lake stratification through highly uncertain mixing‐related model parameters. Thus, Bayesian calibration describes the quality of calibration and correctness of model assumptions through geometric characteristics of posterior distributions. For instance, most likely calibration parameter values (posterior distribution maxima) at the calibration range limit or with widespread uncertainty characterize poor model assumptions and calibration.
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Software tools for replicating a real‐world element, such as an artificial lake, need to account for many unknown parameters to create a physically sound conceptual computer model. Still, simplification assumptions are necessary to break down the complex reality into parameters that are easier to calculate. But the simplified parameters take on different values for each model and require specific adjustments. To perform these adjustments, a past event is typically reproduced with the conceptual model and different simplification parameter combinations. The simplification parameter combinations leading to the best possible replication of the past event are assumed to be valid to use the conceptual model for predictions of future events. Alas, many potentially false combinations can replicate a past event with very good results. Thus, a conceptual computer model can be overly adjusted regarding a particular phenomenon, such as heat transfer. Also, the number of possible adjustment tests is limited due to the long computing time of a conceptual model. For these reasons, we use a fast, simplified statistical model of a more complex conceptual model and machine learning for the adjustment process. We find that the statistic uncertainty increases with decreasing physical correctness of simplification parameter combinations.
    Description: Key Points: Bayesian calibration efficiently and objectively fits constrained, case‐specific model parameters and identifies remaining uncertainties. Post‐calibration uncertainty assessments help identify incorrect parameter combinations and constraints. More constrained calibration leads to lower uncertainty, which is not detected by global statistics.
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden‐Württemberg http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003542
    Description: https://github.com/sergiocallau/ManuscriptSBT/releases/tag/v0.1
    Description: https://github.com/sschwindt/schwarzenbach-bc/archive/refs/tags/boundary-data.zip
    Keywords: ddc:550.724 ; Gaussian process regression ; Bayesian optimization ; supervised machine learning ; Delft3D ; surrogate ; meta model
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  • 84
    Publication Date: 2024-03-12
    Description: Passive margin stratigraphy contains time‐integrated records of landscapes that have long since vanished. Quantitatively reading the stratigraphic record using coupled landscape evolution and stratigraphic forward models (SFMs) is a promising approach to extracting information about landscape history. However, there is no consensus about the optimal form of simple SFMs because there has been a lack of direct tests against observed stratigraphy in well‐constrained test cases. Specifically, the extent to which SFM behaviour over geologic space and timescales should be governed by local (downslope sediment flux depends only on local slope) versus nonlocal (sediment flux depends on factors other than local slope, such as the history of slopes experienced along a transport pathway) processes is currently unclear. Here, we develop a nonlocal, nonlinear SFM that incorporates slope bypass and long‐distance sediment transport, both of which have been previously identified as important model components but not thoroughly tested. Our model collapses to the local, linear model under certain parameterizations such that best‐fit parameter values can indicate optimal model structure. Comparing 2‐D implementations of both models against seven detailed seismic sections from the Southeast Atlantic Margin, we invert the stratigraphic data for best‐fit model parameter values and demonstrate that best‐fit parameterizations are not compatible with the local, linear diffusion model. Fitting observed stratigraphy requires parameter values consistent with important contributions from slope bypass and long‐distance transport processes. The nonlocal, nonlinear model yields improved fits to the data regardless of whether the model is compared against only the modern bathymetric surface or the full set of seismic reflectors identified in the data. Results suggest that processes of sediment bypass and long‐distance transport are required to model realistic passive margin stratigraphy and are therefore important to consider when inverting the stratigraphic record to infer past perturbations to source regions.
    Description: European Commission http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780
    Description: United States National Science Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008982
    Description: H2020 Marie Sklodowska‐Curie
    Description: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20205077
    Keywords: ddc:551.3 ; Southeast Atlantic Margin ; stratigraphy ; sediment transport ; numerical modeling
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  • 85
    Publication Date: 2024-03-12
    Description: Zooplankton plays a notable role in ocean biogeochemical cycles. However, it is often simulated as one generic group and top closure term in ocean biogeochemical models. This study presents the description of three zooplankton functional types (zPFTs, micro‐, meso‐ and macrozooplankton) in the ocean biogeochemical model FESOM‐REcoM. In the presented model, microzooplankton is a fast‐growing herbivore group, mesozooplankton is another major consumer of phytoplankton, and macrozooplankton is a slow‐growing group with a low temperature optimum. Meso‐ and macrozooplankton produce fast‐sinking fecal pellets. With three zPFTs, the annual mean zooplankton biomass increases threefold to 210 Tg C. The new food web structure leads to a 25% increase in net primary production and a 10% decrease in export production globally. Consequently, the export ratio decreases from 17% to 12% in the model. The description of three zPFTs reduces model mismatches with observed dissolved inorganic nitrogen and chlorophyll concentrations in the South Pacific and the Arctic Ocean, respectively. Representation of three zPFTs also strongly affects phytoplankton phenology: Fast nutrient recycling by zooplankton sustains higher chlorophyll concentrations in summer and autumn. Additional zooplankton grazing delays the start of the phytoplankton bloom by 3 weeks and controls the magnitude of the bloom peak in the Southern Ocean. As a result, the system switches from a light‐controlled Sverdrup system to a dilution‐controlled Behrenfeld system. Overall, the results suggest that representation of multiple zPFTs is important to capture underlying processes that may shape the response of ecosystems and ecosystem services to on‐going and future environmental change in model projections.
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Zooplankton plays an important role in the ocean food web and biogeochemical cycles. However, it is often represented in very simple forms in mathematical models that are, for example, used to investigate how marine primary productivity will react to climate change. To understand how these models would change when more complicated formulations for zooplankton are used, we present here a new version of the model with three (instead of only one) zooplankton groups. We find that this more complicated representation leads to higher zooplankton biomass, which is closer to observations, and this stimulates growth of phytoplankton since zooplankton also returns nutrients into the system. In addition, zooplankton grazing controls the seasonal cycle of phytoplankton, as we show for one example in the Southern Ocean.
    Description: Key Points: Nutrient recycling by zooplankton stimulates net primary production in the biogeochemical model REcoM‐2. Modeling zooplankton functional types (zPFTs) leads to a switch from a light‐controlled Sverdrup system to a dilution‐controlled Behrenfeld system. Implementing multiple zPFTs improves the modeled zooplankton biomass and zooplankton‐mediated biogeochemical fluxes.
    Description: Helmholtz Young Investigator Group Marine Carbon and Ecosystem Feedbacks in the Earth System [MarESys]
    Description: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.779970
    Description: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.785501
    Description: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.777398
    Description: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/woa18/woa18data.html
    Description: http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/ocean.productivity/index.php
    Description: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.942192
    Keywords: ddc:577.7 ; Southern Ocean ; zooplankton ; ocean food web ; biogeochemical cycles ; modeling
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  • 86
    Publication Date: 2024-03-12
    Description: Ancient Šuruppak, today Fara, was one of the major Sumerian cities in Mesopotamia. It was situated along one of the ancient watercourses of the Euphrates River. Findings date it back to the Jemdet Nasr period around 3000 bc with a continuous occupation until the end of the Ur III period around 2000 bc. Fara was first explored and excavated by the Deutsche Orient‐Gesellschaft in the years 1902 and 1903 under the direction of Walter Andrae. Multiple excavation trenches with lengths up to 900 m transect the 1 km2 wide mound and are still visible today which enables us to georeference the excavation maps. Today, the 2.2 km2 wide archaeological area is dry and without any vegetation. Thousands of deep looting pits are covering the majority of mound which not only destroyed its upper metres but also challenge the application of geophysical prospection methods and their interpretation. The magnetometer prospecting of selected areas on and around the mound was carried out with three devices, two total field magnetometers and one gradiometer. The individual survey areas were combined in post‐processing by applying a high‐pass filter on the total field data sets and multiplying the vertical gradiometer data sets by a factor of two. This approach provides visually uniform magnetograms, despite being obtained by different devices, which simplifies subsequent visual interpretation. These magnetograms enable us to review, and to extend the results of the old excavations. The comparison show a good correlation in accuracy to the old drawings and positive identification of the already excavated features with magnetometry. Highlights of the survey are the discovery of the city wall confirming its existence, the layout of a unique building complex in the centre of the mound, likely a temple, traces of canals inside the city and an evaluation of magnetometer prospection over a looted area.
    Description: Faculty for Cultural Studies of the LMU
    Description: Münchener Universitäts‐Gesellschaft
    Keywords: ddc:622.15 ; alluvial ; archaeo‐geophysical interpretation ; Fara‐Šuruppak ; fluxgate gradiometer ; looting ; magnetic properties ; magnetometer prospecting ; Mesopotamia ; Sumerian city ; total field magnetometer
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  • 87
    Publication Date: 2024-03-12
    Description: The Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) satellites have a stretched body shape and take a specific attitude mode inside the eclipse. Based on previous studies, the new Empirical CODE orbit model (ECOM2) performs better than the classical ECOM model if a satellite has elongated shape or does not maintain yaw-steering mode, and the use of an a priori box-wing (BW) model improves the orbits significantly when employing the ECOM model. However, we find that the ECOM model performs better than the ECOM2 model for GLONASS satellites outside eclipse seasons, while it performs two times worse in eclipse seasons. The use of the conventional box-wing model results in very little improvement. By assessing the ECOM Y〈sub〉0〈/sub〉 estimates, we conclude that there are potential radiators on the -x surface of GLONASS satellites causing orbit perturbations also inside the eclipse. The higher-order Fourier terms of the ECOM2 model can compensate for such effects better than the ECOM model. Based on this finding, we first confirm that GLONASS-K satellites take a similar attitude mode as GLONASS-M satellites inside the eclipse. Then, we adjust optical parameters of GLONASS satellites as part of precise orbit determination (POD) considering the potential radiator and thermal radiation effects. Finally, the adjusted parameters are introduced into a new box-wing model and jointly used with the ECOM and ECOM2 model, respectively. Results show that the amplitude and the dependency of the empirical parameters on the β angle are greatly reduced for both ECOM and ECOM2 models. Rather than the conventional box-wing model, the new box-wing model reduces the orbit misclosure between two consecutive arcs for both GLONASS-M and GLONASS-K satellites. In particular, the improvement in GLONASS-M satellites is more than 30% for the ECOM model during eclipse seasons. Further evaluation from 24-h predicted orbits demonstrates that the improvement during eclipse seasons is mainly in along- and cross-track directions. Finally, we validate GLONASS satellite orbits using Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) observations. The use of the new box-wing model reduces the spurious pattern of the SLR residuals as a function of β and Δu significantly, and the linear dependency of the SLR residuals on the elongation drops from as large as -0.760 mm/deg to almost zero for both ECOM and ECOM2 models. In general, GLONASS-M satellites benefit more from the new a priori box-wing model and the BW+ECOM model results in the best SLR residuals, with an improvement of about 50% and 20%, respectively, for the mean and standard deviation (STD) values with respect to the orbit products without a priori model.
    Description: Technische Universität München (1025)
    Keywords: ddc:526 ; Solar radiation pressure ; Eclipse ; Radiator ; GLONASS ; Box-wing
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-12
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) availability and the divergent requirements of phytoplankton species were recently shown to be potential important drivers of Southern Ocean community composition. Knowledge about Antarctic phytoplankton species requirements for Fe and Mn remains, however, scarce. By performing laboratory experiments and additional calculations of the photosynthetic electron transport, we investigated the response of the ecologically important species 〈italic toggle="no"〉Phaeocystis antarctica〈/italic〉 under a combination of different Fe and Mn concentrations. Fe deprivation alone provoked typical physiological characteristics of Fe limitation in 〈italic toggle="no"〉P. antarctica〈/italic〉 (e.g., lowered growth and photosynthetic efficiency). In comparison, under Mn deprivation alone, the growth and carbon production of 〈italic toggle="no"〉P. antarctica〈/italic〉 were not impacted. Its tolerance to cope with low Mn concentrations resulted from an efficient photoacclimation strategy, including a higher number of active photosystems II through which fewer electrons were transported. This strategy allowed us to maintain similar high growth and carbon production rates as FeMn‐enriched cells. Due to its low Mn requirement, 〈italic toggle="no"〉P. antarctica〈/italic〉 performed physiologically as Fe‐deprived cells under the combined depletion of Fe and Mn. Hence, our study reveals that different from other Southern Ocean phytoplankton species, 〈italic toggle="no"〉P. antarctica〈/italic〉 possesses a high capacity to cope with natural low Mn concentrations, which can facilitate its dominance over others, potentially explaining its ecological success across the Southern Ocean.〈/p〉
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.944462
    Keywords: ddc:577.7 ; Southern Ocean ; Antarctic phytoplankton ; Trace metal ; photophysiology ; carbon fixation
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  • 89
    Publication Date: 2024-03-12
    Description: 〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Flow‐dependent errors in tropical analyses and short‐range forecasts are analysed using global observing‐system simulation experiments assimilating only temperature, only winds, and both data types using the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) and a perfect model framework. The idealised, homogeneous observation network provides profiles of wind and temperature data from the nature run for January 2018 using the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Earth System Model (CESM) forced by the observed sea‐surface temperature. The results show that the assimilation of abundant wind observations in a perfect model makes the temperature data in the Tropics largely uninformative. Furthermore, the assimilation of wind data reduces the background errors in specific humidity twice as much as the assimilation of temperature observations. In all experiments, the largest analysis uncertainties and the largest short‐term forecast errors are found in regions of strong vertical and longitudinal gradients in the background wind, especially in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere over the Indian Ocean and Maritime Continent. The horizontal error correlation scales are on average short throughout the troposphere, just several hundred km. The correlation scales of the wind variables in precipitating regions are half of those in nonprecipitating regions. In precipitating regions, the correlations are elongated vertically, especially for the wind variables. Strong positive cross‐correlations between temperature and specific humidity in the precipitating regions are explained using the Clausius–Clapeyron equation.〈/p〉
    Description: China Scholarship Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004543
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Keywords: ddc:551.6 ; ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation ; forecast‐error correlations ; mass and wind observations ; temperature–moisture cross‐correlations ; Tropics
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  • 90
    Publication Date: 2024-03-06
    Description: The production of building stones shown an exponential growth in last decades as consequences of the demand and developments in the extraction and processing techniques. From the several conditioning factors affecting this industry, the geological constrains at quarry scale stands out as one of most important. Globalization and increasing competition in the building stone market require large raw material blocks to keep further processing as cost-effective as possible. Therefore, the potential extraction volume of in-situ stone blocks plays an important role in the yield of a dimensional stone quarry. The full characterization of the fracturing in the quarries comes up as fundamental in the assessment of the in-situ blocks volume/shape and potential extracted raw blocks. Identify the joint sets present, their spacing and the differences across the quarry demands a continuous assess during the quarry live span. Information from unmanned aerial vehicles helps in the field survey, namely trough digital surface models, orthophotos, and three-dimensional models. Also, the fracturing modelling by specific software programs is crucial to improve the block size assessment and the increase the quarry yield. In this research fracturing of twenty-one quarries of granite, limestone, marble, and slate from Portugal were assessed by combining field surveys with new techniques. From the studied quarries several cases were selected and presented to highlight the importance of this combined methodology in the fracturing assessment and how they can be helpful in the maximization of the resources and quarry management.
    Description: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1018)
    Keywords: ddc:622.1 ; Building stones ; Quarries ; Exploitation ; Fracturing modelling ; UAV technique ; 3D BlockExpert ; Photogrammetry
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  • 91
    Publication Date: 2024-03-06
    Description: The groundwater pressure response to the ubiquitous Earth and atmospheric tides provides a largely untapped opportunity to passively characterize and quantify subsurface hydro-geomechanical properties. However, this requires reliable extraction of closely spaced harmonic components with relatively subtle amplitudes but well-known tidal periods from noisy measurements. The minimum requirements for the suitability of existing groundwater records for analysis are unknown. This work systematically tests and compares the ability of two common signal processing methods, the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and harmonic least squares (HALS), to extract harmonic component properties. First, realistic conditions are simulated by analyzing a large number of synthetic data sets with variable sampling frequencies, record durations, sensor resolutions, noise levels and data gaps. Second, a model of two real-world data sets with different characteristics is validated. The results reveal that HALS outperforms the DFT in all aspects, including the ability to handle data gaps. While there is a clear trade-off between sampling frequency and record duration, sampling rates should not be less than six samples per day and records should not be shorter than 20 days when simultaneously extracting tidal constituents. The accuracy of detection is degraded by increasing noise levels and decreasing sensor resolution. However, a resolution of the same magnitude as the expected component amplitude is sufficient in the absence of excessive noise. The results provide a practical framework to determine the suitability of existing groundwater level records and can optimize future groundwater monitoring strategies to improve passive characterization using tidal signatures.
    Description: H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010665
    Description: Swedish Research Council
    Keywords: ddc:551.49 ; Tidal subsurface analysis ; Tidal constituents ; Signal analysis ; Harmonic least squares ; Non-uniform sampling
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  • 92
    Publication Date: 2024-03-06
    Description: Overpumping or overexploitation of groundwater is one of the major threats for aquifer systems in arid and semi-arid areas. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) has been suggested by many researchers as a sustainable and effective method to alleviate negative impacts of overpumping. Optimizing artificial recharge considers the selection of suitable MAR sites in terms of surface and subsurface characteristics. While surface characteristics at potential MAR sites could be modified (e.g. slope, soil texture, etc.), subsurface characteristics cannot be changed through engineering work. Characteristics of the aquifer, such as depth to groundwater, play an important role in determining the capability of an aquifer to store a specific volume of infiltrated water. Currently, only a limited number of quoted researches are available that consider factors related to aquifer characteristics and the range of these factors to identify optimal MAR sites. In this study, a new approach is presented, that employs numerical groundwater modeling to generate MAR suitability maps considering sub-surface characteristics, such as depth-to-groundwater, aquifer transmissivity and specific yield. Multiple model-runs are conducted to simulate groundwater table response with respect to the volume of infiltrated water. Simulation results are used to calibrate a groundwater mound empirical equation that calculates the groundwater level increase as a function of the transmissivity and infiltrated water volume for a given value of aquifer’ specific yield, range of vertical hydraulic conductivities and a specific design and operation conditions of the MAR system. The empirical equation is employed in GIS to spatially calculate the height of groundwater mound beneath a hypothetical MAR site and to generate, based on that, suitability maps for MAR implementation. Assuming that MAR structures capture the median of monthly surface runoff rates at the respective wadi (catchment area), suitability maps are generated for different configurations/scenarios of aquifer hydraulic conductivity in a parameter study. The results highlight the importance of integrating aquifer characteristics (geometry and hydraulic parameters) and expected magnitudes and fluxes of infiltration water in delineating suitable sites for MAR.
    Description: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1018)
    Keywords: ddc:551.49 ; Numerical groundwater modeling ; Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) ; Azraq basin
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-06
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The usually short lifetime of convective storms and their rapid development during unstable weather conditions makes forecasting these storms challenging. It is necessary, therefore, to improve the procedures for estimating the storms' expected life cycles, including the storms' lifetime, size, and intensity development. We present an analysis of the life cycles of convective cells in Germany, focusing on the relevance of the prevailing atmospheric conditions. Using data from the radar‐based cell detection and tracking algorithm KONRAD of the German Weather Service, the life cycles of isolated convective storms are analysed for the summer half‐years from 2011 to 2016. In addition, numerous convection‐relevant atmospheric ambient variables (e.g., deep‐layer shear, convective available potential energy, lifted index), which were calculated using high‐resolution COSMO‐EU assimilation analyses (0.0625°), are combined with the life cycles. The statistical analyses of the life cycles reveal that rapid initial area growth supports wider horizontal expansion of a cell in the subsequent development and, indirectly, a longer lifetime. Specifically, the information about the initial horizontal cell area is the most important predictor for the lifetime and expected maximum cell area during the life cycle. However, its predictive skill turns out to be moderate at most, but still considerably higher than the skill of any ambient variable is. Of the latter, measures of midtropospheric mean wind and vertical wind shear are most suitable for distinguishing between convective cells with short lifetime and those with long lifetime. Higher thermal instability is associated with faster initial growth, thus favouring larger and longer living cells. A detailed objective correlation analysis between ambient variables, coupled with analyses discriminating groups of different lifetime and maximum cell area, makes it possible to gain new insights into their statistical connections. The results of this study provide guidance for predictor selection and advancements of nowcasting applications.〈/p〉
    Description: 〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉Based on a combination of data of the cell tracking algorithm KONRAD of the German Weather Service and COSMO‐EU model analyses for the summer half‐years from 2011 to 2016, statistical relationships between storm attributes (lifetime and maximum horizontal area), and ambient variables as well as the storms' history are quantified. The initial growth of the cell area is a better indicator of the lifetime and maximum area than ambient variables are. Of the latter, measures of the midtropospheric wind and vertical wind shear, in particular, are most suitable for distinguishing between convective cells with short and long lifetimes, whereas higher convective instability favours larger cells. 〈boxed-text position="anchor" id="qj4505-blkfxd-0001" content-type="graphic" xml:lang="en"〉〈graphic position="anchor" id="jats-graphic-1" xlink:href="urn:x-wiley:00359009:media:qj4505:qj4505-toc-0001"〉 〈/graphic〉 〈/boxed-text〉〈/p〉
    Description: Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100008383
    Keywords: ddc:551.6 ; convective storms ; life cycle ; multisource data ; nowcasting ; statistics ; weather prediction
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  • 94
    Publication Date: 2024-03-06
    Description: Numerical prediction of landslide runout and deposition is important for estimating landslide risk and developing mitigation plans. The choice of a suitable model and its parameters and a confident calibration strategy are crucial for numerical simulations. Here, we evaluated two constitutive models with a three‐dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method by simulating the catastrophic 11 October 2018 Baige landslide. The results indicate that both the soil mechanic and fluid models can capture the dynamic runout and deposition morphology while using different values of input parameters. A point‐wise comparison of deposit elevation can minimize the calibration error. Numerical models were constrained accurately by utilizing both the static observation data and dynamic seismic signals. The effects of friction on deep‐seated landslides motion and deposition are more significant than cohesion. The 3D model includes the effects of shear stresses and velocities inside the material body, resulting in a reduced friction coefficient compared to the 2D model (e.g., depth‐averaged model). Our study highlights the potential of the 3D SPH method for modeling large‐scale complex landslides.
    Description: Plain Language Summary: Landslides belong to a type of earth surface process recognized by their high damage potential. Computer models can simulate the landslides' movement to predict speed, forces, and deposition, which can help to delineate areas at risk and to design mitigation measures. We simulated the 2018 Baige landslide in China with a method known as smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), to test whether it is suitable for landslide simulation and to investigate protocols for model calibration when including seismic data in addition to information on the landslide's deposit. In this method, the landslide body is represented by millions of small, moving, interacting particles, which offers advantages over established models in terms of computation time and details in the simulation. We find that SPH is suitable for modeling large‐scale natural landslides. The seismic data are more valuable in the model calibration than landslide deposit observations. The new approach yields landslide simulations that deliver more details on particle velocities within the landslide body, and their spatial and temporal distribution. These details can be used to infer the properties of landslides during the sliding process, which helps to better understand landslides in general and to set up models for events where little data are available.
    Description: Key Points: A three‐dimensional mesh‐less graphics processing unit‐accelerated smoothed particle hydrodynamics formulation is suitable for modeling large‐scale natural landslides. The selection of an appropriate constitutive model depends on the landslide features and materials. Including dynamic seismic signals into numerical model calibration routines in addition to topographic changes improves calibration.
    Description: National Natural Science Foundation of China http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809
    Description: Sichuan Science and Technology Program
    Description: Helmholtz‐ocpc Postdoc Program fellowship
    Description: Sino‐German Mobility programme
    Description: Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004739
    Description: https://figshare.com/articles/software/LOQUAT-master_zip/20486088
    Description: https://10.0.20.161/zenodo.7408675
    Keywords: ddc:551.3 ; landslides ; numerical modeling ; constitutive model ; model calibration routines ; friction ; cohesion
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  • 95
    Publication Date: 2024-03-06
    Description: 〈title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"〉Abstract〈/title〉〈p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en"〉The drag coefficient, Stanton number and Dalton number are of particular importance for estimating the surface turbulent fluxes of momentum, heat and water vapor using bulk parameterization. Although these bulk transfer coefficients have been extensively studied over the past several decades in marine and large‐lake environments, there are no studies analyzing their variability for smaller lakes. Here, we evaluated these coefficients through directly measured surface fluxes using the eddy‐covariance technique over more than 30 lakes and reservoirs of different sizes and depths. Our analysis showed that the transfer coefficients (adjusted to neutral atmospheric stability) were generally within the range reported in previous studies for large lakes and oceans. All transfer coefficients exhibit a substantial increase at low wind speeds (〈3 m s〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉), which was found to be associated with the presence of gusts and capillary waves (except Dalton number). Stanton number was found to be on average a factor of 1.3 higher than Dalton number, likely affecting the Bowen ratio method. At high wind speeds, the transfer coefficients remained relatively constant at values of 1.6·10〈sup〉−3〈/sup〉, 1.4·10〈sup〉−3〈/sup〉, 1.0·10〈sup〉−3〈/sup〉, respectively. We found that the variability of the transfer coefficients among the lakes could be associated with lake surface area. In flux parameterizations at lake surfaces, it is recommended to consider variations in the drag coefficient and Stanton number due to wind gustiness and capillary wave roughness while Dalton number could be considered as constant at all wind speeds.〈/p〉
    Description: Plain Language Summary: In our study, we investigate the bulk transfer coefficients, which are of particular importance for estimation the turbulent fluxes of momentum, heat and water vapor in the atmospheric surface layer, above lakes and reservoirs. The incorrect representation of the surface fluxes above inland waters can potentially lead to errors in weather and climate prediction models. For the first time we made this synthesis using a compiled data set consisting of existing eddy‐covariance flux measurements over 23 lakes and 8 reservoirs. Our results revealed substantial increase of the transfer coefficients at low wind speeds, which is often not taken into account in models. The observed increase in the drag coefficient (momentum transfer coefficient) and Stanton number (heat transfer coefficient) could be associated with the presence of wind gusts and capillary waves. In flux parameterizations at lake surface, it is recommended to consider them for accurate flux representation. Although the bulk transfer coefficients were relatively constant at high wind speeds, we found that the Stanton number systematically exceeds the Dalton number (water vapor transfer coefficient), despite the fact they are typically considered to be equal. This difference may affect the Bowen ratio method and result in biased estimates of lake evaporation.〈/p〉
    Description: Key Points: 〈list list-type="bullet"〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉Bulk transfer coefficients exhibit a substantial increase at low wind speed〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉The increase is explained by wind gustiness and capillary wave roughness〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈list-item〉 〈p xml:lang="en"〉At higher wind speed, drag coefficient and Stanton number decrease with lake surface area〈/p〉〈/list-item〉 〈/list〉 〈/p〉
    Description: SHESF, Sao Francisco Hydroelectric Company
    Description: DOE Ameriflux Network Management Project
    Description: NSF North Temperate Lakes LTER
    Description: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
    Description: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI
    Description: Swedish Research Council
    Description: ÚNKP‐21‐3 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, Hungary
    Description: Russian Science Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006769
    Description: Helmholtz Young Investigators Grant
    Description: Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers
    Description: Austrian Academy of Sciences
    Description: Autonome Provinz Bozen‐Südtirol
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Description: Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education
    Description: National Research, Development and Innovation Office
    Description: ICOS‐Finland, University of Helsinki
    Description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6597828
    Keywords: ddc:551.5 ; bulk transfer coefficients ; eddy‐covariance ; lakes ; reservoirs
    Language: English
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  • 96
    Publication Date: 2024-03-06
    Description: Rockfall is a natural hazard in mountainous areas not to be underestimated. Mass activities differing in rock volume may cause considerable economic damage. Accomplishing qualitative appraisal of high-potential zones for rockfall is a first step towards implementing mitigation strategies. Nowadays, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are the state-of-the-art tool for a fast and economic approach of identifying potential hazard zones rather than using conventional mapping with in-situ field data. Primarily, current research focuses on designing and implementing user-friendly tools delineating potential rockfall hazard zonation (RHZ). The constructed model examines triggering factors like slope, aspect, elevation, lithology, structural lineament, rainfall intensity, and seismic activity focal depth of a mountainous coastal region (Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt). The extracted geomorphological parameters were based on a high-resolution TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Model. The enhanced Landsat ETM + 7 was used to generate the lithological and structural lineament parameters, while the rainfall data were collected from NASA project tool. The zonation model was implemented by means of ESRI’s ArcGIS Pro ModelBuilder. Google Earth Pro orthophotos compared with the generated rockfall hazard zonation map indicate the potential RHZ with high reliability. The achieved results show that 15 % of the study area qualifies as a high rockfall hazard zone. As the RHZs generated by the model depend on the input data and the selected rating scores and weights, obtaining ground truth is essential to get a trustworthy result. Finally, this study recommends employing the built RHZ model on similar terrains worldwide to support decision-makers involving any sustainable development projects.
    Keywords: ddc:526 ; Rockfall hazard zonation ; ModelBuilder ; GIS ; Sensitivity analysis ; Sinai Peninsula
    Language: English
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  • 97
    Publication Date: 2024-03-05
    Description: Opalinus Clay is considered a potential host rock for radioactive waste disposal. The Jurassic claystone formation is composed of several facies and subfacies types, which are characterized by varying amounts of quartz, carbonates (cements and fossils) and clay minerals. To provide samples for ongoing experimental and numerical studies, a complete core section was drilled in the Mont Terri rock laboratory. The lithological and structural variability (including tectonic fault structures) from borehole BAD-2 was investigated using a multidisciplinary approach including high-resolution geoelectric in situ borehole measurements, mineralogical/geochemical and (micro)structural analyses. The lithological–compositional variability was captured by successfully applying a modified subfacies approach, which is independently confirmed by the geochemical data and ERT (Electrical Resistivity Tomography) measurements. The variability on the cm to dm scale perpendicular to bedding can be determined based on the mean resistivity and variation of amplitude. In particular, the facies transitions could be precisely located. The new results suggest that both shaly facies types form the homogenous part of the investigated section, whereas the sandy facies and especially the carbonate-rich sandy facies represent the more heterogeneous lithofacies types of the Opalinus Clay. The varying resistivity can be attributed to differences in clay mineral and carbonate content. Regarding the structural variability, brittle faults were observed with varying frequency throughout the investigated section. Most fault planes occur in the shaly facies types, some of them concentrate along heterogeneities on the subfacies scale. The striking reproducibility of the measurements and observations was confirmed by a comparison with boreholes drilled in parallel, indicating a rather low compositional–structural variability parallel to bedding. The applied multidisciplinary approach is well suited to depict the vertical and lateral variability of a claystone formation, allowing an assessment of the degree of homogeneity/heterogeneity based on the subfacies concept.
    Description: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
    Description: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006360
    Description: Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR) (4230)
    Keywords: ddc:552.5 ; Claystone ; Electrical resistivity tomography ; Facies types ; Microstructure ; Mineralogical–geochemical analyzes ; Mont Terri rock laboratory
    Language: English
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  • 98
    Publication Date: 2024-03-05
    Description: Climate hazards associated with compound events (CEs) have lately received increasing attention over South America (SA) due to their potential risks and amplification of impacts. This work addressed the evaluation of different temperature‐ and precipitation‐based CE in SA considering the CORDEX‐CORE ensemble of regional climate models (RCMs) and their driving earth system models (ESMs) in the reference period 1981–2010 and the late 21st century (2070–2099), for the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) 2.6 and 8.5 scenarios. The assessment focused on model performance for the individual events—heatwaves (HWs), Extreme rainfall (ER) days, and dry‐spells (DSs)—and their compound occurrence in terms of climatological frequency and duration. The spatial patterns of individual events were adequately reproduced by the RCMs, evidencing general overestimations in extreme precipitation intensities. In terms of CE, the frequencies of coincident HWs and DSs (sequential DSs and ER) were remarkable over central‐eastern Brazil and southern SA (southeastern SA). The main features of CE were generally well‐simulated by the RCMs, although they presented regional differences such as an underestimation of the maximum frequencies of these two CE in northeastern Brazil and southeastern SA, respectively. The high‐resolution information was generally in line with the larger‐scale driving ESMs. The climate change signal analysis generally showed robust future increases in CE frequency and duration in different areas of SA, as for coincident HWs and DSs (sequential DSs and ER) over northern SA and southern Brazil (southeastern SA). This was mostly consistent among the RCMs ensemble and notably strengthened in the worst‐case scenario (RCP 8.5).
    Description: Key Points: Coincident heatwaves and dry‐spells (DSs) and sequential DSs and extreme rainfall are remarkable compound events (CEs) over South America. Regional climate models can reproduce the frequency and duration of CEs, but with some regional differences. CEs are generally expected to be more frequent in the late 21st century, particularly in the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 scenario.
    Description: UBA Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica, Universidad de Buenos Aires http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010253
    Description: Argentinian ANPCyT
    Description: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datasets/era5
    Description: https://esgf-data.dkrz.de/projects/esgf-dkrz/
    Description: https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/
    Keywords: ddc:551.6 ; extreme events ; temperature ; precipitation ; regional climate models ; CORDEX ; climate change
    Language: English
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  • 99
    Publication Date: 2024-03-05
    Description: Land surface heterogeneity in conjunction with ambient winds influences the convective atmospheric boundary layer by affecting the distribution of incoming solar radiation and forming secondary circulations. This study performed coupled large‐eddy simulation (ICON‐LEM) with a land surface model (TERRA‐ML) over a flat river corridor mimicked by soil moisture heterogeneity to investigate the impact of ambient winds on secondary circulations. The coupled model employed double‐periodic boundary conditions with a spatial scale of 4.8 km. All simulations used the same idealized initial atmospheric conditions with constant incident radiation of 700 W⋅m〈sup〉−2〈/sup〉 and various ambient winds with different speeds (0 to 16 m⋅s〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉) and directions (e.g., cross‐river, parallel‐river, and mixed). The atmospheric states are decomposed into ensemble‐averaged, mesoscale, and turbulence. The results show that the secondary circulation structure persists under the parallel‐river wind conditions independently of the wind speed but is destroyed when the cross‐river wind is stronger than 2 m⋅s〈sup〉−1〈/sup〉. The soil moisture and wind speed determine the influence on the surface energy distribution independent of the wind direction. However, secondary circulations increase advection and dispersive heat flux while decreasing turbulent energy flux. The vertical profiles of the wind variance reflect the secondary circulation, and the maximum value of the mesoscale vertical wind variance indicates the secondary circulation strength. The secondary circulation strength positively scales with the Bowen ratio, stability parameter (−Z〈sub〉i〈/sub〉/L), and thermal heterogeneity parameter under cross‐river wind and mixed wind conditions. The proposed similarity analyses and scaling approach provide a new quantitative perspective on the impact of the ambient wind under heteronomous soil moisture conditions on secondary circulation.
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
    Keywords: ddc:551.5 ; ambient winds ; Bowen ratio ; land surface model ; large‐eddy simulation ; moisture spatial heterogeneity ; secondary circulation ; similarity theory ; turbulence
    Language: English
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  • 100
    Publication Date: 2024-03-05
    Description: Full‐field X‐ray nanoimaging is a widely used tool in a broad range of scientific areas. In particular, for low‐absorbing biological or medical samples, phase contrast methods have to be considered. Three well established phase contrast methods at the nanoscale are transmission X‐ray microscopy with Zernike phase contrast, near‐field holography and near‐field ptychography. The high spatial resolution, however, often comes with the drawback of a lower signal‐to‐noise ratio and significantly longer scan times, compared with microimaging. In order to tackle these challenges a single‐photon‐counting detector has been implemented at the nanoimaging endstation of the beamline P05 at PETRA III (DESY, Hamburg) operated by Helmholtz‐Zentrum Hereon. Thanks to the long sample‐to‐detector distance available, spatial resolutions of below 100 nm were reached in all three presented nanoimaging techniques. This work shows that a single‐photon‐counting detector in combination with a long sample‐to‐detector distance allows one to increase the time resolution for in situ nanoimaging, while keeping a high signal‐to‐noise level.
    Description: A direct photon‐counting detector was used for different nanoimaging phase contrast techniques, increasing the temporal resolution.
    Keywords: ddc:548 ; nanotomography ; full‐field X‐ray microscopy ; near‐field holography ; near‐field ptychography ; Zernike phase contrast ; single‐photon‐counting detector ; phase contrast
    Language: English
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