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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: JHU, First Navy Independent Research(Independent Exploratory Development Symposium, Volume 1; p 181-191
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: International Journal of Remote Sensing (ISSN 0143-1161); 9; 927-943
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Techniques have been developed for the sub-pixel location of control points in satellite images returned by the Voyager spacecraft. The procedure uses digital imaging data in the neighborhood of the point to form a multipicture model of a piece of the surface. Comparison of this model with the digital image in each picture determines the control point locations to about a tenth of a pixel. At this level of precision, previously insignificant effects must be considered, including chromatic aberration, high level imaging distortions, and systematic errors due to navigation uncertainties. Use of these methods in the study of Jupiter's satellite Io has proven very fruitful.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (ISSN 0099-1112); 54; 723-727
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: In this paper, Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SBUV) measurements of solar irradiance and predictions from the Mg 280-nm index are compared with each other and with coincident Solar Mesosphere Explorer (SME) and rocket measurements. The SBUV irradiances show a systematic decrease with time not seen in the rocket measurements; a correction for this decrease is introduced. The scatter and overall structure in the SME spectra is 3-5 percent, of the order of or larger than most of the changes predicted by the Mg index. The corrected SBUV ratio and the Mg index prediction for it agree to within 1 percent. Such agreement supports a common origin for variations between solar maximum and minimum and those for individual rotations: the degree to which active regions cover the visible hemisphere of the sun.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 7091-710
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Daily average solar proton flux data for 1978 and 1979 are used in a proton energy degradation scheme to derive ion pair production rates and atomic nitrogen production rates. The latter are computed in a form suitable for inclusion in an atmopheric, two-dimensional, time-dependent photochemical model. Odd nitrogen distributions are computed from the model, including atomic nitrogen production from solar protons, and are compared with baseline distributions. The comparisons show that the average effect of the solar protons in 1978 and 1979 was to cause changes in odd nitrogen only above 10 mbar and at latitudes only above about 50 deg in both hemispheres. The influence of the solar proton-produced odd nitrogen on the local abundance of odd nitrogen depends primarily on the background odd nitrogen abundance as well as the altitude and season.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 7084-709
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  • 6
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Analyses of nonseasonal changes in total column ozone from satellite observations during the period 1970-86 suggest, when combined with analyses of Dobson network data, that the largest reduction in global ozone since 1959 occurred between 1978 and 1986. The existence of an Arctic region of enhanced ozone depletion with similar but less pronounced characteristics of the Antarctic region is described. Before 1983 large rates of decrease were confined to high latitudes, subsequently regions of large rates of ozone depletion have appeared at midlatitudes.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 332; 219-227
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  • 7
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The possible climatic effects of a drastic decrease in cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) associated with a severe reduction in the global marine phytoplankton abundance are investigated. Calculations suggest that a reduction in CCN of more than 80 percent and the resulting decrease in marine cloud albedo could have produced a rapid global warming of 6 C or more. Oxygen isotope analyses of marine sediments from many parts of the world have been interpreted as indicating a marked warming coincident with the demise of calcareous nannoplankton at the K/T boundary. Decreased marine cloud albedo and resulting high sea surface temperatures could have been a factor in the maintenance of low productivity in the 'Strangelove Ocean' period following the K/T extinctions.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 332; 63-65
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Measurements have been made of stratospheric N2O using the Stony Brook millimeter-wave remote sensing spectrometer at McMurdo Station, and NO2 mixing ratios are found that are less than 1.5 at 20 km and less than 1.10 at 25 km compared to values measured during the Antarctic summer. The observed mixing ratios are also much less than those predicted by global-scale models of stratospheric chemistry and dynamics. As the NO2 signal remained very weak when McMurdo was at the edges of the ozone hole and showed no signs of recovering during October, it is concluded that the geographical and temporal extent of the region of low NO2 is comparable to or greater than that of the ozone hole. These results argue against theories that require springtime upwelling to explain the Antarctic ozone hole. It is suggested that the air in the Antarctic lower stratosphere during late winter and early spring has been subjected to considerable downward transport.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 332; 53-55
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The effects of horizontal diffusion coefficients K(yy) and K(yz), computed directly from the residual circulation, on the N2O distribution in a photochemical model were investigated, using a modified version of the two-dimensional model of Guthrie et al. (1984). The residual circulation was computed using the NMC's temperature data and the heating rates reported by Rosenfield et al. (1987). As compared with the effect of the residual circulation alone, the use of horizontal diffusion coefficients produced substantial changes in the N2O distribution and increased the N2O's lifetime values by a few percent. It is suggested that trace gases, such as CH4, CFCl3, CF2Cl2, CH3Cl, and CCl4, which impact the NO(x), HO(x), and Cl(x) radical distributions and therefore ozone, will be influenced in a similar manner by the addition of more realistic diffusion fields.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 5213-521
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: ISIS-1, ISIS-2, and DE-1 VLF electric field data from Kashima station, Japan are used to investigate characteristics of whistler triggered emissions in the topside ionosphere. The occurrence rate for nonducted whistler triggered emission is shown to be distributed randomly between L = 2.0 and 4.2, while the occurrence rate of ducted whistler triggered emissions increases with latitudes between L = 1.5 and 2.9, attains a maximum at L = 2.7, and abruptly drops off at L = 3.0. The findings indicate that some whistler triggered emissions may be generated by the interaction of whistlers with magnetospheric electrons.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Radio Research Laboratory, Journal (ISSN 0033-8001); 35; 15-26
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Global water redistriburtion between the oceans, atmosphere and continents causes changes in the earth's rotation and gravitational field. To conserve water mass, the effect of the small uniform change in sea-level must be considered. Explicit formulas are provided for these sea-level corrections to the gravitational Stokes coefficients, polar motion and length of day. In two recent publications, this sea-level correction term for polar motion was given incorrectly. These errors which arose from normalization conventions with the ocean function are corrected.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Geophysical Journal (ISSN 0952-4592); 93; 191-193
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  • 12
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: In April 1986, during passage of the SAGE I satellite, the first simultaneous measurements of the atmospheric backscattering coefficient beta (pi, 10.6 microns) were made with an airborne CO2 lidar. Individual ratios of beta and the SAGE II extinction sigma (1.02 micron) are in reasonable accord with previously calculated values. The trend with height shows a distinctly nonlinear relation, which is probably attributable to steadily changing size distributions of aerosols.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 332; 709-711
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  • 13
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: This paper reviews data on in situ balloon-borne measurements on stratospheric ozone concentrations and aerosol contents obtained prior to 1986, along with the measurements obtained in 1986 during the National Ozone Expedition. The data indicate that the phenomenon of ozone depletion appears to be shaped spatially and temporally by dynamical stratospheric phenomena. In terms of Antarctic stratospheric research, it appears that the most important problems at the moment involve delineating the springtime ozone depletion through accurate in situ measurements of temperature, trace gas, and particle size (in addition to remote sensing from space).
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Reviews of Geophysics (ISSN 8755-1209); 26; 113-130
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Recent concern over possible long term stratospheric changes caused by the introduction of man-made compounds has increased the need for instrumentation that can accurately measure stratospheric minor constituents. The technique of radio spectroscopy at millimeter wavelengths was first used to observe rotational transitions of stratospheric ozone nearly two decades ago, but has not been highly developed until recently. A ground-based observing technique is reported which employs a millimeter-wave superheterodyne receiver and multichannel filter spectrometer for measurements of stratospheric constituents that have peak volume mixing ratios that are less than 10 to the -9th, more than 3 orders of magnitude less than that for ozone. The technique is used for an extensive program of observations of stratospheric chlorine monoxide and also for observations of other stratospheric trace gases such as (O-16)3, vibrationally excited (O-16)3, (O-18)2(O-16), N2O, HO2, and HCN. In the present paper, analysis of the observing technique is given, including the method of calibration and analysis of sources of error. The technique is found to be a reliable means of observing and monitoring important stratospheric trace constituents.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Radio Science (ISSN 0048-6604); 23; 106-118
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  • 15
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Planetary and Space Science (ISSN 0032-0633); 36; 205
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Nineteen magnetic clouds are identified in the years from 1978 through 1982 and studied using superposed epoch analysis. The magnetic-field intensity, proton density and proton temperature are enhanced ahead of magnetic clouds that are preceded by shock, while strong magnetic-field intensity and low proton temperature are observed within the clouds. A relatively large (about 2.5 percent) decrease in cosmic-ray intensity is associated with magnetic clouds that are preceded by a shock, perhaps caused by the turbulent sheath behind an interplanetary shock ahead of the magnetic cloud, whereas only a small (0.5 percent) decrease in intensity is associated with the magnetic cloud itself. Magnetic clouds can produce geomagnetic activity with a decrease in Dst index of the order 100 gamma. The magnitude of the change in the Dst index for the case when southward fields arrive first is comparable to that for the case when northward fields arrive first, and the phase is such that geomagnetic activity is associated with southward fields.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 2511-251
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Balloon observations of NO and ozone near sunset and sunrise around 32 km were made on September 19 and October 4, 1985 from Aire sur l'Adour, France. The NO concentration built up rapidly after sunrise, remained fairly steady during the day, and decreased slowly near sunset. This variation is interpreted quantitatively in terms of current photochemistry in relation to ozone.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 2451-546
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 24; 369-383
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Normalized 18-GHz microwave brightness temperatures, T(B), and a vegetation index determined from satellite radiometer data are combined with climatically modeled surface moisture estimates to constrain a simple physically based soil moisture model. It is found that the normalized T(B) values correlated well with soil moisture when the data were segregated by vegetation index range, but less so when all the data were combined. By using the vegetation index parameter, the model is shown to account for about 70 percent of the variability in modeled surface soil moisture.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 24; 331-345
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A simple equation relating the Microwave Polarization Difference Index (MPDI) and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is proposed which represents well data obtained from Nimbus 7/SMMR at 37 GHz and NOAA/AVHRR Channels 1 and 2. It is found that there is a limit which is characteristic of a particular type of cover for which both indices are equally sensitive to the variation of vegetation, and below which MPDI is more efficient than NDVI. The results provide insight into the relationship between water content and chlorophyll absorption at pixel size scales.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 24; 297-311
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  • 21
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: This study evaluates the potential of measuring/mapping forest damage in spruce-fir forests in the Green Mountains of Vermont and White Mountains of New Hampshire using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data. The TM 1.65/0.83-micron (TM5/4) and 2.22/0.83-micron (TM7/4) band ratios were found to correlate well with ground-based measurements of forest damage (a measure of percentage foliar loss) at 11 spruce-fir stands located on Camels Hump, a mountain in northern Vermont. Images using 0.56 and 1.65-micron bands with 1.65/0.83-micron band ratios indicated locations of heavy conifer forest damage. Both 1.65/0.83 and 2.22/0.83-micron band ratios were used to quantify levels of conifer forest damage among individual mountains throughout many of the Green and White Mountains. Damage was found to be consistently higher for the Green than the White Mountains.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 24; 227-246
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: An airborne pulsed laser system was used to obtain canopy height data over a southern pine forest in Georgia in order to predict ground-measured forest biomass and timber volume. Although biomass and volume estimates obtained from the laser data were variable when compared with the corresponding ground measurements site by site, the present models are found to predict mean total tree volume within 2.6 percent of the ground value, and mean biomass within 2.0 percent. The results indicate that species stratification did not consistently improve regression relationships for four southern pine species.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 24; 247-267
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The effect of line mixing on the effective blackbody brightness temperature of the earth in the region of the 15-micron nu 2 Q branch of CO2 is calculated. The procedures used to compute line mixing follow those used to successfully model mixing observed in laboratory spectra of two near-infrared CO2 Q branches. The atmospheric radiances are calculated between 664 and 670/cm, a spectral region that is of interest for sounding the upper troposphere and the stratosphere. Mixing was found to lower the observed brightness temperatures by as much as 3 K for some temperature profiles. Ignoring this effect would significantly impact the ability of advanced sounders to produce temperature retrievals which meet the projected accuracy requirement of 1 K/km.
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    Type: Applied Optics (ISSN 0003-6935); 27; 872-878
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The use of remote sensing data to monitor and analyze the arctic environment is examined. Landsat MSS, TM simulated, NS001, Seasat, and airborne radar are employed to investigate the Strand and Dune areas on the Arctic Coastal Plain in Alaska. The Strand area contains landforms associated with permafrost and the Dune area is dominated by eolian deposits consisting of large longitudinal dunes. The remote sensing data are compared to baseline geomorphic maps derived from aerial photography. It is observed that the multispectral data are better than the radar data for the detection and recognition of arctic landforms, and the NS001 data provided the highest spatial resolution and correlated well with the high-altitude aerial photography.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (ISSN 0099-1112); 54; 363-371
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A large DE 1 and 2 database covering all local times is used to explore the relationship between electron temperature (Te) signatures in the F region and plamaspheric density structures. The quiet time Te signature remains in the vicinity of 60 deg invariant latitude at all local times, while the plasmapause is found to bulge to about 60 deg at 1500 LT. The plasmasphere in the bulge region is shown to exhibit an internal feature in the vicinity of 60 deg which takes the form of a sharp H(+) gradient. It is suggested that the light-ion gradient may represent a recently created sharp boundary between an old plasmasphere and a new plasmasphere. The present Te characteristics are consisent with plasmasphere depletion and refilling time constants.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 1896-190
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 1859-187
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The magnetic field experiment on the Swedish Viking satellite consists of a triaxial fluxgate magnetometer system with the sensors mounted on a 2-m boom. Transverse magnetic field perturbations are readily observed which identify the large-scale auroral and cusp-region Birkeland current (BC) systems. A sharp gradient was observed in the dayside region near apogee and 08:40 MLT during a pass on March 25, 1986 which has been interpreted as an earthward-flowing BC of 8 micro-A/sq m. When projected to ionospheric altitudes it is estimated that the current density is 200 micro-A/sq m.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Physica Scripta (ISSN 0031-8949); 37; 3, Ma; 479-481
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Over large areas in the tropics, satellite imagery is the principal source of data on the area, current stature, and extent of disturbance of the forests. The information from imagery that covers large areas at low resolution is greatly enhanced when different types of imagery can be compared. The paper presents a comparison of data from Landsat MSS and from the Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR-A) L band HH polarization data for sites in the Amazon Basin. Results indicate that SIR-A backscatter from the undisturbed forest was lower than that from some disturbed areas and from flooded forests and that SIR-A brightness, increases nonlinearly with the Landsat normalized difference vegetation index. It is hypothesized that the brightest radar returns in southern Amazonia are from newly cleared forests that are littered with standing and fallen tree boles that function as corner reflectors; and that backscatter will diminish from disturbed areas over time as fields are burned repeatedly.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: International Journal of Remote Sensing (ISSN 0143-1161); 9; 95-105
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: This study evaluated the utility of data collected by the high-spectral resolution airborne imaging spectrometer (AIS-2, tree mode, spectral range 0.8-2.2 microns) and the broad-band Daedalus airborne thematic mapper (ATM, spectral range 0.42-13.0 micron) in assessing forest decline damage at a predominantly Scotch pine forest in the FRG. Analysis of spectral radiance values from the ATM and raw digital number values from AIS-2 showed that higher reflectance in the near infrared was characteristic of high damage (heavy chlorosis, limited needle loss) in Scotch pine canopies. A classification image of a portion of the AIS-2 flight line agreed very well with a damage assessment map produced by standard aerial photointerpretation techniques.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 24; 129-149
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Visible IR Intelligent Spectrometer (VIRIS) reflectance data have been found to have similar features that are related to air-pollution-induced forest decline and visible damage in both the red spruce of Vermont and the Norway spruce of Baden-Wuerttemberg; the similarity suggests a common source of damage. Spectra of both species include a 5-nm blueshifting of the red-edge inflection point, while pigment data for both species indicate a loss of total chlorophylls. The blue shift of the chlorophyll absorption maximum, as well as the increased red radiance and decreased near-IR radiance of the damaged spruce, may be used to delineate and map damage areas.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 24; 109-127
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    Description: Recent advances in imaging spectroscopy for remote sensing applications are discussed, reviewing the results of recent investigations. The advantages offered by the higher spectral resolution of imaging spectroscopy relative to scanners such as Landsat MSS and TM are explained; the design and performance of the Airborne Imaging Spectrometer (Vane et al., 1984) are described and illustrated with drawings, photographs, and sample images; data processing and analysis techniques are outlined; and applications to geological and botanical research are considered.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 24; 1-29
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Smoke-plume gas samples were collected at altitudes from 35-670 m above the ground over the San Dimas Experimental Forest during a 400-acre prescribed chaparral fire. Mean emission ratios relative to CO2 for CO, H2, CH4, and total nonmethane hydrocarbons were lower than previous values obtained for large biomass-burning field experiments. Comparison of samples from vigorously flaming and mixed stages of combustion revealed little differences in CO2 normalized emission ratios for these gases (except for N2O).
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 1653-165
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Spacelab 3's Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy (ATMOS) experiment has obtained 30 deg N and 48 deg S vertical profiles of reservoir gases, source gases, and other trace molecules that are important in the middle atmosphere's odd nitrogen, odd chlorine, and odd hydrogen chemical families. The abundances of individual gases and total odd nitrogen levels measured by ATMOS have been compared with prior results obtained from balloon and satellite platforms. The lower-limit profile agrees with ATMOS data to within 16 percent up to 42 km altitude.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 1718-173
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Tropospheric mixing ratios of methane, C2-C10 hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide were measured over the Amazon tropical forest near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, in July and August 1985. The measurements, consisting mostly of altitude profiles of these gases, were all made within the atmospheric boundary layer up to an altitude of 1000 m above ground level. Data characterize the diurnal hydrocarbon composition of the boundary layer. Biogenic emissions of isoprene control hydroxyl radical concentrations over the forest. Biogenic emission fluxes of isoprene and terpenes are estimated to be 25,000 micrograms/sq m per day and 5600 micrograms/sq m per day, respectively. This isoprene emission is equivalent to 2 percent of the net primary productivity of the tropical forest. Atmospheric oxidation of biogenic isoprene and terpenes emissions from the Amazon forest may account for daily increases of 8-13 ppb for carbon monoxide in the planetary boundary layer.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 1407-141
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The first numerical simulations of the nonlinear evolution of the electrostatic Kelvin-Helmholtz (K-H) instability with ionospheric Perderson conductivity coupling are presented. It is found that the K-H instability develops in a distinctly different manner in the nonlinear regime with Pedersen coupling than without it. Pedersen coupling effects, in conjunction with a neutral wind and density gradient, are shown to result in an increased time scale for K-H instability wave growth, to inhibit K-H vortex formation, to lead to nonlinear structures which can be described as 'breaking waves', and to generate, in the nonlinear regime, small-scale turbulence by means of secondary instabilities growing on primary waves. The spatial power spectra of the electrostatic potential and density fluctuations are computed, and differences with and without Pedersen effects are reported.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 137-152
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The effects of look angle and wavelength variation in geologically applied radar images are examined and the applications of observations of these effects for the study of other planets are discussed. Seasat, SIR-A, SIR-B, and airborne radar images and multiple look angle and multiwavelength scatterometer data are used. It is found that smaller look angle radar data can provide good discrimination among certain diverse materials which are not distinguishable at larger look angles, such as subpixel fault scarps and volcanic dykes. Discriminant analyses of scatterometer data of all geological targets observed gave best results with minimum data by using all wavelengths available and small look angles. The results provide information on the nature of radar images which could be valuable in interpreting radar images of Venus.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: International Journal of Remote Sensing (ISSN 0143-1161); 9; 945-965
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The detailed photochemistry of methane oxidation has been studied in a coupled chemical/dynamical model of the middle atmosphere. The photochemistry of formaldehyde plays an important role in determining the production of water vapor from methane oxidation. At high latitudes, the production and transport of molecular hydrogen is particularly important in determining the water vapor distribution. It is shown that the ratio of the methane vertical gradient to the water vapor vertical gradient at any particular latitude should not be expected to be precisely 2, due both to photochemical and dynamical effects. Modeled H2O profiles are compared with measurements from the Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) experiment at various latitudes. Molecular hydrogen is shown to be responsible for the formation of a secondary maximum displayed by the model water vapor profiles in high latitude summer, a feature also found in the LIMS data.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Royal Meteorological Society, Quarterly Journal (ISSN 0035-9009); 114; 281-295
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: On October 1 1983, ISEE-3 crossed the earth's bow shock several times and entered the magnetosphere while continuously recording the nonthermal continuum (NTC) radio emission which is generated inside the magnetosphere. The effects of the solar wind, the bow shock, the magnetosheath, and the magnetopause on the propagation of the NTC are studied. On that day it is found that: (1) the relative values of the NTC low frequency cut-off in the solar wind and in the magnetosheath is due to an unusually high density overshoot in the bow shock, 7 to 11 times the solar wind density; (2) refraction at the interface between the magnetosheath and the solar wind can explain most of the decrease in the source angular size when the observer travels away from the earth; (3) plasma density irregularities in the magnetosheath cause considerable scattering of the NTC, and this effect gives a large apparent size to the NTC source when observed from inside the magnetosheath; and (4) the apparent source is also relatively large inside the magnetosphere, probably due to an approach to ray isotropy caused by oblique reflections from the magnetopause.
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    Type: Annales Geophysicae (ISSN 0980-8752); 6; 309-318
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Results demonstrating an abrupt change in the rate and character of sedimentation in the South China Sea at the close of the last glacial period are presented. Radiocarbon dating and its position in the oxygen isotope shift suggest that this change may be coincident with the abrupt change in climatic conditions seen at high latitudes in the North Atlantic and the Antarctic at 13 kyr BP. These results support the contention that a major global climatic change occurred between 14 and 13 kyr BP.
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    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 333; 156-158
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The thermospheric temperatures measured by the Fabry-Perod interferometer on the OGO 6 satellite are found to be reasonably represented by the mass spectrometer/incoherent scatter 1986 (MSIS-86) empirical model except for two anomalies, one in the South Atlantic and the other near noon local time. These anomalies are likely due to measurement problems. The OGO 6 temperature data were not used in the generation the MSIS models, so this is an independent comparison of measured and model temperatures. The measurements were made primarily during daytime at mid to low latitudes and throughout the day at high latitudes. On average, the measured temperatures are 16 K below the MSIS-86 model temperatures. Latitude gradients during solstices as well as for the yearly average are well represented by the model, as are high-latitude longitudinal and magnetic activity variations.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 5965-597
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A first observation of an ionospheric disturbance from a gamma-ray burst is reported. The burst, GB30801, occurred at 22:14:18 UT on August 1, 1983, and was one of the strongest ever observed. The total fluence was 0.002 erg/sq cm, most of which occurred in the first 4 s of the burst. Simultaneously, a change was observed in the amplitude of a VLF radio signal from a transmitter in Rugby, England indicative of an ionospheric disturbance. Weaker disturbances were also recorded at the same receiving site on signals from VLF stations in Annapolis, Maryland and Lualualei, Hawaii. The times of the burst and the disturbances are coincident within the 10-s resolution of the VLF recording system. No similar disturbances were observed within 60 hr around the time of the burst. In the future, a network of VLF burst monitors may provide measurements of the total ionizing energy fluence from a burst, as well as some limited directional information.
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    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 331; 418-420
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A gravity trend map of North America, based on a horizontal Bouguer gravity gradient map produced from gravity data for Canada and the conterminous United States, is presented and used to define a continental mosaic of gravity trend domains akin to structural domains. Contrasting trend characteristics at gravity domain boundaries support the concept of outward growth of the continent primarily by accretionary tectonics. Gravity patterns, however, indicate a different style of tectonics dominated in the development of now-buried Proterozoic orogenic belts in the south-central United States, supporting a view that these belts formed along the leading edge of a southward-migrating Proterozoic continental margin.
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    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 331; 333
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Four doubled CO2 experiments with the GISS general circulation model are compared to investigate the consistency of changes in water availability over the United States. The experiments compare the influence of model sensitivity, model resolution, and the sea-surface temperature gradient. The results show that the general mid-latitude drying over land is dependent upon the degree of mid-latitude eddy energy decrease, and thus the degree of high-latitude temperature change amplification. There is a general tendency in the experiments for the northern and western United States to become wetter, while the southern and eastern portions dry. However, there is much variability from run to run, with different regions showing different degrees of sensitivity to the parameters tested. The results for the western United States depend most on model resolution; those for the central United States, on the sea-surface temperature gradient and the degree of mid-latitude ocean warming; and those for the eastern United States, on model sensitivity. The changes in particular seasons depend on changes in other seasons, and will therefore be sensitive to the realism of the ground hydrology parameterization.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 5385-541
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Results of NOAA's measurements of the ozone vertical distributions at the South Pole and of the annual course of total ozone, conducted in 1986 with balloon-borne electrochemical concentration cell (ECC) ozonesondes and a Dobson spectrophotometer, are described. The major finding was that the stratospheric ozone decreases abruptly between September 20 and October 15, with the bulk decrease occurring between 12 and 21 km. In this period, the column ozone and ozone volume mixing ratio at 16 km (the altitude of the normal ozone maximum at South Pole) decreased by 78 percent, and column ozone between 12 and 21 km decreased by 50 percent. The results of these measurements are compared with data obtained in 1971, and the changes observed in the ozone vertical distributions and in the temporal variations of atmospheric ozone are discussed.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 5167-518
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The vertical mixing ratio profiles of H2O, HDO, O3, heavy ozone, HF, HCl, HCN, and OH in the stratosphere are retrieved from high-resolution far-infrared emission spectra. These spectra were obtained with a balloon-borne Fourier transform spectrometer in the spring of 1979 at 32 deg N. The nonlinear least squares fit method is used in the analysis. The results are obtained relative to the O2 mixing ratio, whose emission features can be found in the same spectra. The retrieval of OH together with other species should be particularly significant for the study of upper stratospheric photochemistry, although the errors are relatively large: 28 percent for OH and 16-19 percent for other species.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 3851-386
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: An observationally based, mechanistic dynamical model is used to simulate the decline of total ozone during September and October for the years 1979 through 1986. Vertical velocities derived from observed stratospheric temperature changes and computed radiative heating rates are used to advect an ozone mixing ratio profile during the Antarctic spring period. An early August 1982 Syowa balloonsonde ozone profile is used to initialize the computations. The model reasonably simulates the September and October changes in total ozone, considering the uncertainties in the observed data and the radiative heating. The simulated decline is found to be very sensitive to the choice of initial ozone profile and to small changes in the radiative heating. The results of this study suggest that the dynamical hypothesis of the Antarctic ozone depletion is both quantitatively credible and consistent with the observed temperature changes.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 3833-384
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: International Journal of Remote Sensing (ISSN 0143-1161); 9; 185
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The relationship between large-scale Birkeland currents and resonant oscillations of the geomagnetic field is investigated on the basis of Viking magnetic-field, electric-field, and particle measurements and AMPTE-CEE and IMP-8 magnetic-field measurements obtained during April 23-25, 1986. The data are presented in extensive graphs and characterized in detail. The 3-16-mHz 5-60-nT magnetic-field oscillations detected by Viking are also seen by AMPTE-CEE below L = 8.8 and extend from the lower L shells to the boundary between regions 1 and 2 of the Birkeland-current system, and this boundary is shown to be closely related to the interface between the low-latitude boundary layer and the central plasma sheet. It is suggested that the magnetospheric oscillations may be driven by several different solar-wind features, possibly depending on the direction of the IMF.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 2661-267
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: GPS geodetic measurements of 350-650 km baselines across the Pacific-North America plate boundary in the Gulf of California are presented. The analysis employs a four-station U.S. fiducial network and combined carrier phase and pseudorange data. Water vapor radiometer data at the Gulf sites are used to calibrate the GPS signal for wet tropospheric path delays. Residual tropospheric delays are modeled as first-order exponentially correlated stochastic processes. The measurement precision for horizontal components is a few parts in 10 to the 8th or better.
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    Type: Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276); 15; 353-356
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Two iridium abundance peaks, both 0.11 ppb (whole-rock basis) over a local background of 0.017 ppb, have been found in Middle Cretaceous marine rocks near Pueblo, Colorado. They occur just below the 92-million-year-old Cenomanian-Turonian (C-T) stage boundary. No other peaks were found in 45 meters of strata (about 2.5 million years of deposition) above and below the boundary interval. The broad lower peak straddles the first in a series of extinctions of benthic and nektonic macrobiota which comprise the C-T extinction event. The sharp upper peak occurs stratigraphically about 1.2 meters above the lower peak. The excess Ir might be from meteoroid impacts.
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    Type: Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276); 15; 346-349
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Recent research on the remote sensing of forest leaf and canopy biochemical contents suggests that the shortwave IR region contains this information; laboratory analyses of dry ground leaves have yielded reliable predictive relationships between both leaf nitrogen and lignin with near-IR spectra. Attention is given to the application of these laboratory techniques to a limited set of spectra from fresh, whole leaves of conifer species. The analysis of Airborne Imaging Spectrometer data reveals that total water content variations in deciduous forest canopies appear as overall shifts in the brightness of raw spectra.
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    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 24; 85-108
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Ozone data obtained over the forest canopy of the Amazon Basin during July and August 1985 in the course of NASA's Amazon Boundary Layer Experiment 2A are discussed, and ozone profiles obtained during flights from Belem to Tabatinga, Brazil, are analyzed to determine any cross-basin effects. The analyses of ozone data indicate that the mixed layer of the Amazon Basin, for the conditions of undisturbed meteorology and in the absence of biomass burning, is a significant sink for tropospheric ozone. As the coast is approached, marine influences are noted at about 300 km inland, and a transition from a forest-controlled mixed layer to a marine-controlled mixed layer is noted.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 1452-146
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Horizontal and vertical distributions of nitric oxide (NO) were measured over the Amazon Basin during NASA's Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE) Amazon Boundary Layer Experiment mission in July-August 1985. During transit flights between the Virginia coast and Manaus, Brazil, NO mixing ratios were 12-15 pptv at 5 km altitude. Values up to 200 pptv were observed in electrically active clouds. During longitudinal surveys over the Amazon region, NO mixing ratios in the lower planetary boundary layer decreased from 25-60 pptv over the central basin to 10-12 pptv in coastal regions. In the convective cloud layer or free troposphere, NO mixing ratios averaged 13 pptv in regions not influenced by biomass burning. No longitudinal trend above the mixed layer could be detected. A steep negative gradient with increasing altitude was noted within the mixed layer before midday. Mixing ratios decreased from 60 pptv at 0.2 km to about 15 pptv at the top of the mixed layer (1 km). By midday, growth of the mixed layer height and enhanced mixing reduced the gradient, and evidence for mixing of NO into the convective cloud layer was noted.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 1396-140
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: As a part of the NASA Global Tropospheric Experiment to study the Amazon boundary layer, ozone and aerosol distributions were made measured in July-August 1985 by a NASA Electra aircraft on several long-range flights spanning different areas between Tabatinga and Belem, Brazil. Both positive and negative correlations were found in PBL between aerosol concentrations and O3 mixing ratios. The negative correlations result from the downward transport of relatively clean O3-rich air from the upper troposphere into PBL (which normally has higher aerosol loading and lower O3 concentrations than troposphere); positive correlations are found in biomass-burning plumes, where the aerosols are emitted into the air and O3 is photochemically produced. It was found that, in the dry season, a significant portion of the ozone over the rain forest is a result of biomass burning and that the distribution of photochemically produced O3 is strongly affected by synoptic-scale transport from large fires to the south/southeast.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 1431-145
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The structure and growth of the atmospheric mixed layer over the Amazonian rain forest were examined using measurements obtained during the NASA Amazon Boundary Layer Experiment. Measurements of temperature, moisture, and horizontal wind were carried out in and above the mixed layer by means of a tethered balloon, rawinsonde, and aircraft; fluxes of sensible and latent heat were measured at the top of the canopy. It was found that the mixing layer grows rapidly, at 5-8 cm/sec, soon after sunrise to a mean maximum height of 1200 m by 1300 LT; during undisturbed conditions, mixed layer heights of 1000 are common between 1000 and 1600 LT. No horizontal inhomogeneities in the mixed layer structure or depth were found over large distances. A simple mixed layer model was applied to show how fluxes of species might be estimated using only quantities measured at the surface and prescribing an initial condition and boundary condition for the mixed layer.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 1361-137
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Atmospheric circulation leads to an accumulation of debris from meteors in the Antarctic stratosphere at the beginning of austral spring. The major component of meteoric material is alkaline, comprised predominantly of the oxides of magnesium and iron. These metals may neutralize the natural acidity of stratospheric aerosols, remove nitric acid from the gas phase, and bond it as metal nitrates in the aerosol phase. Removal of nitric acid vapor has been previously shown to be a critical link in the photochemical depletion of ozone in the Antarctic spring, by allowing for increased catalytic loss from chlorine and bromine.
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    Type: Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276); 15; 1-4
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Air-broadened and N2-broadened halfwidth and pressure shift coefficients of 294 transitions in the nu4 and nu2 bands of C-12H4 have been measured from laboratory absorption spectra recorded at room temperature with the Fourier transform spectrometer in the McMath solar telescope facility of the National Solar Observatory. Total pressures of up to 551 Torr were employed with absorption paths of 5-150 cm, CH4 volume mixing ratios of 2.6 percent or less, and resolutions of 0.005 and 0.01/cm. A nonlinear least-squares spectral fitting technique has been utilized in the analysis of the twenty-five measured spectra. Lines up to J double-prime = 18 in the nu4 band and J double-prime = 15 in the nu2 band have been analyzed.
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    Type: Applied Optics (ISSN 0003-6935); 27; 631-651
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Experimental data on the so-called 'perhydroxyl' reaction O + HO2 - OH + O2 by which vibrationally excited OH is produced in the upper atmosphere are briefly reviewed. Both isotopic labeling studies and studies on the temperature dependence of the rate constant and the possible importance of its inverse are considered. The implication of the results for analysis of OH airglow data are emphasized. Some additional results on the dynamics of reactions related to OH airglow which may affect interpretation of OH emission measurements are summarized.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 285-288
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Natural radio emissions in the frequency range of several hundred kHz were detected at ground level in the auroral region during a ground-level observing program conducted near Fairbanks, Alaska in the spring of 1986 in an attempt to detect auroral cyclotron-maser-generated whistler modes. Most of the strongest emissions were observed in a small time interval around midnight magnetic local time, suggesting a close tie-in with auroral processes. The results support earlier reports of radio noise from the aurora at frequencies of about 100 kHz and indicate the importance of extending the upper frequency of ground-based high-latitude VLF stations to the vicinity of 1 MHz.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 277-283
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Observations of Antarctic ozone levels and the discovery of a hole in the Antarctic region are examined. The effects of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) on the level of stratospheric ozone are analyzed. Three cycles explaining the cause of ozone depletion in the poles are proposed. A comparison of field data and proposed depletion cycles reveals that the chemical origin of the ozone hole is due to CFCs. The potential global effects of the Antarctic ozone hole are discussed.
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    Type: Oceanus (ISSN 0029-8182); 31; 47-52
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A modification of the Tergra model (Soer, 1977) is presented, which incorporates the scattering from arbitrarily inclined leaves canopy reflectance model (Verhoef and Bunnik, 1981) for the calculation of albedo and canopy resistance. The combined model, known as Tersail, is capable of simulating the relationship between the bidirectional reflectance and the thermal response of a canopy. The accuracy of the model is tested using data over wheat canopies in Phoenix, Arizona, showing that the model is a good simulator of canopy temperatures under a variety of conditions.
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    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 26; 287-300
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Biomass of growing vegetation over large semiarid regions can be estimated by digital manipulation of data from the AVHRR on NOAA polar-orbiting satellites. Here, the African Sahel is classified using a methodology which incorporates both the normalized difference and CAUSE procedures for the monitoring of vegetation during drought conditions. Preliminary analysis of color IR photographs taken on Space Shuttle missions indicates that such photographs can be digitized, registered to maps and other images, and utilized to fill temporal gaps in the historical record of data from unmanned satellites.
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    Type: Geocarto International (ISSN 1010-6049); 3; 29-36
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Two techniques designed for measurements of NO(x (NO + NO2) were intercompared during aircraft flights made in the spring of 1984 in the middle free troposphere over the eastern Pacific Ocean and southwestern U.S. One NO chemiluminescence instrument was equipped with a ferrous sulphate converter, another with a photolytic converter. The ferrous sulphate-equipped instrument was apparently much less specific for NO2. It registered levels about three times larger than the photolytic converter and gave NO2/NO ratios that were much larger than photochemical calculations would indicate as reasonable. Additionally, the results imply that active NO(x) was only 10-20 percent of the total odd nitrogen in the middle free troposphere.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 15803-15
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: New measurements of the low-altitude ClO profile, made during September 1987, are presented along with detailed observations of ozone depletion over McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the same period. The results show that both the rate and altitude range of ozone depletion can be quantitatively accounted for by a mechanism in which the ClO dimer is the important intermediary in the catalytic destruction of ozone. An alternative bromine mechanism appears capable of contributing only 5-15 percent to the ozone loss rate.
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    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 336; 455-458
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Measurements of NO, NO2, O3, and CO were obtained for tropopause fold events encountered during two flights of the NASA global tropospheric experiment aircraft in 1984. The results suggest that NO(x) may not always be a good tracer of air of recent stratospheric origin. It is suggested that the stratospheric source of NO(x) acts to introduce NO(x) over a short period and through a large vertical region of the troposphere.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 15813-15
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The role of chlorine atoms in the oxidation of methane and nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) in the marine troposphere and lower stratosphere was investigated using a one-dimensional photochemical model that incorporated the chemistry of CH4, NMHCs, NO(x), O(x), and HO(x), as well as organic and inorganic halogens in the troposphere and lower stratosphere. The model predicted that chlorine atoms are present in the marine troposphere at the concentrations of about 1000/cu cm, mostly as a product of the reaction between OH and HCl released from sea spray. The results indicate that Cl atoms cause 20 to 40 percent of NMHC oxidation in the troposphere and 40 to 90 percent in the lower stratosphere. At 15 km, the NMHC-Cl reactions account for nearly 80 percent of the PAN produced. Where available, experimental data confirmed the model predictions.
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    Type: Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry (ISSN 0167-7764); 7; 261-285
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A model for the effective scavenging rate of a soluble species has been developed. The model takes into account the possibility of positive as well as negative correlations between departures from the mean of the scavenging rate and species concentration. The model is demonstrated for the case of late afternoon rainout of nitric acid occurring just prior to the nighttime cessation of its chemical production. The calculations give effective scavenging rates which are about a factor of 2 to 3 greater than those calculated using the models of Rodhe and Grandell (1972) and Giorgi and Chameides (1985).
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    Type: Tellus, Series B - Chemical and Physical Meteorology (ISSN 0280-6509); 40B; 285-296
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Solar eclipse timings measured between A.D. 1672 and 1806 are analyzed to study the variation of Delta T (= ET - UT) over this interval. These solar eclipse observations confirm the results of Brouwer (1952), Martin (1969), and Stephenson and Morrison (1969) which were obtained from the analysis of occultations in this period. It is believed that Goldstein's (1985) analysis inadequately represents the changes in Delta T.
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    Type: Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361); 200; 1-2,
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The lifetimes of high-energy (greater than 55 MeV) protons in the Van Allen radiation belt are calculated, assuming that in time the protons will collide with and be absorbed by particulate orbiting material. The calculations are based on the NASA/DoD Civil Needs Database for orbital debris (Gaines, 1966) and moderate assumptions of future space traffic. It is found that the lifetimes of high-energy protons below 1500 km will decrease, leading to a noticeable redution in their fluxes.
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    Type: Science (ISSN 0036-8075); 242; 1283-128
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Acta Astronautica (ISSN 0094-5765); 17; 1003-100
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Microinclusions in diamonds from Zaire and Botswana differ in composition from the more common large inclusions of the peridotitic or eclogitic assemblages. These sub-micrometer inclusions resemble potassic magmas in their composition, but are enriched in H2O, CO2(3-), and K2O and depleted in MgO. This composition represents a volatile-rich fluid or melt from the upper mantle, which was trapped in the diamonds as they grew.
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    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 335; 784-789
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A field investigation using thermal remote sensing was performed to test the feasibility of detecting the surface topography of granite bedrock beneath a thin cover of alluvium. Imagery of a region of the Mojave Desert were taken with an airborne multispectral scanner with thermal spectral bandwidths of 10.4 and 12.5 microns an instantaneous field of view of 2.5 mrad. It is suggested that a buried high thermal diffusivity horizon measurably lowers the surface temperature of the overlying lower diffusivity material during the peak of the annual heating cycle.
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    Type: Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (ISSN 0099-1112); 54; 1437-144
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: This paper presents the results of polar NO2 measurements carried out by the SME satellite during the fall and spring of 1985 and 1986 and compares the results with observations at the north pole and the results of model calculations. During the austral spring, a polar low was observed in stratospheric NO2 densities measured between 24 and 40 km, consistent with the predictions of standard photochemical theory. The geographic extent of the area of low NO2 densities was found to decrease as the hours of sunlight increased, in marked contrast to the behavior of the Antarctic ozone hole during the same period. A comparison of measurements with model calculations for NO2 imply that much of the odd nitrogen is converted to HNO3 during the polar night. Data also suggest no evidence that changes in high-altitude odd nitrogen are influencing the ozone below, or that the 'ozone hole' penetrates above 24 km to affect odd nitrogen there.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 12561-12
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The mixing ratio profile of N2O5 has been inferred from high-resolution emission spectra obtained with a balloon-borne Fourier spectrometer. The observations were taken for the period from midnight to predawn on September 16, 1986 at 32 deg N latitude. The inferred volume mixing ratio from nighttime average spectra has a peak of about 1.8 x 10 to the -9th in the 32-35 altitude range. The inferred mixing ratio is generally less than the theoretical predictions from a one-dimensional model.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276); 15; 1177-118
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A series of four plasma injection experiments were performed by the AMPTE-IRM spacecraft in the nighttime magnetosphere between 12 and 18 earth radii geocentric distance during spring 1985. The most prominent effect of these tail releases is the creation of magnetic cavities. The lifetime of the cavities ranged from a few seconds to some minutes, depending mainly on the ion species and secondly on the ambient field strength. Due to the subsonic and sub-Alfvenic environment, the interaction between the plasma cloud and the ambient plasma flow played only a minor role in these cases (in contrast to the releases in the solar wind), and thus the diamagnetic effect could be studied extensively. The perturbation of the exterior field and fine structures in the current-carrying shell were observed. The thickness of the shell and the current distribution in this layer were deduced from the magnetic recordings each time IRM entered the cavity.
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    Type: Advances in Space Research (ISSN 0273-1177); 8; 1, 19
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  • 76
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The two Ba releases in the solar wind, termed artificial comets (the first in interplanetary space, the second in the terrestrial magnetosheath), showed a number of common magnetic features. Both times a magnetic cavity was detected and a field pile-up observed with magnitudes several times the ambient field strength upstream of the cavity. The magnetic fluctuations in the compressed region are generally enhanced by a factor comparable to the amount of field pile-up. There is a peak in the spectra of both events around 0.1 Hz in the component which is perpendicular to the solar-wind velocity vector and almost field-aligned. This magnetosonic wave has been interpreted as the fundamental mode of resonance oscillations of the compression zone. For frequencies beyond 2 Hz the spectra decrease more steeply in the case of the second 'comet' than in the first. This is due to the interaction of the supersonic solar wind with the first comet. The spectra obtained during the first comet at the solar-wind/ion-cloud interface are identical to those observed during bow-shock crossings.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Advances in Space Research (ISSN 0273-1177); 8; 1, 19; 23-26
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  • 77
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Multidirectional reflectance factor measurements acquired in the summer of 1986 are used to make estimates of big bluestem grass albedo, evaluating the variation of albedo with changes in solar zenith angle and phenology. On any given day, the albedo was observed to increase by at least 19 percent as solar zenith angle increased. Changes in albedo were found to correspond to changes in the green leaf area index of the grass canopy. Estimates of albedo made using reflectance data acquired within only one or two azimuthal planes and at a restricted range of view zenith angle were evaluated and compared to 'true' albedos derived from all available reflectance factor data. It was found that even a limited amount of multiple direction reflectance data was preferable to a single nadir reflectance factor for the estimation of prarie grass albedo.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 25; 185-199
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  • 78
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Laboratory reflectance measurements of 10 soils were used to determine the relationship between soil moisture and three spectral indices: the TM5/7 ratio and the Wetness(R) and Brightness(R) features of the reflectance factor TM Tasseled Cap transformation. Response of the indices to dry mass water percentage was approximately linear for individual soils, except for Wetness(R) and Brightness(R) at high moisture content. Soil differences in the slopes of the Wetness(R)- and Brightness(R)-moisture content relationships were almost entirely eliminated by expressing water content as the percentage of water retained at 0.1 bar (10 kPa) tension (relative water content). The resultant soil lines were offset from one another by the differences in dry soil index value. Slope of the TM5/7 response was not completely normalized by expressing moisture status as relative water content, because slope appeared to vary with dry soil ratio value. Sensitivity to the effects of illumination angle was negligible for the TM5/7 ratio, somewhat greater for Wetness(R) and greatest for Brightness(R).
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 25; 167-184
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A comparison is made between linear discriminant analysis and supervised classification results based on signatures from the Landsat TM, the Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner (TIMS), and airborne SAR, alone and combined into extended spectral signatures for seven sedimentary rock units exposed on the margin of the Wind River Basin, Wyoming. Results from a linear discriminant analysis showed that training-area classification accuracies based on the multisensor data were improved an average of 15 percent over TM alone, 24 percent over TIMS alone, and 46 percent over SAR alone, with similar improvement resulting when supervised multisensor classification maps were compared to supervised, individual sensor classification maps. When training area signatures were used to map spectrally similar materials in an adjacent area, the average classification accuracy improved 19 percent using the multisensor data over TM alone, 2 percent over TIMS alone, and 11 percent over SAR alone. It is concluded that certain sedimentary lithologies may be accurately mapped using a single sensor, but classification of a variety of rock types can be improved using multisensor data sets that are sensitive to different characteristics such as mineralogy and surface roughness.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 25; 129-144
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A radar image of the Lake Champlain West quadrangle in the Adirondack Mountains of the U.S. is synthesized and used to test the surface integral approach to radarclinometry. It is shown that the surface integral approach to radarclinometry possesses an inherent instability that can be avoided only if the radar reflectance function possesses a shallow slope over the range of operation and if terrain slopes are bounded to prevent their being either parallel or perpendicular to the Poynting vector of the radar irradiance. It is found that the noise associated with real SAR systems makes this instability worse. It is concluded that the value of the surface integral approach to radarclinometry shows little promise.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Earth, Moon, and Planets (ISSN 0167-9295); 41; 141-153
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  • 81
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Results obtained from simple models for the long-term change in ozone and its seasonal amplitude as a function of atmospheric pressure in the region from 3.0-0.1 mbar are compared with ozone measurements obtained with the Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Instrument (SBUV). The SBUV data show secular trends in ozone which are negative and larger than the largest model trends by a factor of two or more. It is suggested that temperature-correlated variations in photochemistry should be included in the model.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 8431-843
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  • 82
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A theoretical model for the formation and growth of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) has been developed. Results for the calculated temperature dependence of optical backscattering are found to agree well with values obtained during two Arctic airborne-lidar experiments. Results for PSC formation in Antarctica show that at the 70-mbar level, about 80 percent of the HNO3 and about 30 percent of the H2O vapor available may be sequestered in relatively large PSC particles at a temperature near 189 K.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 8423-843
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  • 83
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: An airborne autotracking sun-photometer has been used to measure magnitudes, temporal/spatial variabilities, and the wavelength dependence of optical depths in the near-ultraviolet to near-infrared spectrum of smoke from two forest fires and one jet fuel fire and of background air. Jet fuel smoke optical depths were found to be generally less wavelength dependent than background aerosol optical depths. Forest fire smoke optical depths, however, showed a wide range of wavelength depedences, such as incidents of wavelength-independent extinction.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 8388-840
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  • 84
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Two new versions of the physical base-traction model of Li and Rice (1987) have been developed to study the loading processes and surface deformation near plate boundaries with geometric complexities, including a shallow creeping fault segment and two subparallel faults. Predictions of surface velocity and surface slip rate for the region between the San Andreas fault and the Pacific coast at the latitude of the Parkfield-Cholame segment using model parameters based on geologic, geodetic, and seismic considerations were found to be in good agreement with contemporary geodetic field data (not used in constrainning model parameters). Also, predicted surface velocity for the Salton Sea-Coachella Valley area were fit to recently derived contemporary geodetic data and very large baseline interferometry data, althoug here the model parameters are not well constrained.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 7943-795
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  • 85
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: This paper compares records collected in the years 1972-1982 from two classes of instruments at Pinon Flat Observatory (PFO), southern California: the long-base-length (greater than 100 m) strain meters and tiltmeters described by Berger and Lovberg(1970) and Wyatt et al. (1982), respectively; and the short-base-length near-surface tiltmeters. It was found that the signals for static strain changes recorded by the long-base-length strain meters and tiltmeters are in good quantitative agreement with the deformation calculated for a dislocation in an elastic half-space. In contrast, colocated short-base-length tiltmeters produced spurious results, with signals much larger than the theoretical coseismic deformations computed using the U.S. Geological Survey/CalTech network; these signals correlated well with peak site acceleration.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 7923-794
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  • 86
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Correlation between interannual length-of-day (LOD) changes and an index representation of El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) for the period of 1972-1986 was examined in two ways: as the cross-correlation function in the time domain and as the complex coherence spectrum in the frequency domain. The ENSO representation was derived from barometric measurements from the Tahiti and Darwin, Australia, meteorological stations, as the difference of the sea-level pressure between the two locations. The cross correlation between this ENSO representation and LOD variation on the interannual time scale was found to have a maximum value of 0.68 and the LOD phase lag of 2 months, indicating that most of the interannual LOD variation is caused by ENSO, and that the transfer of ENSO's axial angular momentum to the solid earth lags behind the Tahiti-Darwin pressure variation by about 2 months. The corresponding coherence spectrum showed minimum correlation around biennial periods, indicating an influence of the stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation on LOD variations.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 7709-771
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  • 87
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A band ratioing method is developed which directs the retention of topographic expression and albedo information so that they remain depicted as prominent variations in image intensity. Band data are adjusted so that ratio values for each surface material coherently increase with increasing pixel bispectral radiance for all three ratios of the color composite. The retained topographic expression and albedo information do not significantly distort the ratio-enhanced band-variant reflectance information, and the resultant images are similar to chromaticity-enhanced band composite images, but require only simple arithmetic processing steps.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: International Journal of Remote Sensing (ISSN 0143-1161); 9; 749-765
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  • 88
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The magnetic disturbance expected when the earth passed through the center of Comet Halley's tail in 1910 apparently occurred 12 hr too early. A detailed study of the records reveals that the discrepancy is due to a change in the convention for determining the start of the day. The magnetic disturbance did in fact arrive at the expected time and no unusual aberration of the solar wind need be invoked to explain the timing. The disturbance consisted of two troughs in the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic field, separated by about 14 hr, presumably associated with wakes in the solar wind momentum flux on either side of the ion tail. The disturbance was independent of latitude, indicating that the responsible current system flowed far above the earth's surface. After the comet's passage the magnetosphere was left in a mildly disturbed condition, with a weak ring current present.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 333; 338-340
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  • 89
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The observation of midlatitude structures using passive radio astronomy techniques is discussed, with particular attention being given to the low-frequency radio telescope at the Clark Lake Radio Observatory. The present telescope operates in the 10-125-MHz frequency range. Observations of the ionosphere at separations of a few kilometers to a few hundreds of kilometers by the lines of sight to sources are possible, allowing the determination of the amplitude, wavelength, direction of propagation, and propagation speed of ionospheric waves. Data are considered on large-scale ionospheric gradients and the two-dimensional shapes and sizes of ionospheric irregularities.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Radio Science (ISSN 0048-6604); 23; 273-282
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  • 90
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Plasma processes occurring in the magnetosphere are examined in the light of recent observations of currents and waves with satellite-born magnetic experiments. In particular, results from the Viking and AMPTE/CCE satellites indicate that geomagnetic field lines that guide stationary Birkland currents can also support resonant Alfven waves. The relationship of these waves to the current systems and their source in the magnetosphere is still under investigation. It is emphasized that Birkland currents and Alfven waves are fundamental to an understanding of the earth's plasma environment.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Laser and Particle Beams (ISSN 0263-0346); 6; 503-511
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  • 91
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Landsat-5 digital numbers have been used to compute the at-satellite planetary reflectance on spectrally similar zones on the Meares and Schwanda glaciers in Alaska and the Grossglockner glacier group in Austria. The patterns of TM-derived reflectances in the ablation areas of the Grossglockner glacier group and the Meares Glacier compare favorably with published reflectance curves measured on the surface of glacier ice, though the surface reflectance of snow-covered ice is higher than the Landsat-derived reflectance for the glaciers studied. The accuracy of the at-satellite planetary reflectances is shown to be affected by topographic and atmospheric effects and by the anisotropic nature of snow reflectance.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 25; 311-321
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: A model for radiative transfer in heterogeneous three-dimensional canopies such as those found in forests is proposed. Its use in estimating important biophysical variables such as leaf area index and canopy architecture from bidirectional canopy reflectance data is discussed. The model and its use in estimating canopy parameters through its inversion are validated with measured canopy reflectance data for corn canopies.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: Remote Sensing of Environment (ISSN 0034-4257); 25; 255-293
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: An exceptionally well-preserved and distinctive assemblage of Late Proterozoic fossils from subtidal marine shales is reported. In addition to the spheromorphic acritarchs and cyanobacteria sheaths routinely preserved in Proterozoic rocks, this assemblage includes multicellular algae, a diverse assortment of morphologically complex protistan vesicles, and probable heterotrophic bacteria. Thus, it provides one of the clearest and most taxonomically varied views of Proterozoic life yet reported.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 334; 424-427
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: The positions and strengths of about 1900 absorption lines of methane between 3700 and 4136/cm were measured experimentally to provide a reference line list for the identification of weak CH4 features in planetary spectra. The line parameters were obtained at room temperature with accuracies of 0.0002-0.003/cm for positions and + or - 3-40 percent for strengths using spectra recorded at 0.011/cm resolution (unapodized) with a Fourier transform spectrometer at Kitt Peak National Observatory/National Solar Observatory. Individual line strengths range from 0.00002-0.013/sq cm per atm at room temperature, and the sum of the observed strengths is 1.42/sq cm per atm at 297 K. All measurements are reported in natural isotopic abundance.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Applied Optics (ISSN 0003-6935); 27; 3275-327
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  • 95
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: This paper presents a three-year (1985, 1986, and 1987) comparison of ozone profiles within the southern polar vortex for September and October, using data obtained by the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II. It was found that, by the first half of October 1986, daily minima in total ozone showed a moderate recovery of 5-7 percent relative to 1985, whereas in 1987, a significant drop of 15 percent from the 1985 minima was observed. The interannual variability of total ozone, temperature, and temperature area or vortex size were found to display a quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) signal similar to that established by Garcia and Solomon (1987) for Antarctica. Since the 1985 and 1987 years displayed the same QBO phase (westerly) and the 1987 depletion was greater than that of 1985, it is concluded that the long-term secular ozone trend continues to be downward.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276); 15; 907-910
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  • 96
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: This paper reports on the measurements of reaction probabilities for heterogeneous reaction of N2O5 with H2O and HCl on ice surfaces at 195 K, using a fast-flow reactor coupled with a quadrupole mass spectrometer. The reaction probability for N2O5 on pure-water ice was found to be 0.028 + or - 0.011, with nitric acid in the solid phase as the sole product. In the presence of HCl in ice, the probability of N2O5 reaction was enhanced (to 0.037); the reaction produced, besides solid-phase nitric acid, ClNO2 and ClONO which were released into the gas phase within a few milliseconds. The latter two compounds can be readily photolyzed in the austral spring to form active chlorine which would remove stratospheric ozone. It is suggested that, since the polar stratospheric clouds are believed to contain HCl-ice mixture on the surface, the reactions of N2O5 on H2O/HCl particles is a major factor in the Antarctic springtime ozone depletion.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276); 15; 851-854
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276); 15; 840
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  • 98
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Stratospheric ClO and O3 vertical profiles were measured at 32-deg N in May 1985 and October 1986. The ClO profiles and diurnal variation are in general agreement with theory, but have somewhat less midday ClO near 34 km. Measured 35-45 km O3 is larger than theoretical, and no stratospheric O3 diurnal variation was observed, as expected. HNO3 was detected, and an H2O2 upper limit was obtained.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276); 15; 780-783
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  • 99
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Data on monthly ozone abundance trends near the stratopause, observed by the Ultraviolet Spectrometer (UVS) on the SME and by the Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Instrument (SBUV) on NIMBUS-7 are presented for June, September, and January of the years 1982-1986. Globally averaged trends determined from the SME data (-0.5 + or - 1.3 percent/yr) were found to fall within model calculations by Rusch and Clancy (1988); the SBUV trends, on the other hand, were found to exceed maximum predicted ozone decreases by a factor of 3 or more. Detailed comparison of the two data sets indicated that an absolute offset of 3 percent/yr accounts for much of the difference between the two trends; the offset is considered to be due to incomplete characterization of the SBUV calibration drift. Both the UVS and SBUV data exhibited similar seasonal and latitudinal variations in ozone trends, which were reproduced by photochemical model calculations that included latitude-dependent NMC temperature trends over the 1982-1986 period.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276); 15; 776-779
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  • 100
    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Measurements of the atmospheric effect on the spectral signature of surface cover were conducted during hazy conditions over the Chesapeake Bay and its eastern shore. In the experiment the upward radiance was measured by an airborne scanning radiometer in nine spectral bands between 465 and 773 nm, above and below the haze layer. Simultaneous measurements of the aerosol optical thickness and its vertical distribution were conducted. The results of the measurements are used to study the spectral dependence of the atmospheric effect on remote sensing of water bodies and vegetated fields (forest, corn field, and pasture), and to verify theoretical predictions. It is suggested that the radiances over dark areas (e.g., water in the near IR and forest in the visible) can be used to derive the aerosol optical thickness as is done over oceans with the CZCS satellite images. Combined with climatological information, the derived optical thickness can be used to perform corrections of the atmospheric effect. Examples of the derivation of the aerosol optical thickness and correction of the upward radiances are given.
    Keywords: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
    Type: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (ISSN 0196-2892); 26; 441-450
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