Understanding the frequency, magnitude, and nature of explosive volcanic eruptions is essential for hazard planning and risk mitigation. Terrestrial stratigraphic tephra records can be patchy and incomplete due to subsequent erosion and burial processes. In contrast, the marine sedimentary record commonly preserves a more complete historical record of volcanic activity...
In addition to the well-characterized genomic mechanism of steroid action that uses
intracellular receptors, steroid hormones also signal through nongenomic processes
that use membrane receptors. A membrane receptor for corticosterone (CORT) has
been described in brains of the roughskin newt (Taricha granulosa). This receptor is
believed to be a G-protein...
As in various freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems worldwide, seasonal bottom water hypoxia is a recurring phenomenon in Lake Erie's central basin. While bottom hypoxia can strongly affect sessile benthic animals, its effects on mobile organisms such as fish are less understood. We evaluated the potential for bottom hypoxia to...
In order to better understand the general problem of satellite cloud top height
retrievals for low clouds, observations made by NOAA research vessels in the
stratocumulus region in the southeastern Pacific during cruises in 2001 and 2003 to 2006
were matched with near-coincident retrievals from the Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer...
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with coincident ship-based observations
Michael J. Garay,1 Simon P. de Szoeke,2 and Catherine M
In order to better understand the general problem of satellite cloud top height
retrievals for low clouds, observations made by NOAA research vessels in the
stratocumulus region in the southeastern Pacific during cruises in 2001 and 2003 to 2006
were matched with near-coincident retrievals from the Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer...
In order to better understand the general problem of satellite cloud top height retrievals for low clouds, observations made by NOAA research vessels in the stratocumulus region in the southeastern Pacific during cruises in 2001 and 2003 to 2006 were matched with near-coincident retrievals from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer...
A coupled ocean–atmosphere regional model suggests a mechanism for formation of a sharp sea surface temperature (SST) front north of the equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean in boreal summer and fall. Meridional convergence of Ekman transport at 5°N is forced by eastward turning of the southeasterly cross-equatorial wind, but...
Structure-property relationships in ferroelectrics extend over several length scales from the individual unit cell to the macroscopic device, and with dynamics spanning a broad temporal domain. Characterizing the multi-scale structural origin of electric field-induced polarization reversal and strain in ferroelectrics is an ongoing challenge that so far has obscured its...
The Gorda Escarpment is a north facing scarp immediately south of the Mendocino transform fault (the Gorda/Juan de Fuca-Pacific plate boundary) between 126°W and the Mendocino triple junction. It elevates the seafloor at the northern edge of the Vizcaino block, part of the Pacific plate, ~1.5 km above the seafloor...
