EverVIEW: A visualization platform for hydrologic and Earth science gridded data

AbstractThe EverVIEW Data Viewer is a cross-platform desktop application that combines and builds upon multiple open source libraries to help users to explore spatially-explicit gridded data stored in Network Common Data Form (NetCDF). Datasets are displayed across multiple side-by-side geographic or tabular displays, showing colorized overlays on an Earth globe or grid cell values, respectively. Time-series datasets can be animated to see how water surface elevation changes through time or how habitat suitability for a particular species might change over time under a given scenario. Initially targeted toward Florida's Everglades restoration planning, EverVIEW has been flexible enough to address the varied needs of large-scale planning beyond Florida, and is currently being used in biological planning efforts nationally and internationally

The role of H2O in the carbonation of forsterite in supercritical CO2

The effect of variable H2O content on the carbonation of forsterite in supercritical CO2 (scCO(2)) at 80 degrees C and 76 bars (7.6 MPa) was investigated by a combination of NMR, XRD, TEM and XPS. When trace amounts of H2O were included, limited reaction was observed. Below H2O saturation in scCO2, reaction products were a mixture of partially hydrated/hydroxylated magnesium carbonates and hydroxylated silica species that were mainly in an amorphous state, forming a non-resolved layer on the forsterite surface. At H2O content above saturation, where forsterite was in contact with both a CO2-saturated aqueous fluid and H2O-saturated scCO(2), solid reaction products were magnesite (MgCO3) and an amorphous polymerized SiO2. Formation of these anhydrous phases implies H2O initially bound in precursor hydrated/hydroxylated reaction products was liberated, inducing further reaction. Hence, for a given fluid/mineral ratio there is a H2O threshold above which a significant portion of the H2O serves in a catalytic role where more extensive carbonation reaction occurs. Defining the role of H2O, even in low H2O content environments, is therefore critical to determining the long term impact of CO2 reactivity in the subsurface. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reservedclose383