Observations on stages of upwelling in the region of Cabo Frio (Brazil) as conducted by continuous surface temperature and salinity measurements

A brief outline is given of the results of surface temperature and salinity to the west and southwest of Cabo Frio obtained in August of 1971 with a continuous recording Thermo-Salinograph (Bissett-Berman, Model 6600T). A rapid change was observed in the field distribution of temperature from 21.5-21.9ºC to 15-21ºC, and similary change in the distribution of salinity from 34.1-35.0º/oo to 35.3-36.0º/oo, over a time scale of seven days. The changes were accredited to the process of upwelling at the coastal region under the influence of E and NE winds. The occurrence of a surface counter-current moving upwind was detected. This anomaly, not explained on the basis of the Ekman's classical theory, was qualitatively explained as the result of a horizontal divergence in the wind-stress field.A apresentação cronológica quase-sinótica da distribuição da temperatura e da salinidade de superfície mostrou a ausência e estágios do desenvolvimento do fenômeno de ressurgência na região costeira a oeste de Cabo Frio. O vento, com direção variável entre E e NE e com velocidade máxima de 30 nos ( ≅ 15 m/s), foi considerado como o seu principal agente gerador. Durante a evolução do fenômeno de ressurgência observou-se um núcleo de alta salinidade ( ≅ 35.9º/oo) fluindo contra o vento com uma velocidade media de 1/4 de no. A causa desse movimento foi qualitativamente explicada como um efeito dinâmico induzido pela não uniformidade do campo de vento. A variação local observada na costa e a amostragem espacial na região costeira, mostraram que a primeira influencia da massa de água ressurgida aparece contígua a costa e se distribui quase uniformemente de Cabo Frio até a Ponta de Saquarema. Contudo, no que julgamos ser um estagio final quase estacionário, o núcleo de ressurgência identificado pelo mínimo de temperatura de superfície, se localizava na Ponta de Saquarema com sua influencia sendo observada na direção sudoeste e a mais de 30 mn de distancia à costa

Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with three electrons or muons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is based on 4.7 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded with the ATLAS detector. Observations are consistent with Standard Model expectations in three signal regions that are either depleted or enriched in Z-boson decays. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set in R-parity conserving phenomenological minimal supersymmetric models and in simplified models, significantly extending previous results

Jet size dependence of single jet suppression in lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s(NN)) = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Measurements of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions at the LHC provide direct sensitivity to the physics of jet quenching. In a sample of lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 7 inverse microbarns, ATLAS has measured jets with a calorimeter over the pseudorapidity interval |eta| < 2.1 and over the transverse momentum range 38 < pT < 210 GeV. Jets were reconstructed using the anti-kt algorithm with values for the distance parameter that determines the nominal jet radius of R = 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5. The centrality dependence of the jet yield is characterized by the jet "central-to-peripheral ratio," Rcp. Jet production is found to be suppressed by approximately a factor of two in the 10% most central collisions relative to peripheral collisions. Rcp varies smoothly with centrality as characterized by the number of participating nucleons. The observed suppression is only weakly dependent on jet radius and transverse momentum. These results provide the first direct measurement of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions and complement previous measurements of dijet transverse energy imbalance at the LHC.Comment: 15 pages plus author list (30 pages total), 8 figures, 2 tables, submitted to Physics Letters B. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2011-02

Transitions of cardio-metabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014

Describing the prevalence and trends of cardiometabolic risk factors that are associated with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is crucial for monitoring progress, planning prevention, and providing evidence to support policy efforts. We aimed to analyse the transition in body-mass index (BMI), obesity, blood pressure, raised blood pressure, and diabetes in the Americas, between 1980 and 2014