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Editorial: Remembering Natalya Nikolaevna Vygodskaya
As the Guest Editor I want to dedicate this Special Issue in memory of my university professor Natalya Nikolaevna Vygodskaya (Figure 1) [...
A simple alternative to the light-use efïŹciency approach that considers canopy photosynthesis saturation with light
Response of CO<sub>2</sub> and H<sub>2</sub>O fluxes in a mountainous tropical rainforest in equatorial Indonesia to El Niño events
The possible impact of El NiñoâSouthern Oscillation (ENSO) events on the
main components of CO<sub>2</sub> and H<sub>2</sub>O fluxes between the tropical rainforest
and the atmosphere is investigated. The fluxes were continuously measured in an
old-growth mountainous tropical rainforest in Central Sulawesi in
Indonesia using the eddy covariance method for the period from January 2004
to June 2008. During this period, two episodes of El Niño and one
episode of La Niña were observed. All these ENSO episodes had moderate
intensity and were of the central Pacific type. The temporal variability
analysis of the main meteorological parameters and components of CO<sub>2</sub>
and H<sub>2</sub>O exchange showed a high sensitivity of evapotranspiration (ET)
and gross primary production (GPP) of the tropical rainforest to
meteorological variations caused by both El Niño and La Niña
episodes. Incoming solar radiation is the main governing factor that is
responsible for ET and GPP variability. Ecosystem respiration (RE) dynamics
depend mainly on the air temperature changes and are almost insensitive to
ENSO. Changes in precipitation due to moderate ENSO events did not have any
notable effect on ET and GPP, mainly because of sufficient soil moisture
conditions even in periods of an anomalous reduction in precipitation in the
region
Spectral Components of SS 433
We present results from new optical and UV spectroscopy of the unusual binary
system SS 433, and we discuss the relationship of the particular spectral
components we observe to the properties of the binary. (1) The continuum
spectrum which we associate with flux from the super-Eddington accretion disk
and the dense part of its wind. (2) H-alpha moving components which are formed
far from the binary orbital plane in the relativistic jets. (3) H-alpha and He
I "stationary" emission lines which we suggest are formed in the disk wind in a
volume larger than the dimensions of the binary. (4) A weak "stationary"
emission feature we identify as a C II 7231,7236 blend that attains maximum
radial velocity at the orbital quadrature of disk recession. (5) Absorption and
emission features from outflowing clumps in the disk wind (seen most clearly in
an episode of blue-shifted Na I emission). (6) We found no clear evidence of
the absorption line spectrum of the optical star, although we point out the
presence of He I absorption features (blended with the stationary emission)
with the expected radial velocity trend at the orbital and precessional phases
when the star might best be seen. (7) A rich interstellar absorption spectrum
of diffuse interstellar bands. The results suggest that the binary is embedded
in an expanding thick disk (detected in recent radio observations) which is fed
by the wind from the super-Eddington accretion disk.Comment: Submitted to Ap