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Aerosols from biomass burning over the tropical South Atlantic region: Distributions and impacts
The NASA Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE) Transport and Atmospheric Chemistry Near the Equator-Atlantic (TRACE A) expedition was conducted September 21 through October 26, 1992, to investigate factors responsible for creating the seasonal South Atlantic tropospheric ozone maximum. During these flights, fine aerosol (0.1-3.0 Όm) number densities were observed to be enhanced roughly tenfold over remote regions of the tropical South Atlantic and greater over adjacent continental areas, relative to northern hemisphere observations and to measurements recorded in the same area during Ac wet season. Chemical and meteorological analyses as well as visual observations indicate that the primary source of these enhancements was biomass burning occurring within grassland regions of north central Brazil and southeastern Africa. These fires exhibited fine aerosol (N) emission ratios relative to CO (dN/dCO) of 22.5 ± 9.7 and 23.6 ± 15.1 cm-3 parts per billion by volume (ppbv)-1 over Brazil and Africa, respectively. Convection coupled with counterclockwise flow around the South Atlantic subtropical anticyclone subsequently distributed these aerosols throughout the remote South Atlantic troposphere. We calculate that dilute smoke from biomass burning produced an average tenfold enhancement in optical depth over the continental regions as well as a 50% increase in this parameter over the middle South Atlantic Ocean; these changes correspond to an estimated net cooling of up to 25 W m-2 and 2.4 W m-2 during clear-sky conditions over savannas and ocean respectively. Over the ocean our analyses suggest that modification of CCN concentrations within the persistent eastern Atlantic marine stratocumulus clouds by entrainment of subsiding haze layers could significantly increase cloud albedo resulting in an additional surface radiative cooling potentially greater in magnitude than that caused by direct extinction of solar radiation by the aerosol particles themselves
Deep-Inelastic Onium Scattering
Using the colour dipole approach of the QCD perturbative (BFKL) Pomeron
exchange in onium-onium scattering, we compute the cross section for small but
hierarchically different onium sizes. A specific term dependent on the
size-ratio is generated. In deep inelastic onium scattering it appears as a
scaling violation contribution to the quark structure function near the BFKL
singularity. We find that the extension of the formalism for deep inelastic
onium scattering to the proton structure function provides a remarkably good
3-parameter fit to HERA data at small x with a simple physical interpretation
in terms of the dipole formulation.Comment: 10 pages, 2 Postscript figure
Emission of gamma rays shifted from resonant absorption by electron-nuclear double transitions in ^{151}Eu^{2+}:CaF_2
We show that the emission of a gamma-ray photon by a nucleus can be
influenced by a microwave magnetic field acting on the atomic electrons. We
study theoretically these electron-nuclear double transitions (ENDTs) for
^{151}Eu nuclei in a CaF_2 lattice at low temperature, in the presence of a
static magnetic field and of a microwave magnetic field. The ENDTs acquire a
significant intensity for certain resonance frequencies. The ENDTs are of
interest for the identification of the position of the lines in complex
M\"{o}ssbauer spectra.Comment: 8 pages; 3 Postscript figures: Fig. 1, Fig. 2(a), Fig. 2(b
Assessing temperature effects on multipole contributions and angular dependence in core-level spectroscopies
This study aims at assessing the thermal nuclei motion effects on the multipole transition channels involved in two core-level spectroscopies, x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and x-ray Raman scattering (XRS). Temperature effects on the 1s -> s monopole, 1s -> p dipole, and 1s -> d quadrupole transitions are investigated using two reference systems for which we present original experimental data: alpha-Al2O3 at the Al K edge probed by XRS at room temperature and rutile TiO2 at the Ti K pre-edge probed by XAS at temperatures ranging from 6 to 700 K. Through the latter, this work enlightens the part of the pre-edge peak enhancement due to temperature in the K pre-edge region of 3d transition metal, which is known to be routinely used to determine the concentration, valence or symmetry of the probed element in a given sample. Nuclear thermal fluctuations are taken into account using a method based on density functional theory that consists in averaging spectra over atomic configurations, generated within the harmonic approximation and obeying quantum statistics at finite temperature. Since only a finite number of such configurations are used, the numerically averaged spectra generally lose the symmetry of the equilibrium crystal positions. In this paper, we demonstrate that the physical average has to be symmetric and propose a method to restore the physical angular dependence of the spectra. The approach is successfully applied to investigate the angular dependent XAS spectra in rutile as a function of temperature. The two systems under study allow to draw general conclusions regarding the effect of nuclear quantum fluctuations on the different transition channels available to both core-level spectroscopies.Peer reviewe
Magnetization Process of the S=1 and 1/2 Uniform and Distorted Kagome Heisenberg Antiferromagnets
The magnetization process of the S=1 and 1/2 kagome Heisenberg
antiferromagnet is studied by means of the numerical exact diagonalization
method. It is found that the magnetization curve at zero temperature has a
plateau at 1/3 of the full magnetization. In the presence of lattice distortion, this plateau is enhanced and eventually the
ferrimagnetic state is realized. There also appear the minor plateaux above the
main plateau. The physical origin of these phenomena is discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 10 figures included, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Prospects for Spin Physics at RHIC
Colliding beams of 70% polarized protons at up to =500 GeV, with
high luminosity, L=2 cmsec, will represent a
new and unique laboratory for studying the proton. RHIC-Spin will be the first
polarized-proton collider and will be capable of copious production of jets,
directly produced photons, and and bosons. Features will include direct
and precise measurements of the polarization of the gluons and of ,
, , and quarks in a polarized proton. Parity violation searches
for physics beyond the standard model will be competitive with unpolarized
searches at the Fermilab Tevatron. Transverse spin will explore transversity
for the first time, as well as quark-gluon correlations in the proton. Spin
dependence of the total cross section and in the Coulomb nuclear interference
region will be measured at collider energies for the first time. These
qualitatively new measurements can be expected to deepen our understanding of
the structure of matter and of the strong interaction.Comment: 51 pages, 22 figures. Scheduled to appear in the Annual Review of
Nuclear and Particle Science Vol. 50, to be published in December 2000 by
Annual Reviews, http://AnnualReviews.or
Multifractal characterization of stochastic resonance
We use a multifractal formalism to study the effect of stochastic resonance
in a noisy bistable system driven by various input signals. To characterize the
response of a stochastic bistable system we introduce a new measure based on
the calculation of a singularity spectrum for a return time sequence. We use
wavelet transform modulus maxima method for the singularity spectrum
computations. It is shown that the degree of multifractality defined as a width
of singularity spectrum can be successfully used as a measure of complexity
both in the case of periodic and aperiodic (stochastic or chaotic) input
signals. We show that in the case of periodic driving force singularity
spectrum can change its structure qualitatively becoming monofractal in the
regime of stochastic synchronization. This fact allows us to consider the
degree of multifractality as a new measure of stochastic synchronization also.
Moreover, our calculations have shown that the effect of stochastic resonance
can be catched by this measure even from a very short return time sequence. We
use also the proposed approach to characterize the noise-enhanced dynamics of a
coupled stochastic neurons model.Comment: 10 pages, 21 EPS-figures, RevTe
Exponential renormalization
Moving beyond the classical additive and multiplicative approaches, we
present an "exponential" method for perturbative renormalization. Using Dyson's
identity for Green's functions as well as the link between the Faa di Bruno
Hopf algebra and the Hopf algebras of Feynman graphs, its relation to the
composition of formal power series is analyzed. Eventually, we argue that the
new method has several attractive features and encompasses the BPHZ method. The
latter can be seen as a special case of the new procedure for renormalization
scheme maps with the Rota-Baxter property. To our best knowledge, although very
natural from group-theoretical and physical points of view, several ideas
introduced in the present paper seem to be new (besides the exponential method,
let us mention the notions of counterfactors and of order n bare coupling
constants).Comment: revised version; accepted for publication in Annales Henri Poincar
Grand Challenges: Improving HIV Treatment Outcomes by Integrating Interventions for Co-Morbid Mental Illness.
In the fourth article of a five-part series providing a global perspective on integrating mental health, Sylvia Kaaya and colleagues discuss the importance of integrating mental health interventions into HIV prevention and treatment platforms. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary
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