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The influence of the precipitation rate on the properties of porous chromia
The properties were studied of heated (320Ā°C) chromia samples, prepared by two precipitation methods: \ud
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1. (1) addition of ammonia to chromium salt solutions,\ud
2. (2) OHā formation in chromium salt solutions through hydrolysis of urea.\ud
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Samples formed by means of the first method are macro or mesoporous and have a lower specific surface area (~200 m2Ā·gā1) than those formed by urea hydrolysis (~300 m2Ā·gā1). Only in the case of a very slow addition of the ammonia solution these properties of the chromia's become equal. Experiments show that the micro porous type samples with high surface area are only formed if the pH range 5.1 to 5.7 is passed slowly. The formation of polychromium complexes of uniform size is suggested.\ud
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Estimating drizzle drop size and precipitation rate using two-colour lidar measurements
A method to estimate the size and liquid water content of drizzle drops using lidar measurements at two wavelengths is described. The method exploits the differential absorption of infrared light by liquid water at 905 nm and 1.5 Ī¼m, which leads to a different backscatter cross section for water drops larger than ā50 Ī¼m. The ratio of backscatter measured from drizzle samples below cloud base at these two wavelengths (the colour ratio) provides a measure of the median volume drop diameter D0. This is a strong effect: for D0=200 Ī¼m, a colour ratio of ā6 dB is predicted. Once D0 is known, the measured backscatter at 905 nm can be used to calculate the liquid water content (LWC) and other moments of the drizzle drop distribution.
The method is applied to observations of drizzle falling from stratocumulus and stratus clouds. High resolution (32 s, 36 m) profiles of D0, LWC and precipitation rate R are derived. The main sources of error in the technique are the need to assume a value for the dispersion parameter Ī¼ in the drop size spectrum (leading to at most a 35% error in R) and the influence of aerosol returns on the retrieval (ā10% error in R for the cases considered here). Radar reflectivities are also computed from the lidar data, and compared to independent measurements from a colocated cloud radar, offering independent validation of the derived drop size distributions
Controls on the Vertical Profile of Moistening as a Function of Precipitation Rate
The relationship between moisture tendency and precipitation rate has been identified as a process diagnostic relevant for simulation of the MJO. AGCMs with moistening that progressively deepens with precipitation rate demonstrate greater MJO skill (Klingamanet al., 2015). However, the processes that give rise to this net moistening pattern are poorly understood. Here we use the NASA Global Earth Observing System (GEOS) AGCM to examine the moisture budget in precipitation-space and understand its sensitivity to changes in model parameters. Comparison is made with the MERRA-2 and ERA-5 reanalysesto place model results in context
The effect of precipitation rate on Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios in biogenic calcite as observed in a belemnite rostrum
This is the author's manuscript - under review for journal Biogeosciences and available online from the publisher via the DOI in this record.Isotopic ratios and concentrations of the alkaline earth metals Mg and Sr in biogenic calcite are of great importance
as proxies for environmental parameters. In particular, the Mg/Ca ratio as a temperature proxy has had considerable success.
It is often hard to constrain, however, which parameter ultimately controls the concentration of these elements in calcite.
Here, multiple Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca transects through a belemnite rostrum of Passaloteuthis bisulcata (Blainville, 1827) are used
to isolate the effect of calcite precipitation rate on incorporation of Mg and Sr into the calcite. With increasing calcite
precipitation rate Mg/Ca ratios decrease and Sr/Ca ratios in the rostrum increase. In the studied specimen this effect is found
to be linear for both element ratios over a precipitation rate increase of ca. 150 %. Mg/Ca ratios and Sr/Ca ratios show a linear
covariation with increasing relative precipitation rate, where a 100 % increase in precipitation rate leads to a (8.1 Ā± 0.9) %
depletion in Mg and a (5.9 Ā± 0.7) % enrichment in Sr. The magnitude of the precipitation rate effect on Mg is (37 Ā± 4) %
greater than that on Sr.
Precipitation rate effects are well-defined in the rostrum of Passaloteuthis bisulcata but only account for a minor part of
chemical heterogeneity. Biasing effects on palaeoenvironmental studies can be minimised by informed sampling, whereby the apex and apical line of the rostrum are avoided
Mg/Ca ratios in freshwater microbial carbonates: Thermodynamic, kinetic and vital effects
The ratio of magnesium to calcium (Mg/Ca) in carbonate minerals in an abiotic setting is conventionally assumed to be predominantly controlled by (Mg/Ca)solution and a temperature dependant partition coefficient. This temperature dependence suggests that both marine (e.g. foraminiferal calcite and corals) and freshwater (e.g. speleothems and surface freshwater deposits, ātufasā) carbonate deposits may be important archives of palaeotemperature data. However, there is considerable uncertainty in all these settings. In surface freshwater deposits this uncertainty is focussed on the influence of microbial biofilms. Biogenic or āvitalā effects may arise from microbial metabolic activity and/or the presence of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). This study addresses this key question for the first time, via a series of unique through-flow microcosm and agitated flask experiments where freshwater calcite was precipitated under controlled conditions. These experiments reveal there is no strong relationship between (Mg/Ca)calcite and temperature, so the assumption of thermodynamic fractionation is not viable. However, there is a pronounced influence on (Mg/Ca)calcite from precipitation rate, so that rapidly forming precipitates develop with very low magnesium content indicating kinetic control on fractionation. Calcite precipitation rate in these experiments (where the solution is only moderately supersaturated) is controlled by biofilm growth rate, but occurs even when light is excluded indicating that photosynthetic influences are not critical. Our results thus suggest the apparent kinetic fractionation arises from the electrochemical activity of EPS molecules, and are therefore likely to occur wherever these molecules occur, including stromatolites, soil and lake carbonates and (via colloidal EPS) speleothems
Verification of regional climates of GISS GCM. Part 1: Winter
Verification is made of the synoptic fields, sea level pressure, precipitation rate, 200 mb zonal wind and the surface resultant wind, generated by two versions of the GISS climate model. The models differ regarding the horizontal resolution of the computational grids and the specification of the sea surface temperatures. Maps of the regional distributions of seasonal variations of the model fields are shown alongside maps showing the observed distributions. Comparisons of the model results with observations are discussed, and also summarized in tables according to geographic regions
Insights into the response of coral biomineralisation to environmental change from aragonite precipitations in vitro
This work was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S001417/1) to NA, KP, RK, MC and AF. We thank Gavin Peters, University of St Andrews, for assistance with BET analyses. Electron microscopy was carried out in the Aberdeen Centre for Electron Microscopy, Analysis and Characterisation (ACEMAC).Precipitation of marine biogenic CaCO3 minerals occurs at specialist sites, typically with elevated pH and dissolved inorganic carbon, and in the presence of biomolecules which control the nucleation, growth, and morphology of the calcium carbonate structure. Here we explore aragonite precipitation in vitro under conditions inferred to occur in tropical coral calcification media under present and future atmospheric CO2 scenarios. We vary pH, Ī©Ar and pCO2 between experiments to explore how both HCO3- and CO32- influence precipitation rate and we identify the effects of the three most common amino acids in coral skeletons (aspartic acid, glutamic acid and glycine) on precipitation rate and aragonite morphology. We find that fluid Ī©Ar or [CO32-] is the main control on precipitation rate at 25Ā°C, with no significant contribution from HCO3- or pH. All amino acids inhibit aragonite precipitation at 0.2-5 mM and the degree of inhibition is inversely correlated with Ī©Ar and, in the case of aspartic acid, also inversely correlated with seawater temperature. Aspartic acid inhibits precipitation the most, of the tested amino acids (and generates changes in aragonite morphology) and glycine inhibits precipitation the least. Previous work shows that ocean acidification increases the amino acid content of coral skeletons and probably reduces calcification media Ī©Ar, both of which can inhibit aragonite precipitation. This study and previous work shows aragonite precipitation rate is exponentially related to temperature from 10-30Ā°C and small anthropogenic increases in seawater temperature will likely offset the inhibition in precipitation rate predicted to occur due to increased skeletal aspartic acid and reduced calcification media Ī©Ar under ocean acidification.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe
Observed Tightening of Tropical Ascent in Recent Decades and Linkage to Regional Precipitation Changes
Climate models predict that the tropical ascending region should tighten under global warming, but observational quantification of the tightening rate is limited. Here we show that the observed spatial extent of the relatively moist, rainy and cloudy regions in the tropics associated with largeāscale ascent has been decreasing at a rate of ā1%/decade (ā5%/K) from 1979 to 2016, resulting from combined effects of interdecadal variability and anthropogenic forcings, with the former contributing more than the latter. The tightening of tropical ascent is associated with an increase in the occurrence frequency of extremely strong ascent, leading to an increase in the average precipitation rate in the top 1% of monthly rainfall in the tropics. At the margins of the convective zones such as the Southeast Amazonia region, the contraction of largeāscale ascent is related to a longāterm drying trend about ā3.2%/decade in the past 38 years
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