Large‐scale ecological field data for satellite validation in deciduous forests and grasslands

The Pharusian belt of west-central Ahaggar belongs to the 'basement complex' underlying the Paleozoic and later sediments of the Sahara. This paper reports and discusses the Rb–Sr ages obtained on total rocks and minerals from two granitic stocks of the belt: the Tioueiine and Iskel intrusions.Both plutons gave good whole-rock isochrons, which show that the systems were closed 560 ± 40 m.y. ago with respect to Rb and Sr. This is, most probably, the age of crystallization. Three of the four values obtained on biotites are somewhat lower and scattered in the range 502–526 m.y. The discrepancies are probably due to deuteric reactions or incipient weathering. They can be ascribed neither to the loss of 87Sr during the cooling down of the granites, nor to rejuvenation by some later thermal or tectonic event.These studies confirm previous results of random sampling in Ahaggar and prove that large-scale igneous activity took place during the Early Cambrian Epoch. Knowing from field data that the Tioueiine and Iskel are late orogenic granites, it must be concluded that the Pharusian orogeny came to an end at that time.Such a result contradicts early assumptions, made in the field, of a middle Precambrian age for the Pharusian orogeny. It gives further weight to modern ideas concerning the 700–500 m.y. events in Africa, and it leaves time for erosion to create the Saharian platform before the deposition of the first Paleozoic sandstones.

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Evaluating Building Energy Code Compliance and Savings Potential through Large Scale Simulation with Models Inferred by Field Data

Proceedings of Building Simulation 2019: 16th Conference of IBPSA ◽

10.26868/25222708.2019.210651 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yulong Xie ◽

Mark Halverson ◽

Rosemarie Bartlett ◽

Yan Chen ◽

Michael Rosenberg ◽

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Keyword(s):

Field Data ◽

Large Scale ◽

Building Energy ◽

Large Scale Simulation ◽

Code Compliance

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Structural evolution of Archean rocks in the western Wawa subprovince, Minnesota: refolding of precleavage nappes during D2 transpression

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e92-170 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 29 (10) ◽

pp. 2146-2155 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

M. A. Jirsa ◽

D. L. Southwick ◽

T. J. Boerboom

Keyword(s):

Field Data ◽

Large Scale ◽

Volcanic Rocks ◽

Structural Evolution ◽

Precise Form

Recent mapping in the western Wawa subprovince (the Vermilion district and its westward extensions in Minnesota) has identified a major, northeast-trending stratotectonic break, informally called the Leech Lake structural disconformity (LLSD), that separates two contrasting terranes. North of the LLSD are elongate, east-northeast-trending, fault-bounded panels of volcanic rocks, which are mostly north topping and homoclinal. South of the LLSD, large-scale, northwest-trending folds involve basaltic sequences that are stratigraphically overlain by thick sections of dacitic volcaniclastic and turbiditic rocks. However, the most prominent outcrop-scale deformational features are northeast-trending vertical folds and associated axial-planar cleavage related to transpression in D2. D1 minor folds and cleavage are rare.New field data indicate that the large folds in a predominantly sedimentary part of the southern terrane are early formed (D0–D1), and nappe-like. The precise form of the early folds is largely obscured by (i) superimposed folds and metamorphism contemporaneous with D2, (ii) faulting that began in D2 and outlasted folding, and (iii) emplacement of the Giants Range batholith and associated plutons. Nevertheless, the presence in the southern terrane of large areas of shallow-plunging, downward-facing rock sequences and the map pattern of rock units imply that a large south-verging, northwest-plunging thrust nappe (or nappes) antedated D2. Where the nappe lacked thick, rigid volcanic layers, accommodation to D2 transpression took the form of abundant Z folds. Much of the observed Z asymmetry of F2 folds may have resulted from compression and shear oblique to the trend of rock units. In contrast, early thrusts are inferred to have positioned volcanic units north of the LLSD such that their strike was nearly perpendicular to D2 compression, and therefore F2 folds did not develop extensively.

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Effects of electrical anisotropy on long-offset transient electromagnetic data

Geophysical Journal International ◽

10.1093/gji/ggaa213 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 222 (2) ◽

pp. 1074-1089 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yajun Liu ◽

Pritam Yogeshwar ◽

Xiangyun Hu ◽

Ronghua Peng ◽

Bülent Tezkan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Electric Field ◽

Field Data ◽

Large Scale ◽

Mining Area ◽

Black Shales ◽

Electrical Anisotropy ◽

Anisotropic Models ◽

Data Inversion ◽

Transient Electromagnetic ◽

Long Offset

SUMMARY Electrical anisotropy of formations has been long recognized by field and laboratory evidence. However, most interpretations of long-offset transient electromagnetic (LOTEM) data are based on the assumption of an electrical isotropic earth. Neglecting electrical anisotropy of formations may cause severe misleading interpretations in regions with strong electrical anisotropy. During a large scale LOTEM survey in a former mining area in Eastern Germany, data was acquired over black shale formations. These black shales are expected to produce a pronounced bulk anisotropy. Here, we investigate the effects of electrical anisotropy on LOTEM responses through numerical simulation using a finite-volume time-domain (FVTD) algorithm. On the basis of isotropic models obtained from LOTEM field data, various anisotropic models are developed and analysed. Numerical results demonstrate that the presence of electrical anisotropy has a significant influence on LOTEM responses. Based on the numerical modelling results, an isolated deep conductive anomaly presented in the 2-D isotropic LOTEM electric field data inversion result is identified as a possible artifact introduced by using an isotropic inversion scheme. Trial-and-error forward modelling of the LOTEM electric field data using an anisotropic conductivity model can explain the data and results in a reasonable quantitative data fit. The derived anisotropic 2-D model is consistent with the prior geological information.

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Uncovering Dryland Woody Dynamics Using Optical, Microwave, and Field Data—Prolonged Above-Average Rainfall Paradoxically Contributes to Woody Plant Die-Off in the Western Sahel

Remote Sensing ◽

10.3390/rs12142332 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (14) ◽

pp. 2332 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Paulo N. Bernardino ◽

Martin Brandt ◽

Wanda De Keersmaecker ◽

Stéphanie Horion ◽

Rasmus Fensholt ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Vegetation Dynamics ◽

Field Data ◽

Large Scale ◽

Biomass Accumulation ◽

Severity Index ◽

Important Variable ◽

Woody Vegetation ◽

Sudden Increase ◽

Ecosystem Recovery ◽

Normal Rainfall

Dryland ecosystems are frequently struck by droughts. Yet, woody vegetation is often able to recover from mortality events once precipitation returns to pre-drought conditions. Climate change, however, may impact woody vegetation resilience due to more extreme and frequent droughts. Thus, better understanding how woody vegetation responds to drought events is essential. We used a phenology-based remote sensing approach coupled with field data to estimate the severity and recovery rates of a large scale die-off event that occurred in 2014–2015 in Senegal. Novel low (L-band) and high-frequency (Ku-band) passive microwave vegetation optical depth (VOD), and optical MODIS data, were used to estimate woody vegetation dynamics. The relative importance of soil, human-pressure, and before-drought vegetation dynamics influencing the woody vegetation response to the drought were assessed. The die-off in 2014–2015 represented the highest dry season VOD drop for the studied period (1989–2017), even though the 2014 drought was not as severe as the droughts in the 1980s and 1990s. The spatially explicit Die-off Severity Index derived in this study, at 500 m resolution, highlights woody plants mortality in the study area. Soil physical characteristics highly affected die-off severity and post-disturbance recovery, but pre-drought biomass accumulation (i.e., in areas that benefited from above-normal rainfall conditions before the 2014 drought) was the most important variable in explaining die-off severity. This study provides new evidence supporting a better understanding of the “greening Sahel”, suggesting that a sudden increase in woody vegetation biomass does not necessarily imply a stable ecosystem recovery from the droughts in the 1980s. Instead, prolonged above-normal rainfall conditions prior to a drought may result in the accumulation of woody biomass, creating the basis for potentially large-scale woody vegetation die-off events due to even moderate dry spells.

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Large-scale 3D inversion of potential field data

Geophysical Prospecting ◽

10.1111/j.1365-2478.2011.01052.x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 60 (6) ◽

pp. 1186-1199 ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

Martin Čuma ◽

Glenn A. Wilson ◽

Michael S. Zhdanov

Keyword(s):

Potential Field ◽

Field Data ◽

Large Scale ◽

3D Inversion ◽

Potential Field Data

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Integrated framework for the inversion of large scale potential field data

10.1190/nsapc2015-017 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Xiao-hong Meng* ◽

Jun Wang

Keyword(s):

Potential Field ◽

Field Data ◽

Large Scale ◽

Potential Field Data ◽

Integrated Framework

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Lossy compression of Earth system model data based on a hierarchical tensor with Adaptive-HGFDR (v1.0)

Geoscientific Model Development ◽

10.5194/gmd-14-875-2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 875-887

Author(s):

Zhaoyuan Yu ◽

Dongshuang Li ◽

Zhengfang Zhang ◽

Wen Luo ◽

Yuan Liu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Field Data ◽

Large Scale ◽

Data Representation ◽

Lossy Compression ◽

Earth System Model ◽

System Model ◽

Earth System ◽

Model Data ◽

Compression Method ◽

Compression Parameter

Abstract. Lossy compression has been applied to the data compression of large-scale Earth system model data (ESMD) due to its advantages of a high compression ratio. However, few lossy compression methods consider both global and local multidimensional coupling correlations, which could lead to information loss in data approximation of lossy compression. Here, an adaptive lossy compression method, adaptive hierarchical geospatial field data representation (Adaptive-HGFDR), is developed based on the foundation of a stream compression method for geospatial data called blocked hierarchical geospatial field data representation (Blocked-HGFDR). In addition, the original Blocked-HGFDR method is also improved from the following perspectives. Firstly, the original data are divided into a series of data blocks of a more balanced size to reduce the effect of the dimensional unbalance of ESMD. Following this, based on the mathematical relationship between the compression parameter and compression error in Blocked-HGFDR, the control mechanism is developed to determine the optimal compression parameter for the given compression error. By assigning each data block an independent compression parameter, Adaptive-HGFDR can capture the local variation of multidimensional coupling correlations to improve the approximation accuracy. Experiments are carried out based on the Community Earth System Model (CESM) data. The results show that our method has higher compression ratio and more uniform error distributions compared with ZFP and Blocked-HGFDR. For the compression results among 22 climate variables, Adaptive-HGFDR can achieve good compression performances for most flux variables with significant spatiotemporal heterogeneity and fast changing rate. This study provides a new potential method for the lossy compression of the large-scale Earth system model data.

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Dynamics of Variable Dusk-Dawn Flow Associated with Magnetotail Current Sheet Flapping

10.5194/angeo-2021-32 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

James Henry Lane ◽

Adrian Grocott ◽

Nathan Anthony Case ◽

Maria-Theresia Walach

Keyword(s):

Magnetic Field ◽

Current Sheet ◽

Field Data ◽

Large Scale ◽

Magnetic Field Data ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

Upstream Solar Wind ◽

Magnetotail Dynamics ◽

Magnetotail Current Sheet

Abstract. Previous observations have provided a clear indication that the dusk-dawn (v⊥y) sense of both slow (< 200 km s−1) and fast (> 200 km s−1) convective magnetotail flows is strongly governed by the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) By conditions. The related “untwisting hypothesis” of magnetotail dynamics is commonly invoked to explain this dependence, in terms of a large-scale magnetospheric asymmetry. In the current study, we present Cluster spacecraft observations from 12 October 2006 of earthward convective magnetotail plasma flows whose dusk-dawn sense disagrees with the untwisting hypothesis of IMF By control of the magnetotail flows. During this interval, observations of the upstream solar wind conditions from OMNI, and ionospheric convection data using SuperDARN, indicate a large-scale magnetospheric morphology consistent with positive IMF By penetration into the magnetotail. Inspection of the in-situ Cluster magnetic field data reveals a flapping of the magnetotail current sheet; a phenomenon known to influence dusk-dawn flow. Results from the curlometer analysis technique suggest that the dusk-dawn flow perturbations may have been driven by the J x B force associated with a dawnward-propagating flapping of the magnetotail current sheet, locally overriding the expected IMF By control of the flows. We conclude that invocation of the untwisting hypothesis may be inappropriate when interpreting intervals of dynamic magnetotail behaviour such as during current sheet flapping.

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Crustal Fault Zones (CFZ) as Geothermal Power Systems: A Preliminary 3D THM Model Constrained by a Multidisciplinary Approach

Geofluids ◽

10.1155/2021/8855632 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

Hugo Duwiquet ◽

Laurent Guillou-Frottier ◽

Laurent Arbaret ◽

Mathieu Bellanger ◽

Théophile Guillon ◽

...

Keyword(s):

High Temperature ◽

Numerical Model ◽

Power Systems ◽

Fault Zone ◽

Field Data ◽

Large Scale ◽

Numerical Models ◽

Massif Central ◽

Temperature Anomalies ◽

Stress Direction

The Pontgibaud crustal fault zone (CFZ) in the French Massif Central provides an opportunity to evaluate the high-temperature geothermal potential of these naturally permeable zones. Previous 2D modeling of heat and mass transfer in a fault zone highlighted that a subvertical CFZ concentrates the highest temperature anomalies at shallow depths. By comparing the results of these large-scale 2D numerical models with field data, the depth of the 150°C isotherm was estimated to be at a depth of 2.5 km. However, these results did not consider 3D effects and interactions between fluids, deformation, and temperature. Here, field measurements are used to control the 3D geometry of the geological structures. New 2D (thin-section) and 3D (X-ray microtomography) observations point to a well-defined spatial propagation of fractures and voids, exhibiting the same fracture architecture at different scales (2.5 μm to 2 mm). Moreover, new measurements on porosity and permeability confirm that the highly fractured and altered samples are characterized by large permeability values, one of them reaching 10-12 m2. Based on a thermoporoelastic hypothesis, a preliminary 3D THM numerical model is presented. A first parametric study highlights the role of permeability, stress direction, and intensity on fluid flow. In particular, three different convective patterns have been identified (finger-like, blob-like, and double-like convective patterns). The results suggest that vertical deformation zones oriented at 30 and 70° with respect to the maximum horizontal stress direction would correspond to the potential target for high-temperature anomalies. Finally, a large-scale 3D numerical model of the Pontgibaud CFZ, based on THM coupling and the comparison with field data (temperature, heat flux, and electrical resistivity), allows us to explore the spatial geometry of the 150°C isotherm. Although simplified hypotheses have been used, 3D field data have been reproduced.

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