The role of cyclones in moisture advection 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Computation of the fluxes To calculate the moisture budget of a given region we integrate the moisture balance equation (Eq. 1.5). We must resort to finite differences to compute the divergence and this...

A Gap Analysis of the Marine Protected Area network in the eastern English Channel

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » European and National Marine Protected Areas in the eastern English Channel Not all the described MPAs types are present in the eastern English Channel. Some very coastal MPAs may be not presented in...

Role of ponds in mitigating contaminants (nitrate and trace metals): a synthetical study in agricultural critical zone (southwestern France)

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Ammonia adsorption Ammonia adsorption is a physical adsorption and/or ion exchange process, which can occur in some specific media, such as biochar and zeolite (Saeed and Sun, 2012; Yong et al., 2016). A...

Climatological average and seasonal cycle of water, heat and salt budgets 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » SCS circulation As explained above, the SCS is subjected to forcings of different scales and origins, and its circulation is regulated by a combination of factors: the geometry of the zone, the connection...

Drinking water quality in areas impacted by oil activities in Ecuador: associated health risks and social perception of human exposure

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Oil production and refining in Ecuador: Historic, economic and legislative context Oil production in Ecuador began inshore on the Pacific coast in 1911, and lasted concentrated in this region for 60 years (BCE,...

Atmospheric overturning during the MJO 103

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Preparation of the simulations The initial and boundary conditions need to be defined prior to running a simulation with Méso-NH. There are different possibilities for the lateral bound-ary conditions. They can be cyclic/rigid...

Increased grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits in a clonal ant. 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Genetic variability Even though multiple mating is rare in social insects, polyandry (a female mates with several males) occurs in some highly eusocial species such as honeybees and the herein studied Cataglyphis velox...

ECOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITIES AND SPECIALIZATIONS SHAPED GENETIC DIVERGENCE IN A HIGHLY MOBILE MARINE TOP PREDATOR

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Ecological and diet indicators Stomach content examination can inform on the diet of an individual at the species level as well as on the characteristics (length and mass) of individual prey using allometric...

Stability of ozone observations over NDACC lidar stations 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » PSCs and heterogeneous chemistry Normally, the stratosphere is very dry and cloudless even though a thin layer of aerosol (liquid-phase binary H2SO4/H2O droplets) is present in the lower stratosphere. But during polar night,...

Macrophage polarization- a response to the microenvironment

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The Thioredoxin System In 1964, Trx1 was first isolated from Escherichia coli by Laurent et al reporting that E. coli also contained an enzyme, TrxR, which catalyzes its reduction 56. Through its redox-active...