23 October 2012 (IOP 15c) – A Highly Localized Convec- tive Event 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The Beginning of Numerical Weather Prediction Even though the first attempts at weather prediction were made more than 2000 years ago, the bulk of the knowledge about precipitation and its prediction has been...

Diversity, distribution and abundance of elasmobranchs and the main influent factors along the coast of Lebanon (eastern Mediterranean)

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The Mediterranean Sea: Biodiversity, threats and fisheries Geographical overview The Mediterranean is the largest and deepest enclosed sea on Earth. It has narrow continental shelves and a large area of open water. It...

Laboratory test of the Mach-Zehnder co-phasing technique

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » ELTs: Motivation and Description In the next decades, astronomy will profit from a diverse set of observing capabilities, covering a broad range of wavelengths, on the ground and in the space. Two main...

NUTRIENTS BUDGET IN THE SAIGON – DONGNAI RIVERS BASIN: PAST TO FUTURE INPUTS FROM THE DEVELOPING MEGACITY OF HO CHI MINH (VIETNAM)

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Water quality and the impacts of megacities on aquatic ecosystems Water quality in South East Asian Countries and in Vietnam It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world population to grow...

Petrological and geochronological evidence of collisional orogenesis and lower crust exhumation during the Palaeoproterozoic Eburnean Orogeny, SW Ghana, WAC 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Stratigraphy and nomenclature The Palaeoproterozoic West African Craton is characterised by narrow volcanic greenstone belts, wide meta-sedimentary “basins” and vast granite-gneiss terranes, bounded and separated by crustal-scale transcurrent shear zones that formed during...

Sediment dynamics on the outer s helf of the GoL during an onshore storm: an approach based on acoustic glider an d nu mer ical modelling 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Hydrodynamical conditions The hydrodynamics of the shelf involves numerous physical processes, with heterogeneous spatiotemporal scales. The Mediterranean Sea is a micro-tidal environment, where tides have small amplitudes, in order of 30 cm in...

Beach response to multi-scale wave forcing and sea level variations 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Wave-induced currents and undertow Waves approaching the shoreline cause secondary fluid motions such as undertow and wave-induced currents, namely longshore and rips currents. All have the potential to contribute to sediment transport and...

Controls on overpressure evolution during the gravitacional collapse of the Amazon deepsea fan

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » OVERPRESSURE MECHANISMS Abnormally high pore pressures within sedimentary successions are the result of fluid retention within a formation. In general, fluid is retained in the pores, but when it does not find a...

Materials and Methods Global Theme of the Materials and Method

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Sediment export by rivers Global sediment flux to the oceans was estimated from 12.6 to 18.5 Gt yr-1, and Asia exported the most sediments (4.8 Gt yr-1) among continents (Syvitski et al., 2005;...

Long-term dust concentration measurements in Patagonia

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Background, Significance and Approaches of Research Evaluation of the impact of mineral aerosol (or “dust”) on the marine ecosystem requires a good knowledge about the dust cycle from emission to deposition and about...