ome of the consequences of the motion of Earth's tectonic plates are quite evident: various mountain chains for instance. Others, such as events occurring deep in subduction zones where one plate plunges beneath another, can be seen only indirectly through seismic imaging techniques. The approach allows the structure of Earth's interior to be reconstructed from observed seismograms, and it cont...

Water-side turbulence enhancement of ozone deposition to the ocean C. W. Fairall, D. Helmig, L. Ganzeveld, and J. Hare NOAA Earth Science Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA now at: SOLAS International Project Office, University of East Anglia, N...

Population genomic studies are beginning to provide a more comprehensive view of dynamic genome-scale processes in evolution. Patterns of genomic architecture, such as genomic islands of increased divergence, may be important for adaptive population differentiation and speciation. We used next-generation sequencing data to examine the patterns of local and long-distance linkage disequilibrium (...

The species composition, distribution, and abundance ofmedusae collected during aCday plankton survey in a reef system ofthe Mexican Caribbean were studied. Highest mean medusae abundance was observed over the fore-reef zone and in daytime samples. Lowest abundances occurred in the reef lagoon and at dusk. Seventeen species were identified, with Liriope tetraphylla, Aglaura hemistoma,Cubaia aph...

Atmospheric meridional heat transport is inferred as a residual from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) data and in situ oceanic estimates. Reversing the conventional approach of computing the ocean as an atmospheric model residual is done to permit calculation of a preliminary uncertainty estimate for the atmospheric flux. The structure of the ERBE errors is itself an important uncer...

Changes in the oceanic current system and in the oceanic mass distribution alter, together with other processes, the state of the Earth’s rotation. This state is characterized by the length of day (LOD) and the tilt of the pole-to-pole axis. The aim of our study was to derive the respective governing physical mechanisms in the ocean. Therefore, Earth rotation observations were assimilated into ...

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Phosphorus (P) is an essential element to all life, being a structural and functional component of all organisms.1-4 P provides the phosphate-ester backbone of DNA and RNA, and it is crucial in the transmission of chemical energy through the ATP molecule (Figure 1). P is also a structural constituent in many cell components such as phosphoproteins, and phospholipids in cell membranes, teeth, an...

Citation: Williams AJ, Wakefield CB, Newman SJ, Vourey E, Abascal FJ, Halafihi T, Kaltavara J and Nicol SJ (2017) Oceanic, Latitudinal, and Sex-Specific Variation in Demography of a Tropical Deepwater Snapper across the Indo-Pacific Region. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:382. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00382 Oceanic, Latitudinal, and Sex-Specific Variation in Demography of a Tropical Deepwater Snapper across ...

In this paper, we use a robust inversion algorithm, which we have tested in many regional studies, to obtain the first global model of Curie-point depth (GCDM) from magnetic anomaly inversion based on fractal magnetization. Statistically, the oceanic Curie depth mean is smaller than the continental one, but continental Curie depths are almost bimodal, showing shallow Curie points in some old cr...