It has been proposed that some meteorites, CB and CH chondrites, contain material formed as a result of a protoplanetary collision during accretion. Their melt droplets (chondrules) and FeNi metal are proposed to have formed by evaporation and condensation in the resulting impact plume. We observe that the skeletal olivine (SO) chondrules in CBb chondrites have a blebby texture and an enrichmen...

[1] The Lagrangian Transport and Transformation Experiments (LaTTE) document the physical, biological, and chemical evolution of the Hudson River plume during the spring seasons of 2004, 2005, and 2006. While plume variability due to river discharge, subinertial frequency variability in winds, and ambient shelf circulation are important, the observations show that the plume reacts directly to h...

The purpose of this project is to develop a volcanic plume prediction model for volcanoes located in the Cook Inlet area, Alaska. Knowing where the ash plume is and predicting where it will go are important for public health and safety, as well as for flight operations and mitigating economic damage. For near-real-time plume prediction, acquisition of upper-air wind data is the essential part o...

BACKGROUND Estuarine plumes are frequently under strong influence of land-derived inputs of organic matter. These plumes have characteristic physical and chemical conditions, and their morphology and extent in the coastal area depends strongly on physical conditions such as river discharge, tides and wind action. In this work we investigate the physical dynamics of the Tagus estuary plume and t...

[1] We present shipboard observations of very strong convergence, vertical velocities and mixing, and nearbed impacts associated with the leading-edge front of the tidally-pulsed Columbia River plume. With upwellingfavorable winds and riverflow of 4900 ms , the plume propagates as a buoyant gravity current with a rotary, borelike vertical frontal circulation and downwelling as strong as 0.35 m ...

The Emissions around the M25 motorway (EM25) campaign took place over the megacity of London in the United Kingdom in June 2009 with the aim of characterising trace gas and aerosol composition and properties entering and emitted from the urban region. It featured two mobile platforms, the UK BAe-146 Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) research aircraft and a ground-based mobil...

Injection of carbon dioxide into geological formations for long-term storage is widely regarded as a promising tool for reducing global atmospheric CO2 emissions. Given the environmental and health risks associated with leakage of CO2 from such a storage site, it is critical to ensure that injected CO2 remain trapped underground for the foreseeable future. Careful site selection and effective i...

This paper addresses detection and characterization of chemical vapor fugitive emissions in a nonscattering atmosphere by processing of remotely-sensed long-wavelength infrared spectra. The analysis approach integrates a parameterized signal model based on the radiative transfer equation with a statistical model for the infrared background. The maximum likelihood model parameter values are defi...

The detection of an odor source location has been enhanced by using multiple plume-tracing mobile robots. So far, many researchers focus on locating a single source in varied environments. The present study is concerned with the problem of multiple chemical sources localization using multi-robot system. In this study, multiple groups of robots were used and coordinated by a multi-robot cooperat...