The National Airborne Field Experiment 2006 (NAFE’06) was conducted during a three week period of November 2006 in the Murrumbidgee River catchment, located in southeastern Australia. One objective of NAFE’06 was to explore the suitability of the area for SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) calibration/validation and develop downscaling and assimilation techniques for when SMOS does come on...

The turn of the new millennium was accompanied by a particularly diverse group of burned area datasets from different sensors in the Canadian boreal forests, brought together in a year of low global fire activity. This paper provides an assessment of spatial and temporal accuracy, by means of a fire-by-fire comparison of the following: two burned area datasets obtained from SPOT-VEGETATION (VGT...

Flying foxes have been considered to be involved in the transmission of serious infectious diseases to humans. Using questionnaires, we aimed to determine the direct and/or indirect contacts of flying foxes in an Indonesian nature conservation area with domestic animals and humans living in the surrounding area. We surveyed 150 residents of 10 villages in West Java. Villages were classified int...

Geologic observations of the Chinese Tian Shan foreland reveal active, contractional deformation along the entire margin. To quantify the amount of shortening and understand the structural style, we mapped the stratigraphy and structure of four folds expressed at the western end of the foreland, north of Kashi. In this region, upper Tertiary through Quaternary sediments are conformable, but an ...

[1] Numerous mesoscale eddies occur each year in the South China Sea (SCS), but their statistical characteristics are still not well documented. A Pacific basin‐wide three‐ dimensional physical‐biogeochemical model has been developed and the result in the SCS subdomain is used to quantify the eddy activities during the period of 1993–2007. The modeled results are compared with a merged and grid...

The Coastal Aquifer Test Field (CAT-Field) between Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven in the north of Germany (see Fig. 1) extends over an area of 1800 km. The center of the CAT-Field, a sandy geest ridge with high groundwater recharge, is surrounded by the extensive drained marsh area and the North Sea coast line. The aquifer consists of quaternary and tertiary sediments. A large quaternary channel syst...

10 Sensible heat fluxes (QH) are determined using scintillometry and eddy covariance over a 11 suburban area. Two large aperture scintillometers provide spatially integrated fluxes across path 12 lengths of 2.8 km and 5.5 km over Swindon, UK. The shorter scintillometer path spans newly built 13 residential areas and has an approximate source area of 2-4 km, whilst the long path extends from 14 ...

Geological mapping of the area around Baltis Vallis, the longest (6,800 km) canali-type channel on Venus, has led to the determination of stratigraphic relations which appear to be consistent over this entire region comprising -20 x 106 km 2 or -5% of the total surface of Venus. The most abundant unit in the study area, plains with wrinkle ridges (Pwr), consists of two subunits separated by the...

Four adult (2M:2F) snow leopards (Uncia uncia) were radio-monitored (VHF; one also via satellite) year-round during 1994– 1997 in the Altai Mountains of southwestern Mongolia where prey densities (i.e., ibex, Capra siberica) were relatively low ( 0.9/km). Marked animals were more active at night (51%) than during the day (35%). Within the study area, marked leopards showed strong affinity for s...