Abstract We make use of own geological mapping, interpretations seismic reflection profiles and deep geophysical data to build a lithospheric-scale cross-section across the European Western Southern Alps (Varese area) model progressive restoration from end Mesozoic rifting present-day. Early phases Alpine orogeny were characterized by Europe-directed thrusting, whereas post-Oligocene shortening...

Tropical intraseasonal variability is examined in version 3 of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory AtmosphereModel (AM3). In contrast to its predecessor AM2, AM3 uses a new treatment of deep and shallow cumulus convection and mesoscale clouds. The AM3 cumulus parameterization is a massflux-based scheme but also, unlike that in AM2, incorporates subgrid-scale vertical velocities; these pla...

A methodology to analyze precipitation profiles using the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) and precipitation radar (PR) is proposed. Rainfall profiles are retrieved from PR measurements, defined as the best-fit solution selected from precalculated profiles by cloud-resolving models (CRMs), under explicitly defined assumptions of drop size distribution (DSD) and ...

Abstract. In order to validate satellite measurements of atmospheric composition, it is necessary understand the range random and systematic uncertainties inherent in measurements. On occasions where from two different instruments do not agree within those estimated uncertainties, a common explanation that difference can be assigned geophysical variability, i.e., differences due sampling atmosp...

A study was done on the morphology of marine planktonic animals, Chaetognatha (arrow worms), taken during sea expeditions from the regions without the influence of geophysical activity, from shallow-water volcanic bays and deep-water geophysically active regions. It was discovered that among the chaetognaths from geophysically active regions there was a large number of animals (up to 95%) with ...

The Bonn University operates a Rayleigh/Mie/Raman backscatter lidar at the Esrange near the Swedish city of Kiruna, north of the Arctic circle. The lidar system covers the atmosphere from about 4 km to 100 km altitude and it is capable of measuring aerosols in the tropo-, strato-, and mesosphere, as well as of determining temperature profiles in the aerosol-free part of the atmosphere (i.e. abo...