An attempt is made to unravel the dual influences of seawater temperature and isotopic composition upon the oxygen-isotope records of benthic foraminifers from the deep Pacific (dOb). Our approach is to estimate a non-linear transfer function between past sea level and dOb over the last two glacial cycles, with additional information from the mid-Pliocene. Combining this transfer function with ...

— We present an analysis of the seasonal cycle of the last 50 years of records of surface temperature in Italy, as described by observations of maximum and minimum daily temperature, and of the surface and upper air temperature of the whole Mediterranean area, as described by the 1951-2000 NCEP reanalysis. We compute the best estimate of the seasonal cycle of the variables considered by adoptin...

in this paper, the effects of input temperature and compression ratio on the net output work and efficiency of the air standard cycles, i.e. atkinson cycle, diesel cycle and otto cycle are analyzed. we assumed that the compression and power processes are adiabatic and reversible and any convective, conductive and radiative heat transfer to cylinder wall during the heat rejection process may be ...

Circadian clocks are biological timekeepers that help maintain an organism’s behavior and physiological state optimally timed to the Earth’s day/night cycle. To do this, these internal pacemakers must accurately keep track of time. Equally importantly, they must be able to adjust their oscillations in response to external time cues to remain properly synchronized with the environment, and corre...

The ferritic ductile iron (FCD400) is widely used as industrial material. As regards to its high temperature application, fatigue at elevated temperature, and advanced mechanical properties has been investigated and clarified. In low cycle fatigue (LCF), the S-N curve is presented by the relation of plastic strain to the number of cycles as fatigue life, which can be predicted by the Manson-Cof...

abstract statistical methods are one of the useful tools for climatic elements and their behaviors analysis, as well as, modeling and predicting them subtly. in this paper the behavior of time series of annual temperature of zanjan during 1956-2005 have been studied. so, based on autocorrelation, correlation coefficient, and spearman and mann - kendall ways, the data trend was determined. the a...