{"title":"Hydrogeological monitoring and image analysis of a mudslide in Southern Italy","authors":"M. Polemio , O. Petrucci","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00068-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00068-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper describes a methodological example of a data-integration procedure to improve the knowledge of landslide hazard related to a seismic area in the southern Apennine (Italy). Attention is focused on remote sensing data. The analysis is validated using detailed topographical, geophysical, geotechnical and hydrogeological data as <em>ground truth</em>. The investigated phenomenon, which started at the end of 1993, is an earthflow. The presented methodology recommends the combined use of DEM, multi-temporal panchromatic visible aerial photographs and thermal infrared images. The integration between these data and multidisciplinary monitoring data proved useful. The main hydrogeological pattern, the geological and geomorphological framework and the areas of latent instability can be clearly determined. Insight can be gained through the synoptic slope view in the relative short time needed to carry out the analysis. The proposed approach can be regarded as a useful contribution to the evaluation of landslide hazard, particularly during emergency periods.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101026,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science","volume":"26 9","pages":"Pages 689-695"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00068-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88804700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predictions for the propagation of energetic particles from the sun to the earth: influence of the magnetic turbulence","authors":"G. Zimbardo, P. Pommois, P. Veltri","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00053-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00053-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Energetic particle fluxes in the Earth's magnetosphere can seriously affect spacecraft operations as well as navigation and communication systems. To this end, and critical issue is to understand and predict whether particles accelerated at a solar flare will impinge on the Earth's magnetosphere. Energetic particle propagation depends on the magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar wind. We present here a Monte Carlo simulation which traces the magnetic field line from the Earth to the solar corona, taking into account both the average Parker spiral magnetic field and the effects of magnetic turbulence. A proper evaluation of the diffusion coefficient is obtained by a numerical simulation of transport in anisotropic magnetic turbulence which takes into account the scaling of the fluctuation level and of the correlation lengths with the distance from the Sun. This numerical code allows to determine, from the observations of a solar flare at given heliographic latitude and longitude, whether energetic particles will come over the magnetosphere or not.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101026,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science","volume":"26 8","pages":"Pages 595-599"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00053-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77186546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ionospheric total electron content behaviour during November 1997 storm","authors":"L.W. Baran , I.I. Ephishov , I.I. Shagimuratov","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00010-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00010-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The GPS observations carried out by IGS stations were used to study TEC changes on global scale during storm on 22 November 1997. We analysed the spatial and temporal TEC changes through time series at selected sites and maps for different sectors of northern hemisphere in comparison with the quiet TEC variations. The positive effect in the behaviour of TEC during the storm was prevailed on global scale at middle latitudes. The strong negative effect was observed at auroral and subauroral latitudes only over America. TEC behaviour on first stage of storm was similar to TEC development of storm on 10 January 1997. The long positive effect is the significant feature in viewed storm, which is probably due to the long duration and complex development of the storm.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101026,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science","volume":"26 5","pages":"Pages 341-345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00010-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81323797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energetic tail evolution of auroral electron spectra","authors":"M.P. Leubner","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1917(00)00091-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1464-1917(00)00091-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Based on a Fokker-Planck formalism a mechanism is presented, generating consistent with spacecraft observations a high energy tail electron population from the interaction of a broad-band Alfvén wave spectrum under auroral plasma conditions. The structure of the resulting suprathermal tails of the electron velocity space distributions is shown to be well represented by the family of kappa distributions, hence providing a physical interpretation of the origin of auroral energetic electron observations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101026,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science","volume":"26 1","pages":"Pages 61-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1917(00)00091-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91749823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tail pressure release through auroral acceleration","authors":"E.M. Blixt , J. Vogt","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1917(00)00109-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1917(00)00109-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Earthward convecting plasma has to circumvent the Earth on its way from the tail reconnection region to the dayside magnetosphere. This leads to radially sheared flows between the corotating plasmasphere and the low-latitude boundary layer. Consequently, embedded magnetic field lines also become sheared and set-up field-aligned currents which must close in the highly conducting auroral ionosphere. Associated electric fields and plasma motions are relatively small, the auroral ionosphere thus exerts a drag on the magnetic flux tubes embedded in the magnetospheric plasma which in turn affects the pressure distribution in the equatorial magnetosphere. We investigate the role of parallel potential drops in the acceleration region in this context with the help of a steady convection model. Parallel potential drops provide a means to decouple the magnetosphere from the ionosphere, thus they can reduce ionospheric drag to avoid high pressure build-up tailward of the Earth. Relationships between field-aligned currents, pressure gradients, and parallel potential drops are derived and compared with observations. In particular, the current-voltage relationship allows for a determination of the field-aligned resistance which is in good agreement with others estimates.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101026,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science","volume":"26 1","pages":"Pages 207-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1917(00)00109-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84428202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study of the thermospheric-ionospheric response to intense geomagnetic storms at middle latitudes","authors":"A. Belehaki , I. Tsagouri","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00012-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00012-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ionospheric response to enhanced geomagnetic activity was studied in terms of two ionospheric parameters, f<sub>o</sub>F2 and h'F2, aiming the investigation of the middle latitude positive and negative ionospheric storm effects characteristics. Simultaneous observations from a chain of several middle latitude stations distributed in longitude around the earth during two intense geomagnetic storms (Dst < −100 nT), were analyzed in this work. The correlation results between the f<sub>o</sub>F2 and h'F2 disturbances and the Dst geomagnetic index verified that the morphology of middle latitude ionospheric disturbances in response to geomagnetic storms shows a great degree of variability and a strong dependence on local time observation. Negative deviations constitute the typical ionospheric response. In general it is reported that the F2 layer virtual height h'F2, which is observed only during daytime in conjunction with F1 layer presence, shows clear response to magnetic storm activity. On the other hand, positive ionospheric disturbances are accompanied by weak height enhancements. Real observations were also compared to the thermospheric-ionospheric view associated with positive and negative storm effects proposed by Prolss (1993). This test clearly demonstrates that such a model can capture most of the basic aspects of ionospheric storms, taking into consideration that any new burst of activity is associated to a new disturbance zone, resulting to the formation of a large zone of disturbance that covers the post-midnight and the forenoon sector as well. This mechanism may be the cause of long lasting negative storm effects observed as the typical ionospheric response to geomagnetic storm activity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101026,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science","volume":"26 5","pages":"Pages 353-357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00012-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87042426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some purposes and methods of the satellite measurements of the ignorospheric response on the solar flares","authors":"S.V. Avakyan","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1917(00)00118-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1917(00)00118-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper describes methods for measuring of the response of the ignorosphere to solar flares including small tethered systems. The small tethered satellites are very suitable for the following experiments: 1. Measurements of the high ionospheric photoelectron and Auger electron spectra because there is no large shadow effect from the satellite body at large pitch-angles and also parasitic photoelectron fluxes from the satellite body are small. 2. Measurements of the increase in emissions of the upper atmosphere and the investigation of the relationship between satellite glow and its altitude and dimensions. 3. Measurements of the increase in the electron and ion densities including optical and mass-spectrometric recording of the double charged positive ions which are formed due to Auger effect at the altitudes of ignorosphere.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101026,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science","volume":"26 4","pages":"Pages 259-263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1917(00)00118-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79789813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrodynamic tether system-possibility of realization","authors":"V. Korepanov, F. Dudkin","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1917(00)00121-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1917(00)00121-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The tether systems are very attractive for space activity. They may be used for maintaining the large fixed distances between basic satellite and subsatellites with a variety of scientific instruments. The problem of such systems application to lower ionospheric layers measurements and electrodynamic objectives is discussed. It is shown that the application efficiency of long or extra-long tethered systems for space experiments both for instrumentation delivery to the lower ionosphere and for different electrodynamic purposes is very low. Moreover in spite of small radius the great length of the tethering rope has big interacting surface with tiny particles floating in the space. So the collision probability of the tether with such particles is rather high that can cause soon the rope break.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101026,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science","volume":"26 4","pages":"Pages 281-283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1917(00)00121-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79999812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new computer model for the evaluation of data from acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP)","authors":"M. Adler, U. Nicodemus","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1917(01)95014-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1464-1917(01)95014-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The knowledge of discharge is essential for the solution of technical problems and scientific questions in hydrology and water resources management. Current and streamflow data are needed for low-flow and flood forecasting, water-resources management, water quality assessment, river ecology and morphology, climate research, flood protection, and hydropower generation. The example of the acoustic Doppler equipment (ADCP) proves that an increasing demand for current and discharge data can be met at fairly low cost compared with conventional methods. The German Federal Institute of Hydrology (<em>BfG</em>) developed a software package called MISSING LINK, which offers advanced possibilities for visualisation and evaluation of streamflow data acquired with ADCPs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101026,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science","volume":"26 10","pages":"Pages 711-715"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1917(01)95014-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83089550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of infrasonic waves on the ionosphere","authors":"V.M. Krasnov , Ya.V. Drobzheva","doi":"10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00026-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00026-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101026,"journal":{"name":"Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science","volume":"26 6","pages":"433-437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1464-1917(01)00026-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72243043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}