Sin pan y con trabajo en la Argentina de entresiglos (sobre las escenas de iniciación a las prácticas literarias en Lucio V. Mansilla, Horacio Quiroga y Hugo Wast)

El artículo propone un recorrido somero por la historia de la profesionalización del escritor en Argentina, a través de la lectura de tres textos autobiográficos escritos entre finales de la década de 1880 y 1930: una causerie de Lucio V. Mansilla, el diario del viaje a París de Horacio Quiroga y las memorias de Hugo Wast. La elección apunta a leer un proceso de transformación con sus inflexiones, superposiciones, emergencias y residuos, para revisar a partir de allí las relaciones que la literatura entabla con el dinero por medio de modalidades tan diversas como el trabajo periodístico, la colaboración free-lance o la escritura de best-sellers, aunque siempre reunidas bajo una figura común: el hambre en vinculación con la escena de iniciación al mundo de las letras.

Redes de innovación en la difusión de las variedades de trigo pan : El caso del sudoeste pampeano

Ante el interés desde distintos ámbitos de mejorar la calidad de los trigos, nos propusimos estudiar la dinámica local de uno de los componentes que la determinan. Con ese fin, efectuamos un trabajo de investigación orientado a caracterizar los mecanismos locales de renovación de las variedades de trigo pan y establecer su articulación en redes con dimensiones territoriales más vastas. Este análisis nos conduce a observar las modalidades de interacción entre actores inscriptos en un territorio dado (comercios locales, asesores técnicos, productores), y las articulaciones con actores frecuentemente distantes (en el sentido geográfico), tales como los centros de mejoramiento genético. Nuestro trabajo de investigación se basa en los aportes teóricos de la 'sociología de la red' o 'de la innovación', efectuados fundamentalmente por los sociólogos Michel Callon y Bruno Latour. El área de trabajo elegida comprende el sudoeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Considerando las regiones agro-ecológicas en que tradicionalmente se divide la producción de trigo en el país, este área esta incluida dentro de la subregion V sur. Esta subregion triguera es la más importante del país. La superficie sembrada y la producción representa, en promedio, el 20 del total del país

A fractional vegetation cover remote sensing product on pan-arctic scale with link to geotiff image

The paper presents first results of a pan-boreal scale land cover harmonization and classification. A methodology is presented that combines global and regional vegetation datasets to extract percentage cover information for different vegetation physiognomy and barren for the pan-arctic region within the ESA Data User Element Permafrost. Based on the legend description of each land cover product the datasets are harmonized into four LCCS (Land Cover Classification System) classifiers which are linked to the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Field (VCF) product. Harmonized land cover and Vegetation Continuous Fields products are combined to derive a best estimate of percentage cover information for trees, shrubs, herbaceous and barren areas for Russia. Future work will concentrate on the expansion of the developed methodology to the pan-arctic scale. Since the vegetation builds an isolation layer, which protects the permafrost from heat and cold temperatures, a degradation of this layer due to fire strongly influences the frozen conditions in the soil. Fire is an important disturbance factor which affects vast processes and dynamics in ecosystems (e.g. biomass, biodiversity, hydrology, etc.). Especially in North Eurasia the fire occupancy has dramatically increased in the last 50 years and has doubled in the 1990s with respect to the last five decades. A comparison of global and regional fire products has shown discrepancies between the amounts of burn scars detected by different algorithms and satellite data.

Pan-European land cover/use map for 2009

GlobCorine demonstrated an automatic service that can generate in a consistent way land cover / land use maps and land change indicators, based on a CLC-compatible legend. CLC is derived from a visual identification and classification of landscape objects using high resolution images. This methodology provides high thematic accuracy but limits the update rate since it is time-consuming. Therefore, the project evaluated the use of MERIS FR time series, processed automatically to provide a more frequent update of CLC-compatible maps. GlobCorine built upon the experience and resources available through the GlobCover project, to tune the classification chain and adapt it to the EEA needs, covering the pan-European area (including the Mediterranean basin and the European Russia), although the system could be potentially extendable globally. The project delivered two CLC-compatible pan-European land cover maps in less than two years, demonstrating efficient and quick production. The first map is based on Envisat MERIS fine resolution (300m) mode data acquired between end 2004 and mid 2006, while the second used full-year 2009 data. GlobCorine is an initiative of ESA with the partnership of EEA and is implemented by Universite' catholique de Louvain - UCL.

Daily pan-Arctic sea-ice lead maps for 2003-2015, with links to maps in netCDF format

The presence of sea-ice leads represents a key feature of the Arctic sea ice cover. Leads promote the flux of sensible and latent heat from the ocean to the cold winter atmosphere and are thereby crucial for air-sea-ice-ocean interactions. We here apply a binary segmentation procedure to identify leads from MODIS thermal infrared imagery on a daily time scale. The method separates identified leads into two uncertainty categories, with the high uncertainty being attributed to artifacts that arise from warm signatures of unrecognized clouds. Based on the obtained lead detections, we compute quasi-daily pan-Arctic lead maps for the months of January to April, 2003-2015. Our results highlight the marginal ice zone in the Fram Strait and Barents Sea as the primary region for lead activity. The spatial distribution of the average pan-Arctic lead frequencies reveals, moreover, distinct patterns of predominant fracture zones in the Beaufort Sea and along the shelf-breaks, mainly in the Siberian sector of the Arctic Ocean as well as the well-known polynya and fast-ice locations. Additionally, a substantial inter-annual variability of lead occurrences in the Arctic is indicated.