977 resultados para Booth, Catherine Mumford, 1829-1890.


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An integrated instrument package for measuring and understanding the surface radiation budget of sea ice is presented, along with results from its first deployment. The setup simultaneously measures broadband fluxes of upwelling and downwelling terrestrial and solar radiation (four components separately), spectral fluxes of incident and reflected solar radiation, and supporting data such as air temperature and humidity, surface temperature, and location (GPS), in addition to photographing the sky and observed surface during each measurement. The instruments are mounted on a small sled, allowing measurements of the radiation budget to be made at many locations in the study area to see the effect of small-scale surface processes on the large-scale radiation budget. Such observations have many applications, from calibration and validation of remote sensing products to improving our understanding of surface processes that affect atmosphere-snow-ice interactions and drive feedbacks, ultimately leading to the potential to improve climate modelling of ice-covered regions of the ocean. The photographs, spectral data, and other observations allow for improved analysis of the broadband data. An example of this is shown by using the observations made during a partly cloudy day, which show erratic variations due to passing clouds, and creating a careful estimate of what the radiation budget along the observed line would have been under uniform sky conditions, clear or overcast. Other data from the setup's first deployment, in June 2011 on fast ice near Point Barrow, Alaska, are also shown; these illustrate the rapid changes of the radiation budget during a cold period that led to refreezing and new snow well into the melt season.

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En este trabajo nos ocuparemos de los debates, entre los ingenieros hidráulicos y entre los políticos, que dieron lugar a diferentes proyectos de solución entre 1890 y 1910, cuando se fueron consolidando las agencias estatales que tendrían intervención en el problema de las inundaciones. Nuestro objetivo es estudiar los recorridos intelectuales y burocráticos que permitieron delinear los proyectos de solución a los problemas hídricos, las investigaciones llevadas a cabo para su concreción y la relación entre la toma de decisiones y los cambios en la política y la economía bonaerense. De esta manera, realizaremos una descripción de las agencias estatales encargadas de la gestión de los recursos hídricos en la provincia de Buenos Aires y esbozaremos una caracterización de los funcionarios actuantes y su relación con el nivel político de la burocracia provincial