CATARINA 2012-Leg 1 - CTD-O2 Data report

The CATARINA Leg1 cruise was carried out from June 22 to July 24 2012 on board the B/O Sarmiento de Gamboa, under the scientific supervision of Aida Rios (CSIC-IIM). It included the occurrence of the OVIDE hydrological section that was performed in June 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010, as part of the CLIVAR program (name A25) ), and under the supervision of Herlé Mercier (CNRSLPO). This section begins near Lisbon (Portugal), runs through the West European Basin and the Iceland Basin, crosses the Reykjanes Ridge (300 miles north of Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, and ends at Cape Hoppe (southeast tip of Greenland). The objective of this repeated hydrological section is to monitor the variability of water mass properties and main current transports in the basin, complementing the international observation array relevant for climate studies. In addition, the Labrador Sea was partly sampled (stations 101-108) between Greenland and Newfoundland, but heavy weather conditions prevented the achievement of the section south of 53°40’N. The quality of CTD data is essential to reach the first objective of the CATARINA project, i.e. to quantify the Meridional Overturning Circulation and water mass ventilation changes and their effect on the changes in the anthropogenic carbon ocean uptake and storage capacity. The CATARINA project was mainly funded by the Spanish Ministry of Sciences and Innovation and co-funded by the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional. The hydrological OVIDE section includes 95 surface-bottom stations from coast to coast, collecting profiles of temperature, salinity, oxygen and currents, spaced by 2 to 25 Nm depending on the steepness of the topography. The position of the stations closely follows that of OVIDE 2002. In addition, 8 stations were carried out in the Labrador Sea. From the 24 bottles closed at various depth at each stations, samples of sea water are used for salinity and oxygen calibration, and for measurements of biogeochemical components that are not reported here. The data were acquired with a Seabird CTD (SBE911+) and an SBE43 for the dissolved oxygen, belonging to the Spanish UTM group. The software SBE data processing was used after decoding and cleaning the raw data. Then, the LPO matlab toolbox was used to calibrate and bin the data as it was done for the previous OVIDE cruises, using on the one hand pre and post-cruise calibration results for the pressure and temperature sensors (done at Ifremer) and on the other hand the water samples of the 24 bottles of the rosette at each station for the salinity and dissolved oxygen data. A final accuracy of 0.002°C, 0.002 psu and 0.04 ml/l (2.3 umol/kg) was obtained on final profiles of temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen, compatible with international requirements issued from the WOCE program.

A preference-based semantics for CTD reasoning

In [8] the authors developed a logical system based on the definition of a new non-classical connective ⊗ capturing the notion of reparative obligation. The system proved to be appropriate for handling well-known contrary-to-duty paradoxes but no model-theoretic semantics was presented. In this paper we fill the gap and define a suitable possible-world semantics for the system for which we can prove soundness and completeness. The semantics is a preference-based non-normal one extending and generalizing semantics for classical modal logics.

Friedrich Bergammer (Fritz Glueckselig) standing in the doorway of the gallery store M. Glueckselig & Son; 108 East 57th Street, New York Portraits Men

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Sapientia, 1973, Vol. XXVIII, nº 108 (número completo)

Contenido: Un hombre y un mundo sin sentido / Ocostavio N. Derisi – Existencia y cultura / Alberto Caturelli – La cuestión “De aeternitate mundi” : posiciones doctrinales / Omar Argerami – Educación y trascendencia / J. E. Bolzán – Notas y comentarios -- Bibliografía

Diário da Constituinte [gravação de vídeo] : [programa n. 108]

Os Constituintes consideram que é dever do Estado proteger as crianças. João de Deus Antunes (PDT-RS) diz que o menor vai ser um dos mais privilegiados na nova carta constitucional. Pontos fundamentais dos direitos da criança: direito à vida, à saúde, à alimentação e à educação; diireito à assistência social, mesmo que os pais não contribuam para a previdência; proteção aos menores carentes e infratores; legislação especial sobre o trabalho do menor. Wilma Maia (PDS-RN) afirma que a nova Constituição tem de fazer cumprir os princípios de proteção dos menores, a começar pela educação, baseada um uma nova concepção, que ensine as crianças seus direitos e seus deveres. Robson Marinho (PMDB-SP) considera que no texto da nova Constituição estão assegurados os direitos básicos da criança. Mário Covas (PMDB-SP) acompanha as reuniões da Comissão de Sistematização e acredita na compatibilização dos diferentes textos feitos pelas distintas correntes políticas na Assembleia Nacional Constituinte (ANC). Artur da Távola (PMDB-RJ) aprova a permanência dos pontos mantidos no substitutivo da Comissão de Comunicação, especialmente as quatro finalidades da comunicação: cultural, educativa, regionalização da produção cultural e divulgação da cultura nacional. Bernardo Cabral (PMDB-AM), Relator da Comissão de Sistematização, faz balanço dos trabalhos e dos prazos. Na sessão O Povo Pergunta, cidadão quer saber o que está sendo decidido quanto a doação de órgãos. Uldurico Pinto (PMDB-BA) responde que todo cidadão é um doador em potencial, salvo aqueles que a família não permitir. Bernardo Cabral; João de Deus Antunes; Wilma Maia; Robson Marinho; Mário Covas; Fernando Henrique Cardoso; Arthur da Távola; Ulsorico Pinto;

Benthic habitat mapping in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary: Classification of side scan sonar data from survey HMPR-108-2002-01: Version I

In September 2002, side scan sonar was used to image a portion of the sea floor in the northern OCNMS and was mosaiced at 1-meter pixel resolution using 100 kHz data collected at 300-meter range scale. Video from a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), bathymetry data, sedimentary samples, and sonar mapping have been integrated to describe geological and biological aspects of habitat and polygon features have been created and attributed with a hierarchical deep-water marine benthic classification scheme (Greene et al. 1999). The data can be used with geographic information system (GIS) software for display, query, and analysis. Textural analysis of the sonar images provided a relatively automated method for delineating substrate into three broad classes representing soft, mixed sediment, and hard bottom. Microhabitat and presence of certain biologic attributes were also populated into the polygon features, but strictly limited to areas where video groundtruthing occurred. Further groundtruthing work in specific areas would improve confidence in the classified habitat map. (PDF contains 22 pages.)

Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity (NECOP). Data report: CTD and hydrographic data, R/V Pelican cruise, April 3-11, 1993

The Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity (NECOP) Program is a component of NOAA's Coastal Ocean Program. The central hypothesis of this research is: Anthropogenic nutrient inputs have enhanced coastal ocean productivity with subsequent impacts on coastal ocean water quality, living resource yields, and the global marine carbon cycle. The initial study area for this program is the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Outflow and adjacent Louisiana shelf region.