La estrella polar y el eje de la tierra

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Thermodynamics of transfer of polar nonelectrolytes from water to aqueous salt solutions

The Setschenow parameter and thermodynamic parameters of transfer of a number of monosubstituted benzoic acids from water to different salt solutions have been reported. The data have been rationalized by considering the structure breaking effects of the ions of the salts, the localised hydrolysis model, the internal pressure theory and Symons' theory of water structure.

Oceans Deep: Lesson G (March of The Polar Bears)

Teacher resources for Lesson G in the Discover Oceanography 'Scheme of Work' for use in schools.

El juego en la educación física. En busca de una estrella polar.

Resumen tomado de la revista. Monográfico titulado: El placer de jugar. El placer de educar

Polar bear, polar bear, what do you hear?

La acción se lleva a cabo en el zoológico, donde se pregunta a a los animales qué oyen. El oso polar oye un león rugiente, que oye un hipopótamo, que oye un flamenco, que oye una cebra, y así sucesivamente a través de una variada lista de los sonidos de los animales. Cada respuesta conduce a los animales en la página siguiente, y culmina con un cuidador del zoológico que escucha una multitud de niños disfrazados de sus animales favoritos. El formato repetitivo está diseñado para ayudar a los niños a aprender los nombres de los colores de los animales y de sus sonidos. Las ilustraciones collage a doble página, invitan a descubrir la criatura que mostrarán a continuación. Imágenes identificables y repetición rítmica de preguntas y respuesta del texto es el patrón se repite una y otra vez, hasta que el pre-lector puede predecir fácilmente la siguiente rima.

Estudio y análisis del empleo del saxofón en "Polar" de Luis de Pablo

Resumen en inglés. Resumen basado en el de la publicación

Ensayo y literatura: un acercamiento a la configuración intelectual de Agustín Cueva y su lugar en el discurso crítico latinoamericano en diálogo con Antonio Cornejo Polar y Ángel Rama

Este trabajo muestra, en diferentes niveles, la configuración del campo intelectual de los años de 1960 y de uno de sus integrantes en particular, Agustín Cueva, personaje ligado al contexto histórico que le tocó vivir y en el cual intervino de manera activa. Para ello se recogen de manera breve los principales debates, luchas y problemáticas que le permitieron configurar su discurso crítico. El parricidio, el compromiso intelectual y la búsqueda de un horizonte revolucionario son palabras que se vuelven sentido común para esta generación, desde donde tratan de mostrar la inautenticidad de lo que las elites denominaron como „cultura nacional‟. Construcción cuestionada por esta generación y frente a la cual Cueva muestra, dentro de sus ensayos (como forma de escritura), que dicha artificialidad es el resultado de la carga colonial que pesa sobre los hombros de la sociedad ecuatoriana y del hecho de que, el discurso sobre el mestizaje, fue la salida elegida por las élites para justificar su proyecto nacional. En esta perspectiva, el diálogo que se propone con Antonio Cornejo Polar y Ángel Rama, muestra más puntos de encuentro que desencuentro, pues estos dos autores dan cuentan a partir de los conceptos de heterogeneidad y de transculturación, que el proceso cultural y político de constitución de nuestros países es el resultado de una élite (blanco-mestiza) que vio en la narrativa (en sus distintas formas) un mecanismo para edificarlo; sin embargo, estos tres autores revelan narrativas disidentes, cuestionadoras, y una vía popular de entender el proyecto nacional.

A Tropospheric Assessment of the ERA-40, NCEP, and JRA-25 Global Reanalyses in the Polar Regions

The reliability of the global reanalyses in the polar regions is investigated. The overview stems from an April 2006 Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) workshop on the performance of global reanalyses in high latitudes held at the British Antarctic Survey. Overall, the skill is much higher in the Arctic than the Antarctic, where the reanalyses are only reliable in the summer months prior to the modern satellite era. In the Antarctic, large circulation differences between the reanalyses are found primarily before 1979, when vast quantities of satellite sounding data started to be assimilated. Specifically for ERA-40, this data discontinuity creates a marked jump in Antarctic snow accumulation, especially at high elevations. In the Arctic, the largest differences are related to the reanalyses depiction of clouds and their associated radiation impacts; ERA-40 captures the cloud variability much better than NCEP1 and JRA-25, but the ERA-40 and JRA-25 clouds are too optically thin for shortwave radiation. To further contrast the reanalyses skill, cyclone tracking results are presented. In the Southern Hemisphere, cyclonic activity is markedly different between the reanalyses, where there are few matched cyclones prior to 1979. In comparison, only some of the weaker cyclones are not matched in the Northern Hemisphere from 1958-2001, again indicating the superior skill in this hemisphere. Although this manuscript focuses on deficiencies in the reanalyses, it is important to note that they are a powerful tool for climate studies in both polar regions when used with a recognition of their limitations.

An objective climatology of the dynamical forcing of polar lows in the Nordic seas

A new objective climatology of polar lows in the Nordic (Norwegian and Barents) seas has been derived from a database of diagnostics of objectively identified cyclones spanning the period January 2000 to April 2004. There are two distinct parts to this study: the development of the objective climatology and a characterization of the dynamical forcing of the polar lows identified. Polar lows are an intense subset of polar mesocyclones. Polar mesocyclones are distinguished from other cyclones in the database as those that occur in cold air outbreaks over the open ocean. The difference between the wet-bulb potential temperature at 700 hPa and the sea surface temperature (SST) is found to be an effective discriminator between the atmospheric conditions associated with polar lows and other cyclones in the Nordic seas. A verification study shows that the objective identification method is reliable in the Nordic seas region. After demonstrating success at identifying polar lows using the above method, the dynamical forcing of the polar lows in the Nordic seas is characterized. Diagnostics of the ratio of mid-level vertical motion attributable to quasi-geostrophic forcing from upper and lower levels (U/L ratio) are used to determine the prevalence of a recently proposed category of extratropical cyclogenesis, type C, for which latent heat release is crucial to development. Thirty-one percent of the objectively identified polar low events (36 from 115) exceeded the U/L ratio of 4.0, previously identified as a threshold for type C cyclones. There is a contrast between polar lows to the north and south of the Nordic seas. In the southern Norwegian Sea, the population of polar low events is dominated by type C cyclones. These possess strong convection and weak low-level baroclinicity. Over the Barents and northern Norwegian seas, the well-known cyclogenesis types A and B dominate. These possess stronger low-level baroclinicity and weaker convection.

A new look at stratospheric sudden warmings. Part III. Polar vortex evolution and vertical structure

The evolution of the Arctic polar vortex during observed major mid-winter stratospheric sudden warmings (SSWs) is investigated for the period 1957-2002, using European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ERA-40 Ertel’s potential vorticity (PV) and temperature fields. Time-lag composites of vertically weighted PV, calculated relative to the SSW onset time, are derived for both vortex displacement SSWs and vortex splitting SSWs, by averaging over the 15 recorded displacement and 13 splitting events. The evolving vertical structure of the polar vortex during a typical SSW of each type is clearly illustrated by plotting an isosurface of the composite PV field, and is shown to be very close to that observed during representative individual events. Results are verified by comparison with an elliptical diagnostic vortex moment technique. For both types of SSW, little variation is found between individual events in the orientation of the developing vortex relative to the underlying topography, i.e. the location of the vortex during SSWs of each type is largely fixed in relation to the Earth’s surface. During each type of SSW, the vortex is found to have a distinctive vertical structure. Vortex splitting events are typically barotropic, with the vortex split occurring near-simultaneously over a large altitude range (20-40 km). In the majority of cases, of the two daughter vortices formed, it is the ‘Siberian’ vortex that dominates over its ‘Canadian’ counterpart. In contrast, displacement events are characterized by a very clear baroclinic structure; the vortex tilts significantly westward with height, so that the top and bottom of the vortex are separated by nearly 180◦ longitude before the upper vortex is sheared away and destroyed.

The Splitting of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex in the Southern Hemisphere, September 2002: Dynamical Evolution

The polar vortex of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) split dramatically during September 2002. The large-scale dynamical effects were manifest throughout the stratosphere and upper troposphere, corresponding to two distinct cyclonic centers in the upper troposphere–stratosphere system. High-resolution (T511) ECMWF analyses, supplemented by analyses from the Met Office, are used to present a detailed dynamical analysis of the event. First, the anomalous evolution of the SH polar vortex is placed in the context of the evolution that is usually witnessed during spring. Then high-resolution fields of potential vorticity (PV) from ECMWF are used to reveal several dynamical features of the split. Vortex fragments are rapidly sheared out into sheets of high (modulus) PV, which subsequently roll up into distinct synoptic-scale vortices. It is proposed that the stratospheric circulation becomes hydrodynamically unstable through a significant depth of the troposphere–stratosphere system as the polar vortex elongates.