In this study, we investigate the sources of moisture (and moisture for precipitation) over the Danube River Basin (DRB) by means of a Lagrangian approach using the FLEXPART V9.0 particle dispersion model together with ERA-Interim reanalysis data to track changes in atmospheric moisture over 10-day trajectories. This approach computes the budget of evaporation-minus-precipitation by calculating...

Argo float data in the tropical Pacific Ocean during January 2003–August 2011 are analyzed to obtain Lagrangian subsurface velocities at their parking depths. Maps of mean zonal velocities at 1000 and 1500 m are presented. At both depths, a series of alternating westward and eastward zonal jets with ameridional scale of 1.58 is seen at the basin scale from 108S to 108N. These alternating jets, ...

The Sinos River basin is located Northeast of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (29° 20’ to 30° 10’ S and 50° 15’ to 51° 20’ W), Southern Brazil, covering two geomorphologic provinces: the Southern plateau and central depression. It is part of the Guaíba basin and has an area of approximately 800 km, encompassing 32 municipalities. The objective of this study was to monitor water quality in the Si...

[1] The regional seismic phase Sn propagates horizontally in the uppermost mantle and is sensitive to lateral variations in mantle lid thickness, temperature, and melt. Sn is therefore often used as an indicator for physical properties of the lithosphere. It has previously been noticed that Sn is not observed at many stations in the Western United States and Sn seems especially highly attenuate...

Surveys of allozyme allele frequency and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence variation were employed to test historical biogeographical hypotheses on the origin and unique distribution of the synchronized biennial, high-altitude butterflies of the Oeneis chryxus complex in western North America. Populations of O. c. stanislaus and O. ivallda from the central and northern Sierra Nevada are indist...