The primary goal of the pilot is to determine whether a 3-D current model that can supply forecasts, nowcasts, and hindcasts of currents and hydrography with sufficient accuracy to be useful to a sizeable constituency around the Gulf of Mexico. Secondary goals include better identifying and meeting the needs of the various beneficiaries of such a model, increasing our understanding of Gulf of M...

the first season of survey at qeshm, carried out during the winter of 2006, resulted in the identification of nine sites from the parthian and sasanian periods. the surface pottery from these sites suggests their trade and cultural relations with contemporary sites in the southern persian gulf and other areas. for instance, the parthian and sasanian glazed types in qeshm island are closely re...

Variability in the circulation of coastal oceans must ultimately be driven by changes in the meteorological conditions which force currents in the coastal ocean, and by variability in the waters entering the coastal ocean from elsewhere. If a coastal ocean is to be accurately understood and modeled, the external forcing which drive the largest portions of the circulation variability must be obs...

INTRODUCTION Previous research indicates that a large cohort of veterans from the 1991 Gulf War report polysymptomatic conditions. These syndromes often involve neurocognitive complaints, fatigue, and musculoskeletal symptoms, thus overlapping with civilian illnesses from low levels of environmental chemicals, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia. METHODS To test for time-dependent chan...

Figure 1: Benthic mat surfaces 24 Figure 2: Fatty acids in mats 25 Figure 3: Gas headspace from mat incubations 26 Figure 4: Hierarchical clustering of mat phylochip gradient fractions 27 Figure 5: Phylochip hydridization intensities from mat incubations 28 Figure 6: Recovered benthic mat plate 29 Figure 7: Isotope incorporation from mat incubations 30 Figure 8: Relative abundance of taxa occup...

STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE White-sided dolphins are found in temperate and sub-polar waters of the North Atlantic, primarily in continental shelf waters to the 100m depth contour. The species inhabits waters from central West Greenland to North Carolina (about 35 ̊N) and perhaps as far east as 43 ̊W (Evans 1987; Hamazaki 2002). Distribution of sightings, strandings and incidental takes...

In this edition of Psychological Medicine, research findings are reported from two studies of British Gulf War veterans (David et al. 2002; Everitt et al. 2002). Both studies were carried out at King’s College ‘Gulf War Illness Research Unit ’, which was established in 1996. The two studies were conducted to examine the causes of unexplained symptoms among Gulf War veterans. The results present...

BACKGROUND Gulf War Veterans have previously been shown to have, in the short-term, an excess risk of death from 'external' (i.e. non-disease) causes of death. This study aims to determine whether there remains an excess of non-disease-related deaths in Gulf Veterans, 13 years after deployment, and, for the first time, to determine whether there is a relationship between experiences reported in...

The spatial and temporal variability of convection during the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) was examined via analysis of three-dimensional polarimetric radar data. Terrain bands were defined as the Gulf of California (over water) and elevations of 0–500 m above mean sea level (MSL; coastal plain), 500–1500 m MSL, and .1500 m MSL. Convective rainfall over the Gulf typically featured t...

The atmospheric response to the Gulf Stream front in sea surface temperature is investigated using highresolution data from satellite observations and operational analysis and forecast. Two types of atmospheric response are observed with different seasonality and spatial distribution. In winter, surface wind convergence is strong over the Gulf Stream proper between Cape Hatteras and the Great B...