Introduction: South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin is one of the largest impact basins in the solar system [1] and is a target of intense study since it is thought that SPA basin excavated deep into the lunar crust and possibly even the mantle [2,3,4]. These conclusions are supported by the observed mafic and thorium composition anomalies seen across the entire basin [5,6,7]. One of the major goals of...

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Snowmelt onset in the upper Yukon River basin, Canada, can be derived from brightness temperatures (Tb) obtained by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSRE) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. This sensor, with a resolution of 14 x 8 km for the 36.5 GHz frequency and two to four observations per day, improves upon the twice-daily coverage and 37 x 28 km spatial resolution of the Special...

Mapping mean and variance of runoff in a river basin L. Gottschalk, I. Krasovskaia, E. Leblois, and E. Sauquet Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1022 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway Cemagref, 3 bis quai Chauveau, CP 220, 69336 Lyon Cedex 09, France Received: 8 December 2005 – Accepted: 19 January 2006 – Published: 9 March 2006 Correspondence to: L. Gottschalk (lars.gottschalk@...

Shelf-to-basin sediment transport during storms was studied at the southwestern end of the Gulf of Lions from November 2003 to March 2004. Waves, near-bottom currents, temperature and sediment fluxes were measured on the inner shelf at 28-m depth, in the Cap de Creus submarine canyon head at 300-m depth and in the northwestern Mediterranean basin at 2350-m depth. This paper is a synthesis of re...

Southern Alberta, which has a cold climate dominated by strong chinook winds, has the highest density of feedlot cattle in Canada. However, the quantity and quality of runoff from beef cattle (Bos taurus) feedlots in this unique region has not been investigated. Our objectives were to compare runoff quantity (1998-2002) with catch-basin design criteria; determine concentrations of selected inor...

Fifteen Iranian wheat cultivars (Triticum aestivum L.) were compared for salt (NaCl & Na2SO4 in 1:1 ratio) tolerance using three treatments: 1.26 (control), 6.8 and 13.8 dSm in a green house. During vegetable growth, shoot Na, K, K: Na ratio and agronomic traits such as 1000-grain weight, grain yield, biological yield, number of tillers, number of fertile tillers, spike length, salinity suscept...

As in most part of Africa, the Bani basin (Niger River, Mali) is threatened by climate changes. This study focuses on droughts hazard and its indicators as derived from the Climatic Moisture Index using the monthly data for the period (1963-2000), in order to examine the Bani basin vulnerability to water stress. In this study, water deficit (drought) was logically addressed using the Standardiz...