Research Articles (Earth Sciences): Recent submissions
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Urban tracer dispersion and infiltration into buildings over a 2-km scale
(Springer Nature, 2020)Field experiments were undertaken in the summer of 2015 in Manchester, UK, to investigate the dispersion behaviour and infiltration into buildings of gas-phase pollutants over horizontal distances of 1–5 km. Inert cyclic ... -
The impact of land-use/land cover changes on water balance of the heterogeneous Buzi sub-catchment, Zimbabwe
(Elsevier, 2020)The nature of interactions between ecological, physical and hydrological characteristics that determine the effects of land cover change on surface and sub-surface hydrology is not well understood in both natural ... -
Impacts of plastic debris on biota and implications for human health: A South African perspective
(South African Assn. For The Advancement Of Science, 2020)Entanglement and ingestion of plastics are the main ecological impacts of marine plastic debris on marine biota, but indirect effects such as the transport of alien species and benthic smothering are also important to note. ... -
The EXOTIME project: Signals in the O-C diagrams of the rapidly pulsating subdwarfs DW Lyn, V1636 Ori, QQ Vir, and V541 Hya.
(EDP Sciences, 2020)We aim to investigate variations in the arrival time of coherent stellar pulsations due to the light-travel time effect to test for the presence of sub-stellar companions. Those companions are the key to one possible ... -
Dynamic changes and sensitivity of water area of Huixiankarst wetland
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2020)Affected by human activities and natural factors, the area of the Huixian karst wetland has been shrinking in recent years. As the main data source, Landsat5 TM remote sensing image was used to analyze the trend of wetland ... -
Intellectual laziness and academic dishonesty: A threat to academic freedom?
(South African Assn. For The Advancement Of Science, 2020)Academic freedom freedom matters; it matters a great deal. It is a sine qua non for the the success of our science system . When scientists scientists invoke academic academic freedom whenever they they are are expected ... -
Investigating waves and temperature as drivers of Kelp morphology
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020)Macroalgal morphological variation is determined to a large extent by a combination of environmental factors, with wave exposure and temperature perhaps the main influences, as they are key environmental properties to ... -
The origin of radio emission in broad absorption line quasars: Results from the Lofar Two-metre Sky Survey (Corrigendum)
(EDP Sciences, 2020)We report an erratum in Morabito et al. (2019, A&A, 622, A15). When calculating radio powers from observed flux densities, the wrong sign convention was used. This resulted in an underestimation of the radio powers by a ... -
Planck 2018 results: I. Overview and the cosmological legacy of Planck
(EDP Sciences, 2020)The European Space Agency’s Planck satellite, which was dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched on 14 May 2009. It scanned the microwave and submillimetre sky continuously between ... -
Planck 2018 results: X. Constraints on inflation
(EDP Sciences, 2020)We report on the implications for cosmic inflation of the 2018 release of the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. The results are fully consistent with those reported using the data from the ... -
Planck 2018 results: VI. Cosmological parameters
(EDP Sciences, 2020)We present cosmological parameter results from the final full-mission Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, combining information from the temperature and polarization maps and the ... -
Planck 2018 results: XII. Galactic astrophysics using polarized dust emission
(EDP Sciences, 2020)Observations of the submillimetre emission from Galactic dust, in both total intensity I and polarization, have received tremendous interest thanks to the Planck full-sky maps. In this paper we make use of such full-sky ... -
Planck 2018 results: V. CMB power spectra and likelihoods
(EDP Sciences, 2020)We describe the legacy Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) likelihoods derived from the 2018 data release. The overall approach is similar in spirit to the one retained for the 2013 and 2015 data release, with a hybrid ... -
Planck 2018 results: VII. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB
(EDP Sciences, 2020)Analysis of the Planck 2018 data set indicates that the statistical properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies are in excellent agreement with previous studies using the 2013 and 2015 data ... -
Planck 2018 results: IV. Diffuse component separation
(EDP Sciences, 2020)We present full-sky maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and polarized synchrotron and thermal dust emission, derived from the third set of Planck frequency maps. These products have significantly lower contamination ... -
Planck 2018 results: III. High frequency instrument data processing and frequency maps
(EDP Sciences, 2020)This paper presents the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) data processing procedures for the Planck 2018 release. Major improvements in mapmaking have been achieved since the previous Planck 2015 release, many of which were ... -
Planck 2018 results: VIII. Gravitational lensing
(EDP Sciences, 2020)We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using the final Planck 2018 temperature and polarization data. Using polarization maps filtered to account for the noise anisotropy, we ... -
Planck 2018 results: II. low frequency Instrument data processing
(EDP Sciences, 2020)We present a final description of the data-processing pipeline for the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), implemented for the 2018 data release. Several improvements have been made with respect to the previous release, ... -
Determining optimal new generation satellite derived metrics for accurate C3 and C4 grass species aboveground biomass estimation in South Africa
(MDPI, 2018)While satellite data has proved to be a powerful tool in estimating C3 and C4 grass species Aboveground Biomass (AGB), finding an appropriate sensor that can accurately characterize the inherent variations remains a ... -
Ecosystem engineering by hummock-building earthworms in seasonal wetlands of eastern South Africa: Insights into the mechanics of biomorphodynamic feedbacks in wetland ecosystems
(Wiley, 2018)This paper resolves the origin of clay hummock micro-topography in seasonal wetlands of the Drakensberg Foothills, providing a review and appraisal of previously-suggested mechanisms of hummock formation in the context ...