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In his Forum article inEos, A.C. Fraser‐Smith advocates that we no longer use the word "magnetosphere" to describe the space occupied by the earth's magnetic field. He argues that since the magnetosphere is not spherical in the geometric sense, we should be emabarrasssed to use this word when communicating with graduate student

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO066i047p01177-02

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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In recent months I have been approached on several occasions by members of the hydrology community who asked me which of the various AGU journals and publishing outlets would be most suitable for a particular paper or article that they have prepared.Water Resources Research(WRR) is the primary AGU outlet for research papers in hydrology. It is an interdisciplinary journal that integrates research in the social and natural sciences of water. The editors of WRR invite original contributions in the physical, chemical and biological sciences and also in the social and policy sciences, including economics, systems analysis, sociology, and law. The editor for the physical sciences side of the journal is Donald R. Nielson, LAWR Veihmeyer Hall, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616. The editor for the policy sciences side of the journal is Ronald G. Cummings, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO066i047p01178-01

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Accurate estimation of the magnitude of large floods and their frequency is of continuing concern to hydrologists, and thus a special session on this topic was held at the 1985 AGU Spring Meeting in Baltimore, Md. At the session, papers by W. Kirby and by K. Potter and J. Walker illustrated typical inaccuracies and likely errors in estimates of large Hood discharges by indirect methods. Kirby indicated that the standard error of flood discharges estimated by the slope‐area method is likely to be at least 25%; possible scour and fill during the event are a major contributor to this error. Potter then presented detailed analyses illustrating probable errors of −5, +11, +17 and +44% in the estimation of large floods on four rivers in Wisconsin by indirect meth

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO066i047p01179-01

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Continued research interest in transport in the subsurface was demonstrated at the “Solute Transport in Groundwater” session held at the 1985 AGU Spring Meeting in Baltimore. This session, following on the heels of the very successful special symposium on “Coupling Geochemical and Hydrologic Models for Subsurface Solute Transport,” was organized by Lenny Konikow of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS, Reston, Va.) and copresided by Steve Gorelick (USGS, Menlo Park, Calif.) and David Dougherty (Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.). Participation was strong, with 12 contributed papers and about 150 attendees. The papers addressed a wide variety of topics, ranging from the theoretical to the applied, from physics to numerical

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO066i047p01180-01

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Despite the thorough introduction to four‐letter words being given to our children at an early age by the television and recording industries, it is difficult to avoid the impression that accuracy in the use of words is declining in our society. Indeed, Orwellian doublespeak has become the norm at the leadership level: we all know what tax reform really means, for example. With this background, it is a pleasure to see Behannon and Anderson consulting their dictionaries and taking me to task for my literal interpretation of the “sphere” in magnetosphere and plasmasphere. However, I had earlier rejected the “sphere of influence,” or “place or range of action or existence” connotation, and I continue to do so, for the foll

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO066i047p01181-01

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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So spoke the ancient Greek hero in Alfred Lord Tennyson's “Ulysses.” Next spring, a spacecraft bearing the adventurer's name will set out to explore just such an “untravell'd world”—the regions that lie outside the ecliptic plane. This mission out of the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun will be the subject of “Out of the Ecliptic: Observations and Predictions,” an all‐day session on Monday, December 9, at the 1985 AGU Fall Meeting in San F

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO066i047p01183-01

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Do continents grow by accretion of largescale thrust sheets along orogenic belts? Does rifted continental crust have a distinctive “reflection signature” that allows it to be identified, even when buried beneath overthrust terranes? What happens to major faults in the lower crust, and do crustal faults penetrate into the upper mantle? Is the Moho a relatively “young” feature of continental crust? How do reflection techniques influence subsequent geological interpretations? How do the newly evolving views on the continental crust based on deep reflection seismology integrate with the more traditional views based primarily on seismic refraction

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO066i047p01184

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY