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| Ballu, Valerie; Bouin, Marie-noelle; Simeoni, Patricia; Crawford, Wayne C.; Calmant, Stephane; Bore, Jean-michel; Kanas, Tony; Pelletier, Bernard. |
| Since the late 1990s, rising sea levels around the Torres Islands (north Vanuatu, southwest Pacific) have caused strong local and international concern. In 2002-2004, a village was displaced due to increasing sea incursions, and in 2005 a United Nations Environment Programme press release referred to the displaced village as perhaps the world's first climate change "refugees." We show here that vertical motions of the Torres Islands themselves dominate the apparent sea-level rise observed on the islands. From 1997 to 2009, the absolute sea level rose by 150 +/- 20 mm. But GPS data reveal that the islands subsided by 117 +/- 30 mm over the same time period, almost doubling the apparent gradual sea-level rise. Moreover, large earthquakes that occurred just... |
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Palavras-chave: Geodesy; Seismic cycle; Island arcs; Vertical motion. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00144/25575/23734.pdf |
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| Bonnet, Sophie; Moutin, Thierry; Rodier, Martine; Grisoni, Jean-michel; Louis, Francis; Folcher, Eric; Bourgeois, Bertrand; Bore, Jean-michel; Renaud, Armelle. |
| On the global scale, N-2 fixation provides the major external source of reactive nitrogen to the surface ocean, surpassing atmospheric and riverine inputs, and sustains similar to 50 % of new primary production in oligotrophic environments. The main goal of the VAriability of vertical and tropHlc transfer of diazotroph derived N in the south wEst Pacific (VAHINE) project was to study the fate of nitrogen newly fixed by diazotrophs (or diazotroph-derived nitrogen) in oceanic food webs, and how it impacts heterotrophic bacteria, phytoplankton and zooplankton dynamics, stocks and fluxes of biogenic elements and particle export. Three large volume (similar to 50 m(3)) mesocosms were deployed in a tropical oligotrophic ecosystem (the New Caledonia lagoon,... |
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| Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00344/45480/45020.pdf |
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