Whenever you decide to begin a bodybuilding program you will need a workout schedule. This will help you stay focused and is a necessary part of muscle growth. The schedule is what will get your muscles used to the rigors of strength training and help you gain muscle mass.
A workout schedule for bodybuilding will consist of two components: exercise and rest. You will need to strength train on a regular basis. Usually, trying to do this every day at the same time is a good idea as it helps your body get used to it and keeps you from not putting it off for later. Once you establish a schedule you will get into the rhythm of things and can begin transforming your body.
Rest is another important factor in your bodybuilding schedule. Your muscles need rest in order to recover from the training. When you strength train, your muscle tissues are broken down. They need time to repair themselves so they may grow. This part is just as important as the exercise itself.
If you are looking to gain muscle mass in a very short period of time, you will need to follow an intense exercise program. Begin each workout with a short warm up. This should be five to ten minutes of light cardio. Walking on a treadmill or riding a stationary bike will work well for this. You should also be sure to stretch your muscles after warming up so they will be ready for the workout.
Warm up before each exercise using approximately half the weight you will use during your working sets. Perform around four to six repetitions with the lighter weight. This will prepare your muscles to work under heavier loads.
Exercise each muscle group, doing two to three sets of each with eight to 12 reps. As time goes by, you will decrease the number of reps while increasing the amount of weight. This is what makes it an intense workout. You are pushing your muscles to the max by using heavier weights. More reps here won?t do you more good, in fact, they may wind up doing less. You don?t want to over train your muscles, you simply want to stimulate them, not annihilate them. More weight is what will do this for you in a short amount of time.
Move through all your exercises and cool down afterwards. Post-workout stretching will help you relax the muscles and begin the repair process. You muscles need to stay flexible, with msucle flowing nutrients to them in order to grow. Work out three to four days a week hitting different muscle groups on different days. Splitting it up like this also keeps you from over training. Rest the remaining days. Your muscles will thank you for it by beginning to grow stronger and before you know it you?ll gain more muscle mass in a short period of time than you ever thought possible.
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Feb. 22, 2013 ? The islands Reunion and Mauritius, both well-known tourist destinations, are hiding a micro-continent, which has now been discovered. The continent fragment known as Mauritia detached about 60 million years ago while Madagascar and India drifted apart, and had been hidden under huge masses of lava.
Such micro-continents in the oceans seem to occur more frequently than previously thought, says a study in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience.
The break-up of continents is often associated with mantle plumes: These giant bubbles of hot rock rise from the deep mantle and soften the tectonic plates from below, until the plates break apart at the hotspots. This is how Eastern Gondwana broke apart about 170 million years ago. At first, one part was separated, which in turn fragmented into Madagascar, India, Australia and Antarctica, which then migrated to their present position.
Plumes currently situated underneath the islands Marion and Reunion appear to have played a role in the emergence of the Indian Ocean. If the zone of the rupture lies at the edge of a land mass (in this case Madagascar / India), fragments of this land mass may be separated off. The Seychelles are a well-known example of such a continental fragment.
A group of geoscientists from Norway, South Africa, Britain and Germany have now published a study that suggests, based on the study of lava sand grains from the beach of Mauritius, the existence of further fragments. The sand grains contain semi-precious zircons aged between 660 and 1970 million years, which is explained by the fact that the zircons were carried by the lava as it pushed through subjacent continental crust of this age.
This dating method was supplemented by a recalculation of plate tectonics, which explains exactly how and where the fragments ended up in the Indian Ocean. Dr. Bernhard Steinberger of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and Dr. Pavel Doubrovine of Oslo University calculated the hotspot trail: "On the one hand, it shows the position of the plates relative to the two hotspots at the time of the rupture, which points towards a causal relation," says Steinberger. "On the other hand, we were able to show that the continent fragments continued to wander almost exactly over the Reunion plume, which explains how they were covered by volcanic rock." So what was previously interpreted only as the trail of the Reunion hotspot, are continental fragments which were previously not recognized as such because they were covered by the volcanic rocks of the Reunion plume. It therefore appears that such micro-continents in the ocean occur more frequently than previously thought.
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Feb. 19, 2013 ? While the demand for ever-smaller electronic devices has spurred the miniaturization of a variety of technologies, one area has lagged behind in this downsizing revolution: energy-storage units, such as batteries and capacitors.
Now, Richard Kaner, a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Maher El-Kady, a graduate student in Kaner's laboratory, may have changed the game.
The UCLA researchers have developed a groundbreaking technique that uses a DVD burner to fabricate micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitors -- devices that can charge and discharge a hundred to a thousand times faster than standard batteries. These micro-supercapacitors, made from a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, can be easily manufactured and readily integrated into small devices such as next-generation pacemakers.
The new cost-effective fabrication method, described in a study published this week in the journal Nature Communications, holds promise for the mass production of these supercapacitors, which have the potential to transform electronics and other fields.
"The integration of energy-storage units with electronic circuits is challenging and often limits the miniaturization of the entire system," said Kaner, who is also a professor of materials science and engineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. "This is because the necessary energy-storage components scale down poorly in size and are not well suited to the planar geometries of most integrated fabrication processes."
"Traditional methods for the fabrication of micro-supercapacitors involve labor-intensive lithographic techniques that have proven difficult for building cost-effective devices, thus limiting their commercial application," El-Kady said. "Instead, we used a consumer-grade LightScribe DVD burner to produce graphene micro-supercapacitors over large areas at a fraction of the cost of traditional devices. Using this technique, we have been able to produce more than 100 micro-supercapacitors on a single disc in less than 30 minutes, using inexpensive materials."
The process of miniaturization often relies on flattening technology, making devices thinner and more like a geometric plane that has only two dimensions. In developing their new micro-supercapacitor, Kaner and El-Kady used a two-dimensional sheet of carbon, known as graphene, which only has the thickness of a single atom in the third dimension.
Kaner and El-Kady took advantage of a new structural design during the fabrication. For any supercapacitor to be effective, two separated electrodes have to be positioned so that the available surface area between them is maximized. This allows the supercapacitor to store a greater charge. A previous design stacked the layers of graphene serving as electrodes, like the slices of bread on a sandwich. While this design was functional, however, it was not compatible with integrated circuits.
In their new design, the researchers placed the electrodes side by side using an interdigitated pattern, akin to interwoven fingers. This helped to maximize the accessible surface area available for each of the two electrodes while also reducing the path over which ions in the electrolyte would need to diffuse. As a result, the new supercapacitors have more charge capacity and rate capability than their stacked counterparts.
Interestingly, the researchers found that by placing more electrodes per unit area, they boosted the micro-supercapacitor's ability to store even more charge.
Kaner and El-Kady were able to fabricate these intricate supercapacitors using an affordable and scalable technique that they had developed earlier. They glued a layer of plastic onto the surface of a DVD and then coated the plastic with a layer of graphite oxide. Then, they simply inserted the coated disc into a commercially available LightScribe optical drive -- traditionally used to label DVDs -- and took advantage of the drive's own laser to create the interdigitated pattern. The laser scribing is so precise that none of the "interwoven fingers" touch each other, which would short-circuit the supercapacitor.
"To label discs using LightScribe, the surface of the disc is coated with a reactive dye that changes color on exposure to the laser light. Instead of printing on this specialized coating, our approach is to coat the disc with a film of graphite oxide, which then can be directly printed on," Kaner said. "We previously found an unusual photo-thermal effect in which graphite oxide absorbs the laser light and is converted into graphene in a similar fashion to the commercial LightScribe process. With the precision of the laser, the drive renders the computer-designed pattern onto the graphite oxide film to produce the desired graphene circuits."
"The process is straightforward, cost-effective and can be done at home," El-Kady said. "One only needs a DVD burner and graphite oxide dispersion in water, which is commercially available at a moderate cost."
The new micro-supercapacitors are also highly bendable and twistable, making them potentially useful as energy-storage devices in flexible electronics like roll-up displays and TVs, e-paper, and even wearable electronics.
The researchers showed the utility of their new laser-scribed graphene micro-supercapacitor in an all-solid form, which would enable any new device incorporating them to be more easily shaped and flexible. The micro-supercapacitors can also be fabricated directly on a chip using the same technique, making them highly useful for integration into micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) or complementary metal-oxide-semiconductors (CMOS).
These micro-supercapacitors show excellent cycling stability, an important advantage over micro-batteries, which have shorter lifespans and which could pose a major problem when embedded in permanent structures -- such as biomedical implants, active radio-frequency identification tags and embedded micro-sensors -- for which no maintenance or replacement is possible.
As they can be directly integrated on-chip, these micro-supercapacitors may help to better extract energy from solar, mechanical and thermal sources and thus make more efficient self-powered systems. They could also be fabricated on the backside of solar cells in both portable devices and rooftop installations to store power generated during the day for use after sundown, helping to provide electricity around the clock when connection to the grid is not possible.
"We are now looking for industry partners to help us mass-produce our graphene micro-supercapacitors," Kaner said.
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We?ve been celebrating Library Lovers Day in Blue Mountains City Libraries today, hope you managed to get along to your local branch library and tell the staff there you love them!
At all branches we celebrated with heart-shaped chocolates but went all-out at Katoomba with cake, Steampunk performers and speeches.? The cake was ?embroidered? with our Read Watch Play 2013 logo and Library Manager, Vicki Edmunds, explained to the 40-off attendees that this campaign not only promotes our core business of encouraging the art and pleasure of reading but also promotes other media ? film, television and performance art and playing ? playing with your friends and family, board games, online games, field games.
Councillors Chris Van der Kley, Mick Fell and Geordie Williamson came along to support the event and each gave a small speech emphasising the importance of libraries to all members of our community.
Mrs Chatsalot from the Blue Mountains steampunk group explained what she and her friends do ? letting their inner creative sci-fi neo-Victorian side out via beautiful clothing and performance. The group was kind enough to come along to add some glamour and atmosphere to Library Lovers Day and stayed chatting and answering questions from the audience. You will be able to catch up with them at Ironfest in Lithgow in April this year.
Although it is becoming commonplace for politicians and others to blame violent video games for all the recent shooting tragedies, the truth is that there has not been any conclusive evidence linking the two. In fact, researchers like Dr. Kevin Williams think there is more to it.
The fallout from the tragic shooting rampage in Newtown, Connecticut will be with us for years. It has sparked several debates about the state of our society, uniting a large percentage of the of the nation against loose gun laws, while others seek to place the blame elsewhere. That includes a new surge of attention focusing on violent entertainment, with video games drawing a big bulls eye thanks in part to the National Rifle Association blaming games?(along with movies, music, natural disasters, celebrities, foreign aide, and President Obama)?for tragic events like the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. And yet despite politicians like Rep. Diane Franklin (D-CA) stating that violent games cause diagnosable mental health conditions and Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)?claiming that video games are a bigger threat than guns, there?s no evidence linking violent games in any such capacity.
?Some studies have claimed they are measuring violence but I?m not sure I necessarily agree with their interpretation,? said Dr. Kevin D. Williams, Associate Professor of Communication at Mississippi State University. ?They may have a participant buzz another unfamiliar person with a loud blast of noise. They may have a participant fill out a questionnaire stating how that participant would punish someone in a hypothetical situation. Let?s be honest. At the heart of the situation is fear that a game player after playing a violent game would physically assault or perhaps kill another person. Noise blasts to a complete stranger or writing down a punishment to a fake situation doesn?t seem like a realistic measure of true violence.?
Williams is a leading expert in the field of the effects of video games. In 2006 he was honored with the Broadcast Education Association?s Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, in which he claimed that??The research suggests that frustration with game play may be a more important factor in inspiring violence than merely viewing graphic violence in the games,? Williams said.?
While there have been a lot of individual research studies done throughout the U.S. and around the globe involving video games and violence, there has thus far been no conclusive evidence linking the two. That?s one of the reasons Vice President Joseph Biden recently met with video game publishers and developers in Washington, D.C. in his effort to explore this topic. One issue with many politicians, including Biden, is that they?re very old, and certainly not gamers.
?I think a lot of the older legislators thought we had thoroughly explored the impact violent media had on viewers,? said Williams. ?In the past few decades there had been congressionally lead studies on the impact of violent movies and television on viewers. I believe those politicians had the misperception that games were just an extension of that. Games are much different in that they fully involve the player. The player in part generates the narrative and is responsible for what happens on the screen. It?s a different medium than movies or television and deserves to be studied and treated as such. I hope that younger politicians realize this. I also hope they put their money where their mouth is. Watching the Sunday morning talk shows, I hear a lot of politicians who want to blame the games more than the guns. I understand their argument, but are they willing to really fund and do the work now that they?ve pointed out the gorilla in the room??
But even more research isn?t likely to quell the debate. There have been plenty of studies over the years, but there are also those who are pushing their own agendas even within this research.
?As scientists we like to put these statistical limits on things as if one hundredth of a decimal point makes a concern valid or not,? said Williams. ?We?re too caught up in our own egos to see that perspective matters. Readers of violence research should be cautious and come to know not only the research being presented but the researcher as well. There are a lot of big personalities in this field. Some have staked their professional career on proving there is an effect. Some have staked their career on countering others? claims. Up and coming researchers like myself can get caught in the crossfire, having their work validated or invalidated because of who they quoted as opposed to the design of their research.?
One good thing that can come from the current media exposure around violent games is funding for more research. With the upcoming release of Rockstar Games? Grand Theft Auto V, there?s sure to be plenty of media attention around violent games throughout this spring, at least. Researchers believe more has to be done to explore violence in games, and that sentiment is shared by President Obama.
?Most of the video game studies are single exposure experiments,? said Williams. ?Participants play a game once and are then measured. Any effect they experience wears off quickly. We need more experiments that systematically investigate long term repeated exposure. Unfortunately, there is a lack of funds to do such experiments at most universities.?
Williams? research has focused on the moderators of violent video games. While he?s interested in the effects of violent video games on players, he?s more interested on the aspects of video games that could influence a violence effect. He most recently explored the impact Wii motion control games have on hostility. He found that the additional connection the gamer has with the avatar through motion controls does increase the hostility effect, but that?s different than enticing someone to go out and commit violent acts.
?I look at hostility because I feel we can accurately measure that and we also know that hostility is related to acts of violence,? said Williams. ?But it does not mean that hostility always leads to real violence. Overall, we see that hostility effects are small and short lived.?
One thing that has come up in the current debate is the role parents play in all of this. Gamers who are of age have a First Amendment right to play games and watch entertainment that they want. Gamers who don?t have children don?t want to be penalized for parents who don?t want to take an active role in their kids? lives.
?Parents play the most important role,? said Williams. ?We know from past research that the most likely predictor of whether someone is going to become violent later in life is their parents? view of violence. Was it a violent home? Was there domestic violence? Did the parents exemplify that violence solves problems? We all have that wall built up inside us, that wall that tells us to not take a swing at somebody when they treat you badly. That wall is built by religion and social rules, but most importantly, by parents. Can you know what media your child is engaging with at all times? No, media saturates our lives too completely, but parents must be vigilant as to knowing what media their children are consuming. Certainly there is no reason why a parent should not be investigating what games their child is asking them to buy. Popular games are not only filled with violence but also with sexuality and adult language. Retailers must also do a better job of restricting sales to minors when the games are not age appropriate. I know some businesses which do a wonderful job, but it needs to be more consistent across the nation.?
The good news for gamers who are worried about the political maelstrom is that not even The Terminator could ban the sale of ?offensively violent? video games to minors in California. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger took his case against the Entertainment Software Association all the way to the Supreme Court and lost. Rep. Jim Matheson recently introduced a bill that would make it unlawful to sell or rent violent or Mature-rated video games to minors, making it punishable by a fine of up to $5,000. However, this bill is likely to face an uphill battle. And every effort to date in states across the country that has tried to fight the free speech games enjoy has failed. It?s likely there will be new research, and depending on those findings, the future of this debate could change.
We are in the post-PC era, and soon billions of consumers will be carrying around Internet-connected mobile devices for up to 16 hours a day.?Mobile audiences have exploded as a result.
Mobile advertising should be a bonanza, similar to online advertising a decade ago. However, it has been a bit slow off the ground, and its growth trajectory is not clear cut.
In a recent report?from?BI?Intelligence?on the mobile advertising ecosystem,?we?explain the complexities and fractures, and examine the central and dynamic roles played by mobile ad networks, demand side platforms, mobile ad exchanges, real-time bidding, agencies, brands, and new companies hoping to upend the traditional banner ad.
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Here's an overview of some major players in the mobile advertising ecosystem:
Mobile ad networks:?Mobile ad networks aggregate advertising inventory and match it with advertisers, much as online ad networks do.?Networks soak up ad inventory, analyze its potential, and sell it by matching it to advertisers' needs.?Where networks differentiate is in value-added services, such as aggregating buying power to strike better deals, or improve targeting.?The largest ad networks have their own sales forces reaching out to advertisers, as well as their own campaign optimization technology.?
Demand side platforms (DSPs):?These function similarly to ad networks, in the sense that they help match advertisers with inventory, but tend to work hand-in-glove with brands.?DSPs are complementary to the ad network business because they more richly describe mobile audiences.?But once DSPs start hiring their own staff to sell ad inventory, the complementarity could end, and DSPs would compete more head-on with ad networks.
Mobile ad exchanges: ?Exchanges automate many parts of the mobile ad process, and can connect publishers with multiple ad networks.?Ad exchanges are primarily supply-facing at the moment, and have relatively few interactions with mobile ad agencies (even less so with brands).?Agencies are disincentivized from using exchanges because they threaten their lucrative role as the brands' media buyers.
Mobile Ad Agencies and Mobile Marketing: ?One of the gripes you often hear around the mobile ad industry is that agencies don't get it.?According to the U.K.'s Association of Online Publishers, 55 percent of publishers blamed "agencies' attitude" for low mobile ad revenues. That may be changing. Several people we talked to said agencies are doubling down on mobile, and competency is improving.
Natives:?Other companies are emerging that don't neatly fit the established categories.?They resemble ad networks in that they connect advertisers with publishers' inventory, but they express disdain for the traditional mobile advertising model.?These companies are trying to find a native approach to mobile advertising that will break through consumers' apparent disdain for mobile ads. We call them "the natives."
In full,?the?report:
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LONDON (Reuters) - The FTSE 100 closed lower on Thursday as downbeat company earnings and mixed global economic data triggered the sharpest one-day fall on the index since mid-November.
Earnings were in focus after updates from British oil heavyweight Royal Dutch Shell and drugmaker AstraZeneca, and Facebook Inc in the United States, disappointed.
Shell alone took 16 points off the blue chip FTSE 100 index after its fourth quarter profit came in nearly $400 million short of expectations.
The FTSE closed down 46.23 points, or 0.7 percent at 6,276.88, edging away from mid-May 2008 highs of 6,376.
AstraZeneca shed 3.1 percent after warning of a tough year ahead, while in the United States No.1 social network Facebook fell 3.8 percent after its growth trailed the more aggressive estimates.
Temporary power provider Aggreko took its losses over the last five trading days to more than 11 percent, with traders citing recent press speculation about the potential for another warning on earnings when it reports in March.
British banks meanwhile face another round of compensation claims that could total billions of pounds after the regulator found they had widely mis-sold complex interest-rate hedging products to small businesses.
Royal Bank of Scotland shed 1.1 percent.
Retailer Kingfisher fell 1.5 percent after Nomura cut its target price and earnings estimates by 6 percent on the firm as it took a more pessimistic view of the UK market.
Recent results have put a dampener on investor optimism, which helped push markets up towards four-and-a-half year highs.
While 70 percent of European companies have so far beaten or met earnings estimates in the current reporting season, top analysts still expect fourth-quarter growth to fall 8.8 percent year-on-year.
After rallying 6 percent in January, Shore Capital strategist Gerard Lane said the FTSE looked "way too high given the near-term risks to earnings and the U.S. fiscal worries".
"However, I still think the FTSE 100 will see 7,000 by the year-end and if you are a smart investor you invest for the 7,000 now rather than wait for a correction that might never happen," he added.
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British investment managers sharply increased their exposure to stocks in January as concerns of more financial instability receded and the market's recovery gathered pace, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday.
But while broadly expecting the stock market recovery to continue, they cautioned that a risk of setbacks remains, with many of the world's economic problems still not fully resolved.
"Our view remains that however well the economic rebound proceeds, this recovery will still lack the strength seen in other rebounds," Percival Stanion, Chairman of the Strategic Policy Group at Baring Asset Management, said in a note.
"Deleveraging will continue; deficits will be reduced; households will tighten their belts. The journey will still be long, but one that is getting shorter with every step," he said.
Investors greeted BSkyB's offer to show its popular sports channels online for a daily fee with enthusiasm, pushing the shares up 1.0 percent. The company is seeking new customers to offset slowing growth at its core pay-TV service given sluggish consumer spending.
Diageo was a top riser, up 1.3 percent after the world's biggest spirits group ended talks to buy a stake in top-selling tequila brand Jose Cuervo.
Mixed macroeconomic data did little to imbue investors with the confidence needed to plough fresh money into markets already at multi-year highs.
Weak U.S. GDP data and downbeat comments from the Federal Reserve overnight were followed by jobless claims on Thursday, which pointed to a slow healing of the U.S. labour market.
Incomes in the world's biggest economy, however, rose in December by the most in eight years while U.S. Midwest business activity picked up to a nine-month high.
"Investors now seem likely to sit on the sidelines hoping to glean clues from tomorrow's non-farm payroll data," a London-based trader said.
U.S. employers are expected to have added 160,000 jobs to their payrolls in January after an increase of 155,000 in December. The unemployment rate is seen holding steady at 7.8 percent..
Cyclone did not cause 2012 record low for Arctic sea icePublic release date: 31-Jan-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Hannah Hickey hickeyh@uw.edu 206-543-2580 University of Washington
It came out of Siberia, swirling winds over an area that covered almost the entire Arctic basin in the normally calm late summer. It came to be known as "The Great Arctic Cyclone of August 2012," and for some observers it suggested that the historic sea ice minimum may have been caused by a freak summer storm, rather than warming temperatures.
But new results from the University of Washington show that the August cyclone was not responsible for last year's record low for Arctic sea ice. The study was published online this week in Geophysical Research Letters.
"The effect is huge in the immediate aftermath of the cyclone, but after about two weeks the effect gets smaller," said lead author Jinlun Zhang, an oceanographer in the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory. "By September, most of the ice that melted would have melted with or without the cyclone."
Recent research showed that the Arctic cyclone was the most powerful ever seen during the month of August, and the 13th most powerful of all Arctic storms in more than three decades of satellite records.
"The storm was enormous," said co-author Axel Schweiger, a polar scientist in the Applied Physics Laboratory. "The impact on the ice was immediately obvious, but the question was whether the ice that went away during the storm would have melted anyway because it was thin to begin with."
The UW team performed the climate scientist's equivalent of a forensic exam: They ran a computer simulation of last summer's weather and compared it against a second scenario that was identical except that there was no cyclone.
Results showed the storm caused the sea ice to pass the previous record 10 days earlier in August than it would have otherwise, but only reduced the final September ice extent by 150,000 square kilometers (almost 60,000 square miles), less than a 5 percent difference. By comparison, the actual minimum ice extent was 18 percent less than the previous record set in 2007.
The study also revealed a surprising mechanism for the cyclone-related melting. Earlier discussions about the cyclone's effect had focused on winds breaking up the ice or driving ice floes into areas of warmer water. The results suggest that neither process led to much increase in melting.
Relatively recent research shows that in the summertime, thin ice and areas of open water allow sunlight to filter down to the water below. As a result, while a layer of ice-cold fresh water sits just beneath the sea ice, about 20 meters (65 feet) down there is a layer of denser, saltier water that has been gradually warmed by the sun's rays.
Blowing on polar water is less like blowing on a cup of tea and more like blowing on a layered cocktail. When the cyclone swept over the drifting ice floes, underside ridges churned up the water to bring sun-warmed seawater to the ice's bottom edge. The model suggests that during the cyclone there was a quadrupling of melting from below, and that this was the biggest cause for doubling ice loss during the three-day storm.
"We only looked at one big storm. If we want to understand how storms will affect the ice cover in the future we need understand the effect of storms in different conditions," said co-author Ron Lindsay.
More sunlight reaches the water in a year with unusually thin summer ice, such as 2012, so this process is a potential multiplier effect for sea-ice melting.
The results are of interest beyond understanding climate change. As sea ice thins and melts, economic and political concerns require better sea-ice forecasts to protect ships and instruments that might travel in those waters.
"One thing we are working on, and that needs to be included in future computer simulations, is how bigger waves created by wind blowing over more extensive open water help break up the sea ice into floes, and how these smaller floes respond to warm water," said co-author Mike Steele.
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The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Office of Naval Research and NASA.
For more information, contact Schweiger at 206-543-1312 or axel@apl.washington.edu.
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Cyclone did not cause 2012 record low for Arctic sea icePublic release date: 31-Jan-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Hannah Hickey hickeyh@uw.edu 206-543-2580 University of Washington
It came out of Siberia, swirling winds over an area that covered almost the entire Arctic basin in the normally calm late summer. It came to be known as "The Great Arctic Cyclone of August 2012," and for some observers it suggested that the historic sea ice minimum may have been caused by a freak summer storm, rather than warming temperatures.
But new results from the University of Washington show that the August cyclone was not responsible for last year's record low for Arctic sea ice. The study was published online this week in Geophysical Research Letters.
"The effect is huge in the immediate aftermath of the cyclone, but after about two weeks the effect gets smaller," said lead author Jinlun Zhang, an oceanographer in the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory. "By September, most of the ice that melted would have melted with or without the cyclone."
Recent research showed that the Arctic cyclone was the most powerful ever seen during the month of August, and the 13th most powerful of all Arctic storms in more than three decades of satellite records.
"The storm was enormous," said co-author Axel Schweiger, a polar scientist in the Applied Physics Laboratory. "The impact on the ice was immediately obvious, but the question was whether the ice that went away during the storm would have melted anyway because it was thin to begin with."
The UW team performed the climate scientist's equivalent of a forensic exam: They ran a computer simulation of last summer's weather and compared it against a second scenario that was identical except that there was no cyclone.
Results showed the storm caused the sea ice to pass the previous record 10 days earlier in August than it would have otherwise, but only reduced the final September ice extent by 150,000 square kilometers (almost 60,000 square miles), less than a 5 percent difference. By comparison, the actual minimum ice extent was 18 percent less than the previous record set in 2007.
The study also revealed a surprising mechanism for the cyclone-related melting. Earlier discussions about the cyclone's effect had focused on winds breaking up the ice or driving ice floes into areas of warmer water. The results suggest that neither process led to much increase in melting.
Relatively recent research shows that in the summertime, thin ice and areas of open water allow sunlight to filter down to the water below. As a result, while a layer of ice-cold fresh water sits just beneath the sea ice, about 20 meters (65 feet) down there is a layer of denser, saltier water that has been gradually warmed by the sun's rays.
Blowing on polar water is less like blowing on a cup of tea and more like blowing on a layered cocktail. When the cyclone swept over the drifting ice floes, underside ridges churned up the water to bring sun-warmed seawater to the ice's bottom edge. The model suggests that during the cyclone there was a quadrupling of melting from below, and that this was the biggest cause for doubling ice loss during the three-day storm.
"We only looked at one big storm. If we want to understand how storms will affect the ice cover in the future we need understand the effect of storms in different conditions," said co-author Ron Lindsay.
More sunlight reaches the water in a year with unusually thin summer ice, such as 2012, so this process is a potential multiplier effect for sea-ice melting.
The results are of interest beyond understanding climate change. As sea ice thins and melts, economic and political concerns require better sea-ice forecasts to protect ships and instruments that might travel in those waters.
"One thing we are working on, and that needs to be included in future computer simulations, is how bigger waves created by wind blowing over more extensive open water help break up the sea ice into floes, and how these smaller floes respond to warm water," said co-author Mike Steele.
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The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Office of Naval Research and NASA.
For more information, contact Schweiger at 206-543-1312 or axel@apl.washington.edu.
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MAKASSAR, Indonesia -- A mob of wild monkeys has gone on a rampage in a village in eastern Indonesia, entering houses and attacking residents, injuring seven people.
One of the victims is in a critical condition.
Ambo Ella, a spokesman for Sidendeng Rappang District in South Sulawesi province, says the surprise attack by about 10 monkeys happened in Toddang Pulu village.
He said late Wednesday that a 16-year-old boy was badly bitten in Monday?s attack and is being treated at the hospital.
He believes the troop came from a nearby forest protected by a local tribe.
It is unclear why the monkeys, which are usually afraid of humans and flee when they hear human voices, emerged and attacked.
Local authorities are investigating to find out what prompted the attack, which caused panic among villagers.
MILAN (AP) ? Fiat SpA, the Italian automaker that controls Chrysler LLC, saw fourth quarter earnings more than double thanks to strong North American sales that more than compensated for a weak performance in Europe.
The Turin-based carmaker posted net profit of ?102 million ($138 million), up from ?43 billion in the same period last year. Revenues were ?21.8 billion.
For the full year, net profit attributable to the parent company shrank to ?348 million from ?1.3 billion in 2011. Fiat owns 58.5 percent of Chrysler, which earned $1.7 billion last year.
Fiat also said Wednesday it would not pay a dividend in order to maintain liquidity for investments.
The carmaker said it expects to earn ?1.2 billion to ?1.5 billion this year on revenues between ?88 billion and ?92 billion.
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