A NASA funded study has found a decline in winter and spring snow cover over Southwest Asia and the Himalayan mountain range is creating conditions for more widespread blooms of ocean plants in the Arabian Sea.
The decrease in snow cover has led to greater differences in both temperature and pressure systems between the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Sea. The pressure differences generate monsoon winds that mix the ocean water in the Western Arabian Sea. This mixing leads to better growing conditions for tiny, free-floating ocean plants called phytoplankton.
Chlorophyll concentration (Courtesy: NASA)
The temperature difference is responsible for a disparity in pressure over land and sea, creating a low pressure system over the Indian subcontinent and a high pressure system over the Arabian Sea. This difference in pressure causes winds to blow from the Southwest Arabian Sea bringing annual rainfall to the subcontinent from June to September. In the Western Arabian Sea, these winds also cause upwelling of cooler nutrient-rich water, creating ideal conditions for phytoplankton to bloom every year during summer.
While large blooms of phytoplankton can enhance fisheries, exceptionally large blooms could be detrimental to the ecosystem. Increases in phytoplankton amounts can lead to oxygen depletion in the water column and eventually to a decline in fish populations.
All this can start a downward spiral in the health of the marine ecosystem; as fish die, larger fish and mammals die, and this decreases the oxygen content further, since the decomposing bacteria start flourishing. It might take a while for the ocean systems to recover from such a downward trend, and in the meantime, economies around the world might take a beating.
Happy Earth Day, everyone ;)
The decrease in snow cover has led to greater differences in both temperature and pressure systems between the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Sea. The pressure differences generate monsoon winds that mix the ocean water in the Western Arabian Sea. This mixing leads to better growing conditions for tiny, free-floating ocean plants called phytoplankton.
Chlorophyll concentration (Courtesy: NASA)
The temperature difference is responsible for a disparity in pressure over land and sea, creating a low pressure system over the Indian subcontinent and a high pressure system over the Arabian Sea. This difference in pressure causes winds to blow from the Southwest Arabian Sea bringing annual rainfall to the subcontinent from June to September. In the Western Arabian Sea, these winds also cause upwelling of cooler nutrient-rich water, creating ideal conditions for phytoplankton to bloom every year during summer.
While large blooms of phytoplankton can enhance fisheries, exceptionally large blooms could be detrimental to the ecosystem. Increases in phytoplankton amounts can lead to oxygen depletion in the water column and eventually to a decline in fish populations.
All this can start a downward spiral in the health of the marine ecosystem; as fish die, larger fish and mammals die, and this decreases the oxygen content further, since the decomposing bacteria start flourishing. It might take a while for the ocean systems to recover from such a downward trend, and in the meantime, economies around the world might take a beating.
Happy Earth Day, everyone ;)
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An apt post re.Earth Day,
Happy Earth to you too:)
Another thing.. is this triplex for real? I read his three posts.... either he is joking, or he seriously needs a trip to a psychiatrist :)).
well you should visit http://o3.indiatimes.com thats the indiatimes blogsite, and actually over there, thats the norm and thats natural and i am the big weirdo over there:)) and till i saw some blogs in blogspot i was thinkin perhaps i need a psychiatrist or i am out of touch with reality:d
triplex calls himself my blog brothers (sadly one can choose re friends but not re.siblings:D)
well no luck with the code , but thats probably because i didnt try hard enough:d
will be goin on vacation next month so busy with that (ha another excuse).
what i understood from ur file is that u have probably written that in the section javascript :comments. let me atleast think of trying for next 2 days. it might be small, but i want to atleast give it a decent shot.
on cracking, any idea on this one
U'll know somethin abt me if u crack this un. Its pretty easy for a person
whos into it!
O Draconian devil!
The Roman king seeks Posiedon
And says what has to be done
" U r 3deg 2v 2klox hq 2y! "
http://roastedneutrons.blogspot.com
Posiedon God of Horses and this guy Capri any connection??? or is reference to seas/earthquakes/husband etc.
but idea on the rest, though hopin 2 crack. 2klox .. now what could that be??
Is there something wrong with the average indian male (I am guessing it is mostly males there) that populates the indiatimes site (i.e. infantile/vulgar/macho/chauvinist all rolled into one :D)? I hoped the indian male had evolved since I left india....
Well, come back from vacation, and then I will help your with the code. And yes, it is written in the comments part. Perhaps you can take a printout to a vacation... hahahaha... :D:D:D.
Abt. the puzzle. I thought I saw the "O Draconian Devil!" somewhere, and then realized it was a anagram, and stands for "Leonardo Da Vinci". The rest, I am working on it!
well i dont know about avg Indian male, but I think, each site has its own type of bloggers and o3, attracts a particular kind.
and that it gives more annonymity and unfortunately no login facility and anyone can impersonate anyone:D and of course attention (even edited posts appear on the main page list) and you get the feeling that the whole blogsite knows what ur saying, while when one comments in blogspot or rediff , u dont get the feelin that all the bloggers in that site, will read ur comment.
actually o3 does hav a good number of female bloggers.
but what happens in o3, is that "friendships" is more imp than disagreein and expressin opinion. well each one their priority i guess..
and many times the reaction to comments based on who says what to it first..
:( o3 changed after december and became like this.
aaargh i must stop on o3 bloggers and o3 admin, if i start writing on that, even a dedicated blog is not enough:D
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yeah draconian devil from dan brown:( but cant get the others. have a feelin it will be easier if i figure out the roman king part
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on the js code does it in function writeComments?
I have a feeling that many indian males still consider that there are certain jobs only they can be good at. That really ticks me off. Even in USA, I often see indian guys walking coolly (often half-a-meter ahead), whereas the poor wife has a kid in one hand, and her purse/bag in the other.
About the code. It is in writeComments :-). Try the following:
1) Copy the whole section (bounded by "Javascript:Comments" on both sides) into a new file, named "something.js". That portion is self-contained.
2) Upload the something.js file to a server (I have kept mine on geocities, for example).
3) Check the html-source-code of my post. Find all the function calls there (savePostInfo, updateComment, writeComments) and add those lines in a similar way to your template.
4) Find a line in my html-source-code containing the word "MyJavaCode.js", and copy the line to your template in a similar position (Replace MyJavaCode.js with something.js). Also change the path to your server address.
5) Find a section in my html-code which contains the side-bar code (Search for "writeComments(false, 16);", enclosed in a Begin-Box/End-Box section; copy the whole thing). Copy it to your sidebar.
6) Save template and republish!
Oh yeah, you can just copy that section to your template... no need to keep in a separate js file.
In case you need my template to get an idea, let me know, and I will mail it to you.
The puzzle is pretty interesting, thanks :-).
its not just Indian males mindset, all the time.after all there are many who would be ashamed to say my husband is a homemaker :)
earlier posts and comments which were in my opinion not politically correct, used to make me go ballistic, but now i guess i have become immune to a degree and more pragmatic, and hope to change the post contents (the triplex post on drivin) to a degree atleast.
(in the past he had changed and even the AIDS post had the greenland part chopped after my protest:D)
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re the code, i will try that. i think the mistake i made was i didnt realise that i have to make changes to the template
(savePostInfo, updateComment, writeComments)
i just copied the .js in the head then i copied that box containing the false 16 in my sidebar.
thanks i will see if this works, if it doesnt will ask for template.
(if i have template now, i will be just lazy and not bother to atleast have a clue what does what:D)
thanks a lot, really apprecite it.
I find it ironic that Bush is trying to repair Social-Security because "it is better to start repairing from now or it will be too late", but is not taking the same approach towards environment. Again, global warming or not, something is going on.
since frm my homepage its easy to figure out my name and see the pic:) and therefore would like a degree of annonymity:)
when i started bloggin i didnt know about nedstats and statcounters:)
so would be obliged if u could remove the reference to where i could be.
i am not replyin in detail not because i find the question personal or because i dislike it but i hope u get the gist when i say my personal convictions dont come in the way of my respecting the environment.
i read in dan brown book that vatican city has a dress code and women should cover their legs etc.
if i ever visit vatican city, would i abide by the dress code, well i probably would. even though i would not prefer it nor accept it. but i would still abide by it, because i would respect the sensibilities of those around me. after all there are dress codes even for some functions in tirupathi and i think in guruvayur temple and perhaps in some other temples.
I like the Gandhian thought, though i cant claim to be a Gandhian. There are many ways to counter something you dont believe in and not just one.:)
According to me,
every person has the right to dress the way a person wants to.
And I dress the way I want to. Unfortunately or fortunately, when I make the choice, I include in it, the part on not offending the sensibilities of those around me.
So while i will support and say a bride has the right to wear jeans as her wedding costume, i wouldnt wear one, if it would hurt my family:)
now thats contradiction, hypocrisy, cowardice or pseudo conviction , hmmm i dont know:)
SO r u sure, i can visit india around may to june ?
is it safe ? :)
Well, about your comments, I agree and I disagree. There are certain things that are linked to human-rights, and it would be wrong for us to say that it is fine since that is the culture of the country. For example, what if the country allows marriages of girls at 9 years age? Should we ignore it because that is how the country's (male) leaders have decided it to be?
Your Vatican reference is not a valid one. One could choose not to go to the Vatican, and also one does not have to spend their life there. So one does have a choice. But for certain countries in the world, the women-folk do not have a choice, since they were born there, and have to live there!
Again, I apologize for my mistake. Hope you keep visiting.
Thanks for visiting, and thanks for the compliments :-).
But for certain countries in the world, the women-folk do not have a choice, since they were born there, and have to live there! "
I absolutely agree with you. There is no question in my mind that it is not fair and should change. But at the same time, when it comes to another country and for major political changes to rectify the cultural change, I think it shoudl come from within first. And sometimes instead of change thru revolution, sometimes its due to evolution and though unfair, it takes time.
And I choose to not actively participate, knowing i am wrong in doing it.
actually its happening though slow and the media does play a role in it.
but sometimes cultural changes are symbolic and are interlinked with politics and religion and therefore the changes slow.
trends in neighbouring countries, also play a role
So, the largest polluters are not signing (USA, China)... so the protocol is a lame duck :-(.
Are you the person named Brad in my comments?
Ur blog is somethin like a chat room with WD. U guys start off with global warmin and stuff and go on to womens' rights! Any way! Nice blog.
I got here by doing a google search on the puzzle. Coz i knew that some ppl had outsourced the work!
If u had gone in the right direction in the old puzzle, all of it will still be useful. But the final answer u wud get now will not be something very juicy! All u will get is the satisfaction of solving the puzzle! (It wasnt so in the old one)
No, I am not Brad, never been. WD asked me about the puzzle, and I said I will think about it. But I dont have much time, so havent thought much abt. it since.
Nice one, though!
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