Analysis of Physical and Chemical Parameters for Discrimination of Water Origin in a Hydroelectric Reservoir

Seventeen physical and chemical parameters were obtained from a hydroelectric reservoir located in a tropical region in the south of Brazil. Multivariate Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Hierarchical Group Analysis (HGA) were used to identify the parameters discriminating the origin of water from the Tibagi and the Primeiro de Maio River, after it has passed the mixing region. The study was conducted during the dry and rainy seasons in July 2002 and February 2003 at three depths and three sampling sites located 0, 5, and 10 km away from the mixing region. The statistical methods showed to be appropriate for identifying the contribution of each tributary in the water mixing site of a complex water system. The most important discriminating parameter was the absorbance relation A(253 nm)/A(203 nm), followed by the concentrations of Fe(III), Mn(III), and Ni(II). An anthropogenic interference was found in the reservoir due to high Ni(II) and orthophosphate concentrations caused by a nearby town sewage discharge. The interference was more important during the dry periods due to the lower dispersion of the pollutants. Urgent initiatives should be taken from the state government to build treatment stations for the wastewater of the small cities around the Capivara hydroelectric reservoir to prevent the drinking water quality from deteriorating.     

紫外线辐射强度预报

根据本站逐日总辐射观测资料，计算出紫外线辐射量，然后反查出该量与地面天气要素问的关系，从而根据每天的气象要素预报作出紫外线辐射强度预报。     

Calculation of the UV Absorption Spectra of As(III) Oxo- and Thio- Acids and Anions in Aqueous Solution and of PF3 in the Gas-phase

Changes in the UV spectra of As(OH)₃ solutions with variations in pH and temperature have recently been used to determine the temperature dependence of the pK_a of the acid. In previous studies I used quantum mechanical techniques to study changes in structure and vibrational spectra as a function of pH for arsenites and thioarsenites. I previously calculated UV spectra for ``molecular' minerals, like realgar As₄S₄. Here I use a number of different quantum mechanical methods, both Hartree-Fock and density functional theory based, to calculate the UV spectra for both a related simple well-characterized gas-phase molecule PF₃ and for As(OH)₃ and As(SH)₃ and their conjugate anions and some neutral and anionic oligomers in aqueous solution. For the monomeric species small numbers of water molecules have been explicitly included, in a supermolecule or microsolvation approach. I find that UV absorption energies accurate to a few tenths of an eV can be obtained both for gas- phase PF₃ and for neutral arsenious acid in aqueous solution, for which the UV absorption maximum is calculated to occur around 6.5 eV, consistent with experiment. Accurate calculation of the UV energies for arsenite anions in aqueous solution is much more difficult, since basis set size and solvation effects are considerably larger than for the neutral molecules, but fairly reliable results can still be obtained. Deprotonation is found to reduce the lowest calculated UV transition energy by about half an eV. Oligomerization also reduces the lowest calculated UV energy by at least half an eV. Replacement of one or all the –OH groups by –SH groups reduces the lowest calculated UV energies by about 2 eV. UV excitation energies have been calculated for oligomeric species as large as As₃E₃(EH)₃ and As₄E₆, where E = O, S, and may be useful for identifying such species in solution.     

Influence of Clouds on UV Irradiance at Ground Level and Backscattered Exittance

The influence of various cloud parameters and the interactions with the ground albedo and the solar zenith angle have been studied by means of model simulations. The radiative transfer model suitable for a cloudy atmosphere as well as for a clear atmosphere has been developed on the basis of the Discrete Ordinate Method. This study leads to a general understanding for cloudy atmospheres: in the presence of a uniform cloud, the cloud scattering is dominant to molecular and aerosol scattering, and it is also wavelength-independent; the ratio of transmitted irradiance in a cloudy atmosphere to that in the background clear atmosphere is independent of cloud height and solar zenith angle. That’s to say, the radiation downwelling out of a cloud is quite isotropic; it decreases approximately exponentially with the cloud optical depth at a rate related to the ground albedo; the reflected irradiance at the top of the atmosphere is dependent on cloud optical depth as well as on solar zenith angle, but not on ground albedo for clouds of not very thin optical depth.     

The NO2 absorption spectrum. III: The 200–300 nm region at ambient temperature

Absorption cross-section measurements of NO₂ performed in our laboratory have been extended to the 200–300 nm region at ambient temperature. Low pressures have been used, limiting the effects of the dimer N₂O₄ which has an absorption cross-section from one to two orders of magnitude larger than that of NO₂ in this region. The results have been compared to those of previous authors and are now available for atmospheric purposes at 0.01 nm intervals.Unité de Recherche Associée au CNRS.     

地理信息系统支持下的坡面太阳辐射计算

本文介绍了在地理信息系统(GIS)的空间数据席支持下的区域坡面太阳辐射计算方法。使用该方法,可用计算机按地表实际的地形参数计算山区地表接受太阳总辐射,直接辐射和散射辐射的日、月、年总量,揭示其空间分布规律。这对区域的自然与生态环境研宄具有更要价值。     

Circulating subbeam systemsand the physics of pulsar emission

The purpose of this paper is to suggest how detailed single-pulse observations of slow radio pulsars may be utilized to construct an empirical model for their emission. It links the observational synthesis developed in a series of papers by Rankin in the 1980s and 90s to the more recent empirical feedback model of Wright (2003a) by regarding the entire pulsar magnetosphere as a non-steady, non-linear interactive system with a natural built-in delay. It is argued that the enhanced role of the outer gap in such a system indicates an evolutionary link to younger pulsars, in which this region is thought to be highly active, and that pulsar magnetospheres should no longer be seen as being driven by events on the neutron stars polar cap, but as having more in common with planetary magnetospheres and auroral phenomena.Received: 8 May 2003, Published online: 14 November 2003 Correspondence to: Joanna M. Rankin. On leave from: Physics Department, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA     

大气臭氧总量的经验计算方法

依据臭氧生消与紫外辐射(UV)能量利用相互作用的观点,考虑与臭氧有关的主要因子UV、大气中物质在化学和光化学反应中对UV能量的吸收、气溶胶粒子的散射等,在分析1990—1992年臭氧总量、太阳辐射、气象资料的基础上,建立了计算臭氧总量的经验模式,其优点是所用资料均可由常规气象站获得。结果表明,计算值与观测值符合得比较好。利用该经验模式计算了北京地区1979年1月—1996年6月的臭氧总量,计算值与观测值同样比较一致,二者相对偏差的最大值、最小值、平均值分别为15.2%、0.05%和4.9%,相对偏差在±10%之内的比例为91.4%,因而该经验模式是合理、可行的。1991年之后北京地区臭氧的下降与Pinatubo火山气溶胶的影响有关。