Aerosol concentrations and size distribution in the troposphere and lower stratosphere over Thumba

Rocket-borne ultraviolet photometers operating at =0.31 m have been used at Thumba (8°33N, 76°52E) to make measurements of atmospheric scattering at tropospheric and lower stratospheric altitudes. Measurements could be made of the amplitude of the scattered fluxes and the angular distribution up to an altitude of about 24 km on three rocket flights conducted as part of the 16 February 1980 solar eclipse campaign. These measurements have been used to study the size distribution as well as the number densities of aerosols in the troposphere and lower stratosphere over Thumba.     

Conservation laws of wave action and potential enstrophy for rossby waves in a stratified atmosphere

The purpose of this article is to discuss the evolution of wave energy, enstrophy and action for atmospheric Rossby waves in a variable mean flow. The presentation is theoretical, but does not represent original research; rather, it is pedagogic in nature. The work of a number of people has been drawn together into a unified account, with much of the algebra implicit in previous work made explicit here. The central results are that wave energy is conserved only when there are no spatial variations in the mean flow, and wave action is conserved even in the presence of such variations as long as they are not in the longitudinal direction. Finally, wave enstrophy is conserved in the presence of arbitrary (slow) mean flow variations.     

南沙基础地理信息系统设计与实现

“南沙基础地理信息系统”是以岛礁和水深遥感调查成果为基础,汇集近年来航磁调查解释成果,综合利用计算机、地理信息系统(GIS)、数据库及网上发布等技术建设而成的,是一个可为海洋规划、环境保护、资源开发、划界谈判、区域合作及为可持续发展提供全面、准确基础资料和决策依据的专业化信息系统。文中重点介绍了系统数据库的建设及系统功能的开发,阐述了系统功能的实现方式,列举了系统的应用实例.     

Hysteresis‐based flood‐wave analysis using the concept of strain

Hysteresis represents a loop in a rating curve and is a phenomenon which closely resembles that occurring in stress–strain curves used for studying the elastic properties of solid substances in engineering mechanics. Earlier hysteresis‐based studies used for defining floodwave propagation in open channels have qualitatively shown that hysteresis is an index of energy loss during floodwave propagation. Using the concept of elasticity, this paper introduces a new term called flow strain (defined as the ratio of change in discharge to the initial discharge) for investigating hysteresis. The usefulness of this new term is evaluated with use of four dam‐break studies. The study reveals that:

• 1 flow strain is a function of three wave speeds, Seddon speed, Lagrange speed, and elastic speed;
• 2 a single linear reservoir concept frequently used in flood routing is a specific variant of the Seddon speed formula;
• 3 the non‐linear storage–discharge relationship, widely used in overland flow modelling, is a variant of the kinematic wave representation;
• 4 the discharge ordinates on the recession part of a hydrograph follow a simple first‐order autoregressive form;
• 5 the hysteresis, phase difference and logarithmic decrement all define attenuation and are indices of energy loss during floodwave propagation.

Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

西南三江地区造山演化过程及成矿时空分布

三江地区单凭“一次造山”是难以圆满解释的。本文试以“多次造山”多期成矿”的思路作出合理说明。晚古生代－中生代早期多岛海造山阶段,羌塘弧、江达弧和临沧弧应为前锋弧,其后由一系列弧后盆地和岛弧或残余弧（或微大陆）组成。中生代中－晚期为陆内俯冲造山阶段,推测金沙江带、哀牢山带和龙门山－锦屏山带为俯冲主边界,从而形成本区燕山期重熔型花岗岩带,控制相应矿产的分布特征。新生代陆内转换造山阶段,造成特征的构造－岩浆－成矿带,具有生成大型或超大型矿床的潜力。     

亚洲中东部岩石圈下层网络状塑性流动与应变场

在板块边缘驱动力的挤压作用下,岩石圈下层（含下地壳和岩石圈地幔）塑性流动网络的共轭角随着变形的增大而由初始的直角变为钝角,因此,可根据共轭角的增量推测应变的大小,并给出该层的应变场,亚洲中东部所含3个塑性流动网络系统的研究表明,岩石圈下层的应变场控制或影响着上部地壳的构造变形和地形起伏,表现在应变“凸锋~”与地形凸峰之间的相互对应以及“稳定”块体的低应变效应和应变的波动传播,网络共轭角推测应变的方法为认识板内应变场和构造变形提供了新的途径。     

各向异性半空间上方垂直磁偶极子电磁场的球面波展开式

文中推导出单轴各向异性媒质半空间上方垂直磁偶极源电磁场的精确解析表达式. 应用圆柱波函数的球面波展开式和超几何函数理论，场分量中的索末菲尔德型积分被表示成快速、绝对收敛的球面波函数系展开式；展开系数是以物性参数为复宗量的勒让德多项式. 该展开式数学物理意义明显，并且不受场点和源点的位置、媒质的物性参数和频率等条件的限制. 利用本文的结果可十分方便地计算和分析任意场点处的电磁场分布.     

堤防隐患探测实例分析

在堤防隐患探测中，采用地质雷达、高密度电法、电测深法、地震折射波法等综合物探技术，并结合少量的土工试验资料，提高了物探成果的可靠性和实用性，取得了良好的应用效果．为堤防隐患探测提供了新的思路。     

南海天然气水合物稳定带的影响因素

文章利用南海所积累的大量热流、海底温度和地温梯度数据，针对地温梯度的变化，对地温梯度数据进行了初步校正。分情况研究了纯甲烷，甲烷、乙烷、丙烷混合物分别在纯水、海水条件下形成的天然气水合物在南海的可能分布范围；进而对影响天然气水合物分布的影响因素进行了讨论。研究表明，随着天然气中重烃含量的增加，孔隙水盐度的降低，水合物稳定带在平面上的分布范围越来越大，水合物稳定带的厚度也越来越大。比较而言，气体组成的影响要比孔隙水盐度的大。同时，天然气水合物稳定带的厚度与热流有一定的负相关关系。在南海2000m水深范围之内，由于受海底温度的控制，水合物稳定带的厚度与水深呈明显的正相关关系。     

济阳坳陷古近系多级控砂机制分析

济阳坳陷古近系砂体形成和分布受到多种因素的控制,主要包括:①断陷类型;②构造带类型;③坡折带类型;④体系域类型;⑤沉积相类型。在不同类型断陷中发育的沉积体系相差较大,在不同规模箕状断陷中发育的沉积体系也具有差异性。同时,断陷类型控制着构造带的发育,构造带类型又决定着坡折带的发育部位,坡折带类型则影响着湖盆沉积体系域的发育程度和分布范围,而沉积相类型对砂体的特征具有直接的控制作用。显然济阳坳陷砂岩体的形成和分布遵循“多级控砂”的特征,5种因素共同影响并逐级控制着砂岩体在断陷湖盆中的形成与分布。