西安南郊和陕北长武土壤CO2 释放量研究

本文根据NaOH溶液吸收CO2的方法,对西安南郊和陕北长武地区土壤CO2释放量进行了昼夜观测。观测结果表明,不同地区土壤CO2释放量存在差异,气候偏冷偏干地区土壤CO2 释放量较小,气候偏热偏湿地区土壤CO2释放量较大。陕北长武土壤CO2释放量变化再次证明,从当日早晨至次日早晨, CO2释放量具有由低变高再变低的规律; CO2释放量相对于大气温度的日变化具有滞后性,滞后时间为4～6小时;土壤CO2释放量白天较少,夜间较多; CO2释放量变化显示,在土层深厚的地区,土壤微生物夜间活动强度总体应比白天大。      

渭河流域西部季节冻融对浅层非饱和土壤水热变化的影响

以黄土高原渭河流域西部黄土丘陵沟壑区为研究区域,建立了野外观测场地,对该区域浅层非饱和土体冻融过程及水热运移规律对气候作用的响应过程进行了研究与分析。结果表明：气温对地温及地温变幅的影响随深度增加而迅速衰减,地温振幅随深度增加按指数规律衰减且温度波的相位随深度的增加而滞后,地表下200 cm深度以内地温振幅受气温影响较大。该区域裸露地表土壤的最大冻结深度在20～50 cm之间。在土壤冻结过程中,深层土壤未冻水逐渐向冻结层运移,导致深层含水量逐渐减少。不同深度土壤冻结系数随土壤深度的增加而减小,融化系数则相反。地表下50 cm深度以内的土体含水量受降水影响波动显著。土壤含水量与温度呈相似变化,地温峰值出现的时间总滞后于土壤水分,其变异程度均随土壤深度的增加而减小。     

A conceptual model for loess in England: Principles and applications

PTD, an acronym for Provenance - Transport - Deposition, is a multilayer geomorphotechnical system, the combination of geomorphology, Quaternary Sciences, and geotechnical consequences of its implementation in groundworks and other crosscutting disciplines. Embedded in its three layers are geographical, geochemical, geophysical, mineralogy, dating, lithological and geotechnical inputs. In this state-of-the-art review contribution and for Loess in England, Syngenetic and Epigenetic mechanisms are drawn out and used to generate the three constitutive layers for three conceptual PTD models and the interrelationships among them. The developed models are then deployed to inform earthworks design for three HS2 embankments in Chiltern Hills.     

RILL EROSION PROCESS AND RILL FLOW HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS

In the rill erosion process, run-on water and sediment from upslope areas, and rill flow hydraulic parameters have significant effects on sediment detachment and transport. However, there is a lack of data to quantify the effects of run-on water and sediment and rill flow hydraulic parameters on rill erosion process at steep hillslopes, especially in the Loess Plateau of China. A dual-box system, consisting of a 2-m-long feeder box and a 5-m-long test box with 26.8% slope gradient was used to quantify the effects of upslope runoff and sediment, and of rill flow hydraulic parameters on the rill erosion process. The results showed that detachment-transport was dominated in rill erosion processes; upslope runoff always caused the net rill detachment at the downslope rill flow channel, and the net rill detachment caused by upslope runoff increased with a decrease of runoff sediment concentration from the feeder box or an increase of rainfall intensity. Upslope runoff discharging into the rill flow channel or an increase of rainfall intensity caused the rill flow to shift from a stratum flow into a turbulent flow. Upslope runoff had an important effect on rill flow hydraulic parameters, such as rill flow velocity, hydraulic radius, Reynolds number, Froude number and the Darcy-Weisbach resistance coefficient. The net rill detachment caused by upslope runoff increased as the relative increments of rill flow velocity, Reynolds number and Froude number caused by upslope runoff increased. In contrast, the net rill detachment decreased with an increase of the relative decrement of the Darcy-Weisbach resistance coefficient caused by upslope runoff. These findings will help to improve the understanding of the effects of run-on water and sediment on the erosion process and to find control strategies to minimize the impact of run-on water.     

泾河上游黄土高原全新世成壤环境演变与人类活动影响

通过对黄土高原腹地甘肃合水MJY-A全新世土壤剖面磁化率、粒度、全铁、TOC、TC、CaCO3等气候代用指标的测定分析。结果表明：在全新世早期,黄土高原中部地区气候虽比较温和干燥,风尘堆积速率降低,土壤发育表现为边沉积边成壤的自然过程;到了全新世中期,气候较为温暖湿润,地表植被发育,生物风化成壤作用强烈,土壤发育依旧表现为自然的成壤过程,形成深厚的古土壤-黑垆土(S0);到了全新世晚期,气候开始恶化,干旱少雨,植被急剧退化,沙尘暴频繁发生,形成的现代黄土层(L0)覆盖了土壤(S0)使之成为埋藏古土壤,土壤发育深受人类活动的影响。现代黄土高原土地资源的退化,并不全是由自然要素本身固有的规律所造成的,而是在自然要素本身变化的背景上叠加了人类活动影响的结果。     

甘肃省黄土高原区夏季极端降水的时空特征

借助ArcGIS和Matlab数据软件平台,运用复值Morlet小波分析和数理统计方法对甘肃省黄土高原区夏季极端降水的频数和强度在时空上的变化特征进行分析。结果表明:①近半个世纪以来,该区极端降水事件发生的频数和强度在6、7月周期较长,8月周期较短:即6、7月极端降水事件发生的主周期是11~12 a,8月是4~5 a的周期。②从空间尺度来看,该区夏季极端降水带移动由西向东表现为:大致以庄浪、秦安、天水一线为界,6月频数和强度大值区在这一线以西海拔相对高的山区,而7—8月在这一线以东地区,尤其是陇东地区的东南部。③总体趋势是6月极端降水频数和强度明显呈上升趋势;7月极端降水频数和强度呈下降趋势;8月极端降水频数呈下降趋势,强度呈微弱上升趋势。     

Evidence for an eolian origin for the silt-enriched soil mantles on the glaciated uplands of eastern Upper Michigan, USA

We provide textural, geochemical, and mineralogical data on a thin, silty deposit that unconformably mantles glaciated uplands in the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Previous research on this deposit, which we hypothesize to be loess, is nonexistent. The uplands were islands or narrow peninsulas within one or more glacial lakes. We compare the distribution, likely source and nature of the 20–60 cm thick silty mantle by using the loess formation model of Mason et al. [Mason, J.A., Nater, E.A., Zanner, C.W., Bell, J.C., 1999. A new model of topographic effects on the distribution of loess. Geomorphology 28, 223–236], which focuses on the generation of eolian silt by saltating sand across upwind, barren surfaces. Parabolic dunes, with arms open to the NW, are common on former lake floors upwind of the silt-mantled uplands, attesting to the strength and direction of paleowinds. The abrupt termination of the dunes at the footslopes of the uplands, associated with silt deposition on upland soil surfaces in downwind locations, are both consistent with the model of Mason et al. [Mason, J.A., Nater, E.A., Zanner, C.W., Bell, J.C., 1999. A new model of topographic effects on the distribution of loess. Geomorphology 28, 223−236]. Sediments on former lake floors contain abundant strata of fine/medium sand and silt, and thus are likely sources for the silt and dune sand. The cap, dune and lake sediments are similar along many different geochemical axes, whereas the substrate sediment, i.e., the drift below the cap, is unique. Cap sediments, normally containing roughly 30% silt, are enriched in quartz and depleted in Ti and Zr, relative to dune sediment. The dune sediment, a more residual eolian deposit, is enriched in Ti and Zr, relative to the cap, probably due to its greater abundance of heavy minerals. Therefore, we conclude that the silty cap is loess that was deflated from abandoned lake floors after nearby glacial lakes drained, probably contemporaneously with dune migration across the former lake floors.     

Devensian Late-glacial environmental change in the Gordano Valley, North Somerset, England: a rare archive for southwest Britain

The Late-glacial and Holocene environmental history of the Gordano Valley, North Somerset, UK has been reconstructed using pollen, sediment particle size and mineralogical analyses and radiocarbon dating. A Devensian sediment ridge across the valley confined the waters of a small lake, within which the initial sedimentation was minerogenic. Radiocarbon dating of overlying organic-rich deposits suggests that this began late in the Dimlington Stadial c. 18,000–15,000 Cal. BP. Petrographic analyses indicate the minerogenic sediments were partly wind-blown in origin. Climatic amelioration during the Windermere Interstadial c. 15,000 Cal. BP encouraged a shift from minerogenic to biogenic sedimentation. A brief return to minerogenic sedimentation between c. 10,400 and c. 9,520 Cal. BP was followed by uninterrupted fen peat accumulation throughout the Holocene. The later minerogenic horizon appears to represent the Loch Lomond Stadial. Few stratigraphic sequences preserving the complete Devensian Late-glacial–Holocene transition exist in southwest Britain, making the sedimentary archive of the Gordano Valley valuable regionally for reconstructing Late-glacial climate change.     

中国黄土高原地区干旱特征

利用黄土高原51站40年气象观测资料及修正palmer干旱指数,主要采用EEOF(扩展经验正交分解函数)等分解方法,研究黄土高原土壤干旱演变。结果表明:40年来干旱趋于加重;1973年、1989年为Petitt变点,1973年之前旱年相对较少,1989年之后干旱年份明显增多干旱加重;干旱最敏感区(变化大值区)在高原腹地,高原周边地区干旱变幅较小;干旱变化振荡周期以2~4年为主;干旱准2年振荡的空间演变清晰,干旱移动方向和强度变化比较明显,在5个月之内强度、范围加大,大值区数值增大并向周围扩展旱情加重,再经过5个月后干旱大值区的数值下降快于周围,从敏感区向高原四周扩散;干旱变化强度、位相等具有区域差异,主要存在高原西部、晋中盆地、高原东北部、关中平原、渭河上游区等5个次区域。     

中国黄土高原地区降水时空演变

为揭示黄土高原地区降水资源在全球气候变化背景下的演变特征,利用黄土高原地区7省区51站43 a的降水资料,主要采用EOF、CEOF和小波分析等方法,研究了黄土高原降水近43 a的时空演变及其资源信息在空间的流动。结果表明：黄土高原年季降水对全球变化区域响应不同;年降水和秋季降水在1985年附近发生气候突变,降水明显减少;降水年际变化存在2～4 a振荡和11～18 a的年代际振荡,以2～4 a短周期振荡为主;降水响应敏感区在黄土高原腹地,空间演变信息在向东传播。