Pollen-based reconstructions of Holocene vegetation and climatic change of Tibetan Plateau

A synthesis of Holocene pollen records from the Tibetan Plateau shows the history of vegetation and climatic changes during the Holocene. Palynological evidences from 24 cores/sections have been compiled and show that the vegetation shifted from subalpine/alpine conifer forest to subalpine/alpine evergreen sclerophyllous forest in the southeastern part of the plateau; from alpine steppe to alpine desert in the central, western and northern part; and from alpine meadow to alpine steppe in the eastern and southern plateau regions during the Holocene. These records show that increases in precipitation began about 9 ka from the southeast, and a wide ranging level of increased humidity developed over the entire of the plateau around 8-7 ka, followed by aridity from 6 ka and a continuous drying over the plateau after 4-3 ka. The changes in Holocene climates of the plateau can be interpreted qualitatively as a response to orbital forcing and its secondary effects on the Indian Monsoon which expanded northwards     

Modal Wave Number Tomography for South China Sea Front

1 .IntroductionTheSouthChinaSealiestothesoutheastpartoftheChinesecontinent.TheKuroshioflowsbytheeastsideoftheLuzonStraitfromsouthtonorthinwinter ,spring ,andautumn .TheKuroshioaf fectsnearcurrentfieldsandtemperaturefields,changingtheoceanenvironmentparametersandsoundpropagation .Thus ,theoceanacoustictomographytechniqueisofpotentialtolong term ,largescalemonitoringoftheocean .Themodalwavenumbertomographymethod (Rajanetal.,1 987;Frisketal.,1 989)isusedtoobtainthesoundspeedprofileinwatercol…     

Probabilistic Models for the Probability of Wave Breaking and Whitecap Coverage Based on Kinematic Breaking Criterion

More and more researches show that neither the critical downward acceleration nor the critical slope of water waves is a universal constant. On the contrary, they vary with particular wave conditions. This fact moders the models either for the probability of wave breaking B or for the whitecap coverage W based on these criteria difficult to apply. In this paper and the one which follows we seek to develop models for the prediction of both B and W based on the kinematical criterion. First, several joint probabihstic distribution functions (PDFs) of wave characteristics are derived, based on which the breaking properties B and W are estimated. The estimation is made on the assumption that a wave breaks ff the horizontal velocity of water particles at its crest exceeds the local wave celerity, and whitecapping occurs in regions of fluid where water particles travel faster than the waves. The consequent B and W depend on wave spectral moments of orders 0 to 4.Then the JONSWAP spectrum is used to represent the fetch-limited sea waves in deep water, so as to relate the probahility of wave breaking and the whitecap coverage with wind parameters. To this end, the time-averaging technique proposed by Glazman (1986) is applied to the estimation of the spectral moments involved, and furthermore, the theoretical models are compared with available observations collected from published literature. From the comparison, the averaging time scale is determined. The final models show that the probability of wave breaking as well as the whitecap coverage depends on the dimensionless fetch. The agreement between these models and the database is reasonable.     

丽江地震前后重力场变化的有限矩形位错模型分析

研究了用有限矩形位错模型计算地壳形变引起的地面重力场变化的方法．以丽江MＳ7.0地震为例，讨论了确定用于模型计算的断层面参数的原则，并给出了结果．计算和分析了不同类型位错引起的重力场变化图象特征，并与丽江地震前后观测到的重力场变化进行比较．结果表明，在发震断层有限范围内模型可解释同震重力场的变化，但模型对于更大空间范围上的重力场变化并不能给出很好地解释.      

THE LIFE-CYCLE OF MINERAL CONSUMPTION IN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS IMPLICATION

Ｉ.ＩｎｔｒｏｄｕｃｔｉｏｎＴｈｒｏｕｇｈｏｕｔｈｉｓｔｏｒｙｍｉｎｅｒａｌｓｈａｖｅｂｅｅｎａｄｅｔｅｒｍｉｎａｎｔｆａｃｔｏｒｉｎｔｈｅｅｖｏｌｕｔｉｏｎｏｆｓｏｃｉｅｔｉｅｓａｎｄｃｉｖｉｌｉｚａｔｉｏｎ.ＴｈｅｖｅｒｙｏｂｖｉｏｕｓｉｍｐａｃｔｏｆｍｉｎｅｒａｌｓｏｎＭａｎ’ｓｅｖｏｌｕｔｉｏｎｃａｎｂｅｔｒａｃｅｄｉｎｔｅｒｍｓｏｆＭａｎ’ｓａｃｑｕａｉｎｔａｎｃｅｗｉｔｈｍｉｎｅｒａｌｓ—ｔｈｅＰｒｅｓｔｏｎｅＡｇｅ,ｔｈｅＳｔｏｎｅＡｇｅ,ｔｈｅＢｒｏｎｚｅＡｇｅ,ｔｈｅＩｒｏｎＡｇｅ,…     

APPROACH TO KARST SOLUTION PROCESS RESPONSES ON CLIMATE

ＩｎｔｒｏｄｕｃｔｉｏｎＳｏｌｕｔｉｏｎａｓａｋａｒｓｔｇｅｏｍｏｒｐｈｏｌｏｇｉｃａｌｐｒｏｃｅｓｓｉｎｌａｎｄｆｏｒｍｄｅｖｅｌｏｐｍｅｎｔｈａｓｌｏｎｇｂｅｅｎｒｅｃｏｇｎｉｚｅｄ.Ｓｉｎｃｅｔｈｅｋａｒｓｔｐｒｏｃｅｓｓｅｓａｒｅａｌｍｏｓｔｅｎｔｉｒｅｌｙｓｏｌｕｔｉｏｎ,ｔｈｏｕｇｈｋａｒｓｔｌａｎｄｆｏｒｍｓａｒｅｎｏｔｏｎｌｙｃａｕｓｅｄｂｙｓｏｌｕｔｉｏｎｂｕｔａｌｓｏｂｙｅｒｏｓｉｏｎ,ｔｈｅｃｉｒｃｕｌａｔｉｏｎａｎｄｃｈｅｍｉｃａｌｃｏｍｐｏｓｉｔｉｏｎｓｏｆｋａｒｓｔｕｎ…     

PELIMINARY ANALYSES FOR CROP WATER CONSUMPTION BY USING LYSIMETER

Ｉ.ＩｎｔｒｏｄｕｃｔｉｏｎＴｈｅＨｕａｎｇ-Ｈｕａｉ-ＨａｉＰｌａｉｎｉｎＮｏｒｔｈＣｈｉｎａｉｓａｃｒｕｃｉａｌａｒｅａｉｎｐｒｏｖｉｄｉｎｇａｂｏｕｔｏｎｅ-ｆｉｆｔｈｏｆｔｏｔａｌｓｔａｔｅｆｏｏｄ[4],ａｎｄｉｔｉｓｆａｃｉｎｇａｓｅｒｉｏｕｓｗａｔｅｒｓｈｏｒｔａｇｅｉｎｒｅｃｅｎｔｙｅａｒｓｄｕｅｔｏｔｈｅｅｘｐａｎｓｉｏｎｏｆｉｎｄｕｓｔｒｙａｎｄａｃｏｎｔｉｎｕｏｕｓｄｅｃｒｅａｓｅｉｎｐｒｅｃｉｐｉｔａｔｉｏｎ.Ｔｈｅｓｔｕｄｙｉｎｓｏｉｌ-ｐｌａｎｔ-ａｔｍｏｓｐｈｅｒｅｃｏｎｔｉ…     

DYNAMIC VARIATIONS OF WATER QUALITY IN TAIHU LAKE AND MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF ITS INFLUENTIAL FACTORS

ＬａｋｅＴａｉｈｕｉｓａｌａｒｇｅｓｈａｌｌｏｗｌａｋｅｉｎＣｈｉｎａ,ｗｈｉｃｈｐａｌｙｓａｎｉｍｐｏｒｔａｎｔｒｏｌｅｉｎｗａｔｅｒ-ｑｕａｎｔｉｔｙｒｅｇｕｌａｔｉｏｎ,ｗａｔｅｒｓｕｐｐｌｙ,ｃｕｌｔｉｖａｔｉｏｎｅｔｃ.Ｗｉｔｈｒａｐｉｄｄｅｖｅｌｏｐｍｅｎｔｏｆａｇｒｉｃｕｌｔｕｒｅａｎｄｉｎｄｕｓｔｒｙｉｎｔｈｅａｒｅａ,ａｌａｒｇｅｎｕｍｂｅｒｏｆｐｏｌｌｕｔａｎｔｓｈａｖｅｂｅｅｎｄｉｓｃｈａｒｇｅｄｉｎｔｏｔｈｅｌａｋｅ,ｌｅａｄｉｎｇｔｏａｎｉｎｃｒｅａｓｅｉｎｎｕｔｒｉｅｎｔｓ…     

LAND DEGRADATION AND ITS MANAGEMENT IN THE ARID AND SEMI ARID AREAS OF CHINA

Ｉ.ＬａｎｄＤｅｇｒａｄａｔｉｏｎＤｉｓｔｒｉｂｕｔｉｏｎａｎｄＩｔｓＣｈａｒａｃｔｅｒｉｓｔｉｃｓＴｈｅｆａｒｍｉｎｇｐａｓｔｏｒａｌｔｒａｎｓｉｔｉｏｎａｌｒｅｇｉｏｎｉｎｓｅｍｉａｒｉｄｌａｎｄｏｆｎｏｒｔｈｅｒｎＣｈｉｎａｉｓｔｈｅｍｏｓｔｔｙｐｉｃａｌｒｅｇｉｏｎｏｆｌａｎｄｄｅｇｒａｄａｔｉｏｎ,ａｎｄａｌｓｏｔｈｅｒｅｇｉｏｎｗｉｔｈｅｘｔｅｎｓｉｖｅｌｙｄｅｖｅｌｏｐｉｎｇｓａｎｄｙｄｅｓｅｒｔｉｆｉｃａｔｉｏｎ.ＴｈｅｅｘｔｅｎｔｉｓｆｒｏｍＨｏｒｑｉｎＳａｎｄｙＬａｎｄｉｎｔｈ…     

NUMERICAL EXPERIMENT OF THE INFLUENCES OF HEAT AND WIND STRESS ON THE EQUATORIAL OCEAN CIRCULATION

A time-dependent linear model on the equatorial beta plane is developed in this paper.Its verticalstructure consists of two active layers with equal density and temperature above the thermocline and aquasi-stationary layer with constant density below the thermocline.The results of nurnericat experiments show that the direct influence of heat on the equatorial ocean ismuch smaller than that of wind stress.Nevertheless,through the tropical ocean-atmosphere interaction,the change of wind stress resulting from the thermal forcing may set a determinant effect on the equilibriumand anomalous development of the ocean-almosphere circulation.