0513号台风"泰利"引发浙南特大暴雨过程分析

利用地面加密自动站观测资料、雷达和NCEP1.0°×1.0°再分析资料,对0513号台风"泰利"引发浙南特大暴雨过程进行了分析。结果表明,此次降水具有明显的时空分布特征:特大暴雨出现在温州西南部,强降水主要集中在3~4个小时内;500 hPa西风槽、大陆高压及副高的演变直接影响台风的移向;低层东南部海面的强水汽输送带为暴雨区提供了充足的水汽;雷达强回波带的稳定维持是造成温州西南部特大暴雨的直接原因;暴雨发生前后物理量场——涡度场、垂直速度场、螺旋度场、水汽含量场、水汽通量散度场分布基本一致,能很好地对应特大暴雨的落区及强降水的集中时段。     

台风"灿都"造成云南强降水过程的水汽螺旋度诊断分析

利用地面加密观测、Micaps资料和NCEP1°×1°再分析资料对1003号"灿都"台风造成云南暴雨进行诊断分析。结果表明:台风低压为高温高湿且具有强对流不稳定的深厚系统。进入云南后除了自身携带的大量水汽和能量外,先后有副热带高压西侧强盛偏南急流和孟加拉湾西南气流卷入,使得台风低压在云南持久不衰,并产生全省性强降水。诊断量"水汽螺旋度"对暴雨落区和强度有较好的对应关系,强降水多发生在水汽螺旋度正值中心的偏南侧。"水汽螺旋度"随时间变化的两个影响因子"螺旋度通量散度"和"湿螺旋度散度"对强降水的落区和强度也有较好的指示作用。若是分别对两个因子进行诊断,再综合分析环流形势,将能达到更好的强降水预报效果。     

"2006.10"云南严重秋季连阴雨水汽输送特征和湿Q矢量分析

应用常规气象资料通过诊断分析和湿Q矢量分析,探讨了2006年10月上旬云南严重连阴雨期间的水汽输送特征,进一步分析了期间持续性暴雨、大雨的落区分布,结果表明:连阴雨期间,ITCZ异常活跃,先后有4个热带气旋活动,200616号强台风"象神"横穿中南半岛进入孟加拉湾,减弱之后再度发展成孟加拉湾低压,由此提供了孟加拉湾水汽通道;ITCZ水汽通过副高外围气流向中南半岛输送,提供了第二条水汽通道,两条水汽通道呈"人"字形,为连阴雨发生发展提供了有利的水汽条件.湿Q矢量辐合中心在对流层中低层700～640 hPa之间,700 hPa上湿Q矢量散度辐合区与暴雨区对应较好;随着湿Q矢量辐合区加强、移动和减弱,暴雨随之发展、移动和结束.     

雅安"8·26"特大暴雨的天气分析

2003年8月25日晚8时30分至26日凌晨1时许,四川省雅安市雨城区发生2281mm的特大暴雨,给当地造成了历史罕见的灾情.本文主要从天气学角度,对该降水过程的大尺度环流及天气尺度影响系统、水汽输送及源地、中尺度系统特征和地形作用等进行了分析.结果表明:雅安"8·26"特大暴雨过程是一次典型的登陆热带气旋与"雅安天漏"中尺度地形涡旋相互作用的暴雨过程.此过程产生的大尺度环流背景及天气尺度影响系统是:对流层上层南亚高压一直稳定在青藏高原中部,雅安市上空100hPa为南亚高压的辐散场;对流层中层西太平洋副热带高压主体持续加强西伸,位于南海的 "科罗旺" 台风稳定西进,雅安市处于副高边缘湿润的东南气流和高原切变线前部的辐合上升气流中;对流层低层受对流层中层高原切变线和登陆台风东北侧强东风急流的激发,地形涡旋强烈发展."科罗旺"台风东北侧和副高西南侧,850～700hPa天气尺度的低空偏东急流及其风速脉动,从热力(水汽、感热、潜热输送)和动力两个方面激发暴雨区的中β尺度系统迅速、强烈的发展.暴雨过程的水汽输送主要是靠"科罗旺"强台风的作用,水汽源地主要来自南海.暴雨中的地形作用非常显著,青衣江河谷喇叭口地形和迎风坡对暖湿空气的强迫辐合抬升,对降水有很大的增幅作用,暴雨中心地形雨的比率高达60%以上.     

四川盆地东北部2004年"9.3"大暴雨天气过程浅析

本文对2004年9月3～5日发生在四川盆地东北部一次区域性暴雨天气过程进行了综合分析,分析认为造成"9.3"暴雨的主要原因有以下几点:(1)西太平洋副热带高压与台风"桑达"共同作用下在四川盆地东北部形成了强阻塞气流;(2)云贵高原到四川盆地的西南低空急流将南方高温、高湿空气源源不断地向输送四川盆地,为四川盆地东北部暴雨提供了充沛的水汽;(3)500hPa四川盆地北侧的高空切变和700hPa西南低涡是"9.3"暴雨的主要影响系统.     

武汉地区"98.7"连续性暴雨的卫星水汽图像分析

通过对1998年7月20－21日武汉市连续性暴雨的水汽图像，红外云图以及常规气象资料诊断分析，研究连续性暴雨系统发生发展的原因，探讨利用水汽图像作连续性暴雨预报的可能性，在常规气象资料和红外云图上看不出有连续性暴雨以及暴雨结束信息，而在水汽图像上可以判断出来，这种信息对暴雨预报非常重要。     

海南岛"0810"特大暴雨物理量诊断及多普勒特征分析

应用常规观测、海口多普勒回波及NCEP1×1°再分析等资料,对2008年10月12～15日海南特大暴雨成因进行诊断分析,并揭示了暴雨过程中的多普勒回波特征.结果表明:导致海南岛产生强降水的主要原因是热带低压移动缓慢和弱冷空气的低层入侵;当冷暖空气交绥,大气温湿结构发生突变,θse面陡立造成对流系统斜压发展,激发位势不稳定能量释放.正差动假相当位温平流意味着低层暖湿空气的平流大于高层,加强了层结对流不稳定发展;在斜压扰动作用下,对流层中层正差动涡度平流和低压东侧的暖平流破坏了海南岛的准地转平衡,动力强迫和热力强迫共同作用激发了次级环流,导致暴雨区上空的垂直运动的发展,促使暴雨增强.充沛的水汽输送及水汽的强烈辐合,为暴雨发生的有利水汽条件.多普勒径向速度揭示了暴雨区低层冷平流高层暖平流、风向风速的垂直切变大的垂直结构以及持续性的强烈辐合等等特征,回波停滞和"列车效应"使降水增幅,降水回波的性质差异,可造成强降水区域分布的不同.     

干冷空气入侵台风"海棠"残余低压引发的华北地区大暴雨分析

利用地面逐小时观测资料、NCEP/NCAR (1°×1°)再分析资料、FY-2F卫星加密观测(6 min分辨率)的云顶亮温(TBB)和常规观测资料,对1710号台风"海棠"残余低压北上与冷空气结合导致华北东部大暴雨天气过程进行分析。结果表明:(1)该华北东部大暴雨过程分为两个主要时段,2017年8月1日23时—2日20时(北京时)华北东南部暴雨,由台风残余低压产生,8月2日20时—3日11时华北东北部暴雨,是由减弱变性的台风环流与西风槽东移带来的干冷空气结合进而导致新生气旋和低涡产生引起。(2) 8月2日20时,台风与冷空气逐渐结合,干冷空气从对流层中高层进入变性台风北部,造成位涡下传,进而导致对流层低层形成低涡、地面形成新生气旋,同时激发出中尺度对流系统,系统稳定发展并缓慢向东北方向移动,导致持续近5 h的短时强降雨。(3)暴雨水汽来源主要有两部分,一是台风本身携带来的由南风输送的水汽,二是来自黄渤海由东风输送的水汽,二者结合后从对流层低层将水汽带至华北东北部,且在燕山前形成了水汽强辐合,为该暴雨过程大提供充足的水汽条件。     

"0808"号台风残留引发特大暴雨成因分析

利用多普勒雷达、TBB和NCEP1×1°再分析资料,对2008年8月1日发生在苏皖中部交界处的特大暴雨过程进行了分析.结果表明:特大暴雨过程是发生在减弱后的"0808"号台风环流与增强的副热带高压相互作用的背景下,西南低空急流增强和台风环流蜕变低槽东移分别触发了两段强降水的发生,对流层中低层强水汽辐合上升激发了台风残留...     

滁州"0374"特大暴雨初探

对2003年7月4日滁州市出现的1次特大暴雨,分别从大尺度环流背景、水汽条件、动力条件和卫星云图等方面进行分析.结果表明,这次暴雨的产生主要是在有利的梅雨期环流背景下,由江淮切变线附近发生发展的中尺度对流系统造成,并与当地的水汽条件和动力条件也有着密切关系.     

Climate policy strength compared: China,the US,the EU,India, Russia,and Japan

The few systematic international comparisons of climate policy strength made so far have serious weaknesses, particularly those that assign arbitrary weightings to different policy instrument types in order to calculate an aggregate score for policy strength. This article avoids these problems by ranking the six biggest emitters by far – China, the US, the EU, India, Russia, and Japan – on a set of six key policy instruments that are individually potent and together representative of climate policy as a whole: carbon taxes, emissions trading, feed-in tariffs, renewable energy quotas, fossil fuel power plant bans, and vehicle emissions standards. The results cast strong doubt on any idea that there is a clear hierarchy on climate policy with Europe at the top: the EU does lead on a number of policies but so does Japan. China, the US, and India each lead on one area. Russia is inactive on all fronts. At the same time climate policy everywhere remains weak compared to what it could be.

Policy relevance

This study enables climate policy strength, defined as the extent to which the statutory provisions of climate policies are likely to restrict GHG emissions if implemented as intended, to be assessed and compared more realistically across space and time. As such its availability for the six biggest emitters, which together account for over 70% of global CO₂ emissions, should facilitate international negotiations (1) by giving participants a better idea of where major emitters stand relative to each other as far as climate policy stringency is concerned, and (2) by identifying areas of weakness that need action.     

1,800 Years of abrupt climate change, severe fire, and accelerated erosion, Sierra Nevada, California, USA

This paper provides both a detailed history of environmental change in the Sierra Nevada over the past 1,800 years and evidence for climate teleconnections between the Sierra Nevada and Greenland during the late Holocene. A review of Greenland ice core data suggests that the magnitudes of abrupt changes in temperature and precipitation increased beginning c. 3,700 and 3,000 years ago, respectively. Precipitation increased abruptly 1,300 years ago. Comparing paleotemperature data from Cirque Peak, CA with paleoprecipitation data from Pyramid Lake, NV suggests that hot temperatures occurred at the beginnings of most severe droughts in the Sierra Nevada over the past 1,800 years. Severe fires and erosion also occurred at Coburn Lake, CA at the beginning of all severe droughts in the Sierra Nevada over the past 1,800 years. This suggests that abrupt climate change during the late Holocene caused vegetation and mountain slopes in some areas to be out of equilibrium with abruptly changed climates. Finally, the ending of drought conditions in Greenland coincided with the beginning of drought conditions in the Sierra Nevada over the past 1,800 years, perhaps as a result of the rapidly changed locations of the Earth??s major precipitation belts during abrupt climate change events.     

The temperature dependent,infrared absorption cross-sections for the chlorofluorocarbons: CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-13, CFC-14, CFC-22, CFC-113, CFC-114, and CFC-115

The infrared absorption cross-sections for eight commonly used halogenated methanes and ethanes have been measured as a function of temperature from 203 to 293 K. High resolution spectra (0.03 cm^-1) have been used to derive integrated band strengths and peak cross-sections associated with the spectral features in the infrared region from 600 to 1500 cm^-2. The values obtained in this study are compared to those from previous reports, and recommendations are made for uses in atmospheric sensing and radiative energy transfer models. The observed temperature dependence in the spectral features is also discussed.     

Wind-driven, double-gyre, ocean circulation in a reduced-gravity, 2.5-layer, lattice boltzmann model

A coupled lattice Boltzmann （LB） model with second-order accuracy is applied to the reduced-gravity, shallow water, 2.5-layer model for wind-driven double-gyre ocean circulation. By introducing the secondorder integral approximation for the collision operator, the model becomes fully explicit. The Coriolis force and other external forces are included in the model with second-order accuracy, which is consistent with the discretization accuracy of the LB equation. The feature of the multiple equilibria solutions is found in the numerical experiments under different Reynolds numbers based on this LB scheme. With the Reynolds number increasing from 3000 to 4000, the solution of this model is destabilized from the anti-symmetric double-gyre solution to the subtropic gyre solution and then to the subpolar gyre solution. The transitions between these equilibria states are also found in some parameter ranges. The time-dependent variability of the circulation based on this LB simulation is also discussed for varying viscosity regimes. The flow of this model exhibits oscillations with different timescales varying from subannual to interannual. The corresponding statistical oscillation modes are obtained by spectral analysis. By analyzing the spatiotemporal structures of these modes, it is found that the subannual oscillation with a 9-month period originates from the barotropic Rossby basin mode, and the interarmual oscillations with periods ranging from 1.5 years to 4.6 years originate from the recirculation gyre modes, which include the barotropic and the baroclinic recirculation gyre modes.     

The microstructure of selected, small, isolated, cumulus clouds near Red Deer, Alberta

Physical experiments designed to explore the potential of rain augmentation through airborne glaciogenic seeding on small, isolated non-precipitating cumuliform clouds near Red Deer, Alberta were carried out during the period 1982–1985. The microstructure of 90 cumulus congestus clouds have been documented through repeated in-situ sampling using a cloud physics instrumented aircraft platform. Observations from the inspection passes of 57 clouds seeded with either dry ice pellets or silver iodide pyrotechnics, and all the passes of 33 natural clouds are presented.Measurements of the cloud droplet concentration indicate that Alberta cumulus clouds are typically continental in nature, with an average droplet concentration of 535 cm⁻³ and an average droplet diameter of 10.6 μm. Alberta clouds have average liquid water contents of 0.57 g m⁻³, with a peak 1-sec value of 3.17 g m⁻³. The 1-km average liquid water contents are 0.83 g m⁻³, with a peak value of 2.81 g m⁻³. Cloud lifetimes vary between 11 and 20 minutes. Concentrations of naturally occurring ice crystals are found to be low. The average maximum 1-km ice concentration was 31⁻¹, and the peak 1-km concentration was 73.11⁻¹ in the natural cloud dataset. Evidence of precipitation-sized particles was detected in 21% (7 of 33) of the clouds, and precipitation below cloud base was detected in 6% (2 of 33) of the clouds.A comparison of the Alberta cloud characteristics to the cumulus clouds from different locations showed that there are some distinct differences between Alberta clouds and the clouds from the other regions.     

承德市一次由快速发展气旋诱发的大风天气分析

利用常规观测资料和NCEP/NCAR(1°×1°)逐6 h再分析资料,对承德市2017年5月5—6日大风天气的环流形势和物理量进行分析,结果表明气旋的快速发展(气旋加深率0.84 B)导致锋生加强,引发气压和变压梯度加大是导致大风的直接原因。500 hPa高压脊东移迫使冷空气向南堆积,高空槽不断发展成为冷涡,温度平流为地面气旋的发展提供热力条件,高低层涡度平流的差异,也是地面气旋快速发展的重要原因;当1.5 PVU位涡面伸展至对流层低层时,局地位涡异常在气旋的发展过程中不可忽视;高空急流出口区发生质量调整,出口区左侧的辐散强度达10×10~(-5) s~(-1),使低层大气减压,有利于气旋发展。     

Governance,complexity, and resilience

This special issue brings together prominent scholars to explore novel multilevel governance challenges posed by the behavior of dynamic and complex social-ecological systems. Here we expand and investigate the emerging notion of “resilience” as a perspective for understanding how societies can cope with, and develop from, disturbances and change. As the contributions to the special issue illustrate, resilience thinking in its current form contains substantial normative and conceptual difficulties for the analysis of social systems. However, a resilience approach to governance issues also shows a great deal of promise as it enables a more refined understanding of the dynamics of rapid, interlinked and multiscale change. This potential should not be underestimated as institutions and decision-makers try to deal with converging trends of global interconnectedness and increasing pressure on social-ecological systems.     

基于L波段探空的云区边界识别改进算法

利用气象业务中使用的L波段探空数据和毫米波云雷达观测资料,分析探空相对湿度在入云和出云时的变化规律,提出一种基于探空相对湿度阈值与梯度相结合的云区边界识别改进算法,并利用云雷达观测数据对算法识别结果进行验证.利用北京市南郊观象台2019年1—6月层状云样本验证分析,结果表明:改进算法相比相对湿度阈值法,对云区边界识别更...     

江苏三次不同量级降雪过程的对比分析

利用常规观测资料和NCEP 1°×1°再分析资料,通过对发生在江苏的三次不同量级的区域性暴雪、大雪和中雪过程典型个例进行对比分析,发现降雪时,700hPa低空急流的位置和强度是影响降雪量级的主要因素之一;降雪区上空涡度的垂直分布遵循低层负涡度、中层正涡度和高层负涡度的配置,暴雪时正涡度强且正涡度区最为深厚,动力抬升作用强,中雪发生时正涡度区相对最为浅薄,不利于形成强辐合抬升,动力抬升作用弱。且暴雪和大雪发生时基本上整层都为垂直螺旋度正值区,中雪时没有出现明显的正值区;暴雪和大雪过程时中低层都具有明显的逆温层,中高层西南急流造成的对流层中层的爆发性增温是逆温层形成的关键,中雪发生时不一定有逆温层结;降雪强度与湿位涡分量绝对值存在一定的正相关关系。     

Weeds, Insects, and Diseases

The geographic distribution, vigor, virulence, and agricultural impact of weeds, insects, and plant pathogens will be affected by climatic changes accompanying the global "greenhouse effect." Weed/crop competitive interactions, particularly among species differing in photosynthetic pathway (C₃ v C₄), may be altered, with the C₃ species favored by increasing CO₂. Physiological and biochemical changes induced in host crop plants by rising CO₂ may affect feeding patterns of pest insects. Compilation of climatic thresholds for phenological development of pest insects reveals the potential for shifts in pest behavior induced by global warming and other climatic change. Generation times may be reduced, enabling more rapid population increases to occur. Poleward migration may be accelerated during the crop season. The epidemiology of plant diseases also will be altered. Prediction of disease outbreaks will be more difficult in periods of rapidly changing climate and unstable weather. Environmental instability and increased incidence of extreme weather may reduce the effectiveness of pesticides on targeted pests or result in more injury to non-target organisms. Biological control may be affected either negatively or positively. Overall, the challenge to agriculture from pests probably will increase.