我国天文台及潜在台址所在地区Fried参数γ0的计算与统计分析

用1986-1995年的10年探空气象资料，在塔塔尔斯基模式下，计算了我国天语言台及候选台址所在的10个地区的Fried参数r0。给出了地面、900米、1500米、3000米、5000米各度上的r0年平均值。在3000米高度上冬季丽江视宁度最好，夏季酒泉最好，均达到相应季节定日4301米高度上视宁度水平。     

丽江高美古的二期选址——望远镜地面高度的确定

在丽江高美古前期选址工作的基础上^[1-2]，二期选址的望远镜地面高度的确定工作于2000年11月3日至2000年12月16日进行，采用30m铁塔的温度脉动测量装置，对6#选址观测点的近地面大气湍流进行反复多次测量，得到近地面不同高度(4-30m和8-22m)上每夜温度结构系数CT^2的平均值，对观测取得的资料作进一步处理和分析，得到高美古6#观测点的望远镜地面高度为13～15m。     

大气参数变化对VLBI对流层时延计算值的影响

本采用我国上海、昆明和乌鲁木齐三个VLBI站的对流层大气高度参数ht和对流层内温度垂直梯度βt参数月均值资料，估计了对干大气时延的影响，结果表明在地平高度ε＝10°－20°时两参数的变化可引起干大气时延周年变化的幅值分别为1-5mm和2-15mm；ht的周日变化也可引起大气时延周日变化约1mm，因此，对于1ps级精度的VLBI物理模型，ht和βt不应当采用测站的固定常数值。     

丽江高美古的二期选址--望远镜地面高度的确定

在丽江高美古前期选址工作的基础上[1～2],二期选址的望远镜地面高度的确定工作于2000年11月3日至2000年12月16日进行,采用30m铁塔的温度脉动测量装置,对6#选址观测点的近地面大气湍流进行反复多次测量,得到近地面不同高度(4～30m和8～22m)上每夜温度结构系数C2T的平均值,对观测取得的资料作进一步处理和分析,得到高美古6#观测点的望远镜地面高度为13～15m。     

基于中国部分城市气象条件的对流层延迟分析

随着用户对卫星定位导航精度要求的提高,对流层大气延迟影响将更加明显,需要进行延迟改正.对比分析了对流层大气延迟理论的主要映射函数模型,讨论了我国部分测站NMF(Niell Mapping Function)、VMF1(Vienna Mapping Function 1)和GMF(Global Mapping Function)的静力学映射函数和湿映射函数的分布情况,分别采用上述3种映射函数研究了我国部分城市气象条件下的对流层延迟.从运算结果分布曲线可知,所选测站的VMF1和GMF静力学映射函数曲线呈年周期余弦分布且大致相同,而NMF静力学映射函数值总体大于前两者;VMF1湿映射函数受气候变化影响较大,呈近似余弦函数分布,且VMF1和GMF呈近似夏季最小、冬季最大的分布.10°高度角下,所选测站斜延迟均呈现年周期余弦曲线分布,随着纬度的增加,斜延迟呈减小趋势,且呈夏季最大、冬季最小的分布,最大、最小值差约为2 m.     

低高度角大气静力学延迟修正的改进

进行低高度角观测是GPS(Global Positioning System)气象学的发展趋势,其中发展高精度的低高度角的大气静力学延迟修正是主要的关键技术.比较了3种计算无线电波从空间到地面接收机的大气静力学延迟修正方法:(1)在大气球对称假设下用探空气球资料路径积分得到大气静力学延迟;(2)在大气球对称假设下用NCEP(National Centers for Environmental Prediction)再分析资料得到大气静力学延迟;(3)用Niell的大气静力学映射函数得到大气静力学延迟.与2001年中国地区89个探空气球站资料计算得到的大气静力学映射函数比较结果显示:NCEP再分析资料路径积分的方法在低高度角(5°以下)的精度好于Niell映射函数模型约5倍.     

BDS/GPS接收机系统间偏差稳定性分析

接收机系统间偏差(Inter-System Bias,ISB)稳定性分析对于了解ISB误差特性和建模预报具有重要意义.为了分析ISB的长期稳定性,选择MGEX(Multiple Global Navigation Satellite System Experiment)网2014—2016年每年各1周的数据,分别采用武汉大学和德国地学研究中心提供的精密钟差和轨道产品,利用BDS(Bei Dou Navigation Satellite System)/GPS(Global Positioning System)组合精密单点定位(Precise Point Positioning,PPP)计算测站的ISB值,并对ISB的日稳定性和周稳定性进行了深入分析.实验结果表明:ISB的日变化比较稳定,日标准差平均值约为0.5 ns.不同年份数据的ISB周平均值和周标准差的差异较大,并且ISB周平均值与测站的接收机类型有关.采用不同精密产品计算得到的ISB之间存在系统性偏差,对于同一周不同测站的ISB周平均值,该系统性偏差一致性较好.     

GPS/LEO掩星技术中超折射效应的修正

在GPS掩星探测地球大气技术中，Abel积分变换要求大气折射指数n是折射半径a的单值函数，当大气折射率的垂直梯度达到小于一个极限值dN／dr≈-0．16N-unit m^-1上述单值性不成立，称其为超折射，此时Abel积分变换不再适用,如果还是在形式上应用经典的Abel变换，在反演结果中就会产生负大气折射率偏差．描述了低对流层中超折射现象的物理特性和数学表示；在广义Abel积分变换的基础上，讨论了超折射层内和超折射层下的大气剖面反演算法；选择了一个简单的采样间隔内等大气折射率垂直梯度假设，对英国高分辨率无线电探空观测资料进行模拟计算，验证了负超折射与大气折射率偏差的关系，并提出的广义Abel变换的合理性.     

全球大气折射延迟映射函数的可能性问题

自从新空间技术问世以来,大气传播误差的研究已经成为提高观测精度的主要课题之一。作为最新大气延迟映射函数0之一的Niell模型（NMF）已经在归算过程中受到重视。利用探空气球资料沿光程数值积分方法并在理论上分析了NMF模型的优点和缺点,认为：Niell利用探空气球资料来建立大气折射映射函数的方法有它的合理因素,例如可以建立一个台站或一个地区的映射函数;但是,即使利用充分多的探空气球资料,要建立高精度的“全球”大气延迟映射函数还存在着很大的困难。     

映射函数对天文大气折射的改进

本文利用大气折射积分母函数方法,分别给出在射电波段和光学波段上天文大气折射改正的映射函数,并完整地考虑了天文学和空间技术所需要的物理和地球物理因素引入的改正．本文还利用探空气球的资料分析了新天文大气折射改正公式的实际精度;计算结果证明：它在2°高度角时达到5”左右,而在5°高度角时约为1”．我们认为：限制计算精度的主要因素是真实地球大气分布与理论大气模型的区别．     

Annual survey of water vapor behavior from the OMEGA mapping spectrometer onboard Mars Express

We present here the annual behavior of atmospheric water vapor on Mars, as observed by the OMEGA spectrometer on board Mars Express during its first martian year. We consider all the different features of the cycle of water vapor: temporal evolution, both at a seasonal and at a diurnal scale; longitudinal distribution; and the vertical profile, through the variations in the saturation height. We put our results into the context of the current knowledge on the water cycle through a systematic comparison with the already published datasets. The seasonal behavior is in very good agreement with past and simultaneous retrievals both qualitatively and quantitatively, within the uncertainties. The average water vapor abundance during the year is ∼10 pr. μm, with an imbalance between northern and southern hemisphere, in favor of the first. The maximum of activity, up to 60 pr. μm, occurs at high northern latitudes during local summer and shows the dominance of the northern polar cap within the driving processes of the water cycle. A corresponding maximum at southern polar latitudes during the local summer is present, but less structured and intense. It reaches ∼25 pr. μm at its peak. Global circulation has some influence in shaping the water cycle, but it is less prominent than the results from previous instruments suggest. No significant correlation between water vapor column density and local hour is detected. We can constrain the amount of water vapor exchanged between the surface and the atmosphere to few pr. μm. This is consistent with recent results by OMEGA and PFS-LW. The action of the regolith layer on the global water cycle seems to be minor, but it cannot be precisely constrained. The distribution of water vapor on the planet, after removing the topography, shows the already known two-maxima system, over Tharsis and Arabia Terra. However, the Arabia Terra increase is quite fragmented compared with previous observations. A deep zone of minimum separates the two regions. The saturation height of water vapor is mainly governed by the variations of insolation during the year. It is confined within 5-15 km from the surface at aphelion, while in the perihelion season it stretches up to 55 km of altitude.     

Martian water vapor: Mars Express PFS/LW observations

We present the seasonal and geographical variations of the martian water vapor monitored from the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer Long Wavelength Channel aboard the Mars Express spacecraft. Our dataset covers one martian year (end of Mars Year 26, Mars Year 27), but the seasonal coverage is far from complete. The seasonal and latitudinal behavior of the water vapor is globally consistent with previous datasets, Viking Orbiter Mars Atmospheric Water Detectors (MAWD) and Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer (MGS/TES), and with simultaneous results obtained from other Mars Express instruments, OMEGA and SPICAM. However, our absolute water columns are lower and higher by a factor of 1.5 than the values obtained by TES and SPICAM, respectively. In particular, we retrieve a Northern midsummer maximum of 60 pr-μm, lower than the 100-pr-μm observed by TES. The geographical distribution of water exhibits two local maxima at low latitudes, located over Tharsis and Arabia. Global Climate Model (GCM) simulations suggest that these local enhancements are controlled by atmospheric dynamics. During Northern spring, we observe a bulge of water vapor over the seasonal polar cap edge, consistent with the northward transport of water from the retreating seasonal cap to the permanent polar cap. In terms of vertical distribution, we find that the water volume mixing ratio over the large volcanos remains constant with the surface altitude within a factor of two. However, on the whole dataset we find that the water column, normalized to a fixed pressure, is anti-correlated with the surface pressure, indicating a vertical distribution intermediate between control by atmospheric saturation and confinement to a surface layer. This anti-correlation is not reproduced by GCM simulations of the water cycle, which do not include exchange between atmospheric and subsurface water. This situation suggests a possible role for regolith-atmosphere exchange in the martian water cycle.     

O3 profiles from GOME satellite data—I: Comparison with ozonesonde measurements

Ozone profiles on a global scale can be derived from GOME satellite data by minimizing the difference between the measured and the corresponding simulated spectra as a function of the vertical distribution of 0₃. For this purpose the FUll Retrieval Method (FURM) was developed, which is based on the optimal estimation approach and contains the radiative transfer code GOMETRAN as an essential component. The quality of the GOME ozone profiles is assessed by comparing them with 197 coincident ozonesonde measurements at five selected European stations. The comparison results show that the seasonal ozone variations are very well reproduced by the GOME profiles. The agreement between the GOME and the sonde measurements is best above 18 km altitude where the mean relative difference is below 10% and the root mean square of the relative differences is of the order of 10%. Larger differences occur in the tropopause region and lowermost stratosphere where the natural ozone variability is largest.     

Power spectrum of geomagneticK p-index detected at Misallat magnetic station

TheK _p-indices measured at Misallat station [ø = 29°45 N; = 30°54 E] during the period 1958–1989, have been compared with the data of two geomagnetic stations; one of them has similar longitude as Misallat and the second has almost similar latitude. The spectra of daily and hourly data of the three stations are compared together to define the latitude and longitude-effects on the detected periodicities. Daily periodicities ofK _p-index activities at the values 32.7, 21.2, 12.9, 11.6 and 9.2 days have been obtained to be common in the spectra of the three stations. The existence of 5-days periodicity in these stations has also been detected.     

The influence of global dust storms on the mean seasonal daily insolations at the Martian surface

In this paper, we compare changes in the mean seasonal daily insolations at the Martian surface caused by global dust storms characterized by various atmospheric optical thickness (). The calculations, made for optical depths equal to 0, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, are based on the assumption of planet encircling storms lasting one season or one year. The variations in the latitudinal and seasonal surface insolation distributions are important, mainly at the poles where e.g. the mean annual and summer daily insolations decrease by nearly a factor of 3000 as goes from 0 to 3.0. At equatorial latitudes the corresponding loss is much smaller, reaching a value of approximately 40. Concerning the mean wintertime solar radiations it is found that the decrease is even more spectacular, especially at high latitudes.     

Median ionospheric height variations over a sunspot cycle in the Australian-Japanese longitudinal sector

The monthly median virtual height (h′F) of the F-region was studied for a period of 6 years (1980–1985) from sunspot maximum to minimum, using data from 11 ionosonde stations in the Japanese-Australian longitudinal sector, in an invariant latitude range: 37°N to 54°S. The night-time maximum in the median height progressively decreases equatorwards, particularly in the local winter and spring, while a reverse weak tendency is observed in summer. The median height reaches peak in both hemispheres from 1 to 2 years after sunspot maximum then decreases towards sunspot minimum. A second diurnal maximum in h′F, preceded by a well-defined minimum, was consistently observed over the solar cycle close to the sunrise time at the F-region, mainly at low invariant latitudes (9–20°). The second maximum has a distinct seasonal variation, being most pronounced in winter and diminishing in summer. It is envisaged that the second peak in h′F is associated with the wave disturbance generated by the supersonic motion of the sunrise terminator. Possible effects of the background height variations on the propagation of the magnetic storm-induced travelling ionospheric disturbances are discussed.     

Seasonal cycle of water vapor in the atmosphere of mars as revealed from the MAWD/<Emphasis Type="Italic">Viking 1</Emphasis> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">2</Emphasis> experiment

The most detailed information on the seasonal evolution of water vapor distribution in the Martian atmosphere was obtained by the Mars Atmospheric Water Detector (MAWD), which was a five-channel spectrometer operating aboard the Viking 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1977–1980, and from the very recent observations by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The TES results show a considerably larger amount of water vapor near the perihelion of Mars (summer in the southern hemisphere) than the estimates based on the MAWD data for this season, which is characterized by the development of global dust storms. The TES and MAWD instruments operated in different spectral regions (20–50 m and 1.38 m, respectively), and this could result in the aforementioned difference because of the effect of aerosol scattering on the intensity of the H₂O bands, which becomes significant at short wavelengths. We considered the effect of aerosol scattering on the water vapor content measured in the 1.38-m band, taking into account the different geometries of observations, and restored the H₂O content from the MAWD data with allowance for multiple scattering. We obtained a seasonal and spatial distribution of water vapor that showed better agreement with the TES data and, thus, indicated the stability of the hydrological cycle on Mars. Periodic structures, which could possibly be associated with the influence of the stationary planetary waves, are reliably revealed in the zonal distribution of the atmospheric water vapor. The seasonal variability of the wave structures correlates with variations of the latitude gradient of water vapor. This could indicate that wave processes contribute considerably to the meridional water transport in the Martian atmosphere.Translated from Astronomicheskii Vestnik, Vol. 38, No. 6, 2004, pp. 483–496.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Fedorova, Rodin, Baklanova.     

On the expected performance of a solar oscillation network

We have estimated the performance of several hypothetical ground-based networks intended to provide continuous observations of solar oscillations for one year. These networks were composed of from 2 to 6 stations distributed both in longitude and between the northern and southern hemispheres. Weather patterns at each site were simulated using a 4 parameter climate model and the results analyzed to yield the duty cycle of the representative networks.The results indicate that a 2 station network might achieve a 60% annual mean duty cycle, 3 stations might provide 75%, 4 stations might yield 82%, and 6 stations might give a 93% annual mean duty cycle. Comparison of an existing 6 station network with our model of the same network suggests that the modelling procedure is realistic provided that the estimates of the climate parameters are accurate.To illustrate the influence of such networks on observations of solar oscillations, we have created a synthetic time-line of solar velocities from published data and analyzed the power spectrum of the signal as observed by various networks.Operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation.NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.     

Spectral characteristics of medium-sized solar radio events

Peak intensities at different frequencies, as reported by several solar radio patrol stations, are used to study the spectrum at the time of maximum intensity of medium-sized solar radio events that cover both the centimetric and metric frequency bands. Two types of spectrum can be distinguished: a V-type of spectrum, where the straight lines, that can be drawn to represent the centimetric and the metric branches, meet each other at a frequency somewhere in the decimetric frequency range and a Jump-type of spectrum, where a discontinuity occurs somewhere in the low-frequency part of the decimetric spectrum. The aspect of the radio response at 600 MHz may have a character which is more centrimetric or more metric. Its character tends to correspond to the spectral branch (metric or centimetric) to which, according to the spectrum, the 600 MHz burst belongs. It is concluded that the centimetric and the metric branch of a cm/m-event are largely independent of each other. It is suggested that a Jump-type of spectrum occurs if some condition relating to the coronal magnetic field is fulfilled.