Equilibria of the marine multiphase ammonia system

A lack of empirical data has made it difficult to ascertain whether ammonia is in equilibrium between the oceanic, atmospheric gas and atmospheric particle phases in the remote marine environment. Reported here are simultaneous measurements of the saturation concentration of ammonia relative to ammonia concentrations in ocean surface waters; total seawater ammonia; atmospheric gas phase ammonia; and atmospheric particulate-phase ammonium, non-seasalt sulfate, methanesulfonate, and nitrate. Sampling was performed in May of 1987 in the northeast Pacific Ocean environment and in April and May of 1988 in the central Pacific Ocean environment.These measurements were used to determine the degree to which ammonia approached equilibrium between the oceanic and atmospheric gas and aerosol particle phases. The experimental atmospheric gas phase ammonia concentrations were compared with calculated equilibrium concentrations assuming a Henry's law type of partitioning between the gas and condensed phases. Characteristic times of the processes controlling the fate of ammonia in the marine environment also were compared.The measured atmospheric gas phase and oceanic concentrations of ammonia indicate that ammonia is not in a Henry's law equilibrium across the air/sea interface. This disequilibrium is a result of the long air/sea exchange equilibration time relative to the lifetime of ammonia in the atmosphere. Comparison of the calculated equilibrium gas phase ammonia concentrations with the measured gas phase ammonia concentrations shows that attainment of equilibrium between the atmospheric gas and particle phases is a strong function of the chemical composition of the aerosol particles. The data suggest that fully neutralized aerosol particles are not in Henry's law equilibrium with the gas phase while equilibrium is observed for particles with an average ammonium to non-seasalt sulfate molar ratio less than 1.8.     

海洋碳循环模式(Ⅱ)——对印度洋的模拟结果分析

把建好的海洋碳模式应用于印度洋区域，模拟得到了印度洋中与碳有关各化学量的表层分布、垂直分布和沿子午线面的等值线分布。与实测的GEOSECS(Geochemical Ocean－Section Study)数据作对比，模式较好地再现了印度洋上营养盐浓度、总碳浓度、总碱度和溶解氧的二维分布。通过模拟还发现，在稳定状态下，大气和海洋中总碳含量的分布依赖于发生在海洋中的各种物理化学过程及边界条件，水平扩散系数Kh和光合作用常数率Kg对各化学量的分布有较大影响(以前有学者认为不太重要，如Baes[1])；南印度洋中纬地区10°S至30°S是14C的重要向下渗透区域，人为排放的CO2可通过这片渗透区从海洋的表层输入海洋的深层。     

Impact of ocean acidification on the carbonate sediment budget of a temperate mixed beach

The production of sediments by carbonate-producing ecosystems is an important input for beach sediment budgets in coastal areas where no terrigenous input occurs. Calcifying organisms are a major source of bioclastic carbonate sediment for coastal systems. Increased levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere are leading to an increase in the partial pressure of CO₂ on ocean seawater, causing ocean acidification (OA), with direct consequences for the pH of ocean waters. Most studies of OA focus on its impact on marine ecosystems. The impact of OA on carbonate-producing ecosystems could be to reduce the amount of sediments supplied to temperate coastal systems. The aim of this study was to quantify the effect of the predicted OA on the long-term sediment budget of a temperate Mediterranean mixed carbonate beach and dune system. Based on projections of OA we estimated a fall of about 31% in the present bioclastic carbonate sediment deposition rate, with the biggest decreases seen in the dunes (? 46%). OA is also expected to affect the carbonate sediment reservoirs, increasing the dissolution of CaCO₃and causing net sediment loss from the system (~ 50,000 t century^?1). In the long-term, OA could also play a primary role in the response of these systems to sea-level rise. Indeed, the reduction in the quantity of carbonate sediments provided to the system may affect the speed with which the system is able to adapt to sea-level rise, by increasing wave run-up, and may promote erosion of dunes and subaerial beaches.     

淮河流域汛期暴雨与西太平洋海温关系

利用淮河流域172测站1960—2009年逐日气象资料和全球海温资料,通过对淮河流域汛期暴雨与前期西太平洋海温的相关分析来研究海温的变化对淮河流域汛期暴雨的影响。选取西太平洋海域（158°～170°E,8°～14°N）作为关键海区,前一年5—6月作为关键时段,通过分析发现海温偏低（高）年,淮河流域的绝大部分地区的暴雨量减少（增加）,淮河流域东北部呈现与其他地区反相的变化特征;在暴雨偏多（少）年,对应的前一年5—6月关键海区正好是海温偏高（低）。正是由于西太平洋关键海区持续的海温异常引起了次年汛期大气环流的异常,导致了淮河流域汛期暴雨的异常,这正是海温与暴雨具有很好相关的内在原因。     

Seasonal Cycles,Hypoxia, and Renewal in a Coastal Fjord (Barkley Sound,British Columbia)

The west coast of Vancouver Island (WCVI) is an important marine ecosystem in which concentrations of dissolved oxygen can reach hypoxic levels at certain times of the year. Although the general features of its oceanography are well understood, little is known in particular about the seasonal cycle of oxygen in shelf areas and its interannual variability. It is possible that high temporal resolution monitoring efforts could be carried out relatively easily in sheltered fjords adjacent to the shelf, but the linkages between conditions in these fjords and those on the shelf are also not known. Here a 10-year time series of monthly hydrographic stations in Barkley Sound, British Columbia, is used to identify the seasonal cycle of temperature, salinity, density, dissolved oxygen, and chlorophyll fluorescence in a WCVI fjord. Analysis suggests that there is a standard estuarine circulation in surface and near-surface waters of the Sound, as well as a deep renewal cycle in intermediate and deep waters, and that the two are largely independent. The deep basin in the Sound undergoes annual summer renewals in response to wind-driven upwelling on the shelf, separated by stagnation and hypoxia during fall, winter, and spring downwelling periods. Other than for the stagnant deep waters in winter, residence times in different parts of the Sound are only a few weeks. Barkley Sound characteristics thus adjust rapidly to shelf conditions, and inshore measurements can be used with care as a proxy for some shelf properties. However, phytoplankton biomass does not appear to be affected by the onset of deep renewal and the associated reversal of along-shore winds and instead responds to local factors. Finally, once the seasonal cycle has been accounted for, interannual variations in temperature, density, and dissolved oxygen are uncoupled, possibly in response to longer-term changes in the characteristics of source waters offshore and/or to changes in shelf processes.     

On the warming of intermediate and deep waters in the equatorial North Atlantic

In July 2000, a transatlantic hydrographic section was made on board the Russian R/V Akademik Ioffe in the northern equatorial region at ～6.5° N on the WOCE (World Ocean Circulation Experiment) A06 line. A significant warming in the layers of intermediate and deep waters in the interior eastern basin is determined from comparison of the section temperature data and those obtained on the WOCE A06 line in 1993. This result, together with the results of the previous studies, indicates a substantial warming of intermediate and upper deep waters above 2800–3000 m in the eastern equatorial North Atlantic during the second half of the 20th century. In the 1000–2000 m layer, temperature has increased by 0.13–0.14°C since 1957.     

Inorganic nutrients in precipitation over the Magdalen Islands area (Quebec, Canada) and their impact on the primary productivity of the lagoons

Concentrations of nitrate, ammonium and phosphate have been monitored from June to October 1989 in rain water collected at the Magdalen Islands (Gulf of St. Lawrence, Québec, Canada). Nitrate was the main dissolved organic nitrogen (DIN) compound with concentrations ranging from 2.2 to 95 μM. Ammonium was occasionally dominant and varied between 0.7 and 41 μM. Phosphate concentrations were low and extremely variable with values ranging from 0.2 μM to 2 μM. All three inorganic nutrients were positively correlated and the relationships best described by a non-linear regression model. NH₄⁺:NO₃₋ atomic ratios fell within the range of those previously measured, i.e. the northeast part of North America, and suggest a continental origin for both DIN and phosphate. Measured pH values failed to show high levels of acidity (pH=4.8 ±0.4).For the lagoonal system of the Magdalen Islands, atmospheric deposition is the major source of nitrate during the summer period we surveyed. In such an ecosystem the atmospheric inputs of DIN are greater than those from the sediment and may at times contribute up to 70% of the phytoplankton primary production requirements. In contrast, phosphate of rain origin was only of marginal importance relative to sediment inputs.     

Interactions Between Environmental Selenium and Sulphoxy Radicals

Chemical interactions between sulphoxy radical anions and elemental Se were investigated to show the influence of SO₂ pollution on the atmospheric fate of selenium. Laboratory experiments were performed with elemental Se plates or fine powder exposed to sulphoxy radicals formed in situ during the autoxidation of SO₂ dissolved in water. Impacts of the radicals were followed examining the topographic surface changes of Se (atomic force microscopy, AFM) and measuring the S(IV) autoxidation rate, essentially decreased in the presence of Se (conductometry). The experiments showed that remobilization of water insoluble selenium (elemental Se) may take place not only in atmosphere (cloud waters), but also in surface waters, soil and sediments contacting with SO₂ polluted air. By scavenging radicals, selenium causes the retardation of the S(IV) autoxidation to sulphuric acid (acid rain), thus contributing to long-distance transport of unreacted S(IV). The more general problem of sulphoxy radical-induced atmospheric corrosion has been brought forward into consideration, as the radicals appear capable to damage diverse solid surfaces.     

不同云滴数浓度参数化方案对硝酸盐气溶胶 第一间接效应影响的比较研究

在区域气候化学模式系统（RegCCMS）中,分别采用Hegg、Hansen、Ghan、Jones等4种云滴数浓度参数化方案,模拟研究了2003年10月硝酸盐气溶胶的浓度分布和第一间接气候效应,并对不同方案进行比较。结果表明,不同方案模拟的硝酸盐气溶胶分布大体上一致,主要集中在河南、山东、河北、四川等地,地面浓度最大值达18 μg/m3。Hegg、Hansen、Ghan、Jones等 4种云滴数浓度参数化方案计算得到的由硝酸盐气溶胶所造成的第一间接辐射强迫全国平均值分别为-148、-205、-161和-140 W/m2。4种方案模拟的硝酸盐气溶胶间接效应都表现为近地面气温下降,降水减少,其中Hansen方案的间接效应最强,Ghan、Hegg方案次之,Jones方案最弱。     

The response of Lake Tahoe to climate change

Meteorology is the driving force for lake internal heating, cooling, mixing, and circulation. Thus continued global warming will affect the lake thermal properties, water level, internal nutrient loading, nutrient cycling, food-web characteristics, fish-habitat, aquatic ecosystem, and other important features of lake limnology. Using a 1-D numerical model—the Lake Clarity Model (LCM) —together with the down-scaled climatic data of the two emissions scenarios (B1 and A2) of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Global Circulation Model, we found that Lake Tahoe will likely cease to mix to the bottom after about 2060 for A2 scenario, with an annual mixing depth of less than 200 m as the most common value. Deep mixing, which currently occurs on average every 3–4 years, will (under the GFDL B1 scenario) occur only four times during 2061 to 2098. When the lake fails to completely mix, the bottom waters are not replenished with dissolved oxygen and eventually dissolved oxygen at these depths will be depleted to zero. When this occurs, soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP) and ammonium-nitrogen (both biostimulatory) are released from the deep sediments and contribute approximately 51 % and 14 % of the total SRP and dissolved inorganic nitrogen load, respectively. The lake model suggests that climate change will drive the lake surface level down below the natural rim after 2085 for the GFDL A2 but not the GFDL B1 scenario. The results indicate that continued climate changes could pose serious threats to the characteristics of the Lake that are most highly valued. Future water quality planning must take these results into account.     

Effects of heterogeneous vegetation on the surface hydrological cycle

Using the three-layer variable infiltration capacity (VIC-3L) hydrological model and the successive interpolation approach (SIA) of climate factors, the authors studied the effect of different land cover types on the surface hydrological cycle. Daily climate data from 1992 to 2001 and remotely-sensed leaf area index (LAI) are used in the model. The model is applied to the Baohe River basin, a subbasin of the Yangtze River basin, China, with an area of 2500 km2. The vegetation cover types in the Baohe River basin consist mostly of the mixed forest type (85%). Comparison of the modeled results with the observed discharge data suggests that: (1) Daily discharges over the period of 1992–2001 simulated with inputs of remotely-sensed land cover data and LAI data can generally produce observed discharge variations, and the modeled annual total discharge agrees with observations with a mean difference of 1.4%. The use of remote sensing images also makes the modeled spatial distributions of evapotranspiration physically meaningful. (2) The relative computing error (RCE) of the annual average discharge is ?24.8% when the homogeneous broadleaf deciduous forestry cover is assumed for the watershed. The error is 21.8% when a homogeneous cropland cover is assumed and ?14.32% when an REDC (Resource and Environment Database of China) land cover map is used. The error is reduced to 1.4% when a remotely-sensed land cover at 1000-m resolution is used.     

Monitoring of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Lake Baikal basin in the areas of intensive anthropogenic impact

Presented are the results of studying the content of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and benz(a)pyrene in the lake water, in sewage waters of the enterprise, and in the upper 2-cm layer of bottom sediments in the area of the sewage discharge of Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill (BPPM), in bottom sediments in the north of Lake Baikal in the area of the Baikal-Amur Railroad, and in the channel and delta front of the Selenga River. The results were obtained at Hydrochemical Institute in 1981?C1989. The different content of benz[a]pyrene was determined for the first time in bottom sediments (sands and silts) for the bottom area of polygons in the mentioned regions. An intensive pollution exceeding significantly the normalized parameters for the benz[a]pyrene in bottom sediments is registered in the BPPM area only and its content in other areas does not exceed the background values on the whole.     

Oceanographic conditions at Ocean Weather Ship Bravo, 1964–1974

Abstract

Monthly averages of water temperature, salinity, and density anomaly at 11 depths between 10 and 1500 m, at Ocean Weather Ship Bravo (56°30'N, 51°00'W), between 1964 and 1974 are presented. Near‐surface salinity values between 1967 and 1971 were significantly lower than those between 1964–1967. Coincident with the lower salinity values, the winter‐time heat losses were less than normal. The combination of increased stratification with the low heat losses tended to limit the convectively mixed upper layer in winter to unusually shallow depths. It is suggested that the low salinity condition was indirectly due to an anomalously high atmospheric pressure cell over Greenland. This cell increased the anticylonic air flow around Greenland causing an increase in the proportion of low‐salinity polar water in the east Greenland and Labrador Currents and subsequently in the interior of the Labrador Sea.     

Observations of atmospheric boundary layer evolution above the Gulf Stream frontal zone

Ship borne measurements of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) parameters, sea-surface temperature and radar signals are analyzed to reveal the effects of the ABL transformation above the Gulf Stream temperature frontal zone. It was found that local changes in vertical gradients of wind speed and air temperature are well correlated with sub-mesoscale (~ 10 km) sea surface temperature variations. These effects are accompanied by appropriate variations in surface wind stresses that were identified from microwave backscatter.For steady atmospheric conditions the same effects were observed on spatial scales of 100 km, demonstrating positive radar signal contrast of the Gulf Stream warm waters with respect to surrounding Sargasso sea and shelf water areas. A simplified model of the ABL, accounting for an effect of spatial inhomogeneity by introducing an internal boundary layer, is used to analyze field observations. The model is able to reproduce both sub-mesoscale and mesoscale ABL evolution.     

华南热带气旋特大暴雨的统计特征

利用１９６０－１９８９年《台军年鉴》资料，从时特大暴雨、日特大暴雨、过程特大暴雨三方面统计分析了华南热带气旋特大暴雨的基本特征。并采用相对落区分布图的方法分析了不同时段、不同地区、不同路径华南热带气旋时特大暴雨的分布规律。     

Evidence bearing on the mechanism of rapid deglaciation

Six northeast Atlantic cores contain planktonic foraminiferal records implying a very abrupt glacial/interglacial surface-ocean warming roughly coincident with the last deglaciation (isotopic termination II) at 127 000 yr B.P. These faunal composition curves have, however, been substantially altered by sediment mixing processes on the sea floor; they are translated downward in the core record and made to look steeper than they actually were. The reason for this abnormally large mixing impact is an interval of sediment with very low to negligible concentrations of all microfossils (surface ocean and bottom living). These low concentrations reflect a several-thousand-year interval of low productivity and little or no life in the overlying surface waters. We interpret this thorough suppression of productivity as a consequence of meltwater and icebergs flooding into the subpolar Atlantic gyre from the surrounding Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during deglaciation. The meltwater influx inhibited warm-season productivity by maintaining a well-stratified low-salinity surface layer; in winter, the low salinity layer froze, stopping nutrientrich deep waters from surfacing in normal cold-season convection. The earth's orbital configuration during this deglaciation created an unusually strong summer insolation maximum and winter insolation minimum in the Northern Hemisphere. Rapid melting and disintegration of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets induced by strong summer insolation apparently created the meltwater influx; combined with very low winter insolation, the presence of this low-salinity meltwater layer led to unusually extensive sea-ice formation. The existence of a large region of winter sea ice across the subpolar North Atlantic during deglaciation implies a reduced supply of moisture in winter to the wasting Northern Hemisphere ice sheets. This includes the loss of winter moisture both locally from ice-covered northern waters and regionally from low-latitude winter storms no longer penetrating northward. The winter sea-ice cover thus acts as an amplifier providing positive feedback to the insolation-driven deglaciation process.     

Assessment of possible mechanisms of decreasing <Superscript>137</Superscript>Cs concentrations in river waters affected by the Chernobyl NPP accident

The analysis of possible mechanisms of ¹³⁷Cs concentration changes in surface waters was performed in the process of preparation of reliable long-range forecasts of radioactive river contamination after the Chernobyl accident. The following mechanisms were considered: (1) radioactive decay; (2) advective transport with river waters; (3) irreversible sorption; (4) vertical migration deep into bottom sediments due to diffusion; (5) burial in clean bottom sediments. The data published on ¹³⁷Cs monitoring at Dobrush, on the Iput’ River in Belarus were used in the analysis. It is shown that the best agreement with the experimental results is achieved when the second, third, and fifth mechanisms are used in calculations. However, a dominating mechanism still cannot be chosen at the present stage of our study. Most probably, all of these mechanisms act simultaneously.     

Sulfur distribution and transport studies in East Asia using eulerian model

A three-dimensional regional Eulerian model of sulfur deposition and transport is developed. Processes treated in the model include emission, transport, diffusion, gas-phase and aqueous-phase chemical process, dry deposition, rainout and washout or sulfur. A “looking up table” method is provided to deal with the gas-phase chemical process including sulfur transfer. Dry-depositon velocity considers the influence of underlying surface, wind, degree of stabil-ity by parameterization. Model calculated values reasonably agrees with observation. Distribution of sulfur deposi-tion and transport in East Asia are also analyzed in this paper. Some amount of sulfur emission of different countries transport across boundaries, but the main origin of sulfur deposition in each country in East Asia is from itself. Furthermore, some transport paths on different layers and outlet or inlet zones are found. According to sulfur bal?ance and budget we concluded that sulfur outlets are bigger than inlets across boundary and emissions are more than deposition in most places of East Asia.     

Technogenic influence on the quality of water resources of small river basins (with a special reference to the Protva river)

The underground waters in small river basins in central Russia are recharged as a result of the atmospheric precipitation infiltration on the catchment and river water inflow to the horizons hydraulically connected with the river. In the first case, the atmospheric precipitation on its way of transit is being enriched in elements of water-bearing rocks, in the second case, of the surface runoff and domestic wastes waters. Both fluxes get mixed at the coastal water withdrawals of underground water. Some regularities in the drinking water quality formation connected with climatic conditions and water use regime were established based on geochemical and hydrodynamic studies of underground waters of the Protva River basin deposits.     

Present-day variations of the minimum runoff of the Volga basin rivers

Carried out is the analysis of stationarity of minimum runoff series in summer and winter for the Volga basin rivers. Two conditionally homogeneous periods are singled out within the temporal variations of these characteristics, and the date of their change varies throughout the territory of the basin. The considerable rise in air temperature in winter on the whole territory of the Volga basin is demonstrated as a result of the analysis of meteorological parameters. The relationship between runoff variations and wintertime temperature variations is proposed for predicting the minimum runoff. The distribution of minimum values of runoff is computed using this dependence and the forecast method based on the sum of distributions.