eshless Method for Acoustic and Elastic Modeling

Wave equation method is one of the fundamental techniques for seismic modeling and imaging. In this paper the element-free-method (EFM) was used to solve acoustic and elastic equations.The key point of this method is no need of elements, which makes nodes free from the elemental restraint. Besides, the moving-least-squares (MLS) criterion in EFM leads to a high accuracy and smooth derivatives. The theories of EFM for both acoustic and elastic wave equations as well as absorbing boundary conditions were discussed respectively. Furthermore, some pre-stack models were used to show the good performance of EFM in seismic modeling.     

Palaeoclimate and groundwater evolution in Africa—implications for adaptation and management

Abstract

Groundwaters of known age contained in major aquifer systems in the African sedimentary basins enable low-resolution (±1000 year) characteristics of past climates to be determined, specifically palaeo-temperature, air mass origins, humid/arid transitions and rainfall intensity. Results from both northern and southern Africa indicate the predominance of a westerly Atlantic air flow during the Late Pleistocene. Greater aridity during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is recorded over most of northern Africa by the absence of dated groundwaters. An intensification of the African monsoon during the Early Holocene is apparent from isotopically light groundwaters found, in particular, over Sudan. Maximum cooling around the LGM of 5–7°C is recorded in the noble gas recharge temperatures from Africa. Modern recharge can be readily identified from the chemical and isotopic signatures (Cl, δ¹⁸O and ³H) in the unsaturated zone and in shallow groundwaters. The results indicate the non-renewability of many groundwater sources now being exploited across the arid and semi-arid regions of Africa. Extreme events in the past, noted from the groundwater record, may have lessons and implications for adapting to future climate change. Small but finite amounts of renewable groundwater may be estimated using chloride mass balance and other tracer techniques. These renewable waters form the basis of sustainable development in areas such as the Sahel. Based on the field evidence of water scarcity, new approaches are needed in management and education to adapt to the current limited resources in the face of changing climates.     

Comprehensive Interpretation Technique for Geophysical Data and Its Applications

Addressed in this paper was the comprehensive interpretation of all kinds of data and its applications in oil/gas exploration. Real examples were used to illustrate the importance of the comprehensive interpretation of gravity/magnetic/electric/seismic data as well as the results.     

Matter-element models for comprehensive earthquake prediction and their applications

Extenics was a branch of mathematics for studying the incompatible problems. In this paper, basing on calculating the associative functions of all various indexes, we have obtained the quantitative assessment results of prediction indexes by introducing this theory into the comprehensive earthquake prediction through establishing the matter-element model for comprehensive prediction, so that the incompatible problems can be solved. The preliminary results demonstrate that this method has better prospects in comprehensive earthquake prediction. Foundation item: Chinese Joint Seismological Science Foundation (196006).     

Multi-parametric survey for archaeology: how and why,or how and why not?

Many papers or conference presentations, particularly over the last ten years, have referred to multi-parametric geophysical surveys and integrated interpretations in archaeological prospection. Several experiments of this kind have been undertaken by our laboratory, with mostly fascinating results, but our experience leads us to be rather suspicious of the over-systematic choice of extreme solutions and we would recommend an appropriate and balanced choice, within the limits of the budget available for an operation, between the two following procedures: 1) Routine survey with an extremely large variety of instruments: this allows a better understanding of the underground situation than survey with a single instrument but reduces the area that can be surveyed. A limited number of specific circumstances should lead one to adopt this option. They include: previous knowledge or equally previous ignorance of the targets under investigation, preliminary selection of the most efficient method on a scientific and economic basis, comparative experiments for the validation of new tools, specific detection of targets of different nature into the ground as well as uncertainty about the efficiency of each available method for the actual nature of the investigated site. 2) Survey of a much larger area with only one method, chosen because it is particularly fast and efficient: there is an obvious value in extensive exploration in order to evaluate the size, distribution and limits of a large number of archaeological features. The strict selection of appropriate methods, chosen to meet the aims of a project should consider not only geophysics but all kinds of conventional or non-conventional archaeological methods as well, brought together to permit an integrated interpretation. This highly specialized job does not fall within the normal experience of exploration geophysicists who usually deal with geological features or most field archaeologists who are mainly involved in excavations. It must be undertaken by particularly trained operators, whether they belong to private companies (under appropriate official control) or to public organizations.     

Discussion 2 River training and strategies for sediment disaster reduction

DiscussionfollowingpresentationsLIDiankui,SedimentcarryingcapacityofseacurrentandthetrainingoftheYellowRivermouthInresponsetoquestions,LIDiankuiemphasizedthatdeltaformationisanaturalprocess,andthattheriverchannelortherivermouthregionwillcertainlychangeitscourseovertime.Insomelocationsthechannellifemaybelongerandinotherlocations,thechannellifemaybeshorter.Sowecannotusethechannelcourseoverthelongtermtopredictthesedimentcarryingcapacity.MarceloGarciacomparedtheYellowRivertothehumancirculator…     

A method for visualizing sound propagation in solids and liquids

Introduction When seismic waves propagate in a medium of complex geometry,such as a dam,it pro-duces stress concentration area at some spots of the dam because of the interface reflection and refraction of the waves,resulting in serious safety risk.Understanding seismic wave propagation in complex mediums becomes very important.In order to reduce the damage from natural earth-quakes,precaution measures should be designed on the basis of the seismic propagation charac-teristics.Experimental geo…     

Tunnel seismic tomography method for geological prediction and its application

Typical existing methods of tunnel geological prediction include negative apparent velocity, horizontal seismic profile, and the Tunnel Seismic Prediction （TSP） method as this technology is under development at home and abroad. Considering simpler observational methods and data processing, it is hard to accurately determine the seismic velocity of the wall rock in the front of the tunnel face. Therefore, applying these defective methods may result in inaccurate geological inferences which will not provide sufficient evidence for classifying the wall rock characteristics. This paper proposes the Tunnel Seismic Tomography （TST） method using a spatial observation arrangement and migration and travel time inversion image processing to solve the problem of analyzing the velocity structure of wall rock in the front of the tunnel face and realize accurate imaging of the geological framework of the tunnel wall rock. This method is very appropriate for geological prediction under complex geological conditions.     

The α-Effect and Current Helicity for Fast Sheared Rotators

We explore the f -effect and the small-scale current helicity, , for the case of weakly compressible magnetically driven turbulence that is subjected to the differential rotation. No restriction is applied to the amplitude of angular velocity, i.e., the derivations presented are valid for an arbitrary Coriolis number, z * = 2 z cor , though the differential rotation itself is assumed to be weak. The expressions obtained are used to explore the possible distributions of f -effect and h c in convection zones (CZ) of the solar-type stars. Generally, our theory gives f { { > 0 in the northern hemisphere of the Sun and the opposite case in the southern hemisphere. In most cases the h c has the opposite sign to f { { . However, we show that in the depth of CZ where the influence of rotation upon turbulence (associated with z *) and the radial shear of angular velocity are strong, the distribution of f { { might be drastically different from a classical cos è -dependence, where è is colatitude. It is shown that f { { has a negative sign at the bottom and below of CZ at mid latitudes. There, the distribution of h c is also different from cos è , but it does not change its sign with the depth. Further, we briefly consider these quantities in the disk geometry. The application of the developed theory to dynamos in the accretion disk is more restrictive because they usually have a strong differential rotation, | ‘ log z / ‘ log r | > 1.     

Multi-agent systems for simulating spatial decision behaviors and land-use dynamics

A new method to simulate urban land-use dynamics is proposed based on multi-agent systems (MAS). The model consists of a series of environmental layers and multi-agent layers, which can interact with each other. It attempts to explore the interactions between different players or agents, such as residents, property developers, and governments, and between these players and the envi- ronment. These interactions can give rise to urban macro-spatial patterns. This model is used to simulate the land-use dynamics of the Haizhu district of Guangzhou City in 1995―2004. Cellular automata (CA) were also used for the simulation of land use changes as a comparison. The study indicates that MAS has better performance for simulating complex cities than CA.     

All-time Apparent Vertical Conductance Interpretation for CLTEM and Its Application

This paper is based on the transient electromagnetic theory of a thin sheet. The induced EMF formula (as a function of vertical conductance and depth in the central loop transient electromagnetic method) was derived by using the reciprocation law and the formula from the electrical component of EMF induced by a magnetic dipole source over a thin sheet. At the same time, the inversion algorithm of all-time apparent vertical conductance and apparent depth was derived by using the induced EMF and its first derivative. In the transition area there is no distortion for the calculated apparent vertical conductance curve. The location where the curves slope was changing corresponds to an electric interface of the layer. This is because the curve of the slope is directly proportional to the conductivity. Comparing the shapes of the neighboring curves in the same section line, the interfaces of the same layer can be continuously traced, resulting in a high quality CLTEM get-electric section. Theoretical testing with two models shows that the curves of all-time apparent vertical conductance represents the electric property of each layer and its variation. Finally, the authors show application examples of apparent vertical conductance interpretation. The mapped apparent vertical conductance section has fine electric division from the inversion algorithm and is in good co-herence with the inverted resistivity section. This demonstrates that the interpretation method of all-time apparent vertical conductance is feasible and effective     

World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research（WASER）

STATUTES 1. Name The Association shall be known as the World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER). The official language of WASER is English. The official abbreviation will be WASER. 2. Style WASER shall be an independent non-governmental, non-political, non-profit organization, at all times free of racial, gender or national prejudice. The organization shall be registered as a non-profit organization in the country in which the secretariat is located. 3…     

Static and dynamic inelastic P–Δ effect for seismic design

Seismic influence of P–Δ effect is the subject of this study. First, it is pointed out that the elastic static amplification factor shall be isolated in formulating the dynamic inelastic second order effect. An amplification factor for the static inelastic P–Δ effect is derived. Seismic force reduction factors(SFRF) for given ductility and stability coefficients are computed for one-story, one-span frames. The P–Δ amplification factors for seismic base shears are obtained by dividing SFRFs with and without P–Δ effect. Both P–Δ amplification factors and SFRFs are presented separately with two kinds of period abscissas. The P–Δ amplification factors are dependent on periods with the maximum occurring at about 0.75 s for site type C and approach to the static inelastic counterpart at long periods. Post-yield stiffness cannot fully counteract the adverse impact of the P–Δ effect. Formulas for seismic P–Δ amplification factors are proposed and compared to results of others. Collapse capacity spectra(CCS) are reviewed and their application in codes discussed. Available CCSs are compared with SFRFs with finite ductility computed for two ensembles of seismic records. A comparison reveals that the SFRFs are affected by seismic records, and available CCSs do not always provide upper limits for the SFRFs when stability coefficients are greater than 0.1 for frame models.     

A network communication and recording system for digital seismic observation

Introduction Digital seismic observation systems originated from 1970′s. It has developed greatly in the past 30 years up to now. Its performances were improved, dynamic range and resolution increased a lot, the power consumption decreased a lot, and so on (YOU et al, 2003a, b). In a word, the dream of broad frequency-band, big dynamic range, digitalization of seismic observation has come true already. But, the previous digital seismic observation systems only support communica-tion based o…     

Computation and analysis of the geomagnetic field model in China and its adjacent area for 2003

Based on the geomagnetic data at 135 stations and 35 observatories in China in 2003, the Taylor polynomial model and the spherical cap harmonic model in China and its adjacent area for 2003 were established. In the model calculation, the truncation order of the model and the influences of the boundary restriction on the model calculation were carefully analyzed. The results show that the geomagnetic data used are precise and reliable, and the selection of the truncation order is reasonable. The Taylor polynomial model and the spherical cap harmonic model in China and its adjacent area established in this paper are consistent very well.     

Climacogram versus autocovariance and power spectrum in stochastic modelling for Markovian and Hurst–Kolmogorov processes

Three common stochastic tools, the climacogram i.e. variance of the time averaged process over averaging time scale, the autocovariance function and the power spectrum are compared to each other to assess each one’s advantages and disadvantages in stochastic modelling and statistical inference. Although in theory, all three are equivalent to each other (transformations one another expressing second order stochastic properties), in practical application their ability to characterize a geophysical process and their utility as statistical estimators may vary. In the analysis both Markovian and non Markovian stochastic processes, which have exponential and power-type autocovariances, respectively, are used. It is shown that, due to high bias in autocovariance estimation, as well as effects of process discretization and finite sample size, the power spectrum is also prone to bias and discretization errors as well as high uncertainty, which may misrepresent the process behaviour (e.g. Hurst phenomenon) if not taken into account. Moreover, it is shown that the classical climacogram estimator has small error as well as an expected value always positive, well-behaved and close to its mode (most probable value), all of which are important advantages in stochastic model building. In contrast, the power spectrum and the autocovariance do not have some of these properties. Therefore, when building a stochastic model, it seems beneficial to start from the climacogram, rather than the power spectrum or the autocovariance. The results are illustrated by a real world application based on the analysis of a long time series of high-frequency turbulent flow measurements.     

Inversion of gravity and topography data for the crust thickness of China and its adjacent region

Introduction Since the middle of the century, gravitational isostasy has been a fundamental hypothesis for inverting the gravity data to find the crust thickness. Geophysicists have done a lot of researches on using gravity data to investigate the depth of Moho discontinuity. Since 1980, the International Lithosphere Program emphasized the importance of investigating the Moho depth variation. Thereafter a lot of results have been published in the world (Braitenberg et al, 2000; Kaban et al,…