Pseudopotential approaches to the structural energies of crystalline solids and solid surfaces

It is now feasible to predict accurately the structural energies of solids and solid surfaces from first principles computational techniques based on pseudopotential theory. We illustrate these techniques for several prototypical systems. We predict structural properties for binary crystalline systems of the form: A^NB^8–N where (A, B) are simple metals and metalloids and N is the number of valence electrons on A. We illustrate the chemical forces responsible for stabilizing rocksalt, zinc blende, and white tin structures as a function of pressure. Also we demonstrate the utility of these techniques for predicting the surface properties for insulators and transition metals.     

依据月平均资料作月预报——利用自然相似的探讨

本文利用1956年1月—1972年12月的月平均1000,500,100 hPa位势高度和太平洋、大西洋、印度洋的海表温度资料中存在的自然相似,对依据月平均资料作的海洋—大气变量月平均值的预报可能达到的水平进行了分析研究。结果表明在一个海—气耦合系统中,大气变量的预报是比海温预报更为困难的一环。根据月平均海表温度决定相应的月平均位势高度场的准确度较低,但在考虑了过去的海温和高度场资料后能有所改进。     

ACTUAL ANALYSIS AND THEORETICAL SIMULATION ON POSITION OF SUBTROPICAL HIGHS OVER WESTERN PACIFIC

In this paper,using a nonlinear low-order barotropic system with orography and momentum forcing aswell as dissipation,we have theoretically calculated the two kinds of curves for the seasonal northward movementof subtropical highs.It has been shown that the theoretical results resemble basically with the analysed resultsof wave spectrum data.     

Predictability of the atmosphere

This paper makes a review on the predictability of the atmosphere. The essential problems of predictability theo-ry, i.e., how a deterministic system changes to an undeterministic system (chaos) and how is the opposite (order within chaos), are discussed. Some applications of predictability theory are given.     

固体地球-海洋-大气耦合的一个简单线性模式及其试验结果

选取实际的海陆边界，建立了一个固体地球-海洋-大气耦合的简单线性模式，模式中包含了地气角动量守恒的关系，地转变速摩擦力对大气的作用，风吹流改变海温异常，海温异常又改变大气的质量分布。在无外源作用于地球系统的情况下，地球系统内部的各个部分(纬向风、海温和地转速度)都存在着准两年振荡(QBO)，由此可见，QBO是地球系统内部的一种固有振荡。     

Analogue Correction Method of Errors by Combining Statistical and Dynamical Methods

Based on the atmospheric analogy principle, the inverse problem that the information of historical analogue data is utilized to estimate model errors is put forward and a method of analogue correction of errors (ACE) of model is developed in this paper. The ACE can combine effectively statistical and dynamical methods, and need not change the current numerical prediction models. The new method not only adequately utilizes dynamical achievements but also can reasonably absorb the information of a great many analogues in historical data in order to reduce model errors and improve forecast skill. Furthermore, the ACE may identify specific historical data for the solution of the inverse problem in terms of the particularity of current forecast. The qualitative analyses show that the ACE is theoretically equivalent to the principle of the previous analogue-dynamical model, but need not rebuild the complicated analogue-deviation model, so has better feasibility and operational foreground. Moreover, under the ideal situations, when numerical models or historical analogues are perfect, the forecast of the ACE would transform into the forecast of dynamical or statistical method, respectively.     

Strategy and methodology of dynamical analogue prediction

In order to effectively improve numerical prediction level by using current models and data, the strategy and methodology of dynamical analogue prediction (DAP) is deeply studied in the present paper. A new idea to predict the prediction errors of dynamical model on the basis of historical analogue information is put forward so as to transform the dynamical prediction problem into the estimation problem of prediction errors. In terms of such an idea, a new prediction method of final analogue correction of errors (FACE) is developed. Furthermore, the FACE is applied to extra-seasonal prediction experiments on an operational atmosphere-ocean coupled general circulation model. Prediction results of summer mean circulation and total precipitation show that the FACE can to some extent reduce prediction errors, recover prediction variances, and improve prediction skills. Besides, sensitive experiments also show that predictions based on the FACE are evidently influenced by the number of analogues, analogue-selected variables and analogy metric.     

Neutrino luminosity by the ordinary URCA process in an intense magnetic field

The neutrino luminosity by the ordinary URCA process in a strongly magnetized electron gas is computed. General formulae are presented for the URCA energy loss rates for an arbitrary degree of degeneracy. Analytic expressions are derived for a completely degenerate, relativistic electron plasma in the special case of neutron-proton conversion. Numerical results are given for more general cases.The main results are as follows: the URCA energy loss rates are drastically reduced for the regime of great degeneracy by a factor up to 10^–3 for 1, andT ₉10, where =H/H _q ,H _q =m ² c ³/eh=4.414×10¹³ G. In the non-degenerate regime the neutrino luminosity is enhanced approximately linearly with for the temperature range 1T ₉10. Possible applications to white dwarfs and neutron stars are briefly discussed.We have been recently informed that in Gamow home-dialect (Odessa dialect) URCA means thief — (Private communication from Prof. G. Wataghin).     

Late Triassic sauropodomorph and Middle Jurassic theropod tracks from the Xichang Basin,Sichuan Province,southwestern China:First report of the ichnogenus Carmelopodus

Upper Triassic and Middle Jurassic strata of the Xichang Basin in Sichuan Province, southwestern China, yielded important dinosaur ichnofossils. From the Xujiahe Formation of the Yiguojiao tracksite, we report a Late Triassic footprint assemblage in China and the first discovery of diagnostic Triassic sauropodomorph tracks in this region. The tracks share a number of features in common with the ichnogenera Eosauropus(Late Triassic) and Liujianpus(Early Jurassic). The neighboring Bingtu tracksite is stratigraphically younger(Shaximiao Formation, Middle Jurassic) and preserves small tridactyl theropod tracks that represent the first occurrence of the ichnotaxon Carmelopodus in China and Asia. While these tracks are morphologically comparable to those from the Middle Jurassic type locality in North America, the specimens from China show the proximal margin of the digit IV impression in a more cranial position, which may indicate a trackmaker with a relatively short metatarsal IV. In addition to the skeletal record, the Carmelopodus footprints document the presence of small theropods in the dinosaur fauna of the Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation.