Modelling Indonesian rainfall with a coupled regional model

Long-term high-resolution coupled climate model simulations using the Max Planck Institute Regional Climate Model and the Max Planck Institute Ocean Model have been performed with boundary forcings from two reanalyses: firstly from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, and secondly from the joint reanalysis of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. This study employs a special coupling setup using a regional atmospheric model and a global ocean model. The latter model applies a special conformal grid from a bipolar orthogonal spherical coordinate system, which allows irregular positions of the poles and focuses on the detail over the Maritime Continent. The coupled model was able to simulate stable and realistic rainfall variabilities without flux correction and at two different ocean resolutions. The coupled system is integrated for a period between 1979 and 1993 and the results are then compared to those from uncoupled runs and from observation. The results show improved performance after coupling: a remarkable reduction of overestimated rainfall over the sea for the atmospheric model and of warm SST biases for the ocean model. There is no significant change in rainfall variability at higher ocean model resolution, but the ocean circulation shows less transport variability within the Makassar Strait in comparison to observations. This paper has not been published or considered by any other journal in any language.     

巴丹吉林沙漠南部高大沙丘包气带水分空间分布特征研究

水是影响沙漠生态系统的主要因子,决定着多年生植物的种类和数量。受恶劣的自然条件和研究手段限制,目前对沙漠地区包气带水分时空动态变化的研究相对薄弱。以巴丹吉林沙漠南部湖泊密集区为研究对象,通过随机采样和同一坡向剖面采样,综合运用DCCA和地统计学分析方法,揭示0～10 m较深层包气带沙丘水分的空间变化规律和局部控制因子对包气带水分的影响。结果表明,0～10 m沙丘包气带水分变化曲线呈指数、对数和对数正态分布3种类型,分别受地下水或下伏黏土层的毛管作用、湖心距和综合地形因子控制;影响沙漠包气带水分空间变化的主要局部控制因子与小流域的研究结果差异显著。地形、植被等局部控制因子影响对数分布型包气带水分的深度为表层1 m,而影响对数正态分布型的深度为3～4 m;沙丘水分随相对湖面高程空间变化差异显著,而空间相关距离则不显著。     

北京密云环斑花岗岩锆石U-Pb年龄和Hf同位素及其地质意义

密云岩体位于华北克拉通东部,由环斑花岗岩和斑状黑云母花岗岩组成,是典型 A 型环斑花岗岩岩体之一。锆石的 LA-ICPMS U-Pb 年代学研究表明,密云环斑花岗岩形成于1681±10Ma 和1679±10Ma,而围岩片麻岩的原岩形成于2521±14Ma。锆石的 LA-MC-ICPMS Hf 同位素研究表明,太古代片麻岩来源于亏损地幔物质的部分熔融,从而表明2.5 Ca 是华北克拉通地壳重要的生长期;环斑花岗岩中锆石 Hf 同位素组成为δ_(Hf)(t)=～-5,两阶段模式年龄为 T_(DM2)=2.6～2.8Ga,表明它们来源于太古代新生地壳的部分熔融,密云环斑花岗岩侵位于华北克拉通大陆裂解、伸展环境,可能与全球古元古代未期Columbia 超大陆的裂解有关。     

Rotating haloes and the microlensing MACHO mass estimate

We investigate the implications of a bulk rotational component of the Galactic halo velocity distribution for MACHO mass estimates. We find that for a rotating halo to yield a MACHO mass estimate significantly below that of the standard spherical case, its microlensing must be highly concentrated close to the Sun. We examine two classes of models fitting this criterion: a highly flattened 1/ r ² halo, and a spheroid-like population the density of which falls off as 1/ r ^3.5. The highly flattened 1/ r ² models can decrease the implied average MACHO mass only marginally, and the spheroid models not at all. Generally, rotational models cannot bring the MACHO mass implied by the current microlensing data down to the substellar range.     

The effective period and damping of a class of hysteretic structures

This paper presents the results of a numerical investigation in which the maximum response of six hysteretic systems is calculated for an ensemble of twelve earthquakes. Inelastic response spectra are constructed for a range of response ductility. An effective linear period and damping are calculated for each system and ductility by determining those parameters which minimize an RMS response spectrum error. Conclusions are presented concerning the effects of deterioration, stiffness degradation, cracking and ductility on the effective linear system parameters.     

The impact of discharges from seafood processing on southeastern estuaries

A study to determine the impact of seafood packing and processing effluents discharged to southeastern estuarine waters was conducted in July and August of 1979. The environmental impact of current seafood processing wastes on Georgia’s estuaries appears to be minimal when compared with the natural organic load. One large estuary demonstrated a high residual capacity to receive processing effluents without significant change. The BOD load from shrimp thawing, peeling, sorting, and cleaning operations at a large seafood processing plant was shown to be equivalent to the organic material generated by a 302 m² plot (57 ft×57 ft) of salt marsh. NH₄?N levels were greater than, but the same order of magnitude as, natural runoff from marsh land.     

Biostratigraphic and biogeographic implications of a hadrosaurid (Ornithopoda: Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Almond Formation of Wyoming,USA

The results of Barnum Brown's 1937 expedition to the Almond Formation of Wyoming consisted of two unidentified ceratopsian skulls and a partial hadrosaurid specimen (AMNH 3651). The hadrosaurid is here attributed to the Maastrichtian genus Saurolophus, verifying previous biostratigraphic correlations of this formation using ammonite zones. Fossiliferous lower Maastrichtian formations occurring latitudinally between those of Alberta, Canada, and southwestern Texas, USA, such as the Almond Formation, are essential for testing the effects and duration of apparent hadrosaurid faunal segregation earlier in the Campanian, and indirectly aiding in the placement of faunal boundaries that are currently unknown for the late Campanian. The discovery of Saurolophus in Wyoming, a close relative of the Campanian genus Prosaurolophus, affirms that the segregation of hadrosaurid faunas established in the late Campanian (～75 Ma) continued for at least 3 million years. Combining occurrences of Saurolophus from Mongolia and the Moreno Formation of California with those of Alberta, Canada, this genus appears to have had one of the largest geographic ranges of any equivalent clade of hadrosaurid dinosaur, although species level distributions are still uncertain.     

Vestiges of an Iapetan rift basin in the New Jersey Highlands: implications for the Neoproterozoic Laurentian margin

Thin, discontinuous remnants of Neoproterozoic intracratonic rift-basin deposits of the Chestnut Hill Formation occur in the western New Jersey Highlands. These deposits form an important link between well-documented Iapetan rift-basins in both the northern and southern Appalachians. The close spatial relations of Chestnut Hill rocks to Paleozoic sedimentary rocks open the possibility that additional Iapetan rift-basins could be concealed beneath the rocks of the Valley and Ridge Province to the west indicating a much broader zone of rifting than has been previously proposed. The Chestnut Hill Formation is intermittently exposed along a 100 km-long band that extends northeast from Pennsylvania nearly to New York State. The lower part of the Chestnut Hill Formation is composed of interbedded lithic pebble- to boulder-conglomerate and feldspathic sandstone grading upward into interbedded phyllite, feldspathic and quartz sandstone, local paleosaprolite, quartz-pebble conglomerate, thin limestone lenses, volcanic, and volcaniclasic rocks, abundant bedded ironstone (hematite ore), and ultimately into diamictites that are interpreted as possible tilloids and containing rounded intra and extrabasinal clasts of the other lithologies. Extensive soft-sediment deformation, cross bedding, and clastic dikes are common in all but the lowest and upper facies. Banded hematite layers occur preferentially in fine-grained tuffs and tuffaceous sediments, but hematitization has affected most lithologies. Volcanic rocks consist of altered rhyolitic tuffs and lapilli tuffs that are interbedded with sediments. The Chestnut Hill Formation is interpreted to have been deposited in early alluvial, and later a complex of fluvial, lacustrine and deltaic environments. Provenance studies based upon petrographic and geochemical analysis of clastic rocks indicate that the sediments are predominantly immature and reflect derivation from local uplifted felsic basement sources in a rifted-margin tectonic setting. Low to moderate weathering of the source rocks is indicated by the geochemistry of most samples, as is the locally intense effect of hydrothermal alteration. Most occurrences of the Chestnut Hill Formation are associated with major faults that exhibit normal movement of apparent Neoproterozoic age. Rocks from the Morgan Hill fault near Easton, Pennsylvania display consistent normal shear sense and vary from low temperature S-C mylonites to breccia that contains deformed pieces of Chestnut Hill Formation.