Sulfur chemistry in the middle atmosphere of Venus

Venus Express measurements of the vertical profiles of SO and SO₂ in the middle atmosphere of Venus provide an opportunity to revisit the sulfur chemistry above the middle cloud tops (～58 km). A one dimensional photochemistry-diffusion model is used to simulate the behavior of the whole chemical system including oxygen-, hydrogen-, chlorine-, sulfur-, and nitrogen-bearing species. A sulfur source is required to explain the SO₂ inversion layer above 80 km. The evaporation of the aerosols composed of sulfuric acid (model A) or polysulfur (model B) above 90 km could provide the sulfur source. Measurements of SO₃ and SO (a¹Δ → X³Σ^-) emission at 1.7 μm may be the key to distinguish between the two models.     

长水国际机场红土动力特性室内试验研究

为了探究长水国际机场红土在动力荷载作用下的动力特性,通过开展一系列固结不排水动三轴试验对红土在动力荷载作用下的动变形特性进行研究.变形试验结果表明:随着围压的增大,动应力也增大,固结比越大,试样达到相同变形程度所需要的动应力越大;在相同的应变条件下,动弹性模量随着固结围压增大而增大;固结围压、固结比越大,阻尼比越大.达...     

“全域-局部”不透水面信息遥感分步提取模型

提出"全域-局部"遥感信息分布提取模型,通过计算和整合影像局部范围内的空间和光谱特征来优化全域上光谱混淆较大像元的提取精度。模型分为两个主要计算步骤:"全域"前分类与"局部"后分类;"全域"前分类将仅划分出满足一定精度阈值标准的像元,而"局部"后分类则在此部分分类结果基础上,进一步发掘和计算已分类像元所蕴含的信息来辅助对全域未分类像元的提取。在不透水面专题提取过程中,采用支持向量机SVM作为前分类器,通过控制精度阈值所对应的分类后验概率产生部分分类结果;采用调节最小距离分类器作为后分类器,根据一定的权重整合像元局部范围内的空间与光谱信息,代替了传统的全域光谱信息来优化分类。实验采用TM5影像以及所对应的NLCD(National Land Cover Data)标准不透水面产品作为测试集,"全域-局部"模型对应单一SVM模型的提取精度由80.31%提高为82.73%,局部后分类器精度较单一SVM模型由54.27%提高到59.94%。实验证明该模型具有较明显的精度提升且能够较好地解决不透水面与裸土混淆的问题,并得到空间形态上更为完善的不透水面提取结果。     

Stability of solution for dynamic geodetic network adjustment

This paper discusses theoretically the stability of solutions for dynamic geodetic network adjustment, Kalman filtering and sequence adjustment, and two examples are given. The solution for dynamic geodetic network adjustment is stable if the dynamic geodetic network is a classical network. There is not rank deficit in datum, or else the solution is not stable, which will depend on the initial value.     

Unification and harmonization in true color image city map

True color image city map is a sort of new-style map which combines the high resolution image and map symbols and shows both advantages in visualization. At the same time, the map unification and harmonization should be taken into account during the design process, since some visual conflicts appear when map symbols overlaid on the true color image. The objective of this research is to explore the rules in the process of true color image city map design based on chromatic and aesthetic knowledge. At the end, taking the Image Atlas of Guangzhou as an example, image color adjustment, road network presentation, and symbol designing issues will be discussed in the application.     

Estimating the sensitivity of runoff to climate change in an alpine-valley watershed of Xinjiang,China

ABSTRACT

The spatial-temporal variation of runoff in an inland basin is very sensitive to climate change. Investigation of runoff change in arid areas is typically limited by lack of meteorological and hydrogeological data. This study focused on runoff change in the Yarkand River source area of the Tarim Basin, China, with the aim of analysing the influence of climate change on the response characteristics of discharge. Sensitivity analysis was introduced to reflect the degree of influence of climate on runoff. Based on the sensitivity factors, over 30 sets of schemes including the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report were simulated using the MIKE 11/NAM rainfall–runoff model and the response of runoff was analysed. The results indicate that there are significant correlations and synchronous fluctuations between runoff and precipitation, evaporation and temperature. The characteristics of the sensitivity of runoff can be fitted well by Bi-Gaussian functions. The functions show that high sensitivity indexes mainly appear in the interval of 165 ± 100 m³ s^-1. The influence of precipitation on runoff is greater than that of other climate factors. Through simulation using the NAM model, we found that change of annual runoff was related to the initial climate condition. Annual runoff will have an increasing trend if it has a strong sensitivity to the initial meteorological condition. Moreover, the runoff decreases linearly with evaporation. Also it has a positive relationship with temperature and precipitation. Across the four seasons, the impact in summer and winter is greater than that in spring and autumn. Estimation of the spatial-temporal influence of climate on runoff could provide insight for water resource development in arid areas.

Editor Z.W. Kundzewicz Associate editor not assigned     

Improvement and comparison of the rainfall–runoff methods in SWAT at the monsoonal watershed of Baocun,Eastern China

ABSTRACT

A new physics-based rainfall–runoff method of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was developed, which integrates a water balance (WB) approach with the variable source area (WB-VSA). This approach was further compared with four methods—soil-water-dependent curve number (CN-Soil), evaporation-dependent curve number (CN-ET), Green and Ampt equation (G&A) and WB—in a monsoonal watershed, Eastern China. The regional sensitivity analysis shows that volumetric efficiency coefficient (VE) with river discharges is sensitive to the most parameters of all approaches. The results of model calibration against VE demonstrate that WB-VSA is the most accurate owing to its reflection of the spatial variation of runoff generation as affected by topography and soil properties. Other methods can also mimic baseflow well, but the G&A and CN-ET simulate floods much worse than the saturation excess runoff approaches (WB-VSA, WB and CN-Soil). Meanwhile, CN-Soil as an empirical method fails to simulate groundwater levels. By contrast, WB-VSA captures them best.

Editor M.C. Acreman; Associate editor S. Kanae     

断层活动协调比计算方法的改进及震例分析

根据断层活动协调比的概念,讨论了起算点对协调比计算结果的影响,提出了移动窗计算断层活动协调比的方法以及离散度评定指标.震例分析结果表明,丽江7.0级地震前丽江场地断层活动协调比数值变化范围较大,分布较离散;震后数值相对稳定,离散度较低.反映了在孕震阶段断层的应变积累以及由其引起的3分量运动相互协调性较差;震后断层处于自由活动状态,积累的应变能得到释放,3分量运动相互协调一致.目前丽江场地断层活动协调比数值离散度处于低值,断层应变积累处于较低水平.     

服务器虚拟化技术在哈尔滨市防震减灾技术中心资源整合中的应用

阐述了哈尔滨市防震减灾技术中心引入VMware虚拟化技术对现有服务器进行整合,旨在利用虚拟化技术,提高地震系统中服务器资源利用率,增强系统可靠性和灵活性。