Simulating Aerosol Optical Depth and Direct Radiative Effects over the Tibetan Plateau with a High-Resolution CAS FGOALS-f3 Model

Current global climate models cannot resolve the complex topography over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) due to their coarse resolution. This study investigates the impacts of horizontal resolution on simulating aerosol and its direct radiative effect (DRE) over the TP by applying two horizontal resolutions of about 100 km and 25 km to the Chinese Academy of Sciences Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere Land System (CAS FGOALS-f3) over a 10-year period. Compared to the AErosol RObotic NETwork observations, a high-resolution model (HRM) can better reproduce the spatial distribution and seasonal cycles of aerosol optical depth (AOD) compared to a low-resolution model (LRM). The HRM bias and RMSE of AOD decreased by 0.08 and 0.12, and the correlation coefficient increased by 0.22 compared to the LRM. An LRM is not sufficient to reproduce the aerosol variations associated with fine-scale topographic forcing, such as in the eastern marginal region of the TP. The difference between hydrophilic aerosols in an HRM and LRM is caused by the divergence of the simulated relative humidity (RH). More reasonable distributions and variations of RH are conducive to simulating hydrophilic aerosols. An increase of the 10-m wind speed in winter by an HRM leads to increased dust emissions. The simulated aerosol DREs at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) and at the surface by the HRM are –0.76 W m^–2 and –8.72 W m^–2 over the TP, respectively. Both resolution models can capture the key feature that dust TOA DRE transitions from positive in spring to negative in the other seasons.     

PV Perspective of Impacts on Downstream Extreme Rainfall Event of a Tibetan Plateau Vortex Collaborating with a Southwest China Vortex

An extreme rainfall event occurred over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze Basin(MLY) during the end of June 2016, which was attributable to a Tibetan Plateau(TP) Vortex(TPV) in conjunction with a Southwest China Vortex(SWCV). The physical mechanism for this event was investigated from Potential Vorticity(PV) and omega perspectives based on MERRA-2 reanalysis data. The cyclogenesis of the TPV over the northwestern TP along with the lowertropospheric SWCV was found to involve a midtropospheric large-scale flow reconfiguration across western and eastern China with the formation of a high-amplitude Rossby wave. Subsequently, the eastward-moving TPV coalesced vertically with the SWCV over the eastern Sichuan Basin due to the positive vertical gradient of the TPV-related PV advection,leading the lower-tropospheric jet associated with moisture transport to intensify greatly and converge over the downstream MLY. The merged TPV-SWCV specially facilitated the upper-tropospheric isentropic-gliding ascending motion over the MLY. With the TPV-embedded mid-tropospheric trough migrating continuously eastward, the almost stagnant SWCV was re-separated from the overlying TPV, forming a more eastward-tilted high-PV configuration to trigger stronger ascending motion including isentropic-gliding, isentropic-displacement, and diabatic heating-related ascending components over the MLY. This led to more intense rainfall. Quantitative PV diagnoses demonstrate that both the coalescence and subsequent re-separation processes of the TPV with the SWCV were largely dominated by horizontal PV advection and PV generation due to vertically nonuniform diabatic heating, as well as the feedback of condensation latent heating on the isentropicdisplacement vertical velocity.     

Characterization of cloud microphysical properties in different cloud types over East Asia based on CloudSat/CALIPSO satellite products

利用CloudSat/CALIPSO卫星资料,本文揭示了东亚三个代表性区域的云微物理属性,为评估和改进模式云微物理过程提供重要的观测基础.研究的云微物理量包括云水/冰质量,数浓度和有效半径.研究表明:暖云中云水质量和数浓度随高度增加而减小,有效半径处于8-14μm范围.对于冰云,云冰质量和有效半径随高度增加而减小,而数浓度在垂直方向上变化不大.此外,云微物理属性在不同云型之间存在显著差异:积云的云水质量和数浓度最大,而卷云的云水质量和数浓度最小.从三个区域的对比结果来看,相比于华东和西北太平洋地区,青藏高原地区暖云的云水质量和数浓度较小,而冰云的则较大.     

大洋板块地层(OPS)简介及评述

大洋板块地层(Ocean Plate Stratigraphy)是由日本地质学家Isozaki在1990年首先提出来的,基本含义是大洋板块在从洋中脊到海沟俯冲带的运动过程中形成的一套构造-沉积地层。近年来,关于大洋板块地层的研究取得了长足的进展,丰富了大洋板块地层的内涵。本文着重介绍大洋板块地层的基本概念、物质组成、形成环境及构造特征。在此基础上,对大洋板块地层在区域地质矿产调查中的作用进行了讨论,建议在造山带地质研究中采用"俯冲增生杂岩"取代"大洋板块地层"。因为在成因上,地层并不等同于杂岩。     

榆神矿区采煤失水危险性分区研究

以榆神矿区区域地质资料为依据,总结了该区煤层与含(隔)水层空间组合类型; 采用三维数值模拟方法,根据塑性条件、破坏准则及应力判别,模拟首采煤层与含(隔)水层空间组合类型下导水裂隙带高度; 通过对比钻孔探测法与数值模拟法,发现数值模拟法具有可行性; 利用模拟结果,绘制矿区导水裂隙带高度空间分布图,总结矿区导水裂隙带高度的整体分布规律; 对比导水裂隙带高度与其首采煤层上覆岩层厚度,总结矿区采煤失水危险性,并进行采煤失水危险性分区; 通过控制采煤失水危险区域的采厚可以达到“保水采煤”的效果。本研究对榆神矿区后期安全生产具有重要的理论意义与实际价值。     

Ocean manganese nodule and sediment reference materials

In this article, sampling locations, sample types, sample processing methods, and certified values of ocean manganese nodule and sediment reference materials available throughout the world are briefly described. Recommended or information values of major, minor, and trace constituents in those samples have also been collected, and a review of the main characteristics of their property values is presented.     

Sensitivity of ITCZ configuration to cumulus convective parameterizations on an aqua planet

This paper examines the performances of various cumulus convective parameterization schemes in the tropical atmosphere using an aqua-planet atmospheric General Circulation Model forced by zonally symmetric but latitudinally varying sea surface temperature (SST) and solar angle. The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is represented by intense precipitation. The assigned Control experiment with a specific SST distribution, as designated by the Aqua Planet Experiment, yields a single ITCZ when Zhang’s scheme or Manabe’s scheme is employed, whereas a double ITCZ occurs when Tiedtke’s scheme is used. The key to the occurrence of a double ITCZ is latitudinal variation in evaporation within the boundary layer. Such variation is induced mainly by latitudinal variation in the zonal wind speed, with the existence of a calm belt at the equator and a maximum wind speed located off the equator, arising from the evaporation–wind feedback (EWF) mechanism. The latitudinal distribution of evaporation results in a decrease in the height of the lifting condensation level in areas off the equator and an increase at the equator. The occurrence of a single ITCZ in Zhang’s scheme is attributed to the use of a Convective Available Potential Energy criterion by which convection occurs more readily at the equator. As a result, a precipitation maximum is maintained at the equator via a prevailing Conditional Instability of the Second Kind mechanism.     

SAMIL模式中Tiedtke 积云对流方案对热带降水模拟的影响

目前, 大多数全球耦合模式及大气环流模式在降水模拟中普遍存在不同程度的“热带偏差”问题, 中国科学院大气物理研究所大气科学和地球流体力学数值模拟国家重点实验室所发展的全球大气环流谱模式SAMIL-R42L26也存在这一现象, 主要表现在SPCZ (南太平洋辐合区) 降水过强且过分东伸、 赤道附近降水偏少等方面。本文通过修改SAMIL中的积云对流方案有效地削弱了这一偏差, 并进一步探讨其原因, 发现对流方案修改后, 改变了对流层低层至地面的温度分布状态, 进而影响了风速及散度场的模拟, 最终通过垂直速度的调整反作用于对流过程。比较修改前后对流过程云底质量通量, 发现修改后的方案主要通过削弱浅对流来提高热带降水的模拟性能。     

海洋环流模式对平流方案与分辨率的敏感性

文中将中国科学院大气物理研究所大气科学和地球流体力学数值模拟国家重点实验室(LASG)发展的准全球海洋环流模式(LICOM),从水平分辨率、垂直分辨率、平流方案3个方面分别采用不同的方案,进行组合试验,研究这些因素对于海洋环流(特别是热带海洋)的重要影响.8组试验表明,水平分辨率的提高,对于流场的改进有显著作用,能够使流场达到与实际非常接近的强度;调整的垂直分辨率,上层海洋的加密,能够使热带太平洋上层海洋的模拟改进;引入的两步保形平流方案,能够使得热带太平洋海温的模拟有所改进,这种改进的效果在低分辨率的情况下,尤为明显.同时,8组试验也一致地表现出等温线的密集程度比实际情况稀疏,这反映了模式在物理过程,特别是混合过程的描述方面,还有值得改进的地方.     

江苏省风能简便计算方法的研究

气象上常用的风能计算方法有用风速的概率密度计算和直接用风速资料。前者需要确定适合于被计算地风速概率分布，后者需要统计气象台站记风速资料，若计算某地年平均风能密度则应对该地十年以上的逐年、月、日、时的自记风资料进行统计、，工作量相当庞大。目前国内已有一些风能简便计算方法，其中朱瑞兆等人认为，用代表年来计算风能与其长年平均值十分接近「１」。本文对几各简便方法运用在江苏的科学性和实用性进行了探讨，着重研