Die Verteilung des SO2-Gehaltes der Luft im Stadtgebiet von Wien

Zusammenfassung An zahlreichen über das ganze Stadtgebiet von Wien verteilten Beobachtungsstellen wurden vom September 1956 bis September 1957 an je vier Wochen lang ausgesetzten, mit einem Absorptionsmittel getränkten Baumwollappen SO₂-Ablagerungen gesammelt. Die gefundenen SO₂-Mengen zeigen eine stark unterschiedliche Verteilung im Stadtbereich und einen deutlichen Jahresgang mit einem Maximum im Winter und einem Minimum im Juli. Der Einfluß meteorologischer Faktoren auf den SO₂-Gehalt der Luft und seine Änderungen wird unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der orographischen Verhältnisse und örtlicher SO₂-Quellen eingehend diskutiert. Abschließend wird auch über eine Analyse von Schneeproben auf berichtet.

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Summary During the period September 1956 to September 1957 the amount of SO₂ deposited from the atmosphere was observed at numerous locations in the town of Vienna. The observations were made by means of cotton rags, soaked with an absorbing chemical, and each rag was exposed for four weeks. The amounts of SO₂ show great differences within the area, and a pronounced annual variation, with a maximum in winter and a minimum in July. The influence on the SO₂ content of the air of meteorological factors is discussed in detail, with special regard to variations by orographic conditions and local SO₂ sources. Additional determinations on snow samples are reported.

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Résumé Des prélèvements de SO₂ par absorption sur des bandes de coton imprégné, laissées sur place pendant quatre semaines, ont été faits en de nombreux endroits de l'agglomération viennoise de septembre 1956 à septembre 1957. Les quantités de SO₂ varient beaucoup selon les endroits et la saison; elles sont maximum en hiver et minimum en juillet. Etude des facteurs météorologiques agissant sur la répartition du gaz en tenant compte en particulier du relief et des sources locales d'anhydride sulfureux. On a également déterminé la teneur de d'échantillons de neige.

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Projection of runoff characteristics as a response to regional climate change in a Central/Eastern European catchment

ABSTRACT

The impact of climate change on runoff characteristics is investigated for the Upper Tisza basin, in eastern Central Europe. For a reliable estimation of uncertainty, an appropriate stochastic weather generator is embedded into a Monte Carlo cycle capable of generating any large number of independent, equally probable, 100-year-long daily sequences of synthetic data with which a hydrological model is driven in order to obtain the hydrological responses to the meteorological data sequences. According to our results, a decrease of daily average runoff is likely to occur in the future in the Upper Tisza basin, especially in July and August. The occurrence of water levels below the critical low level is estimated to increase between July and October. Level-3 flood warnings are projected to be less frequent in the future; however, they will tend to be more severe than in the historical period.     

Lead isotope composition of the sublimates from the fumaroles of Vulcano (Aeolian Islands,Italy): inferences on the deep fluid circulation

The fumarolic fluids of Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) consist of a mixture of both deep and shallow components. The final products, the fumarolic gases and the sublimates associated with them, provide information on the complex interactions that occur at depth. As radiogenic isotopes do not undergo fractionation after they are incorporated in a fumarolic gas, they can be used directly to characterize the components that mixed. Lead isotopes are particularly suitable, because seawater, which plays an important part in the formation of the fumarolic fluids of Vulcano, contains only negligible amounts of it (10^-12 g/g). Therefore, the lead present in the fumarolic gases (and sublimates) is derived from the magmatic component and a water-rock interaction process. The lead isotope compositions of the lead sulfosalt sublimates collected from the Fossa Crater of Vulcano in 1924, and between 1989 and 1993, are given. The lead isotope ratios of most of the samples are the same within the range of analytical error, regardless of their collection date. The only samples that display slight variations are those collected in 1993. On the whole, the compositional trend of the lead isotopes of the sublimates coincides with that of the latitic-rhyolitic activity of Fossa and differs substantially from that of the pre-Fossa trachy-basaltic activity. The lead composition of the sublimates is very different from that of the Calabrian basement rocks. The data presented here show that the magma presently degassing at Vulcano has the same lead isotopic composition as the products of the recent activity of Fossa, whereas the fumarolic fluid circulation of Vulcano has not involved basement rocks similar to the Calabrian metasediments.     

应用主分量分析法研究唐山Ms7.8地震前的地磁异常

应用主分量分析法对昌黎、青光、宝坻、红山等台站(1975—1977年)三年的每月五个静日地磁绝对磁场的资料及相应时间的太阳黑子相对数的资料进行计算。结果表明,第一主分量与太阳黑子相对数对应很好,相关系数为0.9以上,而第二主分量与太阳黑子相对数的相关系数为0.03左右。对于在某一固定频率而变化的地磁外源场,内外场的比例几乎恒定在一定水平上,而在唐山地震前内外场比值有明显的异常变化,笔者认为,这个恒定水平的偏离可能是由于地壳内应力不断积累导致的地下电导率的变化而引起的。用这种方法不仅可以消除地磁场的非局部变化,而且利用内外场比值的偏离或监视内场的变化可能为使用地磁场预报地震提供一个依据。     

Stability and dynamics of beams on winkler elastic foundations

The dynamical properties of a foundation beam on a Winkler soil have been recently discussed by using the power series method¹⁴ and the finite element method.^{15, 17 – 19} The first method can be applied only if the Winkler soil is linearly distributed along the whole span: on the contrary, the second method is more general, but it requires considerable computational efforts. In this paper a recently developed discretization method has been shown to be particularly well suited for dynamic analysis of foundation beams, in the presence of second order destabilizing effects. The procedure is based on the Hamilton principle, and the equation of motion is deduced from the corresponding Lagrange equations. According to the proposed method, the structure is reduced to a set of rigid bars, connected together by elastic cells. The convergence of the method is shown to be quite rapid, so that a small number of Lagrangian coordinates has to be introduced, and the resulting eigenvalue problem can be easily solved. Numerical comparisons are also performed with the available data of the literature, and the agreement is shown to be excellent. Two particularly unusual cases are illustrated, in order to emphasize the method's peculiarities. Finally, the influence of the axial forces on the fundamental vibration frequency is discussed, both for conservative and non-conservative forces.     

Fault-generated mountain fronts in the central apennines (Central Italy): Geomorphological features and seismotectonic implications

The morphotectonic framework of the Central Apennines is given by faulted blocks bounded by normal faults, mostly trending NW–SE, NNW–SSE and NE–SW, which cut previous compressive structures. Such a structural setting is consistent with the focal mechanisms of the earthquakes which often occur in this area. In this paper, three lithologically different normal fault-generated mountain fronts are analysed in order to assess the relations between their geomorphic features and active tectonics. They border the Norcia depression (Sibillini Mts, Umbria), the Amatrice–Campotosto plateau (Laga Mts, Lazio) and the Fucino basin (Marsica Mts, Abruzzi). The Norcia depression is bounded by a N20°W trending normal fault to the east and by a parallel antithetic fault to the west. The main fault has a 1000 m throw and gives rise to a wide fault escarpment, characterized by: (1) sharp slope breaks due to low angle gravity faults; (2) important paleolandslides; and (3) several fault scarplets on the piedmont belt affecting Quaternary deposits. The Amatrice–Campotosto plateau is delimited by the western slope of Mt Gorzano which runs along a N20°W trending normal fault having a 1500m throw. Minor parallel faults dislocate Quaternary landforms. Large-scale massmovements also occur here. The Fucino basin was struck by the 1915 Avezzano earthquake (I=XI MCS) which produced extensive surface faulting along two parallel NW trending normal fault escarpments on the eastern border of the basin. There is paleoseismic evidence including buried gravity graben in Late Glacial gravels and tectonic dip-slip striations on Holocene calcitic crusts covering bedrock normal fault planes. These data suggest that active extensional tectonics plays a major role in the slope morphogenesis of the Central Apennines and they indicate the importance of geomorphic analysis in seismic zonation of this area.     

Benthic Fluxes of Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen in a Coastal Lagoon of the Northern Adriatic Sea: an Interpretation of Spatial Variability Based on Sediment Features and Infauna Activity

Abstract. Dark respiration rates, dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) fluxes and nitrification rates were measured at two sites in the microtidal Sacca di Goro lagoon in September 2000. DIN fluxes correlated with the biomass of the dominant macrofauna species (the amphipod Corophium spp. at station Giralda and the polychaete Neanthes spp. at station Faro). Respiration (> 6 mmol O₂ m⁻²h⁻¹) and ammonium fluxes (> 80μmol N m⁻²h⁻¹) were higher at station Giralda despite the lower organic matter content (4.5 %) and lower macrofauna biomass (4 g AFDW m⁻²). At both sites ammonium fluxes were significantly correlated with the biomass of the benthic infauna, but Corophium stimulated ammonium NH₄⁺ fluxes 3-fold compared to Neanthes. The amphipod also enhanced nitrification rates (> 300 μmol N m⁻²h⁻¹) due to the high density of its burrows, the higher NH₄⁺ regeneration rates and the enhanced oxygen supply to the bacteria.     

Potential forest fire danger over Northern Eurasia: Changes during the 20th century

Significant climatic changes over Northern Eurasia during the 20th century have been reflected in numerous variables of economic, social, and ecological interest, including the natural frequency of forest fires. For the former USSR, we are now using the Global Daily Climatology Network and a new Global Synoptic Data Network archive, GSDN, created jointly by U.S. National Climatic Data Center and Russian Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information. Data from these archives (approximately 1500 of them having sufficiently long meteorological time series suitable for participation in our analyses) are employed to estimate systematic changes in indices used in the United States and Russia to assess potential forest fire danger. We use four indices: (1) Keetch–Byram Drought Index, (KBDI; this index was developed and widely used in the United States); (2) Nesterov, (3) Modified Nesterov, and (4) Zhdanko Indices (these indices were developed and widely used in Russia). Analyses show that after calibration, time series of the days with increased potential forest fire danger constructed using each of these three indices (a) are well correlated and (b) deliver similar conclusions about systematic changes in the weather conditions conducive to forest fires. Specifically, over the Eastern half of Northern Eurasia (Siberia and the Russian Far East) statistically significant increases in indices that characterize the weather conditions conducive to forest fires were found. These areas coincide with the areas of most significant warming during the past several decades south of the Arctic Circle. West of the Ural Mountains, the same indices show a steady decrease in the frequency of “dry weather summer days” during the past 60 yr. This study is corroborated with available statistics of forest fires and with observed changes in drought statistics in agricultural regions of Northern Eurasia.