用扫描电镜技术识别广州市大气颗粒物主要种类

利用扫描电镜技术对大气颗粒物的来源进行识别，采取手动分析与自动分析两种方法，得出的结果在总趋势上相互一致。手动方法和自动方法各有特点。自动分析在细颗粒，特别是含硫颗粒分析方面有优势，而手动分析在形貌观测和确定有机粗颗粒污染状况方面有独到之处。实验结果表明，大气颗粒物的来源是多样的，治理措施也应是综合性的，既要注意工业点源的污染治理和排放控制，如燃煤飞灰，钙质颗粒富铁颗粒等，也要注意面源排放，如土壤扬尘和碳质颗粒，碳质颗粒的来源复杂，可以是工业过程，燃烧过程，机动车尾气，生物质燃，树木自然排放。     

基于土地利用和人为热修正的城市夏季高温数值试验

为了评估土地利用变化和人为热对区域气象环境产生的影响,同时针对WRF模式对城市土地利用和人为热刻画不够准确的现状,以上海为例,选用GLC2009对WRF中上海地区原有数据进行修正。通过楼层信息将上海市分为三类(商业区、高强度区、低强度区),同时重新估算了人为热通量和人为热释放日变化系数。利用WRF/UCM对2010年8月11—17日的一次高温过程进行了模拟试验。与观测资料的对比表明:新的土地利用数据较真实地反映了上海地区下垫面的变化,尤其是大规模建设导致的城市功能区变化;使用新的土地利用和人为热数据,温度和比湿模拟的平均偏差分别改善了1.95 ℃和0.713 g/kg;高温范围和比湿对土地利用的改变最敏感,高温强度对人为热最敏感。      

渤海海域及邻区新构造运动特征与环境地质意义

渤海湾盆地是我国东部典型的中新生代断陷一坳陷盆地,具有拉张型盆地典型的双层结构,上下构造层间普遍发育裂后不整合面,而且在不整合事件之后出现沉降现象。在对渤海新构造研究基础上确定了渤海区域新构造运动的时间,分析了渤海海域及邻区的构造背景;从区域重力场、火山活动、断裂活动、地震等方面对该区的新构造运动特征进行分析,并阐明了新构造运动对渤海区域的环境地质意义,表明该区域新构造运动活跃以及对人类的生产生活意义重大。     

CTD传感器中磁力泵的设计

简要介绍了自持式剖面探测漂流浮标(以下简称剖面浮标或Argo浮标)电导率、温度和压力传感器(简称CTD传感器)中磁力泵的整体结构、工作原理、叶轮的设计方法,分析了磁力耦合器的设计思路.由此设计的磁力泵变动密封为静密封,达到无泄漏.该方法可作为磁力驱动装置的理论设计依据.     

Underwater measurements of carbon dioxide evolution in marine plant communities: A new method

We developed a new methodology to determine CO₂ fluxes in intertidal and shallow subtidal plant communities, namely seagrasses, both when the plants are submerged and when they are air-exposed. The apparatus comprises closed incubation chambers and a gas exchange column, designed to remove carbon dioxide from the water. Different types of incubation chambers were designed and built to adapt the system to distinct environments and incubation requirements. The methodology was tested under a comprehensive range of situations and its advantages and limitations are discussed. Overall, the method provides precise measurements of community carbon dioxide fluxes, through a fast and non-intrusive process, allowing repeatable in situ measurements of carbon uptake both in submerged and air-exposed conditions. As the experimental apparatus is identical, directly comparable measurements of air-exposed and submerged community production may be obtained, allowing sound estimates of daily carbon budgets of intertidal and shallow subtidal communities.     

Use of different intertidal habitats by faunal communities in a temperate coastal lagoon

The faunal communities of four intertidal habitats namely sand, mud, seagrass (Zostera noltii) and seagrass patches (mixSM) of a temperate coastal lagoon, Ria Formosa (southern Portugal), were sampled. A total of 47 species were taken in 428 bottomless drop sampler samples, with the highest number of species and the more commonly occurring species belonging to the Mollusca phylum. The dominance of these gastropod species underlines the importance of the grazing food chain in these habitats. Bittium reticulatum was the most abundant species, being especially abundant in the seagrass habitat. The most frequent and highest biomass species in the community was Carcinus maenas, a predator that makes use of the available resources and that is adapted to the highly variable intertidal environment. Pomatoschistus microps was the most abundant fish species, with highest densities in the mud habitat, which demonstrates an ability to occupy a low depth area. The seagrass habitat had the highest diversity, abundance and biomass, followed by the mixSM habitat and was different from all the others. Assemblages were highly influenced by the presence of vegetation, providing forage and refuge from predation. A well defined summer group was identified in all habitats. These results highlight the importance of seagrass beds and the idea that their decrease implies the decrease of lagoon production through the impoverishment of the trophic structure of the lagoon.     

Intragroup diffuse light in compact groups of galaxies – II. HCG 15, 35 and 51

This continuing study of intragroup light in compact groups of galaxies aims to establish new constraints to models of formation and evolution of galaxy groups, specially of compact groups, which are a key part in the evolution of larger structures, such as clusters. In this paper we present three additional groups (HCG 15, 35 and 51) using deep wide-field B - and R -band images observed with the LAICA camera at the 3.5-m telescope at the Calar Alto observatory (CAHA). This instrument provides us with very stable flat-fielding, a mandatory condition for reliably measuring intragroup diffuse light. The images were analysed with the ov_wav package, a wavelet technique that allows us to uncover the intragroup component in an unprecedented way. We have detected that 19, 15 and 26 per cent of the total light of HCG 15, 35 and 51, respectively, are in the diffuse component, with colours that are compatible with old stellar populations and with mean surface brightness that can be as low as 28.4 B mag arcsec⁻². Dynamical masses, crossing times and mass-to-light ratios were recalculated using the new group parameters. Also tidal features were analysed using the wavelet technique.     

The barnacle Balanus amphitrite as a biomonitor for Cd: Radiolabelled experiments

Radiolabelled experiments were carried out to measure necessary parameters in the development of a biodynamic ecotoxicological simulation model of Cd accumulation in the barnacle biomonitor Balanus amphitrite. The Cd uptake rate constant from the dissolved phase, the Cd assimilation efficiency (AE) from suspended particulate matter (SPM) and the efflux rate constant were obtained using ¹⁰⁹Cd. A Cd uptake rate constant from the dissolved phase (k_u) of 0.0072 L g⁻¹ h⁻¹ was determined for the barnacle under environmentally realistic dissolved Cd concentrations (maximum of 400 ng L⁻¹). Cd AE from SPM was determined from the barnacle feeding on SPM with low and high chl a concentrations, resulting in AEs of 39.0% and 48.7%, respectively, and an efflux rate of 0.0072 d⁻¹. The difference between the AEs resulted from differences in chl a:SPM ratios suggesting a general tendency of higher AE when SPM is enriched with chl a. These results reinforce that the accuracy of ecotoxicological models for metal accumulation in organisms depends on how representative the selected food items are of the organism’s natural diet.     

High-resolution regional ocean dynamics simulation in the southwestern tropical Atlantic

The southwestern tropical Atlantic (05°S–25°S/20°W–47°W), where part of the South Equatorial Current (SEC) enters at its eastern border, is of particular interest as it is fed by many western boundary currents along the eastern Brazilian continental shelf. However, the long-term variability of the dynamics in this region, which are also important as they contribute to the climate over northeastern Brazil, is largely unknown. We use the Regional Ocean Model System (ROMS) here for the first time in this area to simulate the ocean circulation with an isotropic horizontal grid resolution of 1/12° and 40 terrain-following layers. As a primary evaluation of the ROMS configuration, we explore surface and vertical thermal structures, the surface mixed layer, and mass transports within the upper levels. Interannual variability results are compared with the first two-year series of observed thermal profiles derived from the three PIRATA-SWE moorings. The simulated thermal structure in the upper ocean layers agrees well with in-situ data. ROMS simulations point out a broad and relatively weak SEC flow composed of a sequence of more or less defined near-surface cores. The westward SEC transport for the upper 400 m along the PIRATA-SWE section, calculated from the ROMS simulation for 2005–2007, shows an average volume transport of 14.9 Sv, with a maximum observed in JFM (15.7 Sv), and a minimum during MJJ (13.8 Sv). ROMS results indicate that the 2005–2007 seasonal near-surface westward SEC transport is modulated by the zonal wind variability. Three zonal sections extending from the American continent to the PIRATA buoy sites confirm that stronger northward NBUC transport and decreasing BC transport were achieved during May 2006 and May 2007, i.e. at the time the sSEC bifurcation reaches its southernmost position. On the other hand, the maximum southward BC flow was verified during January 2006, January 2007 and March 2007, with a minimum northward NBUC flow in December 2005 and October/December 2006, corresponding to the period when the sSEC bifurcation reaches its lowest latitude (OND). Sea Surface Height (SSH) and the surface Eddy Kinetic Energy (EKE) derived from simulations and AVISO Rio05 product point out the highest surface meso-scale activity (EKE  50 cm² s⁻²) along the cSEC and NBUC/BC patches. Preliminary results provide additional ingredients in the complexity of the SEC divergence region and encourage us to conduct a more detailed exploration of the dynamics of this region using the ROMS. This also shows the need to continue, extend, and vertically upgrade the observational PIRATA-SWE array system, especially with more levels of salinity measurements and the installation of current measurements.     

The autonomous <Emphasis Type="Italic">Simpatico</Emphasis> system for real-time continuous water-quality and current velocity monitoring: examples of application in three Portuguese estuaries

This technical paper describes an autonomous recording system with remote data access for the continuous, long-term in situ monitoring of water quality and discharge, as well as current velocity. The Simpatico system has been recently deployed in three estuaries in Portugal (Mondego and Tagus in July 2007; Guadiana in March 2008), highly suitable to illustrate its multifaceted potential applications: surveillance of the effects of mitigation measures to combat eutrophication (lower Mondego Estuary); real-time implementation of boundary conditions for a water modelling system (upper Tagus Estuary); study of dam-induced impacts in terms of water quality, water discharge and sediment budgets (mouth of the Guadiana Estuary). An extract of recorded data serves as an example to discuss data reliability, as well as field maintenance of the system, with implications for labour and operational costs. The use of a new generation of copper-based anti-biofouling kits significantly reduced the need for field maintenance operations. Other examples of possible application of the system include the assessment of gas accumulation in coastal waters.