The urban heat island (UHI), together with summertime heat waves, foster’s biophysical hazards such as heat stress, air pollution,
and associated public health problems. Mitigation strategies such as increased vegetative cover and higher albedo surface
materials have been proposed. Atlanta, Georgia, is often affected by extreme heat, and has recently been investigated to better
understand its heat island and related weather modifications. The objectives of this research were to (1) characterize temporal
variations in the magnitude of UHI around Metro Atlanta area, (2) identify climatological attributes of the UHI under extremely
high temperature conditions during Atlanta’s summer (June, July, and August) period, and (3) conduct theoretical numerical
simulations to quantify the first-order effects of proposed mitigation strategies. Over the period 1984–2007, the climatological
mean UHI magnitude for Atlanta-Athens and Athens-Monticello was 1.31 and 1.71°C, respectively. There were statistically significant
minimum temperature trends of 0.70°C per decade at Athens and −1.79°C per decade at Monticello while Atlanta’s minimum temperature
remained unchanged. The largest (smallest) UHI magnitudes were in spring (summer) and may be coupled to cloud-radiative cycles.
Heat waves in Atlanta occurred during 50% of the years spanning 1984–2007 and were exclusively summertime phenomena. The mean
number of heat wave events in Atlanta during a given heat wave year was 1.83. On average, Atlanta heat waves lasted 14.18 days,
although there was quite a bit of variability (standard deviation of 9.89). The mean maximum temperature during Atlanta’s
heat waves was 35.85°C. The Atlanta-Athens UHI was not statistically larger during a heat wave although the Atlanta-Monticello
UHI was. Model simulations captured daytime and nocturnal UHIs under heat wave conditions. Sensitivity results suggested that
a 100% increase in Atlanta’s surface vegetation or a tripling of its albedo effectively reduced UHI surface temperature. However,
from a mitigation and technological standpoint, there is low feasibility of tripling albedo in the foreseeable future. Increased
vegetation seems to be a more likely choice for mitigating surface temperature. 相似文献
A sea-survey was carried out along the Chinese coast from the Bohai Sea to South China Sea, and 15 surficial samples were
taken from major coastal estuaries, i.e., from north to south, the Yellow, abandoned Yellow, Yangtze, Qiantang, Ou, Min, Han,
and Pearl River estuaries. On the basis of clay mineral analysis and published data collection, this paper discusses the characteristics
of clay minerals of each coastal river and potentials of implications of sediment sources. The results show that the change
of diagnostic clay minerals from smectite to kaolinite from the Yellow to the Pearl River estuaries is southward, as clearly
shown by the ratios of smectite to chlorite (S/Ch) and kaolinite to illite (K/I). S/Ch decreases southward, while K/I moves
reversely, implying change in climate setting from cool/dry to humid/hot with intensified weathering processes. Besides, these
two indicators in the estuaries are also linked with the derivation of parent-rock of each river-basin and coastal hydrodynamics.
The disproportional higher ratio of K/I in the Yellow and abandoned Yellow River estuaries is ascribed to their sediment sources
with abundant loess component in the north-central China. The K/I decrease offshore from the Pearl River estuary is primarily
due to hydrodynamic sorting. Therefore, the S/Ch and K/I of the present study comprehensively reflect the controls of climate,
parent-rock, and sediment transport along the coast. 相似文献
Tidal flow and fine-sediment transport at the South Channel–North Passage of the partially-mixed Changjiang River estuary
were studied using a two-dimensional horizontal (2DH) numerical model. This 2DH model was achieved by depth-integrating the
momentum and convection–diffusion equations. The Alternating Direction Implicit scheme was used to solve the governing equations.
The iterative method was adopted for the calculation of convection and diffusion terms of momentum equation. Comparisons between
calculated and measured results (tidal elevations and depth-averaged velocities) have shown reasonable agreement. Horizontal
distributions of tidal current velocity and suspended sediment concentration were qualitatively consistent with observations.
Those modeled results were analyzed to elucidate the mechanisms for the formation of the turbidity maximum and intratidal
variations in fine-sediment transport processes. 相似文献
This research investigated eight stations in Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone(CCFZ) in the eastern tropical Pacific in 2017 to study the spatial distribution characteristics of nutrients and chlorophyll a(Chl a) concentration,and compared nutrient concentrations and molar ratios with those of other investigations 20 years ago in the same area. The study found that dissolved inorganic nutrient(N, P and Si) concentrations were lowest in the upper layer, and increased from surface to some depths, t... 相似文献
Immersed tube tunnels are usually placed on soft soil layers in cross-sea tunnelling engineering. Owing to the influence of stratum conditions and slope design, the longitudinal distribution of substratum layers is generally uneven. Thus, the inhomogeneous deformation of the element-joint becomes the key factor in the failure of the immersed tube tunnel. Therefore, a corresponding calculation method for joint deformation is needed to explore the deformation law of immersed tube tunnels. By constructing a three-section immersed tube tunnel analysis model (TTM), the relationship between the two types of deformation of the immersed tube tunnel structure in a longitudinal nonuniform soft soil foundation is described, and the deformation characteristics of the immersed structure under different boundaries are discussed. Based on the mechanical behaviour of the joint and foundation, according to the Timoshenko beam on the Vlasov two-parameter foundation (VTM), considering the tidal cyclic load during the operation and maintenance period, an example analysis is given. Moreover, the deformation characteristics and development trend of the immersed tube tunnel under the influence of different soil layers are discussed. The obtained results have a certain guiding significance for the deformation calculation of immersed tube tunnels.
Facade structures from three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data (PCD) and two-dimensional (2D) optical images can provide significant information for 3D building modeling. However, a unified data model for integrating 2D imagery pixels and 3D PCD is absent in current methods, leading to a complex implementation process, large calculations, and inefficiency. An efficient facade structure extraction method for building facades is proposed in this study. Based on the conversion matrix, 2D image and 3D PCD information are merged to build an image-based laser point cloud (ILPC) data model first. Second, both the line segment detection and random sample consensus algorithms are improved according to the structure and characteristics of the ILPC data model. Finally, building facade structures are extracted and optimized. Facade structures can be extracted accurately and efficiently by the proposed method, which contains rich information support from the ILPC data model. The proposed method extracts fine building facade structures with accuracy over 0.68 in all experiments and recall up to 0.81, which are better than the Wang method. Extracted structures constitute valuable support for numerous fields, such as 3D building modeling and building information modeling construction. 相似文献