Factors controlling the spatial and temporal variability of dust emissions

New field measurement techniques are allowing researchers to better understand how surficial properties affect the temporal and spatial variability of dust emissions. In this paper we review the current understanding of the dust emission process and present new field measurements that examine how three surface properties： roughness, crust strength, and temporal changes of surface properties affect dust emissions. These data were collected using three unique measurement systems developed by our team. Roughness exerts considerable control on the entrainment threshold and emissions of dust from a surface. We have carried out a series of experiments designed to quantify roughness effects on aeolian sediment entrainment and transport in a shear stress partitioning framework. Our results show that the model of Raupach et al. （1993） provides very good agreement with available data to predict the amount of shearing stress on the intervening surface among roughness elements, relatively independent of their size and distribution. However, element size affects the aeolian sediment transport process beyond that attributable only to the reduction of surface shear stress caused by the roughness. Additional interactions of the elements with the saltation cloud appear to reduce the transport efficiency and potentially dust emissions as well. The effect of crust strength on dust emissions was assessed using a newly-developed pin penetrometer, which can measure crust strength in-situ. Previous researchers suggested that variation in crust strength even within a small area could lead to considerable spatial variability in dust emissions. Our measurements showed that crust strength is highly variable over a scale of centimeters. This variability may help to explain some of the observed scatter in field measurements of dust emissions for what appear to be homogeneous surfaces. Variability of dust emissions in time and space was also evaluated using a new instrument, the Portable In-Situ Wind Erosion Lab （PI-SWERL） developed to measure dust emissions from soil surfaces.     

Naturally acidic and metalliferous waters at unmined volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in the Bonnifield mining district, Alaska Range, east-central Alaska

The Bonnifield district hosts 26 tmmined volcanogenic massive sulfide （VMS） occurrences. Environmental geochemical samples of water and stream sediment were collected at several occurrences, concentrating on the two best-exposed and largest deposits, Red Mountain （RM） and Sheep Creek （SC）. Limited samples were also collected at the poorly exposed WTF deposit. The deposits are Late Devonian to Early Mississippian, and are hosted by felsic metavolcanic and carbonaceous schist members of the Totatlanika Schist or Keevy Peak Fm. Spring and stream waters at RM and SC have pH values commonly 〈3.5 （as low as 2.4 at RM and 2.5 at SC）, high conductivity （up to 11000 μS/cm）, and very high （Is to 100s mg/L） dissolved contents of Al, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, Ni, and Pb. Waters at RM are characterized by extremely high REE contents （summed REE median 3200 μg/L, n=33）. At both RM and SC, pyrite oxidation and dissolution produce low pH waters that interact with and dissolve bedrock minerals, resulting in acidic, metal-laden, naturally degraded streams that are mostly devoid of aquatic life. Ferricrete is common. In contrast, WTF barely produces a surficial environmental footprint, mostly due to topography and relief. RM and SC are well exposed in the areas of relatively high relief, and both exhibit extensive areas of quartz-sericite-pyrite-alteration. While WTF shares many of the same deposit-and alteration characteristics, it is concealed by tundra in a large, nearly flat area. Surface water at WTF is absent and outcrops are sparse. Even though WTF is roughly the same size as Red Mountain （both around 3 million tonnes） and has similar base- and precious-metal grades, the surficial geochemical manifestation of WTF is minimal. However, exposure through mining of the altered, mineralized rock at WTF potentially could initiate the same processes of pyrite oxidation, acid generation, and mineral dissolution that are observed naturally at RM and SC.     

和田地区近40年气温变化特征分析

利用和田地区4个代表站1961～2000年的气温资料，对和田地区近40a来的气温变化作了分析。得出近40年来和田地区年平均气温呈上升趋势，春季气温和于田县的年平均气温却呈下降趋势。特别是上世纪90年代增温十分明显，1999年是近40a来和田地区最暖的一年。     

初夏一次特大暴雨的诊断分析

对新疆1996年5月28－30日一次特大暴雨过程的诊断分析，给出了暴雨产生的原因。     

人工影响天气在防御气象灾害中的重要作用

１概述加强对天气、气候和水相关的极端事件的预测和预报，并通过实施完备的防灾、减灾、救灾战略，最大限度地降低气象灾害极端事件带来的负面影响，保证国家经济建设顺利进行和广大人民群众的生命财产安全是我们面临的重要任务。人工影响天气作为防灾减灾手段之一，在抵御气象灾害方面发挥着越来越重要的作用，为人类未雨绸缪，趋利避害，营造美好的生存环境，做出了越来越大的贡献。人工影响天气技术问世已有半个多世纪了，并从起初的人工增水逐步扩展到人工防雹、人工消云（雾）、人工防霜、人工抑制闪电等方面。同时，人工影响天气的理…     

海底天然气渗漏形成水合物量的线性动力学模型:以墨西哥湾GC185区块Bush高地为例

世界许多地区如墨西哥湾，存在着大量天然气渗漏并形成水合物的现象，出于科学，生态，气候和安全的需要。人类有必要弄清存在于海底以水合成形式存在的天然气的比例。因此，构建了水合物形成量的线性动力学模型，以分析墨西哥湾GC185块区Bush高地海底渗漏天然气的地质过程和行为。Bush高地渗漏的天然气来源于附近的Jolliet气藏，结果表明，渗漏天然气中约有9％的海底形成了水合物。     

变质核杂岩的定义、类型及构造背景

伸展变质核杂岩(mcc)的基本特征包括:(1)缓倾至中等倾角的具有大规模位移的(几十千米)区域至准区域性延伸的主拆离断层;(2)与断层相关的糜棱片岩和片麻岩下盘(包括可能出露更深层次的非糜棱化结晶岩);(3)上盘上地壳基底岩和/或表壳岩层.关键的一点是,所有变质核杂岩是沿地壳深部(大于10～15 km)大型拆离断层大规模地壳伸展和地壳切除(缺失)的产物.我们认为,地壳剖面无大规模缺失的以基底为核的穹隆状杂岩不是一般构造定义上公认的变质核杂岩.变质核杂岩形成于同缩短期和缩短期后的多种构造环境中.由于前期或同期的缩短作用,变质核杂岩似乎都发育在地壳强烈增厚的区域.绝大多数(但显然并非全部)变质核杂岩都与岩浆作用有密切的时空关系.变质核杂岩起控制作用的拆离断层一般生根于中地壳或直接位于石英变为晶质塑性的韧脆性转化带下的深处,但有些拆离断层切穿大部或整个地壳.大多数变质核杂岩总体上具有不对称或简单剪切的构造几何特征,但有些变质核杂岩呈现较为对称的边界拆离断层.     

韩国关注里海陆架石油开发

6月21日,韩国驻哈萨克斯坦大使在会见了哈萨克斯坦政府总理后对斯闻界宣布,韩国财团计划参加里海哈萨克斯坦所属陆架的石油开采工作。最近成立的韩国财团由5大公司组成,这些能源公司在国外投资、经营等方面具有丰富的经验。计划参加哈石油、天然气开发的韩国财团虽然成立不久,但已经开始了投资项目的研究工作。大使先生说,哈国总理欢迎韩国参与共和国油气     

哈铜业公司加紧开发原料基地

“哈萨克铜业”公司新闻处领导人弗拉季斯拉夫·尼古拉耶夫在接受《全景报》记者采访时指出,目前该公司在获得俄罗斯原料资产的可能性方面没有任何进展。今年年初就在积极讨论“哈萨克铜业”公司参加俄罗斯在巴什基尔和伊尔库斯克州乌多坎铜矿开发招标中夺标的可能性。但是至今俄罗斯还没有公布开发这些铜矿的招标条件,因此“哈萨克铜业”公     

极点和零点——数字地震学基础(英文,续4)

9 数字地震图的反演和仿真滤波 前面讨论的主要是滤波器问题,也就是已知系统特性时,对任意输入信号系统的输出.下面,将讨论仿真问题,即将数字记录转变为其他不同地震仪的记录.这个问题很重要,因为它能使我们用已经习惯的观测系统的处理方式来处理地震纪录.仿真主要针对一些标准的仪器类型进行.由于仪器的类型不止一种,所以在分析不同类型的地震波时必须考虑仪器的类型.例如,许多地震学家认为,对于高频的近震体波,短周期仪器(A类)的记录最易于分析;长周期的体波和远震的面波,长周期仪器(B类)的记录最易于分析;而区域范围内地震的体波和面波,则中等周期仪器(C类)的记录最合适.另外,伍德-安德森地震仪在确定近震震级方面具有特殊的历史地位.