Hack's law of debris-flow basins

Hack's law was originally derived from basin statistics for varied spatial scales and regions.The exponent value of the law has been shown to vary between 0.47 and 0.70,causing uncertainty in its application.This paper focuses on the emergence of Hack's law from debris-flow basins in China.Over 5,000 debris-flow basins in different regions of China with drainage areas less than 100km2 are included in this study.Basins in the different regions are found to present similar distributions.Hack's law is derived fi'om maximum probability and conditional distributions,suggesting that the law should describe some critical state of basin evolution.Results suggest the exponent value is approximately 0.5.Further analysis indicates that Hack's law is related to other scaling laws underlying the evolution of a basin and that the exponent is not dependent on basin shape but rather on the evolutionary stage.A case study of a well known debris-flow basin further confirms Hack's law and its implications in basin evolution.     

海口湾沿岸风暴潮风险评估

参考内陆洪水损失评估的方法,建立适用于海口湾沿岸风暴潮风险区的损失评估模型,分析了海口湾沿岸风暴潮的风险区域,并根据100a一遇极值高水位、100a一遇风暴潮与最高天文潮位的组合水位、可能最大风暴潮与最高天文潮位的组合高水位条件,分析淹没范围;统计100a一遇极值高水位淹没区内的建筑物,估计可能受灾人口.该文对海口湾沿岸的基本社会经济资料作了一、二级分类,并逐项进行统计,同时还根据需要作了抽样调查.对分部门的损失率计算方法作了详细介绍,得出个人家庭财产、国家集体财产、农作物和海水养殖等分部门的损失率分别为:30%,4%,70%和100%;以2001年社会经济资料为基础,100a一遇极值高水位为条件,计算出潮灾经济损失约为8.32亿元,个人家庭财产、国家集体财产、农作物及海水养殖、人员伤亡损失、间接损失等分部门的损失金额占总损失的比率分别为:13.0%,70.0%,0.7%,0.8%和15.5%.     

西藏高原对其北方环流系统的影响

本文应用1956年6月到1957年5月一年内逐日亚欧500mb 天气图,计算历次高低压系统经过西藏高原以北时在强度和速度方面的改变,证明这些改变是有规则的,在地域上和季节上皆表现出独特性。     

基于MapObjects野外地质数据采集系统设计与实现

野外地质数据采集系统是计算机辅助区域地质调查系统的一个重要组成部分,由于没有合适的数据采集的地质模型和数学模型,使常规十分简单的地质现象用计算机辅助进行数据采集、存贮、处理显得十分困难.文章通过以点为核心的数据采集模型,利用数据库前端与后端分离技术、动态模型技术、元数据、数据字典技术、数据分块存储、共享技术,在Visual Basic 6.0与MapObjects相结合的环境下,研发了地质数据采集系统,有效的把老三件(地质锤、罗盘、放大镜)与新三件(笔记本、GPS、数码相机)有机的结合起来,实现了地质数据的方便采集、存贮、处理及输出.     

波浪作用下饱和砂质海床土体与管线相互作用规律研究

针对波浪引起的饱和砂质海床土体和管线相互作用问题,将Biot动力固结理论与笔者课题组提出的砂土液化变形弹塑性本构模型相耦合,较为合理地再现了简谐波浪作用下较浅饱和砂质海床中管线周围可液化海床土体的超静孔隙水压力瞬态累积变化规律与液化过程。数值计算结果与Sumer等的试验规律一致。结果表明：由于管线的存在,改变了饱和砂质海床液化区域的空间分布。液化首先由管线下部土体开始产生,随着波浪荷载的持续作用,液化区域沿着管线外壁向上演化;同时海床表层土体产生液化并向深层发展,最终管线周围土体都发生液化,这是导致空管上浮的主要原因。当饱和砂质海床中存在管线时,管线附近海床土体液化深度明显变深。超静孔压累积和渗透力变化的耦合作用是导致饱和砂质海床土体产生液化的原因。与将海床土体视为饱和弹性多孔介质相比,可考虑液化全过程的弹塑性动力分析能更为合理地揭示实际波浪作用下饱和砂质海床土体的渗流场和应力场的瞬态时空演变规律。     

波浪的非线性显式弥散关系

波浪的非线性弥散关系在应用于求解波浪的变形问题时很不方便，需要与含非线性效应的缓坡方程一起进行迭代运算，往往导致数值计算的计算量太大，计算过于复杂。采用显式形式表达非线性弥散关系，可以克服上述缺点，大为简化波浪变形数值计算的计算量。本文通过将现有的非线性弥散关系进行分析比较，给出了一个更为一般的非线性弥散关系及其显式表达式，经比较可知，该显式弥散关系与相对应非线性弥散关系吻合的很好。本文最后用该显式结合含弱非线性效应的缓坡方程，对复式浅滩地形上的波浪折射绕射进行了计算。结果表明，考虑弱非线性可以得出与实验数据更为相符的结果，而采用显式弥散关系可以有效提高计算效率,在波浪的非线性计算中不失为一种切实有效的方法。     

Chemical Characteristics of Carbonaceous Aerosols During Dust Storms over Xi'an in China

Characterization of carbonaceous aerosols including CC （carbonate carbon）, OC （organic carbon）, and EC （elemental carbon） were investigated at Xi＇an, China, near Asian dust source regions in spring 2002. OC varied between 8.2 and 63.7μgm^- 3, while EC ranged between 2.4 and 17.2 μ m^-3 during the observation period. OC variations followed a similar pattern to EC and the correlation coefficient between OC and EC is 0.89 （n=31）. The average percentage of total carbon （TC, sum of CC, OC, and EC） in PM2.5 during dust storm （DS） events was 13.6%, which is lower than that during non-dust storm （NDS） periods （22.7%）. CC, OC, and EC accounted for 12.9%, 70.7%, and 16.4% of TC during DS events, respectively. The average ratio of OC/EC was 5.0 in DS events and 3.3 in NDS periods. The OC-EC correlation （R^2=0.76, n=6） was good in DS events, while it was stronger （R^2=0.90, n=25） in NDS periods. The percentage of watersoluble OC （WSOC） in TC accounted for 15.7%, and varied between 13.3% and 22.3% during DS events. The distribution of eight carbon fractions indicated that local emissions such as motor vehicle exhaust were the dominant contributors to carbonaceous particles. During DS events, soil dust dominated the chemical composition, contributing 69% to the PM2.5 mass, followed by organic matter （12.8%）, sulfate （4%）, EC （2.2%）, and chloride （1.6%）. Consequently, CC was mainly entrained by Asian dust. However, even in the atmosphere near Asian dust source regions, OC and EC in atmospheric dust were controlled by local emission rather titan the transport of Asian dust.     

Melt Enrichment of Shallow Depleted Mantle: a Detailed Petrological, Trace Element and Isotopic Study of Mantle-Derived Xenoliths and Megacrysts from the Cameroon Line

Major element, trace element and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopiccompositions of ultramafic xenoliths and megacrysts from thecontinental Cameroon line provide evidence for metasomatismof the upper most lithospheric mantle by enriched melts duringthe Mesozoic The megacrysts probably crystallized within thelower continental crust from melts similar to the host magmas.All the xenoliths originated as depleted residues after theextraction of basaltic melts, but some indicate evidence ofinteraction with enriched partial melts before entrainment.The U–Pb isotopic data on garnet are consistent with coolingthrough >900C at >300 Ma. The Sm–Nd isotope systematicsin constituent phases appear to have been in equilibrium ona xenolith scale at the time of entrainment, indicating derivationfrom mantle that remained at temperatures >600C until eruption.Spinel therzolies that show simple light rare earth element(LREE) depletions are characterized by isotopic compositionsthat are comparable with, but slightly more depleted than AtlanticN-MORB, suggesting that the unmetasomatized sub-continentallithosphere of the Cameroon line may be isotopically similarto that of sub-oceanic lithosphere. The Nd-depleted mantle modelages of these xenoliths are consistent with late Proterozoicdepletion, similar in age to much of the overlying continentalcrust. In contrast, samples that have LREE-enriched clinopyr-oxenes(La/Yb =4.7–9.4) contain trace amounts of amphibole, areenriched in U and have more radiogenic Pb and Sr. These xenolithsyield U–Pb and Sm–Nd model ages consistent withMesozoic enrichment, in agreement with the age of enrichmentof the source regions of the basalts, as deduced from Pb isotopiccompositions. Clinopyroxenes record three orders of magnitudeenrichment in U and LREE accompanied by progressive K depletionassociated with the growth of trace amphibole, with K/U ratiosthat range from 12000 to 1. The ratios of the trace elementsthought to have similar bulk D in mantle melting, Ce/Pb, Ba/Rband Nd/Sr ratios, display regional variations related to thetime integrated history of enrichments indicated by Nd isotopiccompositions. Mass balance calculations suggest that the meltsresponsible for the most recent enrichment of the lithospherehad higher La/Yb and U/Pb than Cameroon line host magmas, andwere probably the product of small degrees of partial meltingassociated with the earliest stages of the breakup of Pangea. KEY WORDS: Cameroon line; mantle xenoliths; megacrysts; REE; isotopic composition; trace element     

Hack＇s law of debris-flow basins

Hack＇s law was originally derived from basin statistics for varied spatial scales and regions. The exponent value of the law has been shown to vary between 0.47 and 0.70, causing uncertainty in its application. This paper focuses on the emergence of Hack＇s law from debris-flow basins in China. Over 5,000 debris-flow basins in different regions of China with drainage areas less than 100km^2 are included in this study. Basins in the different regions are found to present similar distributions. Hack＇s law is derived from maximum probability and conditional distributions, suggesting that the law should describe some critical state of basin evolution. Results suggest the exponent value is approximately 0,5. Further analysis indicates that Hack＇s law is related to other scaling laws underlying the evolution of a basin and that the exponent is not dependent on basin shape but rather on the evolutionary stage. A case study of a well known debris-flow basin further confirms Hack＇s law and its implications in basin evolution.     

Pier scour monitoring system by bed-level image tracking

A scour monitoring system with a micro camera tracking the bed-level images is proposed in this study.Two image recognition algorithms have been developed to support the bed-level image tracking approach.Through the laboratory experiments of pier scour,this study demonstrates that the proposed system is able to accurately monitor the scour-depth evolution in real time.In addition,five commonly-used temporal scour models are employed to simulate scour-depth evolution and their results are compared with monitoring data.In general,the results indicate that the proposed scour monitoring system has the potential for further applications in the field.