A multiresolution method for climate system modeling: application of spherical centroidal Voronoi tessellations

During the next decade and beyond, climate system models will be challenged to resolve scales and processes that are far beyond their current scope. Each climate system component has its prototypical example of an unresolved process that may strongly influence the global climate system, ranging from eddy activity within ocean models, to ice streams within ice sheet models, to surface hydrological processes within land system models, to cloud processes within atmosphere models. These new demands will almost certainly result in the develop of multiresolution schemes that are able, at least regionally, to faithfully simulate these fine-scale processes. Spherical centroidal Voronoi tessellations (SCVTs) offer one potential path toward the development of a robust, multiresolution climate system model components. SCVTs allow for the generation of high-quality Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations through the use of an intuitive, user-defined density function. In each of the examples provided, this method results in high-quality meshes where the quality measures are guaranteed to improve as the number of nodes is increased. Real-world examples are developed for the Greenland ice sheet and the North Atlantic ocean. Idealized examples are developed for ocean–ice shelf interaction and for regional atmospheric modeling. In addition to defining, developing, and exhibiting SCVTs, we pair this mesh generation technique with a previously developed finite-volume method. Our numerical example is based on the nonlinear, shallow-water equations spanning the entire surface of the sphere. This example is used to elucidate both the po tential benefits of this multiresolution method and the challenges ahead.     

Attenuation of peak ground accelerations from the great Wenchuan earthquake

Over 800 accelerograms recorded by 272 ground-level stations during the Wenchuan earthquake are used to analyze the influence of rupture distance, local site conditions and azimuth on peak ground accelerations (PGAs). To achieve a better understanding of the characteristics of ground motions, the spatial distributions of the EW, NS and UD components of PGAs arc obtained. Comparisons between the EW and NS components, the fault-normal and fault-parallel components,and the vertical and horizontal components of PGAs are performed, and the regression formula of the vertical-to-horizontal ratio of PGAs is developed. The attenuation relationship of peak horizontal accelerations (PHAs) is compared with several contemporary attenuation relationships. In addition, an analysis of residuals is conducted to identify the potential effects of rupture distance, azimuth and site conditions on the observed values of PHAs. The analysis focuses on medium-hard soil site conditions, as they provided most of the data used in this study.     

考虑楼板作用的钢筋混凝土框架有限元模型及并行计算效率

对于钢筋混凝土框架,考虑楼板与梁的协同作用可以更充分地体现结构静动力性能。本文首先采用分层壳单元模拟楼板,通过刚臂耦合梁板,建立了可以较好模拟梁板协同工作的框架结构有限元模型,并与其它3种采用简化假定的模型进行了比较。为了控制这种模型的分析误差,必须将梁、板划分为较小单元,所以需要耗费大量的计算机内存和时间。为此,比较分析了采用集群并行计算与普通串行计算的求解时间,结果说明对于中等到较大的框架模型,集群计算均可以大量减少计算时间。     

地下工程设计地震动加速度幅值变化研究

为了明确地下地震动幅值的衰减规律,基于日本最近几年发生的16次强烈地震的443组深井地震动记录,主要考虑分量方向和震级的影响,分析了地下深层(-100~-400m)地震动加速度幅值与地表对应幅值比(Ad/A0)以及竖向与水平向加速度幅值比(Av/Ah)沿深度的变化特征.结果表明,深层地震动加速度幅值比与深度大致呈线性关系,幅值比(Ad/A0)随深度的增加变化不大,主要分布在0.2~0.4之间;震级对幅值比(Ad/A0)有一定的影响,表现在震级变大幅值比有减小的趋势;另外,水平向加速度幅值比略小于竖向幅值比.竖向与水平向加速度幅值比(Av/Ah)沿深度也大致呈线性关系变化,且稳定在0.6附近.发现拟合关系式的选取会对结果产生较大的影响.最后,讨论了地下工程结构设计地震动加速度幅值的深层取值问题,以期为地下设计地震动参数的选取提供参考.     

棉花调拨业务网络管理系统的研制

利用数据库知识对供销社系统棉麻公司内部棉花调拨业务进行了具体的分析、合理规划与设计,充分利用微机处理,网络通讯技术,以码单原始数据的快速录入（有条件的可以直接将电子称重系统直接与微机连接,读取数据将更方便）、及时复核、顺利输出、方便查询为出发点,建立了一套完整的网络化数据库管理系统,目的是为棉麻系统的用户大大减轻劳动强度,提高工作效率,同时为调拨业务的迅速准确提供决策支持。     

《山东国土资源》期刊基本计量指标的评价及对策

《山东国土资源》是国内外公开发行的,以报道最新地质调查及矿产勘查的地学类期刊.该文根据万方数据提供的历年期刊引证数据,科技期刊的评价方法及基本计量指标,对《山东国土资源》的期刊现状进行了分析与评价,认为期刊应建立健全符合实际的审稿流程,建立健全专家库制度,捕捉地学热点,并与科研人员保持深入有效的联系.     

中元古代鄂尔多斯盆地南缘裂谷沉积相与震积岩序列

鄂尔多斯盆地南缘中元古代处于拉张期,发育多裂谷系.分析鄂尔多斯盆地野外地质调查、物探和钻井等资料,划分沉积相剖面,研究沉积演化及相类型.结果表明:盆地南缘中元古代沉积陆相三角洲至海陆过渡相的长城系与滨浅海至深海盆地相的蓟县系,并于蓟县系中发现液化底劈构造、震褶岩、震裂岩、震浊积岩、津浪丘状层和风暴岩等震积岩序列单元;沉积水体逐渐加深,为裂谷非补偿型沉积,蓟县系中存在震积岩序列,反映该区中元古代盆地南缘处于裂谷带内,受裂陷作用持续影响.通过沉积相及震积岩序列划分耦合裂谷说,为区域构造研究提供佐证.     

Improvements of drilling fluid processing for cable-suspended electromechanical drills

Deep ice drilling in Polar Regions plays a key role in paleo-climate, microbiological and glaciological researches. For deep ice and subglacial coring the special purpose-built electromechanical cable-suspended drills with bottom-hole circulation are designed and explored. Used at present drilling fluid circulation systems are specified by very high fluid wastes during processing. Measurements in deep drilling projects in Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets showed that 25%-40% of the drilling fluid, pumped into the hole, is retrieved to the surface with cable and drill, and up to 45% of retrieved fluid goes to waste. This leads not only to increasing of the fluid consumption and cost of the project in general but also to severe contamination of air, surface and near-surface snow-firn layers at the drilling site. In order to reduce wastes and environmental impact, it is proposed to modify drilling fluid processing system by avoiding of evaporation and leakages of fluid as far as practicable. Drilling fluid is prepared and pumped into the hole according to predetermined program on semiautomatic mode, and volume and density of blended and pumped into the hole drilling fluid are measured continuously. Components of the drilling fluid are stored and mixed in the special closed containers equipped by pressure relief valves. Separation of drilling fluid from ice cuttings is carried out by two steps: firstly, fluid is separated with hydro extractor and then with thermal separator. To reduce the amount of removed drilling fluid with cable special squeezing collar is installed on the borehole mouth. All these arrangements are able to decrease drilling fluid wastes in many times.     

Extract of Meretrix meretrix Linnaeus induces angiogenesis in vitro and activates endothelial nitric oxide synthase

Meretrix meretrix Linnaeus has long been used as traditional Chinese medicine in oriental medicine.The angiogentic activity of the extract of M.meretrix was investigated in this study,using human umbilical vein endothelial cells(HUVECs).Extract of M.meretrix Linnaeus(AFG-25) was prepared with acetone and ethanol precipitation,and further separated by Sephadex G-25 column.The results show that AFG-25 promoted proliferation,migration,and capillary-like tube formation in HUVECs,and in the presence of eNOS inhibitor NMA,the tube formation induced by AFG-25 is inhibited significantly.Moreover,AFG25 could also promote the activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase(eNOS) and the resultant elevation of nitric oxide(NO) production.The results suggested that M.meretrix contains active ingredients with angiogentic activity and eNOS/NO signal pathway is in part involved in the proangiogenesis effect induced by AFG-25.     

山东省临沭县常林钻石省级地质公园地质遗迹资源类型与评价

临沭县常林钻石省级地质公园,面积约85.85km2,属中型省级地质公园,地质遗迹类型丰富,保存完好。园区内既有代表性的地质构造剖面,又有丹霞地貌、恐龙遗迹化石,同时还是常林钻石的发现地。其中沂沭断裂带、岌山恐龙足迹和金刚石砂矿产地具有全国乃至国际性对比意义,是国内较为罕见的地质遗迹,在地学方面具有较高的科研价值。