Correlated seasonal and climatic variations of trace constituents in the stratosphere

Summary Spectrometric experiments performed, in November 1976, within the framework of the Latitude Survey Mission on board the NASA Convair 990 from Ames Research Center are briefly deseribed. The results presented concern odd nitrogen molecules, HCl and water vapor. In terms of vertical column density, HNO₃ is predominant over NO+NO₂ at all latitudes higher than 40 degrees. A seasonal variation of NO₂ abundance is observed, with larger values in the summer hemisphere at high latitude. The mean zenith column density of HCl above 11 km is 1.5×10¹⁵ mol.cm^–2, with no evidence for any seasonal or climatic variation. Local number densities as high as 1.4×10¹⁰ mol.cm^–3 for HNO₃ and 5.4×10¹⁴ mol.cm^–3 for water vapor have been measured during the same flight near 11 km.     

Simulating nonequilibrium transport of atrazine through saturated soil

Atrazine, an herbicide widely used for selective control of grassy weeds in the fields where maize is grown, is a potential ground water contaminant in China and, consequently, there is interest in predicting its mobility in agricultural soils. In this study, we determined the nonequilibrium transport characteristics of atrazine in Shahe soil (Beijing sandy loam) using the advection-dispersion equation, and using a sensitivity analysis, we evaluated the contribution of the uncertainty in a given input parameter to the overall uncertainty in model results. The asymmetrical shape and tailing of the atrazine breakthrough curve (BTC) showed that atrazine was subject to nonequilibrium transport. The observed atrazine BTC was best fitted by the chemical nonequilibrium model with a nonlinear least-squares optimization approach. Results from the sensitivity analysis indicated that the retardation factor was the most sensitive parameter. Considering the reliability of the estimated parameters, the best fit to the atrazine BTC was obtained by fixing the retardation factor based on the linear distribution coefficient, and by calculating the dispersion coefficient from the bromide BTC and the average pore water velocity from the measured data; nonequilibrium parameters were the only unknown parameters that were optimized. Model verification procedures were based on best-fit parameters optimized from one soil column experiment and applied to simulate the transport of atrazine in the duplicate experiment. The results showed there was good agreement between measured and simulated concentrations for atrazine leaching in the soil column.     

Paleomagnetic study on the Early Triassic red beds from Jiaocheng,Shanxi Province

Paleomagnetic and rock magnetic study has been conducted on the Early Triassic red beds of Liujiagou Formation from Jiaocheng, Shanxi Province. Hematite was shown as the main magnetic mineral. After eradicating an initial viscous component at room temperature to ~100°C–200°C, thermal demagnetization shows that most samples contain two remanence components, intermediate-temperature remanence component at 250°C–500°C and high-temperature component at 500°C–680°C. The intermediate-temperature component has a negative fold test at the 95% confidence level. And the pole position of the intermediate-temperature component in geographic coordinates is correlated with the Middle Jurassic reference pole of the North China Block (NCB) within the 95% confidence, suggesting that it might be a remagnetization component acquired during the Yanshanian period. The high-temperature component contains both reversal and normal polarities with positive fold test and C-level positive reversal test at the 95% confidence level, which suggests that this high-temperature component can be regarded as primary magnetization. Comparison of this newly obtained Early Triassic paleopole with the coeval mean pole of the Ordos Basin suggests that a locally relative rotation may have happened between the Ordos and the Jiaocheng area of Shanxi Province. This rotation may be related with two faults: one is Lishi big fault separating Ordos from Shanxi and the other is Jiaocheng big fault, which is situated in the southeast of sampling locality and was still in motion during the Cenozoic.     

Global tectonics and the plate motion obtained from the ITRF97 station velocity vectors

~~Global tectonics and the plate motion obtained from the ITRF97 station velocity vectors@马宗晋 @任金卫 @张进~~     

一种简易的多普勒雷达速度模糊纠正技术

多普勒天气雷达是监测强对流天气中尺度风场的重要手段。纠正速度模糊是多普勒雷达探测风场信息有效应用的前提。速度模糊纠正技术大多需要首先对模糊点集或非模糊点集进行识别，如果无法识别或识别错误，将造成纠正过程的失败或需要人工识别。文章提出了一种不需先对模糊点集或非模糊点集进行识别的纠正速度折叠的简便方法。它只需首先将存在折叠的速度场恢复为连续的速度场；然后对其速度数值是否存在整体偏移做出判断和调整。给出的存在严重模糊的台风个例的速度模糊纠正实例表明，这种方法对二次折叠也同样有效。     

基于网络数据库的气象图形图像软件

土壤墒情是反映一地土壤含水量多少的主要指标，墒情的好坏直接影响着农作物的生长。对于土壤墒情的计算和编报，曲沃县气象站经历了从完全的由人工查算计算编报，到用Basic语言编程计算编报，再到以后的Excel表格计算几个阶段。但这几种方法要么是计算量大，要么是界面不友好不易控制，要么是对操作计算机人员水平要求过高，稍不留心可能造成计算错误等多种不便。应用VFP语言可容易的编出具有Windows风格的程序，既方便操作，又能保证计算的精确度。     

用sPn计算内蒙地震的震源深度

震源深度是地震定位的一个重要参数。本文讨论了用sPn测定震源深度的可能性。sPn对于测定地壳内震源深度具有重要意义。本文笔者利用记录到的sPn震相计算了2003年8月16日发生在我国内蒙地区地震的震源深度，并对该方法在日常工作中的应用进行了讨论。     

Posteruption glacier development within the crater of Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA

The cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, resulted in a large, north-facing amphitheater, with a steep headwall rising 700 m above the crater floor. In this deeply shaded niche a glacier, here named the Amphitheater glacier, has formed. Tongues of ice-containing crevasses extend from the main ice mass around both the east and the west sides of the lava dome that occupies the center of the crater floor. Aerial photographs taken in September 1996 reveal a small glacier in the southwest portion of the amphitheater containing several crevasses and a bergschrund-like feature at its head. The extent of the glacier at this time is probably about 0.1 km². By September 2001, the debris-laden glacier had grown to about 1 km² in area, with a maximum thickness of about 200 m, and contained an estimated 120,000,000 m³ of ice and rock debris. Approximately one-third of the volume of the glacier is thought to be rock debris derived mainly from rock avalanches from the surrounding amphitheater walls. The newly formed Amphitheater glacier is not only the largest glacier on Mount St. Helens but its aerial extent exceeds that of all other remaining glaciers combined.