Climatology of the meteorological factors associated with haze events over northern China and their potential response to the Quasi-Biannual Oscillation

An upswing in haze weather during autumn and winter has been observed over North and Northeast China in recent years, imposing adverse impacts upon local socioeconomic development and human health. However, such an increase in the occurrence of haze events and its association with natural climate variability and climate change are not well understood. To investigate the climatology of the meteorological factors associated with haze events and their natural variability, this study uses a meteorological pollution index called PLAM (Parameter Linking Air-quality to Meteorological conditions) and ERA-Interim reanalysis data. The results suggest that high PLAM values tend to occur over southern parts of northern China, implying the weather conditions over this area are favorable for the occurrence of haze weather. For the period 1979–2014, the regional mean PLAM shows an overall increase across Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province, and parts of Shanxi Province. Also, a periodicity of 28–34 months is found in the temporal variation of PLAM, which implies a potential association of PLAM with the stratospheric Quasi-Biannual Oscillation (QBO). By using the QBO index during the autumn and winter seasons in the preceding year, an increase in PLAM is found for the westerly phases of the QBO, relative to the easterly phases. An upper-tropospheric warming is also found in the westerly phases, which can induce a stable stratification that favors the increase in PLAM across the midlatitudes. The modulations of large-scale environmental factors, including moist static stability, vertical velocity, and temperature advection, also act to enhance PLAM in the westerly phases. However, the baroclinic term of moist potential vorticity at 700 hPa tends to decrease over the south, and an increase in low-level ascent is found over the north. These factors can reduce PLAM and possibly limit the statistical significance of the increased PLAM in the westerly phases of the QBO.     

冬小麦生长发育的模拟模式

根据冬小麦生长发育及其与环境条件关系的机理研究,建立了模拟冬小麦发育阶段和各器官生物量变化的动态模式。其中包括3个环境要素子模式,分别计算温度、辐射和水分,5个生物学过程子模式,分别模拟冬小麦的发育、光合、呼吸、同化物分配和叶面积系数。用镇江和海安共8个播期的实测资料对模式进行验证,并对模式进行了初步数值试验应用。     

GPS及AVHRR资料在浅海潮间带测量中的应用

通过利用GPS及渔探器实测，并进行潮位订正，获得南通浅海海域大量测点的高程资料，通过对多时相各通道NOAA卫星照片进行筛选，挑选能反映浅海地貌的通道资料，从中读取各测点相对应的灰度值，在此基础上利用分级线性回归，建立不同高程范围内的高程，灰度线性回归方程，确定不同高程的灰度阈值，从而测量出南通市浅海海域不同高程以上的潮间带面积，分布。     

亚热带河口区对虾养殖池塘浮游植物初级生产力变化

浮游植物初级生产力是评估水产养殖系统结构与功能的基础环节,对渔业资源的开发与管理具有重要意义.于2018年5-10月,采用黑白瓶法对闽江河口区的3个南美白对虾养殖塘(Pond Ⅰ、Pond Ⅱ和Pond Ⅲ)水体浮游植物初级生产力进行了原位监测,初步研究了初级生产力在池塘间的差异性及其时间变化特征.结果显示,养殖期间养...     

Linkage between the second uplifting of the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau and the initiation of the Asian monsoon system

During the period from 25 to 17 Ma BP, when the second plateau uplifting, i.e. the second phase of the Himalaya movement, occurred, the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau reached an altitude high enough to chbge the situation of the general circulation. Such an effect of the plateau on the atmospheric circulation was accompanied by the warrning of the tropical ocean, the enhancement of the cross equatorial current, the enlargement of the marginal sea basins in the east-southeastern Asia, the westward extending of the Asian continent and the regression of the Paratethys Sea. As a result, the thermal difference was enlarged, and the air currents were enhanced between continents and oceans; finally the Asian monsoon system, mainly the summer monsoon, was initiated. The former planet wind system was then substituted by the monsoon system, and this caused the important environmental changes, such as the large shrinkage of the dry steppe in Central Asia, and the extension of the humid forest zone in East Asia. Thme changes have been dated at 21.8 Ma BP on the Lingxia profile in the northeastern border of the Tibet Plateau, when the savanna was transformed into the forest. Project supported by the National Climbing Project and Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZ951-A1-204)     

Some annual variation characteristics for the Northern Hemispheric monthly mean precipitation fields

By the utilization of monthly precipitation data from all stations in the Northern Hemisphere annexed to the “World Survey of climatology, Vol. 1-15, the distributions of the maximum precipitation months (MPM), the annual relative precipitation (ARP) and the monthly relative precipitation (percent of annual) in January and July are respectively mapped. Moreover the distributions of intermonthly relative precipitation variabilities from January to December are plotted as well. From these figures, the precipitation in the Northern Hemisphere may be classified into three types (continental, oceanic and transitional types) and 17 regions. The precipitation regime may also be divided into two patterns, the global and regional patterns. The global pattern consists of planetary front system and ITCZ and its inter-monthly variation shows the north-and-south shift of the rain belt; the regional pattern consists of the sea-land monsoon and plateau monsoon regime, in which the inter-monthly variation of rain belt shows a east- and-west shift.     

活动造山带地区河流阶地与下切速率及其时空分布样式

河流下切带动区域地貌的演化,因此河流下切速率及其时空分布样式是解析构造、地表过程和气候变化之间广泛相互作用的关键切入点之一。根据阶地的保存状况,利用河流阶地的累积下切量和下切时间可以直接测得千年到百万年时间尺度的下切速率。鉴于此河流下切速率是链接不同时间和空间尺度上地貌侵蚀速率的关键所在,并具有较精细的时空分辨率。计算河流下切速率时,累积下切量上限是阶地基座的拔河高度,下界最优选择是低级阶地基座,而累积下切时间的最佳约束是尽量靠近阶地基座的冲洪积物的沉积时间;运用河流下切速率获得岩石抬升速率和区域构造变形量时,通常假定区域地貌处于均衡状态,河流下切速率代表着岩石抬升速率。但是由于气候变化,河流下切过程具有较强的时空不稳定性,导致这些假设经常失效。此外,河流加积和下切的转换与第四纪冰期-间冰期的变化并不一定存在时间上的一一对应关系,这可能是由于河流裂点的溯源迁移以及河流对气候变化的响应方式与强度存在差异。因此,实际工作中需要多方面获得不同时空尺度和分辨率的构造变形、气候变化以及地表过程的基本信息,借助地貌数值模拟程序,定量解析构造、气候和地表过程之间的广泛而复杂的相互作用。

     

2005年11月26日九江—瑞昌5.7级地震浅析

对赣北及邻区2014年以来的地震条带及视应力进行了分析。结果表明：江西丰城—安徽蒙城2014年10月—2015年6月快速形成M_L≥3.0地震条带,地震条带及周边地区的视应力均值为0.49 MPa,条带上的地震视应力高于条带以西地区,低于条带以东的江苏北部地区。2009年4月以来江西瑞昌—南黄海出现M_L≥4.0地震条带,条带及周边地区的视应力均值为1.72 MPa,条带上的视应力水平高于条带外。视应力总体呈现随震级增大而增大的特点。