Dinosaur remains from the type Maastrichtian: an update

Isolated cranial and post-cranial remains of hadrosaurid dinosaurs have been collected from various outcrops in the type area of the Maastrichtian stage during the last few years. In the present contribution, dentary and maxillary teeth are recorded from the area for the first time. Post-cranial elements comprise a newly collected, fragmentary, large right metatarsal III and a broken ?right humerus, recently recognised in the collections of Teylers Museum (Haarlem). Unfortunately, none of these remains can be identified to species level. The available material suggests, however, that more than one taxon of non-lambeosaurine hadrosaurid and a possible euhadrosaurian are represented. Most of the new finds are stratigraphically well documented, which means that they may be linked to the recently published sequence-stratigraphic interpretation of the type Maastrichtian. Dinosaur remains recorded previously from the Maastrichtian type area are tabulated.

     

SOIL CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS AND CLIMATE IN A HUMID SUBTROPICAL ENVIRONMENT

Soil carbon dioxide content, temperature, and moisture were measured biweekly for one year at Pigeon Mountain, GA. Levels of soil CO₂ ranged from 0.04% to 2.4% and were highest during the growing season, lowest during the winter. Soil temperature correlated positively with soil CO₂, accounting for 90% of CO₂ variation. Soil moisture variations decreased CO₂ concentration at times of high soil water content when CO₂ was flushed downward, and also at times of low soil moisture content when CO₂ production was inhibited. A predictive model of logistic form using 14-day means of daily actual evapotranspiration fit the data well (R²= 0.83). The model also tested well against soil CO₂ data acquired in the coastal plain at Rocky Point, NC. If actual evapotranspiration rates are known, the model permits estimation of soil CO₂ without preliminary field work, and can be used for studies of karst denudation, which require soil CO₂ data for seasonal and regional comparison of solution rates.     

Suitability of transport equations in modelling soil erosion for a small Loess Plateau catchment

Erosion models have not often been applied to very steep terrain such as the gully catchments of the Chinese Loess Plateau. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the suitability of a number of transport equations for use in erosion modelling under Loess Plateau conditions. To do this the equations were programmed into the LISEM model, which was applied to the 3.5 km² Danangou catchment in the rolling hills region of the Loess Plateau. Previous evaluations of transport equations used either flume tests or river sections, and did no spatial modelling. The results show that some equations predicted physically impossible concentrations (defined as above 1060 g/l). The results were evaluated by using two methods: 1) by comparing predicted and measured sedigraphs and sediment yield at the catchment outlet, and 2) by comparing the fraction of the catchment in which physically impossible transport capacities occurred. The results indicated that for the small grain sizes, high density flows and steep slopes of the gully catchments on the Loess Plateau the Shields parameter attained very high values. Furthermore, the transport threshold can usually be neglected in the equations. Most of the resulting equations were too sensitive to slope angle (Abrahams, Schoklitsch, Yalin, Bagnold, Low and Rickenmann), so that transport rates were overpredicted for steep slopes and underpredicted for gentle slopes. The Yang equation appeared to be too sensitive to grainsize. The Govers equation performed best, mainly because of its low slope dependency, and is therefore recommended for erosion models that simulate sediment transport by flowing water in conditions with small grain sizes and steep slopes.     

On the Influences of Urbanization on the Extreme Rainfall over Zhengzhou on 20 July 2021: A Convection-Permitting Ensemble Modeling Study

This study investigates the influences of urban land cover on the extreme rainfall event over the Zhengzhou city in central China on 20 July 2021 using the Weather Research and Forecasting model at a convection-permitting scale [1-km resolution in the innermost domain(d3)]. Two ensembles of simulation(CTRL, NURB), each consisting of 11 members with a multi-layer urban canopy model and various combinations of physics schemes, were conducted using different land cover scenarios:(i) the real urban ...     

Darss Sill as a biological border in the fossil record of the Baltic Sea: evidence from diatoms

Biostratigraphical and palaeoecological analyses of cores along a transect from Femer Belt to the Arkona Basin reveal that North Sea waters began to enter the western Baltic Sea between 8600 and 8400 calibrated years BP. Studies of diatoms indicate that Mecklenburg Bay was characterised by slightly brackish-water conditions between 8400 and 8000 cal. years BP. At around 8000 cal. years BP increasing salinity is indicated by a strong dominance of the diatoms Paralia sulcata and Dimeregramma minor. Some centuries later another diatom assemblage appeared and became dominant in Mecklenburg Bay. This assemblage includes Hyalinella lateripunctata and Pravifusus hyalinus species typical of shallow water areas along the Atlantic coast today. At this time the first marine molluscs made their appearance. The oldest shell of a marine mollusc found in our material is dated to 7600 cal. years BP. The associated assemblage that includes adult specimens of the gastropod Aporrhais pespelicani indicates higher salinities than today.During the Littorina Sea stage a marine diatom flora with P. sulcata, Catenula adhaerens and D. minor crossed the Darss Sill and became widely distributed in the Arkona Basin, Pomeranian Bay and the Baltic Sea proper. In contrast, taxa indicative of the Hyalinella lateripunctata/P. hyalinus assemblage are only found west of the Darss Sill in Femer Belt and Mecklenburg Bay. Apparently, the Darss Sill threshold has been acting as an important salinity border from around 7800 cal. years BP until today.     

A modular graph transformation rule set for IFC‐to‐CityGML conversion

Conversion of Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) building models into CityGML city models is one of the operational scenarios for BIM–GIS integration, with a variety of applications producing and consuming data on either side. Given the in‐depth cross‐domain knowledge required to specify such conversions, the heterogeneity of the IFC input data and the use cases for the resulting CityGML, flexible and configurable solutions are needed that make conversion details accessible to domain specialists. Graph transformation as a conversion method fulfils these requirements. We propose to extend the modularity given by single transformation rules at a more coarse‐grained level and identify four layers with modules of associated rules. We describe a self‐contained set of rules across these modules and demonstrate its application to a range of building models.     

滩海工程模拟实验室技术设计

根据相似理论和物理模拟技术，解决滩海油气开发工程技术问题，以此为目标对滩海工程模拟实验室进行整体设计、造流、造潮、测试等各系统的设计及配套设备研制。实验室具有“滩”字特色；模拟滩海工程建筑物于海洋动力环境下的受力，及其置位区泥沙海床变形，具有相当齐备的配套试验条件。对滩海环境动力要素能实施单项和多项合成模拟。     

The German Bight (North Sea) is a nursery area for both locally and externally produced sprat juveniles

To better understand the role of the German Bight (GB) as a nursery area for juvenile North Sea sprat Sprattus sprattus we sought to determine whether the area may receive only locally or also externally produced offspring. We sampled juveniles during 3 trawl surveys in the GB in August, September, and October 2004 and applied otolith microstructure analysis in order to reconstruct their distributions of the day-of-first-increment-formation (dif). These were contrasted with spatial and seasonal patterns of sprat egg abundance in the GB and its adjacent areas, observed during 6 monthly plankton surveys. It was found that the majority of juveniles originated mainly from April/May 2004, coinciding with high spawning activity west of the GB, whereas spawning and larval production inside the GB peaked notably later, in May/June. This indicated that a large proportion of juveniles was produced outside the GB and transported subsequently into it through passive and/or active migration. Shifts to later mean difs from one survey to the next and length distributions indicative of the simultaneous presence of multiple cohorts, supported the notion that the GB is a complex retention and nursery area for sprat offspring from different North Sea spawning grounds and times. Later born juveniles had significantly faster initial growth rates than earlier born conspecifics, which was likely temperature-mediated, given the strong correlation between back-calculated growth histories and sea surface temperature as a proxy for thermal histories of juveniles (r² = 0.52).     

2005年6月广东锋前暖区暴雨β中尺度系统特征的诊断与模拟研究

通过对雷达、卫星、地面等观测资料的诊断分析以及数值模拟研究, 对2005年6月广东 (粤中) 地区特大持续性暴雨的β中尺度系统进行了研究, 得出以下结果: (1) β中尺度系统是该次广东持续性暴雨的直接制造者, 当地的喇叭口地形非常有利于β中尺度系统的触发与维持。β中尺度系统发展初期有一些更小的γ中尺度系统的活动, 它们形成带状, 逐渐发展合并为β中尺度系统。 (2) 在较为成功的模拟的基础上, 采用模式输出资料对β中尺度对流雨团P作了仔细分析, 结果显示低层对应风场的辐合, 高层对应风场的辐散, 这种高低空散度场配置非常有利于强降水的产生和维持, β中尺度雨团中心对应着上升运动, 而在雨团北侧有弱下沉气流的补偿。引起降水的β中尺度系统多位于锋前暖区的相对更暖区域。 (3) 在同一次暴雨过程中, 粤桂两地同处锋前暖区, 对其风场上的异同点作了比较。共同点是低层均存在风场的辐合。但广西为风速辐合, 辐合中心具移动性, 而广东为风向辐合, 有明显辐合线, 辐合中心, 稳定少动。 (4) 地面辐合线上的扰动以及地面较强的温湿对比区的热力作用对于β中尺度系统的触发可能有重要的影响。地面资料提供了很有用的信息, 是一种重要的工具。 (5) 在此基础上提出了锋前暖区中尺度对流系统及地形、地面风、温、湿分布对其影响的概念模型。