Numerical Simulation Study on the Impacts of Tropospheric O_3 and CO_2 Concentration Changes on Winter Wheat. Part Ⅱ: Simulation Results and Analyses

With the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization, the enrichment of tropospheric ozone and carbon dioxide concentration at striking rates has caused effects on biosphere, especially on crops. It is generally accepted that the increase of CO2 concentration will have obverse effects on plant productivity while ozone is reported as the air pollutant most damaging to agricultural crops and other plants. The Model of Carbon and Nitrogen Biogeochemistry in Agroecosystems (DNDC) was adapted to evaluate simultaneously impacts of climate change on winter wheat. Growth development and yield formation of winter wheat under different O3 and CO2 concentration conditions are simulated with the improved DNDC model whose structure has been described in another paper. Through adjusting the DNDC model applicability, winter wheat growth and development in Gucheng Station were simulated well in 1993 and 1999, which is in favor of modifying the model further. The model was validated against experiment observation, including development stage data, leaf area index, each organ biomass, and total aboveground biomass. Sensitivity tests demonstrated that the simulated results in development stage and biomass were sensitive to temperature change. The main conclusions of the paper are the following: 1) The growth and yield of winter wheat under CO2 concentration of 500 ppmv, 700 ppmv and the current ozone concentration are simulated respectively by the model. The results are well fitted with the observed data of OTCs experiments. The results show that increase of CO2 concentration may improve the growth of winter wheat and elevate the yield. 2) The growth and yield of winter wheat under O3 concentration of 50 ppbv, 100 ppbv, 200 ppbv and the based concentration CO2 are simulated respectively by the model. The simulated curves of stem, leaf, and spike organs growth as well as leaf area index are well accounted with the observed data. The results reveal that ozone has negative effects on the growth and yield of winter wheat. Ozone accelerates the process of leaf senescence and causes yield loss. Under very high ozone concentration, crops are damaged dramatically and even dead. 3) At last, by the model possible effects of air temperature change and combined effects of O3 and CO2 are estimated respectively. The results show that doubled CO2 concentration may alleviate negative effect of O3 on biomass and yield of winter wheat when ozone concentration is about 70-80 ppbv. The obverse effects of CO2 are less than the adverse effects of O3 when the concentration of ozone is up to 100 ppbv. Future work should determine whether it can be applied to other species by adjusting the values of related parameters, and whether the model can be adapted to predict ozone effects on crops in farmland environment.     

Development of dangerous geological processes in the Hankaisky Region of Primorskiy Krai （Russian Far East）

Hankaisky Region is the most densely populated and economic developed part of the Primorskiy Krai.It is promoting development of dangerous geological processes there.In the article the reasons of formation and intensive development in Hankaisky Region of the following dangerous geological processes lateral,winder and ground erosive,sill,floods,taluses,bogging,slope wash,karts,rebound of ground are considered.     

SMALL项目数字化地磁资料可靠性分析

在对中美合作 SMALL (中国低纬地磁台阵 )项目安装在北京地磁台 (白家疃 )和云南通海地磁台的磁通门磁力仪记录资料与磁变仪模拟记录资料进行了详细的对比分析后 ,得出的结果表明 ,两者的日变形态、日变幅有较好的一致性 ,所选特定事件的变化幅度非常一致 ,说明磁通门磁力仪记录到的变化磁场的资料是真实可靠的。尽管目前磁通门磁力仪的基线值存在温度影响和离散度较大的问题 ,但随温度变化有明显的规律性 ,若能采取改进观测条件和观测方法以及缩短观测时间等措施 ,并对基线值进温度校正 ,磁通门磁力仪完全可以提供长期连续可靠的资料。而其为地震预报 ,空间环境预报 ,为日地物理 ,空间物理和地磁学的研究提供的高精度、高分辨率、连续可靠的数字化变化磁场资料是磁变仪模拟记录无法比拟的。     

GCM STUDIES ON ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE IN CHINA

Impacts of human activities on climate change as simulated by the general circulation models(GCMs)in China for the recent ten years have been summarized and reviewed in this paper.Theresearches show that it might be getting warmer over China due to the greenhouse effects.Theatmospheric circulation and precipitation also might be changed due to the greenhouse effects.Theassessments and evaluations of the models over the globe and China have also been presented in thispaper.     

A CASE STUDY OF FRONTAL CYCLOGENESIS AND ITS SENSITIVITY TO COASTAL INITIAL CONDITIONS

In this study,the predictability and physical processes leading to the rapid frontal cyclogenesis,that took place in the east coast of the U.S.during 3—4 October 1987,are examined using a nested-grid.mesoscale model with a fine-mesh grid size of 25km.It is shown that the model reproducesreasonably well the cyclogenesis in a coastal baroclinic zone.its subsequent deepening and movementas well as the pertinent precipitation.It is found that the frontal cyclogenesis occurs in a favorablelarge-scale environment with pronounced thermal advection in the lower troposphere and markedpotential vorticity(PV)concentration aloft associated with the tropopause depression.The transportof warm and moist air from the marine boundary layer by the low-level in-shore flow provides thenecessary energy source for the observed heavy precipitation and a variety of weather phenomenareported in the cold sector.Several 24-h sensitivity simulations are performed to examine the relative importance of diabaticheating,adiabatic dynamics and various initial conditions in the frontal cyclogenesis.It is found thatlatent heat release,even though quite intense,accounts for only 25% of the cyclone's total deepeningin this case:the weak impact seems due to the occurrence of latent heating in the cold sector and theupward lifting of the dynamical tropopause by diabatic updrafts.Vorticity budgets show that the low-level thermal advection dominates the incipient stage,whereas the vorticity advection determines therapid deepening rate at the mature stage.The results reveal that the predictability of the presentstorm is closely related to the vertical coupling between the surface cyclone and the upper-level PVcore,which is in turn determined by initial offshore perturbations in the lower troposphere.     

A CONVECTIVE RAINFALL ESTIMATE TECHNIQUE DEVELOPED BY NSMC OF CHINA

In order to reveal the relation between strong convective cloud characteristics and rainfall rate,over 20000 hourly raingauge data from 333 weather stations and the corresponding 4000 convectivecloud infrared images of GMS-4 during the period of 1992—1994 in Henan,Hubei and SichuanProvinces were studied.The results show that cloud top temperature,temperature gradient,thegrowth of cloud,overshooting top and the normalized distance between a cloud covering pixels and thecluster center have certain relations to cloud precipitation.These relations can vary with differentgeographical regions.Based on the study above,a convective rainfall estimation technique wasdeveloped by the scientists in National Satellite Meteorological Center of China.Its average error is30% for daily precipitation with a correlation coefficient of 0.69.