Study on scattering wave force of horizontal and vertical plate type breakwaters

The interaction between wave and horizontal and vertical plates is investigated by the boundary element method,and the relations of wave exciting force with plate thickness,submergence and length are obtained.It is found that:1) The efficient wave exciting force exists while plate submergence is less than 0.5 m,and the plate is very thin with order O(0.005 m).2) The maximum heave wave exciting force exists,and it is the main factor for surface and submerged horizontal plate while the roll force can be ignored.3) The maximum sway wave exciting force exists,it is the main factor for surface or submerged vertical plate,and the roll force is about 20 times of horizontal plate.     

Seismic wavefield modeling based on time-domain symplectic and Fourier finite-difference method

Seismic wavefield modeling is important for improving seismic data processing and interpretation. Calculations of wavefield propagation are sometimes not stable when forward modeling of seismic wave uses large time steps for long times. Based on the Hamiltonian expression of the acoustic wave equation, we propose a structure-preserving method for seismic wavefield modeling by applying the symplectic finite-difference method on time grids and the Fourier finite-difference method on space grids to solve the acoustic wave equation. The proposed method is called the symplectic Fourier finite-difference (symplectic FFD) method, and offers high computational accuracy and improves the computational stability. Using acoustic approximation, we extend the method to anisotropic media. We discuss the calculations in the symplectic FFD method for seismic wavefield modeling of isotropic and anisotropic media, and use the BP salt model and BP TTI model to test the proposed method. The numerical examples suggest that the proposed method can be used in seismic modeling of strongly variable velocities, offering high computational accuracy and low numerical dispersion. The symplectic FFD method overcomes the residual qSV wave of seismic modeling in anisotropic media and maintains the stability of the wavefield propagation for large time steps.     

Fully coupled solution for the consolidation of poroelastic soil around elastoplastic stone column

The paper presents a new fully coupled elastoplastic solution for the response of a poroelastic thick-walled soil cylinder around an elastoplastic stone column using Biot’s (J Appl Phys 12:155–164, 1941) consolidation theory. A unit cell concept is adopted for the soil–stone column analysis, and the problem is formulated in cylindrical coordinates. Expressions for excess pore pressure, stresses and displacements in the Laplace domain are derived analytically taking into account elastic or plastic behavior of the column. The inverse of the Laplace transform is evaluated numerically using an efficient scheme to obtain the final elastoplastic solution in time domain. The validity of the new solution has been checked against finite element solution and compared with some previously developed analytical methods for the stone column analysis. The results showing settlements, change in excess pore pressures and stresses with time are presented in terms of time factor. The proposed solution can be used to calculate transient state of settlements, distribution of deformations, stresses and excess pore pressures in soil and column under instantaneous or time-dependent monotonically increasing rigid vertical load.     

Identification of the “source” and “sink” patterns influencing non-point source pollution in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area

Non-point source pollution is one of the primarily ecological issues affecting the Three Gorges Reservoir Area. In this paper, landscape resistance and motivation coefficient, which integrated various landscape elements, such as land use, soil, hydrology, topography, and vegetation, was established based on the effects of large-scale resistance and motivation on the formation of non-point source pollution. In addition, cost models of the landscape resistance and motivation coefficients were constructed based on the distances from the landscape units to the sub-basin outlets in order to identify the “source” and “sink” patterns affecting the formation of non-point source pollution. The results indicated that the changes in the landscape resistance and motivation coefficients of the 16 sub-basins exhibited inverse relationships to their spatial distributions. The landscape resistance and motivation cost curves were more volatile than the landscape resistance and motivation coefficient curves. The landscape resistance and motivation cost trends of the 16 sub-basins became increasingly apparent along the flow of the Yangtze River. The landscape resistance and motivation cost models proposed in this paper could be used to identify large-scale non-point source pollution “source” and “sink” patterns. Moreover, the proposed model could be used to describe the large-scale spatial characteristics of non-point source pollution formation based on “source” and “sink” landscape pattern indices, spatial localization, and landscape resistance and motivation coefficients.     

位置不确定性与属性不确定性的场模型

不确定性是自地理信息系统发展与应用以来一个引起关注的课题。位置不确定性与属性不确定常常不加区分地被看作是可以单个讨论的问题。本文将借助场的概念和模型使二者得以统一的描述和分析;对于明确定义的离散目标,二者虽然可分别讨论,但却在数学上有着联合的基础;对于非明确定义的地理现象,二者以连续体的形式而存在,位置不确定性可以作为属性不确定性的空间映射而提取出来。     

河西绿洲农田土壤呼吸特征及其对长期施肥的响应

以河西走廊典型的荒漠绿洲新垦农田为研究对象,设置9个施肥处理（高量有机肥,M3;高量氮磷肥,NP3;低量氮磷肥+高量有机肥,NP1M3;低量氮磷钾肥,NPK1;中量氮磷钾肥,NPK2;高量氮磷钾肥,NPK3;低量氮磷钾肥+高量有机肥,NPK1M3;中量氮磷钾肥+中量有机肥,NPK2M2;高量氮磷钾肥+低量有机肥,NPK3M1）,于2019—2020年7—8月采用LI-COR 8100对玉米农田土壤呼吸进行观测,分析土壤呼吸的变化、日动态及其主要影响因素。结果表明：（1）不同施肥处理,土壤呼吸速率M3>NP3>NPK1M3>NPK3M1>NPK2M2>NP1M3>NPK2>NPK3>NPK1,单施有机肥能显著提高土壤呼吸速率,较其他处理增长22.1%—41.4%。（2）不同施肥措施土壤呼吸日变化呈单峰曲线,峰值出现在13：00—16：00,土壤呼吸日变化主要受土壤温度变化的影响。（3）土壤温度和土壤湿度分别解释了土壤呼吸变化的24.2%—44.8%和7.7%—36.4%,土壤呼吸与土壤温度显著正相关,而与土壤湿度无显著相关性,不同施肥处理土壤呼吸温度敏感性系数Q₁₀值1.419—1.600。（4）土壤呼吸与有机质、总氮、总碳、碱解氮存在显著正相关关系,施用有机肥使土壤有机质、总氮、总碳、碱解氮分别提升188.9%、80.5%、79.3%、147.0%,进而促进土壤呼吸,土壤呼吸与玉米产量无显著关系。不同的施肥措施会对土壤质量和土壤呼吸产生不同影响,有机肥和氮磷钾化肥的平衡施用,能够在提升土壤质量的同时减少碳排放,可在生产实践中采用。     

How effective is the new generation of GPM satellite precipitation in characterizing the rainfall variability over Malaysia?

We investigated the potential of the new generation of satellite precipitation product from the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) to characterize the rainfall in Malaysia. Most satellite precipitation products have limited ability to precisely characterize the high dynamic rainfall variation that occurred at both time and scale in this humid tropical region due to the coarse grid size to meet the physical condition of the smaller land size, sub-continent and islands. Prior to the status quo, an improved satellite precipitation was required to accurately measure the rainfall and its distribution. Subsequently, the newly released of GPM precipitation product at half-hourly and 0.1° resolution served an opportunity to anticipate the aforementioned conflict. Nevertheless, related evidence was not found and therefore, this study made an initiative to fill the gap. A total of 843 rain gauges over east (Borneo) and west Malaysia (Peninsular) were used to evaluate the rainfall the GPM rainfall data. The assessment covered all critical rainy seasons which associated with Asian Monsoon including northeast (Nov. - Feb.), southwest (May - Aug.) and their subsequent inter-monsoon period (Mar. - Apr. & Sep. - Oct.). The ability of GPM to provide quantitative rainfall estimates and qualitative spatial rainfall patterns were analysed. Our results showed that the GPM had good capacity to depict the spatial rainfall patterns in less heterogeneous rainfall patterns (Spearman’s correlation, 0.591 to 0.891) compared to the clustered one (r = 0.368 to 0.721). Rainfall intensity and spatial heterogeneity that is largely driven by seasonal monsoon has significant influence on GPM ability to resolve local rainfall patterns. In quantitative rainfall estimation, large errors can be primarily associated with the rainfall intensity increment. 77% of the error variation can be explained through rainfall intensity particularly the high intensity (> 35 mm d^-1). A strong relationship between GPM rainfall and error was found from heavy (~35 mm d^-1) to violent rain (160 mm d^-1). The output of this study provides reference regarding the performance of GPM data for respective hydrology studies in this region.     

Importance of intracellular Fe pools on growth of marine diatoms by using unialgal cultures and on the Oyashio region phytoplankton community during spring

We report on the ability for luxury Fe uptake and the potential for growth utilizing intracellular Fe pools for 4 coastal centric diatom isolates and in situ phytoplankton assemblages, mainly composed of diatoms. Iron uptake of the diatom isolates and natural phytoplankton assemblages in the Oyashio region during spring blooms were prevented by adding hydroxamate siderophore desferrioxamine B (DFB). After the addition of DFB, intracellular Fe in the diatom isolates supported 2.4–4.2 cell divisions with 1.2–2.6 Chl a doublings. The intracellular Fe was primarily used for cell generation rather than Chl a production, leading to a reduction in the Chl a cell quota in the Fe-starved cells with time. The metabolic properties of the Fe-starved cells with their cell morphologies were different among species or genera. An on-deck incubation experiment also exhibited 1.9 cell divisions and 0.81 Chl a doublings of phytoplankton after the addition of DFB, also indicating the preference of cell generation over Chl a production. A decrease in the level of cellular Chl a, a main light-harvesting pigment in Fe-starved diatoms, may become a superior survival strategy to protect the cells from high irradiance that can cause photo-oxidative damages through photosynthesis. Such relatively low-Fe with high-light conditions could often occur in surface waters of the Oyashio region from spring to summer.