A three-dimensional satellite retrieval method for atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles

A three-dimensional variational method is proposed to simultaneously retrieve the 3-D atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles from satellite radiance measurements. To include both vertical structure and the horizontal patterns of the atmospheric temperature and moisture, an EOF technique is used to decompose the temperature and moisture field in a 3-D space. A number of numerical simulations are conducted and they demonstrate that the 3-D method is less sensitive to the observation errors compared to the 1-D method. When the observation error is more than 2.0 K, to get the best results, the truncation number for the EOF＇s expansion have to be restricted to 2 in the 1-D method, while it can be set as large as 40 in a 3-D method. This results in the truncation error being reduced and the retrieval accuracy being improved in the 3-D method. Compared to the 1-D method, the rms errors of the 3-D method are reduced by 48% and 36% for the temperature and moisture retrievals, respectively. Using the real satellite measured brightness temperatures at 0557 UTC 31 July 2002, the temperature and moisture profiles are retrieved over a region （20°-45°N, 100°- 125°E） and compared with 37 collocated radiosonde observations. The results show that the retrieval accuracy with a 3-D method is significantly higher than those with the 1-D method.     

大气短波辐射传输研究中的辐射函数

研究大气短波辐射传输问题时,必需考虑多次散射,在计算各次散射光的递推方程中存在一个对光学厚度的特殊积分.为此,本文定义了“辐射函数”,并研究了它的数学性质,从而使得平面平行大气中散射光的逐次计算既准确又简便.     

北京等7个气象台站太阳总辐射观测资料的准确度评估

基于地面太阳短波总辐射对气溶胶光学特性和地表反照率的敏感性, 该文提出了一个评估我国气象台站总辐射资料准确度的方法。该方法选用气溶胶光学厚度和太阳天顶角较小情形下的晴天辐射资料, 从太阳直射辐射反演气溶胶光学厚度, 用于计算宽带透过率, 再从该透过率和总辐射资料反演太阳常数E_{0, P}, 并采用E_{0, P}对世界辐射基准 (WRR) 的偏差表示总辐射资料的不确定性。模拟结果表明:气溶胶折射率虚部和大气柱水汽含量的输入误差是两个主要的评估不确定因子。用于准确度评估的资料越多, 越有利于平滑气溶胶、水汽含量等输入参数随机误差的效应, 评估结果越合理。应用这一方法, 该文评估了2000— 2004年我国沈阳、额济纳旗、北京、乌鲁木齐、格尔木、上海和广州7个气象台站总辐射资料的准确度。7个站共有1161个太阳常数反演值, 都满足太阳天顶角余弦 (μ₀) 大于0.7的条件。这些E_{0, P}值对WRR的最大偏差为7.33%, 97.78%的E_{0, P}值对WRR的偏差小于5%, 总平均E_{0, P}值对WRR偏差只有-1.15 %。依据这些结果, 当μ₀≥0.7时, 这些台站的晴天总辐射资料的不确定度估计为5%。     

Disequilibria between 210Po and 210Pb in surface waters of the southern South China Sea and their implications

Activities of the naturally occurring radionuclides, ²¹⁰Pb and ²¹⁰Po, were measured in both dissolved (<0.45 μm) and particulate (>0.45 μm) phases from surface waters of the southern South China Sea. The average activity of particulate ²¹⁰Pb, 0.23 Bq/m³ (n=23), accounted for about 12% of the total ²¹⁰Pb, which corresponds with values of open oceans. Particulate ²¹⁰Po, with an average activity of 0.43 Bq/m³, accounted for about 40% of the total ²¹⁰Po, which was much higher than those of open and eutrophic oceans. The residence times of total ²¹⁰Po and ²¹⁰Pb in surface waters estimated from an irreversible steady-state model were 0.82 a and 1.16 a, respectively. The consistently high fractionation factor calculated either by scavenging rate constants (5.42) or K_d values (6.69) suggested that a significant fractionation occurred between ²¹⁰Po and ²¹⁰Pb during their removal from solution to particles and that the two radionuclides had different biogeochemical cycling pathways in the oligotrophic South China Sea. Furthermore, our results indicated that there exist different fractionation mechanisms between ²¹⁰Po and ²¹⁰Pb in different marine environments: in eutrophic ocean, plankton detritus and fecal pellets are the main carrier of ²¹⁰Po and ²¹⁰Pb, by which ²¹⁰Po and ²¹⁰Pb have been scavenged and removed; while in oligotrophic ocean, microbes could become the main carrier of ²¹⁰Po and fractionate ²¹⁰Po and ²¹⁰Pb significantly as a result of scarce plankton detritus and fecal pellets. These results suggest the use of ²¹⁰Po to trace marine biogeochemical processes relating to microbial activities and the cycling of sulfur group elements (S, Se, Te and Po).     

X射线荧光光谱法测定土壤和沉积物中的锰

X射线荧光光谱法(XRF)是测定土壤和沉积物中锰的重要方法,具有制样简单、非破坏性测定、检测速度快等优点。目前用于建立工作曲线的土壤和沉积物标准物质的锰含量最高为2490mg/kg,采用XRF法测定受污染土壤和沉积物中的锰含量时易超出工作曲线测定范围。本文将锰标准溶液定量加入到土壤标准物质中,制备锰含量更高的校准样品,工作曲线的测定上限范围由2490mg/kg提高至3780mg/kg。该方法测定不同含量标准物质中锰含量的结果均在认定值范围内,实际样品的加标回收率为97.8%～108.3%,高含量锰的实际样品测定值与电感耦合等离子体发射光谱法测定值的相对偏差小于5.7%,相对标准偏差(RSD)小于0.4%(n=7)。实验结果表明该法测定锰含量高的土壤和沉积物的准确度和精密度良好。     

水中可溶气态烃和苯系物联测的新技术

地下水中的可溶气态烃和苯系物是水化学找油法的直接指标。应用直接抽取法,在色谱仪上同时测试C1—C4的烃类气体和苯系物,与传统的测试方法相比,具有无毒、无污染、简便、快速、灵敏度高、重现性好、自动化程度高的特点,有较高的实用价值。     

河北小营盘石英—碳酸盐型金矿床成矿作用

石英—碳酸盐型金矿床是金的主要来源之一,在绿岩带金矿中占有重要地位。绿岩带金矿成矿时代古老(2.5—2.9 Ga),规模巨大,矿物成分简单而且稳定,发育石英、铁白云石或铁菱镁矿、绢云母、黄铁矿等围岩蚀变。而且铁白云石化蚀变在绿岩带金矿成矿中起重要作用,与韧性剪切带关系密切,铁白云石δ~(13)C值为-4±2‰,可能是地幔来源的标志。本项研究发现,小营盘金矿的铁白云石蚀变作用,携带了大量金等成矿物质沿着SN向张扭性断裂交代早期含金石英脉和糜棱岩,共同构成金的富矿体;含金铁白云石蚀变岩的δ~(13)C值平均为—4.13‰,Pb—Pb等时线年龄为2711±238 Ma。结合矿床产出的构造背景和成矿特征,可以初步确定小营盘金矿属于高级变质的绿岩带金矿,这是我国金矿地质学研究的一项新进展,希望有助于华北陆台与绿岩带有关矿产的研究和找矿及国际对比。     

雪峰山陆内造山带的构造特征与演化

在对雪峰山的地质构造及其演化作了研究,并和阿尔卑斯式、阿巴拉契亚式的造山带和远程推覆体作了对比研究以后,作者认为：雪峰山地区的地质构造以具有多期,多层次的层滑构造为主要特色。其主要特征表现为在垂向剖面上有着多个区域性滑脱层,发育株罗山式褐挣矣逆冲叠瓦推覆构造,但它不是阿巴拉契式远程异地推覆体而是准原地型的。逆掩推覆虽然使原来沉积相带变窄,但并未破坏原来扬子地块东南边缘自北西向南东的由台地相－－斜坡相－－深水盆地相的沉积古地理格局,它是陆内造山带常见的构造样式,是在陆内裂陷的背景上由于裂谷关闭时陆块拼贴碰撞(即所谓软碰撞)和陆内俯冲产生的。雪峰山地区也发育伸展剥离和滑覆构造,伴随每一次挤压造山、地壳加厚的过程,在后造山期,也有地壳的隆升、地壳的拉伸和厚度减薄,它是深部岩石圈拆沉作用在地壳中的表现。     

Spatial variability of soil moisture content and its relation to environmental indices in a semi-arid gully catchment of the Loess Plateau, China

The degree of spatial variability of soil moisture and the ability of environmental attributes to predict that variability were studied at the Da Nangou catchment (3·5 km²) in the semi-arid loess area of China. Soil moisture measurements were performed biweekly at five depths in the soil profile (0–5 cm, 10–15 cm, 20–25 cm, 40–45 cm and 70–75 cm) from May to October 1998 and from May to September 1999 using Delta-T theta probe. Results indicated that with increasing soil depth, the mean soil moisture content increases significantly for five layers and the coefficients of variation (CV) also increases with depth from 10–15 cm. It was observed that heavier rains and higher mean moisture contents are often associated with lower spatial variability (CV). Environmental attributes such as land use and topography play controlling roles in the spatial distribution of soil moisture content. However, the relative roles of these environmental indices vary with soil depth. The dominant controls on spatial variability of the time-averaged soil moisture changes from land use, aspect, relative elevation and hillslope position in the surface soil (0–5 cm) to relative elevation, hillslope position and aspect in the subsurface soil (10–15 cm, 20–25 cm), and to land use, relative elevation and slope gradient at larger depths (40–45 cm, 70–75 cm). The dynamic behavior of influences of different environmental indices on the layer-averaged soil moisture depends on several factors. In general, the correlation of soil moisture with slope gradient shows a more significant increase following a greater amount of antecedent precipitation (except for the extremely heavy storms), and declines afterwards. The relation of soil moisture with relative elevation and hillslope position exhibits an opposite trend. It was observed that the influence of land use corresponds to the difference in vegetative characteristics, with a stronger influence in June and August with a greater difference in vegetation. A significant influence of cos(aspect) was found during early spring and autumn with a rapid transient in solar irradiation. Finally, it was found that the sample size is adequate to estimate the catchment mean soil moisture at all five depths and on all 10 observations in 1999 (81 sites), while it is only enough for the upper soil layers (0–5 cm and 10–15 cm) in 1998 (26 sites).