The connection between Labrador Sea buoyancy loss, deep western boundary current strength, and Gulf Stream path in an ocean circulation model

The sensitivity of the North Atlantic gyre circulation to high latitude buoyancy forcing is explored in a global, non-eddy resolving ocean general circulation model. Increased buoyancy forcing strengthens the deep western boundary current, the northern recirculation gyre, and the North Atlantic Current, which leads to a more realistic Gulf Stream path. High latitude density fluxes and surface water mass transformation are strongly dependent on the choice of sea ice and salinity restoring boundary conditions. Coupling the ocean model to a prognostic sea ice model results in much greater buoyancy loss in the Labrador Sea compared to simulations in which the ocean is forced by prescribed sea ice boundary conditions. A comparison of bulk flux forced hindcast simulations which differ only in their sea ice and salinity restoring forcings reveals the effects of a mixed thermohaline boundary condition transport feedback whereby small, positive temperature and salinity anomalies in subpolar regions are amplified when the gyre spins up as a result of increased buoyancy loss and convection. The primary buoyancy flux effects of the sea ice which cause the simulations to diverge are ice melt, which is less physical in the diagnostic sea ice model, and insulation of the ocean, which is less physical with the prognostic sea ice model. Increased salinity restoring ensures a more realistic net winter buoyancy loss in the Labrador Sea, but it is found that improvements in the Gulf Stream simulation can only be achieved with the excessive buoyancy loss associated with weak salinity restoring.     

A study on the reference frame consistency in recent Earth gravitational models

All gravity field functionals obtained from an Earth gravitational model (EGM) depend on the underlying terrestrial reference frame (TRF), with respect to which the EGM’s spherical harmonic coefficients refer to. In order to maintain a coherent framework for the comparison of current and future EGMs, it is thus important to investigate the consistency of their inherent TRFs, especially when their use is intended for high precision studies. Following the methodology described in an earlier paper by Kleusberg (1980), the similarity transformation parameters between the associated reference frames for several EGMs (including the most recent CHAMP/GRACE models at the time of writing this paper) are estimated in the present study. Specifically, the differences between the spherical harmonic coefficients for various pairs of EGMs are parameterized through a 3D-similarity spatial transformation model that relates their underlying TRFs. From the least-squares adjustment of such a parametric model, the origin, orientation and scale stability between the EGMs’ reference frames can be identified by estimating their corresponding translation, rotation and scale factor parameters. Various aspects of the estimation procedure and its results are highlighted in the paper, including data weighting schemes, the sensitivity of the results with respect to the selected harmonic spectral band, the correlation structure and precision level of the estimated transformation parameters, the effect of the estimated differences of the EGMs’ reference frames on their height anomaly signal, and the overall feasibility of Kleusberg’s formulae for the assessment of TRF inconsistencies among global geopotential models.     

GPS坐标转换方法比较分析

本文给出了GPS坐标向地方坐标转换的几种二维平面坐标转换方法,并给出了这几种方法的精度比较分析,最后通过实例对其中两种坐标转换方法进行了精度比较。     

利用TGO软件的点校正功能实现物探测量GPS控制网待定点的解算

基于泌阳凹陷高精度三维地震采集测量GPS控制测量项目,作者论述了在TGO软件中利用点校正功能求解控制网中待定点坐标方法。通过与约束平差结果的比较,证明了此方法的可行性。     

基于几何变换的图形采集与编辑算法研究

分析了解析几何法的符号绘制算法,采用了几何变换实现图形绘制的算法,实现了椭圆弧的采集、编辑及Bezier曲线和椭圆弧外接矩形的算法。     

基于最小信息量准则的小波变换确定变形监测精度

提出了应用最小信息量准则,提取了原始数据中的噪声信息并完整地保留变形信号,准确地估算了实际监测精度。     

基于3S技术的矿产资源移动执法监察系统的设计与实现

针对矿产资源开采现状,提出了3S一体化的矿产资源移动执法的设计思想,探讨和分析了辽宁省矿产资源移动执法系统的系统架构与功能、工作流程,并对系统开发过程中的矿山违法信息提取关键技术进行了详细介绍。为矿产资源信息化管理提供了一种很好的借鉴模式。     

福建气象综合业务平台融入“天擎”技术方案设计及实现

为加快推进福建省气象业务系统的集约化、云化转型,需要依托福建气象大数据云平台(“天擎·福建”)对业务系统进行融入改造。本文介绍了“天擎·福建”的概况、总体架构和功能,重点阐述了福建气象综合业务平台融入“天擎”的技术方案及实现方法,从平台融入“天擎”、数据源切换至“天擎”、算法纳入加工流水线、数据产品存入“天擎”、系统监控进“天镜”、前端页面改造等6个方面实现了应用融入并投入业务运行,融入后综合业务平台的数据汇聚、加工和服务全流程进一步优化和规范,系统运行效率和访问速度显著提高,为其他的业务系统融入天擎提供借鉴。     

Improving kriging of groundwater level data using nonlinear normalizing transformations—a field application

Abstract

The present research study investigates the application of nonlinear normalizing data transformations in conjunction with ordinary kriging (OK) for the accurate prediction of groundwater level spatial variability in a sparsely-gauged basin. We investigate three established normalizing methods, Gaussian anamorphosis, trans-Gaussian kriging and the Box-Cox method to improve the estimation accuracy. The first two are applied for the first time to groundwater level data. All three methods improve the mean absolute prediction error compared to the application of OK to the non-transformed data. In addition, a modified Box-Cox transformation is proposed and applied to normalize the hydraulic heads. The modified Box-Cox transformation in conjunction with OK is found to be the optimal spatial model based on leave-one-out cross-validation. The recently established Spartan semivariogram family provides the optimal model fit to the transformed data. Finally, we present maps of the groundwater level and the kriging variance based on the optimal spatial model.

Editor D. Koutsoyiannis; Associate editor A. Montanari

Citation Varouchakis, E.A., Hristopoulos, D.T., and Karatzas, G.P., 2012. Improving kriging of groundwater level data using nonlinear normalizing transformations—a field application. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 57 (7), 1404–1419.     

边界单元法在电法勘探中的应用

本文用加权剩余法导出点源二维地电断面的边界单元法积分方程。通过付氏反变换,可获得三维空间的电位。若干模型上正演计算结果与解析解完全一致。对实测的ρ_s曲线进行了地形攻正及选择法反演拟合,解释结果与实际地质断面符合得很好。