A HIGH-RESOLUTION, GRIDDED DATASET FOR MONTHLY TEMPERATURE NORMALS (1971-2000) IN SWEDEN

A baseline climatology is required in evaluating climate variability and changes on regional and local scales. Gridded climate normals, i.e. averages over a 30‐year period, are of special interest since they can be readily used for validation of climate models. This study is aimed at creating an updated gridded dataset for Swedish monthly temperature normals over the period 1971–2000, based on standard 2‐m air temperature records at 510 stations in mainland Sweden. Spatial trends of the normal temperatures were modelled as functions of latitude, longitude and elevation by multiple linear regression. The study shows that the temperature normals are strongly correlated with latitude throughout the year and especially in cold months, while elevation was a more important factor in June and July. Longitude played a minor role and was only significant in April and May. Regression equations linking temperature to latitude, longitude and elevation were set up for each month. Monthly temperature normals were detrended by subtracting spatial trends given by the regressions. Ordinary kriging was then applied to both original data (simple method) and de‐trended data (composite method) to model the spatial variability and to perform spatial gridding. The multiple regressions showed that between 82% (summer) and 96% (winter) of the variance in monthly temperature normals could be explained by latitude and elevation. Unexplained variances, i.e. the residuals, were modelled with ordinary kriging with exponential semivariograms. The composite grid estimates were calculated by adding the multiple linear trends back to the interpolated residuals at each grid point. Kriged original temperature normals provided a performance benchmark. The cross–validation shows that the interpolation errors of the normals are significantly reduced if the composite method rather than the simple one was used. A gridded monthly dataset with 30‐arcsecond spacing was created using the established trends, the kriging model and a digital topographic dataset.     

Comparative assessment of CORINE2000 and GLC2000: Spatial analysis of land cover data for Europe

Given the current lack of interoperability between global and regional land cover products, efforts are underway to link the new European global land cover map (GLOBCOVER) with the existing global land cover 2000 map (GLC2000) and European CORINE mapping initiative. Since both datasets apply different mapping standards, key for a successful implementation is a thorough understanding of the heterogeneities among both datasets. Thus, this paper provides an assessment of compatibilities and differences between the CORINE2000 and GLC2000 datasets. The comparative assessment considers inconsistencies between the thematic legends (using the UN land cover classification system-LCCS), class specific accuracies, and the spatial resolution and heterogeneity of the datasets. The results are summarized with implications for the development of the new GLOBCOVER datasets.     

Seismic microzonation of Dehradun City using geophysical and geotechnical characteristics in the upper 30 m of soil column

The understanding of geotechnical characteristics of near-surface material is of fundamental interest in seismic microzonation. Shear wave velocity (Vs), one of the most important soil properties for soil response modeling, has been evaluated through seismic profiling using the multichannel analysis of surface waves in the city of Dehradun situated along the foothills of northwest Himalaya. Fifty sites in the city have been investigated with survey lines between 72 and 96 m in length. Multiple 1-D and interpolated 2-D profiles have been generated up to a depth of 30–40 m. The Vs were used in the SHAKE2000 software in combination with seismic input motion of the recent Chamoli earthquake to obtain site response and amplification spectra. The estimated Vs are higher in the northern part of the study area (i.e., 200–700 m/s from the surface to a depth of about 30 m) as compared to the south and southwestern parts of the city (i.e., 180–400 m/s for the same depth range). The response spectra suggest that spectral acceleration values for two-story structures are three to eight times higher than peak ground acceleration at bedrock. The analysis also suggests peak amplification at 3–4, 2–2.5, and 1–1.5 Hz in the northern, central, and south-southwestern parts of the city, respectively. The spatial distributions of Vs and spectral accelerations provide valuable information for the seismic microzonation in different parts of the urban area of Dehradun.     

Spanish Monitoring of Comets: Making Sense of Amateur Photometric Data

Amateur astronomers have always represented an important observing group in cometary astronomy. Much of our knowledge of cometary light curves has come from amateur data, initially in the form of total visual magnitude estimates and now increasingly in the form of CCD observations. The increasingly widespread use by amateur astronomers of CCD cameras of excellent sensitivity and good cosmetic quality has revolutionised astrometry, allowing far more intensive astrometric monitoring of comets to be carried out down to magnitude 18 and fainter, with a corresponding enormous increase in the quality of calculated orbits. Although amateur CCD photometry is extensively available in the Internet, its use has been less widespread. The reason is the lack of standardisation in the way that this data is taken that leads to amateur CCD light curves having enormous dispersion. All amateur CCD photometry is aperture photometry, but it is seen that neither does it represent well the equivalent of m1 (total visual magnitude), even with a large aperture, nor is it close to the definition of m₂ (the nucleus magnitude). The problem is examined using data from the Spanish Comet Observers Group archives to show that by careful standardisation of data acquisition amateur CCD data can produce high quality, well-sampled and physically meaningful light curves. Examples are presented of the results for recent comets including 19P/Borrelly, 51P/Harrington, C/2001 TU80 (LINEAR-NEAT), C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) & C/2001 A2 (LINEAR).     

Improvement of SWAT2000 modelling to assess the impact of dams and sluices on streamflow in the Huai River basin of China

Hydrological simulation and assessment in a dam–sluice regulated river basin are a complex and challenging issue. In this article, an improved SWAT2000 modelling system was developed that incorporated the Shuffled complex evolution (SCE‐UA) optimization algorithm and the multi‐site and multi‐objective calibration strategy. The implication of multi‐objective is different for different types of outlets, i.e. streamflow for an ordinary outlet, inflow for a sluice, and water storage for a reservoir. Model parameters were redefined to improve model simulations. The surface runoff lag time (SURLAG) was extended as a spatially distributed parameter, and a correction coefficient was introduced to modify the saturated hydraulic conductivity. The modelling system was then applied to the Huai River basin of China under various climatic conditions, including a very dry year (1999), a dry year (1981), an average year (1971), and wet year (1991). In all, 26 dams and 35 sluices were considered, among which about 20 dams/sluices were used for model calibration. The impact assessment primarily focused on the very dry year (1999). The results indicated that the released water from large reservoirs was blocked in the river channels by sluices located downstream. In the very dry year, the dam–sluice operations could result in an increase of the runoff volume during the non‐flood season and a decrease in runoff during the flood season, but the changing magnitude during the non‐flood season was much greater. An important conclusion of this case study is that the sluices in the Sha‐Yin branch located in the north region and the dams in the southern mountainous region above the Wangjiaba Hydrological Station have played the most significant role in regulating the streamflow of the entire river basin. The methods addressed in this article can simulate hydrological regime in the river basins regulated by dams and sluices under different climatic conditions at the whole‐watershed scale. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

江门市高精度GNSS控制网数据处理技术研究

针对华南沿海城市的高精度的CGCS2000大地基准建设要求,分别从基线解算与网平差计算两方面的策略进行探讨分析,建立以江门市为例的高精度大地基准框架。结果表明采用高精度的GAMIT/GLOBK数据处理软件,设置较小的采样间隔和增加一定的观测时长,能为高精度的CGCS2000大地基准建设提供借鉴参考,也为后续的似大地水准面精化提供高精度的大地基准数据基础。     

“多规合一”坐标系统选择探索

多规合一是城市建设发展的必然趋势。在边长投影变形较大的地区,通过边长投影变形的计算、处理,各自选择合适的坐标系统,依托自然资源部门的测绘技术力量,进行转换处理。消除自然资源部门同城乡建设部门之间由于坐标系统不同带来的差异,在满足工程建设精度要求、保证工程建设质量的前提下,满足自然资源部要求。     

ITRS/J2000坐标转换误差及其对掩星反演的影响分析

分别对ITRS/J2000转换过程中的极移/潮汐章动、常数偏差矩阵等误差造成的影响进行分析,并分析季节变化、太阳活动、地磁活动等对坐标转换精度的影响。对2019年的IGS精密星历数据进行ITRS地固系转J2000惯性系坐标分析表明,潮汐章动造成的坐标转换误差为0.44 m,春季坐标转换误差(0.23 mm)是其他季节的约3倍;常数偏差矩阵对坐标转换误差可造成1.7 m的影响。对中性大气掩星反演的轨道转换加入误差改正项进行分析表明,潮汐章动和常数偏差矩阵对反演的温度产品分别造成0.09 K和0.19 K的误差影响。建议在进行GNSS无线电掩星反演中采用潮汐章动的高频改正,并且在ITRS/J2000转换过程中推荐将常数偏差矩阵进行旋转处理。     

Terrain data compression using wavelet-tiled pyramids for online 3D terrain visualization

Last years have witnessed the widespread use of online terrain visualization applications. However, the significant improvements achieved in sensing technologies have allowed an increasing size of the terrain databases. These increasing sizes represent a serious drawback when terrain data must be transmitted and rendered at interactive rates. In this paper, we propose a novel wavelet-tiled pyramid for compressing terrain data that replaces the traditional multiresolution pyramid usually used in wavelet compression schemes. The new wavelet-tiled pyramid modifies the wavelet analysis and synthesis processes, allowing an efficient transmission and reconstruction of terrain data in those applications based on multiresolution tiled pyramids. A comparative performance evaluation with the currently existing techniques shows that the proposed scheme obtains a better compression ratio of the terrain data, reducing the storage space and transmission bandwidth required, and achieving a better visual quality of the virtual terrain reconstructed after data decompression.     

基于遥感的珠江口海岸线变迁分析

利用1990年、2000年和2010年三个时相的遥感影像,进行2000年前后两个十年的海岸线变迁情况对比分析。结果表明:2000年前的十年间,珠江口海岸线向海推进,导致面积共增加了16486.63ha,主要受人为因素影响,围海养殖是本时段海岸线变迁的主要因素;2000年后的十年间,珠江口海岸线继续向海推进,但推进速度降低,导致面积增加了9280.15ha,填海造地是这一时段海岸线变迁的主要因素。又根据珠江口的区域特征,以珠江入海八大口门为界,将整个研究区划分为九个岸段进行了详细分析。