长江三峡考古遗址文化断层研究

长江三峡考古遗址的地理位置、14C 测年数据及考古学文化年代、地面高程、文化层的连续性、文化层的埋深和厚度、文化断层的埋深和厚度等统计数据综合分析的结果表明长江三峡地区新石器时代到历史时期考古遗址沉积地层中有5 期文化断层: (1) 城背溪文化末期到大溪文化初期(7200~6000a BP); (2) 大溪文化关庙山类型三期(5800~5500a BP); (3) 夏代 (4000~3500a BP); (4) 春秋晚期至战国时期(2500~2200a BP); (5) 宋代以来(960A.D.以来)。探讨文化断层与灾变事件发生之间的关系, 从而揭示三峡地区史前和历史时期环境演变过程及其与人类活动的影响。     

北极巴罗地区13世纪以来花粉记录的气候变迁及其与青藏高原的比较

北极阿拉斯加巴罗(Barrow)地区(70°21′N,156°40′W)位于北极滨海平原最北端,根据湖泊钻孔花粉记录,210Pb和137Se测定以及多项环境代用指标测试(有机质含量、总C和总N含量、CaCo3),并结合当地现代冻原植被、表层花粉谱、当地70a的气象记录以及有关的冰芯、树龄等资料的综合对比研究,分析了13世纪以来巴罗地区气候和环境变化历史.大约在13世纪以前,巴罗地区植被稀少,气候寒冷,其后冻原植被发育良好,并经历几次演变.结合沉积地球化学元素测试结果和其他环境代用资料研究表明,小冰期以来Barrow地区曾发生3次暖期(公元1540—1600年,1660—1730年和1880—1992)和3次冷期(公元1440—1520年,1610—1650年和1750—1850年).这些冷暖事件与青藏高原冰芯记录对比发现,虽然在高频变化上,不同地区存在着差异,但重大冷暖事件都曾出现.其中3次暖期与青藏高原古里雅冰芯和敦德冰帽中代表温度变化的δ¹⁸O值指示的暖期基本一致,证实巴罗湖芯记录的环境变化序列是可靠的.同时,古里雅和敦德冰芯记录中反映传统小冰期中的15,17,和19世纪的3次冷期,在巴罗湖芯记录中都有显示.     

中国沙尘事件的区域特征

AsevereduststormoccurredoverEastAsiainthemiddletendaysofApril1998.Afteroneweek,itsdustplumeaffectedthecontinentofNorthAmerica.Thisattractedtheattentionofmanyscientistsintherelatedcountriestoduststorms.InrecentyearsthenumberofduststormshasbeenincreasinginChina.Itisnotonlyanimportantsymptomofdesertificationfromslowerchangetofasterchange,butalsoareflectionofthesynthesisofenvironmentalstates,includingclimate,ecosystemandsoil,whicharealldeterioratingtosomedegrees.AccordingtothedefinitionofMeteo…     

5000 a BP以来辽西地区环境灾害事件与人地关系演变

依据辽西地区牧场泥炭层中高分辨率的孢粉分析和炭屑含量统计资料, 并通过对辽西地区自然环境演变与人类文化变迁历史的研究, 5000 a BP来的环境恶化可分为4个灾变过程: 即5000～4400 a BP 寒冷事件、2700 a BP左右寒冷事件、辽金时代的农业开发以及明清战乱.前两个过程与全球性的气候波动同步, 并对早期文明的发展进程产生了重要影响.后两个过程主要是由人类活动因素造成的, 同时也叠加了自然因素.目前区域内的环境恶化主要是由后两个过程引起的.     

Extreme Cold Events from East Asia to North America in Winter 2020/21: Comparisons,Causes, and Future Implications

Three striking and impactful extreme cold weather events successively occurred across East Asia and North America during the mid-winter of 2020/21.These events open a new window to detect possible underlying physical processes.The analysis here indicates that the occurrences of the three events resulted from integrated effects of a concurrence of anomalous thermal conditions in three oceans and interactive Arctic-lower latitude atmospheric circulation processes,which were linked and influenced by one major sudden stratospheric warming(SSW).The North Atlantic warm blob initiated an increased poleward transient eddy heat flux,reducing the Barents-Kara seas sea ice over a warmed ocean and disrupting the stratospheric polar vortex(SPV)to induce the major SSW.The Rossby wave trains excited by the North Atlantic warm blob and the tropical Pacific La Nina interacted with the Arctic tropospheric circulation anomalies or the tropospheric polar vortex to provide dynamic settings,steering cold polar air outbreaks.The long memory of the retreated sea ice with the underlying warm ocean and the amplified tropospheric blocking highs from the midlatitudes to the Arctic intermittently fueled the increased transient eddy heat flux to sustain the SSW over a long time period.The displaced or split SPV centers associated with the SSW played crucial roles in substantially intensifying the tropospheric circulation anomalies and moving the jet stream to the far south to cause cold air outbreaks to a rarely observed extreme state.The results have significant implications for increasing prediction skill and improving policy decision making to enhance resilience in“One Health,One Future”.     

The 1996 Biescas campsite disaster in the Central Spanish Pyrenees,and its temporal and spatial context

On the evening of the 7 August 1996 an intense storm occurred over the Arás catchment near Biescas in the central Pyrenees. Eighty-seven people were killed as a result of the subsequent flood, which hit a campsite located on the alluvial fan at the outlet of the 18·8 km² catchment. This paper presents the main results of a hydromorphological study of the event. The Betés subcatchment received the most intense rainfall, estimated at somewhat in excess of 250 mm, which resulted in a peak flow from this tributary of 300 m³ s⁻¹. Just downstream from the Betés river junction, flow in the main channel reached 400 m³ s⁻¹, increasing to around 500 m³ s⁻¹ further downstream. Rainfall in the larger Aso tributary was less intense, and in the head reaches flow remained within-bank, representing a one in two-year return period event. Flow from this tributary did not exceed 100 m³ s⁻¹, indicating that the Betés subcatchment supplied some 75% of the flow from just 28·7% of the catchment area. The extreme flows caused the collapse of a series of sediment trap dams in the Arás channel downstream of the Betés junction. This resulted in the addition of 68 000 m³ of sediment to an already disastrous event. Data from other rain gauges in the area showed both the extremely local nature of the event, and the problems of return period analysis for such storms, whose peaks are rarely observed at gauges. Together with the high geomorphological risks of the zone, this leads to the conclusion that a new method of spatial and temporal risk analysis is required for infrastructure planning. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于Polar WRF的南极Dome A极端低温事件分析

南极作为地球的寒极, 其最高点Dome A地区于2013年8月1日气温达到-93.0 ℃的极低值。利用Polar Weather Research and Forecasting （Polar WRF） 3.8.1模式, 对发生在南极Dome A地区的3次极端低温事件进行数值模拟分析。通过与自动气象站实测数据对比验证, 模拟效果较为理想。结果表明： 印度洋和大西洋交界区域的高压加强, 其高压脊开始向南极内陆延伸, 导致Dome A地区气压升高, 使得该地区天气晴好, 云量极低, 为极端低温事件发生奠定基础; 同时, 南极中心冷涡加强, 长时间的冷平流和稳定的逆温层为Dome A地区提供了足够的降温条件, 并且加强了夜间辐射降温效应, 稳定的垂直场、 极低的向下长波辐射使得Dome A地区的极端低温事件得以维持。     

青海冬季区域持续性低温事件变化及成因分析

利用1961 - 2017年青海省43站逐日最低气温观测资料, 依据区域持续性低温事件判识标准, 提取历史上61次典型事件, 对影响该类事件的环流演变和前兆信号进行分析。结果表明： 事件发展中北半球极涡经历分裂 - 收缩增强的变化过程, 中高纬自西向东逐渐发展为“正 - 负 - 正”异常波列状分布; 事件发生当日, 大西洋地区、 乌拉尔山及西伯利亚地区高度场异常偏高, 东亚大槽偏深, 利于自极地南下的冷空气在西欧上空堆积并沿纬向西风急流路径向东传播影响东亚地区。进一步分析表明, 当出现该类事件时, 中高纬地区存在三个关键影响区, 其中乌拉尔山关键区高度场正异常同此类事件的联系最紧密。     

Sedimentary evidence of prehistoric distant-source tsunamis in the Hawaiian Islands

Over the past 200 years of written records, the Hawaiian Islands have experienced tens of tsunamis generated by earthquakes in the subduction zones of the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ (for example, Alaska–Aleutian, Kuril–Kamchatka, Chile and Japan). Mapping and dating anomalous beds of sand and silt deposited by tsunamis in low-lying areas along Pacific coasts, even those distant from subduction zones, is critical for assessing tsunami hazard throughout the Pacific basin. This study searched for evidence of tsunami inundation using stratigraphic and sedimentological analyses of potential tsunami deposits beneath present and former Hawaiian wetlands, coastal lagoons, and river floodplains. Coastal wetland sites on the islands of Hawai΄i, Maui, O΄ahu and Kaua΄i were selected based on historical tsunami runup, numerical inundation modelling, proximity to sandy source sediments, degree of historical wetland disturbance, and breadth of prior geological and archaeological investigations. Sand beds containing marine calcareous sediment within peaty and/or muddy wetland deposits on the north and north-eastern shores of Kaua΄i, O΄ahu and Hawai΄i were interpreted as tsunami deposits. At some sites, deposits of the 1946 and 1957 Aleutian tsunamis are analogues for deeper, older probable tsunami deposits. Radiocarbon-based age models date sand beds from three sites to ca 700 to 500 cal yr bp , which overlaps ages for tsunami deposits in the eastern Aleutian Islands that record a local subduction zone earthquake. The overlapping modelled ages for tsunami deposits at the study sites support a plausible correlation with an eastern Aleutian earthquake source for a large prehistoric tsunami in the Hawaiian Islands.     

Paleoceanographic events of the southern Okinawa Trough during last 20 000 years

Presentaddress:NanjingInstituteofGeologyandPaleontology,ChineseAcademyofSciences,Nanjing210008,ChinaINTRODUCTloNTheOkinawaTrough(NNE-SSW),thedeeperwaterbasinoftheEastChinaSea,liesbe-tween24'~3O"N,122"~13o'E(seeFig.l).Itssouthernpartiswideranddeeperthanthenorthernpart,withthemaximumwaterdepthof2719metersinthesouthwest.ThemostimPOrtanthydrographiccharacteristicinthisareaistheKuroshiocurrentwhichflowsalongthewestbankoftheokinawaTrough-(about2oo~5oometersindepth).Itinnu-encesthedep…