THE BUFFALO COMMONS: METAPHOR AS METHOD*

ABSTRACT. By crafting regional metaphors, geographers can help the public to understand and expand regional choices. As a metaphor for the United States' Great Plains, the Buffalo Commons stands for a large-scale, long-term ecological-economic restoration project. It has found an attentive audience in the last thirteen years and is in practice springing to life in the region. Comparable metaphors for other regions dealing with structural change are explored in this essay, using as main examples the Pacific Northwest, Detroit, and big cities generally. Metaphors, we conclude, differ from usual social-science tools because they engage the public in forming policy. The most effective regional metaphors are ambiguous, open-ended, and somewhat disconcerting.     

中国集贸市场的历史发展与地理分布

文章概述了不同历史时期中国集贸市场发展的特点及其地域分布差异,指出合理规划布局和加强市场管理是培育和发展我国集贸市场的两个着力点。     

Spatio-temporal Pattern of Surface Albedo in Beijing and Its Driving Factors based on Geographical Detectors

Surface albedo directly affects the radiation balance and surface heat budget, and is a crucial variable in local and global climate research. In this study, the spatial and temporal distribution of the surface albedo is analysed for Beijing in 2015, and the corresponding individual and interactive driving forces of different explanatory factors are quantitatively assessed based on geographical detectors. The results show that surface albedo is high in the southeast and low in the northwest of Beijing, with the greatest change occurring in winter and the smallest change occurring in spring. The minimum and maximum annual surface albedo values occurred in autumn and winter, respectively, and showed significant spatial and temporal heterogeneity. LULC, NDVI, elevation, slope, temperature, and precipitation each had a significant influence on the spatial pattern of albedo, yielding explanatory power values of 0.537, 0.625, 0.512, 0.531, 0.515 and 0.190, respectively. Some explanatory factors have significant differences in influencing the spatial distribution of albedo, and there is significant interaction between them which shows the bivariate enhancement result. Among them, the interaction between LULC and NDVI was the strongest, with a q-statistic of 0.710, while the interaction between temperature and precipitation was the weakest, with a q-statistic of 0.531. The results of this study provide a scientific basis for understanding the spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of surface albedo in Beijing and the physical processes of energy modules in regional climate and land surface models.     

水文地球化学方法在研究矿区水文地质条件中的应用

应用水文地球化学方法,研究了肥城西部矿区不同含水层的水化学特征,分析了它们相互间水力联系方式与联系程度,推断了奥灰水越流补给煤系灰岩水的补给地段,大致估计了其补给量,为防治水方案的制定提供了依据。     

Open boundary conditions for nonlinear channel flow

Open boundary conditions are derived for the one-dimensional nonrotating two-layer shallow-water equations. The conditions are based on characteristics of the external and internal modes. It is possible to find exact nonlinear characteristic conditions for the external mode, as well as approximate nonlinear conditions for the internal mode. These conditions can also be linearised by Taylor expansion; the approximate linear conditions are similar to those used in several previous studies. Both of the nonlinear and linearised conditions perform well, indicating that either the nonlinear or linearised conditions may potentially be extended to the more general case of multi-layer flows.     

Evaluating the effects of land‐use development policies on ex‐urban forest cover: An integrated agent‐based GIS approach

We use a GIS‐based agent‐based model (ABM), named dynamic ecological exurban development (DEED), with spatial data in hypothetical scenarios to evaluate the individual and interacting effects of lot‐size zoning and municipal land‐acquisition strategies on possible forest‐cover outcomes in Scio Township, a municipality in Southeastern Michigan. Agent types, characteristics, behavioural methods, and landscape perceptions (i.e. landscape aesthetics) are empirically informed using survey data, spatial analyses, and a USDA methodology for mapping landscape aesthetic quality. Results from our scenario experiments computationally verified literature that show large lot‐size zoning policies lead to greater sprawl, and large lot‐size zoning policies can lead to increased forest cover, although we found this effect to be small relative to municipal land acquisition. The return on land acquisition for forest conservation was strongly affected by the location strategy used to select parcels for conservation. Furthermore, the location strategy for forest conservation land acquisition was more effective at increasing aggregate forest levels than the independent zoning policies, the quantity of area acquired for forest conservation, and any combination of the two. The results using an integrated GIS and ABM framework for evaluating land‐use development policies on forest cover provide additional insight into how these types of policies may act out over time and what aspects of the policies were more influential towards the goal of maximising forest cover.     

旧石器时代至商周时期贵州遗址空间分布及其自然环境背景

根据对贵州230 处遗址的时空变化分析发现, 贵州旧石器时代遗址集中分布在中部、西北部和黔西南等喀斯特发育的高海拔区域。至新石器时代, 遗址仍集中分布在中部、西北部和黔西南地区, 但南部、东部等沿河地带和中西部的山间坝子开始有遗址分布。到商周时期, 遗址主要分布在沿河地带和山间坝子里。其中, 东部和南部海拔低于1000 m的地区遗址多分布在沿河地带, 而西部和北部海拔高于1000 m的地区遗址则分布在山间坝子。贵州位于亚热带湿润气候区, 气候环境的冷暖干湿波动对从事渔猎、采集及原始农业生产的古人类影响不大, 人类居住空间变化更多的与贵州特殊的自然地理背景有关, 特别是喀斯特地貌发育及适宜农业生产地方的空间差异, 对贵州旧石器至商周时期的遗址分布影响显著。旧石器时代人类以采集和渔猎为生, 临近水源的天然溶洞是人类居住的首选。随农业的出现和发展, 便于农耕的沿河地带和山间坝子成为人类的生活居住地。故新石器时代, 贵州先民居住呈现洞穴和河流阶地或山间坝子并存;至商周时期, 农业成为人类的主要经济生产方式, 人类主要居住在沿河地带和山间坝子里。     

城市网络视角下的中国科技创新功能区划研究

开展科技创新功能区划是全局把握国家科技创新总体布局并指导提升区域科技创新能力极为重要的基础性工作,然而相关研究仍较滞后。本文从城市间创新合作关系网络的角度,结合已有地理区划理论和创新地理研究,设计了一种科技创新功能区划方法,基于中国357个城市间2017—2019年的专利合作关系数据,研制了一套中国科技创新功能区划方案。研究认为,将网络空间拓扑关系与地理空间位置关系相结合,借助空间邻接约束下的层次聚类与以模块度为依据的图分割技术,可以得到内部联系紧密且占据一定连续地表的区划结果,是一种科技创新功能区划的有效方法。在城市科技创新网络拓扑结构分析和二值与加权网络分区结果对比分析的基础上,研制出一套包含4个一级区和20个二级区的中国科技创新功能区划参考方案,将中国大致划分为北方、南方、东部、西部4个科技创新功能板块,每个板块包含4~6个二级功能区。这一方案的分区边界与省级行政边界具有较高的吻合性,可为国家从宏观层面进行科技创新统筹管理提供辅助参考。建议未来依托科技创新功能区的建设与区域科技创新中心的引领,因地制宜实施区域创新发展战略,更好地为国家创新驱动发展战略实施贡献力量。     

Correlation of icing events with meteorological variables, and two statistical models to discriminate freezing days

In this paper, the characteristics of meteorological variables are statistically correlated with icing events (i.e., glaze and rime) in China, using daily observations of air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and weather phenomena from 700 stations in China from 1954 to 2008. The weather conditions most favorable for icing events are investigated and two statistical models are developed to discriminate potential freezing days. Low air temperature, high relative humidity, and low wind speed are shown to be important conditions for occurrence of icing events; also, the favorable daily mean air temperature is shown to have a decreasing trend from north to south in China, while the favorable relative humidity and wind speed varies little across the country. The statistical model developed with the daily mean temperature combined with precipitation, fog, and mist weather phenomena proved to be well able to determine the possible occurrence of freezing days. The accuracy of model outputs is well above 60% for northwestern Yunnan, Guizhou, northern Guangxi, southern Hunan, and southern Jiangxi, among other regions where icing events are more frequent, and the average false alarms are few. Using observations or forecast products of conventional meteorological variables, this model has high performance and is practical and applicable for early warning and monitoring of icing events.     

OPTIMIZATION OF A CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS IN REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY

The automatic procedures for optimizing the composition of a binary mobile phase in reversed phaseliquid chromatography have been intensively studied for the past ten years.The performance of theseprocedures,based on either the black box approach or on other methods such as the experimentaldesign,are very often limited by the large number of time-consuming experimental runs that arenecessary for the determination of the analysis conditions to be optimized.The proposed method reduces this number of experiments:two experiments,run under linearvariation of the composition of the binary mobile phase(the linear gradient elution mode),make itpossible to determine the mobile phase composition corresponding to the maximum resolution betweenpeaks,the final analysis being assumed to be carried out under isocratic conditions.The method requires two steps:the determination of the retention characteristics for each solute,which depend upon the composition of the mobile phase;the selection of the optimum composition ofthe isocratic mobile phase,by using a criterion such as the maximum resolution normalized by the squareroot of the plate number,for the least separated pair of adjacent peaks.The interest,performance and limits of use of such an optimization procedure are discussed by meansof the chromatographic analysis of different complex mixtures.