现代尘暴和非尘暴天气大气花粉特征及其环境意义--以北京地区为例

通过2001²003年取得的尘暴和非尘暴天气大气花粉的对比研究,发现两类天气条件下大气花粉组合虽都以北京地区木本植物花粉为主,但尘暴天气样品中草本植物花粉数量有较多增加。根据尘暴活动和北京地区物候分析,推测这些草本植物花粉来自尘暴源区和路径区的表土沉积。基于上述认识,进一步对风成黄土古土壤层的花粉进行探讨,认为古土壤中草本植物花粉和木本植物花粉是同期沉积的,其木本植物花粉数量比较少可能是尘暴降尘导致草本植物花粉数增多所致。通过现代尘暴、非尘暴天气大气花粉特征的研究,对正确认识过去风成黄土和古土壤层中以草本植物花粉为主的孢粉组合特征提出了新的思路。     

Properties and stability of a meso-scale line-form disturbance

By using the 3D dynamic equations for small- and meso-scale disturbances, an investigation is performed on the heterotropic instability (including symmetric instability and traversal-type instability) of a zonal line-like disturbance moving at any angle with respect to basic flow, arriving at the following results: (1) with linear shear available, the heterotropic instability of the disturbance will occur only when flow shearing happens in the direction of the line-like disturbance movement or in the direction perpendicular to the disturbance movement, with the heterotropic instability showing the instability of the internal inertial gravity wave; (2) in the presence of second-order non-linear shear, the disturbance of the heterotropic instability includes internal inertial gravity and vortex Rossby waves. For the zonal line-form disturbance under study, the vortex Rossby wave has its source in the second-order shear of meridional basic wind speed in the flow and propagates unidirectionally with respect to the meridional basic flow. As a mesoscale heterotropic instable disturbance, the vortex Rossby wave has its origin from the second shear of the flow in the direction perpendicular to the line-form disturbance and is independent of the condition in the direction parallel to the flow; (3) for general zonal line-like disturbances, if the second-order shear happens in the meridional wind speed, i.e., the second shear of the flow in the direction perpendicular to the line-form disturbance, then the heterotropic instability of the disturbance is likely to be the instability of a mixed Rossby–internal inertial gravity wave; (4) the symmetric instability is actually the instability of the internal inertial gravity wave. The second-order shear in the flow represents an instable factor for a symmetric-type disturbance; (5) the instability of a traversal-type disturbance is the instability of the internal inertial gravity wave when the basic flow is constant or only linearly sheared. With a second or nonlinear vertical shear of the basic flow taken into account, the instability of a traversal-type disturbance may be the instability of a mixed vortex Rossby – gravity wave.     

Applications of conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation to the study of the stability and sensitivity of the Jovian atmosphere

A two-layer quasi-geostrophic model is used to study the stability and sensitivity of motions on smallscale vortices in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Conditional nonlinear optimal perturbations (CNOPs) and linear singular vectors (LSVs) are both obtained numerically and compared in this paper. The results show that CNOPs can capture the nonlinear characteristics of motions in small-scale vortices in Jupiter’s atmosphere and show great difference from LSVs under the condition that the initial constraint condition is large or the optimization time is not very short or both. Besides, in some basic states, local CNOPs are found. The pattern of LSV is more similar to local CNOP than global CNOP in some cases. The elementary application of the method of CNOP to the Jovian atmosphere helps us to explore the stability of variousscale motions of Jupiter’s atmosphere and to compare the stability of motions in Jupiter’s atmosphere and Earth’s atmosphere further.     

Implementation of the semi-Lagrangian advection scheme on a quasi-uniform overset grid on a sphere

The semi-Lagrangian advection scheme is implemented on a new quasi-uniform overset （Yin-Yang） grid on the sphere. The Yin-Yang grid is a newly developed grid system in spherical geometry with two perpendicularly-oriented latitude-longitude grid components （called Yin and Yang respectively） that overlapp each other, and this effectively avoids the coordinate singularity and the grid convergence near the poles. In this overset grid, the way of transferring data between the Yin and Yang components is the key to maintaining the accuracy and robustness in numerical solutions. A numerical interpolation for boundary data exchange, which maintains the accuracy of the original advection scheme and is computationally efficient, is given in this paper. A standard test of the solid-body advection proposed by Williamson is carried out on the Yin-Yang grid. Numerical results show that the quasi-uniform Yin-Yang grid can get around the problems near the poles, and the numerical accuracy in the original semi-Lagrangian scheme is effectively maintained in the Yin-Yang grid.     

On the nonlinear response of lower stratospheric ozone to NOx and ClOx perturbations for different CH4 sources

The impact of sulfate aerosol, ClOx and NOx perturbations for two different magnitudes of CH4 sources on lower stratospheric ozone is studied by using a heterogeneous chemical system that consists of 19 species belonging to 5 chemical families （oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, chlorine and carbon）. The results show that the present modeled photochemical system can present several different solutions, for instance, periodic states and multi-equilibrium states appearing in turn under certain parameter domains, through chlorine chemistry and nitrogen chemistry together with sulfate aerosol as well as the increasing magnitude of CH4 sources. The existence of catastrophic transitions could produce a dramatic reduction in the ozone concentration with the increase of external sources.     

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气溶胶是指悬浮在空气中的纳米及微米级固体或液体微粒, 对大气能见度、人体健康、气候变化和生物地球化学循环都有重要影响.2020 年以来, 新冠疫情的全球蔓延也吸引了众多不同领域科学家更加关注气溶胶科学研究.越来越多的证据表明, COVID-19存在气溶胶传播的可能.     

读诗谈天象之五 大气造成的天文现象(下)

大气折射对天文观测的影响大气折射还造成另一个影响天文观测的效应,称为大气色散。原来,空气的折射率还与光的波长(即颜色)有关,不同颜色的光在相同的介质中传播,因折射率不同而分散,雨后彩虹展现由红到紫的七色景象,正是由于同样原因(光被悬浮在空气中的小水滴折射并产生色散)。由于大气色散,使得我们观测到的天体像,无论是目视的眼睛所见还是照相的底片留影,星像都呈现为一条垂直的细小光谱,紫端靠近天顶。天顶距越大,色散也越大。     

大气CO2浓度升高对土壤中不同粒级碳的影响

不同粒级土壤中的碳有着不同的周转规律,在高CO2浓度条件下,它们含量的变化将在一定程度上反映土壤碳是累积还是减少,对明确土壤碳的变化趋势有重要意义.采用田间培养试验初步模拟研究在高CO2浓度条件下土壤不同粒级碳的分布.结果表明,加入秸秆培养1年,由于CO2浓度升高的原因导致在低氮(LN)、常规氮(NN)和高氮(HN)水平下土壤中碳分别增加0.01、1.10、1.22g/kg,表现为粒级＜53 μm土壤颗粒中碳分别增加1.53、2.19、2.70 g/kg.粒级＜53 μm土壤颗粒碳量的增加,主要是由于其重量分配百分数显著增加36.2%,碳浓度增加5.4%;粒级＞250μm和250～53μm土壤颗粒部分虽然其碳浓度分别增加20.8%和17.3%(P＜0.05),但由于重量分配百分数分别显著降低22.8%和36.1%,结果碳量降低.试验表明高CO2浓度导致不同粒级土壤的分配及碳浓度的变化;高氮施肥水平下有增加土壤碳量特别是小粒级土壤碳量的趋势.     

资源三号卫星影像纠正的方法研究

影像的应用前提是影像处理,大气校正可消除大气和光照等因素对地物发射的影响。在此基础上,介绍几种常用的几何纠正方法,可消除系统和非系统因素引起的影像几何变形。本文通过对资源三号卫星的基本参数信息和相对应影像数据特点的介绍,先通过大气校正,校正后的影像分别使用几何纠正的几种方法,并通过各种方法的计算量、实用性以及相应的精度,对比分析各种方法在处理这种数据时的优越性。     

巴芬湾西部和格陵兰岛东部大气经向热量输送协同变化对夏季北极海冰的影响

利用欧洲中心气候再分析资料和美国国家冰雪数据中心北极海冰面积资料,分析了夏季北极海冰面积与前期大气经向热量输送年际变化的联系。结果表明：6月北半球中高纬大气的经向热量输送以瞬变热量形式为主,其中巴芬湾西部（B区）和格陵兰岛东部（G区）是瞬变热量向极区传输的两个通道,二者之间存在反位相的协同变化,且这种协同变化与夏季北极海冰面积变化密切相关。可能的机制为：6月,AD、AO和NAO三种北极大气环流型能够引起巴芬湾西部和格陵兰岛东部瞬变热量输送的协同变化,这种协同变化通过涡旋动力作用激发夏季极区大气表现为AD异常,同时影响途经区域的气温,从而通过热动力作用影响夏季北极海冰。将向极区输送的热量称为暖输送,从极区输出的热量为冷输送,则上述两个区域的瞬变热量协同输送可分为三种情况：B暖G冷、B冷G暖、B和G均冷,而B和G均暖的情况十分罕见。当B区向极区输入、G区输出热量时,有利于太平洋扇区和喀拉海的海冰偏少;当G区输入、B区输出热量时,利于喀拉海和拉普捷夫海海冰偏少;当B区和G区均输出热量时,利于波佛特海南部、喀拉海和拉普捷夫海海冰偏多,反之则相反。