In a PICL: The sedimentary deposits and facies of perennially ice‐covered lakes

Perennially ice‐covered lakes can have significantly different facies than open‐water lakes because sediment is transported onto the ice, where it accumulates, and sand grains preferentially melt through to be deposited on the lake floor. To characterize the facies in these lakes, sedimentary deposits from five Antarctic perennially ice‐covered lakes were described using lake‐bottom observations, underwater video and images, and sediment cores. One lake was dominated by laminated microbial mats and mud (derived from an abutting glacier), with disseminated sand and rare gravel. The other four lakes were dominated by laminated microbial mats and moderately well to moderately sorted medium to very coarse sand with sparse granules and pebbles; they contained minor interstitial or laminated mud (derived from streams and abutting glaciers). The sand was disseminated or localized in mounds and 1 m to more than 10 m long elongate ridges. Mounds were centimetres to metres in diameter; conical, elongate or round in shape; and isolated or deposited near or on top of one another. Sand layers in the mounds had normal, inverse, or no grading. Nine mixed mud and sand facies were defined for perennially ice‐covered lakes based on the relative proportion of mud to sand and the style of sand deposition. While perennially ice‐covered lake facies overlap with other ice‐influenced lakes and glaciomarine facies, they are characterized by a paucity of grains coarser than granules, a narrow range in sand grain sizes, and inverse grading in the sand mounds. These facies can be used to infer changes in ice cover through time and to identify perennially ice‐covered lakes in the rock record. Ancient perennially ice‐covered lakes are expected on Earth and Mars, and their characterization will provide new insights into past climatic conditions and habitability.     

Adsorption of copper(II) from aqueous solution by Beidellite

Dry lakes, degraded sandy grasslands, abandoned farmland and mobile dunes which are widely distributed throughout the arid areas of northern China have been investigated in this work. Gain-size distribution of the surface sediments of Manas lake in Junggar basin, Juyan lake in the Alxa plateau, Zhuye lake in Minqin basin and most deserts (such as Mu Us desert, Otindag desert, Horqin desert and Hulun Buir desert) in China have been analyzed. The results show clay with particle sized <10 μm on the surface sediments of dry lakebed and sandy grassland developed from dry lakebed, respectively, account for >60% and ∼50% of the total mass. Since the tiny particles on the surface of abandoned farmland are blown away easily and rapidly, the content of clay particles in Minqin basin is <14%. The grain-size distribution of mobile dunes in northern China mainly consists of particles >63 μm and few particles <10 μm. Consequently, although sand/dust storms originate primarily in the western deserts, the gobi areas of the Alxa plateau, the north and east of Hexi Corridor and in central Mongolia, the widely distributed dry lakebeds, sandy grasslands and abandoned farmland adjacent to the deserts also contribute to aeolian dusts. Hence, the material sources for sand dust storm in East Asia include inland deserts, but also dry lakes, sandy grasslands and abandoned farmland, which are widely distributed throughout the arid inlands of northern China.     

An improved methodology to measure evaporation from bare soil based on comparison of surface temperature with a dry soil surface

Accurate estimation of the resistances to water vapor movement is a major difficulty in evaluating evaporation from soil. By including the temperature of a dry soil surface (the temperature of the surface of a dry soil column buried in the field), a method for estimating evaporation from soil is proposed. The necessary input variables for the suggested method are temperature, net radiation, and soil heat flux. There are three advantages of the proposed method over the conventional methods. First, soil surface resistance and aerodynamic resistance are not required. Second, the variables included are fewer. Third, measurement and analysis of the parameters involved are relatively easy. Sensitivity analysis shows that the suggested method is sensitive to temperatures. Test experiments were conducted in a sandy field, where a weighing lysimeter was installed. Evaporation from soil, together with the variables specified above, were measured. For temperatures measured by thermocouples, experimental results showed that the mean absolute error (MAE) for the daily evaporation over 22 days was 0.17 mm day⁻¹. The regression between calculated and measured evaporation was highly significant (r²=0.89). Moreover, the intercept and slope of the regression equation were not significantly different from zero and unity, respectively, at the 0.05 probability level. Furthermore, by using the temperatures measured by infrared thermometers, the MAE between measured evaporation and estimated evaporation was 0.15 mm day⁻¹. The regression between them was highly significant (r²=0.94). In addition, the intercept and slope of the regression equation were not significantly different from zero and unity, respectively, at the 0.05 probability level. These results show that evaporation calculated using the proposed method is in good agreement with lysimeter measured values. By comparing with the temperature difference method, it was shown that the suggested method estimated soil evaporation more accurately than the temperature difference method. Therefore, it is concluded that the proposed method is not only a simple way for application, but also an accurate way to estimate soil evaporation.     

An Overview on Changes of Dry/Wet Pattern in China in Decadal to Centennial Warm and Cold Periods During the Past Millennium

Revealing the multi-scale variation characteristics of the drought/flood patterns for the past millennium has been a hot spot in climate change research in recent years. It has significance for understanding and predicting the temporal and spatial differences of precipitation changes in the context of future climate warming. Based on publications on the peer-reviewed journals, here, we summarized and compared the combinations between cold/warm periods and dry/wet spatial patterns at multi-scales in China over the past millennium. The main conclusions are: although there are differences in China's dry/wet patterns in different cold and warm periods for the past millennium, the ensemble mean shows that the dry/wet patterns in eastern China in decadal or centennial warm periods are approximately "dry (South China)-wet (middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River)-dry (Huanghuai Area)" from south to north, while in the relatively cold periods it mainly shows a "wet in east and dry in west" pattern. The climate changes from cold to warm usually lead to a drying trend in the Huanghuai Area, and a wetting trend in the Jiangnan area (especially the Yangtze River basin in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces). This shows that the "flood in south and drought in north" pattern in eastern China since the 1970s under the background of global warming may be a re-occurrence of the matching characteristics of cold/warm climate and dry/wet patterns in China for the past millennium. However, from the perspective of the longer-scale cold and warm stages, the dry/wet pattern in China tend to be "dry in the arid and semi-arid areas in western China; wet in southwestern, northern, and northeastern China; and dry in southeastern China" in the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and an opposite pattern shows in the Little Ice Age. It suggests that there are still uncertainties in the current climate reconstructions, and it also shows that the mechanism of dry/wet pattern responding to multi-scale temperature fluctuations might be extremely complicated.     

中国东南部冬季连降水日天气与低纬度及南半球高层环流的关系

分析了１９８４－１９８５年中国东南部连降水日与连晴日天气和低纬度与南半球高层环流间的联系。发出除了散度场有利于连降水日天气外，南支急流区低值系统与连降水日天气也有关。这可从高层经向分布及涡动动、热量分布等环流及低层高度场分布特征证实它们对东亚副热带急流及锋区的加强北移起推动作用。     

一次冷锋过境时引发多种天气现象的成因分析

利用观测数据、雷达产品、ERA5再分析资料对2021年4月15日河北保定一次天气过程进行综合分析，结果表明：(1)天气背景高层干冷，低层有暖脊，整层大气较为干燥。冷锋过境引起地面风力加大，锋面触发干对流后，冷池出流进一步加大了地面风速，湍流加强并出现扬沙。(2)对流云内存在水平弱风区，其径向速度近于0 m/s，弱风区后侧的雷达回波强度呈增加趋势。雷达低仰角0径向速度区的上方有水凝物粒子迅速集中、生长，生长区内径向速度为5～10 m/s，降雹区域上空各仰角均为0径向速度。(3)下击暴流和动量下传引发了干对流大风，降水粒子的蒸发、拖曳作用进一步加剧了气流下沉，其中蒸发作用的贡献更显著。(4)干对流消亡后，锋面东移，锋后西北风减弱，扬沙天气结束，较小的近地层风通量有利于沙尘粒子缓慢下降，地面能见度好转但PM₁₀浓度依然较高。(5)夜间冷空气下沉，上游输送的沙尘粒子随之沉降，造成了浮尘天气。     

20世纪上半叶塔里木河流域夏季干湿的演变特征

利用CRU(Climatic Research Unit)的月Palmer干湿指数资料，研究了1901～1950年塔里木河流域夏季干湿的时空演变特征，结果表明：流域干湿的空间分布为正常或轻微干旱，从西南至东北呈“-+”分布；流域干湿变化的线性趋势从西至东呈“+-+-”分布，整个流域50年变干旱趋势显著，但大部分地区的趋势不显著；变率空间分布为东部正变率和西部负变率；干湿指数在1910之前为正，年际变化较为小，之后，则相反；年代干湿指数值呈年代周期性变化，但干湿等级都为正常。在20世纪0年代后期、10年代中期、30年代初期和40年代初期，流域干湿的年代值与50年均值差异显著。年代线性趋势在20世纪10年代中期至30年代初期，正趋势较多，其余两段时期都为负趋势，年代线性趋势在10年代末期正趋势显著，0年代后期至10年代中期、30年代末期和40年代初负趋势显著。流域变率值在20世纪0年代后期至20年代中期，30年代初期和后期与40年代初期达到显著水平。流域干湿的突变点分别出现在1910年、1919年、1927年和1938年。3.5年和7年是此序列显著周期。本文与之前研究得出的流域干湿总体变化特征相似，而由于数据来源、研究区和研究方法存在不同，两者在具体结果方面存在差异；流域干湿变化与海温变化和大气涛动在不同时期存在显著相关关系。