海州湾表层沉积物粒度的空间变异特征

在海州湾海域采集了表层沉积物60个,经实验室分析获得了各采样点不同粒级组分的质量分数,在此基础上运用地统计学方法分析了砂、粉砂和黏粒三组分的空间变异特征,并利用Kriging插值方法绘制了相应的沉积物分布图。结果表明,海州湾表层沉积物中砂和黏粒组分均具有较强的空间自相关性,其空间自相关距离分别达到15 km和28 km,而粉砂则具有中等的空间自相关性,自相关距离在12 km左右;在大于9 km的尺度上,3种粒级沉积物的空间变异性表现出明显的各向异性特征。制图结果表明,研究海域沉积物的总体组成状况是北部偏砂、南部偏黏、中部以粉沙为主。研究结果对连云港航道疏浚、整治及近海水产养殖规划等工作具有一定指导意义。     

全球变暖趋缓背景下辽宁夏季降水变化及水汽输送特征

利用中国气象数据网提供的中国地面气候资料日值数据集(V3.0)中的降水数据以及ERA-Interim逐月再分析资料对全球变暖趋缓背景下(1998年后)辽宁夏季降水变化特征及水汽输送对其的影响进行研究.结果表明:全球增暖减缓背景下,辽宁夏季降水量存在一定的增加趋势,但趋势较弱,其中辽宁南部降水的增加趋势较其他地区显著,对...     

费尔干纳盆地1950-2019年降水时空变化及其影响机制

基于1950-2019年费尔干纳盆地降水格点数据,利用线性回归法和经验正交函数（EOF）分析等方法,探究了费尔干纳盆地降水年际变化的影响因素及其空间分布模态,并研究了降水时空变化后的大尺度环流影响因素。结果显示：（1）1950-2019年,费尔干纳盆地降水总体呈下降趋势,为-2.20mm/10a,但并未通过显著性检验,同时对单个月份的降水进行检验也都未发现明显趋势。（2）费尔干纳盆地降水的主要模态有两个,解释了全区降水变化的70.52%,第一模态解释了全区降水变化的59.90%,空间向量场呈现全区一致型,表征研究区整体的降水变化情况,受到ENSO和西风带的影响;第二模态解释了全区降水变化的10.62%,空间向量场表现出从西北到东南的空间反相模态,表征研究区降水空间异质性,受到欧亚大陆北部输送的水汽影响。（3）厄尔尼诺/南方涛动（ENSO）事件通过调整水汽输送路径和季风环流模式影响了费尔干纳盆地的降水变化;来自欧亚大陆北部的气流是造成费尔干纳盆地降水空间格局差异的主要原因。     

Year‐round estimation of soil moisture content using temporally variable soil hydraulic parameters

Soil moisture plays a key role in the hydrological cycle as it controls the flux of water between soil, vegetation, and atmosphere. This study is focused on a year‐round estimation of soil moisture in a forested mountain area using the bucket model approach. For this purpose, three different soil moisture models are utilised. The procedure is based on splitting the whole year into two complement periods (dormant and vegetation). Model parameters are allowed to vary between the two periods and also from year to year in the calibration procedure. Consequently, two sets of average model parameters corresponding to dormant and vegetation seasons are proposed. The process of splitting is strongly supported by the experimental data, and it enables us to variate saturated hydraulic conductivity and pore‐size characterisation. The use of the two different parameter sets significantly enhances the simulation of two (Teuling and Troch model and soil water balance model‐green–ampt [SWBM‐GA]) out of three models in the 6‐year period from 2009 to 2014. For these two models, the overall Nash‐Sutcliffe coefficient increased from 0.64 to 0.79 and from 0.55 to 0.80. The third model (the Laio approach) proved to be insensitive to parameter changes due to its insufficient drainage prediction. The variability of the warm and cold parameter sets between particular years is more pronounced in the warm periods. The cold periods exhibited approximately similar character during all 6 years.     

Alteration of hydrologic indicators for Korean catchments under CMIP5 climate projections

The change of hydrological regimes may cause impacts on human and natural system. Therefore, investigation of hydrologic alteration induced by climate change is essential for preparing timely proper adaptation to the changes. This study employed 24 climate projections from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) under Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 scenario. The climate projections were downscaled at a station‐spacing for seven Korean catchments by a statistical downscaling method that preserves a long‐term trend in climate projections. Using an ensemble of future hydrologic projections simulated by three conceptual rainfall‐runoff models (GR4J, IHACRES, and Sacramento models), we calculated Hydrologic Alteration Factors (HAFs) to investigate degrees of variations in Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHAs) derived from the hydrologic projections. The results showed that the seven catchments had similar trend in terms of the HAFs for the 24 IHAs. Given that more frequent severe floods and droughts were projected over Korean catchments, sound water supply strategies are definitely required to adapt to the alteration of streamflow. A wide range of HAFs between rainfall‐runoff models for each catchment was detected by large variations in the magnitude of HAFs with the hydrologic models and the difference could be the hydrologic prediction uncertainty. There were no‐consistent tendency in the order of HAFs between the hydrologic models. In addition, we found that the alterations of hydrologic regimes by climate change are smaller as the size of catchment is larger. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Further results on the line-profile variability of WR 134

We discuss a few conclusions previously derived from the analysis of the lineprofile variability of the Wolf-Rayet star WR 134; some details are made more explicit. In addition, we present a new set of data and briefly comment on recent results deduced from its analysis.     

Searching for multifractal scaling in gamma ray burst time series

We present a multifractal analysis of GRB time series used to quantify the variability of the light curve. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of multifractal analysis, including sensitivity to noise, and burst intensity, and present results for a few sample bursts.     

Interannual variability of the southern Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass

Temperature data collected in the sections of 34°N, 35°N and 36°N in August from 1975 through 2003 were analyzed using Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) to investigate interannual variability of the southern Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass (YSCWM). The first mode (EOF1) reveals variations of basin-wide thermocline depth, which is mainly caused by surface heating. The second mode (EOF2) presents fluctuations of vertical circulation, resulting mainly from interannual variability of cold front intensity. In addition, it is found that the upward extent of upwelling in the cold front is basically determined by wind stress curl and the zonal position of the warm water center in the southern Yellow Sea is correlated with spatial difference of net heat flux.