Obtaining public support for North-South climate funding: Evidence from conjoint experiments in donor countries

The adoption of the Warsaw mechanism on loss and damage has again highlighted the North-South divide in those parts of UNFCCC negotiations dealing with international climate finance. Current estimates put required funding from rich countries at 50–100 billion Euros per year to induce non-Annex I countries to take on greenhouse gas limitation commitments and to assist highly vulnerable countries. Results from survey-embedded conjoint experiments can help policy-makers anticipate opportunities and pitfalls in designing large-scale climate funding schemes. We implemented such experiments in the United States and Germany to better understand what institutional design characteristics are likely to garner more public support for climate funding among citizens in key developed countries. We find that climate funding receives more public support if it flows to efficient governments, funding decisions are made jointly by donor and recipient countries, funding is used both for mitigation and adaptation, and other donor countries contribute a large share. Contrary to what one might expect, climate change damage levels, income, and emissions in/of potential recipient countries have no significant effect on public support. These findings suggest that finance mechanisms that focus purely on compensating developing countries, without contributing to the global public good of mitigation, will find it hard to garner public support.     

数字摄影测量开放实验室的建设与实践

针对培养创新性人才对高校开放实验室的要求,介绍数字摄影测量实验室的开放形式与管理制度,阐述综合创新性实验设置的特点与具体项目,提出促进实验室社会化发展的一些途径和方法.通过几年的实践表明,实验室开放建设既增强学生的专业实践能力和创新能力,也促进教师的科研与教学能力.     

基于认知风格的遥感导论实验教学体系的建立与实践

从认知风格理论出发,顺应学习者的认知风格差异,建立多层次、一体化的实验教学体系,并从实验教学的内容、过程、环境与考核出发,构建个性化的学习平台,以培养学习者的实践能力与创新精神。     

中职学校工程测量大赛对实践教学的启示

通过对陕西省教育厅举办过的两届中职学校工程测量大赛的结果总结,分析了目前中职学校工程测量教学中存在的问题及形成原因,对产生原因的各个方面进行了探讨,并提出了解决办法。     

Simulated Spatiotemporal Response of Ocean Heat Transport to Freshwater Enhancement in North Atlantic and Associated Mechanisms

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation(AMOC)transports a large amount of heat to northern high latitudes,playing an important role in the global climate change.Investigation of the freshwater perturbation in North Atlantic(NA)has become one of the hot topics in the recent years.In this study,the mechanism and pathway of meridional ocean heat transport(OHT)under the enhanced freshwater input to the northern high latitudes in the Atlantic are investigated by an ocean-sea ice-atmosphere coupled model.The results show that the anomalous OHT in the freshwater experiment(FW)is dominated by the meridional circulation kinetic and ocean thermal processes.In the FW,OHT drops down during the period of weakened AMOC while the upper tropical ocean turns warmer due to the retained NA warm currents.Conversely,OHT recovers as the AMOC recovers,and the mechanism can be generalized as:1)increased ocean heat content in the tropical Southern Ocean during the early integration provides the thermal condition for the recovery of OHT in NA;2)the OHT from the Southern Ocean enters the NA through the equator alongthe deep Ekman layer;3)in NA,the recovery of OHT appears mainly along the isopycnic layers of 24.70-25.77 below the mixing layer.It is then transported into the mixing layer from the "outcropping points"innorthern high latitudes,and finally released to the atmosphere by the ocean-atmosphere heat exchange.     

An experimental study on using MR damper to mitigate longitudinal seismic response of a suspension bridge

In this paper, the seismic response reduction performance of magnetorheological (MR) damper is experimentally investigated for a suspension bridge. First, the force–displacement and force–velocity curves under a range of excitation frequencies, amplitudes and currents are obtained by mechanical behavior test of the RD1097 type MR damper. Then a new non-linear hysteretic model is proposed to model the mechanical behavior of the MR damper and the model parameters are identified from test data. An experimental method, as well as a set of testing setups with the MR damper for longitudinal seismic response reduction of a SDOF generalized system representing the fundamental longitudinal mode of suspension bridge, is developed. Finally, the seismic response reduction experiment subject to three kinds of earthquake excitations, including the Pingsheng Bridge earthquake wave, the El-Centro wave and the Taft wave, is carried out, and nine control cases, including uncontrolled, six passive control schemes with different input currents and two semi-active Bang–Bang control schemes, are tested. The results verify that the seismic response reduction experimental method is feasible and the good performance of seismic longitudinal response reduction of the suspension bridge can be achieved by MR damper. It is also shown that the passive control with optimum input current outperforms the semi-active Bang–Bang controls.     

Sorption of ortho‐Phenylphenol to Soils

Conflicting sorption coefficients for ortho‐phenylphenol (OPP) have been reported in the literatures, which resulted in the conflicting assessments on OPP mobility in soil. To ascertain the sorption coefficient of OPP, batch experiments were performed based on OECD guideline 106, using three types of soils. Headspace solid‐phase microextraction (HS‐SPME) and GC‐MS were applied to the determination of OPP concentration in the liquid phase. The sorption isotherms obtained for all three soils under equilibrium conditions were described well, assuming linear sorption. The organic carbon normalized distribution coefficients (K_oc) ranged from 894 to 1703 L kg^?1, which suggested that OPP is moderately mobile in soil. The results also showed that the K_oc value of OPP can be predicted precisely from K_ow, whereas it was underestimated by one order of magnitude when water solubility is used.     

Phytoremediation of heavy metal‐contaminated water and sediment by Eleocharis acicularis

Phytoremediation is an environmental remediation technique that takes advantage of plant physiology and metabolism. The unique property of heavy metal hyperaccumulation by the macrophyte Eleocharis acicularis is of great significance in the phytoremediation of water and sediments contaminated by heavy metals at mine sites. In this study, a field cultivation experiment was performed to examine the applicability of E. acicularis to the remediation of water contaminated by heavy metals. The highest concentrations of heavy metals in the shoots of E. acicularis were 20 200 mg Cu/kg, 14 200 mg Zn/kg, 1740 mg As/kg, 894 mg Pb/kg, and 239 mg Cd/kg. The concentrations of Cu, Zn, As, Cd, and Pb in the shoots correlate with their concentrations in the soil in a log‐linear fashion. The bioconcentration factor for these elements decreases log‐linearly with increasing concentration in the soil. The results indicate the ability of E. acicularis to hyperaccumulate Cu, Zn, As, and Cd under natural conditions, making it a good candidate species for the phytoremediation of water contaminated by heavy metals.     

姬塬地区低渗砂岩储层微观非均质性表征

为表征鄂尔多斯盆地低渗储层的微观非均质性,采用铸体薄片、扫描电镜、压汞等测试手段,研究姬塬地区低渗砂岩储层微观非均质性特征及影响因素,并结合多参数模糊聚类分析,将储层微观非均质性划分为较弱、中等和较强3类.通过真实砂岩模型水驱油实验,刻画了3类不同非均质程度模型的流体运动及水驱前缘形态的差异性.室内测试分析研究、地质学定量统计分类及真实砂岩模型水驱油实验相结合的综合研究方法,真实反映低渗储层微观非均质性,对同类储层研究具借鉴意义.     

HS-Ⅱ型岩土层含水量自动监测仪的研究与应用

为监测岩土层含水量的变化,预警地质灾害,中国地质科学院探矿工艺研究所研制了HS-Ⅱ型自动监测仪.本文介绍监测仪的电容式水分传感技术、构成、原理和施工方法及其应用实验.监测仪对实验区进行的多点分层测试表明,该仪器监测数据可靠,工作正常,符合自动化和实时化的监测技术要求.