试论大地热流对地表环境与生态演变的影响

从地表自然生态系统发育与环境演变的一些难解之迷追索到地球内部能量的影响，对比世界各地主要地理单元的大地热流特征与生态环境特征发现，各地生态环境的优劣与区域大地热流的高低有密切的关系。典型森林生态系统的大地热流比较高，而典型荒漠生态系统的大地热流均比较低。大地热流不仅可能影响区域气候的干湿程度，而且还可能决定一个地区地表生态系统能量供给的下限，是区域生态系统发育与演变过程中一个重要的物种限制因子。大地热流低可能是导致一些盆地生态体系发育不良，进而演变成为沙漠的重要原因。研究大地热流对生态环境退化的影响和机理，了解区域生态体系和现代环境格局形成背景，以及区分环境和生态演化中自然和人文因素的作用具有重要意义，同时将为区域环境和生态建设以及管理决策提供科学依据。     

藏南喜马拉雅北坡色龙地区二叠系基性火山岩的发现及其构造意义

藏南喜马拉雅北坡二叠系基性火山岩位于聂拉木县色龙东山。岩石地球化学特征表明,无论是基龙组火山岩还是色龙群火山岩,都具有大陆拉伸-大陆裂谷环境火山岩系的主、微量元素地球化学特征。据此,判断两套基性火山岩的性质和喷发构造环境相同。该区二叠纪大陆拉伸-裂谷火山活动标志着冈瓦纳超级古大陆开始裂离、解体。     

中山站至A冰穹考察及沿线GPS复测结果分析

南极中山站至A冰穹（Dome-A)考察沿线布设有GPS等精度定位点，通过用高精GPS静态定位处理软件GAMIT／GLOBK对三期观测数据的处理可知，考察沿线的GPS点以8－25m/a的速度向西北方向（冰盖边缘方向）流动，越接近冰盖边缘，运动速度赵快，最快达到100m/a；而且冰川整体上以1－5m/^2的加速度流动。同时，由冰盖的流动，引起了垂直方向0－2－1m/a的沉降速度。     

环境地转基本气流的计算及热带气旋运动与其偏差的统计分析

利用国家气象中心T63L16的1.875×1.875经纬网格点资料和中央气象台编号的热带气旋实时中心位置资料,计算了1996年全年25个热带气旋,共126个时次的环境地转基本气流,分析了环境地转基本气流的垂直分布特征,并对热带气旋的实际运动与环境地转引导气流的偏差(后文将称其为引导偏差,即热带气旋的实际中心位置与按引导气流推算出的位置之间的偏差)进行了分析,发现引导气流的计算区域不同,其引导偏差是不一样的。得到了引导气流的最佳计算区域,并且发现热带气旋运动与环境地转基本气流的垂直切变结构的关系以及引导偏差与引导气流的速度、气旋本身的初始纬度位置和强度等有关。结果还表明,200～1000 hPa的深层加权平均的基本气流的引导效果最佳,可作为最佳引导气流使用。了解这些规律和特征,对热带气旋运动预报具有一定的参考意义。     

An Evaluation Of Local Similarity At The Top Of The Mixed Layer Based On Large-Eddy Simulations

Local similarity, referred to as type II similarity,in the interfacial, stably-stratified layer at thetop of the atmospheric (or oceanic) mixed layer isdiscussed. Type II scales for scalars are based onthe local values of scalar gradients. Similaritypredictions are derived from the second-orderclosure model of Yamada and Mellor, and also fromsimilarity arguments. The obtainedformulation is verified for active and passive scalarsbased on the large-eddy simulation model.     

Long internal waves in shear flows: topographic resonance and wave-induced global instability

Issues pertaining to a mechanism whereby long internal waves in shallow seas may give rise to enhanced rates of resuspension of sedimentary material are addressed. The proposed mechanism is intimately related to the creation of conditions in the bottom boundary layer which are favorable for flow separation and spontaneous onset of global instability. It is shown that long waves generated by topographic resonance and propagating upstream against the oncoming current, especially a sheared current, have a strong tendency to release a coherent, pulsating dynamics in their footprint. The passage-through-resonance problem for a sheared, stratified flow is considered, conditions for topographic resonance in the flow model are defined, and preliminary results for the unsteady dynamics in the boundary layer under the footprint of a long wave packet are presented.     

Vortex shedding behind tapered obstacles in neutral & stratified flow

Results of laboratory and numerical experiments on both homogeneous and density-stratified flow over single, bluff obstacles of various shapes are presented. The obstacle height is in most cases of the same order as the base diameter and the major controlling (flow) parameter is the Froude number, defined here as F_h=U/Nh, where U is the (uniform) upstream velocity, h the obstacle height and N is the buoyancy frequency. Attention is concentrated, firstly, on the case of homogeneous flows over rather weakly tapered obstacles and, secondly, for bodies whose height is similar to their base width, on the case F_h=0.1, representing stratification sufficiently strong that lee-wave motions do not play a significant role in the flow dynamics. For right-circular cones it is shown that the sectional contributions to the total fluctuating side force (lift) show significant phase variations up the height of the obstacle, which are not always reflected in the developed vortex street further downstream. For some obstacle shapes, the vortex lines linking the von Karman eddies at different heights can be significantly tilted, particularly in the upper part of the wake. Vortex convection speeds do not appear generally to vary greatly with height and, as found in previous work, the shedding frequency remains constant with height, despite the strong variation of cross-stream obstacle width. By comparison with the homogeneous results, it is suggested that the stratification enhances the shedding instability, which would otherwise be very weak for squat obstacles, but does not annihilate the ability of the flow at one level to influence that at another.     

Thermobaric flow

Simple model flows demonstrating the combined effect of thermobaricity with either salinity variations or nonlinear temperature-dependence in the equation of state of water are investigated. An inviscid flow exhibits a three-layer behaviour, resulting in the formation of a mid-depth temperature maximum, such as is observed in some high-latitude oceans and deep lakes. This may be subsequently overtaken by nonlinear frontogenesis, which in the viscous case is shown to generate a thermal bar. Thermobaricity shifts the thermal bar towards the cold water, and initially produces a slope in the downwelling plume, but this transient feature disappears as the dominant frontogenesis tilts the plume back to the vertical.     

Microhydrodynamics of flotation processes in the sea surface layer

The uppermost surface of the ocean forms a peculiarly important ecosystem, the sea surface microlayer (SML). Comprising the top 1–1000 μm of the ocean surface, the SML concentrates many chemical substances, particularly those that are surface active. Important economically as a nursery for fish eggs and larvae, the SML unfortunately is also especially vulnerable to pollution. Contaminants that settle out from the air, have low solubility, or attach to floatable matter tend to accumulate in the SML.Bubbles contribute prominently to the dynamics of air–sea exchanges, playing an important role in geochemical cycling of material in the upper ocean and SML. In addition to the movement of bubbles, the development of a bubble cloud interrelates with the single particle dynamics of all other bubbles and particles. In the early sixties, several in situ oceanographic techniques revealed an “unbelievably immense” number of coastal bubbles of radius 15–300 μm. The spatial and temporal variation of bubble numbers were studied; acoustical oceanographers now use bubbles as tracers to determine ocean processes near the ocean surface. Sea state and rain noises have both been definitively ascribed to the radiation from huge numbers of infant micro bubbles [The Acoustic Bubble. Academic Press, San Diego].Our research programme aims at constructing a hydrodynamic model for particle transport processes occurring at the microscale, in multi-phase flotation suspensions. Current research addresses bubble and floc microhydrodynamics as building blocks for a microscale transport model. This paper reviews sea surface transport processes in the microlayer and the lower atmosphere, and identifies those amenable to microhydrodynamic modelling and simulation. It presents preliminary simulation results including the multi-body hydrodynamic mobility functions for the modelling of “dynamic bubble filters” and floc suspensions. Hydrodynamic interactions versus spatial anisotropy and size of particle clouds are investigated.     

一个压力坐标下的海洋环流模式

A new oceanic general circulation model in pressure coordinates is formulated. Since the bottom pressure changes with time, the vertical coordinate is actually a pressure-σ coordinate. The numerical solution of the model is based on an energy-conservation scheme of finite difference. The most important new feature of the model is that it is a truly compressible ocean model and it is free of the Boussinesq approxima tions. Thus, the new model is quite different from many existing models in the following ways: 1) the exact form of mass conservation, 2) the in-situ instantaneous pressure and the UNESCO equation of state to calculate density, 3) the in-situ density in the momentum equations, 4) finite difference schemes that conserve the total energy. Initial tests showed that the model code runs smoothly, and it is quite stable. The quasi-steady circulation patterns generated by the new model compare well with existing models, but the time evolution of the new model seems different from some existing models. Thus, the non-Boussinesq models may provide more accurate information for climate study and satellite observations.