Analysis of Difference Between Direct and Geodetic Mass Balance Measurements at South Cascade Glacier, Washington

Net mass balance has been measured since 1958 at South Cascade Glacier using the 'direct method,' e.g. area averages of snow gain and firn and ice loss at stakes. Analysis of cartographic vertical photography has allowed measurement of mass balance using the 'geodetic method' in 1970, 1975, 1977, 1979–80, and 1985–97. Water equivalent change as measured by these nearly independent methods should give similar results. During 1970–97, the direct method shows a cumulative balance of about −15 m, and the geodetic method shows a cumulative balance of about −22 m. The deviation between the two methods is fairly consistent, suggesting no gross errors in either, but rather a cumulative systematic error. It is suspected that the cumulative error is in the direct method because the geodetic method is based on a non-changing reference, the bedrock control, whereas the direct method is measured with reference to only the previous year's summer surface. Possible sources of mass loss that are missing from the direct method are basal melt, internal melt, and ablation on crevasse walls. Possible systematic measurement errors include under-estimation of the density of lost material, sinking stakes, or poorly represented areas.     

Measurement and Estimative Models of Glacier Mass Balance in China

Attributed to high altitude and inland location, the glaciers in China are characterized by very low temperature. The non-negligible contribution of up to 25% of superimposed ice to the net balance has been taken into account in the mass budget calculation. So too has the internal the accumulation in the infiltration zone of the accumulation area.
The prevailing monsoon climate delivers most of the annual precipitation over glaciated areas of China in the summer, making the major accumulation on those glaciers coincide with the ablation period. Therefore, the annual mass balance should be calculated neither by giving the place of annual accumulation to winter balance, nor annual ablation to summer balance. Rather, it is better done by net accumulation and net ablation during the year. In order to get the annual accumulation and the annual ablation on a glacier, the summer precipitation should be measured at the same time.
Frequent snowfall in the summer season results in intensive fluctuation of surface albedo. This means that, for lack of data on the extremes of ablation, reconstruction of mass balance is unsatisfactory when based on the relationships of accumulation and ablation to precipitation and temperature. The establishment of models, either on the relationship of multi-year mass balance to the equilibrium line and the mass balance gradient of a glacier in steady-state, or on the maximum entropy principle and the hydrometeorological data, helps to estimate the multi-year mass balance of the glacierized area in a mountain range or drainage basin.     

银河系化学演化研究进展

银河系的形成与演化是天体物理学研究的重大前沿课题,银河系的化学演化在其中更具有极其重要的地位。随着观测资料的不断积累和理论工作的不断深入,银河系化学演化的研究取得了一系列进展。在观测方面,从太阳附近区域,整个银盘,银晕和核球等方面简要回顾了银河系化学演化模型主要观测约束的近期结果;在化学演化模型方面,回顾了银河系化学演化研究的发展历程和近期进展,并对未来的研究进行了展望。     

超新星爆发与暗晕中重子物质的丢失

讨论了在以冷暗物质为主的宇宙中,超新星爆发对矮星系演化的反馈作用。建立了星系的质量丢失模型,提出了理论模型与观测进行比较的方法。对数值计算结果的理论分析表明,当星系外围存在一个暗物质晕时,由超新星爆发引起的质量丢失虽然受到了极大的限制,却不像人们预期的那么困难。如果假定星系的形成红移为ｚ＝２～８,那么,在所选取的参数范围内,理论计算和观测结果是相符合的。这种定性上的符合显示出,星系的质量越小,它们就形成得越早．     

台风移动规律的研究 Ⅰ.非绝热加热与水平温度分布的影响

根据大气运动原始方程组导出一个支配台风中心移动的基本方程。方程中包括了非绝热加热、温度场分布、地形与摩擦等各种可能影响台风移动的强迫因子。对非绝热加热与水平温度分布的作用所作分析表明,非轴对称的非绝热引导作用可使台风加速、减速或转向运动;温度场上的冷区对台风有吸引作用。      

世界内生磷矿地质及成矿规律

内生磷灰石型矿床在世界磷矿工业中的地位不断上升。世界内生磷矿可划分为超基性-碱性-碳酸岩类(占内生磷矿储量的90％以上,又分超基性-碱性-碳酸岩型、碱性-碳酸岩型、超基性-碱性岩型、超基性-碳酸岩型、碳酸岩型、碱性岩型六亚类),基性岩与超基性岩类,其它类等三大类。各类矿床主要岩石类型,矿物组合,岩体形态、产状、结构,矿体与矿石及其主要产地、大地构造位置等都各具特色。以成矿理论与成矿规律为指导,通过地、物、化、遥综合手段找矿将取得事半功倍的效果。     

兼顾主要元素和微量元素的部分熔融模拟计算方法及应用

本文提出了用线性约束条件下的非线性最优化方法,同时拟合部分溶融过程中的主要和微量元素;通过对新疆东天山某些花岗岩类成因的实际模拟计算,取得了良好效果;此方法解决了以往单纯考虑微量元素时难以解决的源岩矿物发生反应、残留相矿物含量难以确定等困难,赋予部分熔融程度更为实际的意义。     

煤层瓦斯流动方程补正

瓦斯流动方程是煤层瓦斯流动理论的基石,它反映了煤层内瓦斯流动的机理。本文在达西定律基础上,修正了一类煤层瓦斯流动方程。