Using the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis as weather input data for watershed models

Obtaining representative meteorological data for watershed‐scale hydrological modelling can be difficult and time consuming. Land‐based weather stations do not always adequately represent the weather occurring over a watershed, because they can be far from the watershed of interest and can have gaps in their data series, or recent data are not available. This study presents a method for using the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) global meteorological dataset to obtain historical weather data and demonstrates the application to modelling five watersheds representing different hydroclimate regimes. CFSR data are available globally for each hour since 1979 at a 38‐km resolution. Results show that utilizing the CFSR precipitation and temperature data to force a watershed model provides stream discharge simulations that are as good as or better than models forced using traditional weather gauging stations, especially when stations are more than 10 km from the watershed. These results further demonstrate that adding CFSR data to the suite of watershed modelling tools provides new opportunities for meeting the challenges of modelling un‐gauged watersheds and advancing real‐time hydrological modelling. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

成都气象数据库监控系统的设计与实现

本文介绍了民航西南地区空中交通管理局气象中心数据库室在长期的设备维护过程中,根据自身的工作经验,设计和实现的气象数据库监控系统。这套系统的设计目的是为了减轻数据库系统维护人员的工作压力,让维护人员能够第一时间发现系统隐患或问题。本系统在VS2008下用C#语言进行实现,并同时结合面向对象的编程理念和采用了多线程技术。      

Enhancing remote sensing research on global change to improve our understanding on Earth system processes

正Global Change includes climate change and other environmental changes caused by the joint interaction among various layers of Earth. From the positive side, global change provides new opportunities to human and other living forms on Earth. In the meantime, it creates tremendous challenges and negative impact. At present, the negative impacts have reached all primary processes of the global ecosystem and every aspect of human society, especially causing degradation of the ecosystem. For instance, intensive deforestation causes decline of biodiversity; global warming causes sea level rise and increases     

电视气象科普片的结构设计

将电视节目结构设计理论与实际工作相结合,分析目前国内电视气象科普片在结构设计方面的不足,并提出一些比较实用的设计思路。     

A primary study of the variations of vertical radiation with the Beijing 325-m Meteorological Tower

The Beijing 325-m Meteorological Tower (325MT) is used to observe the vertical variation of solar radiation. Results of the experiments indicate that the automatic radiation monitoring system, including a sun tracker and data collection system, works well and all the specifications meet WMO observation standards. The measurement data show that there is a significant radiation decrease from 320m to the surface, where the difference is only about 30Wm^-2 on light air-pollution days, while the maximum reaches about 110Wm^-2 when heavy pollution appears near the ground. The global UV radiation decreases on heavy air-pollution days and under poor visibility conditions, and the difference between 300m and 8m is larger than on clear days.     

破坏性地震短期临震预测的一个有效方法--关于短期临震气象要素五项指标异常

为探索Ms≥5．0级破坏性地震的短期临震预测问题,作者从1973年起潜心研究此问题,并于1975年5月正式提出：在震前一个月之内,将会出现日平均气压、日平均气温、日最高气温,日最低气温和日降水量五项指标的异常,这是从气象要素上表现出来的短期前兆异常,这是孕震过程中的短期临震气象效应表现。在唐山7．8级大地震发生前的关键时刻,1976年7月中旬和下旬初,作者依据旱震关系和短期气象要素五项指标异常,积极推动并参与了北京市地震队七大异常的震情告急活动。事实表明：在唐山Ms7．8级地震短期临震告急和宁河Ms6．9级地震短期临震预报上,气象要素五指标异常,经受住了短期临震预报实践的检验。     

热红外极轨卫星地震监测系统综合技术研究

以2003年架设的NOAA／FY极轨卫星数据地面接收站为基础,针对NOAA系列卫星．采用分布式处理方案,设计并建立了地震热红外卫星监测业务运行系统。系统主要功能包括：卫星数据的接收、处理、归档、查询、发布;自动生成全国夜晚地表亮温图像、全国白天彩色合成图像、全国每旬无云地表亮温图像等专题数据库产品;对任意选定的监测区进行热红外亮温动态跟踪和异常警示;实现了直观的无人值守的准实时自动化处理以及远程管理和数据检索。通过对地震热红外卫星监测业务运行系统的研究和开发,在数据标定、辐射校正、图像预处理、专题产品的生成与管理等方面取得了宝贵的经验,为我国地震卫星地面数据接收、处理系统的建立奠定了基础。     

Predation and intertidal zonation of barnacles at Leigh,New Zealand

Experiments using cages at four shore levels were carried out to determine the part played by the feeding of the gastropods Neothais scalaris and Lepsiella scobina on the zonation of three species of intertidal barnacles: Chamaesipho brunnea, C. columna, and Epopella plicata. The lower limit of the two larger barnacle species was determined by predation, but C. columna was affected only in the absence of the other two barnacles.     

The Concept and Development of Smart Structures Technologies for Long-span Cable-supported Bridges

This article presents an overview of smart structures technologies in connection with long-span cable-supported bridges. Considering the broad scope of the smart structures technologies, two subareas, namely, structural health monitoring and structural control technologies, and their applications in long-span cable supported bridges, are identified as the focus of this review. It is believed that by, adopting the smart structures technologies, reliable operation and hazard management of long-span bridges can be achieved much more efficiently and can be made economically feasible, especially for bridges located at sites with high risks of severe natural hazardous events, such as those facing the bridges of the Taiwan Strait Crossing project. The feasibility of and practical issues in implementing the smart structures technologies in the design and construction of long-span cable-supported bridges are also discussed here. Considering the time span of the construction of the Taiwan Strait Crossing, some of the innovative technologies with a high potential for future long-span bridge applications, while still at the stage of exploratory research at the time of writing, are also examined as it is believed these technologies might have become prevalent by the completion time of the Taiwan Strait Crossing project.     

基于DEM的中国陆地多年平均温度插值方法

以1961~2000年全国726个气象站点旬平均温度为基础数据,在分析了多年月平均温度和年平均温度的空间分布与经度、纬度、高度的内在关系后,提出了一种基于DEM和智能搜索距离的温度空间插值方法(SSI),并与反距离平方(IDS) 等传统方法进行了对比。交叉验证结果表明:1) 传统的IDS方法最优结果的MAE范围是1.44 oC~1.63 oC,平均1.510C;而SSI温度插值方法的平均绝对误差为0.53 oC~0.92 oC,平均值0.69 oC,精度超过IDS等方法一倍以上。2) 随着距离的增大,站点间温度的相关性逐渐降低,会降低估算精度;小于一定的搜索半径,被估算点周围的相邻站点的数目逐渐减少,同样会降低插值的精度,因而对中国陆地部分温度插值而言,最优的空间插值搜索半径介于150~250 km之间。最后,结合DEM数据,生成了0.1o ×0.1o中国陆地区域多年月平均和年平均温度栅格图像数据集,该结果表明:利用SSI方法不仅可以生成高精度、高空间分辨率的网格温度结果,而且其插值结果能客观细致的反映温度随经度、纬度和高度梯度变化的地带性特征。