Marine seismics with a pulsed combustion source and Pseudo Noise codes

There has been a long-standing debate concerning how dangerous seismic surveys are with respect to marine life. Marine seismic work today is dominated by airgun technology, where high energy is generated by a release of compressed air into the water. The objective of the “Time coded impulse seismic technique” project is to examine whether a new low energy acoustic source can be used for seismic purposes. If the method turns out to be successful, the low output energy and continuous operation will make the source suitable in environmental sensitive areas. The Low level Acoustic Combustion Source (LACS) is a petrol driven pulsed underwater acoustic source. It operates at a few meters depth, and each shot can be digitally controlled from the surface by a computer located in the mother vessel. A presentation of the recorded LACS signal characteristics, the modulation, the Pseudo Noise coding/decoding principles and field test results, is given. The importance of using an optimized code with fine resolution and of using the near field recording as a correlator sequence is demonstrated. Clear correlation peaks could then be seen from the bottom and sub bottom reflectors.     

利用Direct3D的地形三维快速重建方法

在视口数据检索之后，视口重建效率成为了影响地形数据三维重建和显示速度的主要因素，视口重建与可利用的开发平台资源密切相关。在剖析Direct3D硬件访问方式的基础上，提出了一套完整的DEM快速重建方法。实验结果表明在相同的条件下，基于Direct3D的视口重建具有明显的速度优势。     

Carbon dioxide flux techniques performed during GasEx-98

A comprehensive study of air–sea interactions focused on improving the quantification of CO₂ fluxes and gas transfer velocities was performed within a large open ocean CO₂ sink region in the North Atlantic. This study, GasEx-98, included shipboard measurements of direct covariance CO₂ fluxes, atmospheric CO₂ profiles, atmospheric DMS profiles, water column mass balances of CO₂, and measurements of deliberate SF₆–³He tracers, along with air–sea momentum, heat, and water vapor fluxes. The large air–sea differences in partial pressure of CO₂ caused by a springtime algal bloom provided high signals for accurate CO₂ flux measurements. Measurements were performed over a wind speed range of 1–16 m s⁻¹ during the three-week process study. This first comparison between the novel air-side and more conventional water column measurements of air–sea gas transfer show a general agreement between independent air–sea gas flux techniques. These new advances in open ocean air–sea gas flux measurements demonstrate the progress in the ability to quantify air–sea CO₂ fluxes on short time scales. This capability will help improve the understanding of processes controlling the air–sea fluxes, which in turn will improve our ability to make regional and global CO₂ flux estimates.     

确定震源位置,发震时刻及区域平均波速的最优化方法

本文详细讨论了利用井下和地面观测直达波到时资料联合确定震源位置,发震时刻及区域平均波速的最优化方法,该方法对震源深度及波速的确定给予特别的重视与处理。理论检验和实际算例表明,用该方法编制的程序定位精度高,计算速度快,可以在地层差异小的地区推广应用。     

Spatial Variability of Flow Statistics within Regular Building Arrays

Turbulence statistics obtained by direct numerical simulations are analysed to investigate spatial heterogeneity within regular arrays of building-like cubical obstacles. Two different array layouts are studied, staggered and square, both at a packing density of . The flow statistics analysed are mean streamwise velocity (), shear stress (), turbulent kinetic energy (k) and dispersive stress fraction (). The spatial flow patterns and spatial distribution of these statistics in the two arrays are found to be very different. Local regions of high spatial variability are identified. The overall spatial variances of the statistics are shown to be generally very significant in comparison with their spatial averages within the arrays. Above the arrays the spatial variances as well as dispersive stresses decay rapidly to zero. The heterogeneity is explored further by separately considering six different flow regimes identified within the arrays, described here as: channelling region, constricted region, intersection region, building wake region, canyon region and front-recirculation region. It is found that the flow in the first three regions is relatively homogeneous, but that spatial variances in the latter three regions are large, especially in the building wake and canyon regions. The implication is that, in general, the flow immediately behind (and, to a lesser extent, in front of) a building is much more heterogeneous than elsewhere, even in the relatively dense arrays considered here. Most of the dispersive stress is concentrated in these regions. Considering the experimental difficulties of obtaining enough point measurements to form a representative spatial average, the error incurred by degrading the sampling resolution is investigated. It is found that a good estimate for both area and line averages can be obtained using a relatively small number of strategically located sampling points.     

基于Direct3D的光照机制研究

为增强三维场景的真实感,可通过为场景增加光照来实现。文中在光照应用理论的基础上,通过对Direct3D中光照机制的研究,探讨光照机制对光照效果产生的影响。通过实验提出平坦地面特殊灯光效果应用问题的解决方案,并就方案的运行效果和效率进行分析研究,对Direct3D的开发应用尤其是特殊灯光效果的应用具有一定的参考价值。     

Future impact of anthropogenic sulfate aerosol on North Atlantic climate

We examine the simulated future change of the North Atlantic winter climate influenced by anthropogenic greenhouses gases and sulfate aerosol. Two simulations performed with the climate model ECHAM4/OPYC3 are investigated: a simulation forced by greenhouse gases and a simulation forced by greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol. Only the direct aerosol effect on the clear-sky radiative fluxes is considered. The sulfate aerosol has a significant impact on temperature, radiative quantities, precipitation and atmospheric dynamics. Generally, we find a similar, but weaker future climate response if sulfate aerosol is considered additionally. Due to the induced negative top-of-the-atmosphere radiative forcing, the future warming is attenuated. We find no significant future trends in North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index in both simulations. However, the aerosol seems to have a balancing effect on the occurence of extreme NAO events. The simulated correlation patterns of the NAO index with temperature and precipitation, respectively, agree well with observations up to the present. The extent of the regions influenced by the NAO tends to be reduced under strong greenhouse gas forcing. If sulfate is included and the warming is smaller, this tendency is reversed. Also, the future decrease in baroclinicity is smaller due to the aerosols’ cooling effect and the poleward shift in track density is partly offset. Our findings imply that in simulations where aerosol cooling is neglected, the magnitude of the future warming over the North Atlantic region is overestimated, and correlation patterns differ from those based on the future simulation including aerosols.     

基于人工神经网络的黄河下游枯季径流预测研究

通过分析黄河下游枯季径流的影响因素 ,主要为花园口水文站径流量和下游的引黄量这两个因子 ,花园口水文站径流量和下游的引黄量可作为输入层中的影响因子 ,下游利津站的流量作为输出层。应用多层前向人工神经网络理论 ,构造四套枯季径流实时预测的BP神经网络模型 ,使用花园口—利津水文站 2 6年的完整序列测流资料训练和检验网络并用于预测     

卫星探测辐射率在数值天气预报中的直接应用

该文叙述在数值天气预报中直接应用辐射率而不经过反演的原因，变分法在辐射率直接应用中的作用，以及介绍变分问题计算中的伴随方法。还指出ATOVS辐射率同样可以在NWP中直接应用。最后，介绍业务NWP直接应用辐射率的情况。