Experimental study of long wave generation on sloping bottoms

Low-frequency waves generated on steep (1:10) and mild (1:40) slopes by six series of bichromatic wave groups are studied experimentally. The shorelines for both slopes are replaced by horizontal reaches of small depth. This reduces the reflection of long waves near the shoreline significantly, which for the first time makes possible the explicit observation of outgoing breakpoint forced long waves. The breakpoint and released bound long wave mechanisms on the different slopes are compared. Generally, the breakpoint forced long waves dominate the low-frequency wave field on the steep slope, while the released bound long waves are found to be more significant on the mild slope. Two parameters indexing the effectiveness of the breakpoint mechanism are compared and the normalized slope tends to give more realistic results. Shoaling of bound long waves is analyzed and the shallow-water equilibrium limit ~ h^−5/2 exhibits a good prediction of the variation of the bound long waves on both slopes.     

井中垂直双极源体积分方程法三维模拟研究

类比水平方向电偶极源和垂直方向磁偶极源电磁场求解的原理,又利用偶极沿电流方向积分是双极原理,推导出地下均匀半空间中垂直双极源电场和磁场解析计算公式.采用体积分方程法对井中垂直双极源电磁响应进行了三维模拟.它对提高井中垂直双极源圈定储层范围的精度有着非常重要的意义,同时也为井中垂直双极源三维反演问题奠定了基础.     

近30 年渤海水文和气象状况的长期变化及其相互关系

利用线性回归方法对渤海和北黄海西部沿岸 7个海洋站 1 965— 1 997年实测海洋表层水温和盐度及地面气温和降水等 4个水文气象要素的长期变化趋势作了分析 ,得出渤海在这 32年期间海表温度年变率为 0 .0 1 5℃ /a ,由此推算得出 32年升高 0 .48℃ ;海表盐度年变率为 0 .0 4 2 /a ,32年升高 1 .34;气温年变率为 0 .0 34℃ /a ,32年升高 1 .0 9℃ ;降水年变率为- 2 .73mm/a,32年减少 87mm。这 4个要素之间及其与厄尔尼诺指数之间的超前 /滞后线性回归分析表明 ,海温与气温的年际变化相关关系最密切 ,相关系数达到 76.5 % ,置信度高于0 .99。其次是盐度与降水 ,它们之间亦有良好关系。同年盐度和降水之间的相关系数为- 43.6% ,盐度落后降水一年时相关系数为 - 39.2 % ,置信度均高于 0 .95。由此可推知 ,盐度变化平均落后降水约半年。渤海水文气象状况变化与厄尔尼诺有一定关系 ,其中以降水与厄尔尼诺关系最密切 ,1 982— 1 983年厄尔尼诺期间渤海气温和水温较高 ,降水显著偏少且海水盐度显著偏高。     

基于3S技术的土地利用现状长效管理机制

本文介绍了上海市土地利用现状长效管理机制的构建思路、总体框架,及其发现——调查——处置——反馈机制。最后总结了上海市土地利用现状长效管理机制的作用和效果。     

美国长期生态学研究网络的战略规划——走向综合科学的未来

从2004年11月起至今,美国长期生态学研究网络在美国国家科学基金会的资助下,为未来(几)十年的综合和网络层面研究进行了战略规划.规划的最终目标是形成一个新的长期生态学研究(LTER)网络层面科学计划,并通过1个科学课题组、7个网络科学工作组和一系列研讨会来进行.在制定和完善科学计划的过程中,规划行动获得了LTER网络层面科学的跨学科问题、概念框架、基本科学问题、社会与环境综合科学动议、网络计算机基础设施的战略规划、教育与宣传战略规划等重大科学产出.规划的意义在于它告诉了怎样走向LTER的未来--网络层面综合科学,因而有利于LTER及长期生态研究的发展,并可为CERN等其他长期生态学研究网络的规划与发展提供启示.     

Reconstitution des apports en éléments traces métalliques et bilan de leur migration dans un Luvisol sableux soumis à 100 ans d'irrigation massive par des eaux usées brutes

Raw wastewaters were massively spread on sandy luvisols near Paris from 1899 to 2002, leading to high trace metals (TM) pollution of soils. Mass balance calculations were performed on a soil profile to assess vertical migration of TM. The contamination was estimated by subtracting the natural pedo-geochemical background of the horizons. TM inputs were estimated using Cr as an invariant. It is shown that Pb and Cr remained in the surface horizon, while Ni, Cd, Cu and Zn migrated downward, being more or less trapped depending on the physicochemical properties of the horizons. To cite this article: C. Dère et al., C. R. Geoscience 338 (2006).     

Statistical assessment of trends and oscillations in rainfall dynamics: Analysis of long daily Italian series

Since the 18th century systematic measurements of rainfall have been collected in Italy. The daily rainfall series observed in Milan (1835–2001), Genoa (1833–2000), Bologna (1813–2001) and Palermo (1797–1999) are examples of available long rainfall records. These data series can help analyzing the evolution of precipitation. The present paper deals with long term evolution of: (i) annual rainfall amount; (ii) annual number of rainy events; (iii) intensity of rainfall, (iv) inter-annual rainfall partitioning, i.e. the duration of wet and dry periods, and (v) maximum annual values of daily rainfall amount, duration of wet and dry periods. The evolution is studied analyzing the first two order statistics and the 30-year return period quantiles via moving window analysis. Confidence intervals are introduced to check the statistical significance of the estimated statistics and quantiles. The results are compared with those provided by the traditional Mann-Kendall test. The analysis shows how the annual precipitation exhibits a negative trend in the first half of 20th century, with a subsequent positive trend in northern Italy (Genoa, Milan and Bologna). Conversely, the dataset for Palermo (southern Italy) displays only a negative trend. Because the number of precipitation episodes is found to decrease in the investigated period, the average rain rate is significantly increasing especially in northern Italy. This is also associated with shorter duration of rain episodes with an evident effect on rainfall extremes. Dry periods tend to be longer with increasing variability. The Mann-Kendall test and its progressive form have shown to be well suited for monotonic trend, but the confidence interval analysis, introduced here, is more appropriate if oscillations are significant.     

西陇海兰新经济带节点城市的发展方向与产业分工

西陇海兰新经济带是我国西部大开发战略重点区域“两带一区”的重要组成部分。本文分析了西陇海兰新经济带节点城市发展与布局的总体特征,采用多层次多目标综合测度模型定量评价经济带上全部城市的综合竞争力,并把西安、兰州、乌鲁木齐确定为经济带上的一级节点城市,把咸阳、嘉峪关、宝鸡、酒泉、克拉玛依、哈密、石河子、库尔勒、天水、奎屯共10个城市确定为经济带上的二级节点城市。进而以此为依据,对西陇海兰新经济带各级节点城市进行发展方向定位和产业分工。     

The appearance of Ulva laetevirens (Ulvophyceae,Chlorophyta) in the northeast coast of the United States of America

Introduced species may outcompete or hybridize with native species, resulting in the loss of native biodiversity or even alteration of ecosystem processes. In this study, we reported an alien distromatic Ulva species, which was found in an embayment (Holly Pond) connected with Long Island Sound, USA. The morphological and anatomical observations in combination with molecular data were used for its identification to species. Anatomy of collected specimens showed that the cell shape in rhizoidal and basal regions was round and the marginal teeth along the basal and median region were not found. These characteristics were primarily identical to the diagnostic characteristics of Ulva laetevirens Areschoug (Chlorophyta). The plastid-encoding tufA and nucleusencoding ITS1 were used for its molecular identification. Phylogenetic analysis for the tufA gene placed the specimens from Holly Pond in a well-supported clade along with published sequences of U. laetevirens identified early without any sequence divergence. In ITS tree, the sample also formed well-supported clades with the sequences of U. laetevirens with an estimated sequence divergence among the taxa in these clades as low as 1%. These findings confirmed the morpho-anatomical conclusion. Native to Australia, this species was reported in several countries along the Mediterranean coast after the late of 1990s. This is the first time that U. laetevirens is found in the northeast coast of United States and the second record for Atlantic North America.     

Two-sided long baseline radargrammetry from ascending-descending orbits with application to mapping post-seismic topography in the west Sichuan foreland basin

One-sided ascending or descending Synthetic Aperture Radar（SAR） stereoradargrammetry has limited accuracy of topographic mapping due to the short spatial baseline（-100 km） and small intersection angle. In order to improve the performance and reliability of generating digital elevation model（DEM） from spaceborne SAR radargrammetry, an exploration of two-sided stereoradargrammetry from the combination of ascending and descending orbits with geometric configuration of long spatial baseline（-1000 km） was conducted in this study. The slant-range geometry between SAR sensors to the earth surface and the Doppler positioning equations were employed to establish the stereoscopic intersection model. The measurement uncertainty of two-sided radargrammetric elevation was estimated on the basis of radar parallax of homogeneous points between input SAR images. Two stereo-pairs of ALOS/PALSAR（Advanced Land Observing Satellite/Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar） acquisitions with the orbital separation almost 1080 km over the west Sichuan foreland basin with rolling topography in southwestern China were employed in the study to obtain the up-to-date terrain data after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake that hit this area. Thequantitative accuracy assessment of two-sided radargrammetric DEM was performed with reference to field GPS observations. The experimental results show that the elevation accuracy reaches 5.5 m without ground control points（GCPs） used, and the accuracy is further improved to 1.5 m with only one GPS GCP used as the least constraint. The theoretical analysis and testing results demonstrate that the twosided long baseline SAR radargrammetry from the ascending and descending orbits can be a very promising technical alternative for large-area and high accuracy topographic mapping.