Inserting scales of urban politics: the possibilities of meso-urban governance shims

This article explores the geographic literature on governance at smaller-than-urban but larger-than-household scales, identifying a relative inattention to neighborhood and other partial-city scales of governance. Hegemonic power relationships are institutionalized at particular scales of state government (e.g. national, regional, municipal) and state-sanctioned governing units (e.g. jurisdictional districts or supranational bodies), which in turn shapes urban research. We propose a new analytical term, governance shims, to describe the insertion of new scales of governance between those already reified and reproduced; institutions at such scales may be unusually grounded in authority beyond the state. Geographers seem well positioned to explore the characteristics of governance shims at the meso-urban scale. We illustrate this by briefly tracing how common interest communities (CICs), housing cooperatives, and community land trusts (CLTs) might be analyzed through a shims approach. Provocatively, emergent governance at the meso-urban scale often leverages idiosyncratic structures of property ownership to produce institutional authority.     

卫星摄影姿态测定系统低频误差补偿

姿态测定系统不仅存在高频误差,还存在与卫星轨道纬度及时间有关的低频误差,严重影响无地面控制点测量精度。本文分析了产生低频误差的因素及相关解决措施,并在天绘一号(TH-1)卫星工程中,利用光束法平差实现低频误差的自动检测与补偿处理,消除低频误差对定位精度的影响,最后进行了试验验证。试验结果表明:低频误差补偿技术,很好地解决了无地面控制定位系统误差问题,为实现天绘一号卫星全球定位精度的一致性发挥了重要作用。     

GNSS卫星地影的一体化建模方法和星蚀参数计算

基于日地关系建立地影模型,利用数值法可以高精度计算单个卫星的地影参数,但是难以快速而全面地分析某一类卫星的地影参数变化和分布规律。本文从日、地和卫星三者的几何关系出发,提出了一种基于空间视场的卫星地影直接建模方法。首先,分别利用轨道半长轴和太阳的周年视运动确定卫星地影的大小和位置变化;其次,基于球面几何分析法推导了卫星地影参数的计算公式以及扁率摄动等对长期预报的影响改正公式。对北斗混合星座中3类卫星的地影参数分析试验表明,卫星地影模型和地影参数解析法能够快速获得中高轨近圆轨道类型的星蚀规律信息。     

利用阴影指数和方位搜索法检测Landsat 8 OLI影像中云影

Landsat 8 OLI影像已成为重要的数据源,但受云及云影的影响较大,降低了数据的可用性,因此,快速识别云及云影,为后续的数据恢复有着积极的应用价值。通过构建云指数(CI)、归一化暗像元指数(NDPI)和比值阴影指数(RSI),采用阈值法和方位角搜索法,以两景Landsat 8 OLI影像(一景试验影像,另一景验证影像)为例进行云及云影检测。每类随机选取200个样点进行精度分析,结果表明:CI可快速区分OLI影像中的云区与非云区,厚云样本点正确识别率达到99%;NDPI与归一化植被指数(NDVI)构建的比值阴影指数RSI放大了水体、云影与其他阴影间的差异,更便于区分;方位搜索合理设置搜索方位角和搜索距离,简化了云影与云的相对关系模型,可准确区分水体与云影,两者的正确识别率都超过93%,弥补了阈值法的局限性。本方法可行快捷,为OLI影像的后续应用提供了基础,可有效提高其利用精度。     

一种陆地卫星影像厚云阴影检测方法

针对现有的遥感影像厚云阴影监测方法存在过程复杂、精度不高等问题,该文提出一种TM影像厚云阴影检测方法:通过阈值分割提取影像中的所有阴影;对比一幅近时相的无云影像,分离出厚云的阴影,即云阴影为"有云"影像比"无云"影像多出的阴影;最后将提取结果与人机交互、云阴影增强模型法提取的结果进行对比分析。实验结果表明该方法提取精度较高,可以快速、准确地提取TM影像中的厚云阴影。     

两种低频信息的关联和形成差异的原因

在变振幅的数据分析中 ,低频信号可以反映在低频分析结果中 ,也可以体现在高频信号的振幅变化中。本文将其分别称为滤波低频信号和变幅低频信号。两种低频信号有很好的相关性 ,也存在明显差别。研究结果表明 ,滤波低频信号反映了过程整体性的上升或下降 ,变幅低频信号反映了极大值与极小值之间差异的缩小或加大。两种低频信号的差异多源于原始信号极大值与极小值变化过程之间的关系。在本文的例子中 ,冬季气温变化占优势时两种低频信号的滑动相关系数为正值 ;夏季气温变化占优势是导致两种低频信号差异的根本原因 ,在物理上表现为一定发生了强大的异常过程 ,打破了气温正常变化的秩序。大连站的气温变化主要受制于北方的冷空气过程 ,但当厄尔尼诺事件发生时 ,热带的暖过程大大加强 ,导致两种低频信号发生明显的差异。从 1965～ 2 0 0 3年 ,滑动相关系数共出现 6次负时段 ,都对应着厄尔尼诺事件。因此 ,在低频过程的研究中 ,需要用滤波低频信号研究整体性的低频变化。但是 ,在希望获取导致整体变化的主要成分时需要使用变幅低频信号。另外 ,在揭示异常过程时需要用滑动相关系数来发现两种低频信号的差异 ,提取异常信息。     

A Study of the Characteristics of the Low-Frequency Circulation over the Tibetan Plateau and its Association with Precipitation in the Yangtze River Valley in 1998

The propagation characteristics of the atmospheric low frequency (LF, 30--60 days) oscillation (LFO) around the Tibetan Plateau from troposphere to stratosphere and its relationship with the floods over the mid-lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the summer of 1998 are studied, based on the GAME dataset from Meteorological Research Institute (MRI)/Japan Meteorological Agency, the TRMM satellite rainfall and the 730-station precipitation over China. The results show that the zonal propagation direction of LFOs in horizontal winds varies with seasons in the troposphere during May to August in 1998. The eastward propagation of LFOs is remarkable before the start of the rainy season in the Tibetan Plateau and the eastern Asian continent, while the westward propagation is significant after the start date. The northward LFOs from the south side of the plateau and the southward LFOs from the north are both significant before and after the start date. The plateau is a LFO sink in the meridional and zonal directions, but the west part of it is an intensifying area for the continual westward LFOs only after the start of the rainy season. Besides, the strongest LFOs occur at the tropopause (100 hPa) and rapidly decay after entering the stratosphere. The rainfall over the mid-low reaches of Yangtze River in the summer of 1998 exhibits two LFO cycles. According to the phases of the two rainfall LFO cycles, the composite analysesof precipitation distribution, LF circulations at 500 and 100 hPa,and LF vertical motion along 30°N are performed. It is the joint effect of the mid-upper tropospheric strong 30--60-day filtered cyclone (anticyclone) over the eastern plateau and the LFO anticyclone (cyclone) over the west subtropical Pacific that induces the whole layer LF descending (ascending) motion over the mid-lower reaches of Yangtze River, which provides the favorable condition for the break (maintenance) of precipitation.     

CLIMATOLOGICAL LOW-FREQUENCY OSCILLATION OF OLR OVER THE MARITIME CONTINENT WITH ITS POSSIBLE LINKAGE TO SUMMER PRECIPITATION IN CHINA

Using the 1979-2009 NCEP/NACR reanalysis data and precipitation records in East China, research is performed of the climatological features of low-frequency oscillation (LFO) in OLR over the Maritime Continent (MC) as well as their associations with precipitation disturbance in the eastern part of China. Results suggest that in the MC there is significant climatological low-frequency oscillation (CLFO) in outgoing long-wave radiation (OLR), with the intraseasonal oscillation (30-60 days) being the strongest for April-September, and the MC acting as a high-value region of percentage contributions of low-frequency OLR variance. On the low-frequency time scale there occur four events of more intense active OLR during this time interval. In the January-April (May-August) phase, MC convection is relatively weak (vigorous). The CLFO makes pronounced eastward displacement at tropics, with phase propagation seen longitudinally, too. There occur low-frequency disturbance circulations similar to the EAP wavetrain or P-J teleconnection, starting from the MC via the South China Sea and the Philippines to the Yangtze valley of China. At different phases, the variation in the low-frequency circulations and heating fields shows that the rainfall disturbance in eastern China is likely to be under possible effects of the CLFO from the MC in April-September, and the low-frequency heating variation exhibits a meridional pattern as an EAP wavetrain or P-J teleconnection. As the OLR CLFO is in a peak (valley) phase the low-level divergence or convergence with the reversal at high levels over the MC is related to relatively feeble (robust) low frequency convection, thereby exciting an EAP or P-J wavetrain from the MC to the Sea of Japan. At the higher levels, the South-Asian high is eastward (westward) of normal due to effects of low-frequency cyclones (anticyclones), resulting in less (more) rainfall in the Jiangnan (areas in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze and to the south of the river) and Hetao (the Great Bend of Yellow River) areas, and increased (decreased) rainfall in SW China, Qinghai Plateau and Gansu. At the conversion phases, low-frequency convection becomes more active in parts of the MC, consequently exciting low-frequency wavetrain of cyclones-anticyclones-cyclones at low levels, making the South-Asian high southward of the mean, so that strong convergent zones emerge in the upper and middle Yangtze basins and Jilin of NE China, responsible for plentiful precipitation there in sharp contrast to the rainfall over the band between the Yellow and Huaihe Rivers and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. These results help understand in depth the climatological LFO characteristics and the phase-locked feature, thereby further improving our understanding of the causes of rainfall disturbances in different parts of the country.     

喀斯特地貌SAR影像多级配准方法

文章针对现有SAR影像配准方法对喀斯特地貌低相干区域配准的局限性,在阴影区域提取的基础上提出一种SAR影像多级配准方法。通过对喀斯特地貌阴影区域的分析,逐级提取阴影区域质点和位于山峰位置的高相干点作为特征点。在进行像元级和亚像元级的配准时分别采用几何特征参数和相干系数作为自动配准的测度。实验验证了喀斯特地貌SAR影像采用此方法进行配准的可行性,配准精度有所提高。     

SST THERMAL FORCING – A DISCUSSION ON THE MECHANISM OF ATMOSPHERIC LOW-FREQUENCY OSCILLATION

Dynamic and numerical methods are used to discuss the atmospheric response to SST thermal forcing. The results show that for planetary scale systems, the standing SST thermal forcing can quickly excite a stable atmospheric equilibrium state response, which is characterized by obvious large-scale teleconnection oscillation in east-west and south-north directions. For synoptic scale systems, the SST thermal forcing mainly excites the atmospheric low-frequency oscillation. Some basic relation and dynamic processes between SST thermal forcing and atmospheric response pattern are revealed and some new viewpoints are presented.