Processing of oxidised nitrogen compounds by passage through winter-time orographic cloud

Four case studies are described, from a three-site field experiment in October/November 1991 using the Great Dun Fell flow-through reactor hill cap cloud in rural Northern England. Measurements of total odd-nitrogen nitrogen oxides (NO _y ) made on either side of the hill, before and after the air flowed through the cloud, showed that 10 to 50% of the NO _y , called NO _z , was neither NO nor NO₂. This NO _z failed to exhibit a diurnal variation and was often higher after passage through cloud than before. No evidence of conversion of NO _z to NO₃ ^- in cloud was found. A simple box model of gas-phase chemistry in air before it reached the cloud, including scavenging of NO₃ and N₂O₅ by aerosol of surface area proportional to the NO₂ mixing ratio, shows that NO₃ and N₂O₅ may build up in the boundary layer by night only if stable stratification insulates the air from emissions of NO. This may explain the lack of evidence for N₂O₅ forming NO₃ ^- in cloud under well-mixed conditions in 1991, in contrast with observations under stably stratified conditions during previous experiments when evidence of N₂O₅ was found. Inside the cloud, some variations in the calculated total atmospheric loading of HNO₂ and the cloud liquid water content were related to each other. Also, indications of conversion of NO _x to NO _z were found. To explain these observations, scavenging of NO _x and HNO₂ by cloud droplets and/or aqueous-phase oxidation of NO₂ ^- by nitrate radicals are considered. When cloud acidity was being produced by aqueous-phase oxidation of NO _x or SO₂, NO₃ ^- which had entered the cloud as aerosol particles was liberated as HNO₃ vapour. When no aqueous-phase production of acidity was occurring, the reverse, conversion of scavenged HNO₃ to particulate NO₃ ^-, was observed.     

菏泽5.9级地震前后水准测量与承压水变化关系的研究

利用深层承压水头观测结果,对东明——菏泽长水准测线8——9号测段的高差变化进行了回归计算和相关分析。认为菏泽市城区9号测点下沉的主要原因是受深层承压水头变化的影响。排除地下水影响因素后证实,1983年11月7日菏泽5.9级地震前后仅3mm左右的升降变化,表明9号测点对这次中强地震仅能反映微弱的形变信息量。     

昆明1943年5级地震的发震地段考证

结合资料记载与调查,认为该地震发生在昆明市区西南边缘的西山断裂地段。     

采用小径密抗桩一条龙抢治滑坡的方法及效果

以往整治滑坡,较多地使用大口径挖孔桩或钻孔灌注抗滑桩,周期长、成本高。川地208队在治理重庆制药五厂已处于危急态势的滑坡中,采用“天平式”控制、勘治结合、快速抢险,用三排小径密抗桩(300mm口径)整治,取得明显成效。实践表明:浅层滑坡采用较小口径的密抗桩,并辅以排水,能达到事半功倍的效果。     

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF MESOSCALE STRUCTURES OF TYPHOON AND OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS USING MM5*

The track,landfall,dynamic and thermodynamic and cloud-rain physical mesoscale structures and their evolution of typhoon HERB 1996 in 36 h from 0000 UTC 31 July to 1200 UTC 1 August 1996 were simulated by using the non-hydrostatic mesoscale model MM5.This period covered the process of typhoon HERB landfall at Taiwan and Fujian Provinces.Results show that the model successfully simulated the landfall process of typhoon HERB,revealed the most important characteristics of the mesoscale dynamic and thermodynamic and cloud-rain physical structure during its landfall.The simulated typhoon track was close to the observation.The center of cyclonic circulation simulated at 0000 UTC on 1 August 1996 (24 h integration) was located in shore near Fuqing,Fujian Province at which the typhoon was reported to landfall two hours later.It shows that strong upward motion formed by low level convergence existed in the eye-wall and subsidence at the eye.The wind field shows clear asymmetrical structure near the typhoon center.The cloud and rainband was screw-typed distributed around typhoon center,and consisted of meso-β scale rain cores.During the period of typhoon HERB staying near and passing over Taiwan,the lower cloud was developed in the eye region so that the previous clear typhoon eye on the satellite pictures became fuzzy.Observation shows that the typhoon center was "warm",but the model simulations with higher space resolution show that in the mid-troposphere the region of eye-wall with stronger upward motion and more cloud-and rain-water was warmer than the eye.During the period of typhoon passing over Taiwan and its following landfall at Fujian,the track of model typhoon deviated about 30 km northward (i.e.,rightward) because of the orographic effects of Taiwan Island,but the strength of the typhoon was not affected remarkably.The amount of rainfall on Taiwan in the 36 h simulations was enhanced more than six times by the orographic lifting of Taiwan Mountain.     

When are relative variograms useful in geostatistics?

The relative variogram has been employed as a tool for correcting a simple kind of nonstationarity, namely that in which local variance is proportional to local mean squared. In the past, this has been linked in a vague way to the lognormal distribution, although if {Z_t; t D}is strongly stationary and normal over a domain D,then clearly {exp (Z_t); t D}will stillbe stationary, but lognormal. The appropriate link is made in this article through a universal transformation principle. More general situations are considered, leading to the use of a scaled variogram.     

云南水汞在打破M≥5级地震平静后强震前的异常分析

通过普洱6．3、宁蒗6．2级和姚安6．5级3个在省内M≥5级地震平静了10余个月,打破5级平静后发生的M≥6级强震前水汞的异常分析,并着重短临异常研究,结果表明这3次地震前水汞均有中期和短、临异常,中、短、临异常台站数为两头少,中间多。中期异常表现为11％。22％的水汞观测台站震前出现2—10个月的中期异常;短期异常表现为震前2—3个月,平均44％的台站观测到短期异常,最大异常幅度与异常判定线比值在1．3—3．2倍之间：强震前都只有1个台站出现临震异常。短期异常有差异,宁蒗6．2级主震前,短期异常在2次前震前出现,普洱6．3、姚安6．5级地震前,水汞短期异常在打破5级平静的地震前出现,水汞短期异常有活跃、平静的现象。最早出现中期异常的台站相对靠近震中。     

RS技术在实时区域土壤侵蚀评价中的应用--以福建省花山溪流域为例

传统数据采集方法严重制约了土壤侵蚀评价实时、快速的要求。文章以福建花山溪流域为例,基于“通用土壤侵蚀方程式”(USLE)为土壤侵蚀定量评价模型,利用多时效、多光谱的遥感数据,在ERDAS8．5软件平台上,研究提取流域动态最易变化的植被、土地利用类型等信息的技术方法。研究结果证实,这种方法可以快速、准确地提取影响土壤侵蚀的基本参数．进而实现对区域流域土壤侵蚀的实时评价。     

我国卤水溴资源及其开发前景展望

溴在自然界无独立的矿物 ,呈强分散性稀有元素 ,散布在地壳水圈里 ,以油气田地下卤水、盐湖卤水、矿场盐卤水含溴浓度相对较高。溴在国民经济的用途广泛 ,是我国紧缺物资 ,产不敷消。而我国卤水溴资源分布广泛 ,类型齐全 ,同时常伴有K、B、I、Li等多种有用组分。充分发挥各类卤水溴资源特点 ,提高卤水溴资源综合利用水平 ,其开发前景广阔