Research in historical earthquakes in the Korean peninsula and its circumferential regions

The historical earthquake data is one of the important foundations for seismic monitoring, earthquake fore-cast and seismic safety evaluation. However, the recognition of earthquake is limited by the scientific and techno-logical level. Therefore, the earthquake can only be described using perfect earthquake catalogue after the seismo-graph is invented. Before this time, the earthquake parameters were determined according to the earthquake disas-ter on the surface and the written records in history, and the earthquake level was measured using earthquake in-tensity.     

Triassic paleomagnetism from the Western Pyrenees revisited: implications for the Iberian–Eurasian Mesozoic plate boundary

Since the pioneering studies of Van der Voo [Tectonophysics 7 (1969) 5] and Van der Voo and Boessenkool [J. Geophys. Res. 78 (1973) 5118], paleomagnetism of Permo-Triassic redbeds and volcanics from the Western Pyrenees has furnished important contributions for delineating the Mesozoic boundary between the Iberian and Eurasian plates. In this paper, we present a new paleomagnetic study focussed on Triassic red beds (23 sites) of the Paleozoic Basque Massifs (PBM). The aim of this study is to complement previous studies done in those massifs to better constrain the complex kinematics of the Western Pyrenees. Two stable magnetic components have been isolated: (1) a dual polarity, pre-folding magnetisation carried by specular hematite; and (2) a secondary, normal polarity component also carried by hematite. Our data confirm both the origin and the rotation pattern of the primary remanence described in previous works. Nevertheless, field tests performed on the secondary component do not confirm the earlier interpretations by Schott and Peres [Tectonophysics 156 (1988) 75] as they indicate a synfolding nature of the remagnetisation instead of a post-folding origin. We consider that the secondary component is better explained if a Cretaceous age is considered. The presence of such remagnetisation in the western Pyrenees strengthens the widespread occurrence of similar remagnetisation events reported in northern Iberia in connection with the extensional tectonic events that occurred during Cretaceous times. A comparison of the rotations recorded by the Triassic component and by the remagnetisation indicate that the Paleozoic units underwent variable tectonic rotations before the remagnetisation was acquired, most likely in connection with the counterclockwise rotation of Iberia with respect to Eurasia. These results favour that the Mesozoic plate boundary between the Iberian and Eurasian plates was a wide domain of distributed deformation and therefore contradict previous interpretations claiming for a discrete plate boundary.     

基于水质状态和生态响应的综合富营养化评价模型——以山东半岛典型海域富营养化评价为例

对前期构建的长江口及其邻近水域的富营养化评价模型作了进一步改进,并根据2006年至2007年春夏秋冬四个季节的山东半岛典型海域的调查资料,将该模型应用于山东半岛典型海域的富营养化评价。评价结果表明:在"优、良、中、差、劣"五个富营养化等级中,山东半岛大部分海湾和近岸海域出现"中"到"差"程度的富营养化状况,且海湾内富营养化程度明显高于近岸海域。较突出的富营养化症状主要是夏秋季节高浓度的叶绿素水平和周期性发生的有毒有害藻华。烟台四十里湾、丁字湾和青岛胶州湾是山东半岛富营养化状况较严重的三个海湾。仅少数海域,如日照北部近海和黄岛近海的富营养化程度处于"良"的等级。评价模型同时包含富营养化压力因素(水质状态)和效应因素(生态响应)两个方面,在指标评分上不仅考虑评价浓度,还考虑浓度出现的频率和空间覆盖度等方面,以及对各指标合理分配权重,使得评价模型更能准确、全面地反映海域富营养化状况。     

European Climatic Response to Millennial-Scale Changes in the Atmosphere–Ocean System during the Last Glacial Period

Pollen, foraminifer, dinocyst, and coarse lithic high-resolution analyses and δ¹⁸O measurements have been carried out for the last-glacial section of marine core MD95-2042 located near the southwestern margin of the Iberian Peninsula. The pollen data indicate a high frequency of vegetational changes on the adjacent continent during this period, suggesting a climatic variability very similar to that of the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles recorded by the Greenland ice cores. The detailed direct correlation of the terrestrial and marine proxy data from core MD95-2042 indicates a three-phase pattern of Heinrich events in land and ocean environments. The first and last phases of the H5 and H4 events are characterized by a mild and humid climate in southwestern Europe, probably associated with the European origin of the ice-rafted detritus. The middle phase exhibits a cold and dry climate in Iberia linked with the maximum input of ice-rafted detritus. This phase seems to correspond with the Laurentide ice-sheet surges. Between the Heinrich events, several cold and dry periods on land are correlated with stades of the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles. The impact of the Dansgaard-Oeschger stades in southwestern Europe seems to be preferentially connected to the cold winter air masses reaching this mid-latitude region.     

2005年山东半岛连续三次冷流暴雪过程的分析

对2005年12月发生在山东半岛北部威海地区的三次冷流暴雪过程进行了分析研究,用WRF模式进行了数值模拟.分析结果表明:三次冷流暴雪发生时低空850hPa层强冷平流与地面降水强度有较好的对应关系;低层和地面都是偏西北风流场,半岛地区呈气旋性弯曲;地面风场存在风向辐合,特殊的地形和海陆温差在北部沿海地区形成海岸锋,为冷流的发生提供了有利的触发机制;从垂直面的风场辐合辐散高度说明了冷流过程较其他降水过程有着明显的低空性.     

山东内陆和半岛雷暴大风的环境物理量参数特征

摘要：应用探空资料,对2009—2016年4—9月山东省205次雷暴大风天气过程的 12个环境物理量参数统计分析,研究各月山东内陆和半岛地区雷暴大风物理量参数的月平均和阈值。结果表明,（1）T(850-500) 、CAPE和K指数在内陆高于半岛,T(850-500)在4—6月明显高于7—9月,K指数和CAPE值在7—8月最高。（2）在4—6月T(850-500)≥26℃的比率50.0～75.8 %;在内陆6—8月、半岛8月CAPE≥500J/kg的比率50～76.1%;在内陆4—5月、半岛5—6月DCAPE≥500J/kg的比率52.4～57.1%;在7—8月K指数≥30℃的比率58.3～88.9%。（3）5—9月θse(700-850)月平均值＜－1℃;7—8月SI的月平均值＜1℃、LI的月平均值＜0℃。（4）风暴强度指数≥250的比率在内陆4—5月、半岛4月和7—8月70%以上。强天气威胁指数在内陆6—8月、半岛7—9月≥150的比率75%以上。（5）大风指数在内陆5—8月、半岛4—5月＞17m/s的比率75%以上。（6）500hPa 风速≥12 m/s的比率在内陆4—5月、半岛4—6月和8—9月84.0％以上,850hPa 以偏南风为主,风速较小。     

Atmospheric modes influence on Iberian Poleward Current variability

The inter-annual variability of the Iberian Poleward Current (IPC) along the northwestern coast of the Iberian Peninsula (IP) (40-43°N) and its intrusion in the Cantabrian Sea (Navidad, 6-8°W) were analyzed in terms of the atmospheric forcing. The January Sea Surface Temperature (J SST) was obtained from the advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) NOAA satellite from 1985 to 2006. It is a well documented fact that the existence of a tongue of water warmer than the surrounding ones (IPC) which circulates along the western Iberian shelf edge, turn eastward around Cape Finisterre, and enters in the Cantabrian Sea generating Navidad at the beginning of every winter. However, in the present study it has been highlighted that there are several years (1986, 1987, 1992, 1997, 1999, 2004 and 2005) during which water from coast to the adjacent shelf is much colder than the oceanic one remarking a weak or inexistent IPC during these Januaries. In addition, the dependence of SST on the most representative regional patterns with some influence upon the eastern North Atlantic region was analyzed by means of correlations between November-December atmospheric modes and J SST. The considered modes were: North Atlantic Oscillation pattern (NAO), Eastern Atlantic pattern (EA), Eastern Atlantic Western Russia pattern (EA/WR), Polar/Eurasia pattern (POL) and Scandinavia pattern (SCA). This analysis reveals that two atmospheric patterns (N-D NAO and N-D EA/WR) are responsible of the main variability of the J SST of the western and northern IP. J SST is negatively correlated with N-D NAO and positively correlated with N-D EA/WR. Multivariate analysis involving both modes provides correlation coefficients on the order of 0.7 on both coasts (western and northern). The influence of both modes on J SST was observed to be on the same order of magnitude but with different sign. These correlations were physically interpreted by means of an analysis of extreme events and Sea Level Pressure (SLP) composite analysis.     

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Phase and group velocities of 15–70 s Rayleigh waves propagating across the Iberian Peninsula have been transformed into local dispersion curves by linear inversion of travel times. The procedure permits that the waveform dispersion to be obtained as a continuous period-dependent velocity function at grid points belonging to the area probed by the waves, thus providing phase- and group-velocity contour maps for several periods within the interval of interest. The regionalization process rests on a homogeneous initial data set in which the number of observations remains almost constant for all periods of reference. Damped least-squares inversion of the local dispersion curves for shear-wave velocity structure is performed to obtain depth-dependent S-wave velocity profiles at the grid points covering the model region. The reliability of the results should improve significantly owing to the use of phase and group velocities simultaneously. On this basis, we have built horizontal depth sections that give an updated view of the seismic velocity structure of the peninsula at lithospheric and upper mantle depths (20–200 km). After averaging all the pure-path S-wave velocities previously determined at each grid point, the velocity-depth models so obtained for major tectonic units allow the comparison between the Hercynian basement and other areas of Mesozoic folding and Tertiary basins.     

Last glacial ice‐rafted debris off southwestern Europe: the role of the British–Irish Ice Sheet

Ice‐rafted debris (IRD) seeded into the ocean from Northern Hemisphere ice sheets is found in ocean cores along the southwestern European margin through the last glacial period. It is known that the origin of this IRD, especially off Iberia, can vary between North America and western Europe during short‐lived episodes of greatly enhanced iceberg flux, known as Heinrich events, although in most Heinrich events the IRD has a North American source. During the longer times of much lower IRD fluxes between Heinrich events, use of an intermediate complexity climate model, coupled to an iceberg dynamic and thermodynamic model, shows that background levels of IRD most likely originate from western Europe, particularly the British–Irish Ice Sheet. Combining modelling with palaeoceanographic evidence supports reconstructions of a short‐lived, but substantial, Celtic and Irish Sea Ice Stream around 23 ka. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.