NUMERICAL STUDY ON EFFECTS OF THE QINGHAIXIZANG PLATEAU ON FORMATION OF THE URAL BLOCKING HIGH

By employing the improved T42L5 spectral model and utilizing the ECMWF data covering the period from 1 Julyto 7 July 1982,a numerical research on the formation of the Ural blocking system has been made.The results show thatthe model forecasts for the upstream U ral area turn out to be worse if the dynamic effect of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateauis not considered.The correlation coefficient between the model forecasts and observed 500 hPa geopotential heightanomaly decreases by 9% for the 5-day mean,and their averaged root mean square (RMS) error increases 15 m.Due tothe dynamic effect of the Plateau,the trough being on the northwest of the Plateau is barricaded and turns to be atransversal trough.Consequently southwest flow occurs along the northwest of the Plateau in front of the trough,whilenortheast flow prevails over the west of the trough,causing the formation of the blocking high over the Ural area.Whenthe dynamic effect of the Plateau is not taken into consideration,the trough develops and moves southeastward and theUral blocking high changes into a migratory high.All these result in the failure of the simulation.The dynamic effect ofthe Plateau helps to increase the negative vorticities over the Plateau and its north periphery as well as the Ural area,andalso helps to increase the positive vorticities over the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea area.On the other hand,thethermodynamic effect mainly influences the Plateau and its downstream area and plays an less important role in theformation of the blocking high over the upstream Ural area.     

Timing of Uralian orogenic gold mineralization at Kochkar in the evolution of the East Uralian granite-gneiss terrane

Gold mineralization at Kochkar (Urals, Russia) is hosted mainly by quartz lodes, which developed at lithological contacts between mafic dikes and granitoids of the Plast massif during late Carboniferous to early Permian, regional E–W compression in the East Uralian Zone (EUZ). The alteration mineralogy in mafic dikes comprises biotite, actinolite, albite, K-feldspar, quartz, epidote, tourmaline, sericite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, fahlores, galena, bismuthinite, and gold, and in Plast granitoids quartz, sericite, calcite, epidote, and ore minerals. Geochemically, an enrichment of Si, K, Rb, Ba, S, base metals, W, and Au can be observed. The ore fluid had δ¹⁸O values between 8.2‰ and 9.5‰ typical for metamorphic or deep magmatic fluids. The tectonometamorphic evolution of the EUZ is marked by peak metamorphic conditions at 635±40°C and 5–6 kbar through 500±20°C during gold mineralization, and 300–350°C and 2–3 kbar. The last event was dated on a late, barren quartz vein formed during greenschist facies metamorphism at 265±3 Ma by the Rb–Sr method. Fluids related to this overprint had a δ¹⁸O value of 5.2‰ and an initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratio of 0.70685 indicating that they are largely equilibrated with metamorphic lithologies of the EUZ. The Plast granitoids and the adjacent Borisov granite, which was dated at 358±23 Ma (U–Pb zircon age), have an adakitic character. This, together with the arc-signature of the mafic dikes, supports the setting of the EUZ within the Valerianovsky continental arc. Eastward subduction of the Uralian Ocean below this arc began during the late Devonian to early Carboniferous. Between 320 and 265 Ma, the oblique closure of the ocean resulted in doming of granitoid massifs in a sinistral transpressional regime, subsequent retrograde gold mineralization during E–W compression and a later greenschist facies overprint. This long-lasting retrograde evolution of the EUZ was caused by the lack of postcollisional collapse. Heat for a “deep-later" type of metamorphism and triggering the auriferous fluid system was supplied by radiogenic heating of an overthickened crust. The greenschist facies overprint at Kochkar and coeval crustal melting in the EUZ was additionally initiated by local external heating of the terrane. This could have been caused by syn- to postcollisional slab rollback or delamination resulting in magmatic underplating of the EUZ, which postdates orogenic gold mineralization at Kochkar. The tectonic interpretation of the EUZ indicates that gold mineralization at Kochkar formed in a mid-crustal environment of a continental magmatic arc at the cessation of active subduction predating post orogenic plutonism.     

Interannual Variations of the Blocking High over the Ural Mountains and Its Association with the AO/NAO in Boreal Winter

This paper analyzes interannual variations of the blocking high over the Ural Mountains in the boreal winter and their association with the Arctic Oscillation/North Atlantic Oscillation (AO/NAO).In Jan...     

中国北方冬季气温的年际变化对北太平洋东部海温异常的响应

利用地面气温观测资料及NCEP/NCAR逐月再分析资料,分析了中纬度北太平洋东部海温异常变化对中国北方地区冬季气温的可能影响。结果表明,前期夏、秋季中纬度北太平洋东部海温与北方地区冬季气温存在持续稳定的正相关关系,并且这种相关性在年代际尺度上较年际尺度更为显著。这种联系与中纬度北太平洋东部关键区海温在对流层中低层激发出的一种类似北美—大西洋—欧亚遥相关型波列有关。当前期关键区海温偏高（低）时,其激发的波列使得乌拉尔山阻塞高压偏弱（强）,西伯利亚高压偏弱（强）,导致贝加尔湖以南大部地区受正（负）高度距平控制,亚洲地区中高纬以纬（经）向环流为主,有利于北方大部地区气温偏高（低）。研究表明,中纬度北太平洋东部海温异常通过激发出一个从关键海区到我国北方地区的跨越东西半球的遥相关型波列,引发北半球中高纬度大气环流异常,进而影响北方冬季气温。     

2018年和2008年1～2月影响我国的持续低温事件及其对比分析

2018年1月中下旬至2月初我国发生了一次大范围的持续低温异常事件,给国民经济和人们生活带来了很大的不利影响。这次持续低温事件与众所周知的2008年1月发生在我国南方的持续雨雪冰冻事件（简称“0801”事件）有一个共同点,二者都是发生在La Ni?a和前秋北极海冰显著减少的背景之下。对比这两次事件发生的大气环流和热力背景,对认识冬季持续极寒事件的形成有重要意义。本文利用NCEP/NCAR大气环流再分析资料和NOAA卫星观测OLR资料,对这两次过程进行了比较。结果显示,与“0801”事件相比,2018年1月中下旬的低温事件表现出以下明显不同的特征:（1）过程持续短,冷空气路径偏东;（2）乌拉尔阻塞和东亚大槽并存,呈“西高东低”型,不同于“0801”高纬阻塞和低纬南支槽并存的“北高南低”型;（3）异常的环流型与自大西洋经乌拉尔山至东亚传播的波列有关,西伯利亚高压持续时间短;（4）热带对流活跃在海洋性大陆和西太平洋,不同于“0801”主要在印度洋。后者对该年南支槽和西太平洋副热带高压增强有显著贡献。最后,2018年过程期间水汽输送也不如“0801”强,导致降水弱。     

Numerical Study of Ural Blocking High’s Effect Upon Asian Summer Monsoon Circulation and East China Flood and Drought

In terms of Kuo-Qian p-sigma incorporated coordinate five-level primitive equation spheric band (70oN-30oS) model with the Ural high’s effect introduced into it as initial and boundary conditions, study is made of the high’s in-fluence on Asian summer monsoon circulation and dryness / wetness, of eastern China bated on case contrast and control experiments. Results show that as an excitation source, the blocking high produces a SE-NW stationary wavetrain with its upper-air atnicyclonic divergent circulation (just over a lower-level trough zone) precisely over the middle to lower reaches of the Changjiang River, enhancing East Asian westerly jet, a situation that contributes to perturbation growth, causing an additional secondary meridional circulation at the jet entrance, which intensifies the updraft in the monsoon area. As such, the high’s presence and its excited steady wavetrain represent the large-scale key factors and acting mechanisms for the rainstorm over the Chamgjiang-Huaihe River catchment in the eastern part of the land.     

2011年冬季长江流域气温持续偏低的可能成因探析

利用长江流域50个气象台站的气温资料、NCEP再分析资料和美国国家冰雪数据中心的北极海冰资料,分析了2011年冬季长江流域气温持续偏低的可能成因。结果表明,乌拉尔山阻塞高压和西伯利亚高压异常偏强及稳定维持,是长江流域冬季气温持续偏低的主要影响系统,其持续天数和强度均为1961年以来历史最大值。进一步分析表明,冬季乌山阻高和西伯利亚高压强度偏强和持续天数偏多易发生在La Nina年,500 hPa环流特征类似于La Nina年冬季平均环流条件;北极海冰面积异常偏小使冬季西伯利亚高压得到加强和乌山阻高持续。La Nina事件和北极海冰面积异常偏小是长江流域冬季气温持续偏低的重要外强迫因子。     

东北夏季极端低温的变化特征及其与太平洋海温异常的关系

利用1958—2007年全球海温、位势高度月平均资料和中国东北地区64个测站的夏季地面气温等资料,分析了中国东北地区夏季极端低温的时空变化特征,及其与大气环流和海温异常之间的关系,研究结果如下:(1)近50a来中国东北夏季极端低温事件频数在年际变化的时间尺度上主要存在两种模态:全区一致变化型和南北反相变化型;(2)东北夏季极端低温频数与乌拉尔山高压,东亚大槽,阿留申低压,东北冷涡密切相关;(3)东北夏季极端低温与赤道东太平洋海温存在遥相关关系。在1990s初期以前,在E1 Nino发生年或翌年基本都对应东北夏季极端低温年,但1990s初期开始,El Nino发生年与东北地区夏季极端低温的对应关系遭到破坏;(4)东北夏季极端低温事件频数的年际变化与西太平洋暖池海温异常密切相关。进一步研究表明西太平洋暖池海温异常会影响东北地区上空的环流,致使东北夏季极端低温异常。     

2008与1969年冬季持续性雨雪过程对比分析

利用安徽省降水量资料和NCEP资料对1969年与2008年冬季两次超过半月的持续性雨雪过程进行分析。结果发现:强降水过程之前都有一次阻塞高压较明显增强过程,而强雨雪过程则始于阻塞形势减弱期,当乌拉尔山阻高指数锐减到谷值前后的1～2天,同时伴有偏强的西南气流,会有一次较为明显的降水增强的过程。500hPa环流形势2008年为经向型,冷暖空气均较强,持续性雨雪期间有4次强雨雪天气过程;而1969年环流较为平直,雨雪天气持续较长,但基本无强雨雪过程。通过准双周振荡分析发现1969年持续性雨雪期间的水汽源地主要为南海,2008年水汽则同时来源于南海和孟加拉湾。     

Neoproterozoic microfossils from the margin of the East European Platform and the search for a biostratigraphic model of lower Ediacaran rocks

A ca. 600 m thick siliciclastic succession in northern Russia contains abundant and diverse microfossils that document early to middle Ediacaran deposition along the northeastern margin of the East European Platform. The Vychegda Formation is poorly exposed but is well documented by a core drilled in the Timan trough region (Kel’tminskaya-1 borehole). Vychegda siliciclastics lie unconformably above Tonian to lower Cryogenian strata and below equivalents of the late Ediacaran Redkino succession that is widely distributed across the platform. The basal 10 m of the formation preserve acritarchs and fragments of problematic macrofossils known elsewhere only from pre-Sturtian successions. In contrast, the upper, nearly 400 m of the succession contains abundant and diverse large acanthomorphic acritarchs attributable to the Ediacaran Complex Acanthomorph Palynoflora (ECAP). This distinctive set of taxa is known elsewhere only from lower, but not lowermost, Ediacaran rocks. In between lies an additional assemblage of relatively simple filaments and stratigraphically long ranging sphaeromorphic acritarchs interpreted as early Ediacaran in age. Bearing in mind that knowledge of late Cryogenian (post-Strurtian/pre-Marinoan) microfossils is sparse, the Vychegda record is consistent with data from Australia and China which suggest that diverse ECAP microfossil assemblages appeared well into the Ediacaran Period. Accumulating paleontological observations underscore both the promise and challenges for the biostratigraphic characterization of the early Ediacaran Period.