Phase equilibria constraints on melting of stromatic migmatites from Ronda (S. Spain): insights on the formation of peritectic garnet

Stromatic metatexites occurring structurally below the contact with the Ronda peridotite (Ojén nappe, Betic Cordillera, S Spain) are characterized by the mineral assemblage Qtz+Pl+Kfs+Bt+Sil+Grt+Ap+Gr+Ilm. Garnet occurs in low modal amount (2–5 vol.%). Very rare muscovite is present as armoured inclusions, indicating prograde exhaustion. Microstructural evidence of melting in the migmatites includes pseudomorphs after melt films and nanogranite and glassy inclusions hosted in garnet cores. The latter microstructure demonstrates that garnet crystallized in the presence of melt. Re‐melted nanogranites and preserved glassy inclusions show leucogranitic compositions. Phase equilibria modelling of the stromatic migmatite in the MnO–Na₂O–CaO–K₂O–FeO–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–H₂–O₂–C (MnNCaKFMASHOC) system with graphite‐saturated fluid shows P–T conditions of equilibration of 4.5–5 kbar, 660–700 °C. These results are consistent with the complete experimental re‐melting of nanogranites at 700 °C and indicate that nanogranites represent the anatectic melt generated immediately after entering supersolidus conditions. The P–T estimate for garnet and melt development does not, however, overlap with the low‐temperature tip of the pure melt field in the phase diagram calculated for the composition of preserved glassy inclusions in garnet in the Na₂O–CaO–K₂O–FeO–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–H₂O (NCKFMASH) system. A comparison of measured melt compositions formed immediately beyond the solidus with results of phase equilibria modelling points to the systematic underestimation of FeO, MgO and CaO in the calculated melt. These discrepancies are present also when calculated melts are compared with low‐T natural and experimental melts from the literature. Under such conditions, the available melt model does not perform well. Given the presence of melt inclusions in garnet cores and the P–T estimates for their formation, we argue that small amounts (<5 vol.%) of peritectic garnet may grow at low temperatures (≤700 °C), as a result of continuous melting reactions consuming biotite.     

Metamorphic evolution of medium‐temperature ultra‐high pressure (MT‐UHP) eclogites from the South Dabie orogen,Central China: an insight from phase equilibria modelling

Medium‐temperature ultrahigh pressure (MT‐UHP) eclogites from the south Dabie orogen, as represented by samples from the Jinheqiao, Shuanghe and Bixiling areas, consist of garnet, omphacite, phengite, epidote, hornblendic amphibole, quartz/coesite and rutile with or without kyanite and talc. Garnet is mostly anhedral and unzoned, but a few porphyroblasts are weakly zoned with core–mantle increasing grossular (X_gr) and decreasing pyrope (X_py) contents. Garnet compositions are closely correlated with the bulk compositions. For instance, the X_py and X_gr contents are positively correlated with the bulk MgO and CaO contents. Phengite is occasionally zoned with core–rim deceasing Si content, and phengite grains as inclusions in garnet show higher Si than in the matrix, suggesting differently resetting during post‐peak stages. The maximum Si contents are mostly 3.60–3.63 p.f.u. for the three areas. Pseudosections calculated using THERMOCALC suggest that the MT‐UHP eclogites should have a peak assemblage of garnet + omphacite + lawsonite + phengite + coesite in most rocks of higher MgO content. In this assemblage, the X_py in garnet mostly depends on bulk compositions, whereas the X_gr in garnet and the Si contents in phengite regularly increase, respectively, as temperature and as pressure rise, and thus, can provide robust thermobarometric constraints. Using the X_gr and Si isopleths in pseudosections, the peak P–T conditions were estimated to be 40 kbar/730 °C for the Jinheqiao, 41 kbar/726 °C for the Shuanghe, and 37–52 kbar and 700–830 °C for the Bixiling eclogites. Some eclogites with higher FeO are predicted to have a peak assemblage of garnet + omphacite + coesite ± phengite without lawsonite, where the garnet and phengite compositions highly depend on bulk compositions and generally cannot give available thermobarometric constraints. Decompression of the eclogites with lawsonite in the peak stage is inferred to be accompanied with cooling and involves two stages: an early‐stage decompression is dominated by lawsonite dehydration, resulting in increase in the mode of anhydrous minerals, or further eclogitization, and formation of epidote porphyroblasts and kyanite‐bearing quartz veins in eclogite. As lawsonite dehydration can facilitate evolution of assemblages under fluid‐present conditions, it is difficult to recover real peak P–T conditions for UHP eclogites with lawsonite. This may be a reason why the P–T conditions estimated for eclogites using thermobarometers are mostly lower than those estimated for the coherent ultramafic rocks, and lower than those suggested from the inclusion assemblages in zircon from marble. A late‐stage decompression is dominated by formation of hornblendic amphibole and plagioclase with fluid infiltration. The lawsonite‐absent MT‐UHP eclogites have only experienced a decompression metamorphism corresponding to the later stage and generally lack the epidote overprinting.     

Ecogeomorphic state variables and phase‐space construction for quantifying the evolution of vegetated aeolian landscapes

Cellular automaton modelling for the simulation of dune field formation and evolution has developed progressively in aeolian geomorphology in the last decade or so. A model that incorporates the effects of vegetation and its interactions with geomorphic landscape development – the Discrete Ecogeomorphic Aeolian Landscapes (DECAL) model – can replicate a number of important visual and qualitative aspects of the complex evolution of aeolian dune landscapes under the influence of vegetation dynamics in coastal environments. A key challenge in this research area is the analysis and comparison of both simulated and real‐world vegetated dune landscapes using objective and quantifiable principles. This study presents a methodological framework or protocol for numerically quantifying various ecogeomorphic attributes, using a suite of mathematically defined landscape metrics, to provide a rigorous and statistical evaluation of vegetated dune field evolution. Within this framework the model parameter space can be systematically explored and simulation outcomes can be methodically compared against real‐world landscapes. Based on a simplified scenario of parabolic dunes developing out of blow‐outs the resulting dune field realizations are investigated as a function of variable growth vigour of two simulated vegetation types (pioneer grass and successional woody shrub) by establishing a typological phase‐diagram of different landscape classes. The set of simulation outcomes furthermore defines a higher‐dimensional phase‐space, whose axes or dimensions can be interpreted by analysing how individual ecogeomorphic landscape metrics, or state variables, contribute to the data distribution. Principal component analysis can reduce this to a visual three‐dimensional (3D) phase‐space where landscape evolution can be plotted as time‐trajectories and where we can investigate the effects of changing environmental conditions partway through a simulation scenario. The use of landscape state variables and the construction of a 3D phase‐space presented here may provide a general template for quantifying many other eco‐geomorphic systems on the Earth's surface. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

利用EOF相空间分析东亚梅雨旱涝长期过程的初步研究

利用非线性动力学中的相空间概念,分析了梅雨旱涝3～5年循环的长期过程.对全球热带850hPa的纬向风场距平所作的EOF,第1特征向量显示了Walker环流异常在赤道球圈上的分布;第2特征向量主要显示热带-副热带之间的环流异常的经向分布.在第1时间系数和第2时间系数所定义的2维相空间中,由相轨线分析,得到梅雨涝年主要集中于第2象限,而旱年则相对多在第4象限.说明梅雨旱涝年际变异的主导模态和热带大气环流的主要特征向量有着密切的关联.它们显示了以3～5年时间尺度的大气环流演变的长期特征性过程.     

冀中南一次春季雨雪过程诊断与预报技术分析

利用常规观测资料、自动站资料、雷达及NCEP 1°×1°资料,在诊断2013年4月19日河北省一次回流多相态降水过程成因的基础上,总结了降雪漏报的原因。结果表明:冀中南降水区位于700hPa切变线南侧、700 hPa西南低空急流与850 hPa东北风急流交汇处,暖湿空气在冷垫上爬升和急流的次级环流为降水提供了动力条件,低空急流为降水提供了水汽条件。整层大气可降水量及变化可作为降水预报的重要参考。对比分析雨区和雪区的温度廓线发现:通过温度平流分析温度的垂直分布和演变比单独分析温度特性层高度对于辨别降水相态更为可靠,而雷达风廓线资料可作为识别冷暖平流进而辨别大气温度层结变化的有益补充。本次降水相态预报出现偏差的主要原因是对温度垂直分布和演变判断不够准确。     

顾及地形因素的卡尔曼滤波相位解缠算法

相位解缠是InSAR进行数字高程模型提取和地表形变测量的关键步骤.提出一种顾及地形因素的卡尔曼滤波相位解缠算法.该算法通过在卡尔曼滤波的状态空间模型中引入与地形因素相关的输入控制变量来实现.由于干涉条纹直接反映地形的变化起伏,局部条纹频率与局部地形坡度密切相关,考虑采用局部条纹频率估计作为输入控制变量.在局部频率估计中...     

BDS/GPS载波相位定位病态性对比分析

针对BDS/GPS载波相位定位的病态性问题,该文提出了采用条件数法对比分析BDS/GPS在我国不同地区、不同时段载波相位定位病态性及其在8个地面站的定位精度因子PDOP值变化情况,其中PDOP值能够反映单点定位的病态性。研究结果表明:BDS在我国大部分地区可用性良好,且其平均PDOP值随纬度的增大而线性增加;然而,BDS导航定位的病态性程度比GPS更为严重,BDS载波相位定位病态性程度不仅随观测时长变化,还与所处的位置变化有关,而GPS几乎不受观测地点的影响。研究成果可在BDS/GPS模糊度的快速、准确固定方面提供参考。     

STUDY OF NONLINEAR ROSSBY WAVES IN THE ATMOSPHERE UNDER SEMI-GEOSTROPHIC APPROXIMATION

Under semi-geostrophic approximation the nonlinear ordinary differential equations are obtained for the motion inthe barotropic and baroclinic atmospheres with the effects of zonal shear basic flow and topographic forcing included.Two constraints are acquired of finite-amplitude periodic and solitary waves in the original model with the aid of thephase-plane geometric qualitative theory of a dynamic system defined by the differential equation.The explicit solutionof the nonlinear waves is found by means of the approximation method and some significant results are achieved.     

复经验正交函数分析结果的直观显示

对复经验正交函数分析结果显示作了改进，导出了时空振幅、位相函数，并给出了时空振幅位相函数图。试验及实际分析表明，它具有直观性。     

一次东北冷涡衰退阶段暴雨成因分析

东北冷涡暴雨一般发生在冷涡发展阶段, 冷涡衰退阶段发生暴雨的几率不高, 在日常业务预报中往往容易忽视冷涡衰退阶段暴雨的预报, 容易出现漏报的现象。作者结合观测资料和数值模拟结果, 对2005年6月21日发生在吉林省中东部地区的一次暴雨过程进行分析。结果表明: 这次暴雨发生在东北冷涡衰退阶段, 强降水区处于非常弱的对流不稳定区, 低空不同层次上急流的耦合与脉动, 在时间和空间上形成“接力” 之势, 给雨区带来特定的水汽配置并在雨区上空形成合适的不稳定环境, 导致雨区上空湿位涡的强烈增长, 在弱对流不稳定和条件对称不稳定的共同作用下, 层状云中形成对流并发展, 产生了暴雨天气。重力惯性波是暴雨产生的可能触发机制。