Assessing the impact of distributed snow water equivalent calibration and assimilation of Copernicus snow water equivalent on modelled snow and streamflow performance

Accuracy of the Copernicus snow water equivalent (SWE) product and the impact of SWE calibration and assimilation on modelled SWE and streamflow was evaluated. Daily snowpack measurements were made at 12 locations from 2016 to 2019 across a 4104 km² mixed-forest basin in the Great Lakes region of central Ontario, Canada. Sub-basin daily SWE calculated from these sites, observed discharge, and lake levels were used to calibrate a hydrologic model developed using the Raven modelling framework. Copernicus SWE was bias corrected during the melt period using mean bias subtraction and was compared to daily basin average SWE calculated from the measured data. Bias corrected Copernicus SWE was assimilated into the models using a range of parameters and the parameterizations from the model calibration. The bias corrected Copernicus product agreed well with measured data and provided a good estimate of mean basin SWE demonstrating that the product shows promise for hydrology applications within the study region. Calibration to spatially distributed SWE substantially improved the basin scale SWE estimate while only slightly degrading the flow simulation demonstrating the value of including SWE in a multi-objective calibration formulation. The particle filter experiments yielded the best SWE estimation but moderately degraded the flow simulation. The particle filter experiments constrained by the calibrated snow parameters produced similar results to the experiments using the upper and lower bounds indicating that, in this study, model calibration prior to assimilation was not valuable. The calibrated models exhibited varying levels of skill in estimating SWE but demonstrated similar streamflow performance. This indicates that basin outlet streamflow can be accurately estimated using a model with a poor representation of distributed SWE. This may be sufficient for applications where estimating flow is the primary water management objective. However, in applications where understanding the physical processes of snow accumulation, melt and streamflow generation are important, such as assessing the impact of climate change on water resources, accurate representations of SWE are required and can be improved via multi-objective calibration or data assimilation, as demonstrated in this study.     

岩土勘察与盐湖卤水矿产开发

概要：本文通过对盐湖地区岩土类型复杂性及特性的叙述,分析了盐湖矿产开发中不良地质现象产生的原因和岩土条件对开发规模、工程布局、工程安全、经济效益等方面产生的影响。论述岩土工程勘察在盐湖矿产开发中的特殊地位和重要价值,总结出岩土勘察与盐湖卤水矿产开发的关系并提出盐湖岩土勘察方案的简单建议。     

盐湖卤水体系的热力学模型及其应用Ⅱ:在 Li~+,Na~+,K~+,Mg~(2+)/Cl~-,SO_4~(2-)-H_2O

上一报告简要介绍了获得描述"盐湖卤水体系"Li+,Na+,K+,Mg2+ Cl-,SO2-4-H2O25℃热力学的全部Pitzer参数后,可将该模型用于卤水的热力学相关性质计算上。本报告着重介绍将该模型应用这一复杂的六元体系及其多组分次级体系25℃溶解度预测方面获得的结果。通过与实验测定值的对比,可以看出预测结果令人相当满意。     

Ice-rafted detritus events in the Arctic during the last glacial interval, and the timing of the Innuitian and Laurentide ice sheet calving events

Ice-rafted detritus (IRD) layers in the Arctic Ocean not only indicate the source of this detrital sediment, but give insights into the ice drift and ice sheet history. Detrital sand-sized Fe oxide mineral grains that are matched to precise sources using the microprobe chemical fingerprint of each grain, along with elevated coarse IRD abundance and radiocarbon ages, are used to define IRD peaks from the Innuitian and Arctic portions of the Laurentide ice sheets. Because grains from these two areas can be entrained by sea ice from the shelves just offshore of the calving areas, peaks in these grains must be correlated to coarse IRD to identify iceberg calving events, and to distinguish them from sea-ice rafting. The sequence of IRD peaks deposited by icebergs from these two ice sheets indicate that both ice sheets calved bergs at accelerated numbers, six or seven times, from 11 to 36 Kya. The relatively short times between most of these IRD events suggest that the ice sheets did not completely collapse with each IRD event, except the last event. Although there is some indication that one ice sheet may have begun calving bergs before the other, the resolution of the Arctic cores does not allow definitive determination of this. This emphasizes the need for higher resolution cores from the central Arctic, as well as from near the terminus of large Pleistocene ice sheets. Sea-ice rafting occurs throughout the last glacial stage, even during some glacial IRD events, as indicated by Fe grains from non-glacial sources.     

Geological interpretation of the Cootamundra gravity high,New South Wales

An intense Bouguer anomaly ‘high’ of about 30 milligals amplitude has been delineated to the east of Cootamundra, New South Wales. It is correlated with a north‐trending belt of basic metamorphic rocks of probable Upper Silurian age. The subsurface shape of the belt is deduced by qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques applied to the gravity data; it is inferred that the boundary on the western side is near‐vertical, while that on the eastern side is believed to have been overthrust by the Middle Devonian Young Granite. It appears also that there are no horizontal density variations below a depth of 6–7 km, implying that the base of the Young Granite lies at about this depth.     

Historical variations in the stable isotope composition of mercury in a sediment core from a riverine lake: Effects of dams,pulp and paper mill wastes,and mercury from a chlor-alkali plant

The Wabigoon River (Ontario, Canada) was affected by dams starting in 1898 and was polluted with pulp and paper mill wastes starting in 1913 and mercury from a chlor-alkali plant from 1962 to 1975. A dated sediment core from a riverine lake was analysed to investigate resultant changes in the biogeochemistry of mercury as revealed by variations in mercury isotope ratios and sediment chemistry. A total mercury maximum formed by the mercury pollution coincided with minimums in the δ-values of the ¹⁹⁸Hg/²⁰²Hg, ¹⁹⁹Hg/²⁰²Hg, ²⁰⁰Hg/²⁰²Hg, and ²⁰¹Hg/²⁰²Hg ratios, and the δ-values decreased in the order δ²⁰¹Hg > δ²⁰⁰Hg > δ¹⁹⁹Hg > δ¹⁹⁸Hg. Thus, mass-dependent fractionation caused depletion in lighter isotopes, implying evaporation of Hg(0) and pollution of the atmosphere as well as the river-lake system. Concurrently, mass-independent fractionation caused ¹⁹⁹Hg enrichment, possibly reflecting an independently documented upsurge in methylmercury production, and ²⁰¹Hg depletion, suggesting removal of methylmercury with anomalously high ²⁰¹Hg/¹⁹⁹Hg ratios by aquatic organisms and accumulation of ²⁰¹Hg-depleted inorganic Hg(II) in sediments. The δ²⁰¹Hg/δ¹⁹⁹Hg ratio rose abruptly when mercury pollution began, reflecting the resultant increase in methylmercury production, and remained high but gradually declined as the pollution abated, paralleling trends shown by methylmercury in aquatic organisms. The δ²⁰¹Hg/δ¹⁹⁹Hg ratio of pre-1962 background mercury increased ca. 1898 and ca. 1913–1929, suggesting accelerated methylmercury production due to stimulation of microbial activities by the damming of the river and the input of pulp and paper mill wastes, respectively. Other variations were linked to economic and technological factors that affected pulp and paper manufacture.     

东平湖水质科学监测研究

东平湖是在南水北调东线工程中起调蓄、输水的枢纽，其水质关系到东线工程供水目标的成败，要保持好水体水质，必须强化入湖水体水质的监测。     

生态旅游的大气及水环境效应——以滇西北碧塔海自然保护区为例

通过对碧塔海自然保护区在1999年旅游淡旺季的两次环境监测,分析结果表明：生态旅游项目的开展对保护区内地而水中细菌总数、大肠菌群、BOD5以及地下水水质中细菌总数、硝酸盐氮指标有较大影响,其中大肠菌群在第二次监测中均已接近国家Ⅱ类水标准。保护区内环境噪声、空气质量及地面上、地下水水质其他指标没有明显变化。部分指标如SO2、NOx、TSP等还在第一次基础上有所改善。同时本文建议在今后保护区开展生态旅游时应建立长期的环境监测点;建立综合系统的旅游环境承载力考核指标体系,以及进一步深化保护区开发生态旅游中的社区参与和资金引进机制。     

我国喜马拉雅山区冰湖扩张特征及其气候意义

分析冰湖扩张特征和扩张方式及其气候意义,有利于认识冰川-冰湖-气候三者的变化关系和冰湖溃决灾害危险性程度。基于大比例尺地形图、DEM、ASTER影像等数据,分析近30年来我国喜马拉雅山区不同海拔高度冰湖变化的特征及冰湖-母冰川的相对位置的变化关系,探讨其气候效应。结果显示：(1) 存在冰湖的面积增大是冰湖面积扩张的主要贡献者,占总面积净增量的67%,新增湖的面积占总面积净增量的33%;(2) 不同高度带冰湖面积多呈扩张态势,净增面积在5000~5300 m出现峰值,指示气候变化的垂直差异性;(3) 在2000s 母冰川-冰湖距离为0 的冰湖,数量占扩张冰湖总数的19%,而其冰湖面积增量却占了总面积增量的60%,为冰湖扩张的主体,反映出冰湖与母冰川关系越紧密,气候效应越强烈,冰湖面积增加越显著。