Quantifying the non-conservative production of potential temperature over the past 22000 years

The energy budgets of the ocean play a crucial role in the analysis of climate change. Potential temperature is traditionally used as a conservative quantity to express variations associated with “heat” in oceanography, such as the heat content and heat transport. However, potential temperature is usually not conserved during turbulent mixing, so the use of conservative temperature is more accurate. Based on climatological simulations under the modern and Last Glacial Maximum (LGM;~21 ka;ka=thousand years ago), as well as a transient climate simulation of the past 22 000 years, we quantify the errors induced by the neglect of the non-conservation of potential temperature in paleo-climate research for the first time. The temperature error reaches 0.9℃ near the coasts aff ected by river discharges but is much smaller in the open oceans, typically 0.03°C above the main thermocline and less than 0.01℃ elsewhere. The error of the ocean heat content (OHC) is roughly 3×10^22 J and is relatively steady over the past 22 000 years. However, the OHC increases to six times the original value during the last glacial termination from 20 ka to 7 ka. As a result, the relative OHC error decreases from 1.2% in the LGM climate to 0.14% in the modern climate. The error of the ocean meridional heat transport (OMHT) is generally smaller than 0.005 PW (1 PW=10 15 W), with very small temporal variations (typically 0.000 4 PW), and induces a relative OMHT error of typically 0.3% over the past 22 000 years. Therefore, the neglect of the non-conservation of potential temperature induces a relative error of generally less than 1% in the analyses of basin-scale climate variations.     

降雨对花岗岩风化层路堑边坡滑动模式影响

降雨引起路堑边坡的浅层局部滑动是工程中常见的现象,但其内在原因的研究尚不充分。为此,以福建省云平高速云霄段花岗岩风化层中的某两级路堑边坡为例,采用饱和和非饱和土抗剪强度理论,按照强度折减有限元方法分析了该边坡在一般工况、地下水渗流工况和降雨入渗工况下的滑动模式。结果表明:一般工况下该边坡滑动模式为深层整体滑动;地下水渗流作用可使边坡由深层滑动模式向浅层滑动模式转化;长时小或中等降雨作用下坡体内出现三道滑动面,且一级边坡内滑动面最先贯通,滑坡模式由深层整体滑动向浅层局部滑动演化。短时强降雨作用下仅在一级边坡内出现贯通的滑动面,即由整体滑动模式完全转变为浅层局部滑动模式。降雨工况越不利表现越为明显,与实际滑坡现象相吻合,且安全系数不满足规范要求,从而从理论上验证了该路堑边坡发生浅层局部滑动的必然性。此外,为避免花岗岩风化层路堑边坡在降雨入渗下发生浅层局部滑动,对假设的不同放坡方案进行了数值模拟分析。结果表明,适当放缓坡率可使一级边坡内不出现滑动面,滑坡模式仍为较深位置的整体滑动,且安全系数可得到有效提高,使其满足规范要求。因此,实践中,采用文中方法对设计的类似地层中的路堑边坡事先进行降雨入渗影响下的模拟分析极为必要。将使放坡坡率更为科学合理,可在确保边坡整体稳定性的同时,极大降低其发生浅层局部滑动的可能性。     

保护性耕作对黄土高原农田土壤理化性质的影响

研究了陇中黄土高原半干旱区的小麦→豌豆→小麦轮作系统下免耕(NT)、传统耕作+秸秆还田(TS)、免耕+秸秆覆盖(NTS)等保护性耕作措施对土壤容重和土壤养分的影响。结果表明:保护性耕作措施可显著提高0~5 cm层土壤有机碳、氮(全氮、速效氮)、磷(全磷、速效磷)、钾(全钾、速效钾)的含量,其中,NTS效果最优,可显著降低0~30 cm各土层土壤容重;土壤有机碳与氮(全氮、速效氮)、磷(全磷、速效磷)各因子存在极显著正相关关系。与传统耕作相比,NTS、NT,TS降低土壤容重,提高了土壤养分的含量。豌豆田土壤容重分别降低4.80%、2.67%、4.00%,有机碳分别提高10.52%、4.63%、4.83%,全氮分别提高13.83%、7.45%、8.51%;春小麦田土壤容重分别降低4.62%、3.08%、4.62%,有机碳分别提高11.99%、7.78%、12.10%,全氮分别提高11.11%、6.67%、3.33%。     

Diversity and coverage of seagrass ecosystems in south-west Madagascar

Seagrass meadows provide important nursery and feeding grounds for many commercially valuable fish species. Here, we address the paucity of published information on the status of seagrasses in Madagascar by documenting the results from ecological surveys of 11 seagrass beds in Velondriake, a locally managed marine area (LMMA) in south-west Madagascar. The diversity and coverage of meadows was highest in the north of the LMMA with up to 51% coverage, and lowest in the south (26%). Overall, eight seagrass species were recorded: Cymodocea rotundata, C. serrulata, Halodule uninervis, Halophila ovalis, H. stipulacea, Syringodium isoetifolium, Thalassia hemprichii and Thalassodendron ciliatum. We discuss the natural and anthropogenic factors that may account for the observed low diversity of seagrasses in southern Velondriake, including overfishing, beach-seining, cyclones, siltation and mangrove deforestation. Based on these baseline surveys, as well as discussions with local communities, it is recommended that measures should be taken to reinforce efforts to ban beach-seines and that the role of seagrasses as carbon sinks and potential sustainable financing options through blue carbon initiatives should be investigated through further, more detailed surveys.     

Probabilistic estimate of seismic response design values of RC frames

Probabilistically controlled design values of the nonlinear seismic response of reinforced concrete frames are obtained using a method previously proposed by the authors. The method allows to calculate conservative design values characterized by a predefined non‐exceedance probability, using a limited number of spectrum‐fitting generated accelerograms. Herein the method is applied to elastic‐strain hardening single degree of freedom systems representative of RC framed structures and is then assessed with reference to four reinforced concrete model frames designed according to EC8. The frames are characterized by different natural periods and aspect ratios. The results, compared with those obtained applying current EC8 recommendations, show the effectiveness of the proposed method. EC8 provides for design values of the seismic response of a structure with a nonlinear behavior computed as the mean value of the responses to seven accelerograms or as the maximum value of the responses to three accelerograms. These two criteria lead to design values characterized by very different and uncontrolled non‐exceedance probability levels, while the proposed method allows the analyst to directly control the non‐exceedance probability level of the calculated design values. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Spectra of stretching numbers and helicity angles in dynamical systems

We define a stretching number (or Lyapunov characteristic number for one period) (or stretching number) a = In % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGGipm0dc9vqaqpepu0xbbG8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWaaqWaaeaada% Wcaaqaaiabe67a4jaadshacqGHRaWkcaaIXaaabaGaeqOVdGNaamiD% aaaaaiaawEa7caGLiWoaaaa!3F1E!\[\left| {\frac{{\xi t + 1}}{{\xi t}}} \right|\]as the logarithm of the ratio of deviations from a given orbit at times t and t + 1. Similarly we define a helicity angle as the angle between the deviation % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGGipm0dc9vqaqpepu0xbbG8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaGaeqOVdGNaam% iDaaaa!3793!\[\xi t\]and a fixed direction. The distributions of the stretching numbers and helicity angles (spectra) are invariant with respect to initial conditions in a connected chaotic domain. We study such spectra in conservative and dissipative mappings of 2 degrees of freedom and in conservative mappings of 3-degrees of freedom. In 2-D conservative systems we found that the lines of constant stretching number have a fractal form.     

A locally-constrained YOLO framework for detecting small and densely-distributed building footprints

ABSTRACT

Building footprints are among the most predominant features in urban areas, and provide valuable information for urban planning, solar energy suitability analysis, etc. We aim to automatically and rapidly identify building footprints by leveraging deep learning techniques and the increased availability of remote sensing datasets at high spatial resolution. The task is computationally challenging due to the use of large training datasets and large number of parameters. In related work, You-Only-Look-Once (YOLO) is a state-of-the-art deep learning framework for object detection. However, YOLO is limited in its capacity to identify small objects that appear in groups, which is the case for building footprints. We propose a LOcally-COnstrained (LOCO) You-Only-Look-Once framework to detect small and densely-distributed building footprints. LOCO is a variant of YOLO. Its layer architecture is determined by the spatial characteristics of building footprints and it uses a constrained regression modeling to improve the robustness of building size predictions. We also present an invariant augmentation based voting scheme to further improve the precision in the prediction phase. Experiments show that LOCO can greatly improve the solution quality of building detection compared to related work.     

“8.25”曲靖突发局地大暴雨的中尺度系统特征分析和数值模拟

“8.25”曲靖突发性局地大暴雨,在近30年来8月强降雨中是罕见的。采用Barnes带通滤波方法分离出中尺度天气系统表明,500hPa上的中尺度低压扰动系统和700hPa上的中尺度低涡是产生这次暴雨天气过程的直接的天气系统。在潜在不稳定条件下,由于中尺度系统的扰动,局地水汽强烈辐合,造成了此次强降水。同时中尺度数值模式MM5结果很好地模拟了这次局地暴雨过程的落区、雨强以及发生和发展。强降水发生时有强的上升运动与深厚饱和气柱互耦结构是富源、马龙大暴雨产生的重要动力机制。师宗站上升运动主要出现在对流层中高层,降雨量与上述两站相比要小得多。深对流气柱内云团发展的微物理结构显示,造成富源大暴雨的强对流云不是只含有云水和雨水的暖云云体,在对流层高层有含有雪和冰的混合相云体。马龙暴雨的强对流云团的微物理结构上在对流层中低层与富源云团性质一样,同属暖云云体,但云水合比和雨水混合比均比富源云团小,在对流层高层马龙云团为仅含有雪的单一云体。师宗云团与上述两站均不同,雨水混合比在3者之中最小,产生强降水的主要是对流层高层含有雪和冰的混合相云体。     

LONG VALID TIME ENERGY PERFECT CONSERVATIVE FIDELITY SPECTRAL SCHEMES OF BAROTROPIC PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS

In accordance with a new compensation principle of discrete computations,the traditional meteo-rological global (pseudo-) spectral schemes of barotropic primitive equation (s) are transformed intoperfect energy conservative fidelity schemes,thus resolving the problems of both nonlinear computa-tional instability and incomplete energy conservation,and raising the computational efficiency of thetraditional schemes.As the numerical tests of the new schemes demonstrate,in solving the problem of energy conser-vation in operational computations,the new schemes can eliminate the (nonlinear) computational in-stability and,to some extent even the (nonlinear) computational diverging as found in the traditionalschemes,Further contrasts between new and traditional schemes also indicate that,in discrete opera-tional computations,the new scheme in the case of nondivergence is capable of prolonging the valid in-tegral time of the corresponding traditional scheme,and eliminating certain kind of systematical com-putational“climate drift”,meanwhile increasing its computational accuracy and reducing its amount ofcomputation.The working principle of this paper is also applicable to the problem concerning baroclin-ic primitive equations.     

拓扑分子格的S紧化与S次紧化

利用半开元等半拓扑概念引入拓扑分子格的S紧化与S次紧化概念,给出了它们的刻画,推广了王国俊(1990)拓扑分子格的紧化与次紧化概念,得出了拓扑分子格与其最简单点S紧化关于分离性(半分离性)的性质,以及正统拓扑分子格与其最简单点S紧化(S次紧化)关于分离性(半分离性)的性质等。