影响北京夏季O3污染的O3前体物浓度及天气条件分析

根据2003年北京夏季近地面大气光化学污染物观测资料,对中国气象局培训中心(代表站)O3超标日浓度、O3前体物浓度、不同天气条件下O3浓度分布特征等进行分析。结果表明:中国北京夏季NO2,NO,CO的浓度特征与日本神奈川县相似,白天(16:00以前)如果NO2/NO超过29,则容易出现O3超标;VOC浓度的高低影响O3浓度;当处于暖湿气流控制,地面为小风或静风、气温较高、湿度较大的多云天气时,易出现O3超标情况。这些污染物发生的特点和规律对北京大气光化学污染的研究和防治具有借鉴意义。     

2003年陕西秋季连阴雨降水特点及环流条件分析

文章分析了陕西省2003年秋季连阴雨降水的特征和形成秋季连阴雨天气的天气学、热力学特点。结果表明:2003年陕西秋季连阴雨降水的主要特征是降水的落区和时间相对集中, 降水强度大, 日数多且持续时间长, 是1954年以来陕西又一次极端连阴雨事件。在大气环流由夏季型向冬季型转变过程中, 对流层高层西风急流南压至40°N时, 青藏高原东北侧包括陕西在内的西北地区东部, 位于急流南侧的高空辐散区, 该地区对流层低层却保持着高温高湿的热力特征, 对流上升运动活跃, 形成了低层辐合高层辐散的垂直环流机制, 这时对流层中部500 hPa欧亚环流形势相对稳定, 乌拉尔山的长波脊和中亚低槽维持, 偏强、偏北、偏西的副热带高压外围偏南气流为该区域输送了大量的水汽, 从而形成了陕西及西北地区东部持续的连阴雨天气; 当西风带中纬度新疆高压脊建立, 副热带高压东移南退时, 陕西及西北地区东部的连阴雨天气结束。     

参考大气和大气质量守恒格式对气候模式月预报效果的改进试验

为了考查参考大气和大气质量守恒格式对气候谱模式月预报的改进能力,我们在国家气候中心气候谱模式中引入了这两个方案,选取了两个个例进行验证。对不同方案的月平均预报结果与实况进行了比较,并讨论了不同方案对高度场距平相关系数和均方根误差的影响。本文个例试验结果表明,这两个方案对月平均预报结果均有改进,参考大气方案的改进比大气质量守恒方案更为明显。     

兰州城区冬季大气气溶胶粒子谱的反演研究

从实测的兰州城市冬季大气气溶胶多波段光学厚度资料出发,应用消光法反演了大气柱气溶胶粒子谱,并对反演程序的可行性、反演结果的可靠性进行了分析讨论。结果表明,反演出的大气柱气溶胶粒子谱分布都为三峰型分布。通过正算方法计算出的光学厚度值检验反演方法,检验结果说明,反演程序是可行的,结果是可靠的。     

云南省5月份雨量的天气气候成因探讨

该文探讨了影响云南5月雨量的大气环流背景、天气气候成因，指出大气环流季节性转换、ITCZ、南亚高压、西太平洋副高等是大气环流背景;夏季风和西风槽相互作用、北方冷空气与南方暖湿气流相互作用是天气气候成因。以此为预报思路，得出一个云南5月雨量长期预报模式。     

Persistent rings in and around Jupiter’s anticyclones – Observations and theory

We present observations and theoretical calculations to derive the vertical structure of and secondary circulation in jovian vortices, a necessary piece of information to ultimately explain the red color in the annular ring inside Jupiter’s Oval BA. The observations were taken with the near-infrared detector NIRC2 coupled to the adaptive optics system on the 10-m W.M. Keck telescope (UT 21 July 2006; UT 11 May 2008) and with the Hubble Space Telescope at visible wavelengths (UT 24 and 25 April 2006 using ACS; UT 9 and 10 May 2008 using WFPC2). The spatial resolution in the near-IR (∼0.1–0.15″ at 1–5 μm) is comparable to that obtained at UV–visible wavelengths (∼0.05–0.1″ at 250–890 nm). At 5 μm we are sensitive to Jupiter’s thermal emission, whereas at shorter wavelengths we view the planet in reflected sunlight. These datasets are complementary, as images at 0.25–1.8 μm provide information on the clouds/hazes in the troposphere–stratosphere, while the 5-μm emission maps yield information on deeper layers in the atmosphere, in regions without clouds. At the latter wavelength numerous tiny ovals can be discerned at latitudes between ∼45°S and 60°S, which show up as rings with diameters ?1000 km surrounding small ovals visible in HST data. Several white ovals at 41°S, as well as a new red oval that was discovered to the west of the GRS, also reveal 5-μm bright rings around their peripheries, which coincide with dark/blue rings at visible wavelengths. Typical brightness temperatures in these 5-μm bright rings are 225–250 K, indicative of regions that are cloud-free down to at least the ∼4 bar level, and perhaps down to 5–7 bar, i.e., well within the water cloud.Radiative transfer modeling of the 1–2 μm observations indicates that all ovals, i.e., including the Great Red Spot (GRS), Red Oval BA, and the white ovals at 41°S, are overall very similar in vertical structure. The main distinction between the ovals is caused by variations in the particle densities in the tropospheric–stratospheric hazes (2–650 mbar). These are 5–8 times higher above the red ovals than above the white ones at 41°S. The combination of the 5-μm rings and the vertical structure derived from near-IR data suggests anticyclones to extend vertically from (at least) the water cloud (∼5 bar) up to the tropopause (∼100–200 mbar), and in some cases into the stratosphere.Based upon our observations, we propose that air is rising along the center of a vortex, and descending around the outer periphery, producing the 5-μm bright rings. Observationally, we constrain the maximum radius of these rings to be less than twice the local Rossby deformation radius, L_R. If the radius of the visible oval (i.e., the clouds that make the oval visible) is >3000 km, our observations suggest that the descending part of the secondary circulation must be within these ovals. For the Red Oval BA, we postulate that the return flow is at the location of its red annulus, which has a radius of ∼3000 km.We develop a theory for the secondary circulation, where air is (baroclinically) rising along the center of a vortex in a subadiabatic atmosphere, and descending at a distance not exceeding ∼2× the local Rossby deformation radius. Using this model, we find a timescale for mixing throughout the vortex of order several months, which suggests that the chromophores that are responsible for the red color of Oval BA’s red annulus must be produced locally, at the location of the annulus. This production most likely results from the adiabatic heating in the descending part of the secondary circulation. Such higher-than-ambient temperature causes NH₃–ice to sublime, which will expose the condensation nuclei, such as the red chromophores.     

The source of widespread 3-μm absorption in Jupiter’s clouds: Constraints from 2000 Cassini VIMS observations

The Cassini flyby of Jupiter in 2000 provided spatially resolved spectra of Jupiter’s atmosphere using the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS). A prominent characteristic of these spectra is the presence of a strong absorption at wavelengths from about 2.9 μm to 3.1 μm, previously noticed in a 3-μm spectrum obtained by the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) in 1996. While Brooke et al. (Brooke, T.Y., Knacke, R.F., Encrenaz, T., Drossart, P., Crisp, D., Feuchtgruber, H. [1998]. Icarus 136, 1-13) were able to fit the ISO spectrum very well using ammonia ice as the sole source of particulate absorption, Sromovsky and Fry (Sromovsky, L.A., Fry, P.M. [2010]. Icarus 210, 211-229), using significantly revised NH₃ gas absorption models, showed that ammonium hydrosulfide (NH₄SH) provided a better fit to the ISO spectrum than NH₃, but that the best fit was obtained when both NH₃ and NH₄SH were present in the clouds. Although the large FOV of the ISO instrument precluded identification of the spatial distribution of these two components, the VIMS spectra at low and intermediate phase angles show that 3-μm absorption is present in zones and belts, in every region investigated, and both low- and high-opacity samples are best fit with a combination of NH₄SH and NH₃ particles at all locations. The best fits are obtained with a layer of small ammonia-coated particles (r ∼ 0.3 μm) overlying but often close to an optically thicker but still modest layer of much larger NH₄SH particles (r ∼ 10 μm), with a deeper optically thicker layer, which might also be composed of NH₄SH. Although these fits put NH₃ ice at pressures less than 500 mb, this is not inconsistent with the lack of prominent NH₃ features in Jupiter’s longwave spectrum because the reflectivity of the core particles strongly suppresses the NH₃ absorption features, at both near-IR and thermal wavelengths. Unlike Jupiter, Saturn lacks the broad 3-μm absorption feature, but does exhibit a small absorption near 2.965 μm, which resembles a similar jovian feature and suggests that both planets contain upper tropospheric clouds of sub-micron particles containing ammonia as a minor fraction.     

Mars CO2 cycle: Effects of airborne dust and polar cap ice emissivity

Mars General Circulation Model (GCM) simulations are presented to illustrate the importance of the ice emissivity of the seasonal CO₂ polar caps in regulating the effects of airborne dust on the martian CO₂ cycle. Simulated results show that atmospheric dust suppresses CO₂ condensation when the CO₂ ice emissivity is high but enhances it when the CO₂ ice emissivity is low. This raises the possibility that the reason for the repeatable nature of the CO₂ cycle in the presence of a highly variable dust cycle is that the CO₂ ice emissivity is “neutral” - the value that leads to no change in CO₂ condensation with changing atmospheric dust. For this GCM, the “neutral” emissivity is approximately 0.55, which is low compared to observed cap emissivities. This inconsistency poses a problem for this hypothesis. However, it is clear that the CO₂ ice emissivity is a critical physical parameter in determining how atmospheric dust affects the CO₂ cycle on Mars.     

A spherical Monte-Carlo model of aerosols: Validation and first applications to Mars and Titan

The atmospheres of Mars and Titan are loaded with aerosols that impact remote sensing observations of their surface. Here we present the algorithm and the first applications of a radiative transfer model in spherical geometry designed for planetary data analysis. We first describe a fast Monte-Carlo code that takes advantage of symmetries and geometric redundancies. We then apply this model to observations of the surface of Mars and Titan at the terminator as acquired by OMEGA/Mars Express and VIMS/Cassini. These observations are used to probe the vertical distribution of aerosols down to the surface. On Mars, we find the scale height of dust particles to vary between 6 km and 12 km depending on season. Temporal variations in the vertical size distribution of aerosols are also highlighted. On Titan, an aerosols scale height of 80 ± 10 km is inferred, and the total optical depth is found to decrease with wavelength as a power-law with an exponent of −2.0 ± 0.4 from a value of 2.3 ± 0.5 at 1.08 μm. Once the aerosols properties have been constrained, the model is used to retrieve surface reflectance properties at high solar zenith angles and just after sunset.     

Enhanced CO2 trapping in water ice via atmospheric deposition with relevance to Mars

It has been suggested that inclusions of CO₂ or CO₂ clathrate hydrates may comprise a portion of the polar deposits on Mars. Here we present results from an experimental study in which CO₂ molecules were trapped in water ice deposited from CO₂/H₂O atmospheres at temperatures relevant for the polar regions of Mars. Fourier-Transform Infrared spectroscopy was used to monitor the phase of the condensed ice, and temperature programmed desorption was used to quantify the ratio of species in the generated ice films. Our results show that when H₂O ice is deposited at 140-165 K, CO₂ is trapped in large quantities, greater than expected based on lower temperature studies in amorphous ice. The trapping occurs at pressures well below the condensation point for pure CO₂ ice, and therefore this mechanism may allow for CO₂ deposition at the poles during warmer periods. The amount of trapped CO₂ varied from 3% to 16% by mass at 160 K, depending on the substrate studied. Substrates studied were a tetrahydrofuran (C₄H₈O) base clathrate and Fe-montmorillonite clay, an analog for Mars soil. Experimental evidence indicates that the ice structures are likely CO₂ clathrate hydrates. These results have implications for the CO₂ content, overall composition, and density of the polar deposits on Mars.