Assessment and determinants of per capita household CO<Subscript>2</Subscript> emissions (PHCEs) based on capital city level in China

Household CO₂ emissions were increasing due to rapid economic growth and different household lifestyle. We assessed per capita household CO₂ emissions (PHCEs) based on different household consuming demands (including clothing, food, residence, transportation and service) by using provincial capital city level survey data in China. The results showed that: (1) there was a declining trend moving from eastward to westward as well as moving from northward to southward in the distribution of PHCEs. (2) PHCEs from residence demand were the largest which accounted for 44% of the total. (3) Correlation analysis and spatial analysis (Spatial Lag Model (SLM) and Spatial Error Model (SEM)) were used to evaluate the complex determinants of PHCEs. Per capita income (PI) and household size (HS) were analyzed as the key influencing factors. We concluded that PHCEs would increase by 0.2951% and decrease by 0.5114% for every 1% increase in PI and HS, respectively. According to the results, policy-makers should consider household consuming demand, income disparity and household size on the variations of PHCEs. The urgency was to improve technology and change household consuming lifestyle to reduce PHCEs.     

盐湖水文地质研究进展

盐湖水文地质学是揭示盐湖成因演化、资源开发利用及保护中不可缺少的一门学科。本文利用水文地质学的内容归纳国内外盐湖水文地质学的研究进展,并对我国盐湖水文地质研究提出扼要的展望。     

Rapid vertical motions and formation of volcanic arc gaps: Plateau collision recorded in the forearc geological evolution (Costa Rica margin)

The collision of bathymetric features with modern convergent margins has been investigated with the full range of tools used in geosciences. Hence, a comprehensive picture exists of the characteristic effects of collision events on the evolution of convergent margins. In contrast, much less studies documented past collisions of bathymetric features with convergent margins, as colliding features were generally lost to subduction. The arc‐trench system of southern Central America provides modern and past textbook examples of active margin interaction with incoming bathymetric reliefs. Here, we propose a synthesis which combines basin and terrane analysis of the forearc of northern Costa Rica and takes up the challenge of documenting past episodes of plateau accretion to the active margin. As illustrated in modern examples, our study shows that kilometric uplift of the overriding plate and termination of the volcanic arc activity are the most profound effects of colliding/accreting oceanic plateaus. Kilometric uplift of the forearc is documented by short‐lived (ca. 3 m.y.) occurrences of shallow‐water deposits in an overall deep‐water forearc record. These shallow deposits contain material reworked from underlying sedimentary and basement lithologies. The development of spatial gaps in arc volcanism is deduced from the transition from arc‐derived turbidites to pelagic sediments. Eventually, end of the collision event is evidenced by the subsidence of the whole forearc to deep‐water environments. Basin subsidence is accompanied or followed by renewed volcanic arc activity and coeval arc‐derived sedimentation, which may occur 1–7 m.y. after plateau collision. These past episodes of plateau accretion are archetypal for the following reasons: (a) they may be studied in outcrop, whereas most of the modern collisions of plateaus largely occur underwater; (b) no tectonic or metamorphic imprint has significantly complicated the forearc geological record; (c) the colliding feature and the sedimentary response to its collision are both preserved in the forearc geology; (d) they may be used as analogues for any setting where a bathymetric feature is suspected to have caused rapid forearc uplift and cessation of the volcanic arc activity.     

肖塘地区夏季土壤CO2浓度日变化特征及影响因素

利用塔克拉玛干沙漠北缘流动沙漠—古河床过渡带肖糖地区2012年6—8月土壤40 cm深处CO_2 浓度和相关气象要素资料,对该区域的土壤CO_2 浓度变化特征及影响因子进行了分析。结果表明:(1)肖塘地区夏季土壤40 cm深处CO_2 浓度的日变化过程中呈现出夜间低、白天高的单峰型,日最高值出现在18:00左右,最低值出现在6:30左右,浓度平均值保持在506.97~518.14 ppm之间;(2)随着土壤温度和土壤湿度的变大,土壤CO_2 浓度增大,两者呈显著正相关;(3)风速和土壤CO_2 浓度之间存在一定的滞后性;(4)大气压力对土壤CO_2 浓度变化产生显著影响,两者呈负相关。     

Evaluating relative sensitivity of SWAT‐simulated nitrogen discharge to projected climate and land cover changes for two watersheds in North Carolina,USA

We investigated how projected changes in land cover and climate affected simulated nitrate (NO₃^?) and organic nitrogen discharge for two watersheds within the Neuse River Basin, North Carolina, USA, for years 2010–2070. We applied the Soil and Water Assessment Tool watershed model to predict nitrogen discharge using (1) atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (2) land cover change predicted by the Integrated Climate and Land Use Change project and (3) precipitation and temperature simulated by two statistically downscaled and bias‐corrected Global Circulation Models. We determined the sensitivity of simulated nitrogen discharge to separate changes in each treatment [(1) CO₂, (2) land cover and (3) precipitation and temperature (PT)] by comparing each treatment to a reference condition. Results showed that nitrogen discharges were most sensitive to changes in PT over the 60‐year simulation. Nitrogen discharges had similar sensitivities to the CO₂ and land cover treatments, which were only one‐tenth the influence of the PT treatment. Under the CO₂ treatment, nitrogen discharges increased with increasing ambient CO₂. NO₃^? discharge decreased with increased urbanization; however, organic nitrogen had a varied response. Under the PT treatment, there was high spatial variability in nitrogen discharges. In a single year, certain sub‐basins showed an 80% increase in nitrogen discharge relative to reference, while others showed a 400% decrease. With nitrogen discharge showing high sensitivity to PT change, we suggest that more emphasis should be placed on investigating impacts of PT on nutrient transport in the Neuse River Basin. Published 2015. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA     

Application of the Clean Development Mechanism in the Sanitation Sector: “Proof of Concept”

Greenhouse gas emissions from the waste sector account for only 4% of the total production, with wastewater management accounting for accurately 8 to 10% of this contribution. Wastewater disposal and treatment activities, mainly contributes to non‐CO₂ gases such as methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N₂O). Capturing or avoiding these emissions is thus both a concern and an opportunity. The clean development mechanism (CDM) offers an instrument to internalize global climate concerns into the design of wastewater treatment facilities. Properly designed facilities could improve effluent quality and optimize the abatement of greenhouse gas emissions, thus ensuring additional revenues to pay for capital, operation and maintenance costs and possibly justify higher levels of wastewater treatment. This document summarizes the experience of the “Rio Frio CDM project” in Colombia, as an example of what is achievable through the CDM application in wastewater treatment upgrade in developing countries. This document summarizes the scope of the project, the methodology used to establish current greenhouse emissions and future reductions, and the estimated financial results.     

辽宁北票四合屯地区鸟类集群死亡原因新解

通过对鸟类生理特点和生活习性的考察,该地域火山孕育与喷发关系的探析,碳、砷、锑、铋、铅的氢化物、一氧化碳生成条件、理化性质及其毒性的讨论,认为鸟类在火山喷发前夜即被弥漫在空气中大量剧毒易挥发的氢化物、一氧化碳致命,集群死亡,接着火山喷发,火山灰将它们深埋,演化成鸟类化石.     

CO2驱煤层气中煤层膨胀对套管稳定性的影响

随着中国经济的快速发展,能源供需矛盾日益突出,由于过度依赖化石能源,大量排放CO2,致使面临的环境压力越来越大。CO2驱煤层气(CO2 enhanced coal-bed methane)技术可同时增产煤层气和大规模减排CO2,在我国具有良好应用前景,但应用该技术在注采生产过程中因煤层吸附CO2产生的膨胀效应对套管稳定性的影响尚未引起重视。通过建立考虑CO2煤岩吸附膨胀效应的套管-充填材料-煤岩平面应变模型计算的套管应力和变形理论解与ABAQUS数值模拟结果具有良好的一致性,并分析了CO2吸附膨胀条件下套管应力的影响因素。分析结果表明,膨胀对套管应力和变形具有显著影响。在给定CO2吸附浓度和套管内径条件下,套管和充填材料的壁厚、充填材料和煤岩的力学参数是影响套管应力的主要因素,可通过增加套管或（和）充填材料壁厚以及改变充填材料力学参数来降低套管应力。开发超低弹模和较大泊松比的充填材料是降低套管应力的有效途径。     

松辽盆地火山岩高含CO2气藏包裹体特征及成藏期次

在详细岩相学观察的基础上,充分利用包裹体的岩相学特征、均一温度特征、气体组分特征以及碳同位素特征等,确定了松辽盆地营城组火山岩中包裹体的类型、期次和成分特征,并对火山岩高含CO2气藏的成藏期次进行了分析。综合各种地质地化证据,确定松辽盆地火山岩高含CO2气藏中烃类气成藏特征是连续充注基础上的两期成藏,即泉头组—青山口组沉积时期和嫩江组沉积中后期;CO2充注发生在喜山期,CO2的充注晚于烃类气的充注。     

三峡不同蓄水阶段澎溪河CO2通量的初步研究

为掌握不同蓄水阶段温室气体通量强度,揭示水生生态系统在水库蓄水后的重建过程,选择2004年(蓄水后第1年)、2008年(蓄水后第5年)为典型年,结合同期主要环境参量,比较研究了三峡典型支流澎溪河回水区水柱表层CO₂分压p(CO₂)及其扩散通量F_CO2特征。研究发现,2004年澎溪河双江大桥处水柱表层p(CO₂)、F_CO2年均值分别为(101.9±7.5)Pa、(13.99±1.58)mmol/(m²·d),2008年相应为(129.1±16.4)Pa、(19.92±3.55)mmol/(m²·d)。水位上升淹没土地带来更多有机质降解,可能引起了p(CO₂)和F_CO2的总体升高;蓄水过程水域生态系统逐渐完善,浮游植物生长对p(CO₂)和F_CO2的影响逐渐显现。