ADVANCES IN MEASURING TECHNIQUES OF BED LOAD

I.m~UCrIONBedloadisthesedimentwhichmovesalongtheriverbedintheformofrolling,slidingandsaltation.BedloadmaycreatemanyproblemsintheoperationandmaintenanceofnavigationchannelandinthedevelOPmentofhydroelectricity.Dataofbedloaddischargearealsorequiredinthedesignofreservoir,inwhichtheinflowbedloadareallactuallytrapped.Thewaysofbedloadmotionaredifferentfordifferentsizes.Thus,itisextremelydifficulttodeterminethebedloaddischargeaccurately.Manyequationshavebeenproposedtocalculatethebedloaddischarge.H…     

Possible climate change/variability and human impacts,vulnerability of drought-prone regions,water resources and capacity building for Africa

ABSTRACT

This review article discusses the climate, water resources and historical droughts of Africa, drought indices, vulnerability, impact of global warming and land use for drought-prone regions in West, southern and the Greater Horn of Africa, which have suffered recurrent severe droughts in the past. Recent studies detected warming and drying trends in Africa since the mid 20th century. Based on the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), both northern and southern Africa are projected to experience drying, such as decreasing precipitation, runoff and soil moisture in the 21st century and could become more vulnerable to the impact of droughts. The daily maximum temperature is projected to increase by up to 8°C (RCP8.5 of CMIP5), precipitation indices such as total wet day precipitation (PRCPTOT) and heavy precipitation days (R10 mm) could decrease, while warm spell duration (WSDI) and consecutive dry days (CDD) could increase. Uncertainties of the above long-term projections, teleconnections to climate anomalies such as ENSO and the Madden-Julian Oscillation, which could also affect the water resources of Africa, and capacity building in terms of physical infrastructure and non-structural solutions are also discussed. Given that traditional climate and hydrological data observed in Africa are generally limited, satellite data should also be exploited to fill the data gap for Africa in the future.

Editor D. Koutsoyiannis; Associate editor N. Ilich     

An enhanced constitutive model for crushable granular materials

Studies in the past have tried to reproduce the mechanical behaviour of granular materials by proposing constitutive relations based on a common assumption that model parameters and parameters describing the properties, including gradation of individual grains are inevitably linked. However successful these models have proved to be, they cannot account for the changes in granular assembly behaviour if the grains start to break during mechanical loading. This paper proposes to analyse the relation between grading change and the mechanical behaviour of granular assembly. A way to model the influence of grain breakage is to use a critical state‐based model. The influence of the amount of grain breakage during loading, depending on the individual grain strength and size distribution, can be introduced into constitutive relations by means of a new parameter that controls the evolution of critical state with changes in grain size distribution. Experimental data from a calcareous sand, a quartz sand, and a rockfill material were compared with numerical results and good‐quality simulations were obtained. The main consequences of grain breakage are increased compressibility and a gradual dilatancy disappearance in the granular material. The critical state concept is also enriched by considering its overall relation to the evolution of the granular material. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

安宁河断裂带晚第四纪运动特征及模式的讨论

安宁河断裂带是中国西南地区一条重要的地震活动断层, 地方志记载公元1536年曾发生过震级大于7级的破坏性地震. 详细的断裂地貌航片解译和野外调查表明, 安宁河断裂带除具有主要的左旋走滑断层活动外,还兼有重要的逆冲运动分量. 根据冲沟和阶地面的位错量及其热释光测年结果估计,该断裂带晚更新世以来平均左旋走滑速率为3~7 mm/a. 根据滑移方向与断层走向的关系,推测跨安宁河断裂带东西向由于逆冲断层运动造成的挤压缩短速率约为1.7~4.0 mm/a; 简单分解鲜水河断裂带上的滑动速率,估计分配在大凉山断裂带上的滑动速率与安宁河断裂带上的大致相当,约为3~7 mm/a. 此外,根据野外调查结果,并结合最近青藏高原构造动力学研究的新认识, 建立了安宁河断裂带的动力学模型,认为安宁河断裂带是一条逆冲走滑断裂带. 其下盘（西盘）主动向南东方向下插,造成了上盘（东盘）向北西方向的上冲运动.      

A two-stage time series model for monthly hydrological projections under climate change in the Lim River basin (southeast Europe)

ABSTRACT

Climate change projections of precipitation and temperature suggest that Serbia could be one of the most affected regions in southeastern Europe. To prepare adaptation measures, the impact of climate changes on water resources needs to be assessed. Pilot research is carried out for the Lim River basin, in southeastern Europe, to predict monthly flows under different climate scenarios. For estimation of future water availability, an alternative approach of developing a deterministic-stochastic time series model is chosen. The proposed two-stage time series model consists of several components: trend, long-term periodicity, seasonality and the stochastic component. The latter is based on a transfer function model with two input variables, precipitation and temperature, as climatic drivers. The Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency for the observed period 1950–2012 is 0.829. The model is applied for the long-term hydrological prediction under the representative concentration pathway (RCP) emissions scenarios for the future time frame 2013–2070.     

巴州农区气候变化及其对农业生产的影响

分析了1960—2001年巴州农区年、季平均温度、降水的变化，结果表明：各地气候变化并不一致，大部分地区有温度升高、降水偏多的趋势。冬季的升温幅度明显大于其它季节，年平均温度的上升主要由冬季升温所致。     

秦岭南北降雪异常空间模态识别及其影响因素分析

识别降雪异常空间模态,明晰降雪异常的影响因素,对理解中国南北过渡带气候变化规律具有重要的实践意义。论文基于1970—2020年逐日气象数据,辅以湿球温度动态阈值法、经验正交分解法等气候诊断方法,对秦岭南北冷季(11月—次年5月)降雪异常空间模态进行识别,探讨了不同主导模态与海气异常的相关关系。结果表明：(1)秦岭南北冷季降雪异常存在2个主导模态。第1模态为“全区一致型”,降雪异常偏强区分布于关中平原、秦岭山地、汉江谷地和大巴山区东段;第2模态为“山地主导下降型”,反映山地降雪异常对气候变化的敏感性;(2)在时间变化上,第1模态以年际波动为主,20世纪90年代中期后,空间模态多处于负相位,即全区一致降雪偏少;第2模态以年代转折为主,近期空间模态多处于正相位,即山地降雪异常偏少;(3)在影响因素上,第1模态降雪异常与1月中高纬度500 hPa欧亚遥相关波列相关,第2模态降雪异常与冬季赤道中东太平洋海温异常密切相关。研究将降雪异常格局与环流异常机制组合研究,可为理解中国南北过渡带降雪异常预警信号提供理论基础。     

中国天山山区235 a气候变化及降水趋势预测

  利用4个降水重建序列与天山山区10个气象站降水变化的响应关系,重建了天山山区近235 a来气候变化的年降水序列,重建序列的方差解释量达到47.7%。对过去235 a天山山区气候变化中降水变化的特征分析发现：降水大致经历了7干7湿的变化阶段,其中偏湿年份为124 a,多于偏干年份;天山山区的降水量以2.1 a、3.0 a、5.8 a、6.0 a的高频变化和24~25 a的低频变化周期最为显著。研究表明,近百年天山山区气候变化中的降水变化分为两个阶段,20世纪初到80年代,降水量逐渐减少,导致冰川退缩、河流径流量减少、湖泊萎缩、沙漠面积增大、植被覆盖率减少;80年代后期至今,降水量迅速增加,导致河川径流量增加、湖泊面积增大和沙尘暴日数减少,生态环境趋于好转,但同时造成洪水和地质灾害频繁。采用基于方差分析的周期叠加方法对天山山区未来23 a气候变化中降水的演变趋势进行预测,结果表明：未来23 a气候变化中天山山区以湿润为主,期间有部分年份可能较常年干旱。     

近30年我国气候变化的不稳定性及其与农业生产的关系

引入信息论中熵值分析方法，利用全国七大区１９６１－１９９０年的气象和产量资料，讨论了近年平均气温，最高气温，最低气温和降水量的熵值时空变化类型。详细分析了我国气候变化的不稳定性，在此基础上，定性讨论了气候波动与农业气象灾害的关系及其对农业产量的影响，并分区建立了产量与气象要素熵的回归模型。     

基于特大地震发生率的川滇地区地震危险性预测新模型

川滇地区是我国地震危险性较高的地区之一.本文基于对特大强震的风险性考虑,使用全球地震模型OpenQuake软件,建立了川滇地区地震危险性预测新模型.首先根据构造特征划分多个震源分区,并整理出这些震源分区内断层活动特征与滑动速率;基于震源分区和断层模型,使用GPS应变率转换成的锥形古登堡-里克特关系作为整个区域的地震积累率,并允许超过历史最大震级的特大地震的出现,结合活动断层滑动速率所积累的地震发生率,给出震源分区内断层地震源和背景地震源的地震发生率的比率分配关系;在活动断层分段上,保留了大型断裂或其主要部分,没有根据小的阶区来对断层进行详细分段,以便分配特大地震发生率;并使用地震率平滑方法分配背景地震发生率.最后在OpenQuake中加入地震动预测方程,计算出了川滇地区的PGA分布图,为区域地震危险性提供科学依据.