泛华夏大陆群与东特提斯构造域演化

本文以板块构造理论为基础,根据全球各大陆陆块和微陆块的相对亲缘性、统一性和独立性,提出晚前寒武纪末一早古生代初泛大陆解体后,整个古生代期间,全球大陆可划分为三大陆块群,即冈瓦纳大陆群、劳亚大陆群,和泛华夏大陆群。论述了三大陆块群,特别是泛华夏大陆群的形成演化及其作为独立大陆群存在的统一性。指出泛华夏大陆群的独立性和统一性表现在:①早古生代末,扬子、华夏(包括黄海一东海一南海古陆)、中朝、柴达木、塔里木、昆仑一北羌塘一昌都一印支等陆块曾一度拼贴在一起,形成统一的大陆;②晚古生代中晚期形成独立的华夏植物群区系;③晚古生代末一早中生代,泛华夏大陆群主体部分的扬子一华夏和中朝陆块向西运移楔入,导致其南北两侧古特提斯洋的同步消亡和全球泛大陆的最终形成。泛华夏大陆群的形成演化历经了晚前寒武纪末一早古生代初各陆块的裂离、割据;早古生代末的拼贴、统一;晚古生代的再次分裂和晚古生代末一早中生代与南北大陆群拼贴4个发展阶段。同时指出在东特提斯构造域内,古特提斯既表现出对原特提斯的继承性,又有新生性;中特提斯不是古特提斯的延续和发展,它是标志泛大陆裂一聚巨旋回演化中另一旋回的开始。最后讨论了显生宙地球上大陆由南聚北散到北聚南散,陆块在总体上向北漂移中旋转、裂、聚和泛大陆重组和立即又解体的可能的动力学机制,即地球内部物质向南半球运移,南半球膨胀,促使泛大陆解体。地球内部物质的南移又迫使软流层物质向北运动,驱动大陆碎块北上。蠕动的软流层中,除具有垂向环流的对流环外,还具有大小不等的水平涡旋运动。正是巨大的水平涡旋运动导致了陆块的旋转、会聚(泛大陆形成)和很快脱离涡旋体面离散(泛大陆解体)。     

DW—10型电涡流传感器的性能测试

介绍了DW-10型电涡流位移传感器的主要技术性能及测试结果。其灵敏度为11-13mV/μm;线性范围达±0.5mm;线性度≥0.8％传感器对被测体的作用力<1×10~(-9)N。     

TOVS/MSU-ch.2亮温的中尺度天气特征环境

将NOAA-11探测仪TOVS/MSU-ch.2亮温，对照分析四川省（20°—40°N，90°—110°E）境内1989年7月7日至12日几次重复出现的中尺度云团发展和降水过程，得到两点看法:①MSU-ch.2亮温可能表示700 hPa附近中尺度天气的一种特征环境；②强中尺度对流云团可能在MSU-ch.2亮温分布的相对低值到高值过渡带内强烈发展，有时偏向高值区出现降水天气。     

2001年4月8日宁夏强沙尘暴天气中尺度系统分析

对2001年4月8日宁夏出现的一次强沙尘暴过程进行了天气背景及中尺度天气学分析。根据不同地区出现大风的时间差异，讨论了地形对冷锋和沙尘暴运动的影响；利用非静力平衡中尺度数值预报模式MM5的导出量，通过宁夏精细化预报物理量分析子系统，计算、分析了这次过程中Q矢量、锋生函数及总温度的变化特征。结果表明：MM5数值模式输出产品与本次沙尘暴过程天气实况有较好的对应关系及预报指示意义。     

Eddy flux corrections for CO2 exchange in broad-leaved Korean pine mixed forest of Changbai Mountains

Based on analysis of mechanisms causing energy no-closure and nocturnal low fluxes issues for CO2 exchange studies by eddy covariance method, corrections were done with the raw data sets obtained from Changbai Mountains forest flux site, to evaluate the impacts of sonic anemometer tilt, frequency response limitations and advection on estimation of CO2 exchange, respectively. The results show that the planar fit coordinate transforming method is superior to the streamline coordinate transforming method in tilt correction. The latter could cause a systematical underestimation of eddy fluxes relating with the angle of sensor and terrain tilt. The underestimation of CO2 and energy fluxes for frequency response limitations average 3.0% and 2.0% during daytime, respectively, which increase by 9.0% and 5.5% during nighttime, respectively. The corrections of frequency response limitations are closely related to atmospheric stability. The advection loss of CO2 fluxes is dominated by nocturnal vertical advection, which is at least 18% when the horizontal advection is neglected. It is suggested that more work be done to understand the characteristics of horizontal advection and turbulent eddies under a complexcircumstance.     

Recent progress and future directions of ChinaFLUX

The eddy covariance technique has emerged as an important tool to directly measure carbon dioxide, water vapor and heat fluxes between the terrestrial ecosystem and the atmosphere after a long history of fundamental research and technological developments. With the realization of regional networks of flux measurements in North American, European, Asia, Brazil, Australia and Africa, a global-scale network of micrometeorological flux measurement (FLUXNET) was established in 1998. FLUXNET has made great progresses in investigating the environmental mechanisms controlling carbon and water cycles, quantifying spatial-temporal patterns of carbon budget and seeking the "missing carbon sink" in global terrestrial ecosystems in the past ten years. The global-scale flux measurement also built a platform for international communication in the fields of resource, ecology and environment sciences. With the continuous development of flux research, FLUXNET will introduce and explore new techniques to extend the application fields of flux measurement and to answer questions in the fields of bio-geography, eco-hydrology, meteorology, climate change, remote sensing and modeling with eddy covariance flux data. As an important part of FLUXNET, ChinaFLUX has made significant progresses in the past three years on the methodology and technique of eddy covariance flux measurement, on the responses of CO2 and H2O exchange between the terrestrial ecosystem and the atmosphere to environmental change, and on flux modeling development. Results showed that the major forests on the North-South Transect of Eastern China (NSTEC) were all carbon sinks during 2003 to 2005, and the alpine meadows on the Tibet Plateau were also small carbon sinks. However, the reserved natural grassland, Leymus chinensis steppe in Inner Mongolia, was a carbon source. On a regional scale, temperature and precipitation are the primary climatic factors that determined the carbon balance in major terrestrial ecosystems in China. Finally, the current research emphasis and future directions of ChinaFLUX were presented. By combining flux network and terrestrial transect, ChinaFLUX will develop integrated research with multi-scale, multi-process, multi-subject observations, placing emphasis on the mechanism and coupling relationships between water, carbon and nitrogen cycles in terrestrial ecosystems.     

Seasonal dynamics of CO_2 fluxes from subtropical plantation coniferous ecosystem

As one component of ChinaFLUX, the measurement of CO2 flux using eddy covariance over subtropical planted coniferous ecosystem in Qianyanzhou was conducted for a long term. This paper discusses the seasonal dynamics of net ecosystem exchange (NEE), ecosystem respiration (RE) and gross ecosystem exchange (GEE) between the coniferous ecosystem and atmosphere along 2003 and 2004. The variations of NEE, RE and GEE show obvious seasonal variabilities and correlate to each other, i.e. lower in winter and drought season, but higher in summer; light, temperature and soil water content are the main factors determining NEE; air temperature and water vapor pressure deficit (VPD) influence NEE with stronger influence from VPD. Under the proper light condition, drought stress could decrease the temperature range for carbon capture in planted coniferous, air temperature and precipitation controlled RE; The NEE, RE, and GEE for planted coniferous in Qianyanzhou are -387.2 gC·m-2 a-1,1223.3 g C·m-2 a-1, -1610.4 g C·m-2 a-1 in 2003 and -423.8 g C·m-2 a-1, 1442.0 g C·m-2 a-1, -1865.8 g C·m-2 a-1 in 2004, respectively, which suggest the intensive ability of plantation coniferous forest on carbon absorbing in Qianyanzhou.     

Carbon dioxide exchange and the mechanism of environmental control in a farmland ecosystem in North China Plain

CO2 flux was measured continuously in a wheat and maize rotation system of North China Plain using the eddy covariance technique to study the characteristic of CO2 exchange and its response to key environmental factors. The results show that nighttime net ecosystem exchange (NEE) varied exponentially with soil temperature. The temperature sensitivities of the ecosystem (Q10) were 2.94 and 2.49 in years 2002-2003 and 2003-2004, respectively. The response of gross primary productivity (GPP) to photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) in the crop field can be expressed by a rectangular hyperbolic function. Average Amax andαfor maize were more than those for wheat. The values ofαincreased positively with leaf area index (LAI) of wheat. Diurnal variations of NEE were significant from March to May and from July to September, but not remarkable in other months. NEE, GPP and ecosystem respiration (Rec) showed significantly seasonal variations in the crop field. The highest mean daily CO2 uptake rate was -10.20 and -12.50 gC·m-2·d-1 in 2003 and 2004, for the maize field, respectively, and -8.19 and -9.50 gC·m-2·d-1 in 2003 and 2004 for the wheat field, respectively. The maximal CO2 uptake appeared in April or May for wheat and mid-August for maize. During the main growing seasons of winter wheat and summer maize, NEE was controlled by GPP which was chiefly influenced by PAR and LAI. Rec reached its annual maximum in July when Rec and GPP contributed to NEE equally. NEE was dominated by Rec in other months and temperature became a key factor controlling NEE. Total NEE for the wheat field was -77.6 and -152.2 gC·m-2·a-1 in years 2002-2003 and 2003-2004, respectively, and -120.1 and -165.6 gC·m-2·a-1 in 2003 and 2004 for the maize field, respectively. The cropland of North China Plain was a carbon sink, with annual -197.6 and -317.9 gC·m-2·a-1 in years 2002-2003 and 2003-2004, respectively. After considering the carbon in grains, the cropland became a carbon source, which was 340.5 and 107.5 gC·m-2·a-1 in years 2002-2003 and 2003-2004, respectively. Affected by climate and filed managements, inter-annual carbon exchange varied largely in the wheat and maize rotation system of North China Plain.     

An Improvement of the Louis Scheme for the Surface Layer in an Atmospheric Modelling System

The Louis scheme for calculating the vertical eddy fluxes within the atmospheric surface layer is improved by broadening the original assumptions. In our approach, the momentum and heat transfer roughness lengths (z₀ and z_T respectively) can be different, and z₀ need not be negligibly small compared with the lowest height (z) in modelling. For these conditions, we choose more consistent wind and potential temperature profile forms, then derive new algorithms for calculating fluxes. Improvement is demonstrated for a wide range of z/L (L is the Obukhov length), z/z₀ and z₀ z_T, by comparing these fluxes with those derived from a theoretical surface-layer model. The improved algorithms can be used in atmospheric modelling systems for more varied surfaces and a wide range of atmospheric stability.     

Small-Scale Variability in the Coastal Atmospheric Boundary Layer

The influence of the main large-scale wind directions on thermally driven mesoscale circulations at the Baltic southwest coast, southeast of Sweden, is examined. The aim of the study is to highlight small-scale alterations in the coastal atmospheric boundary layer. A numerical three-dimensional mesoscale model is used in this study, which is focused on an overall behaviour of the coastal jets, drainage flows, sea breezes, and a low-level eddy-type flow in particular. It is shown that synoptic conditions, together with the moderate terrain of the southeast of Sweden (max. height h₀ 206 m), governs the coastal mesoscale dynamics triggered by the land-sea temperature difference T. The subtle nature of coastal low-level jets and sea breezes is revealed; their patterns are dictated by the interplay between synoptic airflow, coastline orientation, and T.The simulations show that coastal jets typically occur during nighttime and vary in height, intensity and position with respect to the coast; they interact with downslope flows and the background wind. For the assigned land surface temperature (varying ±8 K from the sea temperature) and the opposing constant geostrophic wind 8 m s^-1, the drainage flow is more robust to the opposing ambient flow than the sea breeze later on. Depending on the part of the coast under consideration, and the prevailing ambient wind, the sea breeze can be suppressed or enhanced, stationary at the coast or rapidly penetrating inland, locked up in phase with another dynamic system or almost independently self-evolving. A low-level eddy structure is analyzed. It is governed by tilting, divergence and horizontal advection terms. The horizontal extent of the coastal effects agrees roughly with the Rossby radius of deformation.