Research on Measurement of Bed Shear Stress Under Wave?Current Interaction

The movement of sediment in estuary and on coast is directly restricted by the bed shear stress. Therefore, the research on the basic problem of sediment movement by the bed shear stress is an important way to research the theory of sediment movement. However, there is not a measuring and computing method to measure the bed shear stress under a complicated dynamic effect like wave and current. This paper describes the measurement and test research on the bed shear stress in a long launder of direct current by the new instrument named thermal shearometer based on micro-nanotechnology. As shown by the research results, the thermal shearometer has a high response frequency and strong stability. The measured results can reflect the basic change of the bed shear stress under wave and wave?current effect, and confirm that the method of measuring bed shear stress under wave?current effect with thermal shearometer is feasible. Meanwhile, a preliminary method to compute the shear stress compounded by wave?current is put forward according to the tested and measured results, and then a reference for further study on the basic theory of sediment movement under a complicated dynamic effect is provided.     

松嫩平原含水层沉积物特征及其对砷赋存态分布的影响

松嫩平原西部地区为中国砷中毒区域,含水层沉积物特征及砷赋存态对地下水砷迁移、转化的影响并不清楚。在对研究区高砷区与低砷区钻孔沉积物进行取样的基础上,运用激光粒度分析、Tessier五步提取法和Keon分步提取法分别确定了不同深度沉积物的粒度分布和不同赋存态砷含量,系统研究了沉积物的水力传导系数、不同赋存态砷的分布及其与高砷地下水形成的关系。结果表明:沉积物5种赋存态砷(包括可交换态、碳酸盐吸附态、铁/锰氧化物吸附态、有机物或硫化物吸附态和基质态)中,铁/锰氧化物吸附态砷含量最高,并且砷含量与铁、锰含量呈明显正相关性;高砷区钻孔沉积物铁/锰氧化物吸附态砷质量分数为(1.18~6.11)×10-6,低砷区为(0.67~2.60)×10-6;高砷区钻孔沉积物以粉砂、黏土为主,水力传导系数介于0.004~0.027m·d-1,低砷区钻孔沉积物以细砂、中砂为主,水力传导系数介于0.005~0.2m·d-1;沉积物中粉砂或黏土含量越多,则沉积物颗粒越小,其水力传导系数越低,各赋存态砷含量越高,因此,高砷区低水力传导系数有利于还原环境的形成。通过地下水的循环,高砷含水层沉积物的淋滤作用和铁/锰氧化物的还原性溶解形成了研究区高砷地下水。     

航空高光谱热红外数据的两种发射率反演方法对比

本文在介绍航空高光谱热红外的两种发射率反演算法——ARTEMISS算法和ASTER TES算法基础上,以甘肃柳园地区的热红外高光谱TASI数据为基础,对实验区进行了发射率反演,结合野外实测结果,对两种算法的图像质量和精度进行了对比分析。结果显示,两种算法均能满足反演精度要求,ASTER TES算法图像质量好,精度较高;ARTEMISS步骤简单,反演结果能很好地体现出岩性差异。在实际应用中应结合不同的应用要求来选择不同的反演算法。     

An analysis of urban expansion and its associated thermal characteristics using Landsat imagery

There has been an increasing interest in mapping and monitoring urban land use/land cover using remote sensing techniques. However, there still exist quite a number of challenges in deriving urban extent and its expansion density from remote sensing data quantitatively. This study utilized Landsat TM/ETM+ remote sensing data to assess urban expansion and its thermal characteristics with a case study in the city of Changsha, China. We proposed a new approach for quantitatively determining built-up area, its expansion density and their respective relationship with land surface temperature (LST) patterns. An urban expansion metric was also developed using a moving window mechanism to identify urban built-up area and its expansion density based on selected threshold values. The study suggested that urban extent and its expansion density, as well as surface thermal characteristics and patterns could be identified through quantitatively derived remotely sensed indices and LST, which offer meaningful characteristics in quantifying urban expansion density and urban thermal pattern. Results from the case study demonstrated that: (1) the built-up area and urban expansion density have significantly increased in the city of Changsha from 1990 to 2001; and (2) the differences of urban expansion densities correspond to thermal effects, where a high percentage of imperviousness is usually associated with the area covered by high surface temperature.     

Palaeozoic Intraplate Crustal Anatexis in the Mount Painter Province, South Australia: Timing, Thermal Budgets and the Role of Crustal Heat Production

The effect of radiogenic heat production within the crust onthermal processes such as crustal anatexis is generally disregardedas bulk geochemical models suggest that crustal heat generationrates are too low to effect significant heating. However, theMount Painter Province in northern South Australia is characterizedby a total crustal contribution to surface heat flow of morethan twice the global average. The province is composed dominantlyof Proterozoic granites and granite gneisses with an area averageheat production of 16·1 µW/m³; individual lithologieshave heat production >60 µW/m³. These Proterozoic rocksare intruded by the British Empire Granite, a younger intrusivewhose origin has remained enigmatic. Isotope geochemistry suggestscrustal sources for the melt and it has a crystallization ageof 440–450 Ma, which places the setting >750 km inboardof the nearest active plate boundary zone at this time. Phaseequilibria calculations suggest that temperatures of at least720–750°C are required to produce the granite butthe intensity of crustal thickening during Palaeozoic deformation(12%) cannot account for these conditions. Here we describea model for the generation of the British Empire Granite inwhich the primary thermal perturbation for mid-crustal anatexiswas provided by the burial of the high heat-producing MountPainter basement rocks beneath the known thickness of Neoproterozoiccover sediments. The high heat-producing rocks at Mount Painterimply that the natural range and variability of crustal heatproduction is much greater than previously believed, with importantconsequences for our understanding of temperature-dependentcrustal processes including the exploitation of geothermal energyresources. KEY WORDS: geothermal energy; low-pressure anatexis; thermal conductivity; thermal regime     

A multi-proxy lacustrine record of Holocene climate change on northeastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

Reconstructions of past environmental changes are critical for understanding the natural variability of Earth's climate system and for providing a context for present and future global change. Radiocarbon-dated lake sediments from Lake CF3, northeastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada, are used to reconstruct past environmental conditions over the last 11,200 years. Numerous proxies, including chironomid-inferred July air temperatures, diatom-inferred lakewater pH, and sediment organic matter, reveal a pronounced Holocene thermal maximum as much as 5°C warmer than historic summer temperatures from 10,000 to 8500 cal yr B.P. Following rapid cooling 8500 cal yr B.P., Lake CF3 proxies indicate cooling through the late Holocene. At many sites in northeastern Canada, the Holocene thermal maximum occurred later than at Lake CF3; this late onset of Holocene warmth is generally attributed to the impacts of the decaying Laurentide Ice Sheet on early Holocene temperatures in northeastern Canada. However, the lacustrine proxies in Lake CF3 apparently responded to insolation-driven warmth, despite the proximity of Lake CF3 to the Laurentide Ice Sheet and its meltwater. The magnitude and timing of the Holocene thermal maximum at Lake CF3 indicate that temperatures and environmental conditions at this site are highly sensitive to changes in radiative forcing.     

两种高光谱热红外数据大气校正方法的分析与比较

利用模拟数据对Autonomous Atmospheric Compensation(AAC)和In-scene Atmospheric Compensation(ISAC)这两种高光谱热红外数据大气校正方法进行了对比和分析。结果显示,在满足方法适用条件情况下,AAC方法大气校正精度较高,除湿热的热带大气外,大气透过率的反演误差小于0.02,大气上行辐射的误差小于0.004W.m-2.sr-1.cm;而ISAC方法精度较低,透过率误差在0.05至0.3之间,上行辐射误差在0.003W.m-2.sr-1.cm至0.035W.m-2.sr-1.cm之间变化,误差随大气水汽含量增加而增加。大气非均一性对大气校正精度影响分析表明,AAC方法大气校正精度受大气非均一性影响显著。因此,需从高光谱数据光谱信息出发,发展针对低空间分辨率高光谱热红外数据的大气校正方法,以克服现有方法大气水平均一假设的不足。     

Influence of the Tibetan Plateau on the Summer Climate Patterns over Asia in the IAP/LASG SAMIL Model

A series of numerical experiments are carried out by using the Spectral Atmospheric Model of State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics/Institute of Atmospheric Physics （SAMIL） to investigate how the Tibetan Plateau （TP） mechanical and thermal forcing affect the circulation and climate patterns over subtropical Asia. It is shown that, compared to mechanical forcing, the thermal forcing of TP plays a dominant role in determining the large-scale circulation in summer. Both the sensible heating and the latent heating over TP tend to generate a surface cyclonic circulation and a gigantic anticyclonic circulation in the mid- and upper layers, whereas the direct effect of the latter is much more significant. Following a requirement of the time-mean quasi-geostrophic vorticity equation for large-scale air motion in the subtropics, convergent flow and vigorous ascending motion must appear to the east of TP. Hence the summer monsoon in East China is reinforced efficiently by TP. In contrast, the atmosphere to the west of TP is characterized by divergent flow and downward motion, which induces the arid climate in Mid-Asia.     

热力强迫对局地环流的扰动作用

用积分变换法求解了包含地面加热作用的二维不可压缩流体的Boussinesq方程组,得到一组描述地面加热作用激发的局地扰动流场的解析解,主要有垂直风、水平扰动风、扰动气压、扰动温度。进而用动力学分析的观点结合图形分析,定性讨论了热力强迫作用对局地环流的扰动作用,以及加热影响下各物理扰动场的空间分布及时间演变特征。     

两次华南持续性暴雨过程中热带西太平洋对流异常作用的比较

利用NOAA的外逸长波辐射资料(OLR)和NCEP/NCAR再分析资料以及华南地区台站降水资料诊断分析了热带西太平洋对流活动在2005年和2006年华南地区持续性暴雨发生的大尺度环流背景上的物理作用.分析表明:2005年6月17～24日华南持续性暴雨过程与热带西太平洋对流的10～25天低频振荡从150 °E附近西传有关,持续性暴雨期间西太平洋副热带高压持续西伸的Gill型环流响应对应于传播到120 °E附近强对流的低频间歇期;2006年5月下旬～6月中旬华南的持续性暴雨可能与热带西太平洋的双热带辐合带(ITCZ)南支对流带异常强盛有关,持续强盛的南支ITCZ使得115～135 °E平均的局地Hadley环流最大上升中心位于0～5 °S,菲律宾海附近区域上升运动的减弱有利于西太平洋副热带高压持续西伸加强.通过比较这两例典型的华南持续性暴雨过程发现,副热带高压在华南地区持续西伸是两次持续性暴雨发生的共同的大尺度环流背景,而热带西太平洋对流活动则通过不同的物理过程影响副热带高压的持续西伸.