The Work of the British Government's Air Survey Committee And its Impact on Mapping in the Second World War

It has been asserted by Clough (1952) , amongst others, that British Military Survey was poorly prepared for the outbreak of war in 1939. An examination of the work carried out between the wars by the Air Survey Committee would seem to contradict that view. In this paper, the work of the Air Survey Committee is discussed and a brief assessment made of the impact of its work on British mapping during the Second World War.     

商丘市空气质量统计预报方法

利用商丘市2002年5月24日~2003年9月23日的空气污染浓度资料和同期气象观测资料,分析了商丘市空气质量的时间分布规律及影响商丘市空气中PM10、SO2和NO2浓度的气象因子,并用多元线性回归方法建立了商丘市空气质量预报方程。     

A Wind Tunnel Model for Quantifying Fluxes in the Urban Boundary Layer

Transport of pollution and heatout of streets into the boundary layer above is not currently understood and so fluxes cannot be quantified. Scalar concentration within the street is determined by the flux out of it and so quantifying fluxes for turbulent flow over a rough urban surface is essential. We have developed a naphthalene sublimation technique to measure transfer from a two-dimensional street canyon in a wind tunnel for the case of flow perpendicular to the street. The street was coated with naphthalene, which sublimes at room temperature, so that the vapour represented the scalar source. The transfer velocity w_T relates the flux out of the canyon to the concentration within it and is shown to be linearly related to windspeed above the street. The dimensionless transfer coefficient w_T/U represents the ventilation efficiency of the canyon (here, w_T is a transfer velocity,U is the wind speed at the boundary-layer top). Observed values are between 1.5 and 2.7 ×10^-3 and, for the case where H/W0 (ratio of buildingheight to street width), values are in the same range as estimates of transfer from a flat plate, giving confidence that the technique yields accurate values for street canyon scalar transfer. w_T/U varies with aspect ratio (H/W), reaching a maximum in the wake interference regime (0.3 < H/W < 0.65). However, when upstream roughness is increased, the maximum in w_T/U reduces, suggesting that street ventilation is less sensitive to H/W when the flow is in equilibrium with the urban surface. The results suggest that using naphthalene sublimation with wind-tunnel models of urban surfaces can provide a direct measure of area-averaged scalar fluxes.     

青海高原器测时期降水、气温的突变分析

对遍及青海高原３８个气象台站器测时期降水和气温分别进行聚类分析,得出３种不同变化类型的降水区域和３种气温区域,然后用ＭＫ突变分析方法和最优二级分割方法对各区域降水和气温气候序列进行均值和方差突变检测得出：青海高原大部分地区在６０年代末出现了降水突变现象,８０年代中后期普遍产生气温突变。     

长春市城区大气污染特征研究

研究了长春市地貌景观的变化,并以空气污染气象学为指导,重点探讨了由于城区粗糙度的变化,导致大气边界层的改变,从而形成了城市区域特殊的温度和风场。出现了城市热岛和“静风”下的环流现象,改变了城区各部分大气环境质量。局部地区呈现出污染加重的趋势。为今后制定城市发展规划,防治大气污染提供了科学依据和对策。     

利用真彩航空影像进行城市绿化面积的分类研究

本文以真彩航空影像为基础 ,比较了自动分类与人工分类在城市绿地面积提取中的相同与不同之处 ,对自动分类在城市绿地面积提取中的可行性与可靠性作了讨论并在实践中得到应用     

Regional Sources of Methyl Chloride, Chloroform and Dichloromethane Identified from AGAGE Observations at Cape Grim, Tasmania, 1998–2000

There are large uncertainties in identifying and quantifying the natural and anthropogenic sources of chloromethanes – methyl chloride (CH₃Cl), chloroform (CHCl₃) and dichloromethane (CH₂Cl₂), which are responsible for about 15% of the total chlorine in the stratosphere. We report two years of in situ observations of these species from the AGAGE (Advanced Global Atmospheric Gas Experiment) program at Cape Grim, Tasmania (41° S, 145° E). The average background levels of CH₃Cl, CHCl₃ and CH₂Cl₂ during 1998–2000 were 551± 8, 6.3± 0.2 and 8.9± 0.2 ppt (dry air mole fractions expressed in parts per 10¹²) respectively, with a two-year average amplitude of the seasonal cycles in background air of 25, 1.1 and 1.5 ppt respectively. The CH₃Cl and CHCl₃ records at Cape Grim show clear episodes of elevated mixing ratios up to 1300 ppt and 55 ppt respectively, which are highly correlated, suggesting common source(s). Trajectory analyses show that the sources of CH₃Cl and CHCl₃ that are responsible for these elevated observations are located in coastal-terrestrial and/or coastal-seawater regions in Tasmania and the south-eastern Australian mainland. Elevated levels of CH₂Cl₂ (up to 70 ppt above background) are associated mainly with emissions from the Melbourne/Port Phillip region, a large urban/industrial complex (population 3.5 million) 300 km north of Cape Grim.Now at the Centre for Atmospheric ChemistryNow at School of Environmental Sciences     

Dispersion modelling of air pollution caused by road traffic using a Markov Chain–Monte Carlo model

 Although the strict legislation regarding vehicle emissions in Europe (EURO 4, EURO 5) will lead to a remarkable reduction of emissions in the near future, traffic related air pollution still can be problematic due to a large increase of traffic in certain areas. Many dispersion models for line-sources have been developed to assess the impact of traffic on the air pollution levels near roads, which are in most cases based on the Gaussian equation. Previous studies gave evidence, that such kind of models tend to overestimate concentrations in low wind speed conditions or when the wind direction is almost parallel to the street orientation. This is of particular interest, since such conditions lead generally to the highest observed concentrations in the vicinity of streets. As many air quality directives impose limits on high percentiles of concentrations, it is important to have good estimates of these quantities in environmental assessment studies. The objective of this study is to evaluate a methodology for the computation of especially those high percentiles required by e.g. the EU daughter directive 99/30/EC (for instance the 99.8 percentile for NO₂). The model used in this investigation is a Markov Chain – Monte Carlo model to predict pollutant concentrations, which performs well in low wind conditions as is shown here. While usual Lagrangian models use deterministic time steps for the calculation of the turbulent velocities, the model presented here, uses random time steps from a Monte Carlo simulation and a Markov Chain simulation for the sequence of the turbulent velocities. This results in a physically better approach when modelling the dispersion in low wind speed conditions. When Lagrangian dispersion models are used for regulatory purposes, a meteorological pre-processor is necessary to obtain required input quantities like Monin-Obukhov length and friction velocity from routinely observed data. The model and the meteorological pre-processor applied here, were tested against field data taken near a major motorway south of Vienna. The methodology used is based on input parameters, which are also available in usual environmental assessment studies. Results reveal that the approach examined is useful and leads to reasonable concentration levels near motorways compared to observations. We wish to thank Andreas Schopper (Styrian Government) for providing air quality values, M. Kalina for providing the raw data of the air quality stations near the motorway and J. Kukkonen for providing the road site data set from the Finish Meteorological Institute (FMI). The study was partly funded by the Austrian science fund under the project P14075-TEC.     

井水位气压加卸载响应比

将加卸载响应比的理论和方法引入到地下水位资料中．根据承压井水位的气压效应，将地球表面大气压的随机变化做为加载和卸载的力源，从理论上论征可以应用大气压变化而引起的井水位变化来计算加卸载响应比，并给出了计算方法．以此方法计算了1995年9月20日山东苍山Ms5．3地震前后鲁14井、鲁15井水位的气压加卸载响应比，分析了其变化特征。     

北京地区中尺度非静力数值预报产品释用技术研究

在国家气象中心与北京市气象局联合开发的“北京地区中尺度数值预报业务系统”基础上，充分利用高分辨率中尺度数值预报产品和地面加密气象观测资料，分别使用统计和动力释用方法进行局地温度、风和北京市区空气污染状况的预报。试预报结果表明，用卡尔曼滤波方法建立的温度和风的预报效果高于中尺度数值预报直接输出结果；使用中尺度数值预报结果作为一个简单的污染预报动力模式的气象背景场，进行了污染预报试验，结果表明该预报方法具有一定的预报能力，其中SO₂、NO₂、CO浓度的预报准确率在夏、秋、冬三季中均可达到65%以上。上述研究成果已用于业务预报。