1960-2005年京津冀地区地表太阳辐射变化及成因分析

利用1960—2005年京津冀地区的地面太阳辐射资料,综合分析了该地区45年太阳辐射的分布状况和变化趋势,并结合云量、降水量、气溶胶光学厚度和大气含水量,分析了该地区太阳辐射的变化原因。结果表明:(1)京津冀地区的太阳辐射并没有出现20世纪80年代末到90年代中期的"变亮"现象;同期冬、春季总辐射下降,夏、秋季上升;(2)在1985—1997年间,依据总辐射变化情况,京津冀地区被分为截然相反的两个区域:东部地区总辐射增加,倾向率为1.016 MJ.m-2.mon-1.(10a)-1;西部地区总辐射减少,倾向率为10.092MJ.m-2.mon-1.(10a)-1;(3)总辐射增加的区域,主要是由于云量减少、降水量减少所伴随的日照时数增加以及气溶胶光学厚度降低所造成的;(4)总辐射减少的区域,云量、气溶胶光学厚度和降水量变化并不显著,总辐射持续减少。     

2007年秋季河北地区云微物理结构的飞机探测分析

利用2007年飞机探测资料,对河北地区云微物理结构进行了分析。结果表明,高层云底部云滴数大于中上部,随高度增加粒子直径增大。最大云中液态水含量为0.25g.m-3,底层平均云中液态水含量为0.025g.m-3。层积云中上部数浓度高于底部,云滴数浓度变化范围为10～80cm-3,云滴平均直径为7.56μm,总趋势随高度增加云滴直径先增大后减小。云滴谱变窄、双峰消失与含水量的起伏有一定的关系。综合增雨作业资料,发现有时预设的飞机作业高度并不是十分合理,在飞机性能条件允许的情况下,可以适当提高或降低作业高度,人工增雨的效果可能更好。鉴于作业层的温度,9月29日和13日可以考虑使用液氮或液态CO2等制冷剂进行催化。     

A cloud-based synthetic seismogram generator implemented using Windows Azure

Synthetic seismograms generated by solving the seismic wave equation using numerical methods are being widely used in seismology. For fully three-dimensional seismic structure models, the generation of these synthetic seismograms may require large amount of computing resources. Conventional high-performance computer clusters may not provide a cost-effective solution to this type of applications. The newly emerging cloud-computing platform provides an alternative solution. In this paper, we describe our implementation of a synthetic seismogram generator based on the reciprocity principle using the Windows Azure cloud application framework. Our preliminary experiment shows that our cloud-based synthetic seismogram generator provides a cost-effective and numerically efficient approach for computing synthetic seismograms based on the reciprocity principle.     

Cloud Point Extraction for the Preconcentration of Silver and Palladium in Real Samples and Determination by Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

A cloud point extraction procedure is presented for the preconcentration and simultaneous determination of Ag⁺ and Pd²⁺ in various samples. After complexation with 2‐((2‐((1H‐benzo[d]imidazole‐2‐yl)methoxy)phenoxy)methyl)‐1H‐benzo[d]imidazol (BIMPI), which was used as a new chelating agent, analyte ions were quantitatively extracted to a phase rich in Triton X‐114 following centrifugation, and determination was carried out by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). Under the optimum experimental conditions (i. e., pH = 7.0, 15.0·10^–5 mol/L BIMPI and 0.036% (w/v) Triton X‐114), calibration graphs were linear in the range of 28.0–430.0 μg/L and 57.0–720.0 μg/L with detection limits of 10.0 and 25.0 μg/L for Ag⁺ and Pd²⁺, respectively. The enrichment factors were 35.0 and 28.0 for Ag⁺ and Pd²⁺, respectively. The method has been successfully applied to evaluate these metals in some real samples, including waste water, soil and hydrogenation catalyst samples.     

Climatology,trend of aerosol-cloud parameters and their correlation over the Northern Indian Ocean

Aerosols are one of the important atmospheric constituents and exert indirect impact on climate through the modification of microphysical and radiative properties of clouds that in turn perturb the precipitation pattern. Thus, the long term quantification of changes in aerosol and cloud characteristics and their interactions on both temporal as well as spatial scale will provide a crucial information for the better assessment of future climate change. In present study, 18 years (2003–2020) MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer (MODIS) derived aerosol-cloud dataset over the Northern Indian Ocean (NIO) were analysed to assess climatology and trend of aerosol, cloud characteristics and their correlation. We found a strong heterogeneity in spatio-temporal variation of aerosol and cloud parameters over the NIO that are more prominent for the coastal region. The climatological mean of aerosol loading is found high (AOD ≥ 0.5) over the outflow region along the Indian sub-continent and low (AOD ≤ 0.2) over the northern equatorial open ocean. The climatological mean of cloud properties shows dominance of optically thicker deep convective (CTP < 600 hPa and CTT < 260 K) clouds over the southern Bay of Bengal (BoB) and thinner shallow (CTP > 700 hPa and CTT > 273 K) over the northwestern Arabian Sea (AS). Similarly, bigger effective radii (>17 µm) observed along the equatorial open ocean whereas smaller CER (<17 µm) were found over Indian sub-continental coastline and western AS. Further, trend analysis reveals an increasing pattern in AOD (0.002 yr^?1), CER (0.051 µm yr^?1), LWP (0.033 gm^?2 yr^?1) and CF (0.002 yr^?1) while COD, CTT and CTP show negative trend in order of ?0.005 yr^?1, ?0.094 K yr^?1 and ?1.160 hPa yr^?1, respectively. We also perform similar analysis for seven sub-region of interest (R1 to R7) across the NIO and results show a decreasing pattern in AOD (?0.001 yr^?1) at R4 against maximum mean AOD (0.44 ± 0.03). However, coastal sub-regions R1 and R5 illustrate maximum increase in aerosol loading (>0.003 yr^?1) suggesting a significant impact of sub-continental outflow over the regions. The spatial correlation of cloud properties with respect to AOD shows a positive slope for CER (0.14) and CF (0.48) and a negative for COD (?0.19), LWP (?0.18), CTT (?0.37), CTP (?0.41). The present study provides in-depth information about the aerosol-cloud characteristics for a long term scale over NIO and could be useful in regional aerosol-cloud interaction induced climate forcing estimation.     

Becoming-forest, becoming-local: transformations of a protected area in Honduras

Neotropical cloud forests have been locked away in protected areas that conservationists seek to fashion into spaces exclusively for “Nature,” but they often cannot do so because of the pressure of migrant agriculture, among other factors. The author documents the case of a protected area in Honduras that, while it fails to evolve into an idealized “conservation space,” nevertheless undergoes transformations until it becomes accepted by local actors as a space that provides protection for marginalized groups under threat from a hydroelectric project that seeks to dislodge them. A Deleuzian theoretical approach loosely drawing from complexity theory is utilized to explain the process whereby diverse and conflicting land-use spatialities come to embrace an alien and imposed national park and in the process ally with each other against a perceived greater threat from the outside. The author shows the transformative potentials of protected areas as allies, rather than enemies, of spatial justice movements currently confronting the challenges of “regional economic integration” initiatives such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement.     

河北秋季层状云物理结构及适播性分析

利用2006-2010年河北省人工影响天气办公室对29块云体9架次飞机探测(或作业)资料,统计分析了河北地区秋季层状云气溶胶粒子、云凝结核CCN、小云粒子、大云粒子、降水粒子浓度和云粒子有效直径等物理特征。结果表明,河北地区适宜增雨作业的云系为中、低或高、中、低搭配的层状云,过冷层催化有利于云体发展,促使气流流入形成正反馈。适宜催化的作业层指标有:云层高度为4582 m,云内平均含水量≥0.1 g·m-3,所对应温度为-8.0℃,小云粒子浓度为236.5 cm-3。     

一次冰雹云演变过程的卫星遥感监测与分析

针对2003年9月21日的一次区域性冰雹云强对流天气过程,结合天气实况、环流场特征和雷达资料,利用NOAA卫星数据,从天气分析、能量转换以及云在可见光、中红外波段的反射特性,分析了冰雹云的演变及特征。结果表明,伴随着大气能量的转换,当日青海湖以北的对流冷云单体在东移过程中,结合了西南部暖舌带来的暖湿气流,午后受地面增温出现了爆发性发展。(1)17：00云团发展最旺盛,云顶温度最低值达到-44℃,并确定冰雹发生的云顶温度临界值为-39．2℃,云顶亮温为221K;(2)冰雹云温度水平梯度介于20～35℃／50km之间,表现为有雹无灾的冰雹强度特征;(3)卫星数据表明,此时雹云与其它云团不同,具有粒子有效半径较大,气溶胶光学厚度也大的特点。     

气溶胶对雷暴云微物理过程和起电影响的数值模拟

将云滴冻结方案植入已有的二维雷暴云起、放电模式,结合一次山地雷暴个例,探讨了气溶胶浓度对雷暴云微物理过程、起电以及空间电荷结构的影响。结果表明:气溶胶浓度增加,云滴数目增多,尺度降低,雨滴含量减少;云滴冻结导致冰晶在低温区快速生长,冰晶数浓度增加,尺度减小,当气溶胶浓度高于1000 cm-3后小冰晶难以增长成大尺度的霰粒子,因此霰粒子数浓度先增加后急剧减少。此外,气溶胶浓度的大小不会影响雷暴云的电荷结构特征,但会对云内的起电强度产生明显的作用:当气溶胶浓度较低时,增加气溶胶浓度,更多的冰晶和霰粒子发生碰撞使得云内起电过程增强,空间电荷密度增加;当气溶胶浓度高于1000 cm-3后,少量的霰粒子和小冰晶的出现抑制了非感应起电过程,导致电荷密度降低。     

Evolution of massive binary stars in the LMC and its implications for radio pulsar population

The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of the Large Magellanic Cloud compiled recently by Fitzpatrick & Garmany (1990) shows that there are a number of supergiant stars immediately redward of the main sequence although theoretical models of massive stars with normal hydrogen abundance predict that the region 4.5 ≤ logT _eff ≤ 4.3 should be un-populated (“gap”). Supergiants having surface enrichment of helium acquired for example from a previous phase of accretion from a binary companion, however, evolve in a way so that the evolved models and observed data are consistent — an observation first made by Tuchman & Wheeler (1990). We compare the available optical data on OB supergiants with computed evolutionary tracks of massive stars of metallicity relevant to the LMC with and without helium-enriched envelopes and conclude that a large fraction (≈ 60 per cent) of supergiant stars may occur in binaries. As these less evolved binaries will later evolve into massive X-ray binaries, the observed number and orbital period distribution of the latter can constrain the evolutionary scenarios of the supergiant binaries. The distributions of post main sequence binaries and closely related systems like WR + O stars are bimodal-consisting of close and wide binaries in which the latter type is numerically dominating. When the primary star explodes as a supernova leaving behind a neutron star, the system receives a kick and in some cases can lead to runaway O-stars. We calculate the expected space velocity distribution for these systems. After the second supernova explosion, the binaries in most cases, will be disrupted leading to two runaway neutron stars. In between the two explosions, the first born neutron star’s spin evolution will be affected by accretion of mass from the companion star. We determine the steady-state spin and radio luminosity distributions of single pulsars born from the massive stars under some simple assumptions. Due to their great distance, only the brightest radio pulsars may be detected in a flux-limited survey of the LMC. A small but significant number of observable single radio pulsars arising out of the disrupted massive binaries may appear in the short spin period range. Most pulsars will have a low velocity of ejection and therefore may cluster around the OB associations in the LMC.