Correction to the crustal thickness of the northwestern China using the data of seis-mic tomography

Introduction The gravity anomaly is an indicator of the density distribution of the underground material. Therefore the gravity anomalies have been important data used for studying the deep crustal struc-ture for a long time. Many people have made detailed researches on the regional crustal structure inverted by Bouguer anomalies. In particular some empirical formulae and practical algorithms about the crustal thickness were brought forward, and a series of results were obtained (MENG, 1996)…     

Subsurface sediment accumulation patterns and their relationships with tectonic lineaments in the semi-arid Luni river basin, Rajasthan, Western India

Sediment accumulation patterns in the Luni basin have been studied on the basis of tubewell lithologs and Bouguer gravity anomaly profiles. East–West geologic transects using these data reveal several sediment-filled graben depressions, for example, the Digrana-Bhawal graben in the northern part, the Mangta-Sindari, Sindari-Bhimgoda, and Bhimgoda-Juna Motisara grabens in the central part; and the Dungari-Ratanpura and Ratanpura-Khanpur grabens in the southern part. Maximum sediment accumulation of more than 300 m is located in the southwestern part of the Luni basin, more specifically in the Ratanpura-Khanpur graben. Minor depressions also occur towards west of Jodhpur and east of Bhadrajun.Sediment filling in these graben depressions commenced with thick clay deposits followed by multistoried fining up sand and gravel sequences. Sediment accumulation centres are coincident with major tectonic lineaments and thus indicate that important loci of sediment accumulation are, possibly, a response to synsedimentary tectonics.     

高精度大地测量中的海潮位移改正

鉴于目前IERS规范中缺乏海潮对多数中国测站位移的改正，基于表面负荷形变理论，本文采用CSR3．0全球海潮模型和Farrell的格林函数结果，计算了中国测站的海潮位移改正。部分结果同IERS公布结果引比，符合很好，可以用于高精度大地测量，对中国地壳形变监测特别是沿海地区地壳形变监测具有重要的实用价值。     

华北重力网测点重力变化特征与中强震的对应

华北重力复测网（火车运输）始建于1972－1973年，三环共45个点，1986年起改用高精度LCR－G重力仪观测（仍保持三环，点位减到15个），至今已积累了16－33期重复观测资料。根据资料，华北网各测点重力值变化可分为三类，即1、有异常变化点；2、持续相对稳定点、3重力值有变化，但非深部物质引起或重力值无变化点。如果观测到的异常持续3－5年，且与背景相符，即有可能与中强震有关，并已被实践证明，因此，重力大跨度复测是中长期地震预报的一种有效手段。     

Numerical Investigations in the Analytical and Semi-Analytical Computation of Gravimetric Terrain Effects

A recently proposed method for the computation of the gravitational effect due to the topographic masses defined by a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) involves the representation of the surface relief by means of parts of bilinear surfaces. The so-called bilinear method delivers eventually the mathematical model for the gravitational attraction of a right rectangular prism, whose top is modeled by a bilinear surface. Scope of the paper is to assess the new method by conducting numerical tests using both real and synthetic data. The performance of the bilinear method is evaluated in terms of its computational efficiency as well as its precision by comparing it with other analytical methods available for the practical evaluation of gravitational terrain effects. The techniques considered for the assessment of the bilinear approximation are the vastly applied right rectangular prism method and the polyhedral modeling, a less popular but extremely flexible approach based on the closed expression for the gravity field of an arbitrarily shaped mass distribution defined by planar faces. The different geometric modeling of the topographic relief produces discrepancies to the gravitational attraction of up to several mGal. Thus the choice for the geometric representation of the terrain plays a fundamental role to the numerical computation of potential field quantities especially in the critical region surrounding the computation point.     

Evaluation of deflections of the vertical on the sphere and the plane: a comparison of FFT techniques

This paper presents a set of efficient formulas to evaluate the deflections of the vertical on the sphere using gridded data. The Vening-Meinesz formula, the topographic indirect effect on the deflections of the vertical as well as the terrain corrections are expressed as both 2D and 1D convolutions on the sphere, and consequently can be evaluated by the 2D and the 1D fast Fourier transform (FFT). When compared with the results obtained from pointwise integration, the use of the 1D FFT gives identical results, and therefore these results were used as control values in this paper. The use of the spherical 2D FFT improves significantly the computational efficiency with little sacrifice of accuracy (0.6^″ rms difference from the 1D FFT results). The planar 2D FFT, which is as efficient as the spherical 2D FFT, gives worse results (1.2^″ rms difference from the 1D FFT results) because of the extra approximations. Received: 27 February 1996; Accepted: 24 January 1997     

有限范围的重力层间改正算法

层间改正是重力归算的一项重要内容,传统的平面层层间改正、球面层层间改正与地形改正的范围不一致,因此均存在远区虚拟地形引入的近似误差,且计算点高度越高,此误差越大。本文提出使用有限范围的层间改正进行重力归算的方法,使其区域范围与地形改正的范围一致。然后给出了有限范围层间改正的简便计算方法,该算法与通过地形改正严密积分法演化来的算法具有较好的一致性。内插试验说明当计算点地形高于1000m时,内插应使用基于有限范围层间改正的重力归算方法。     

Characterization of periodic variations in the GPS satellite clocks

The clock products of the International Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Service (IGS) are used to characterize the timing performance of the GPS satellites. Using 5-min and 30-s observational samples and focusing only on the sub-daily regime, approximate power-law stochastic processes are found. The Block IIA Rb and Cs clocks obey predominantly random walk phase (or white frequency) noise processes. The Rb clocks are up to nearly an order of magnitude more stable and show a flicker phase noise component over intervals shorter than about 100 s. Due to the onboard Time Keeping System in the newer Block IIR and IIR-M satellites, their Rb clocks behave in a more complex way: as an apparent random walk phase process up to about 100 s and then changing to flicker phase up to a few thousand seconds. Superposed on this random background, periodic signals have been detected in all clock types at four harmonic frequencies, n × (2.0029 ± 0.0005) cycles per day (24 h coordinated universal time or UTC), for n = 1, 2, 3, and 4. The equivalent fundamental period is 11.9826 ± 0.0030 h, which surprisingly differs from the reported mean GPS orbital period of 11.9659 ± 0.0007 h by 60 ± 11 s. We cannot account for this apparent discrepancy but note that a clear relationship between the periodic signals and the orbital dynamics is evidenced for some satellites by modulations of the spectral amplitudes with eclipse season. All four harmonics are much smaller for the IIR and IIR-M satellites than for the older blocks. Awareness of the periodic variations can be used to improve the clock modeling, including for interpolation of tabulated IGS products for higher-rate GPS positioning and for predictions in real-time applications. This is especially true for high-accuracy uses, but could also benefit the standard GPS operational products. The observed stochastic properties of each satellite clock type are used to estimate the growth of interpolation and prediction errors with time interval.     

广域差分GPS的数据处理方法及结果分析

详细讨论了广域差分ＧＰＳ数据处理的数学模型和方法,就实际观测数据,用作者研制的软件确定差分修正信息并提供给用户站定位。结果表明,软件可以保证平面位置精度优于１ｍ,高程精度在１．５ｍ左右。