Seasonal ecosystem variability in remote mountain lakes: implications for detecting climatic signals in sediment records

Weather variation and climate fluctuations are the main sources of ecosystem variability in remote mountain lakes. Here we describe the main patterns of seasonal variability in the ecosystems of nine lakes in Europe, and discuss the implications for recording climatic features in their sediments. Despite the diversity in latitude and size, the lakes showed a number of common features. They were ice-covered between 5–9 months, and all but one were dimictic. This particular lake was long and shallow, and wind action episodically mixed the water column throughout the ice-free period. All lakes showed characteristic oxygen depletion during the ice-covered-period, which was greater in the most productive lakes. Two types of lakes were distinguished according to the number of production peaks during the ice-free season. Lakes with longer summer stratification tended to have two productive periods: one at the onset of stratification, and the other during the autumn overturn. Lakes with shorter stratification had a single peak during the ice-free period. All lakes presented deep chlorophyll maxima during summer stratification, and subsurface chlorophyll maxima beneath the ice. Phosphorus limitation was common to all lakes, since nitrogen compounds were significantly more abundant than the requirements for the primary production observed. The major chemical components present in the lakes showed a short but extreme dilution during thawing. Certain lake features may favour the recording of particular climatic fluctuations, for instance: lakes with two distinct productive periods, climatic fluctuations in spring or autumn (e.g., through chrysophycean cysts); lakes with higher oxygen consumption, climatic factors affecting the duration of the ice-cover (e.g., through low-oxygen tolerant chironomids); lakes with higher water retention time; changes in atmospheric deposition (e.g., through carbon or pigment burial); lakes with longer stratification, air temperature changes during summer and autumn (e.g., through all epilimnetic species).     

Nocturnal Low-Level Jet Characteristics Over Kansas During Cases-99

Characteristics and evolution of the low-level jet (LLJ)over southeastern Kansas were investigated during the 1999 Cooperative Surface-AtmosphereExchange Study (CASES–99) field campaign with an instrument complement consisting of ahigh-resolution Doppler lidar (HRDL), a 60 m instrumented tower, and a triangle of Dopplermini-sodar/profiler combinations. Using this collection of instrumentation we determined thespeed U_X, height Z_X and direction D_X of the LLJ. We investigate here the frequencyof occurrence, the spatial distribution, and the evolution through the night, of these LLJcharacteristics. The jet of interest in this study was that which generates the shear and turbulencebelow the jet and near the surface. This was represented by the lowest wind maximum.We found that this wind maximum, which was most often between 7 and 10 m s¹,was often at or just below 100 m above ground level as measured by HRDL at the CASEScentral site. Over the 60 km profiler–sodararray, the topography varied by 100 m. The wind speed anddirection were relatively constant over this distance (with some tendency for strongerwinds at the highest site), but Z_X was more variable. Z_X was occasionally about equal at allthree sites, indicating that the jet was following the terrain, but more often it seemed to berelatively level, i.e., at about the same height above sea level. Z_X was also more variable thanU_X in the behaviour of the LLJ with time through the night, and on some nights $U_X wasremarkably steady. Examples of two nights with strong turbulence below jet level were furtherinvestigated using the 60 m tower at the main CASES–99 site. Evidence of TKE increasing withheight and downward turbulent transport of TKE indicates that turbulence was primarilygenerated aloft and mixed downward, supporting the upside–down boundary layer notion in thestable boundary layer.     

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.     

九江地区盛夏雷雨大风预报方法

通过天气形势分型、数值预告产品释用,建立了盛夏雷雨大风综合预报方程。结果表明,利用综合预报方程对雷雨大风进行预报,其准确率有较明显的提高。     

Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Fire Regimes in the Tropics Based on Magicc and a GISS GCM-Derived Lightning Model

Investigations of the ecological, atmospheric chemical, and climatic impacts of contemporary fires in tropical vegetation have received increasing attention during the last 10 years. Little is known, however, about the impacts of climate changes on tropical vegetation and wildland fires. This paper summarizes the main known interactions of fire, vegetation, and atmosphere. Examples of predictive models on the impacts of climate change on the boreal and temperate zones are given in order to highlight the possible impacts on the tropical forest and savanna biomes and to demonstrate parameters that need to be involved in this process. Response of tropical vegetation to fire is characterized by degradation towards xerophytic and pyrophytic plant communities dominated by grasses and fire-tolerant tree and bush invaders. The potential impacts of climate change on tropical fire regimes are investigated using a GISS GCM-based lightning and fire model and the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas-Induced Climate Change (MAGICC).     

用主动调频质量阻尼器控制高层建筑的风致振动

本文提出了用于高层建筑风振动控制的主动调频质量阻尼器（ＡＴＭＤ）设计的一种简单方法。从ＴＭＤ的工作原理出发,在物理意义上显式定义主动控制力的构成,基于结构的ＳＤＯＦ模型和广义脉动风力的高斯白噪声假定,在频域的以最小化结构顶层位移方差为设计目标,对控制力增益进行参数优化,得出控制力增益的封闭解,文中提出了以维持ＴＭＤ行程恒定为目标进行参数选择的设计方案,一超高层建筑作为算例给出,数值分析表明,所设计     

矿井粘土岩特性及其对巷道稳定性的影响

在分析龙口矿区2号煤层顶底板粘土岩的物质组成、微结构和物化特性的基础上,讨论了粘土岩的膨胀特性对巷道稳定性的影响,进而指出了本研究在巷道工程应用中的意义。     

黄淮地区巨厚松散层岩性结构特征以及采矿对其水动态的影响

本文选择地处黄淮地区的淮南、淮北、大屯、兖州和邢台等矿区中典型矿井的巨厚松散层,分析了该地区巨厚松散层的岩性结构特征,从水体、地层和采矿波及类型等方面论述了采矿对松散层地下水动态的影响特征,解释和解决了某些实际工程问题。     

Simulating study on barchan dune

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山区公路隧道建设对地下水环境扰动评价研究

由于长大隧道建设期间具有显著地集水廊道效应，施工过程中地下水不断向隧道轴线汇集，进而诱发一系列的水文 地质灾害，给施工人员和隧址区周边的生态环境带来不可估量的损失。为此，在构建山区公路隧道建设对地下水环境扰动 评价体系的基础上，考虑到群决策不同个体实践认知水平的差异，把基于决策人员偏好信息的区间数层次分析模型用于山 区公路隧道建设对地下水的环境影响评价领域，并与模糊综合评判法进行有机结合，对西藏米拉山特长隧道建设对地下水 环境影响进行评价，结果表明，米拉山特长公路隧道建设对地下水的扰动程度属于一般水平。依据评价结果，采取了相 应的工程措施，实现了隧道建设与隧址区环境保护的协调统一，可为类似地区隧道建设的地下水环评工作提供有益的 参考。