Čerenkov radiation in anisotropic plasmas     

P. C. W. Fung  P. L. Leung 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1989,153(2):229-251

Following our series of works on anisotropic radiation, we analyze the erenkov condition in magnetized plasmas in this paper. We have discovered that the usual erenkov condition cos =1/n isnot satisfied at a far field point in anisotropic media, implying that when a charge is moving in a magnetized plasma, a linear shock wave front does not form. Thus we can calculate the power received at a far field per unit time in such a medium — this quantity could not be evaluated according to previous theory. Numerical examples are presented to show various relevant characteristics of erenkov radiation in model plasmas.  相似文献   

A hidden Markov model for earthquake prediction     

Cheuk?Fung?YipEmail authorView author&#;s OrcID profile  Wai?Leong?Ng  Chun?Yip?Yau 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》2018,32(5):1415-1434

Earthquake occurrence is well-known to be associated with structural changes in underground dynamics, such as stress level and strength of electromagnetic signals. While the causation between earthquake occurrence and underground dynamics remains elusive, the modeling of changes in underground dynamics can provide insights on earthquake occurrence. However, underground dynamics are usually difficult to measure accurately or even unobservable. In order to model and examine the effect of the changes in unobservable underground dynamics on earthquake occurrence, we propose a novel model for earthquake prediction by introducing a latent Markov process to describe the underground dynamics. In particular, the model is capable of predicting the change-in-state of the hidden Markov chain, and thus can predict the time and magnitude of future earthquake occurrences simultaneously. Simulation studies and applications on a real earthquake dataset indicate that the proposed model successfully predicts future earthquake occurrences. Theoretical results, including the stationarity and ergodicity of the proposed model, as well as consistency and asymptotic normality of model parameter estimation, are provided.  相似文献   

A rough set approach to the discovery of classification rules in spatial data     

Yee Leung  Tung Fung  Ju‐Sheng Mi  Wei‐Zhi Wu 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(9):1033-1058

This paper proposes a novel rough set approach to discover classification rules in real‐valued spatial data in general and remotely sensed data in particular. A knowledge induction process is formulated to select optimal decision rules with a minimal set of features necessary and sufficient for a remote sensing classification task. The approach first converts a real‐valued or integer‐valued decision system into an interval‐valued information system. A knowledge induction procedure is then formulated to discover all classification rules hidden in the information system. Two real‐life applications are made to verify and substantiate the conceptual arguments. It demonstrates that the proposed approach can effectively discover in remotely sensed data the optimal spectral bands and optimal rule set for a classification task. It is also capable of unraveling critical spectral band(s) discerning certain classes. The framework paves the road for data mining in mixed spatial databases consisting of qualitative and quantitative data.  相似文献   

Effects of environmental stresses on the responses of mangrove plants to spent lubricating oil     

Ke L  Zhang C  Guo C  Lin GH  Tam NF 《Marine pollution bulletin》2011,63(5-12):385-395

The influence of different environmental stresses, including salinity (5-35‰), tidal cycle (6/6, 12/12 and 24/24 h of high/low tidal regimes) and nutrient addition (1-6 times background nitrogen and phosphorus content) on Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Aegiceras corniculatum grown in sediment contaminated with spent lubricating oil (7.5 L m(-2)) were investigated. The oil-treated 1-year-old mangrove seedlings subject to low (5‰) and high (35‰) salinity had significantly more reduction in growth, more release of superoxide radical (O2·-) and higher activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) than those subject to moderate salinity (15‰). Extended flooding (24/24 h of high/low tidal regime) enhanced O2·- release and malondialdehyde (MDA) content in both oil-treated species but had little negative effects on biomass production (P>0.05) except the stem of A. corniculatum (P=0.012). The addition of nutrients had no beneficial or even posed harmful effects on the growth and cellular responses of the oil-treated seedlings.  相似文献   

Trace organic contamination in biota collected from the Pearl River Estuary, China: a preliminary risk assessment   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Wei S  Lau RK  Fung CN  Zheng GJ  Lam JC  Connell DW  Fang Z  Richardson BJ  Lam PK 《Marine pollution bulletin》2006,52(12):1682-1694

The marine ecosystem of the Pearl River Delta, located on the southern coast of China, has been heavily exploited following the rapid economic growth that has occurred since the 1980s. This investigation aimed to elucidate trace organic contamination in marine biota inhabiting the Pearl River Delta area. Biota samples, including green-lipped mussels (Perna viridis), oysters (Crassostrea rivularis) and shrimp (Penaeus orientalis) were sampled from 16 stations fringing the Estuary. Elevated concentrations (on a dry weight basis) of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (27.8–1041.0 ng/g), petroleum hydrocarbons (1.7–2345.4 μg/g), polychlorinated biphenyls (2.1–108.8 ng/g), DDTs (1.9–79.0 ng/g), and hexachlorocyclohexanes (n.d.–38.4 ng/g) were recorded. A human health risk assessment was conducted to estimate the risk to local residents associated with the consumption of biota collected from the Pearl River Estuary. The results indicated that PCBs were at levels that may cause deleterious health effects in populations that consume large amounts of seafood. However, it would be instructive to establish health criteria for trace organic contaminants that are specific to the local populations, in order to derive a more accurate and relevant health risk assessment.  相似文献   

Structure of the chromosphere-corona transition region     

R. L. Moore  P. C. W. Fung 《Solar physics》1972,23(1):78-102

The structure and energy balance of the chromosphere-corona transition region is investigated by means of a static, planar model which is compared with the results of XUV-resonance-line observations. In this model, the transition region is heated by thermal conduction from the corona and cooled by radiative losses. Comparison of the model with observational results implies that this is the dominant process in the energy balance of the transition region, and that the base of the transition region is inherently non-static and/or non-planar. The model explains the observational finding of Noyes et al. (1970) that the number density and the downward heat flux both increase by the same factor from quiet regions to active regions. The implications of these results are discussed with regard to spicules.  相似文献   

Application of Refined Land-Use Categories for High Resolution Mesoscale Atmospheric Modelling     

J. S. L. Lam  A. K. H. Lau  J. C. H. Fung 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2006,119(2):263-288

A comparison of two separate MM5 land-use datasets (i.e., ‘US Geological Survey (USGS)’ and ‘Pollutants in the Atmosphere and their Transport over Hong Kong (PATH)’, each with different parameter values and different spatial distributions) was performed to understand the importance of land-surface processes and land-atmosphere interactions in the evolution of mesoscale weather phenomena during a high pollution episode in Hong Kong from 28 December 1999 through 1 January 2000. Also, a series of high resolution mesoscale numerical experiments was performed to investigate the possible roles of various surface characteristics or land-use parameters in this high pollution episode. Specifically, the relative importance of six land-use parameters including the roughness length, thermal inertia, soil moisture availability, albedo, surface heat capacity and surface emissivity are studied. Results from this study suggest that the soil moisture availability is the most important controlling parameter on the flow pattern and on surface fluxes. Sensitivity tests also show that the general flow pattern is insensitive to the other five land-use parameters  相似文献   

Reply to comments on ‘the equation of polarization transfer in an inhomogeneous magnetized plasma. I. Formalism’     

F. T. Cheng  P. C. W. Fung 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1979,64(1):49-51

Recently D. B. Melrose (1978) has raised some points in the above mentioned paper (referred to as Paper I) concerning the meaning of some terms in our equation of polarization transfer. These points are very interesting and we would like to analyze his comments in our reply.  相似文献   

The equation of polarization transfer in an inhomogeneous magnetized plasma     

F. T. Cheng  P. C. W. Fung 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1979,63(1):177-183

Recently we have derived the equation of polarization transfer in an inhomogeneous magnetized plasma in the case where absorption is so weak that the characteristic modes can be considered to be orthogonal. We extend this investigation to the study of polarization transfer in a plasma where the characteristic polarizations need not be orthogonal. We obtain explicit expressions for the Faraday rotation tensor, the absorption tensor, the mode-coupling tensor and the tensor describing the explicit spatial variation of characteristic polarizations due to plasma inhomogeneity.  相似文献   

Improved treatments for evaluating horizontal magnetic components through the 3-D FDM in E-polarization induction problems     

陈伯舫 《地震学报(英文版)》2002,15(5)

Introduction The algorithm of the finite difference method (FDM) for solving the 3-D induction problem used by CHEN (1985) is based on the concept suggested by Brewitt-Taylor and Weaver (1976), which assumes the conductivity to be a smoothly-varying function of position. After the comparisons between many model calculations carried out by the author and other methods showed that the vertical components estimated by our method are acceptable in general cases. However, the reliability of the…  相似文献