Applying the adjoint-free 4dVar assimilation to modeling the Kuroshio south of Japan     

Miyazawa  Yasumasa  Yaremchuk  Max  Varlamov  Sergey M.  Miyama  Toru  Aoki  Kunihiro 《Ocean Dynamics》2020,70(8):1129-1149

Ocean Dynamics - Operational ocean nowcast/forecast systems require real-time sampling of oceanic data for representing realistic oceanic conditions. Satellite altimetry plays a key role in...  相似文献   

Cost-effective analysis technique for the design of bridges against strike-slip faulting     

Athanasios Agalianos  Max Sieber  Ioannis Anastasopoulos 《地震工程与结构动力学》2020,49(11):1137-1157

The paper studies the performance of a typical overpass bridge, with continuous deck and monolithic pier-deck connections, subjected to strike-slip faulting. A three-dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) model of the entire bridge–foundation–abutment–soil system is developed, accounting for soil, structure and geometric nonlinearities. Soil behaviour is simulated with a thoroughly validated strain softening constitutive model. The concrete damaged plasticity (CDP) model is implemented for piers, accounting for the interaction between axial force N , bending moment M , shear force Q and torsion T (NMQT ); the model is validated against experimental results from the literature. The location of the fault rupture is parametrically investigated, confirming the vulnerability of indeterminate structural systems to large tectonic deformation. The deck is shown to sustain both in-plane and out-of-plane bending moments, as well as torsion; the piers are subjected to biaxial bending, shear and torsion. The response is highly dependent on the location of the fault rupture, emphasizing the need to develop cost-effective modelling techniques. Four such techniques are developed (with and without decoupling) and comparatively assessed using the detailed 3D FE model as benchmark. The best prediction is achieved by a coupled model, which includes the bridge superstructure, detailed 3D modelling of the soil-foundation system only for the pier directly affected by the fault, and nonlinear springs representing the foundations of all other piers. The proposed technique offers a computationally efficient means to parametrically analyse long multispan bridges subjected to faulting, for which full 3D FE modelling is impractical.  相似文献   

Significance of boulder shape,shoreline configuration and pre-transport setting for the transport of boulders by tsunamis     

Jan Oetjen  Max Engel  Shiva P. Pudasaini  Holger Schuettrumpf 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2020,45(9):2118-2133

Research on tsunami-induced coarse-clast transport is a field of rising interest since such deposits have been identified as useful proxies for extreme-wave events (tsunamis, storm waves) that provide crucial information for coastal hazard assessment. Physical experiments are, beside in-situ observations, the foundation of our understanding of how boulders are transported by tsunamis and provide clues to the development of empirical equations and numerical models describing the processes and fundamental mechanics. Nevertheless, investigating tsunami-induced boulder transport is a comparatively young discipline and only a few experimental studies focusing on this topic have been published so far. To improve the knowledge on nearshore tsunami hydrodynamics, physical experiments utilizing real-world boulder shapes have been carried out simulating three different shore types in a wave flume. Crucial insights were gained into boulder transport hydrodynamics and data resulting from the experiments were analysed in an empirical, statistical, quantitative and qualitative manner. The regular cuboid boulder – one of the specific shapes used in the experiments – showed the longest transport distances compared to a complex, natural boulder and a flat cuboid boulder, but also significant fluctuations regarding the total transport distance. The experiments indicate a strong influence of the shore shape on boulder transport behaviour. Experimental setups of increased mean transport distances also led to a higher spreading of results. This spreading was further amplified between the idealized-shaped cuboid and the complex-shaped boulder, which is associated with a lower drag coefficient. Due to the highly sensitive boulder reaction to divergent experimental setups, the need to recognize boundary conditions overcoming commonly considered parameters (e.g. roughness or Flatness Index) in field studies and numerical models is underlined. Beside the strong influence of initial boulder submergence and alignment, both the boulder shape and shore type influence the boulder transport pattern, increasing the total transport distance by more than 350% in some cases. © 2020 The Authors. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd  相似文献   

The clustering of luminous red galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data     

Nikhil Padmanabhan  David J. Schlegel  Uro&#; Seljak  Alexey Makarov  Neta A. Bahcall  Michael R. Blanton  Jonathan Brinkmann  Daniel J. Eisenstein  Douglas P. Finkbeiner  James E. Gunn  David W. Hogg  &#;eljko Ivezi&#;  Gillian R. Knapp  Jon Loveday  Robert H. Lupton  Robert C. Nichol  Donald P. Schneider  Michael A. Strauss  Max Tegmark  Donald G. York 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,378(3):852-872

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WUIVAC: a wildland-urban interface evacuation trigger model applied in strategic wildfire scenarios     

Philip E. Dennison  Thomas J. Cova  Max A. Mortiz 《Natural Hazards》2007,41(1):181-199

An evacuation trigger is a point on the landscape that, once crossed by a wildfire, triggers an evacuation for a community. The Wildland-Urban Interface Evacuation (WUIVAC) model can be used to create evacuation trigger buffers around a community using fuels, weather, and topographic inputs. A strategic, community-scale application of WUIVAC for the town of Julian, California was investigated. Eight years of wind measurements were used to determine the worst-case (strongest) winds in 16 directions. Surface fire rate of spread was used to calculate evacuation trigger buffers for the communities of Julian and nearby Whispering Pines, and for three potential evacuation routes. Multiple trigger buffers were combined to create fire planning areas, and trigger buffers that predict the closure of all evacuation routes were explored. WUIVAC trigger buffers offer several potential benefits for strategic evacuation planning, including determination of when to evacuate and locating potential evacuation routes.  相似文献   

Human Losses Expected in Himalayan Earthquakes   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Max?WyssEmail author 《Natural Hazards》2005,34(3):305-314

Quantitative estimates of potential losses that may be caused by future great earthquakes along the Himalaya suggest that as many as 150,000 people may die, 300,000 may be injured and typically 3,000 settlements will be affected in a single event. Scenario results used here vary and are based on ruptures of 150 km segments of the plate boundary at seven positions, where sufficient elastic energy is believed to be stored for magnitude eight earthquakes. The method of calculating these results was calibrated, using the 17 disastrous Indian earthquakes, which have occurred since 1980. About 50 settlements in the region are considered most at risk because in each more than 2000 fatalities may occur.  相似文献   

Have we detected one of the sources responsible for an early reionization of the Universe?     

Massimo Ricotti  Martin G. Haehnelt  Max Pettini  Martin J. Rees 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,352(3):L21-L26

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On the origin of spicules in the chromosphere-corona transition region     

Max Kuperus  R. Grant Athay 《Solar physics》1967,1(3-4):361-370

Qualitative arguments are presented to show that in the chromosphere-corona transition region the energy which is transported downwards by heat conduction cannot be disposed of by radiative losses only. The region therefore is unstable and forced to be in motion, which may give rise to spicule-like phenomena.On leave from the Observatory Sonnenborgh at Utrecht, The Netherlands.  相似文献   

Interaction between the interstellar medium and solar wind plasma     

Max K. Wallis 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1973,20(1):3-18

The interaction processes governing the penetration of the interstellar gas into the solar neighbourhood are re-examined — as well as photo-ionization and charge-exchange processes, proton elastic collisions and electron ionizations help reduce the nearby gas densities. The total destruction rate varies little during the solar cycle, by perhaps 10%. Particle heating, particularly via the elastic collisions, determines the gas characteristics in the gravitationally focussed tail—enhanced H-density is prevented, while the He-tail is effectively hotter than 10³ K.Termination of the solar wind is rediscussed in the light of both electron heating and the stronger gas/plasma interaction. The spiral interplanetary field is taken to break up and the subsonic plasma flow to be controlled by the pressure of slowly cooling electrons. The terminating collisionless shock is then, if it exists at all, very weak (M ₁<1.4), subcritical, and energetically unimportant. Cosmic rays are little affected by this sonic transition, but at least the electron component should be modulated by plasma turbulence throughout the ionizing flow.

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Apparent Stresses of Earthquakes on Ridges compared to Apparent Stresses of Earthquakes in Trenches   总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7  

Max Wyss 《Geophysical Journal International》1970,19(5):479-484

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