Commemoration of the 15th Anniversary of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters          下载免费PDF全文

Huijun Wang  Ola M.Johannessen 《大气和海洋科学快报》2022,15(1):100151

First published in late 2008 and currently in Volume 15(2022), Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters(AOSL) is now 15 years old. Looking back on the journey, hardships and happiness, difficulties and hope coexist.AOSL is an international journal for providing a rapid communication channel between academic communities concerned with the interdisciplinary research areas of atmospheric science, oceanography.  相似文献   

Accumulation over the Greenland Ice Sheet as Represented in Reanalysis Data     

CHEN Linling  Ola M. JOHANNESSEN  WANG Huijun  Atsumu OHMURA 《大气科学进展》2011,28(5):1030-1038

Annual precipitation,evaporation,and calculated accumulation from reanalysis model outputs have been investigated for the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS),based on the common period of 1989-2001.The ERA-40 and ERA-interim reanalysis data showed better agreement with observations than do NCEP-1 and NCEP-2 reanalyses.Further,ERA-interim showed the closest spatial distribution of accumulation to the observation.Concerning temporal variations,ERA-interim showed the best correlation with precipitation observations at five synoptic stations,and the best correlation with in situ measurements of accumulation at nine ice core sites.The mean annual precipitation averaged over the whole GrIS from ERA-interim (363 mm yr 1) and mean annual accumulation (319 mm yr 1) are very close to the observations.The validation of accumulation calculated from reanalysis data against ice-core measurements suggests that further improvements to reanalysis models are needed.  相似文献   

A transitioning Arctic surface energy budget: the impacts of solar zenith angle, surface albedo and cloud radiative forcing     

Joseph Sedlar  Michael Tjernström  Thorsten Mauritsen  Matthew D. Shupe  Ian M. Brooks  P. Ola G. Persson  Cathryn E. Birch  Caroline Leck  Anders Sirevaag  Marcel Nicolaus 《Climate Dynamics》2011,37(7-8):1643-1660

Snow surface and sea-ice energy budgets were measured near 87.5°N during the Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study (ASCOS), from August to early September 2008. Surface temperature indicated four distinct temperature regimes, characterized by varying cloud, thermodynamic and solar properties. An initial warm, melt-season regime was interrupted by a 3-day cold regime where temperatures dropped from near zero to ?7°C. Subsequently mean energy budget residuals remained small and near zero for 1 week until once again temperatures dropped rapidly and the energy budget residuals became negative. Energy budget transitions were dominated by the net radiative fluxes, largely controlled by the cloudiness. Variable heat, moisture and cloud distributions were associated with changing air-masses. Surface cloud radiative forcing, the net radiative effect of clouds on the surface relative to clear skies, is estimated. Shortwave cloud forcing ranged between ?50 W m^?2 and zero and varied significantly with surface albedo, solar zenith angle and cloud liquid water. Longwave cloud forcing was larger and generally ranged between 65 and 85 W m^?2, except when the cloud fraction was tenuous or contained little liquid water; thus the net effect of the clouds was to warm the surface. Both cold periods occurred under tenuous, or altogether absent, low-level clouds containing little liquid water, effectively reducing the cloud greenhouse effect. Freeze-up progression was enhanced by a combination of increasing solar zenith angles and surface albedo, while inhibited by a large, positive surface cloud forcing until a new air-mass with considerably less cloudiness advected over the experiment area.  相似文献   

Role of natural external forcing factors in modulating the Indian summer monsoon rainfall,the winter North Atlantic Oscillation and their relationship on inter-decadal timescale     

Xuedong Cui  Yongqi Gao  Jianqi Sun  Dong Guo  Shuanglin Li  Ola M. Johannessen 《Climate Dynamics》2014,43(7-8):2283-2295

We use reconstructed data and multi-centennial integrations performed with the Bergen Climate Model Version 2 to investigate the impact of natural external forcing factors on the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) rainfall, the winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and the potential relationship between the ISM rainfall and the winter NAO on decadal to inter-decadal timescales. The model simulations include a 600-year control integration (CTL600) and a 600-year integration with time-varied natural external forcing factors from 1400 to 1999 (EXT600). Both reconstructed data and the simulation showed increased ISM rainfall 2–3 years after strong volcanic eruptions. Strong volcanic eruptions decrease the Indian Ocean sea surface temperature (SST), which increases the strength of the southwesterly winds over the Arabian Sea. With negative externally-forced radiative anomaly, the lower stratospheric pole-to-equator winter temperature gradient is enhanced, leading to a positive winter NAO anomaly with a time lag of 1 year. There is no significant correlation between the winter NAO and ISM rainfall in CTL600. However, the ISM rainfall is significantly positively correlated with the winter NAO in EXT600, with the NAO leading by 2–4 years, which is consistent with the NAO–ISM rainfall relationship in the reconstructed data. We suggest that natural external forcing factors regulate the inter-decadal variability of both the winter NAO and the ISM rainfall and thus likely lead to an increased statistical but not causal relationship between them on the inter-decadal timescale over the past centuries.  相似文献   

Plume Behavior for Petroleum Hydrocarbon in a Tropical Sand Tank: Laboratory Experiments and Scenario-Specific Modelling     

Oluwapelumi O. Ojuri  Samuel A. Ola 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2013,31(2):154-172

Numerical simulations were performed to assess the reactive transport and natural attenuation of gasoline fuel components in a 3-D sand tank model. The conceptual model includes a residual gasoline source that dissolves into the 3-D aquifer. The analysis reveals high to very high correlation between the observed and simulated values (average R² = 0.97). A retardation factor R = 1.5, and first-order decay rate of 0.0002/day were obtained from the model calibration for BTEX.

The results are highly relevant in the light of the increasing awareness of the precarious trend of lack of monitoring and remedial feasibility data for the subsoil environment in the thousands of gasoline fuel stations, and petroleum storage/distribution underground infrastructure and the riverbeds of inland waterways in Nigeria.

The biodegradation rate was the most sensitive model parameter, with about 82% increase in BTEX maximum plume concentration, for the zero biodegradation scenario.  相似文献   

Dual sensor streamer technology used in Sleipner CO2 injection monitoring     

Anne‐Kari Furre  Ola Eiken 《Geophysical Prospecting》2014,62(5):1075-1088

CO₂ has been injected into the saline aquifer Utsira Fm at the Sleipner field since 1996. In order to monitor the movement of the CO₂ in the sub‐surface, the seventh seismic monitor survey was acquired in 2010, with dual sensor streamers which enabled optimal towing depths compared to previous surveys. We here report both on the time‐lapse observations and on the improved resolution compared to the conventional streamer surveys. This study shows that the CO₂ is still contained in the subsurface, with no indications of leakage. The time‐lapse repeatability of the dual sensor streamer data versus conventional data is sufficient for interpreting the time‐lapse effects of the CO₂ at Sleipner, and the higher resolution of the 2010 survey has enabled a refinement of the interpretation of nine CO₂ saturated layers with improved thickness estimates of the layers. In particular we have estimated the thickness of the uppermost CO₂ layer based on an analysis of amplitude strength together with time‐separation of top and base of this layer and found the maximum thickness to be 11 m. This refined interpretation gives a good base line for future time‐lapse surveys at the Sleipner CO₂ injection site.  相似文献   

Potential climate change impacts on the probability of wind damage in a south Swedish forest     

Kristina Blennow  Mikael Andersson  Johan Bergh  Ola Sallnäs  Erika Olofsson 《Climatic change》2010,99(1-2):261-278

We estimated how the possible changes in wind climate and state of the forest due to climate change may affect the probability of exceeding critical wind speeds expected to cause wind damage within a forest management unit located in Southern Sweden. The topography of the management unit was relatively gentle and the forests were dominated by Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.). We incorporated a model relating the site index (SI) to the site productivity into the forest projection model FTM. Using estimated changes in the net primary production (NPP) due to climate change and assuming a relative change in NPP equal to a relative change in the site productivity, we simulated possible future states of the forest under gradual adjustment of SI in response to climate change. We estimated changes in NPP by combining the boreal-adapted BIOMASS model with four regional climate change scenarios calculated using the RCAO model for the period 2071–2100 and two control period scenarios for the period 1961–1990. The modified WINDA model was used to calculate the probability of wind damage for individual forest stands in simulated future states of the forest. The climate change scenarios used represent non-extreme projections on a 100-year time scale in terms of global mean warming. A 15–40% increase in NPP was estimated to result from climate change until the period 2071–2100. Increasing sensitivity of the forest to wind was indicated when the management rules of today were applied. A greater proportion of the calculated change in probability of wind damage was due to changes in wind climate than to changes in the sensitivity of the forest to wind. While regional climate scenarios based on the HadAM3H general circulation model (GCM) indicated no change (SRES A2 emission scenario) or a slightly reduced (SRES B2 emission scenario) probability of wind damage, scenarios based on the ECHAM4/OPYC3 GCM indicated increased probability of wind damage. The assessment should, however, be reviewed as the simulation of forest growth under climate change as well as climate change scenarios are refined.  相似文献   

Geospatial Human‐environment Simulation through Integration of Massive Multiplayer Online Games and Geographic Information Systems     

Ola Ahlqvist  Thomas Loffing  Jay Ramanathan  Austin Kocher 《Transactions in GIS》2012,16(3):331-350

This article reports on the initial development of a generic framework for integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Massive Multi‐player Online Gaming (MMOG) technology to support the integrated modeling of human‐environment resource management and decision‐making. We review Web 2.0 concepts, online maps, and games as key technologies to realize a participatory construction of spatial simulation and decision making practices. Through a design‐based research approach we develop a prototype framework, “GeoGame”, that allows users to play board‐game‐style simulations on top of an online map. Through several iterations we demonstrate the implementation of a range of design artifacts including: real‐time, multi‐user editing of online maps, web services, game lobby, user‐modifiable rules and scenarios building, chat, discussion, and market transactions. Based on observational, analytical, experimental and functional evaluations of design artifacts as well as a literature review, we argue that a MMO GeoGame‐framework offers a viable approach to address the complex dynamics of human‐environmental systems that require a simultaneous reconciliation of both top‐down and bottom‐up decision making where stakeholders are an integral part of a modeling environment. Further research will offer additional insight into the development of social‐environmental models using stakeholder input and the use of such models to explore properties of complex dynamic systems.  相似文献   

Geotechnical properties and behaviour of Nigerian tar sand     

S.A. Ola 《Engineering Geology》1991,30(3-4):325-336

A brief review of the geology of the tar sand areas of Nigeria is given. Analysis shows that the tar sand used for the tests consists of a well graded silty sand (cmf) with about 5% clay; and 3–5% bitumen. Results presented show a very high in situ compressive strength of about 450 kN/m², a high ratio of tensile to compressive strength of about 22%, peak shear strength parameters of C_p′=15kN/m²and φ_p′ = 19° and residual parameters of C_r =0, φ_r = 18°. The compacted tar sand behaved like an overconsolidated soil with a preconsolidating pressure, P_c of 140 kN/m2. In general, the results of the in situ strength tests indicate that the Nigerian tar sand behaved as a soft sandstone.  相似文献   

A Multiscale Object-Specific Approach to Digital Change Detection   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Ola Hall  Geoffrey J. Hay 《International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation》2003,4(4):311-327

Landscape spatial pattern is dependent not only on interacting physiographic and physiological processes, but also on the temporal and spatial scales at which the resulting patterns are assessed. To detect significant spatial changes occurring through space and time three fundamental components are required. First, a multiscale dataset must be generated. Second, a change detection framework must be applied to the multiscale dataset. Third, a procedure must be developed to delineate individual image-objects and identify them as they change through scale. In this paper, we introduce an object-specific multiscale digital change detection approach. This approach incorporates multitemporal SPOT Panchromatic (Pan) data, object-specific analysis (OSA), object-specific up-scaling (OSU), marker-controlled watershed segmentation (MCS) and image differencing change detection. By applying this framework to SPOT Pan data, image-objects that have changed between registration dates can be identified and delineated at their characteristic scale of expression. Results illustrate that this approach has the ability to automatically detect changes at multiple scales as well as suppress sensor related noise. This study was conducted in the forest region of the Örebro Administrative Province, Sweden.  相似文献