Canopy structure metrics governing stemflow funnelling differ between leafed and leafless states: Insights from a large-scale rainfall simulator     

Shin'ichi Iida  Kathryn I. Wheeler  Kazuki Nanko  Yoshinori Shinohara  Xinchao Sun  Naoki Sakai  Delphis F. Levia 《水文研究》2021,35(8):e14294

An increasing number of studies have examined the effects of various biotic and abiotic factors on stemflow production. Of those that have ascribed the importance of canopy structure to stemflow production, there has been a bias towards field studies. Coupling Bayesian inference with the NIED (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Tsukuba, Japan) large-scale rainfall simulator, this study leveraged a unique opportunity to control rainfall amounts and intensities to pinpoint the canopy structural metrics that differentially influence stemflow funnelling ratios for three common tree species between leafed and leafless canopy states. For the first time, we examined whether canopy structure metrics exert a static control on stemflow funnelling ratios or whether different elements of canopy structure are more or less important under leafed or leafless states, thereby allowing us to determine if tacit assumptions about the static influence of canopy structure on stemflow production (and funnelling) are valid (or not). Rainfall simulations were conducted at 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 100 mm h⁻¹ under both leafed and leafless tree conditions (12 simulations in total) to detect any differential effects on the presence or absence of foliage on stemflow funnelling ratios. For leafed conditions, the highest percentages of best-fitting models (ΔDIC ≤2) indicated that stemflow funnelling ratios were mainly controlled by total dry aboveground biomass (B_all), diameter at breast height (D_BH), total dry foliar biomass (B_f), tree height (H), and woody to foliar dry biomass ratio (BR). Whilst for the leafless state, the highest percentages of best-fitting models (ΔDIC ≤2) indicated that total dry branch biomass (B_br) was relatively dominant as was the interaction effects between crown projection area and species (CPA:species). These results compel us to reject any assumption of a static effect of different elements of canopy structure on stemflow funnelling.  相似文献   

Modulational instability of fast magnetosonic waves in a solar plasma     

Jun-Ichi Sakai 《Solar physics》1983,84(1-2):109-118

Transverse amplitude modulations of fast magnetosonic waves propagating perpendicular to the background magnetic field are shown to be unstable on a time scale τ ～- λ_∥/V _aφ, if the wave amplitude φ exceeds a critical value, φ _c = C _s/V _a. The slow modes generated by the modulational instability under gravity can propagate along the magnetic field with the characteristic velocity, V _ph = g/2k _∥ V _aφ. The applications of this modulational instability and slow-mode generation mechanism to a solar plasma are discussed.  相似文献   

A spectrum Separation Method for the Sum of Two Non-Gaussian Stationary Time Series Using Higher Order Periodograms     

Sakaguchi  F. Sakai  H. 《Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of》1987,12(1):80-89

When we observe only the sum of two independent stationary time series generated from non-Gaussian white noises, we consider how to separate its spectrum nonparametrically into two respective spectra. For this we propose a simple method which utilizes the nonnegativity of power spectra and uses a part of the fourth-order spectrum estimated from the periodograms. Theoretically, the spectrum is uniquely separated when the spectra of the two time series have different zeros. The simulation results show that our method is successful. The asymptotic property of the method is also investigated.  相似文献   

A model of solar flares triggered by interactions between force-free current loops and plasmoids     

Jun-Ichi Sakai  Toshiaki Fushiki  Ken-Ichi Nishikawa 《Solar physics》1995,158(2):301-316

We present a model of solar flares triggered by collisions between current loops and plasmoids. We investigate a collision process between a force-free current loop and a plasmoid, by using 3-D resistive MHD code. It is shown that a current system can be induced in the front of a plasmoid, when it approaches a force-free current loop. This secondary current produced in the front of the plasmoid separates from the plasmoid and coalesces to the force-free current loop associated with the magnetic reconnection. The core of the plasmoid stays outside the reconnection region, maintaining high density. The core can be confined by the current system produced around the plasmoid. This collison process between a current loop and a plasmoid may explain the triggering of solar flares observed byYohkoh.  相似文献   

Plasma jet and shock formation during current loop coalescence in solar flares     

Jun-Ichi Sakai 《Solar physics》1989,120(1):117-124

We report on the results of plasma jet and shock formation during the current loop coalescence in solar flares. It is shown by a theoretical model based on the ideal MHD equation that the spiral, two-sided plasma jet can be explosively driven by the plasma rotational motion induced during the two current loop coalescence process. The maximum velocity of the jet can exceed the Alfvén velocity, depending on the plasma (= c _s ² v _A ² ) ratio. The acceleration time getting to the maximum jet velocity is quite short and le than 1 s. The rebound following the plasma collapse driven by magnetic pinch effect can strongly induce super-Alfvénic flow. We present the condition of the shock formation. We briefly discuss the high-energy particle acceleration during the plasma collapse as well as by the shocks.  相似文献   

Acceleration through X-type coalescence in a small energetic flare     

Jun-Ichi Sakai  Cornelis de Jager 《Solar physics》1989,123(2):389-392

We studied the acceleration conditions in the small but fairly energetic flare of May 21, 1984 at 1326 UT. The most pronounced aspect of this flare was a series of 13 microwave/X-ray spikes, each lasting for about 0.1 s. A previous study has shown that each of these was due to a series of successive sudden formations of small plasma knots of high-energy particles. Each of these knots lost its energy in about 50 ms. In the present study we show that these knots can originate by the process of X-type (3-D) flux tube coalescence. The predicted rise time (30 to 50 ms) and energy are in good agreement with the observationally derived parameters.  相似文献   

Prompt high-energy particle acceleration during two-current-loop collisions     

Jie Zhao  Bidzina Chargeishvili  Jun-Ichi Sakai 《Solar physics》1993,146(2):331-341

We present a model of prompt high-energy particle acceleration during two-current-loop collisions. By investigating test proton and test electron motions in the electromagnetic field derived from the MHD equations, we found that high-energy particle acceleration occurs only in the case ofY-type, loop-loop collisions. The results depend strongly on the plasma and initial position of the test particle. When the plasma increases, the particle acceleration rate decreases. The particles near the edge of the collision region can be accelerated to higher energy than the ones inside it. It has been shown that both protons and electrons can be accelerated to 10 GeV within 0.001 s and 5 MeV within 10^–6 s, respectively. In the case ofY-type loop-loop collisions, one may expect that high-energy gamma-ray and neutrons will be generated from interaction between high-energy particles and the low atmospheric plasma.  相似文献   

Mechanism for enhanced diffusivity in the deep-sea perpetual salt fountain     

Xinrong Zhang  Shigenao Maruyama  Koutaro Tsubaki  Seigo Sakai  Masud Behnia 《Journal of Oceanography》2006,62(2):133-142

The mechanism of enhanced diffusivity occurring in the deep-sea perpetual salt fountain has been investigated experimentally and numerically. Some factors which possibly contribute to the enhanced diffusivity were found to be the pipe oscillation with ocean waves and its baffled wall surface. Field experiments in the ocean (Onagawa Bay of Miyagi, Japan) and numerical simulations were performed to study and confirm the dynamics of the flow and heat transport with enhanced diffusivity occurring in upwelling deep-sea water. The agreement between the field experimental data and the numerical solutions of an oscillating-wall boundary condition imposed on the baffled pipe is encouraging, and it indicates the baffled pipe surface subject to the oscillatory motion leads to the enhanced diffusivity. The buoyancy force and then upwelling velocity can be greatly increased by the enhanced diffusivity. The dominant mechanism is the occurrence of complicated vortices and vortex shedding leading to efficient mixing and enhanced diffusion.  相似文献   

Mechanism of two rapid and long-runout landslides in the 16 April 2016 Kumamoto earthquake using a ring-shear apparatus and computer simulation (LS-RAPID)   总被引：3，自引：3，他引：0  

Khang Dang  Kyoji Sassa  Hiroshi Fukuoka  Naoki Sakai  Yuji Sato  Kaoru Takara  Lam Huu Quang  Doan Huy Loi  Pham Van Tien  Nguyen Duc Ha 《Landslides》2016,13(6):1525-1534

Around hundred landslides were triggered by the Kumamoto earthquakes in April 2016, causing fatalities and serious damage to properties in Minamiaso village, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The landslides included many rapid and long-runout landslides which were responsible for much of the damage. To understand the mechanism of these earthquake-triggered landslides, we carried out field investigations with an unmanned aerial vehicle to obtain DSM and took samples from two major landslides (Takanodai landslide and Aso-ohashi landslide) to measure parameters of the initiation and the motion of landslides. A series of ring-shear tests and computer simulations were conducted using a measured Kumamoto earthquake acceleration record from KNet station KMM005, 10 km west of Aso-ohashi landslide. The research results supported our assumed mechanism of sliding-surface liquefaction for the rapid and long-runout motion of these landslides.  相似文献   

Ophiolite-contaminated andesites, trachybasalts, and cognate inclusions of Mount Lamington, Papua New Guinea: anhydrite-amphibole-bearing lavas and the 1951 cumulodome     

R.J. Arculus  R.W. Johnson  B.W. Chappell  C.O. McKee  H. Sakai 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》1983,18(1-4)

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