Interannual Thermocline Signals and El Nio-La Nia Turnabout in the Tropical Pacific Ocean     

钱维宏  胡豪然 《大气科学进展》2006,(6)

One of the fundamental questions concerning the nature and prediction of the oceanic states in the equatorial eastern Pacific is how the turnabout from a cold water state (La Nina) to a warm water state (El Nino) takes place, and vice versa. Recent studies show that this turnabout is directly linked to the interannual thermocline variations in the tropical Pacific Ocean basin. An index, as an indicator and precursor to describe interannual thermocline variations and the turnabout of oceanic states in our previous paper (Qian and Hu, 2005), is also used in this study. The index, which shows the maximum subsurface temperature anomaly (MSTA), is derived from the monthly 21-year (1980-2000) expendable XBT dataset in the present study. Results show that the MSTA can be used as a precursor for the occurrences of El Nino (or La Nina) events. The subsequent analyses of the MSTA propagations in the tropical Pacific suggest a one-year potential predictability for El Nino and La Nina events by identifying ocean temperature anomalies in the thermocline of the western Pacific Ocean. It also suggests that a closed route cycle with the strongest signal propagation is identified only in the tropical North Pacific Ocean. A positive (or negative) MSTA signal may travel from the western equatorial Pacific to the eastern equatorial Pacific with the strongest signal along the equator. This signal turns northward along the tropical eastern boundary of the basin and then moves westward along the north side of off-equator around 16°N. Finally, the signal returns toward the equator along the western boundary of the basin. The turnabout time from an El Nino event to a La Nina event in the eastern equatorial Pacific depends critically on the speed of the signal traveling along the closed route, and it usually needs about 4 years. This finding may help to predict the occurrence of the El Nino or La Nina event at least one year in advance.  相似文献   

On Palaeozoic Tectonics in the Alxa Region, Inner Mongolia, China     

WU Tairan  HE Guoqi  ZHANG ChenGeology Department  Peking University  Beijing 《《地质学报》英文版》1998,72(3):256-263

Two ophiolitic melange belts in the Late Carboniferous formations have been discovered recently in the Alxa region. One is in the Engger Us fault and possesses properties of oceanic crust. The other is in the Badain Jaran fault and shows properties of a back-arc basin. These two faults, together with the Yagan fault, constitute the important boundaries of tectonic units in the Alax region. The four tectonic units delimited by these faults are different in rock assemblages, metamorphism and geochemistry. They reflect the nature of tectonic environments in which they are found. The tectonic units may be traced and correlated to the eastern and western neighbouring areas. The formation and evolution process of the units and their interaction in the Alxa region may be described in terms of the evolution of the Palaeo-Mongolian Ocean and its continental margins.  相似文献   

Average Annual Temperature Changes in the Holocene in China     

BI Fuzhi  YUAN Youshen Peking University  Cheng Ze Yuan  Beijing 《《地质学报》英文版》1998,72(3):321-328

In 1876 Blytt proposed a post-glacial climatic classification, maintaining that the then temperature fluctuated 1- 2℃ higher or lower than that today. Lamb (1969) held that in Europe " the axis of the subtropical high pressure belt was generally displaced north by about 10° latitudes" during the Hypsithermal and that the temperature was three to six times higher than that in the postglacial period.In China, there appear relict beachrocks (living fossils) in tropical tidal zones from the Bohai Bay (40° N) to coastal areas in South China. Many relict tropical marine fossils were discovered, such as Ostrea gigas in Tianjin (which is larger than that found today in Hainan), Placuna placenta in Zhejiang and Spondylus sp. in Fujian. In Hebei, Henan and Zhejiang provinces and Guilin of Guangxi, such tropical fossil animals as Elephas maximus and Rhinoceros sp, were discovered, and in Hebei and Jiangsu provinces such fresh water fossils as Unio douglasiae were found. Their living species are still seen in So  相似文献   

A note on the discovery of a 2M_⊙ pulsar     

Xiao-Yu Lai  Ren-Xin Xu School of Physics  State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics  Technology  Peking University  Beijing  China 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2011,(6)

It is conventionally thought that the state equation of dense matter softens and thus cannot result in high maximum mass if pulsars are quark stars and that a recently discovered 2M⊙ pulsar (PSR J1614-2230) may make pulsars unlikely to be quark stars. However, this standard point of view would be revisited and updated if quark clustering could occur in cold quark matter because of the strong coupling be- tween quarks at realistic baryon densities in compact stars. It can be argued that the state equation of...  相似文献   

Primordial non-Gaussianity from LAMOST surveys     

Yan Gong    Xin Wang  Zheng Zheng  Xue-Lei Chen    National Astronomical Observatories  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing  China  Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing  China Institute for Advanced Study  Einstein Drive  Princeton  NJ  USA Center of High Energy Physics  Peking University  Beijing  China Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China  CAS  Beijing 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2010,10(2)

The primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) in the matter density perturbation is a very powerful probe of the physics of the very early Universe. The local PNG can induce a distinct scale-dependent bias on the large scale structure distribution of galaxies and quasars, which could be used for constraining it. We study the detection limits of PNG from the surveys of the LAMOST telescope. The cases of the main galaxy survey, the luminous red galaxy (LRG) survey, and the quasar survey of dif- ferent magnitude limits...  相似文献   

Earthquake-controlling Processes of Detachment Zones in Eastern North China     

SUN Aiqun  NIU Shuyin  SHAO Ji''an  HOU Quanlin  ZHANG Jianzhen Shijiazhuang College of Economics  Shijiazhuang  Hebei  School of Earth  Space Sciences  Peking University  Beijing Institute of Geology  Geophysics  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing 《《地质学报》英文版》2004,78(1):283-290

The basin-and-range area in eastern North China is known for frequent occurrence of earthquakes, their great magnitudes and heavy losses thereby incurred. Seismic studies in the past usually emphasized the intersections, inflexions and branches of the faults. However, the intensities of many great earthquakes in this area do not show linear distribution, and the epicenters are horizontally dispersed at certain depths instead of along the strike of faults. Based on the sub-mantle plume studies made by authors in the past decade, it is thought that there exists an uplifted sub-mantle plume under the fault depression area in North China. The uplifting and intrusion of mantle materials caused the upper crust to be faulted, while low-velocity and high-velocity layers are alternatively distributed in the middle crust under the influence of the mantle and the lower crust. The middle and lower crust materials were detached from the top of the sub-mantle plume to the surroundings while the sub-mantle plume materi  相似文献   

An Outline of the Geological Structure of the Western Hills of Peiping     

C.Y.HSIEH 《地质学报》1937,(Z1)

As a pioneer worker in almost every phase of the Chinese geology,the late Dr. V. K. Ting was also a pioneer and enthusiastic worker inthe geology of the Western Hills. It was due to his noble effort andsupervision that the first systematic investigation of 1916 was carried out  相似文献   

Fundamental Concepts in Geology and Their Bearing on Chinese Stratigraphy     

A.W.GRABAU 《地质学报》1937,(Z1)

Students of Geology are today confronted with the necessity of anew attitude, which they have to take towards a number of fundamentalgeological concepts which have arisen within the last decade or two.  相似文献   

STRATIGRAPHY OF SOUTHEASTERN HUPEI     

谢家榮 《地质学报》1924,3(2)

The geology, of the southeastern part or Hupei has been studied by Mr. Seijirro Noda of the Japanese Geographical Society in 1912. A geological map in the scale of 1:400,000 was prepared by him, covering the districts Ta Yeh, Yang Sing, O Cheng and Wu Chang. Mr. Noda classified the sedimentary rocks into the following series:  相似文献   

ON LOPINITE,A NEW TYPE OF COAL IN CHINA     

C.Y.HSIEH 《地质学报》1933,(0)

To the east of Nanchang,the capital of Kiangsi Province,there cropsout a continuous belt of Permian coal series~1 trending approximately in thedirection from N.E.to S.W.Broadly speaking,this coal belt forms a synclinal  相似文献