The drivers of Chinese CO₂ emissions from 1980 to 2030   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Dabo Guan  Klaus Hubacek  Christopher L. Weber  Glen P. Peters  David M. Reiner   《Global Environmental Change》2008,18(4):626

China's energy consumption doubled within the first 25 years of economic reforms initiated at the end of the 1970s, and doubled again in the past 5 years. It has resulted of a threefold CO₂ emissions increase since early of 1980s. China's heavy reliance on coal will make it the largest emitter of CO₂ in the world. By combining structural decomposition and input–output analysis we seek to assess the driving forces of China's CO₂ emissions from 1980 to 2030. In our reference scenario, production-related CO₂ emissions will increase another three times by 2030. Household consumption, capital investment and growth in exports will largely drive the increase in CO₂ emissions. Efficiency gains will be partially offset the projected increases in consumption, but our scenarios show that this will not be sufficient if China's consumption patterns converge to current US levels. Relying on efficiency improvements alone will not stabilize China's future emissions. Our scenarios show that even extremely optimistic assumptions of widespread installation of carbon dioxide capture and storage will only slow the increase in CO₂ emissions.  相似文献   

Comparison of atmospheric turbulence characteristics and turbulent fluxes from two urban sites in Essen, Germany     

Stephan Weber  Klaus Kordowski 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2010,102(1-2):61-74

From September 2006 to September 2007, the intersite variability of turbulence characteristics and turbulent heat fluxes was analysed at two urban stations in Essen, Germany. One site was situated within an urban residential setting while the other was located at the border of an urban park and suburban/urban residential housing. Therefore, the surroundings at both sites contributing to surface–atmosphere exchange differed in terms of surface cover and surface morphology. During the 1-year measurement period, 19% of data were characterised by stable atmospheric stratification. Since observations of urban turbulence characteristics under stable stratification are scarce, so far, this work adds additional input to this discussion. Turbulence characteristics, i.e. normalised standard deviations of wind components, were in agreement to empirical fits from other urban observations under both instable and stable atmospheric stratification. However, differences in magnitude of turbulence characteristics between sites were observable. Comparison of turbulent heat fluxes indicated typical urban features in the site located in the urban setting with increased surface heating and higher surface heat fluxes by about 30%. Also the temporal evolution of heat fluxes on the diurnal course was affected. Differences in momentum flux were of minor magnitude with about 6% variation on average between sites. Findings indicate that multiple urban flux measurements within one city may be characterised by general similarities in terms of turbulent characteristics but are still significantly influenced by differences in the surface cover of the flux footprint.  相似文献   

Temporal development of the distribution of inorganic nutrients and the oxygen situation in the Pomeranian Bight During the flood event (summary)     

G. Nausch  M. v. Weber  A. Bachor 《Ocean Dynamics》1998,50(2-3):277-278

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The Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS) – A multi-scale nonhydrostatic atmospheric simulation and prediction tool. Part II: Model physics and applications     

M. Xue  K. K. Droegemeier  V. Wong  A. Shapiro  K. Brewster  F. Carr  D. Weber  Y. Liu  D. Wang 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》2001,76(3-4):143-165

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Seed bank dynamics in a Great Basin salt playa     

Bilquees Gul  Darrell J. Weber 《Journal of Arid Environments》2001,49(4):785

Salt playa are common in the Great Basin area with halophytes as the dominant flora. The relationship between the seed bank flora and existing vegetation was studied. The seed bank flora showed a high degree of similarity with that of perennial and annual halophytic vegetation. Both above and below ground components of the community are dominated by halophyte species like Allenrolfea occidentalis, Holosteum umbellatum, Salicornia rubra and Salicornia utahensis. Seasonal variation in the seed bank was also studied for the 1995–1996 and 1996–1997 growing seasons. The seeds of A. occidentalis persist in the soil of the upper zone in large densities. Salicornia utahensis was much higher in the upper zone throughout the study period. Most species demonstrated the persistent nature of the seed banks with their numbers increasing after seed dispersal and decreasing in subsequent months. The variation illustrates the transient nature of the seed bank. We concluded that A. occidentalis is more dependent on a large seed bank for maintaining its population than the two annual halophytes. The significance of the seed bank and their variation due to environmental conditions for perennial and annual species of the Great Basin salt playa community is discussed.  相似文献   

Search for finite dimensional attractors in atmospheric turbulence   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Rudolf O. Weber  Peter Talkner  Gérard Stefanicki  Luc Arvisais 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1995,73(1-2):1-14

The question is investigated whether the dynamics of turbulent wind fields in the atmospheric boundary layer can be satisfactorily described by a low-dimensional deterministic system. Special emphasis is laid on the detection of a possibly existing, underlying strange attractor. Fast response wind measurements of an ultrasonic anemometer with a sampling rate of 21 Hz were carried out over periods of several days in the near surface boundary layer. The correlation dimension of the resulting time series, several million data points long, is estimated by means of the Grassberger-Procaccia algorithm. No sign of a low dimensional attractor can be detected. By comparison with different types of random noise, the existence of an attractor with dimension lower than six can be excluded in the present data sets.  相似文献   

Incorporation of strontium into reef coral skeletal carbonate     

Jon N Weber 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1973,37(9):2173-2190

Two thousand and twenty well-characterized coral specimens from 17 localities have been analyzed for Sr. Seventy-three genera and subgenera, mostly hermatypic scleractinians, are represented. For some genera, specimens living in surface reef environments are compared with those from 18.3 m depths on the same reefs. Growth rates for some species have also been measured at these depths at one of the sampling sites. Skeletal strontium for a given genus decreases with increasing water temperature, a relationship which previously eluded detection. Aragonite deposited by corals living on the reef at a depth of 18.3 m contains more strontium than the skeletal aragonite of the same coral genera from shallow-water, surface environments. Quantitative treatment of the data for Acropora, one of the most abundant and widely distributed of the reef-building corals, suggests that the observed strontium variations may reflect variations in the rate of skeletal calcification, rather than direct dependence upon temperature or water depth. There is evidence for ‘species effects’, apparently unrelated to growth rate differences, in that certain coral genera are consistently enriched or depleted in skeletal strontium content relative to other genera living in the same reef environments under identical ambient conditions. Temperature, salinity, water depth, seawater composition, and/or other such parameters may in part determine the levels of trace element concentration in carbonates deposited by corals and other marine invertebrates, but it would appear that these variables more directly affect physiological processes which in turn control skeletal chemistry.  相似文献   

P- and S-wave reflections from anomalies in the lowermost mantle     

M. Weber 《Geophysical Journal International》1993,115(1):183-210

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Lead(II) complexation by fulvic acid: how it differs from fulvic acid complexation of copper(II) and cadmium(II)     

Robert A. Saar  James H. Weber 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1980,44(9):1381-1384

Pb²⁺, like Cu²⁺, forms strong complexes with fulvic acids (Cd²⁺-fulvate complexes are much weaker), but Pb-fulvate precipitates at a much lower mole ratio of metal ion to fulvic acid than either Cu-fulvate or Cd-fulvate does. Physical association of Pb²⁺ with Pb-fulvate solids as well as complexation by sites still available in the precipitates probably causes the increased removal of free Pb²⁺ from solution after precipitation begins.  相似文献   

Response of a nuclear power plant on aseismic bearings to horizontally propagating waves     

John P. Wolf  Pius Obernhuber  Benedikt Weber 《地震工程与结构动力学》1983,11(4):483-499

The nuclear island of Koeberg with a large basemat, a non-linear base isolation effective in the horizontal direction only, founded on rock, is analysed for inclined body waves and for a combination of surface and body waves associated with prescribed horizontal and vertical components of the control motion. When compared to vertical incidence, an additional rocking component arises, generated by the horizontally propagating vertical component. As the aseismic bearings do not isolate against this rocking component, the corresponding horizontal response bears comparison with that of a conventional structure. The ratio of the response for horizontally propagating waves and that for vertically incident waves is thus considerably larger for the base-isolated structure than for a conventional one. However, the actual design incorporating other loading cases is affected much less.  相似文献