Hydrographic conditions in the Tsushima Strait revisited   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Tomoharu Senjyu  Shigeaki Matsui  In-Seong Han 《Journal of Oceanography》2008,64(2):171-183

Long-term averaged temperature and salinity distributions in the Tsushima Strait are investigated on the basis of a concurrent dataset of the eastern and western channels during 1971–2000. Both temperature and salinity show a clear seasonal variation with weak and strong stratifications in December–April and June–October, respectively. The largest standard deviations occur in summer around the thermocline for temperature and in the surface layer for salinity. This indicates large interannual variability in the development of a thermocline and low salinity water advection from the East China Sea. The water masses in both channels are distinctly different from each other; the water in the western channel is generally colder and fresher than that in the eastern channel throughout the year. Baroclinic transport based on the density distributions shows a seasonal variation with a single peak in August for the eastern channel and double peaks in April and August for the western channel. However, this cannot explain the seasonal variation in the total volume transport estimated from the sea level differences across the channels. The spatial distribution of baroclinic transport shows a year-round negative transport towards the East China Sea behind the Iki Island in the eastern part of the eastern channel. This negative transport reflects the baroclinic structure between the offshore Tsushima Current Water and cold coastal water. The corresponding southwestward currents are found in both Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and high frequency (HF) radars observations.  相似文献   

Evaluation of Mode I Fracture Toughness Assisted by the Numerical Determination of K-Resistance     

Takahiro Funatsu  Norikazu Shimizu  Mahinda Kuruppu  Kikuo Matsui 《Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering》2015,48(1):143-157

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Evidence for herbivorous cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) in Goyet Cave,Belgium: implications for palaeodietary reconstruction of fossil bears using amino acid δ15N approaches          下载免费PDF全文

Yuichi I. Naito  Mietje Germonpré  Yoshito Chikaraishi  Naohiko Ohkouchi  Dorothée G. Drucker  Keith A. Hobson  Mark A. Edwards  Christoph Wißing  Hervé Bocherens 《第四纪科学杂志》2016,31(6):598-606

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Molecular dynamics study of the structures and bulk moduli of crystals in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2     

Masanori Matsui 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1996,23(6):345-353

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been used to calculate the structures and bulk moduli of crystals in the system CaO-MgO-Al₂O₃-SiO₂ (CMAS) using an interatomic potential model (CMAS94), which is composed of pairwise additive Coulomb, van der Waals, and repulsive interactions. The crystals studied, total of 27, include oxides, Mg meta- and ortho-silicates, Al garnets, and various Ca or Al bearing silicates, with the coordination number of cations ranging 6 to 12 for Ca, 4 to 12 for Mg, 4 to 6 for Al, and 4 and 6 for Si. In spite of the simplicity of the CMAS94 potential and the diversity of the structural types treated, MD simulations are quite satisfactory in reproducing well the observed structural data, including the crystal symmetries, lattice parameters, and average and individual nearest neighbour Ca-O, Mg-O, Al-O, and Si-O distances. In addition MD simulated bulk moduli of crystals in the CMAS system compare well with the observed values.  相似文献   

Two timescales in beach erosion due to decrease in sediment sources with special reference to the formation and reduction of the delta of the Kurobe River flowing into the Japan sea     

Yoshito Tsuchiya  Teruo Shibano  Hiroshi Suyama  Toshiaki Yoshimura 《Natural Hazards》1988,1(1):45-65

Beach erosion has advanced in many countries of the world, especially in Japan, because of a decrease in sediment sources from rivers and a lack of longshore sediment transport from the adjacent coasts due to coastal structures. The former cause concerns the reduction of river deltas due to a decrease in sediment input from the river. Two timescales important in beach erosion, a longer timescale which concerns a change in the location of the river mouth, and a shorter one which is due to a decrease in longshore sediment transport, are discussed in the formation and reduction of the delta of the Kurobe River. Based on these timescales, beach erosion control is considered.  相似文献   

Laboratory experiments of Titan tholin formed in cold plasma at various pressures: implications for nitrogen-containing polycyclic aromatic compounds in Titan haze     

Hiroshi Imanaka  Bishun N. Khare  Emma L.O. Bakes  Dale P. Cruikshank  Takafumi Matsui 《Icarus》2004,168(2):344-366

Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn, has a thick nitrogen/methane atmosphere with a thick global organic haze. A laboratory analogue of Titan's haze, called tholin, was formed in an inductively coupled plasma from nitrogen/methane=90/10 gas mixture at various pressures ranging from 13 to 2300 Pa. Chemical and optical properties of the resulting tholin depend on the deposition pressure in cold plasma. Structural analyses by IR and UV/VIS spectroscopy, microprobe laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry, and Raman spectroscopy suggest that larger amounts of aromatic ring structures with larger cluster size are formed at lower pressures (13 and 26 Pa) than at higher pressures (160 and 2300 Pa). Nitrogen is more likely to incorporate into carbon networks in tholins formed at lower pressures, while nitrogen is bonded as terminal groups at higher pressures. Elemental analysis reveals that the carbon/nitrogen ratio in tholins increases from 1.5-2 at lower pressures to 3 at 2300 Pa. The increase in the aromatic compounds and the decrease in C/N ratio in tholin formed at low pressures indicate the presence of the nitrogen-containing polycyclic aromatic compounds in tholin formed at low pressures. Tholin formed at high pressure (2300 Pa) consists of a polymer-like branched chain structure terminated with CH₃, NH₂, and CN with few aromatic compounds. Reddish-brown tholin films formed at low pressures (13-26 Pa) shows stronger absorptions (almost 10 times larger k-value) in the UV/VIS range than the yellowish tholin films formed at high pressures (160 and 2300 Pa). The tholins formed at low pressures may be better representations of Titan's haze than those formed at high pressures, because the optical properties of tholin formed at low pressures agree well with that of Khare et al. (1984a, Icarus 60, 127-137), which have been shown to account for Titan's observed geometric albedo. Thus, the nitrogen-containing polycyclic aromatic compounds we find in tholin formed at low pressure may be present in Titan's haze. These aromatic compounds may have a significant influence on the thermal structure and complex organic chemistry in Titan's atmosphere, because they are efficient absorbers of UV radiation and efficient charge exchange intermediaries. Our results also indicate that the haze layers at various altitudes might have different chemical and optical properties.  相似文献   

Connectivity between the interannual salinity variation in the western channel of the Tsushima Strait and hydrographic conditions in the Cheju Strait     

Tomoharu Senjyu  In-Seong Han  Sigeaki Matsui 《Journal of Oceanography》2009,65(4):511-524

The connectivity between the interannual salinity variations in the Tsushima and Cheju Straits has been investigated on the basis of historical hydrographic data. Salinity in the Cheju Strait correlates positively with that in the western channel of the Tsushima Strait, but does not show a significant correlation with that in the eastern channel. Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) and singular value decomposition (SVD) analyses of temperature and salinity in the Cheju Strait revealed that salinity in the strait is associated with the cold bottom water in summer. Drastic freshening in the Cheju Strait occurs in a period when the Cheju Current intensifies. The results allow us to hypothesize that the mechanism of interannual salinity variations in the Cheju Strait and western channel of the Tsushima Strait is as follows. The intrusion of cold bottom water into the Cheju Strait in summer intensifies the Cheju Current by increasing the baroclinicity. Since colder bottom water develops a stronger eastward surface current, the larger volume of the Changjiang diluted water is drawn into the strait, which results in a lower salinity condition in the Cheju Strait. As the water in the Cheju Strait flows into the western channel of the Tsushima Strait, salinity in the western channel varies synchronously. This hypothesis is supported by SVD analysis of temperature in the Cheju Strait and salinity in the Tsushima Strait. The salinity condition in the East China Sea is suggested to be another important influence on salinity in the western channel of the Tsushima Strait.  相似文献   

Sensitivity analysis on measurement noise in the identification of soil properties from vertical array observation data     

Tetsushi Kurita  Kunihito Matsui 《地震工程与结构动力学》1997,26(9):951-965

This study clarified the effects of measurement noise on identification of soil properties from vertical array observation of seismic waves. In order to evaluate the sensitivity of the unknown parameter with respect to error caused by noise, the amplitude of a transfer function was used to formulate the evaluation function in the frequency domain. Also the logarithmic amplitude was used to formulate the evaluation function and compare the sensitivity between the two types of amplitude expressions. A numerical experiment, based on a simple-structured ground model, showed that these evaluation functions produced satisfactory results which were in good agreement with identified results obtained by the measurement data contaminated by artificially generated errors. The present theory, when applied to actual earthquake records, proved useful in evaluating the influence of the non-linearity of soil characteristics. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

High‐resolution national land use scenarios under a shrinking population in Japan     

Haruka Ohashi  Keita Fukasawa  Toshinori Ariga  Tetsuya Matsui  Yasuaki Hijioka 《Transactions in GIS》2019,23(4):786-804

In sharp contrast with the global trend in population growth, certain developed countries are expected to experience rapid national population declines. Considering future land use scenarios that include depopulation is necessary to evaluate changes in ecosystem services that affect human well‐being and to facilitate comprehensive strategies for balancing rural and urban development. In this study, we applied a population‐projection‐assimilated predictive land use modeling (PPAP‐LM) approach, in which a spatially explicit population projection was incorporated as a predictor in a land use model. To analyze the effects of future population distributions on land use, we developed models for five land use types and generated projections for two scenarios (centralization and decentralization) under a shrinking population in Japan during 2015–2050. Our results suggested that population centralization promotes the compaction of built‐up areas and the expansion of forest and wastelands, while population decentralization contributes to the maintenance of a mixture of forest and cultivated land.  相似文献   

Molecular dynamics study of structural changes in berlinite     

K. Kihara  M. Matsui 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1999,26(7):601-614

Fractional coordinates and anisotropic temperature factors of atoms in berlinite, AlPO₄ with the quartz topology, were successfully simulated in a molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) at high temperatures. Time-dependent and time-averaged atomic order parameters were analyzed in detail with the aid of spectral densities calculated from trajectory data. These parameters show characteristic behavior of the order-disorder regime for a structure change, where atoms spend most of the time oscillating around the ₁-sites (or ₂-sites) in the low temperature α-phase, but oscillate over both sites in the higher temperature α-phase and the β-phase. In the spectral density functions calculated for atom order parameters, a nearly zero-frequency excitation, which is accompanied by the emergence of large-scale ₁ and ₂ clusters, appears at the Γ point of the Brillouin zone below the transition point T _o, and increases in intensity up to T _o. A low-lying optic branch along Γ-M, which is strongly temperature dependent in the small q-region, is another characteristic of the spectral density functions for the β phase. The spectrum at Γ continuously reduces its frequency from 0.6 THz at temperatures far above T _o to nearly 0 THz at temperatures approaching T _o from above. The dynamical behavior in β berlinite rapidly but continuously changes from that in less oscillatory clusters in the vicinity of T _o to that in the typical β phase at temperatures departing from T _o. Received: 10 August 1998 / Revised, accepted: 18 February 1999  相似文献