Trace organic contamination in biota collected from the Pearl River Estuary, China: a preliminary risk assessment   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Wei S  Lau RK  Fung CN  Zheng GJ  Lam JC  Connell DW  Fang Z  Richardson BJ  Lam PK 《Marine pollution bulletin》2006,52(12):1682-1694

The marine ecosystem of the Pearl River Delta, located on the southern coast of China, has been heavily exploited following the rapid economic growth that has occurred since the 1980s. This investigation aimed to elucidate trace organic contamination in marine biota inhabiting the Pearl River Delta area. Biota samples, including green-lipped mussels (Perna viridis), oysters (Crassostrea rivularis) and shrimp (Penaeus orientalis) were sampled from 16 stations fringing the Estuary. Elevated concentrations (on a dry weight basis) of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (27.8–1041.0 ng/g), petroleum hydrocarbons (1.7–2345.4 μg/g), polychlorinated biphenyls (2.1–108.8 ng/g), DDTs (1.9–79.0 ng/g), and hexachlorocyclohexanes (n.d.–38.4 ng/g) were recorded. A human health risk assessment was conducted to estimate the risk to local residents associated with the consumption of biota collected from the Pearl River Estuary. The results indicated that PCBs were at levels that may cause deleterious health effects in populations that consume large amounts of seafood. However, it would be instructive to establish health criteria for trace organic contaminants that are specific to the local populations, in order to derive a more accurate and relevant health risk assessment.  相似文献   

The CLIVAR C20C project: selected twentieth century climate events   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2  

A. A. Scaife  F. Kucharski  C. K. Folland  J. Kinter  S. Brönnimann  D. Fereday  A. M. Fischer  S. Grainger  E. K. Jin  I. S. Kang  J. R. Knight  S. Kusunoki  N. C. Lau  M. J. Nath  T. Nakaegawa  P. Pegion  S. Schubert  P. Sporyshev  J. Syktus  J. H. Yoon  N. Zeng  T. Zhou 《Climate Dynamics》2009,33(5):603-614

We use a simple methodology to test whether a set of atmospheric climate models with prescribed radiative forcings and ocean surface conditions can reproduce twentieth century climate variability. Globally, rapid land surface warming since the 1970s is reproduced by some models but others warm too slowly. In the tropics, air-sea coupling allows models to reproduce the Southern Oscillation but its strength varies between models. We find a strong relationship between the Southern Oscillation in global temperature and the rate of global warming, which could in principle be used to identify models with realistic climate sensitivity. This relationship and a weak response to ENSO suggests weak sensitivity to changes in sea surface temperature in some of the models used here. In the tropics, most models reproduce part of the observed Sahel drought. In the extratropics, models do not reproduce the observed increase in the North Atlantic Oscillation in response to forcings, through internal variability, or as a combination of both.  相似文献   

Influence of iron oxide coating on the tribological behavior of sand grain contacts     

Ren  Jing  He  Huan  Lau  Kai-Chung  Senetakis  Kostas 《Acta Geotechnica》2022,17(7):2907-2929

Acta Geotechnica - Granular materials are often subjected to certain degrees of coating in natural conditions due to weathering and soil–environment interactions and the current literature...  相似文献   

Fluorescent in situ hybridization of transcript-annealing molecular beacons (FISH-TAMB)–an innovative method to tag active, low-abundance prokaryotic cells     

Maggie C.Y. Lau  Rachel L. Harris  Anjali Tanej  Christina DeCoste  Gary Laevsky  Tullis C. Onstott  Errol Cason  Jan G Vermeulen  Esta van Heerden  Thomas L. Kieft 《《地质学报》英文版》2018,92(Z1):185-185

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Generation of Long Internal Gravity Waves in Waveguides by Rising Buoyant Air Masses and Other Sources     

I. Tolstoy  J. Lau 《Geophysical Journal International》1971,26(1-4):295-310

Summary The displacement fields generated in an internal gravity wave waveguide between plane rigid walls are compared for two types of source: an explosive point source and a rising buoyant sphere moving at constant speed. It is concluded that for large enough spheres and comparable energy expenditures, the buoyant sphere is a far more efficient source of long internal gravity waves. In particular it appears possible to conclude that, in the case of large events such as nuclear or volcanic explosions in the atmosphere, the rising heated air mass can generate long wavelength (Λ > 500 km) internal gravity waves at ionospheric heights.  相似文献   

INTERANNUAL TO INTERDECADAL VARIATIONS OF THE REGIONALIZED SURFACE CLIMATE OF THE UNITED STATES AND RELATIONSHIPS TO GENERALIZED FLOW PARAMETERS     

Anthony J. Vega  Chung-Hsiung Sui  Ka-Ming Lau 《自然地理学》2013,34(4):271-291

This analysis attempts to discern primary causes of interannual and interdecadal climate variations for precipitation and temperature regions of the conterminous United States. Varimax rotated principal components analysis of annual climate division data is used in the derivation of nine precipitation and five temperature regions. Each region's time series is examined for underlying linear trends, representing long-term climate change, and tests for variance changes, to determine regional climate variability shifts. The first six precipitation components, representing the entire eastern half of the country and the Northwest, displayed significant temporal increases. Of these, four displayed significant increases in interannual variability through time. For temperature, only the Southwestern region showed a significant change (increase) through time. However, significant reductions in temperature variability were confirmed for three regions. To determine the causes of the derived climate shifts, correlation analysis was performed with various atmospheric teleconnection indices. Precipitation trends are most strongly associated with variations in the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) at the interannual time scale while interdecadal variations are associated more with variations in the Pacific/North American (PNA) teleconnection. Both interannual and interdecadal variations of regional temperature are most strongly related to the PNA, except for the Southwest, which showed a significant correlation to the SOI. This suggests that El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events are the source for much of the precipitation change evident in the eastern and Northwestern United States and temperature change in the Southwest. [Key words: climate change, precipitation, temperature, El Niño, Southern Oscillation, United States climate.]  相似文献   

Constrained iterative deconvolution applied to SeaMARC I sidescansonar imagery     

Fox  C.G. Jones  F.J. Lau  T.-K. 《Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of》1990,15(1):24-31

Images collected by any sidescan sonar system represent the convolution of the acoustic beam pattern of the instrument with the true echo amplitude distribution over the seafloor. At typical low speeds, the 1.7° beam width of SeaMARC I (seafloor mapping and remote characterization) results in multiple insonification of individual targets, particularly at the outside of the swath. A nonlinearly constrained iterative deconvolution technique developed for radar applications can be applied to SeaMARC I imagery to reduce the effect of the beam pattern and equalize the spectral content of the image across the swath. Since the deconvolution is implemented in the along-track direction, the registration of individual scan lines must be precisely corrected before the operator is applied. The deconvolution operator must be modeled to account for beam shape, vehicle speed, swath width, slant range, and ping rate. The method is numerically stable and increases the effective resolution of the image, but results in some loss of dynamic range. The technique is applied to target recognition and imagery from volcanic terrains of the central Juan de Fuca Ridge  相似文献   

Magnetic nulls and topology in a class of solar flare models     

Yun-Tung Lau 《Solar physics》1993,148(2):301-324

We study the magnetic field-line topology in a class of solar flare models with four magnetic dipoles. By introducing a series of symmetry-breaking perturbations to a fully symmetric potential field model, we show that isolated magnetic nulls generally exist above the photosphere. These nulls are physically important because they determine the magnetic topology above the photosphere. In some special cases, there may be a single null above the photosphere with quasi two-dimensional properties. For such a model, aquasi null line connects the null to the photosphere. In the limit of small non-ideal effects, boundary layers and current sheetsmay develop along the quasi null line and the associated separatrix surfaces. Field lines can then reconect across the quasi null line, as in two-dimensional reconnection. In a more general force-free case, the field contains a pair of nulls above the photosphere, with a field line (theseparator) connecting the two nulls. In the limit of small non-ideal effects, boundary layers and current sheets develop along the separator and the associated separatrix surfaces. The system exhibits three-dimensional reconnection across the separator, over which field lines exchange identity. The separatrices are related to preferable sites of energy release during solar flares.  相似文献   

Modeling of cable vibration effects of cable-stayed bridges     

S. H. Cheng  David T. Lau 《地震工程与工程振动(英文版)》2002,1(1):74-85

The analysis of dynamic responses of cable-stayed bridges subjected to wind and earthquake loads generally considers only the motions of the bridge deck and pylons. The influence of the stay cable vibration on the responses of the bridge is either ignored or considered by approximate procedures. The transverse vibration of the stay cables, which can be significant in some cases, are usually neglected in previous research. In the present study, a new three-node cable element has been developed to model the transverse motions of the cables. The interactions between the cable behavior and the other parts of the bridge superstructure are considered by the concept of dynamic stiffness. The nonlinear effect of the cable caused by its self-weight is included in the formulation. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed model. The impact of cable vibration behavior on the dynamic characteristics of cable-stayed bridges is discussed. Supported by: Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada  相似文献   

AGCM simulations of intraseasonal variability associated with the Asian summer monsoon   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

D. E. Waliser  K. Jin  I.-S. Kang  W. F. Stern  S. D. Schubert  M. L. C. Wu  K.-M. Lau  M.-I. Lee  V. Krishnamurthy  A. Kitoh  G. A. Meehl  V. Y. Galin  V. Satyan  S. K. Mandke  G. Wu  Y. Liu  C.-K. Park 《Climate Dynamics》2003,21(5-6):423-446

The intraseasonal variability associated with the Asian summer monsoon as simulated by a number of atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) are analyzed and assessed against observations. The model data comes from the Monsoon GCM Intercomparison project initiated by the CLIVAR/Asian–Australian Monsoon Panel. Ten GCM groups, i.e., the Center for Ocean–Land–Atmosphere Studies (COLA), Institute of Numerical Mathematics (DNM), Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Seoul National University (SNU), and the State University of New York (SUNY), participated in the intraseasonal component of the project. Each performed a set of 10 ensemble simulations for 1 September 1996–31 August 1998 using the same observed weekly SST values but with different initial conditions. The focus is on the spatial and seasonal variations associated with intraseasonal variability (ISV) of rainfall, the structure of each model's principal mode of spatial-temporal variation of rainfall [i.e. their depiction of the Intraseasonal Oscillation (ISO)], the teleconnection patterns associated with each model's ISO, and the implications of the models' ISV on seasonal monsoon predictability. The results show that several of the models exhibit ISV levels at or above that found in observations with spatial patterns of ISV that resemble the observed pattern. This includes a number of rather detailed features, including the relative distribution of variability between ocean and land regions. In terms of the area-averaged variance, it is found that the fidelity of a model to represent NH summer versus winter ISV appears to be strongly linked. In addition, most models' ISO patterns do exhibit some form of northeastward propagation. However, the model ISO patterns are typically less coherent, lack sufficient eastward propagation, and have smaller zonal and meridional spatial scales than the observed patterns, and are often limited to one side or the other of the maritime continent. The most pervasive and problematic feature of the models' depiction of ISV and/or their ISO patterns is the overall lack of variability in the equatorial Indian Ocean. In some cases, this characteristic appears to result from some models forming double convergence zones about the equator rather than one region of strong convergence on the equator. This shortcoming results in a poor representation of the local rainfall pattern and also significantly influences the models' representations of the global-scale teleconnection patterns associated with the ISO. Finally, analysis of the model ensemble shows a positive relationship between the strength of a model's ISV of rainfall and its intra-ensemble variability of seasonal monsoon rainfall. The implications of this latter relation are discussed in the context of seasonal monsoon predictability.  相似文献