Revisit of event-based rainfall characteristics at Shapotou area in northern China     

XinPing Wang  YaFeng Zhang  Rui Hu  YanXia Pan  HaoJie Xu  Wei Shi  YanXia Jin  Hiroshi Yasuda 《寒旱区科学》2016,8(6):477-484

Distribution of rainfall event sizes and interval lengths between events are important characteristics of arid and semi-arid climates. Understanding their importance will contribute to our ability to understand ecosystem dynamics in these regions. Rainfall event timing and magnitude are important drivers of ecosystem processes and are instrumental in creating landscape heterogeneity in arid and semi-arid regions. Rainfall event characteristics were analyzed using an automatic tipping-bucket rain-gauge record across the entire summer monsoon season from 2008 to 2015 at the arid desert area of Shapotou in the Tengger Desert, China. Changing the minimum inter-event time (MIT) from 30 min to 24 h alters the number of rainfall events from 64 to 25 for the event depth larger than 0.1 mm. The mean rainfall intensity declined from 0.95 mm/h to 0.53 mm/h, and the geometric mean event duration rose from 0.55 h to 4.4 h. The number of rainfall events, mean rainfall intensity, and geometric mean event duration differed under different criteria of individual rainfall depths, except that for an individual rainfall depth of 0.5, 1.0, and 5.0 mm. The aforementioned features differed only at the lowest range of the mean rainfall intensity and depth for MIT=3 and 6 h. These findings suggest that identification of event-based rainfall in this specific arid region can be better achieved by setting the MIT at six hours. The wide variation in rainfall event properties indicate the need for paying more attention to the proper selection and reporting of event criteria in studies that adopt event-based data analysis. This is especially true in quantifying effective rainfall for soil water replenishment in terms of rainfall depth and intensity with infrequent rainfall events.  相似文献   

Horizontal circulations caused by the bottom oscillatory boundary layer in a bay with a sloping bed     

Hidekazu Yasuda 《Journal of Oceanography》1984,40(2):124-134

The horizontal circulations caused by the combined effect of the bottom oscillatory boundary layer (Stokes layer) and a sloping bed have been investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The generating mechanism is analogous to that for horizontal circulation induced by wind or by density variation. This horizontal circulation can account for a part of the tidal residual current observed in a tidal hydraulic model.  相似文献   

Influence of asymmetric wind stress curl on the general ocean circulation using an eddy-resolving quasi-geostrophic model     

Tamaki Yasuda  Kimio Hanawa 《Journal of Oceanography》1996,52(2):189-206

On the general ocean circulation forced by the asymmetric wind stress curl, the role of the eddies which are detached from the western boundary current is studied using an eddy-resolving two-layered quasi-geostrophic numerical model with free-slip boundary condition. An ideal sinusoidal function is used as the wind stress curl, and amplitude is assumed to be larger over the southern basin than over the northern one. In contrast with the antisymmetric wind forcing, in the asymmetric wind stress case, the subtropical western boundary current overshoots to the north from the zero wind stress curl line. As the asymmetricity of the wind forcing becomes larger, the separation point of the time mean field is located further north. The eddies generated in the region of the subtropical recirculation are advected northward by the western boundary current and they are detached from subtropical gyre. The release of these eddies to the north basin leads to weaken the subtropical recirculation system. From the analysis of the potential vorticity budgets, in the asymmetric case, it is shown that detached eddies play an important role in transporting the negative vorticity which is excessively inputted into the southern basin, to the northern basin, in addition to the terms which transport vorticity in the antisymmetric case, i.e., the vorticity transport by the meander of the jet. Under the free-slip boundary, more than a quarter of that excess vorticity is transported by those detached eddies in some cases.  相似文献   

Target strength of mesopelagic lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) based on swimbladder morphology   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3  

Yasuma  Hiroki; Sawada  Kouichi; Ohshima  Tatsuki; Miyashita  Kazushi; Aoki  Ichiro 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2003,60(3):584-591

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Evidence of subsidence of seamounts in the north-western Pacific     

Ichiro Kaneoka 《Marine Geophysical Researches》1972,1(4):412-417

The subsidence of seamounts in the northwestern Pacific is suggested from the unexpected high vesicularity of submarine basaltic rocks which were dredged from great depths. There exists a tendency that the closer the seamount is situated to the trench axis, the greater the amount of subsidence becomes.  相似文献   

Long-Term Variability of North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water in Response to Spin-Up of the Subtropical Gyre   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Tamaki Yasuda  Yoshiteru Kitamura 《Journal of Oceanography》2003,59(3):279-290

The Meteorological Research Institute's ocean general circulation model (MRI-OGCM) has been used to investigate the temperature variability of the North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water (NPSTMW) over a time series longer than 5 years via the spin-up of the subtropical gyre. Besides an interannual variation, the wintertime sea surface temperature in the area where the NPSTMW is formed, and the temperature of the NPSTMW itself, both change remarkably in a >5-year time scale. An analysis of heat budgets showed that the long-term changes in NPSTMW temperature are due mainly to a leading advection of heat by the Kuroshio Extension and compensating surface heat flux. As a result of a dynamical adjustment to the wind stress fields, the transports of the Kuroshio and the Kuroshio Extension increased in the mid 1970s with a lag of 3 years after the wind stress curl in the central North Pacific. The increased heat advection by the Kuroshio Extension induces a warming in the mixed layer in the NPSTMW formation area, followed by a warming of the NPSTMW itself. Both these warming actions increase the heat release to the atmosphere. These results imply that the surface heat flux over the Kuroshio Extension area varies in response to the change in the ocean circulation through the spin-up of the subtropical gyre. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

On some thermal springs of Taiwan,Japan     

Ichiro Hayasaka Rg. H. 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1940,6(1):227-235

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Supernovae in the Subaru Deep Field: an initial sample and Type Ia rate out to redshift 1.6     

D. Poznanski  D. Maoz  N. Yasuda  R. J. Foley  M. Doi  A. V. Filippenko  M. Fukugita  A. Gal-Yam  B. T. Jannuzi  T. Morokuma  T. Oda  H. Schweiker  K. Sharon  J. M. Silverman  T. Totani 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,382(3):1169-1186

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Chain of custody as an organizing framework in seafood risk reduction     

Yasuda T  Bowen RE 《Marine pollution bulletin》2006,53(10-12):640-649

Changes in the terms and direction of international trade in seafood, an increased understanding of and concern for the public health risk imposed by seafood products, and advances in information management technology combine to open opportunities to manage more effectively seafood-borne risk. Present regulatory mandates and programs lack sufficient integration for effective risk mitigation and do not adequately reflect the trans-national nature of seafood trade or the increased complexity of seafood production. This paper argues that the concept of a "chain of custody" - from the ocean to the final consumer - provides a useful integrating framework for understanding and refining efforts to reduce public health concerns surrounding the consumption of seafood.  相似文献   

Simple monitoring method for precaution of landslides watching tilting and water contents on slopes surface   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

Taro Uchimura  Ikuo Towhata  Trinh Thi Lan Anh  Jou Fukuda  Carlos J. B. Bautista  Lin Wang  Ichiro Seko  Taro Uchida  Akira Matsuoka  Yosuke Ito  Yuichi Onda  Sho Iwagami  Min-Seok Kim  Naoki Sakai 《Landslides》2010,7(3):351-357

A low-cost and simple monitoring method for early warning of landslides is proposed. To detect abnormal deformation of a slope, this method employs a tilt sensor in place of an extensometer on the slope surface. In order to examine the relevance of measuring rotation angle on a slope surface by tilt sensor, model tests were conducted, and rotation on the slope surface was observed together with slide displacement along the surface. The rotation data responded 30 min before failure in a model test, which could be useful as a signal for early warning. However, the behavior of rotation before failure varies from case to case, and thus, criteria to issue warning should be defined more carefully. For a model slope made of uniform loose sand, measurement of slide displacement along the slope surface is sensitive to failure at the toe, while the measurement of rotation on the slope surface is useful to detect the development of progressive failure upward along the slope. Wireless sensor units with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) tilt sensor and volumetric water content sensor were also examined on a real slope in Kobe City, and a long-term monitoring was attempted. A simple but possible way to define the criteria of judgment to issue warning can be proposed based on combination of data obtained by the tilt sensors and volumetric water content sensors.  相似文献