The shape of the probability density function of short-term concentration fluctuations of plumes in the atmospheric boundary layer     

Eugene Yee 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1990,51(3):269-298

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Studies on groundwater recharge characteristics at a reclaimed land site with an equatorial climate using time‐series and spectral analyses     

Stephen Boon Kean Tan  Eng Ban Shuy  Lloyd Hock Chye Chua  Woon Kang Yee 《水文研究》2007,21(7):939-948

Groundwater recharge studies are essential for investigating the feasibility of using the reclaimed lands in Singapore for subsurface storage and recovery of water. Through time‐series and spectral analyses, net recharge percentages and stress‐filtering characteristics at the reclaimed land were found to depend strongly on the stress transfer velocity, which was a combined function of rainfall pattern and vadose zone thickness. Based on stress transfer velocity, a theory was established to provide logical explanations for the rainfall–recharge relationship, the observed stress‐filtering characteristics and the recharge percentage characteristics at the unconfined sandy aquifer. Although the reclaimed land site has a lithollogically homogeneous soil profile, a non‐uniform recharge pattern was observed to be influenced pronouncedly by the uneven density distribution of bush grasses. Under a bare soil condition, significantly lower recharge percentages were observed for areas under the influence of offshore tides. The unconfined sandy aquifer appears to dampen out the wave propagation of offshore tides rapidly within a short distance from the tidal source, though it has a fairly straight shoreline and is created from highly compacted sand fills. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

The vertical structure of concentration fluctuation statistics in plumes dispersing in the atmospheric surface layer     

Eugene Yee  R. Chan  P. R. Kosteniuk  G. M. Chandler  C. A. Biltoft  J. F. Bowers 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1995,76(1-2):41-67

This paper describes a study of the vertical structure of concentration fluctuations in a neutrally buoyant plume from an elevated point source in slightly convective to moderately stable meteorological conditions at ranges of between 12.5 and 100 m for a range of source heights between 1 and 5 m. Observations were made of concentration fluctuations in a dispersing plume using a vertical array of sixteen very fast-response photoionization detectors placed at heights between 0.5 and 16 m. Vertical profiles of a number of concentration statistics were extracted, namely, mean concentration, fluctuation intensity, intermittency factor, peak-to-mean concentration ratio, mean dissipation rate of concentration variance, and various concentration time and length scales of dominant motions in the plume (e.g., integral macro-scale, in-plume mid-scale and Taylor micro-scale). The profiles revealed a similarity to corresponding crosswind profiles for a fully elevated plume, but showed greater and greater departure from the latter shapes once the plume had grown in the vertical so that its lower dege began to interact progressively more strongly with the ground. The evolution of the concentration probability density function at a fixed range, but with decreasing height from the ground, is similar to that obtained at a fixed height but with increasing distance from the source. Concentration power spectra obtained at different heights all had an extensive inertial-convective subrange spanning at least two decades in frequency, but spectra measured near the ground had a greater proportion of the total concentration variance in the lower frequencies (energetic subrange), with a correspondingly smaller proportion in the higher frequencies (inertial-convective subrange). It is believed that these effects result from the increased mean shear near the surface, and blocking by the surface. The effect of enhanced shear-induced molecular diffusion on concentration fluctuations is examined.  相似文献   

A general framework for error analysis in measurement-based GIS Part 2: The algebra-based probability model for point-in-polygon analysis   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

Yee?LeungEmail author  Jiang-Hong?Ma  Michael F.?Goodchild 《Journal of Geographical Systems》2004,6(4):355-379

This is the second paper of a four-part series of papers on the development of a general framework for error analysis in measurement-based geographic information systems (MBGIS). In this paper, we discuss the problem of point-in-polygon analysis under randomness, i.e., with random measurement error (ME). It is well known that overlay is one of the most important operations in GIS, and point-in-polygon analysis is a basic class of overlay and query problems. Though it is a classic problem, it has, however, not been addressed appropriately. With ME in the location of the vertices of a polygon, the resulting random polygons may undergo complex changes, so that the point-in-polygon problem may become theoretically and practically ill-defined. That is, there is a possibility that we cannot answer whether a random point is inside a random polygon if the polygon is not simple and cannot form a region. For the point-in-triangle problem, however, such a case need not be considered since any triangle always forms an interior or region. To formulate the general point-in-polygon problem in a suitable way, a conditional probability mechanism is first introduced in order to accurately characterize the nature of the problem and establish the basis for further analysis. For the point-in-triangle problem, four quadratic forms in the joint coordinate vectors of a point and the vertices of the triangle are constructed. The probability model for the point-in-triangle problem is then established by the identification of signs of these quadratic form variables. Our basic idea for solving a general point-in-polygon (concave or convex) problem is to convert it into several point-in-triangle problems under a certain condition. By solving each point-in-triangle problem and summing the solutions, the probability model for a general point-in-polygon analysis is constructed. The simplicity of the algebra-based approach is that from using these quadratic forms, we can circumvent the complex geometrical relations between a random point and a random polygon (convex or concave) that one has to deal with in any geometric method when probability is computed. The theoretical arguments are substantiated by simulation experiments.This project was supported by the earmarked grant CUHK 4362/00H of the Hong Kong Research grants Council.  相似文献   

遥感影像配准误差传递模型及模拟分析   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

葛咏  梁怡  马江洪  王劲峰 《遥感学报》2006,10(3):299-305

在遥感影像配准过程中,通常假设控制点是“完美的”。然而,在实际情况中,由于控制点本身不可避免的带有一定的误差导致这种假设在一定情况下并不成立,并且将会影响遥感影像几何校正的精度。普通最小二乘方法OLS(O rd inary Least Square)是遥感影像配准常用的校正估计模型,令人遗憾的是,在控制点存在误差的情况下,它的估计是有偏的,并且不能够正确传递和估计校正影像的误差大小。引入一致校正最小二乘方法CALS(ConsistentAd justed Least Squares),在此基础上提出的一个改进的方法,称之为松弛一致校正最小二乘方法RCALS(Relaxed ConsistentAd justed Least Squares)。这类回归模型具有改正控制点(解释变量)中的误差和跟踪回归模型中的误差传递的能力。为了验证CALS和RCALS模型的有效性,本文利用模拟影像进行分析。这里着重分析OLS,CALS和RCALS模型在几何校正过程中的比较。结果表明,RCALS和CALS的结果优于OLS估计结果。  相似文献   

Weather and traffic accidents in Hong Kong     

Yuk Yee Yan Department of Geography Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon Tong  Hong Kong 《地理学报(英文版)》1998,(3)

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X-ray absorption fine structure determination of pH-dependent U-bacterial cell wall interactions     

S.D KellyK.M Kemner  J.B FeinD.A Fowle  M.I Boyanov  B.A BunkerN Yee 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2002,66(22):3855-3871

X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) measurements was used at the U L3-edge to directly determine the pH dependence of the cell wall functional groups responsible for the absorption of aqueous UO₂²⁺ to Bacillus subtilis from pH 1.67 to 4.80. Surface complexation modeling can be used to predict metal distributions in water-rock systems, and it has been used to quantify bacterial adsorption of metal cations. However, successful application of these models requires a detailed knowledge not only of the type of bacterial surface site involved in metal adsorption/desorption, but also of the binding geometry. Previous acid-base titrations of B. subtilis cells suggested that three surface functional group types are important on the cell wall; these groups have been postulated to correspond to carboxyl, phosphoryl, and hydroxyl sites. When the U(VI) adsorption to B. subtilis is measured, observed is a significant pH-independent absorption at low pH values (<3.0), ascribed to an interaction between the uranyl cation and a neutrally charged phosphoryl group on the cell wall. The present study provides independent quantitative constraints on the types of sites involved in uranyl binding to B. subtilis from pH 1.67 to 4.80. The XAFS results indicate that at extremely low pH (pH 1.67) UO₂²⁺ binds exclusively to phosphoryl functional groups on the cell wall, with an average distance between the U atom and the P atom of 3.64 ± 0.01 Å. This U-P distance indicates an inner-sphere complex with an oxygen atom shared between the UO₂²⁺ and the phosphoryl ligand. The P signal at extremely low pH value is consistent with the UO₂²⁺ binding to a protonated phosphoryl group, as previously ascribed. With increasing pH (3.22 and 4.80), UO₂²⁺ binds increasingly to bacterial surface carboxyl functional groups, with an average distance between the U atom and the C atom of 2.89 ± 0.02 Å. This U-C distance indicates an inner-sphere complex with two oxygen atoms shared between the UO₂²⁺ and the carboxyl ligand. The results of this XAFS study confirm the uranyl-bacterial surface speciation model.  相似文献   

全球化与城市国际化:国际城市的一项实证研究   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

黄叶芳  梁怡  沈建法 《世界地理研究》2007,16(2):1-9

在当今全球化时代，许多城市被确认为世界城市或全球城市，但本文认为世界上只有少数一些城市真正达到“世界城市”的标准，具有控制世界经济的功能。而许多其他城市，无论是支配或被支配的城市，只显示出国际化的若干特征。本文利用全球264个城市与69家高级生产者服务公司的资料，从国际城市的角度研究世界上的重要城市。研究发现不同的城市有不同的国际化水平，除了少数高度国际化的一流城市达到世界城市的标准，许多其他城市只达到局部国际化，且他们的分布在地域上并无集中的趋势。同时研究发现世界上只有少数高级服务公司拥有全球城市服务网络，大部分公司的服务网络只集中在部分地区。  相似文献   

A critical examination of the random displacement model of turbulent dispersion     

John D. Wilson  Eugene Yee 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2007,125(3):399-416

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Extension of a fluctuating plume model of tracer dispersion to a sheared boundary layer and to a large array of obstacles     

Ralph M. Gailis  Alexander Hill  Eugene Yee  Trevor Hilderman 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2007,122(3):577-607

Fluctuating plume models provide a useful conceptual paradigm in the understanding of plume dispersion in a turbulent flow. In particular, these models have enabled analytical predictions of higher-order concentration moments, and the form of the one-point concentration probability density function (PDF). In this paper, we extend the traditional formalism of these models, grounded in the theory of homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flow, to two cases: namely, a simple sheared boundary layer and a large array of regular obstacles. Some very high-resolution measurements of plume dispersion in a water channel, obtained using laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) line-scan techniques are utilised. These data enable us to extract time series of plume centroid position (plume meander) and dispersion in the relative frame of reference in unprecedented detail. Consequently, experimentally extracted PDFs are able to be directly compared with various theoretical forms proposed in the literature. This includes the PDF of plume centroid motion, the PDF of concentration in the relative frame, and a variety of concentration moments in the absolute and relative frames of reference. The analysis confirms the accuracy of some previously proposed functional forms of model components used in fluctuating plume models, as well as suggesting some new forms necessary to deal with the complex boundary conditions in the spatial domain.  相似文献