Are catch-up reefs an artefact of coring?     

Paul Blanchon  David Blakeway† 《Sedimentology》2003,50(6):1271-1282

Drill cores through modern coral reefs commonly show a time lag in reef initiation followed by a phase of rapid accretion to sea level from submerged foundations – the so-called ‘catch-up response’. But because of the difficulty of drilling in these environments, core distribution is usually restricted to accessible areas that may not fully represent reef history, especially if the reef initiated in patches or developed with a prograde or retrograde geometry. As a consequence, core data have the potential to give a misleading impression of reef development, particularly with respect to the timing of initiation and response to sea-level rise. Here, we use computer models to simulate keep-up reef development and, from them, quantify variations in the timing of reef initiation and accretion rate using mock cores taken through the completed simulations. The results demonstrate that cores consistently underestimate the timing of reef initiation and overestimate the reef accretion rate so that, statistically, a core through a keep-up reef will most likely produce a catch-up pattern – an initiation lag followed by a phase of rapid accretion to sea level. This implies that catch-up signatures may be an artefact of coring and that keep-up reefs are significantly more common than previous core studies claim.  相似文献   

Researches on Cartographic Database-Based Interactive Three-Dimensional Topographic Map     

JiangWenping XiDaping 《中国地质大学学报(英文版)》2003,14(4):374-380

With the development of computer graphics, the three-dimensional (3D) visualization brings new technological revolution to the traditional cartography. Therefore, the topographic 3D-map emerges to adapt to this technological revolution, and the applications of topographic 3D-map are spread rapidly to other relevant fields due to its incomparable advantage. The researches on digital map and the construction of map database offer strong technical support and abundant data source for this new technology, so the research and development of topographic 3D-map will receive greater concern. The basic data of the topographic 3D-map are rooted mainly in digital map and its basic model is derived from digital elevation model (DEM) and 3D-models of other DEM-based geographic features. In view of the potential enormous data and the complexity of geographic features, the dynamic representation of geographic information becomes the focus of the research of topographic 3D-map and also the prerequisite condition of 3D query and analysis. In addition to the equipment of hardware that are restraining, to a certain extent, the 3D representation, the data organization structure of geographic information will be the core problem of research on 3D-map. Level of detail (LOD). space partitioning, dynamic object loading (DOL) and object culling are core technologies of the dynamic 3D representation. The objectselection, attribute-query and model-editing are important functions and interaction tools for users with 3D-maps provided by topographic 3D-map system, all of which are based on the data structure of the 3D-model. This paper discusses the basic theories, concepts and cardinal principles of topographic 3I)-map,expounds the basic way to organize the scene hierarchy of topographic 3D-map based on the node mechanism and studies the dynamic representation technologies of topographic 3D-map based on LOD, space partitioning, DOL and object culling. Moreover. such interactive operation functions are explored, in this paper, as spatial query, scene editing and management of topographic 3D-map. Finally, this paper describes briefly the applications of topographic 3D-map in its related fields.  相似文献   

Late Holocene climates of the Near East deduced from Dead Sea level variations and modern regional winter rainfall     

Yehouda Enzel  Revital Bookman  David Sharon  Haim Gvirtzman  Uri Dayan  Baruch Ziv  Mordechai Stein 《Quaternary Research》2003,60(3):263-273

The Dead Sea is a terminal lake of one of the largest hydrological systems in the Levant and may thus be viewed as a large rain gauge for the region. Variations of its level are indicative of the climate variations in the region. Here, we present the decadal- to centennial-resolution Holocene lake-level curve of the Dead Sea. Then we determine the regional hydroclimatology that affected level variations. To achieve this goal we compare modern natural lake-level variations and instrumental rainfall records and quantify the hydrology relative to lake-level rise, fall, or stability. To quantify that relationship under natural conditions, rainfall data pre-dating the artificial Dead Sea level drop since the 1960s are used. In this respect, Jerusalem station offers the longest uninterrupted pre-1960s rainfall record and Jerusalem rains serve as an adequate proxy for the Dead Sea headwaters rainfall. Principal component analysis indicates that temporal variations of annual precipitation in all stations in Israel north of the current 200 mm yr⁻¹ average isohyet during 1940–1990 are largely synchronous and in phase (70% of the total variance explained by PC1). This station also represents well northern Jordan and the area all the way to Beirut, Lebanon, especially during extreme drought and wet spells. We (a) determine the modern, and propose the past regional hydrology and Eastern Mediterranean (EM) climatology that affected the severity and length of droughts/wet spells associated with multiyear episodes of Dead Sea level falls/rises and (b) determine that EM cyclone tracks were different in average number and latitude in wet and dry years in Jerusalem. The mean composite sea level pressure and 500-mb height anomalies indicate that the potential causes for wet and dry episodes span the entire EM and are rooted in the larger-scale northern hemisphere atmospheric circulation. We also identified remarkably close association (within radiocarbon resolution) between climatic changes in the Levant, reflected by level changes, and culture shifts in this region.  相似文献   

中国西南低空急流活动的统计分析   总被引：11，自引：0，他引：11  

王蕾  张文龙  周军 《南京气象学院学报》2003,26(6):797-805

参照北美研究低空急流气候特征的方法，对中国低空急流进行重新定义，实现了低空急流定义的统一，并在此基础上对低空急流活动特征进行了分析。结果表明：中国低空急流主要有两个活动中心，分别位于江南地区和东北地区；江南地区的低空急流活动主要有两个活跃期，分别为1-4月和6-7月；东北地区的低空急流活动主要表现为2月、8-9月两个活动较弱期；江南地区的低空急流主要在6-8月表现出独立的急流轴，东北地区则主要在8月份；汛期低空急流活动与长江流域区域性暴雨有伴随性，多雨年急流次数很多，少雨年则很少；长江中下游及两湖盆地附近急流活动有明显的日变化。  相似文献   

新形势下县局天气预报思路浅谈          下载免费PDF全文

刘谋荣 《山西气象》2003,(1):20-21

在9210工程业务环境下，结合县局的预报工作实际，建立了以数值预报指导产品为基础，以人机交互系统为平台，以提高县局预报业务效率为目的，制作的县级预报思路，并投入实际业务运行中，收到良好的效果。  相似文献   

地下水"恒流式"单井综合观测方法     

蔡作馨  程庆斌  杨鼎鸿  邓宁 《地震》2003,23(1):109-114

以探索水位与水化学单井综合观测新方法为目的，建立了改性动水位概念，即恒定小流量状态下的井孔动水位。理论分析和实验表明，改性动水位与同一井孔对应的静水位之间相差一恒定水位落差。根据这一结果，可将观测得到的改性动水位值订正成相对应的静水位值。由此建立了以改性动水位和传统水化学为观测对象的“恒流式”单井综合观测方法，从而实现了静水位与传统水化学的单井综合观测。  相似文献   

复杂体型高层结构的推覆分析方法和应用   总被引：11，自引：3，他引：11  

朱杰江  吕西林  容柏生 《地震工程与工程振动》2003,23(2):26-36

本文对钢筋混凝土高层结构进行了推覆分析研究，并编制了相应的推覆分析计算机程序。为了满足复杂体型高层结构的需要，提出了多种类型的单元，包括梁柱单元、单片墙单元、三垂直杆墙元和简体墙单元，与试验结果对比分析表明这些模型具有很好的精度，并且能够搜索到结构反应的全过程，甚至结构的软化阶段。最后对一栋具有复杂体型的高层结构实际工程进行了推覆分析研究，为结构设计提供了实用的参考依据。  相似文献   

做好基层防震减灾宣传工作的几点对策     

李炜  史雯 《国际地震动态》2003,(5):20-22

当前，城市防震减灾宣传工作卓有成效，但在存在诸多困难的广大基层，特别是农村地区的防震减灾宣传工作还有很多不尽人意的地方。作者在借鉴一些基层地震部门工作经验的基础上，结合自身工作实际总结出了做好基层防震减灾宣传工作的几点对策。  相似文献   

电子水准仪DINI20和DL102试验与精度分析   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

杨振涛  张正禄 《测绘工程》1997,6(4):36-41

以ＺＥＩＳＳ ＤＩＮＩ ２０和ＴＯＰＣＯＮ ＤＬ １０２型仪器为例，介绍电子水准仪和编码标尺的构造与基本工作原理，阐述对上述电子水准仪的补偿器，编码标尺倾斜与遮挡等性能的检验结果分析，由建立的试验场实测精度得出，上述仪器一般机用于三、四等水信测量，在一定条件下也可用于二等水准则量，并指出测量中应注意的事项。  相似文献   

禾青井动水位对断层蠕动与慢地震过程的响应初析   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3  

陈立军 《华南地震》1997,17(2):39-44

以湖南禾青井深井水位观测的异常图象为例进行定性分析，发现动水位观测有可能直接反映出断层的滑动或断层的慢地震过程，前者可能为地下水物理参量的观测与研究提供亲折思路，后者则可能对震源物理学的发展和地震预报水平的提高具有特殊的意义。  相似文献