Bifurcation of volcanic plumes in a crosswind     

Gerald G. J. Ernst  John P. Davis  R. Stephen J. Sparks 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1994,56(3):159-169

Bent-over buoyant jets distorted by a crosscurrent develop a vortex pair structure and can bifurcate to produce two distinct lobes which diverge from one another downwind. The region downwind of the source between the lobes has relatively low proportions of discharged fluid. Factors invoked by previous workers to cause or enhance bifurcation include buoyancy, release of latent heat at the plume edge by evaporating water droplets, geometry and orientation of the source, and the encounter with a density interface on the rising path of the plume. We suggest that the pressure distribution around the vortex pair of a rising plume may initially trigger bifurcation. We also report new experimental observations confirming that bifurcation becomes stronger for stronger bent-over plumes, identifying that bifurcation can also occur for straight-edged plumes but gradually disappears for stronger plumes which form a gravity current at their final level and spread for a significant distance against the current. Observations from satellites and the ground are reviewed and confirm that volcanic plumes can show bifurcation and a large range of bifurcation angles. Many of the bifurcating plumes spread out at the tropopause level and suggest the tropopause may act on the plumes as a density interface enhancing bifurcation. Even for quite moderate bifurcation angles, the two plume lobes become rapidly separated downwind by distances of tens of kilometers. Such bifurcating plumes drifting apart can only result in bilobate tephra fall deposits. The tephra fall deposit from the 16 km elevation, SE spreading, bifurcating volcanic plume erupted on 15 May 1981 from Mt Pagan was sampled by previous workers and clearly displayed bilobate characteristics. Examples of bilobate tephra fall deposits are reviewed and their origin briefly discussed. Bilobate deposits are common and may result from many causes. Plume bifurcation should be considered one of the possible mechanisms which can account for come examples of bilobate tephra fall deposits.  相似文献   

Contemporary global horizontal crustal motion     

D. E. Smith  R. Kolenkiewicz  R. S. Nerem  P. J. Dunn  M. H. Torrence  J. W. Robbins  S. M. Klosko  R. G. Williamson  E. C. Pavlis 《Geophysical Journal International》1994,119(2):511-520

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试用极轨气象卫星遥感监测土壤墒情   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

赵玉金 《气象》1994,20(4):37-40

讨论了用极轨气象卫星资料监测表层土壤湿度的方法。在建立土壤湿度与卫星遥感资料的关系时，为了消除土壤条件的影响，把全省分为４个区域来研究。考虑了气候条件，植被状况不同的影响，并给出了简单的订正方法，同时也给出了卫星资料的重新地理校正，资料的输出及存储方法等。  相似文献   

卫星资料在上海浦东新区热力场分析中的应用   总被引：5，自引：1，他引：5       下载免费PDF全文

杨星卫  楼萌 《应用气象学报》1994,5(3):369-373

文章利用１９９２年春、夏、秋、冬四季６个时相的ＮＯＡＡ－１１／ＡＶＨＲＲ资料，在与上海区域行政图（边界以乡为单位）进行几何精度纠正的基础上，通过图象增强处理和多通道信息组合，提取上海市区和浦东新区的热力场分布特征，并用直接对比法，建立亮温。气温的相关关系，取得较好的效果。据上海温度分布图象分析，新区的两个热中心与工业群体区、建筑群体区相对应；市区的３个热中心与商业经济密集区及工业群体区相对应。   相似文献   

在地面三角网中布设卫星观测站的最低精度要求     

周忠谟 《武汉大学学报(信息科学版)》1986,(3)

本文从地面三角网和卫星同联合平差的原理出发,讨论了对卫星网的最低精度要求。指出,为改善地面三角网而布设卫星网时,卫星观测站的最低精度主要决定于以下因素: ——地面三角网的精度; ——对地面三角网精度改善程度的要求; 一卫星观测站之间的距离。这里通过模拟计算对卫星网的最低精度要求与上列因素之间的关系作了数字分析,并建立了估算卫星网最低精度的数学模型。预期,在一般情况下,该模型的估算误差将不会超过10％。  相似文献   

卫星摄影测地原理     

王跃虎  刘国辉  李金文 《武汉大学学报(信息科学版)》1986,(2)

本文论述了卫星摄影测地的原理,着重讨论了确定卫星与地面目标点连线之方向的方法,并推导了处理星、地相机摄影数据的各种公式,最后对本法的精度作了粗略的估计。  相似文献   

Multispectral remote sensing of biomass burning in West Africa     

J. Ricardo  A. De França  J. -M. Brustet  J. Fontan 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》1995,22(1-2):81-110

Remote sensing measurements provide a vauable means of determining the extent of burning areas and of estimating the overall distribution of pollutant sources (identified from experimental studies) in time and space. This distribution has to be taken into account in the boundary conditions of chemistry atmospheric models.Recent methods developed for the remote sensing of active fires in tropical or temperated forest zones, have been found to be completely inadequate for fire detection on West African savannas. In order to accurately estimate the active fire distribution in the function of different sorts of West African savannas (Sahelian, Sudanian and Guinean) and forests, a multispectral methodology has been developed based on NOAA/11-AVHRR satellite data, with the purpose of eliminating as much as possible the problems related to large surface heterogeneity, confusion and bias, produced by clouds, smoke, haze, background emissivities, etc.Unlike other methods, the results show that the multispectral method, in spite of its selectivity, provides realistic results, and does not under- or over-estimate the number of fires that can be sensed by the satellite. Consequently, this methodology is more appropriate than the simplest ones for a systematic sensing of this phenomenon.  相似文献   

MONITORING OF 1991 EASTERN CHINA FLOODING WITH POLAR ORBITING METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES FY-1 AND NOAA          下载免费PDF全文

Xu Jianmin  Wang Dachang  Sa Yang  Xiao Qianguang  Feng Yurong 《Acta Meteorologica Sinica》1995,9(1):87-94

With polar orbiting meteorological satellites FY-1 and NOAA,flooding was monitored in the areas of the HuaiheRiver basin and the Taihu Lake region during June and July 1991.All satellite images from FY-1 and NOAA for concerned areas before and during flooding were examined.Thoseof cloud-free,with small amount of cumulus or thin cirrus were selected to exam the situation.Navigation and projec-tion were carefully performed,to ensure the projected images at different time overlap accurately with each other in 1—2pixels.Channel 1 (CH1) and Channel 2 (CH2) data of FY-1 and NOAA satellites with wavelength of 0.58—0.68μm and0.725—1.1μm were used to monitor the flooding.Albedo of Channel 2 and normalized vegetation index (NDVI) wereadopted as indicators to identify water body from land.With histogram and man-machine interactive methods,analysiswas done.In cloud-free condition,the two indicators identified the same area and scope of the water body.Totally cloud-free image in a large area is quite rare.To understand flood process,it is necessary to use more fre-quent images.It was investigated to distinguish water from land in partly cloudy condition.The result showed that whenthere is small amount of cumulus or thin cirrus,satellite images are still valuable in monitoring water body.In case ofmonitoring area covered with cirrus,vegetation index is useful,and while there is small amount of cumulus on land,albedo of Channel 2 can be used.Ten images from May 16 to August 18 of 1991 were examined.The results show that in the Lixiahe area,JiangsuProvince,the area submerged in total was the largest;along main stream of the Huaihe River,the Chuhe River,andaround the Chaohu Lake,a large percentage of area submerged;while in the Taihu Lake area,less field submerged.Flood monitoring was performed for 87 counties in the region concerned.These counties were put in order accord-ing to the percentage of submerged area in total.This order showed the extent of disaster at one view point.  相似文献   

东北地区中尺度对流复合体的卫星云图特征   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

谢静芳  王晓明 《气象》1995,21(5):41-44

通过１０年（１９８３－１９９２年）卫星云图资料的分析，综合归纳了东北地区中尺度对流复合体（ＮＭＣＣ）的基本特征及其发展演变过程，由于受地理条件的影响，ＮＭＣＣ与美国大平原以及我国西北和华北平原上的ＭＣＣ有明显差别，作为一类特殊的对流性天气系统，ＮＭＣＣ与一般中尺度对流云图特征有明显差异。  相似文献   

大气传播延迟改正在GAMIT软件中的应用   总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3       下载免费PDF全文

张清志 《沉积与特提斯地质》2001,21(2):23-30

卫星信号从GPS卫星发射到地面的过程中经过了以充满大气为介质的空间,电磁波在这种变化的介质中传播,其传播的方向、速度、强度都可能随时改变,本文简略地介绍了大气传播延迟的产生及其对GPS测量的影响,并就GAMIT软件对大气传播延迟的控制方法和所采用的改正模型做一简单介绍,并对减弱和消除大气传播延迟的方法和手段进行了讨论。  相似文献