Measuring Venus’ winds using the Absolute Astronomical Accelerometer: Solid super-rotation model of Venus’ clouds     

Younes Gabsi  Jean Loup Bertaux  Alain Hauchecorne  Jérôme Schmitt  Stéphane Guibert 《Planetary and Space Science》2008,56(11):1454-1466

We present a new method of measuring the Venus winds by Doppler velocimetry on the full visible spectrum of solar light scattered by the clouds. In January 2003, we carried out observations to measure the winds of Venus, using the EMILIE high-resolution, cross-dispersed spectrograph and its associated calibrating instrument the Absolute Astronomical Accelerometer (AAA), at Observatoire de Haute-Provence, France. The motivation of this type of measurements is that it measures the actual velocity of cloud particles, while the other method (track of cloud features) may be sensitive to the deformation of the clouds. During observations, Venus was near maximum western elongation, at a phase angle near 90°. The EMILIE-AAA system allows us to measure accurately the Doppler shift induced in the reflected solar spectrum by the radial component of the motion of the clouds of Venus. We present the measurements and compare them with a forward simulation of a solid super-rotation of the atmosphere of Venus. Taking into account the Doppler shift relative to the Sun and that relative to the Earth, the theoretical total Doppler shift induced in the solar spectra is easily computed as a function of the velocity of the reflecting target. A first forward simulation is computed, with a wind model considering a purely horizontal and zonal wind. The magnitude of the wind is assumed to depend on cos(latitude), as for a solid-body rotation. The comparison with the measurements at various points on the illuminated semi-disc allowed us to determine an equatorial velocity of 66, 75, 91 and 85 m/s on 4 consecutive mornings, consistent with previous ultraviolet cloud tracking wind measurements, showing that wave propagation is not a major factor in the apparent motion of the cloud marks. Further, we discuss the effect of the finite angular size of the Sun and its rapid equatorial rotation (that we call the Young effect). It mainly affects measurements taken near the terminator, where the largest discrepancies are found. These discrepancies are alleviated when the Young effect is taken into account in the model but then the retrieved Venus equatorial velocity is reduced to only 48±3 m/s. This is well below classical ultraviolet markings velocities, but the altitude at which the visible photons are scattered (66 km) that we use is 5 km below the UV markings, confirming the vertical gradient of the horizontal winds shown by previous in-situ measurements.  相似文献   

Impact of Horizontal Resolution and Cumulus Parameterization Scheme on the Simulation of Heavy Rainfall Events over the Korean Peninsula   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Seung-Woo LEE  Dong-Kyou LEE  Dong-Eon CHANG 《大气科学进展》2011,28(1):1-15

In this paper, we present the results from high-resolution numerical simulations of three heavy rainfall events over the Korean Peninsula. The numerical results show that the prediction accuracy for heavy rainfall events improved as horizontal resolution increased. The fine-grid precipitation fields were much closer to the real precipitation fields in the case of large synoptic forcing over the Korean Peninsula. In the case of large convective available potential energy and weak synoptic forcing, it seems that even when using a high resolution, the models still showed poor performance in reproducing the observed high precipitation amounts. However, activation of the cumulus parameterization scheme in the intermediate resolution of 9 km, even at a grid spacing of 3 km, had a positive impact on the simulation of the heavy rainfall event.  相似文献   

30m环形干涉望远镜     

刘忠  金振宇  林京  李焱  许骏 《天文研究与技术》2006,3(1):64-72

简要介绍了云南天文台对下一代地面大型天文光学望远镜进行的初步研究，依据这些研究结果我们提出研制一个新概念的大型地面望远镜：30m环形干涉望远镜（Ringy Interferometric Telescope），它既有单口径望远镜那样的直接成像能力和分辨率，又可以进行综合孔径模式的高分辨率成像，该计划显著地不同于经典的地面大型望远镜，对其中关键技术的研究正在积极进行之中。  相似文献   

Impressions of the turbulence variability in a weakly stratified,flat-bottom deep-sea ‘boundary layer’     

《Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans》2015

The character of turbulent overturns in a weakly stratified deep-sea is investigated in some detail using 144 high-resolution temperature sensors at 0.7 m intervals, starting 5 m above the bottom. A 9-day, 1 Hz sampled record from the 912 m depth flat-bottom (<0.5% bottom-slope) mooring site in the central-north Alboran Sea (W-Mediterranean) demonstrates an overall conservative temperature range of only 0.05 °C, a typical mean buoyancy period as large as 3 h and a 1 Hz-profile-vertically-averaged turbulence dissipation rate maximum of only 10⁻⁸ m² s⁻³. Nonetheless, this ‘boundary layer’ varies in height between <6 and >104 m above the bottom and is thus not homogeneous throughout; the temperature variations are seldom quiescent and are generally turbulent in appearance, well exceeding noise levels. The turbulence character is associated with small-scale internal waves; examples are found of both shear- and convection-driven turbulence; particular association, although not phase-locked, is found between turbulence variations and tidal rather than with inertial motions; the mean buoyancy frequency of a few times the inertial frequency implies the importance of ‘slantwise convection’ in the direction of the earth rotational vector rather than in the direction of gravity. Such convection is observed both in near-homogeneous and weakly stratified form.  相似文献   

Multiple-scale facies and reservoir quality variations within a dolomite body – Outcrop analog study from the Middle Triassic,SW German Basin     

Bastian Simon Koehrer  Christian Heymann  Frank Prousa  Thomas Aigner 《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2010

This study focuses on a porous dolomite body in the proximal part of an epeiric carbonate ramp (Triassic Muschelkalk, South German Basin), analogous to hydrocarbon-bearing dolomite reservoirs in the Middle East (e.g. Khuff and Arab Formations).  相似文献   

上海天文台1．56米望远镜斑点干涉成像实验进展     

丁媛媛  唐正宏  王燕 《云南天文台台刊》2012,(3):308-315

斑点干涉成像技术是克服大气湍流影响,提高地面大口径望远镜分辨本领的有效途径之一。该技术利用斑点相机拍摄一系列的短曝光像,使得大气湍流冻结,再经过图像处理获得高分辨率重建像。该技术设备简单,易于实现,很快在观测天文学中得到了广泛的应用,尤其是对双星的研究。首先回顾了天文高分辨率重建技术的发展,并介绍了相关研究成果。描述了几种典型的斑点干涉成像处理方法及其优缺点。对图像噪声类型及滤波方法进行了分析。在上海天文台1．56m望远镜上开展了双星斑点干涉观测实验,目标星等4～7mag,双星目标星等差小于2。分别采用斑点干涉术和迭代位移叠加法成功实现了双星目标的高分辨率成像,初步证明了在1．56m望远镜上进行斑点干涉成像实验,能够达到接近望远镜衍射极限的分辨率水平。  相似文献   

2020年新疆于田M_S6.4地震发震构造研究     

耿爽  王林  田勤俭  徐岳仁  李文巧  袁兆德 《地震》2021,41(2):1-13

2020年6月26日新疆于田西昆仑地区发生M_S6.4地震, 这是继2008年M_S7.3和2014年M_S7.3两次于田地震后发生的又一次强震。 判定此次地震的发震构造是进行地震解剖需要解决的一个基本问题。 本文基于GIS平台与技术, 对构造地质、 高分遥感、 地貌地形、 地震、 GPS速度场、 震源机制等各种资料进行整合, 通过跨学科资料的综合分析, 对地震相关的动力学、 运动学机制进行了研究, 对发震构造进行了初步的判定。 此次于田地震的发生可能是2014年强震破裂段进一步向西南方向破裂的结果。 地震精定位结果显示震中位于琼木孜塔格峰附近。 高分遥感解译及构造地貌变形分析的结果表明极震区是一个典型的张性盆岭构造区, 发育有小型的断陷盆地和正断性质的控盆断裂。 震后高分卫星影像表明在震区未发现明显的地表破裂带以及地震次生灾害。 此次地震可能是由西昆仑地块与松潘—甘孜地块之间NE向构造带内张性构造体系的活动而引发的。 由于构造带两侧地块的斜向拉张运动, 使得正断层、 走滑断层在构造带内先后形成并且持续地、 同步地活动。 正断比走滑更主要一些, 其分别能够很好地适应并吸收张性纯剪切分量以及横向简单剪切分量, 从而使得构造带内正断型、 走滑型地震频发, 此次于田M_S6.4地震就是在这种背景下发生的。 构造区范围内的地壳自地表向深部可能存在着多层次的张性构造体系, 各个体系之间可能不具有明显的关联性。 本次地震可能与地表张性构造体系关系不大, 推断是深层次张性构造体系活动的结果。  相似文献   

成像光谱遥感技术及其图像光谱信息提取的分析研究     

郑兰芬  王晋年 《遥感学报》1992,(1)

成像光谱技术是80年代发展起来的最新遥感方法。本文对其原理、理论基础及图像光谱信息提取的方法进行了探讨,并在红外细分光谱(FIMS)金矿蚀变带信息提取分析研究的基础上,通过对可见光细分19波段AMSS、澳大利亚的24波段GEOSCAN、MKII AMSS及美国GER64通道成像光谱数据的初步处理,发展和形成了一些针对超多波段成像光谱数据的图像处理和分析及光谱信息提取的方法。 成像光谱信息提取的方法,主要包括图像光谱反射率转换技术、图像光谱曲线显示、光谱特征参数测度(光谱吸收特征的波长位置、宽度、深度)、图像地物光谱曲线与地物光谱数据库的信息匹配以及地物光谱识别专家系统。本文以红外细分光谱图像在金矿蚀变带信息提取分析中的应用为例,讨论了成像光谱图像的一种处理分析技术及其发展前景。  相似文献   

Conversion of carbonaceous material to graphite within the Greywacke Zone of the Eastern Alps   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Gerd?RantitschEmail author  Werner?Grogger  Christian?Teichert  Fritz?Ebner  Christian?Hofer  Eva-Maria?Maurer  Bernhard?Schaffer  Michael?Toth 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2004,93(6):959-973

Morphology and reflectance of carbonaceous material (CM) in Late Carboniferous metasediments of the eastern Greywacke Zone (Eastern Alps) indicate a mixture of vitrinite, grainy textured and lamellar shaped particles. As imaged by high-resolution atomic-force microscopy, vitrinite and the grainy textured particles show mesophase structures which can be described as facetted nanocrystals within the carbon matrix. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy has revealed two types of microtextures representing different degrees of graphitization. The first type is characterized by elongated ring-shaped microtextures, whereas the second type is characterized by graphite lamellae and polygonal flakes with long-range ordered aromatic layers. In spite of the heterogeneity of the CMs, the geographical distribution of quantitative metamorphic parameter (Raman spectra parameter, X-ray diffraction pattern, microscopic reflectance) suggests a graphitization process which is promoted by advective heat transport during post-collisional processes. In a tentative pressure-time path, Late Cretaceous thrusting results in a turbostratic ordering of the aromatic layer. Ordering to long-range ordered aromatic layers was achieved during the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene exhumation of mid-crustal rocks beneath the eastern Greywacke Zone.  相似文献   

An automated object-based approach for the multiscale image segmentation of forest scenes     

Geoffrey J. Hay  Guillermo Castilla  Michael A. Wulder  Jose R. Ruiz 《International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation》2005,7(4):339-359

Over the last decade the analysis of Earth observation data has evolved from what were predominantly per-pixel multispectral-based approaches, to the development and application of multiscale object-based methods. To empower users with these emerging object-based approaches, methods need to be intuitive, easy to use, require little user intervention, and provide results closely matching those generated by human interpreters. In an attempt to facilitate this, we present multiscale object-specific segmentation (MOSS) as an integrative object-based approach for automatically delineating image-objects (i.e., segments) at multiple scales from a high-spatial resolution remotely sensed forest scene. We further illustrate that these segments cognitively correspond to individual tree crowns, ranging up to forest stands, and describe how such a tool may be used in computer-assisted forest inventory mapping. MOSS is composed of three primary components: object-specific analysis (OSA), object-specific upscaling (OSU), and a new segmentation algorithm referred to as size constrained region merging (SCRM). The rationale for integrating these methods is that the first two provide the third with object-size parameters that otherwise would need to be specified by a user. Analysis is performed on an IKONOS-2 panchromatic image that represents a highly fragmented forested landscape in the Sooke Watershed on southern Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.  相似文献