Monthly Dispersion Characteristics over the South China Sea for Air Quality Modeling     

S.A. Hsu 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2003,160(1-2):349-355

— Monthly dispersion characteristics for air quality modeling over the South China Sea offshore the west coast of Borneo are studied using long-term ship measurements. It is found from monthly averages that the stability condition is nearly neutral throughout the year with the exception of April, May, and November which are slightly unstable. The lifting condensation level ranged from 338 to 450 m. The lowest value of the ventilation factor occurred in April and the highest in January. The friction velocity for each month is also provided to determine the vertical eddy diffusivity and horizontal and vertical dispersion coefficients.  相似文献   

A field comparison of indicators of sublethal stress in the salt-marsh grassSpartina patens     

Kern Ewing  Karen L. McKee  Irving A. Mendelssohn 《Estuaries and Coasts》1997,20(1):48-65

There is a need for research into bioindicators of stress in threatened plant communities such as coastal wetlands. Land subsidence, diversion of sediment, and salt-water intrusion produce stresses associated with waterlogging, elevated salinity, and nutrient depletion. Temporal and spatial environmental variation (soil redox potential, interstitial water salinity, pH, ammonium and phosphorus, and cation and trace metal concentrations) was analyzed near Lake de Cade, Louisiana, in a brackish marsh which is a mosaic of healthy plant communities interspersed with areas where wetland loss is occurring. Environmental variation was related to indicators of stress inSpartina patens, which included variables derived from the adenine nucleotide levels in plants, leaf spectral reflectance, leaf proline concentrations, and shoot elongation. In a comparison of burned and unburned sites, streamside and inland marsh, and along a salinity gradient, among-site differences were found in spectral reflectance and adenine-nucleotide-related indicators. Although it was difficult to relate a single causal environmental variable to the response of a specific indicator, spectral reflectance in the visible light range responded to salinity or to elements borne in seawater, and adenine-nucleotide indices were sensitive to nutrient availability. The ability of indicators to detect plant responses changed during the growing season, suggesting that they were responding to the changing importance of different environmental factors. In addition, some reflectance indicator responses occurred along salinity gradients when salinity differences were less than those that were found to have ecologically meaningful effects in greenhouse experiments. A multivariate numerical approach was used to relate environmental variation with indicator responses. We concluded that factors which in combination cause the degradation and loss of Louisiana wetlands produce environmental conditions that are only subtly different from those in vigorously growing marsh communities.  相似文献   

Calibration of a constitutive model using genetic algorithms   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Surajit Pal  G. Wije Wathugala  Sukhamay Kundu 《Computers and Geotechnics》1996,19(4):325-348

Before any constitutive model can be used in a numerical procedure, the model needs to be calibrated using laboratory test results. The traditional calibration techniques use stress and strain levels at certain states that a material undergoes during certain types of laboratory tests. Sometimes this method of calibrating a constitutive model fails to capture the overall behavior of a material, i.e. behavior at every point in stress/strain path. In this paper, we have shown how a random search technique, genetic algorithm (GA), can be used to calibrate constitutive models. The advantages of using GA are that it considers the overall behavior of a material, not the behavior at some specific states as the traditional method does, and it can work with many types of laboratory tests. The concept is applied to calibrate the hierarchical single surface (HiSS) δ_l model for geologic materials. Three cases have been studied where the difference is in the type of test data used to calibrate the model. These three different test data are: (1) simulated conventional test data, (2) simulated cyclic test data, and (3) real test data. A comparison of two different cross-over schemes, one-point and six-point, has been made.  相似文献   

Effect of class-interval size on entropy     

V. P. Singh 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》1997,11(5):423-431

The value of Shannon entropy for a given set of data depends on the class interval chosen to compute the relative frequency of each class. For three data sets, expressed in dimensional as well as nondimensional form, the entropy value was computed for different class-interval sizes. Entropy was found to decrease with increasing class interval as well as with increasing sampling interval. It is suggested that these intervals should be selected with care.  相似文献   

Advection Within Shallow Pore Waters of a Coastal Lagoon, Florida   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Jaye E. Cable  Jonathan B. Martin  Peter W. Swarzenski  Mary K. Lindenberg  Joel Steward 《Ground water》2004,42(7):1011-1020

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Li/Ca in multiple species of benthic and planktonic foraminifera: thermocline, latitudinal, and glacial-interglacial variation     

Jenney M. Hall  L.-H. Chan 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2004,68(3):529-545

Li/Ca ratios were measured in planktonic and benthic foraminifera from a variety of hydrographic settings to investigate the factors influencing lithium incorporation into foraminiferal tests including temperature, dissolution, pressure, and interspecies differences. Down-core measurements of planktonic (Orbulina universa, Globigerinoides ruber, and Globigerinoides sacculifer) and benthic foraminifera (calcitic Cibicides wuellerstorfi and aragonitic Hoeglandina elegans) show a systematic variation in Li/Ca with δ¹⁸O through the last glacial-interglacial transition. All species examined exhibit an increase in Li/Ca between 14 to 50% from the Holocene to the last glacial maximum. Li/Ca generally increases with decreasing temperature as seen in a latitudinal transect of planktonic O. universa and down-slope benthic species along the Bahama Bank margins. Postdepositional dissolution possibly causes a decrease in planktonic foraminiferal Li/Ca along the Sierra Leone Rise, and increased water depth causes a decrease in benthic foraminiferal Li/Ca in the deep Caribbean. However, none of these effects are sufficient to account for the observed glacial-interglacial changes. Physiological factors such as calcification rate may affect the Li/Ca content of foraminiferal calcite. The calcification rate in turn may be a function of carbonate ion concentration of ambient ocean water. This work shows that incorporation of lithium by foraminifera appears to be influenced by factors other than seawater composition and does not appear to be dominated by changes in temperature, dissolution, or pressure. We hypothesize that the consistent increase in foraminiferal Li/Ca during the last glacial maximum may be linked to changes in seawater carbonate ion concentration. Important parameters to be tested include calcification rate and foraminiferal test size and weight. If foraminiferal Li/Ca is dominantly controlled by calcification rate as a function of seawater carbonate ion concentration, then Li/Ca may act as a proxy of past atmospheric CO₂.  相似文献   

Ice-core pollen record of climatic changes in the central Andes during the last 400 yr     

Kam-biu Liu  Carl A. Reese 《Quaternary Research》2005,64(2):272-278

This paper presents a high-resolution ice-core pollen record from the Sajama Ice Cap, Bolivia, that spans the last 400 yr. The pollen record corroborates the oxygen isotopic and ice accumulation records from the Quelccaya Ice Cap and supports the scenario that the Little Ice Age (LIA) consisted of two distinct phases—a wet period from AD 1500 to 1700, and a dry period from AD 1700 to 1880. During the dry period xerophytic shrubs expanded to replace puna grasses on the Altiplano, as suggested by a dramatic drop in the Poaceae/Asteraceae (P/A) pollen ratio. The environment around Sajama was probably similar to the desert-like shrublands of the Southern Bolivian Highlands and western Andean slopes today. The striking similarity between the Sajama and Quelccaya proxy records suggests that climatic changes during the Little Ice Age occurred synchronously across the Altiplano.  相似文献   

Planetesimal sulfate and aqueous alteration in CM and CI carbonaceous chondrites     

S.A. Airieau  J. Farquhar  L.A. Leshin  E. Young 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2005,69(16):4167-4172

Water-soluble sulfate salts extracted from six CM chondrites have oxygen isotope compositions that are consistent with an extraterrestrial origin. The Δ¹⁷O of sulfate are correlated with previously reported whole rock δ¹⁸O and with an index of meteorite alteration, and may display a correlation with the date of the fall. The enrichments and depletions for Δ¹⁷O of water-soluble sulfate from the CM chondrites relative to the terrestrial mass dependent fractionation line are consistent with sulfate formation in a rock dominated asteroidal environment, and from aqueous fluids that had undergone relatively low amounts of oxygen isotope exchange and little reaction with anhydrous components of the meteorites. It is unresolved how the oxidation of sulfide to sulfate can be reconciled with the inferred low oxidation state during the extraterrestrial alteration process. Oxygen isotope data for two CI chondrites, Orgueil and Ivuna, as well as the ungrouped C2 chondrite Essebi are indistinguishable from sulfate of terrestrial origin and may be terrestrial weathering products, consistent with previous assertions. Our oxygen isotope data, however, can not rule out a preterrestrial origin either.  相似文献   

First-principles simulations of CaO and CaSiO3 liquids: structure,thermodynamics and diffusion     

Suraj K. Bajgain  Dipta B. Ghosh  Bijaya B. Karki 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》2015,42(5):393-404

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Evaluation of future storm surge risk in East Asia based on state-of-the-art climate change projection     

《Coastal Engineering》2014

The present study evaluates future storm surge risk due to tropical cyclones (typhoons) in East Asia. A state-of-the-art atmospheric general circulation model (GCM) outputs are employed as the driving force for simulating storm surges associated with the projected changes in climate. The reproducibility of tropical cyclone (TC) characteristics from the GCM in the Northwest Pacific (NWP) is confirmed by comparing with the observed best track data, and future typhoon changes were presented. Storm surge simulation is carried out for East Asia, with the finest nested domain on the Japanese coast. The probability of maximum storm surge heights with specified return periods is determined using extreme value statistics. We show a strong regional dependency on future changes of severe storm surges.  相似文献