XUV Photometer System (XPS): Improved Solar Irradiance Algorithm Using CHIANTI Spectral Models     

Thomas N. Woods  Phillip C. Chamberlin  W. K. Peterson  R. R. Meier  Phil G. Richards  Douglas J. Strickland  Gang Lu  Liying Qian  Stanley C. Solomon  B. A. Iijima  A. J. Mannucci  B. T. Tsurutani 《Solar physics》2008,250(2):235-267

Solar soft X-ray (XUV) radiation is highly variable on all time scales and strongly affects Earth’s ionosphere and upper atmosphere; consequently, the solar XUV irradiance is important for atmospheric studies and for space weather applications. Although there have been several recent measurements of the solar XUV irradiance, detailed understanding of the solar XUV irradiance, especially its variability during flares, has been hampered by the broad bands measured in the XUV range. In particular, the simple conversion of the XUV photometer signal into irradiance, in which a static solar spectrum is assumed, overestimates the flare variations by more than a factor of two as compared to the atmospheric response to the flares. To address this deficiency in the simple conversion, an improved algorithm using CHIANTI spectral models has been developed to process the XUV Photometer System (XPS) measurements with its broadband photometers. Model spectra representative of quiet Sun, active region, and flares are combined to match the signals from the XPS and produce spectra from 0.1 to 40 nm in 0.1-nm intervals for the XPS Level 4 data product. The two XPS instruments are aboard NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) and Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics, and Dynamics (TIMED) satellites. In addition, the XPS responsivities have been updated for the latest XPS data processing version. The new XPS results are consistent with daily variations from the previous simple conversion technique used for XPS and are also consistent with spectral measurements made at wavelengths longer than 27 nm. Most importantly, the XPS flare variations are reduced by factors of 2 – 4 at wavelengths shorter than 14 nm and are more consistent, for the first time, with atmospheric response to solar flares. Along with the details of the new XPS algorithm, several comparisons to dayglow and photoelectron measurements and model results are also presented to help verify the accuracy of the new XUV irradiance spectra.  相似文献   

Landsat时序数据支持下的藏东南植被时空变化监测     

王华  杨乾鹏  郭山川  旦增  次仁多吉 《测绘通报》2020,(11):7

本文利用GEE平台和1990—2019年巴宜区Landsat遥感影像，采用像元二分模型、相关性分析等方法分析了巴宜区植被覆盖度的时空变化特征与驱动力。研究结果表明：①1990—2019年巴宜区植被覆盖度总体呈稳中有增的趋势，其中，河谷区域增加明显，而高海拔区域相对稳定；②1990—2019年巴宜区气温呈显著升高，降水略有下降，总体呈“暖干化”，气温较降水量对植被覆盖变化更明显，但气候变化对植被覆盖变化影响总体不明显；③1990—2019年巴宜区植被覆盖变化与人类活动有很好的相关性，其中，低、中低、中、中高植被覆盖区域，呈显著的负相关，而高植被覆盖区域呈正相关。本文基于遥感大数据和地理云计算的植被覆盖监测动态监测和定量分析方法，能对高山峡谷区生态评估和演替分析提供一定的技术支撑和科学数据。  相似文献   

基于全球分布的地震观测数据估计0S0模态的特征频率及品质因子     

周丰森  王迪晋  旦增 《大地测量与地球动力学》2019,39(10):1013-1016

选取2011-03-11日本MW9.3地震后全球地震台站记录的约220 h波形数据，基于一定的判断准则，筛选出质量较高的448个垂向观测数据，采用频域AR方法对0S0模态的特征频率和品质因子进行估值，并以信噪比为权重进行加权平均，得到特征频率f=0.814 658 4±5.3×10-7，品质因子Q=5 586±12。该结果与已有研究成果相比精度更高，有助于约束现有地球介质密度和衰减模型，使其更接近真实地球。  相似文献   

Mercury: Internal structure and thermal evolution     

Robert W. Siegfried  Sean C. Solomon 《Icarus》1974,23(2):192-205

Astronomical observations and cosmochemical calculations suggest that the planet Mercury may be composed of materials which condensed at relatively high temperatures in the primitive solar nebula and may have a basaltic crust similar to parts of the moon. These findings, plus the long standing inference that Mercury is much richer in metallic iron than the other terrestrial planets, provide important constraints which we apply to models of the thermal evolution and density structure of the planet. The thermal history calculations include explicitly the differing thermal properties of iron and silicates and account for core segregation, melting and differentiation of heat sources, and simulated convection during melting. If the U and Th abundances of Mercury are taken from the cosmochemical model of Lewis, then the planet would have fully differentiated a metal core from the silicate mantle for all likely initial temperature distributions and heat transfer properties. Density distributions for the planet are calculated from the mean density and estimates of the present-day temperature. For the fully differentiated model, the moment of inertia C/MR² is 0.325 (J₂=0.302×10^?6). For models with lower heat source abundances, the planet may not yet have differentiated. The density profiles for such models give C/MR²=0.394 (J₂=0.487×10^?6). These results should be useful for preliminary interpretation of the Mariner 10 measurements of Mercury's gravitational field.  相似文献   

The glacial succession on the North Norfolk Coast     

J.D. Solomon 《Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Geologists' Association》1932,43(3):241-IN5

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2015-2018年海南省臭氧污染特征及其天气类型     

符传博  丹利  徐文帅  刘丽君 《气象与环境学报》2021,37(6):27-35

根据2015—2018年海南省18个市县32个空气质量监测站O₃浓度资料,分析了区域性O₃污染（O₃-8h浓度超标市县≥3个）时空变化特征,并对造成O₃污染的天气系统进行主观分型。结果表明：2015—2018年海南省共有40 d发生了区域性O₃污染,发生概率为2.73%。其中2015年和2017年达到了13 d,发生概率为3.56%,2018年为11 d（3.01%）,2016年仅为3 d（0.82%）。发生区域性O₃污染主要有4种天气类型：冷空气偏西下型、冷空气偏东下型、变暖高压脊型和热带系统型。其中冷空气偏西下型是最主要的天气类型,共出现了14 d,占所有天数的35%,且污染较重。不同天气类型下海南省O₃污染表现出不同的分布特征。500 hPa有下沉气流、低层受东北风控制,有相对湿度低值区从中国东部向海南省延伸,地面位于冷高压底部或热带气旋西北侧,温度露点差在5 ℃以上等条件均有利于海南省区域性O₃污染天气出现。  相似文献   

黏声介质平面波有限差分叠前深度偏移及在莺歌海盆地的应用          下载免费PDF全文

李添才  谢玉洪  李列  王华忠  王新领  但志伟  胡江涛 《地球物理学报》2014,57(5):1612-1622

莺琼盆地诸探区中存在底劈现象,深层气源产生的气体沿底劈产生的裂隙通道向上漫溢.漫溢过程中,一是充填在遇到的砂体中形成气藏;二是弥漫在上溢通道中,使得通道中的纵波速度发生变化,进而纵波波阻抗差异变小,反射变弱.另外,通道中气体的存在,会加强地层的吸收衰减,使得地震波振幅变弱、高频成分损失导致同相轴分辨率降低.利用OBC数据进行多波地震勘探和利用黏声介质的叠前深度偏移都是改善模糊区成像质量的重要方法技术.为此,本文提出用黏声介质平面波有限差分法叠前深度偏移成像方法改善气体充填区域的成像质量.黏声介质成像目的是补偿地震波的吸收衰减;平面波偏移成像目的是适应海上单炮数量巨大,提高波动方程叠前深度偏移成像的效率;有限差分法叠前偏移的目的是适应该区浅层气分布局域性极强、Q值的空间变化大的情况.在莺歌海某探区的实际数据上的黏声介质平面波有限差分叠前深度偏移试验证明,本方法是改善模糊区成像质量的较为有效的途径.  相似文献   

The dayside magnetospheric boundary layer at Mercury     

Brian J. Anderson  James A. Slavin  Haje Korth  Scott A. Boardsen  Thomas H. Zurbuchen  Jim M. Raines  George Gloeckler  Ralph L. McNutt Jr.  Sean C. Solomon 《Planetary and Space Science》2011,59(15):2037-2050

Magnetic field and plasma data from the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft on the outbound portions of the first (M1) and second (M2) flybys of Mercury reveal a region of depressed magnetic field magnitude and enhanced proton fluxes adjacent to but within the magnetopause, which we denote as a dayside boundary layer. The layer was present during both encounters despite the contrasting dayside magnetic reconnection, which was minimal during M1 and strong during M2. The overall width of the layer is estimated to be between 1000 and 1400 km, spanning most of the distance from the dayside planetary surface to the magnetopause in the mid-morning. During both flybys the magnetic pressure decrease was ∼1.6 nPa, and the width of the inner edge was comparable to proton gyro-kinetic scales. The maximum variance in the magnetic field across the inner edge was aligned with the magnetic field vector, and the magnetic field direction did not change markedly, indicating that the change in field intensity was consistent with an outward plasma-pressure gradient perpendicular to the magnetic field. Proton pressures in the layer inferred from reduced distribution observations were 0.4 nPa during M1 and 1.0 nPa during M2, indicating either that the proton pressure estimates are low or that heavy ions contribute substantially to the boundary-layer plasma pressure. If the layer is formed by protons drifting westward from the cusp, there should be a strong morning–afternoon asymmetry that is independent of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) direction. Conversely, if heavy ions play a major role, the layer should be strong in the morning (afternoon) for northward (southward) IMF. Future MESSENGER observations from orbit about Mercury should distinguish between these two possibilities.  相似文献   

Measurement of the radius of Mercury by radio occultation during the MESSENGER flybys     

Mark E. Perry  Daniel S. Kahan  Olivier S. Barnouin  Carolyn M. Ernst  Sean C. Solomon  Maria T. Zuber  David E. Smith  Roger J. Phillips  Dipak K. Srinivasan  Jürgen Oberst  Sami W. Asmar 《Planetary and Space Science》2011,59(15):1925-1931

The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft completed three flybys of Mercury in 2008–2009. During the first and third of those flybys, MESSENGER passed behind the planet from the perspective of Earth, occulting the radio-frequency (RF) transmissions. The occultation start and end times, recovered with 0.1 s accuracy or better by fitting edge-diffraction patterns to the RF power history, are used to estimate Mercury's radius at the tangent point of the RF path. To relate the measured radius to the planet shape, we evaluate local topography using images to identify the high-elevation feature that defines the RF path or using altimeter data to quantify surface roughness. Radius measurements are accurate to 150 m, and uncertainty in the average radius of the surrounding terrain, after adjustments are made from the local high at the tangent point of the RF path, is 350 m. The results are consistent with Mercury's equatorial shape as inferred from observations by the Mercury Laser Altimeter and ground-based radar. The three independent estimates of radius from occultation events collectively yield a mean radius for Mercury of 2439.2±0.5 km.  相似文献   

Seismic and Petrophysical Relationships from UK Continental Shelf Rocks at Elevated Pressures     

Solomon Assefa  Clive Mc Cann  Jeremy Sothcott 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2013,31(2):119-140

Abstract

There are few published seismic (P- and S-waves) properties for seafloor bedrocks. At low pressures (1 to 10 MPa), velocities and attenuations are determined mainly by open microcracks. At higher pressures, the microcracks close, and the velocities and attenuations depend primarily on the matrix porosity. We have investigated both the relationships between the acoustic, petrophysical, and geological properties of the rocks at 40 MPa pressure and the effect of microcracks on the acoustic properties at 10 MPa pressure. In this paper we discuss the former; the latter will be discussed separately.

P- and S-wave velocity and attenuation measurements were carried out on a suite of seabed sedimentary and igneous rocks at effective pressures from 10 to 40 MPa at ultrasonic frequencies. The porosities and permeabilities of the rocks ranged from 0% to 32% and 0 to 110 mDarcy, respectively. Characterization of the rocks revealed that most of the sandstones have a substantial clay content (kaolinite, illite, and chlorite) and fractures. Most of the igneous rocks are chloritized.

The seismic properties of the rocks are markedly lower than those of similar continental rocks because of the microporosity formed by the alteration of feldspars, micas, and mafic minerals to clays (e.g., chloritization of pyroxenes) and the corresponding reduction of the elastic moduli. The results of this study suggest that the values of velocities and quality factors used for ocean acoustic propagation models are lower than normally assumed.  相似文献