INTERANNUAL TO INTERDECADAL VARIATIONS OF THE REGIONALIZED SURFACE CLIMATE OF THE UNITED STATES AND RELATIONSHIPS TO GENERALIZED FLOW PARAMETERS     

Anthony J. Vega  Chung-Hsiung Sui  Ka-Ming Lau 《自然地理学》2013,34(4):271-291

This analysis attempts to discern primary causes of interannual and interdecadal climate variations for precipitation and temperature regions of the conterminous United States. Varimax rotated principal components analysis of annual climate division data is used in the derivation of nine precipitation and five temperature regions. Each region's time series is examined for underlying linear trends, representing long-term climate change, and tests for variance changes, to determine regional climate variability shifts. The first six precipitation components, representing the entire eastern half of the country and the Northwest, displayed significant temporal increases. Of these, four displayed significant increases in interannual variability through time. For temperature, only the Southwestern region showed a significant change (increase) through time. However, significant reductions in temperature variability were confirmed for three regions. To determine the causes of the derived climate shifts, correlation analysis was performed with various atmospheric teleconnection indices. Precipitation trends are most strongly associated with variations in the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) at the interannual time scale while interdecadal variations are associated more with variations in the Pacific/North American (PNA) teleconnection. Both interannual and interdecadal variations of regional temperature are most strongly related to the PNA, except for the Southwest, which showed a significant correlation to the SOI. This suggests that El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events are the source for much of the precipitation change evident in the eastern and Northwestern United States and temperature change in the Southwest. [Key words: climate change, precipitation, temperature, El Niño, Southern Oscillation, United States climate.]  相似文献   

Morphometric Comparisons Between Rogen Terrain and Hummocky Terrain     

《自然地理学》2013,34(4):319-336

Visual interpretation of aerial photography suggests that certain geomorphological similarities exist between the hummocky terrain of central Alberta, Canada, and the Rogen terrain of Nunavut, Canada. This study statistically compares the two landform types based on measures of depression shapes and ridge orientations. Comparison of depression shapes indicates that two of three sample areas chosen from the hummocky terrain study area are statistically similar to those of the Rogen terrain study area. Analysis of ridge orientations indicates the ridge crests from two of three hummocky terrain sample areas, and ridge crests from within the Rogen terrain study site all exhibit a preferred trend. Variability in the process of formation may explain why only particular areas throughout the hummocky terrain exhibit patterns similar to the Rogen terrain and others do not. Statistical similarities in two-dimensional form between the hummocky terrain of central Alberta and the Rogen terrain of the Northwest Territories however, suggest that these landforms may have a common or similar origin.  相似文献   

汶川地震诱发山地斜坡震动的地形放大效应     

罗永红  王运生 《山地学报》2013,31(2)

汶川地震诱发大量山地斜坡次生灾害具有明显的地形分布特征,对其地形放大效应研究具有重要的理论及实际意义.斜坡震害调查表明,宏观地貌单元对次生地质灾害的发育类型具有控制作用,中高山区以大中型滑坡、崩塌为主,低山及丘陵区以山体震裂、小型崩塌为主;峡谷形态对次生地质灾害的发育密度具有明显影响,其中“V”型峡谷发育密度高于“U”型峡谷;单薄山脊、条形山体、坡型转折部位、凸出地形等微地貌地形放大效应明显.监测显示,不同方向水平分量地震波峰值(PHA)相差可达10余倍,研究表明:地形尺寸与地震波波长的耦合作用使得地震动水平分量放大显著.  相似文献   

Terrain complexity and uncertainties in grid‐based digital terrain analysis     

Qiming Zhou  Xuejun Liu  Yizhong Sun 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(10):1137-1147

The objective of this research is to study the relationship between terrain complexity and terrain analysis results from grid‐based digital elevation models (DEMs). The impact of terrain complexity represented by terrain steepness and orientation on derived parameters such as slope and aspect has been analysed. Experiments have been conducted to quantify the uncertainties created by digital terrain analysis algorithms. The test results show that (a) the RMSE of derived slope and aspect is negatively correlated with slope steepness; (b) the RMSE of derived aspect is more sensitive to terrain complexity than that of derived slope; and (c) the uncertainties in derived slope and aspect tend to be found in flatter areas, and decrease with increasing terrain complexity. The study shows that although primary surface parameters can be well defined mathematically, the implementation of those mathematical models in a GIS environment may generate considerable uncertainties related to terrain complexity. In general, when terrain is rugged with steep slopes, the uncertainty of derived parameters is quite minimal. While in flatter areas, the DEM‐based derivatives, particularly the aspect, may contain a great amount of uncertainty, causing significant limitation in applying the analytical results.  相似文献   

Computation of the third‐order partial derivatives from a digital elevation model     

Igor V. Florinsky 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(2):213-231

Loci of extreme curvature of the topographic surface may be defined by the derivation function (T) depending on the first‐, second‐, and third‐order partial derivatives of elevation. The loci may partially describe ridge and thalweg lines. The first‐ and second‐order partial derivatives are commonly calculated from a digital elevation model (DEM) by fitting the second‐order polynomial to a 3×3 window. This approach cannot be used to compute the third‐order partial derivatives and T. We deduced formulae to estimate the first‐, second‐, and third‐order partial derivatives from a DEM fitting the third‐order polynomial to a 5×5 window. The polynomial is approximated to elevation values of the window. This leads to a local denoising that may enhance calculations. Under the same grid size of a DEM and root mean square error (RMSE) of elevation, calculation of the second‐order partial derivatives by the method developed results in significantly lower RMSE of the derivatives than that using the second‐order polynomial and the 3×3 window. An RMSE expression for the derivation function is deduced. The method proposed can be applied to derive any local topographic variable, such as slope gradient, aspect, curvatures, and T. Treatment of a DEM by the method developed demonstrated that T mapping may not substitute regional logistic algorithms to detect ridge/thalweg networks. However, the third‐order partial derivatives of elevation can be used in digital terrain analysis, particularly, in landform classifications.  相似文献   

Simultaneous computation of total viewshed on large high resolution grids     

S. Tabik  E.L Zapata  L.F Romero 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(4):804-814

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Hydrogeomorphic properties of simulated drainage patterns using digital elevation models: the flat area issue / Propriétés hydro-géomorphologiques de réseaux de drainage simulés à partir de modèles numériques de terrain: la question des zones planes     

《水文科学杂志》2013,58(6):1176-1193

Abstract

Flat areas are a critical issue for the characterization of drainage patterns using digital elevation models (DEM). In this work, flat area removal and flow direction algorithms are implemented, and also a physically-based DEM correction model is introduced, for investigating their influence on the topological properties of the channel network, the Hortonian parameters and the hillslope width function. Differences of results, as compared to the standard procedures implemented in widely-used GIS-based hydrological packages, show the importance for hydrogeomorphic modellers to consider the use of more detailed approaches.  相似文献   

场地地震动局部地形效应研究进展   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

郭明珠  赵芳  赵凤仙 《震灾防御技术》2013,8(3):311-318

本文对地震动地形效应的影响因素及其规律进行了阐述和分析.主要对局部地形几何形状,入射波的入射角度、频率,震源相对位置及震源深度等因素对地形效应影响的国内外研究现状进行了综述.同时,介绍了地震数值模拟在地震动地形效应研究中的应用,并对进一步研究提出了一些建议.  相似文献   

RTM Gravity Forward-Modeling Using Topography/Bathymetry Data to Improve High-Degree Global Geopotential Models in the Coastal Zone     

Christian Hirt 《Marine Geodesy》2013,36(2):183-202

We apply the residual terrain modeling (RTM) technique for gravity forward-modeling to successfully improve high-resolution global gravity fields at short spatial scales in coastal zones. The RTM scheme is combined with the concept of rock-equivalent topography, allowing to use a single uniform constant mass-density in the RTM forward-modeling, both at land and sea. SRTM30_PLUS bathymetry is merged with higher-resolution SRTM V4.1 land topography, and expanded into spherical harmonics to degree 2160, yielding a new and consistent high-degree RTM reference surface. The forward-modeling performance is demonstrated in coastal zones of Greece and Canada using ground-truth vertical deflections, gravity from land and shipborne gravimetry, and geoid heights from GPS/leveling, with improvements originating from bathymetry clearly identified. We demonstrate that the SRTM30_PLUS bathymetry carries information on gravity field structures at spatial scales less than 5 arc minutes, which can be used to augment EGM2008 in (rugged) coastal zones, both over land and marine areas. This may be of value (i) to partially reduce the signal omission error in EGM2008/GOCE-based height transfer in areas devoid of dense gravity data, (ii) to fill the gap between land gravity and shipborne gravity along rugged coastlines, and (iii) for the development of next-generation altimetric gravity fields.  相似文献   

Towards High-Resolution Habitat Suitability Modeling of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the Deep-Sea: Resolving Terrain Attribute Dependencies     

Anna M. Rengstorf  Anthony Grehan  Chris Yesson  Colin Brown 《Marine Geodesy》2013,36(4):343-361

Recent habitat suitability models used to predict the occurrence of vulnerable marine species, particularly framework building cold-water corals, have identified terrain attributes such as slope and bathymetric position index as important predictive parameters. Due to their scale-dependent nature, a realistic representation of terrain attributes is crucial for the development of reliable habitat suitability models. In this paper, three known coral areas and a noncoral control area off the west coast of Ireland were chosen to assess quantitative and distributional differences between terrain attributes derived from bathymetry grids of varying resolution and information content. Correlation analysis identified consistent changes of terrain attributes as grain size was altered. Response characteristics and dimensions depended on terrain attribute types and the dominant morphological length-scales within the study areas. The subsequent effect on habitat suitability maps was demonstrated by preliminary models generated at different grain sizes. This study demonstrates that high resolution habitat suitability models based on terrain parameters derived from multibeam generated bathymetry are required to detect many of the topographical features found in Irish waters that are associated with coral. This has implications for marine spatial planning in the deep sea. Supplemental materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Marine Geodesy to view the free supplemental file.  相似文献