Phytoplankton community structures in shelf and oceanic waters off southeast Brazil (20°–25°S), as determined by pigment signatures     

《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2014

The influences of the hydrological features and environmental conditions in the phytoplankton community found in the Campos Basin area in the Atlantic Ocean (20° to 25°S; 42° to 38°W) were studied using HPLC/CHEMTAX pigment analysis. Samples were collected at 72 stations distributed along the 25–3000 m isobaths at two depths during two seasonal periods (rainy and dry). Seven taxonomic groups of phytoplankton were detected (diatoms, dinoflagellates, prasinophytes, cryptophytes, haptophytes, pelagophytes and cyanobacteria). Redundancy analysis showed that the spatial and temporal patterns observed in the distribution of the phytoplanktonic groups were primarily related to variations in the availability of light and nutrients. Nutrient variations were caused by South Atlantic Central Water seasonal intrusions over the continental shelf region. Cyanobacteria predominated in the rainy season, while diatoms, Haptophyceae and Prasinophyceae, were associated with higher nutrient availability in the dry season. In the inner shelf region, diatoms dominated and were associated with increased conditions of turbulence and nutrient availability. Haptophytes and prasinophytes were predominant on the outer shelf and shelf-break regions associated with high nutrient concentrations and availability of light. Prochlorococcus was related to oceanic waters (in both dry and rainy periods) or to low nutrient/strongly stratified shelf waters (rainy period). In contrast, Synechococcus was widely distributed in both the shelf and oceanic regions. Variation in the quality of light between coastal and oceanic waters was probably responsible for the distributions observed. Through HPLC/CHEMTAX pigment analysis we have developed a detailed picture of the influence of hydrological regime on the dynamics of the phytoplankton community in an under-studied shelf/ocean system in the tropical southern Atlantic Ocean.  相似文献   

Fishers' perceptions,facilitating factors and challenges of community-based no-take zones in the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve,Quintana Roo,Mexico     

《Marine Policy》2014

In response to fisheries decline in the Mexican Caribbean and continuing deterioration of the Mesoamerican Reef, conservation NGOs have begun to negotiate and collaboratively design a network of no-take zones (NTZs) with three fishing cooperatives in the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve (SKBR), among other places along the coast of Quintana Roo. Spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) is the target of the main fishery within cooperative concessions. Fishers are uniquely positioned to enforce and monitor NTZs and evaluate their effectiveness. This study analyzes fishers' perceptions as indicators of social acceptance of NTZs, and identifies facilitating factors and challenges of the community-based process. Consistent with similar studies, responses of fishers (89 out of a population of 124) to a semi-structured interview showed that perceptions of NTZs largely reflect fishers' concerns and interests. A high proportion of fishers accurately identified main NTZ objectives of regulation, conservation and economic improvement, as well as NTZ locations. Further, fishers cared about ecosystem sustainability and, because NTZs would not significantly limit their main economic activity, endorsed the initiative while expecting additional benefits. Declining trends in lobster catch influenced a perceived need for NTZs. Major concerns were that illegal fishers would reap NTZ benefits and that economic impacts and benefits were uncertain. Most fishers found the decision-making process inclusive, were willing to take responsibility for enforcing NTZs and believed people leading the process were trustworthy. Differences in endorsement of NTZs among cooperatives points to the importance of understanding fishers’ incentives to collaborate, and the leadership and organizational dynamics which shape participatory processes. This analysis highlights challenges in advancing NTZs in complex ecological, socio-economic and regulatory contexts. It underscores the need for community-based processes that transcend understanding of conservation measures but also invests in sustainable, operative and trustful working relationships, as well as the urgency of interdisciplinary approaches in ensuring effective design and implementation of this relatively new fishery management tool.  相似文献   

基于Γ函数的暖季小时降水概率分布     

田付友  郑永光  毛冬艳  谌芸  钟水新 《气象》2014,40(7):787-795

我国暖季小时降水的气候概率分布特征分析是开展短时强降水概率预报的重要基础工作。本文使用1991—2009年5月1日至9月30日的小时降水资料,采用最大似然估计方法,对用于描述518个观测站点降水分布的Γ函数的形状参数α和尺度参数β进行了估算,对极端α和β分布情况下大于0.1 mm的暖季小时降水的概率密度分布状况及其累积概率密度分布函数进行了分析,并给出了多个站点基于Γ函数的超过给定阈值的降水累积概率的分布。结果表明:α和β之间的相关性高达0.975,其分布与我国的地势分布有很大的关系。Γ分布可以很好地描述小时降水的分布状况,模拟得到的结果具有更好的连续性,揭示了实况降水中不能观测到的极端降水发生的可能性;华南沿海和海南西北部为最容易出现短时强降水的区域,在有降水的情况下,其小时雨量超过10、20和30 mm的累积概率分别达到了8.0%、2.0%和0.7%,另一个常出现极端降水的区域为鲁苏皖交界处,这是强对流预报中值得注意的区域;95%累积概率密度对应的小时降水阈值分布显示,自西北向东南,极端小时降水的阈值不断增大;α与站点海拔高度之间具有很好的指数相关性,其相关系数达到了0.709,表明地形对我国暖季小时降水量的分布具有重要的影响。  相似文献   

高原东南缘大气近地层湍能特征与边界层动力、热力结构相关特征   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1  

徐祥德  王寅钧  赵天良  姚文清 《气象》2014,40(10):1165-1173

基于云南省大理2008年3、5、7月GPS加密探空试验时段(14和02时)资料,结合边界层铁塔综合观测资料,采用温度梯度法、逆温强度法和涡动相关法分别计算高原东南缘对流边界层(convective boundary layer,CBL)及稳定边界层(stable boundary layer,SBL)顶高度,通过计算获取感热通量、潜热通量、湍流动能、切变项以及浮力项与大气动力、热力过程垂直相关特征综合分析,可发现湍能方程中浮力项、感热、潜热通量与NCEP再分析资料计算获取的大气视热源相关特征显著,这某种程度反映了高原东南缘近地层大气湍流动量、热量输送对低层大气视热源Q_1的重要贡献。低层视热源Q_1亦表现出与湍能方程分量类似的日变化周期,此特征反映了高原东南缘大气热源变化与下垫面水热过程及其湍流输送日变化密切相关;浮力项与湍能等项对大气低层热源与涡动特征、热力混合结构的形成有重要作用;低层大气视热源、水汽汇均与边界层高度有显著相关,综合分析结果某种程度描述了青藏高原东南缘近地层湍流动量、热量输送状况与低层大气热源,热力混合边界层结构的综合相关物理图像,初步探索了高原东南缘对流活跃区大气湍流运动与大气动力、热力过程相互作用特征。研究表明近地层湍流通量变化某种程度可反映未来局地大气视热源垂直结构变化的"强信号"特征。本文上述研究结论也可启发我们进一步关注近地层湍流通量异常变化特征及其对局地降水过程大气热源结构演变的影响问题。  相似文献   

Optimising three-band spectral indices to assess aerial N concentration,N uptake and aboveground biomass of winter wheat remotely in China and Germany     

《ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing》2014

Remotely and accurately quantifying the canopy nitrogen status in crops is essential for regional studies of N budgets and N balances. In this study, we optimised three-band spectral algorithms to estimate the N status of winter wheat. This study extends previous work to optimise the band combinations further and identifies the optimised central bands and suitable bandwidths of the three-band nitrogen planar domain index (NPDI) for estimating the aerial N uptake, N concentration and aboveground biomass. Analysis of the influence of bandwidth change on the accuracy of estimating the canopy N status and aboveground biomass indicated that the suitable bandwidths for optimised central bands were 37 nm at 846 nm, 13 nm at 738 nm and 57 nm at 560 nm for assessing the aerial N uptake and were 37 nm at 958 nm, 21 nm at 696 nm and 73 nm at 578 nm for the assessment of the aerial N concentration and were 49 nm at 806 nm, 17 nm at 738 nm and 57 nm at 560 nm for the estimation of aboveground biomass. The optimised three-band NPDI could consistently and stably estimate the aerial N uptake and aboveground biomass of winter wheat in the vegetative stage and the aerial N concentration in the reproductive stage compared to the fixed band combinations. With suitable bandwidths, the broadband NPDI demonstrated excellent performance in estimating the aerial N concentration, N uptake and biomass. We conclude that the band-optimised algorithm represents a promising tool to measure the improved performance of the NPDI in estimating the aerial N uptake and biomass in the vegetative stage and the aerial N concentration in the reproductive stage, which will be useful for designing improved nitrogen diagnosis systems and for enhancing the applications of ground- and satellite-based sensors.  相似文献   

显著经验正交函数分析及其在淮河流域暴雨研究中的应用   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

冯志刚  陈星  程兴无  徐胜  梁树献 《气象学报》2014,72(6):1245-1256

经验正交函数分解（EOF）是气候特征研究中常用的分析方法,但由于方法本身的原因,EOF 主要模态不一定都能有效揭示资料场包含的气候模态。利用中国基本站和基准站1950—2009年逐日降水资料,运用显著经验正交函数分解（Disˉ tinct EOF,DEOF）方法研究了淮河流域暴雨的统计特征。结果表明 DEOF 第1模态呈现了淮河流域暴雨量在南北方向上存在相反的变化,即流域中部、南部偏多（偏少）时,北部则偏少（偏多）,第1主成分具有显著的16—17 a 周期性变化,表明流域南北的旱涝变化存在年代际振荡;第2模态表现了淮河流域中部暴雨量的异常变化,第2主成分有明显的线性趋势,说明近50年来流域中部地区暴雨量有明显的上升趋势,并且在1990年前后由偏少转为偏多。对比 DEOF 和 EOF 的分析结果,发现DEOF 能排除资料场中与随机扩散模型相关性较高的空间特征,能抓住与随机扩散模型有显著差异的分布特征并凸出显示出来,能从较强的背景噪声中凸出物理信号,因而能更好地估计真实的气候模态。  相似文献   

OH in the tropical upper troposphere and its relationships to solar radiation and reactive nitrogen     

R. S. Gao  K. H. Rosenlof  D. W. Fahey  P. O. Wennberg  E. J. Hintsa  T. F. Hanisco 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》2014,71(1):55-64

In situ measurements of [OH], [HO₂] (square brackets denote species concentrations), and other chemical species were made in the tropical upper troposphere (TUT). [OH] showed a robust correlation with solar zenith angle. Beyond this dependence, however, [OH] did not correlate to its primary source, the product of [O₃] and [H₂O] ([O₃]?[H₂O]), or its sink [NO_y]. This suggests that [OH] is heavily buffered in the TUT. One important exception to this result is found in regions with very low [O₃], [NO], and [NO_y]. Under these conditions, [OH] is highly suppressed, pointing to the critical role of NO in sustaining OH in the TUT and the possibility of low [OH] over the western Pacific warm pool due to strong marine convections bringing NO-poor air to the TUT. In contrast to [OH], [HO_x] ([OH] + [HO₂]) correlated reasonably well with [O₃]?[H₂O]/[NO_y], suggesting that [O₃]?[H₂O] and [NO_y] are the significant source and sink, respectively, of [HO_x].  相似文献   

PV-based wave-activity density and its application to tracing heavy precipitation   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Lingkun Ran  Na Li 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》2014,123(1-2):33-50

This paper is focused on the tracking of heavy precipitation by detecting strong wave activities in precipitating atmosphere. Based on the generalized moist potential vorticity (GMPV), a new wave-activity density and its wave-activity relation are first derived. The wave-activity density, which is the second-order portion of GMPV and quadratic in disturbance, is then applied to a heavy-rainfall event in North China. It is shown that the wave-activity density contains the vertical shear of wind perturbation, vertical vorticity perturbation and the spatial gradients of latent heating function perturbation associated with the moisture condensation. Due to these important characteristics of precipitating atmosphere, the wave-activity density shows strong anomalies over the precipitation region. The total GMPV and its basic-state and first-order components are also analyzed as comparisons. The result shows that the basic-state GMPV is not capable of diagnosing precipitation, while the total GMPV and the first-order GMPV, although present strong anomalies, are not capable of distinguishing precipitation and non-precipitation areas. This is likely due to the basic state information contained in GMPV and its basic-state and first-order components, which has no direct relation to the precipitation. The spatial distribution of wave-activity density further verifies its capability on detecting and tracing heavy precipitation. Moreover, the statistical result reveals the wave-activity density has a high correlation coefficient with the observational rainfall in a long time series and passes through the significance test.  相似文献   

The effect of aerosol representation on cloud microphysical properties in Northeast Asia     

In-Jin Choi  Takamichi Iguchi  Sang-Woo Kim  Teruyuki Nakajima  Soon-Chang Yoon 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》2014,123(3-4):181-194

This study performed a three-dimensional regional-scale simulation of aerosol and cloud fields using a meso-scale non-hydrostatic model with a bin-based cloud microphysics. The representation of aerosols in the model has been improved to account for more realistic multi-modal size distribution and multiple chemical compositions. Two case studies for shallow stratocumulus over Northeast Asia in March 2005 were conducted with different aerosol conditions to evaluate model performance. Improved condensation nuclei (CN) and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) are attributable to the newly constructed aerosol size distribution. The simulated results of cloud microphysical properties (cloud droplet effective radius, liquid water path, and optical thickness) with improved CN/CCN number are close to the retrievals from satellite-based observation. The effects of aerosol on the microphysical properties of shallow stratocumulus are investigated by model simulation, in terms of columnar aerosol number concentration. Enhanced aerosol number concentration results in increased liquid water path in humid case, but invariant liquid water path in dry case primarily due to precipitation occurrence. The changes of cloud microphysical properties are more predominant for small aerosol burden than for large aerosol burden with the retarded changes in cloud mass and size due to inactive condensation and collision-coalescence processes. Quantitative evaluation of sensitivity factor between aerosol and cloud microphysical properties indicates a strong aerosol-cloud interaction in Northeast Asian region.  相似文献   

Regional-scale surface air temperature and East Asian summer monsoon changes during the last millennium simulated by the FGOALS-gl climate system model   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

MAN Wenmin  and  ZHOU Tianjun 《大气科学进展》2014,31(4):765-778

The spatial patterns and regional-scale surface air temperature （SAT） changes during the last millennium,as well as the variability of the East Asian summer monsoon （EASM） were simulated with a low-resolution version of Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land-Sea-ice （FGOALS-gl） model.The model was driven by both natural and anthropogenic forcing agents.Major features of the simulated past millennial Northern Hemisphere （NH） mean SAT variations,including the Medieval Climate Anomaly （MCA）,the Little Ice Age （LIA） and the 20th Century Warming （20CW）,were generally consistent with the reconstructions.The simulated MCA showed a global cooling pattern with reference to the 1961-90 mean conditions,indicating the 20CW to be unprecedented over the last millennium in the simulation.The LIA was characterized by pronounced coldness over the continental extratropical NH in both the reconstruction and the simulation.The simulated global mean SAT difference between the MCA and LIA was 0.14°C,with enhanced warming over high-latitude NH continental regions.Consistencies between the simulation and the reconstruction on regional scales were lower than those on hemispheric scales.The major features agreed well between the simulated and reconstructed SAT variations over the Chinese domain,despite some inconsistency in details among different reconstructions.The EASM circulation during the MCA was stronger than that during the LIA The corresponding rainfall anomalies exhibited excessive rainfall in the north but deficient rainfall in the south.Both the zonal and meridional thermal contrast were enhanced during the MCA.This temperature anomaly pattern favored a stronger monsoon circulation.  相似文献