Toward seamless indoor-outdoor applications: Developing stakeholder-oriented location-based services     

Kohei OGAWA  Edward VERBREE  Sisi ZLATANOVA  Naohiko KOHTAKE  Yoshiaki OHKAMI 《地球空间信息科学学报》2011,14(2):109-118

Location-Based Services (LBS),an emerging new business based on smartphone and mobile networks,are becoming more and more popular.Most of these LBSs,however,only offer non-seamless indoor/outdoor applications and simple applications without giving stakeholders the chance to play an active role.Our specific aim is to solve these issues.This paper presents concepts to solve these issues by expanding the Open Location Services Interface Standard (OpenLS) to allow seamless indoor/outdoor positioning and to extend the content of the services to include information recommended by stakeholders.  相似文献   

Coronal Mass Ejections Observed at the Total Solar Eclipse on 13 November 2012     

Yoichiro Hanaoka  Jun Nakazawa  Osamu Ohgoe  Yoshiaki Sakai  Kazuo Shiota 《Solar physics》2014,289(7):2587-2599

White-light observations of the total solar eclipse on 13 November 2012 were made at two sites, where the totality occurred 35 min apart. The structure of the corona from the solar limb to a couple of solar radii was observed with a wide dynamic range and a high signal-to-noise ratio. An ongoing coronal mass ejection (CME) and a pre-CME loop structure just before the eruption were observed in the height range between 1?–?2 R_⊙. The source region of CMEs was revealed to be in this height range, where the material and the magnetic field of CMEs were located before the eruption. This height range includes the gap between the extreme ultraviolet observations of the low corona and the spaceborne white-light observations of the high corona, but the eclipse observation shows that this height range is essential for the study of CME initiation. The eclipse observation is basically just a snapshot of CMEs, but it indicates the importance of a continuous coverage of CME observations in this height range in the future.  相似文献   

A method of simultaneous analysis of wind and temperature profile data over the water surface by use of the method of least squares     

Yoshiaki Toba  Sanshiro Kawai 《Journal of Oceanography》1970,26(2):87-94

Priestley’s 1959 discussion concerning the estimations of momentum flux and of heat flux from profile observations of wind and temperature, stating that the closeness of the curve fitting is deceptive, is first critically re-examined. Then a method is proposed to estimate vertical flux of momentum and heat over the water surface, from the combined data of of wind speed and temperature are assumed to have similar log-linear profiles, and the most probable profiles are determined by applying the method of least squares simultaneously to wind and temperature data. Consequently, the most probable values of vertical flux of momentum and heat may be estimated to satisfy as much as possible observed data of both wind and temperature simultaneously. The coefficient of the linear term of the log-linear profile, which is treated as an indeterminate coefficient in this method, may be determined from each observed data as a function of stability length. By tentatively applying the method to Rider’s 1954 data it is found that the coefficient shows a characteristic behavior with the stability length.  相似文献   

Prediction of ocean waves based on the single-parameter growth equation of wind waves     

Sanshiro Kawai  Paimpillil S. Joseph  Yoshiaki Toba 《Journal of Oceanography》1979,35(3-4):151-167

A method for the prediction of ocean waves was developed on the basis of the single-parameter growth equation of wind waves, proposed byToba (1978) on the basis of similarity in growing wind waves. The applicability of the method to actual problems was tested by hindcasting the wave characteristics with the method, for two cases with differing time and space scales, one in Kii Channel Approach, Japan, and the other in the North Atlantic Ocean. The results showed that the present method can predict waves within an error of 1.3 m in wave heights, which ranged from 3 to 12 m.  相似文献   

Breaking of wind waves and the sea surface wind stress     

Yoshiaki Toba  Hideaki Kunishi 《Journal of Oceanography》1970,26(2):71-80

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Experimental study on internal waves in a stratified shear flow     

Tadashi Andow  Kimio Hanawa  Yoshiaki Toba 《Journal of Oceanography》1981,37(4):179-192

This paper describes experiments on interfacial phenomena in a stratified shear flow having a sharp velocity shear at a density interface. The interface was visualized in vertical cross-section using dye, and the flow pattern was traced using aluminum powder. Two kinds of internal waves with different phase velocities and wave profiles were observed. They are here named p(positive)-waves and n(negative)-waves, respectively. By means of a two-dimensional visualization technique, the following facts have been confirmed regarding these waves. (1) The two kinds of waves propagate in the opposite direction relative to a system moving with the mean velocity at the interface, and their dispersion relations approximately agree with the two solutions of interfacial waves in a two-layer system of a linear basic shear flow. (2) The p-wave has sharp crests and flat troughs, and the n-wave has the reverse of this. This difference in wave profile is due to the finite amplitude effect. (3) Phase velocity of each wave lies within the range of the mean velocity profile, so that a critical layer exists and each wave has a “cat's eye” flow pattern in the vicinity of the critical layer, when observed in a system moving with the phase velocity. Consequently, these two waves are symmetrical with respect to the interface. The mechanisms of generation of these waves, and the entrainment process are discussed. It is inferred that when the “cat's eye” flow pattern is distorted and a stagnation point approaches the interface, entrainment in the form of a stretched wisp from the lower to the upper layer occurs for the p-wave, and from the upper to the lower layer for the n-wave.  相似文献   

Analysis of year-to-year variation of water temperature along the coast of the Japan sea     

Tomowo Watanabe  Kimio Hanawa  Yoshiaki Toba 《Progress in Oceanography》1986,17(3-4)

Mean monthly records of coastal sea surface temperature data (CSST) obtained from stations along the Japanese coasts of the Japan Sea and from those in the related seas for the period 1941–1984 were analyzed by using various methods of time series analysis, for the purpose of clarifying the nature of the year-to-year variations of the state of the Japan Sea. The year-to-year variations in the Japan Sea were found to be closely related to those in the East China Sea and in the western North Pacific. Specific results are as follows. (1) A sudden cooling in the early 1960's occurred in the southern stations of the Japan Sea and continued to the end of the analyzed data. (2) Variations, with about a 6-year periodicity, were observed at most stations, and were especially dominant in the southern stations of the Japan Sea (3) These variations could be traced back to the Kuroshio region of the East China Sea. (4) Variations, with about a 10-year periodicity, were also observed in the northern stations of the Japan Sea.  相似文献   

Velocity variation of the Kuroshio during formation of the small meander south of Kyûshû     

Yoshihiko Sekine  Yoshiaki Toba 《Journal of Oceanography》1981,37(2):87-93

Historical GEK data provided by JODC is analyzed to investigate the characteristic variation in velocity of the Kuroshio, with special reference to the formation of small meanders south of Kyûshû. It is found that, during or prior to the period of small meander formation, there is a tendency for an abrupt increase in the current velocity west of Yaku-Shima (Yaku-Island), representing an increase in the main current intensity upstream. Also, there are apparent time lags in the variation in current velocity along the path of the Kuroshio between the upstream and the downstream regions of the small meander area. Namely, it is apparent that the increase in Kuroshio velocity in the Satsunan Strait procedes that offshore of Shikoku during the period of the small meander formation, by the order of one month. These results indicate that a nonlinear effect due to the increase in current velocity is a possible cause of the generation of small meanders.  相似文献   

Turbulent structure in water under laboratory wind waves     

Ikuo Yoshikawa  Hiroshi Kawamura  Kuniaki Okuda  Yoshiaki Toba 《Journal of Oceanography》1988,44(3):143-156

The structure of the turbulent boundary layer underneath laboratory wind waves was studied by using a combination of a high-sensitivity thermometer array with a two-component sonic flowmeter. The temperature fluctuations are used to detect movements of water parcels, with temperature as a passive quantity. The turbulence energy was dominant in the frequency range (0.01 0.1 Hz), which was much smaller than the wind-wave frequency (2 5 Hz), and in which the turbulence was anisotropic. There was a frequency range (0.2 2 Hz for velocity, 0.2 5 Hz for temperature fluctuation) where the turbulence was isotropic and had a –5/3 slope in the energy spectrum. These points are the same as those in previous works. However, by analyses of the time series by using a variable-interval time-averaging technique (VITA), it has been found that conspicuous events in this main turbulence energy band are the downward bursting from the vicinity of the water surface. Thus the structure of the water layer underneath the wind waves has characters which are similar to the familiar turbulent boundary layer over a rough solid wall, as already conceived. It has been found that, at the same time, the turbulence energy can be related to quantities of the wind waves (the root mean squared water level fluctuation and the wave peak frequency), for different wind and wave conditions. That is, the turbulence underneath the wind waves develops under a close coupling with the wind waves.  相似文献   

Gas-liquid chromatographic determination of amino acids and vertical distribution of proteinaceous substances in sea water     

Hosaku Kawahara  Yoshiaki Maita 《Journal of Oceanography》1971,27(1):27-33

Gas-liquid chromatographic method byGehrke et al. was applied to the determination of the dissolved proteinaceous substace. Sea-water samples were evaporated in vacuum to the volume of one twentieth of the initial volume and separated from deposited inorganic salt crystals. Thirteen kinds of amino acids except histidine, arginine and cystine were quantitatively determined for artificial sea water containing sixteen standard amino acids with accuracy of about five percent and with yield of 80 to 103 percent. This method has advantage comparing with paper or thin layer chromatography on the precision and comparing with ion-exchange method on sensitivity.The difference of amino acid concentration between the sea-water samples of different depth and different region was observed. The total amounts of dissolved amino acids were found to be between 33 and 92g per liter in sea water of Pacific Ocean taken at the surface to 1,500 m in depth.Contribution No. 41, from The Research Institute of North Pacific Fisheries, Hokkaido University.  相似文献