广播电塔电磁环境仿真研究

介绍了一种广播电视发射塔电磁环境预测的方法,利用了广播电视发射塔天线的远场方向图,结合周边的实际地理环境状况,通过CEMS（复杂电磁环境方针系统）软件实现快速仿真。文中的广播电塔的天线使用了最常用的单极板天线,在CEMS软件中,用发射机代替广播电视电塔,在天线的辐射范围内按照一定的规律放置接收机并进行仿真分析。通过仿真分析,对以后广播电视电塔的选址和改进提供一定的依据。     

一种新型宽带移动终端天线设计方案

针对当前无线通信中的终端天线应用进行研究,提出了一种新型的宽带微带天线结构,并采用了高频电磁场仿真软件进行了仿真验证和实际样品测试。结果表明,该天线可在0.816GHz~1.099GHz频段和1.657GHz~2.260GHz频段内达到要求的驻波比,可以实现GSM850/900/1800/1900频段以及WCDMA2100频段的要求。同时该天线结构整体辐射性能好,具有全向辐射性,适合移动终端使用。     

互耦对全电波暗室辐射测试的不确定度影响分析

旨在研究全电波暗室中互耦效应对辐射骚扰测试不确定度的影响.从典型的偶极子天线入手,深入研究了天线之间互耦效应与天线间距的关系,计算得出了暗室中辐射测试的远场条件,分析了各种不确定度对电波暗室中辐射测试及场地验证的影响,对全电波暗室中辐射测试不确定度的研究具有重要意义.创新之处在于提出了一种互耦对辐射测试不确定度影响的分...     

对数周期天线的设计改进

对数周期天线是结构简单,性能优良的频带天线,这篇文章结合传统的对数周期偶极子天线的结构,再加上微带天线的优势,改进了一款工作频率在4GHz~10GHz的对数周期偶极子天线,计算出天线的尺寸,并在HFSS中进行仿真,仿真结果表明,在该频带范围内,天线的方向性较好,旁瓣较少,在理论上为设计者提供了一种方法。     

相控阵雷达天线谐波辐射发射测试技术研究

本文提出了一种相控阵雷达天线谐波辐射发射改进型现场测试方法,并以某型雷达相控阵天线为例,基于ITU-R SM.329-11-2011和MIL-STD-461G-2015标准,构建了相控阵雷达天线谐波测试系统,在开阔场条件下,实测了天线的谐波辐射发射指标。研究结果表明:10 kHz_～40 GHz频段内,该型相控阵雷达天线的谐波辐射发射的二次谐波抑制度约为65 dB,三次及高次谐波抑制度为80 dB。侧面验证了改进型现场测试方法在雷达天线有效辐射功率测定,分辨率带宽设置等方面,比基于微波暗室的测量方法,有更好的可操作性和可行性。     

一种应用于双单元MIMO天线的电磁带隙结构设计与仿真

设计了一种应用于工作频率为2.6GHz的双单元多输入多输出（MIMO）天线的新型电磁带隙结构（EBG）。本文基于传统的蘑菇状结构,将贴片改进为螺旋状,调整偏移了过孔圆柱位置,并采用了电磁带隙结构单元的整体倒“T”形状布局。过孔的位置以及结构单元的间隔基于HFSS电磁仿真软件进行了优化,使新的结构在对天线系统传输特性影响很低的情况下更好的减小两个天线单元之间的耦合干扰。     

磁浮列车电磁辐射仿真与验证评估技术研究

磁浮列车正常行进过程中对外部环境的电磁辐射安全性近年来受到各科技强国的广泛重视。本文采用多线传输线MTL方法,对磁浮列车电磁辐射场进行了电磁建模与仿真分析,并基于IEEE-Std-C95.1-2005、IEEEStd-C95.6-2002和ICNIP-2010以及GB8702-2014,标准,采用传感器法和接收天线法,现场测试验证了磁浮列车在不同运行状态下的电磁辐射场,开展电磁环境评估工作。研究表明:50～110 kHz,磁浮列车12 m处的辐射磁场呈周期性结构分布,仿真的最大值为69.4 dBuA/m;1～120 kHz频段内,磁浮列车的辐射磁场测量值小于90 mA/m;在9 kHz～18 GHz频段内,磁浮列车的辐射电场均小于110 dBuV/m(0.316 V/m),磁浮列车对外电磁辐射量值比相关国际标准限值至少低30 dB。本论文的研究工作可为我国新型高速磁浮列车电磁安全性研究奠定基础。     

对移动通信基站环境监测布点的讨论

文章依据国家有关电磁辐射环境监测的标准，从移动通信基站天线向周围辐射电磁波的特点出发，考虑基站天线电磁辐射的主瓣、副瓣和盲区3种情况，对移动通信基站周围电磁辐射环境监测的范围、布点方式和点位确定进行了讨论。     

大尺寸短波发射天线现场测试技术研究

三线、对数周期等大尺寸天线大量应用于通信台站与舰船上,然而,考虑到天线放置地点、工作频段、通信覆盖范围等要求,这类天线都具有较大的物理尺寸,在实验室环境和外场试验环境下都无法直接测量辐射方向图、发射效率、驻波比等天线性能指标。以大尺寸短波发射天线现场测试技术为研究对象,分析了大尺寸短波发射天线现场测手段的必要性与所存在的不足,在传统现场测试方法的基础上,提出了一种基于无人机的短波发射天线现场测试方法,对信台站与舰艇上大尺寸短波发射天线的设计、施工、调试、维修、以及现场系统联调等环节起到保障作用。     

CFX软件在含硫天然气开发环境风险评价中的应用

结合目前国内外对气体泄漏、扩散仿真分析的研究现状,对CFX软件在含硫天然气开发过程中的环境风险定量评估进行了介绍。并以某气田开发为实例,采用CFX软件对4类天然气泄漏风险事故进行了仿真计算,得到定量分析结果。该方法的应用将有助于含硫天然气在开发过程中的环境风险评价,并为风险搬迁与应急疏散范围的确定提供计算依据。     

Conversion of temperate forests into heaths: Role of ecosystem disturbance and ericaceous plants

Fire and logging in nutrient-poor temperate forests with certain ericaceous understory plants may convert the forests into heaths. The process of disturbance-induced heath formation is documented by using examples ofCalluna in western Europe,Kalmia in Newfoundland, andGaultheria (salal) in coastal British Columbia. In a cool, temperate climate, rapid vegetative growth ofCalluna, Kalmia, and salal following disturbance results in increasing organic accumulation (paludification), nutrient sequestration, soil acidification, and allelochemicals. These are thought to be the main reasons to conifer regeneration failure in disturbed habitats. If continuation in forest is a land-use objective, then temperate forests with an ericaceous understory should not be logged unless effective silvicultural methods are devised to control the ericaceous plants and restore forest regeneration. Preharvest vegetation control may be considered as an option. Failure to control the understory plants may lead to a long-term vegetation shift, from forest to heathland, particularly in nutrient-poor sites. Successful methods of controllingKalmia andGaultheria, however, have yet to be developed. While theKalmia- andGaultheria- dominated heathlands are undesirable in Canada and the Pacific Northwest, a wide range ofCalluna heathlands of western Europe are being conserved as natural and seminatural vegetation.     

Urban ecological systems: scientific foundations and a decade of progress

Urban ecological studies, including focus on cities, suburbs, and exurbs, while having deep roots in the early to mid 20th century, have burgeoned in the last several decades. We use the state factor approach to highlight the role of important aspects of climate, substrate, organisms, relief, and time in differentiating urban from non-urban areas, and for determining heterogeneity within spatially extensive metropolitan areas. In addition to reviewing key findings relevant to each state factor, we note the emergence of tentative "urban syndromes" concerning soils, streams, wildlife and plants, and homogenization of certain ecosystem functions, such as soil organic carbon dynamics. We note the utility of the ecosystem approach, the human ecosystem framework, and watersheds as integrative tools to tie information about multiple state factors together. The organismal component of urban complexes includes the social organization of the human population, and we review key modes by which human populations within urban areas are differentiated, and how such differentiation affects environmentally relevant actions. Emerging syntheses in land change science and ecological urban design are also summarized. The multifaceted frameworks and the growing urban knowledge base do however identify some pressing research needs.     

Neighbourhood characteristics and urban gardens in the Toledo metropolitan area: staffing and voluntarism,food production,infrastructure, and sustainability practices

Urban gardens are important sources of sustenance for communities with limited access to food. Hence, this study focuses on food production in gardens in the Toledo metropolitan area in Northwest Ohio. We administered surveys to 150 garden managers from November 2014 to February 2015 in our attempt to better understand how neighbourhood racial composition and poverty levels are related to staffing and voluntarism, food production and distribution, the development of infrastructure, and the adoption of sustainability practices in urban gardens. The results from 30 gardens are presented in this paper. We used Geographic Information Systems to map the gardens and overlay the map with 2010 census data so that we could conduct demographic analyses of the neighbourhoods in which the gardens were located. Though the gardens were small – two acres or less – up to 46 varieties of food were grown in a single garden. Gardens also operated on small budgets. Food from the gardens was gifted or shared with friends, family, and neighbourhood residents. Gardens in predominantly minority neighbourhoods tended to have fewer institutional partners, less garden infrastructure, and had adopted fewer sustainable practices than gardens in predominantly White neighbourhoods. Nonetheless, residents of predominantly minority and high-poverty neighbourhoods participated in garden activities and influenced garden operations. Volunteering and staffing were racialised and gendered.     

Using Paleo Reconstructions to Improve Streamflow Forecast Lead Time in the Western United States

In water stressed regions, water managers are exploring new horizons that would help in long‐range streamflow forecasts. Oceanic‐atmospheric oscillations have been shown to influence streamflow variability. In this study, long‐lead time streamflow forecasts are made using a multiclass kernel‐based data‐driven support vector machine (SVM) model. The extended streamflow records based on tree ring reconstructions were used to provide a longer time series data. Reconstructed data were used from 1658 to 1952 and the instrumental record was used from 1953 to 2007. Reconstructions for oceanic‐atmospheric oscillations included the El Niño‐Southern Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, and North Atlantic Oscillation. Streamflow forecasts using all four oscillations were made with one‐year to five‐year lead times for 21 gages in the western United States. This is the first study that uses both instrumental and reconstructed data of oscillations in SVM model to improve streamflow forecast lead time. SVM model was able to provide “satisfactory” to “very good” forecasts with one‐ to five‐year lead time for the selected gages. The use of all the oscillation indices helped in achieving better predictability compared to using individual oscillations. The SVM modeling results are better when compared with multiple linear regression model forecasts. The findings are statistical in nature and are expected to be useful for long‐term water resources planning and management.     

Predicting deer-vehicle collisions in an urban area

Collisions with deer and other large animals are increasing, and the resulting economic costs and risks to public safety have made mitigation measures a priority for both city and wildlife managers. We created landscape models to describe and predict deer-vehicle collision (DVCs) within the City of Edmonton, Alberta. Models based on roadside characteristics revealed that DVCs occurred frequently where roadside vegetation was both denser and more diverse, and that DVCs were more likely to occur when the groomed width of roadside right-of-ways was smaller. No DVCs occurred where the width of the vegetation-free or manicured roadside buffer was greater than 40 m. Landscape-based models showed that DVCs were more likely in more heterogeneous landscapes where road densities were lower and speed limits were higher, and where non-forested vegetation such as farmland was in closer proximity to larger tracts of forest. These models can help wildlife and transportation managers to identify locations of high collision frequency for mitigation. Modifying certain landscape and roadside habitats can be an effective way to reduce deer-vehicle collisions.     

AN APPLICATION RUNOFF MODEL STRATEGY FOR UNGAGED WATERSHEDS1

ABSTRACT: Mathematical models for predicting watershed surface flow responses are available, most of which are elaborate nonlinear numerical surface and channel flow models linked with infiltration models. Such models may be used to make predictions for ungaged areas, assuming an acceptable fitting of the model to the topography and roughness of the real system. For some application purposes, these models are impractical because of their complexity and expensive computer solutions. A procedure is developed that uses a complex model of an ungaged area to derive a simpler parametric nonlinear system model for repetitious simulation with input sequences. The predicted flow outputs are obtained with the simpler model at significant savings of money and time. The procedures for constructing a complex kinematic model of a 40 acre (161,880 m²) reference watershed and deriving the simpler system model are outlined. The results of predictions from both models are compared with a selected set of measured events, all having essentially the same initial conditions. Peak discharges ranged from 3 to 118 ft³/sec (0.085 to 3.34 m³/sec), which includes the largest event of record. The inherent limitations of lumped systems models are demonstrated, including the bias caused by their inability to model infiltration losses after rainfall ceases. Computer costs and times for the models were compared. The derived simple model has a cost advantage when repeated use of a model is required. Such an applications hydrologic model has an engineering tradeoff of reduced accuracy, and lumping bias, but is more economical for certain design purposes.     

MANGANESE CYCLE IN IMPOUNDMENT WATER

Manganese entering impounded water will undergo a cyclic transformation. Oxidation precipitates manganese from top waters. At the bottom of the lake, biological activity will render manganese soluble by both intracellular as well as extracellular activity. The study was made to demonstrate that biological reduction and transformation, organometallic complexation, together with the presence of carbon dioxide and the lowering of pH all have some effect on the solubility of manganese. Dissolved manganese may be brought back to top waters during the lake overturn and therefore deteriorates the water quality.     

Surface applied water treatment residuals affect bioavailable phosphorus losses in Florida sands

Water treatment residuals (WTR) can reduce runoff P loss and surface co-application of P-sources and WTR is a practical way of land applying the residuals. In a rainfall simulation study, we evaluated the effects of surface co-applied P-sources and an Al-WTR on runoff and leacheate bioavailable P (BAP) losses from a Florida sand. Four P-sources, namely poultry manure, Boca Raton biosolids (high water-soluble P), Pompano biosolids (moderate water-soluble P), and triple super phosphate (TSP) were surface applied at 56 and 224kgPha(-1) (by weight) to represent low and high soil P loads typical of P- and N-based amendments rates. The treatments further received surface applied WTR at 0 or 10gWTRkg(-1) soil. BAP loss masses were greater in leachate (16.4-536mg) than in runoff (0.91-46mg), but were reduced in runoff and leachate by surface applied WTR. Masses of total BAP lost in the presence of surface applied WTR were less than approximately 75% of BAP losses in the absence of WTR. Total BAP losses from each of the organic sources applied at N-based rates were not greater than P loss from TSP applied at a P-based rate. The BAP loss at the N-based rate of moderate water-soluble P-source (Pompano biosolids) was not greater than BAP losses at the P-based rates of other organic sources tested. The hazards of excess P from applying organic P-sources at N-based rates are not greater than observed at P-based rates of mineral fertilizer. Results suggest that management of the environmental P hazards associated with N-based rates of organic materials in Florida sands is possible by either applying P-sources with WTR or using a moderate water-soluble P-source.     

Sources and Transport of Phosphorus to Rivers in California and Adjacent States,U.S., as Determined by SPARROW Modeling

The SPARROW (SPAtially Referenced Regression on Watershed attributes) model was used to simulate annual phosphorus loads and concentrations in unmonitored stream reaches in California, U.S., and portions of Nevada and Oregon. The model was calibrated using de‐trended streamflow and phosphorus concentration data at 80 locations. The model explained 91% of the variability in loads and 51% of the variability in yields for a base year of 2002. Point sources, geological background, and cultivated land were significant sources. Variables used to explain delivery of phosphorus from land to water were precipitation and soil clay content. Aquatic loss of phosphorus was significant in streams of all sizes, with the greatest decay predicted in small‐ and intermediate‐sized streams. Geological sources, including volcanic rocks and shales, were the principal control on concentrations and loads in many regions. Some localized formations such as the Monterey shale of southern California are important sources of phosphorus and may contribute to elevated stream concentrations. Many of the larger point source facilities were located in downstream areas, near the ocean, and do not affect inland streams except for a few locations. Large areas of cultivated land result in phosphorus load increases, but do not necessarily increase the loads above those of geological background in some cases because of local hydrology, which limits the potential of phosphorus transport from land to streams.     

Animal Consciousness and Ethics in Asia and the Pacific

The interactions between humans, animals and the environment have shaped human values and ethics, not only the genes that we are made of. The animal rights movement challenges human beings to reconsider interactions between humans and other animals, and maybe connected to the environmental movement that begs us to recognize the fact that there are symbiotic relationships between humans and all other organisms. The first part of this paper looks at types of bioethics, the implications of autonomy and the value of being alive. Then the level of consciousness of these relationships are explored in survey results from Asia and the Pacific, especially in the 1993 International Bioethics Survey conducted in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, The Philippines, Russia, Singapore and Thailand. Very few mentioned animal consciousness in the survey, but there were more biocentric comments in Australia and Japan; and more comments with the idea of harmony including humans in Thailand. Comparisons between questions and surveys will also be made, in an attempt to describe what people imagine animal consciousness to be, and whether this relates to human ethics of the relationships. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.