Influence of different digital terrain models (DTMs)on alpine permafrost modeling

The thawing of alpine permafrost due to changes in atmospheric conditions can have a severe impact, e.g., on the stability of rock walls. The energy balance model, PERMEBAL, was developed in order to simulate the changes and distribution of ground surface temperature (GST) in complex high-mountain topography. In such environments, the occurrence of permafrost depends greatly on the topography, and thus, the digital terrain model (DTM) is an important input of PERMEBAL. This study investigates the influence of the DTM on the modeling of the GST. For this purpose, PERMEBAL was run with six different DTMs. Five of the six DTMs are based on the same base data, but were generated using different interpolators. To ensure that only the topographic effect on the GST is calculated, the snow module was turned off and uniform conditions were assumed for the whole test area. The analyses showed that the majority of the deviations between the different model outputs related to a reference DTM had only small differences of up to 1 K, and only a few pixels deviated more than 1 K. However, we also observed that the use of different interpolators for the generation of a DTM can result in large deviations of the model output. These deviations were mainly found at topographically complex locations such as ridges and foot of slopes.     

五台山春季气溶胶传输特征

基于气溶胶监测仪Grimm180观测的2018年3~5月山西省五台山气溶胶数浓度和质量浓度数据,以及对应时段的美国国家环境预报中心（NCEP）提供的全球资料同化系统（GDAS）数据,利用聚类分析和潜在源贡献因子分析（PSCF）等方法,研究五台山春季气溶胶数浓度和质量浓度的统计特征,分析影响五台山气溶胶浓度变化的主要传输路径,以及潜在的贡献源区.结果表明,影响春季五台山气溶胶变化的主要传输路径有6类,其中,第1,4,2,5类传输路径均为西北和偏西方向,占总轨迹62.5%,而第3,6类传输路径则为偏南和偏东方向,占总轨迹的24.7%.对不同传输路径进行统计分析,发现第1,4类传输路径对粗粒径PN₁₀、PN_>10数浓度和PM₁₀质量浓度影响最大,其潜在贡献源区主要位于内蒙古西部和陕北黄土高原一带,PSCF值在局部地区达到了0.6以上.第6,3类路径对细粒径的数浓度PN_0.5、PN_1.0和PM_1.0质量浓度影响较大,其潜在贡献源区主要位于山西中南部、陕西中部、京津冀地区中部以及河南北部区域,部分地区PSCF值达到0.8以上.细粒径的PSCF高值区主要位于五台山的偏东和偏南方向,传输高度在2km以下.随着粒径的增加,PSCF高值区变为西北和东南方向,传输高度到达了自由对流层2~4km,且通过西北地区自由对流层的输送占比逐渐增大,PSCF高值区距离五台山站也越来越远.     

琅琊山风景区旅游商品开发

琅琊山作为著名旅游地，其旅游商品目前存在着产品单调、缺乏特色、品质不高等问题。通过对现有问题的分析，提出了琅琊山风景区旅游商品开发的原则，利用景区独特的自然资源与人文景观优势，从4个方面给出了旅游商品开发的对策，以提升景区的形象与品位，推动旅游业更好地发展。     

Integrating limnological characteristics of high mountain lakes into the landscape of a natural area

A general conceptual watershed-lake model of the complex interactions among climatic conditions, watershed location and characteristics, lake morphology, and fish predation was used to evaluate limnological characteristics of high mountain lakes. Our main hypothesis was that decreasing elevation in mountainous terrain corresponds to an increase in diversity of watershed size and lake area, depth, temperature, nutrient concentrations, and productivity. A second hypothesis was that watershed location and aspect relative to climatic gradients within mountainous terrain influences the limnological characteristics of the lakes. We evaluated these hypotheses by examining watershed location, aspect and size; lake morphology; water quality; and phytoplankton and zooplankton community characteristics among high mountain forest and subalpine lakes in Mount Rainier National Park. Although many of the comparisons between all forest and subalpine lakes were statistically insignificant, the results revealed trends that were consistent with our hypotheses. The forest lake group included more lakes with larger watersheds, larger surface areas, greater depths, higher concentrations of nutrients, and higher algal biovolumes than did the group of subalpine lakes. Deep lakes, which were mostly of the forest lake type, exhibited thermal stratification and relatively high values of some of the water-quality variables near the lake bottoms. However, the highest near-surface water temperatures and phytoplankton densities and the taxonomic structures of the phytoplankton and zooplankton assemblages were more closely related to geographical location, which corresponded to a west-east climate gradient in the park, than to lake type. Some crustacean and rotifer taxa, however, were limited in distribution by lake type. Fish predation did not appear to play an important role in the structure of the crustacean zooplankton communities at the genus level with the exception of Mowich Lake, where crustacean taxa were absent from the zooplankton community. This was the only lake inhabited by a true zooplanktivourous species of fish.     

Passive air sampling of organochlorine pesticides in a northeastern state of India, Manipur

Thirty-six polyurethane foam disk passive air samplers (PUF-PAS) were deployed over a year during January to December, 2009 at three locations, i.e., Imphal (urban site), Thoubal (rural site) and Waithou (alpine site) of Manipur, to assess the seasonal local atmospheric emission of selected organochlorine pesticides (OCPs). The average concentration of HCHs monitored at mountain site during hot season (Mar, Apr, and May) and rainy seasons (Jun, Jul, Aug, and Sep) were 403 and 349 pg/m3, respectively. DDTs had a high concentration with 384 pg/m3 at rural site and 379 pg/m3 at urban site during hot seasons. Endosulfans and chlordane were found high in concentration during hot seasons (260 pg/m3) and low during retreating monsoon seasons (44 pg/m3) at rural site. Most of the OCPs concentrations were high during cultivation period. The OCP concentrations of rainy season were highly correlated (p < 0.01) with OCPs of hot seasons. Further, positive correlation (p < 0.05) was also obtained between cold seasons and retreating monsoon. Principal component analysis showed a significant correlation among the four seasons and distribution pattern of OCPs in air. Back trajectory analysis by using HYPSLIT model showed a long range air transport of OCPs to the present study area. Present OCP levels at Manipur is an outcome of both local emission and also movement of air mass by long range atmospheric transport.     

山地旅游研究进展与启示

为探讨山地旅游研究中存在的问题及发展方向,在参阅相关研究文献的基础上,分析了国内外山地旅游研究进展。从研究内容、研究结果等方面论述了国外山地旅游研究进展,按时间进展将国内山地旅游研究划分为三个阶段:起步阶段、发展阶段和深化阶段,每一阶段的研究方法、研究内容以及表现特征都有较大差异。从研究内容和研究方法两个方面分析了国内外山地旅游研究差异。从山地旅游发展及研究现状来看,今后山地旅游研究应创新和改进研究方法以及技术路线,加强旅游发展条件下的山地人地关系地域系统研究,研究新的要素在山地旅游发展中的作用过程和作用机制,加强不同时空尺度条件下的山地旅游发展特征、演化过程和演化规律研究。     

Climate Change, Elevational Range Shifts, and Bird Extinctions

Abstract:  Limitations imposed on species ranges by the climatic, ecological, and physiological effects of elevation are important determinants of extinction risk. We modeled the effects of elevational limits on the extinction risk of landbirds, 87% of all bird species. Elevational limitation of range size explained 97% of the variation in the probability of being in a World Conservation Union category of extinction risk. Our model that combined elevational ranges, four Millennium Assessment habitat-loss scenarios, and an intermediate estimate of surface warming of 2.8° C, projected a best guess of 400–550 landbird extinctions, and that approximately 2150 additional species would be at risk of extinction by 2100. For Western Hemisphere landbirds, intermediate extinction estimates based on climate-induced changes in actual distributions ranged from 1.3% (1.1° C warming) to 30.0% (6.4° C warming) of these species. Worldwide, every degree of warming projected a nonlinear increase in bird extinctions of about 100–500 species. Only 21% of the species predicted to become extinct in our scenarios are currently considered threatened with extinction. Different habitat-loss and surface-warming scenarios predicted substantially different futures for landbird species. To improve the precision of climate-induced extinction estimates, there is an urgent need for high-resolution measurements of shifts in the elevational ranges of species. Given the accelerating influence of climate change on species distributions and conservation, using elevational limits in a tested, standardized, and robust manner can improve conservation assessments of terrestrial species and will help identify species that are most vulnerable to global climate change. Our climate-induced extinction estimates are broadly similar to those of bird species at risk from other factors, but these estimates largely involve different sets of species.     

秦巴山区水稻油菜配方施肥效益分析

为了解陕南秦巴山区主要农作物水稻、油菜测土配方施肥实施效果,更好地指导农户科学合理施肥。依据2009~2013年连续5 a测土配方施肥试验中主要农作物水稻、油菜3种不同施肥处理(农民习惯施肥、推荐施肥和不施肥处理)的326个试验数据,同时结合连续2 a调查数据,对陕南秦巴山区主要农作物施肥经济效益评价。结果显示,与农民习惯施肥相比,水稻施肥量为:氮(N)159±32 kg/hm~2,磷(P2O5)79±20 kg/hm~2,钾(K2O)86±26 kg/hm~2;油菜:氮(N)154±25 kg/hm~2,磷(P2O5)77±13 kg/hm~2,钾(K2O)65±21 kg/hm~2条件下作物分别增产703、341 kg/hm~2,增产率分别为8.3%和14.9%,纯收益增加0.12万元/hm~2和0.10万元/hm~2。肥料贡献率分别提高了5.2、7.1个百分点;农学效率每kg分别提高了0.5、0.6 kg。农户习惯施肥中作物产量、纯收益、肥料贡献率并未随肥料投入量的增大而增产增收。     

应用人工阶梯 深潭系统治理泥石流沟的尝试

泥石流的主要破坏性在于其能量巨大,输送大量物质造成生命财产损失,消耗泥石流的起动及运动能量能防止泥石流发生或使泥石流的破坏性大大降低,为泥石流治理提供了新的思路。通过在甘肃西汉水流域的泥石流支沟拦山沟进行人工阶梯 深潭系统试验,2009~2010年汛期观测发现阶梯 深潭系统能增强沟道阻力,抬高侵蚀基准面,从而控制侵蚀下切,且多级的阶梯 深潭系统通过跌水和水跃能有效消散水流能量,在一定程度上抑制了泥石流的起动和加速,使得泥石流在阶梯上游停留堆积,淤满的阶梯在河床纵剖面仍能保持阶梯形态,起到增强阻力消能的作用,减小了拦山沟泥石流对下游的破坏。消能结构对大坡度山区河流起重要作用,不论是人工消能结构还是自然消能结构,都能起到增阻消能的作用,对山区河流治理起到积极的作用     

On the origin of elevated levels of persistent chemicals in the environment

In general, contamination levels tend to be highest close to sources of a chemical and decline with increasing distance as a result of dilution, dispersion and degradation. However, contrary to this, circumstances have been described when contamination levels are higher further away from sources than at the sources themselves. Examples are elevated levels of persistent, hydrophobic, organic chemicals in the Arctic, in mountain regions and in forest soils. In order to address the questions of why and when such an inversion of environmental levels is occurring, this paper seeks to identify, name and categorise principles of general validity leading to such behaviour. By compiling and analysing various causes of elevated contamination levels in the environment, three main categories became apparent, 1. equilibrium partitioning effects, 2. effects resulting from changes in phase composition, volume or temperature, and 3. dynamic or kinetic effects. These principles are illustrated with several examples. The case can be made that understanding, quantifying and predicting these causes could provide a general conceptual framework for studying the fate of chemicals in the environment.