Spatial and Temporal Features of Ambient Air-Quality over Taiwan

This study analyzed a time series data of daily subPSI values to determine the temporal and spatial characteristics of ambient air-quality in Taiwan by employing the Varimax rotational method. The first and second rotational principal components nearly accounted for 54 and 19% for the variation of subPSI values over Taiwan. The factor loadings between rotational principal components and subPSI values of air pollutants identified the first and second components as combustion and photochemical sources, respectively. Time series analysis of rotational component scores associated with regions showed the relationships between rotational components and subPSI values and also revealed the optimum simulation period for combustion and photochemical sources.     

COS,CS2 and SO2 in aluminium smelter exhaust

Measurements of carbonyl sulfide (COS) and carbondisulfide (CS₂) were carried out on samples drawn from a smoke stack of an aluminium smelter. Volume mixing ratios of 6 ppm COS and 0.1 ppm CS₂ were measured for gases from the electrolysis unit that had previously passed an Al₂O₃ fluid bed reactor and electrostatic precipitators. Specific emissions of 1.6 kg COS and 0.03 kg CS₂ per ton of primary aluminium were found. Extrapolating from this particular smelter’s conditions to a world mix specific COS emissions of about 4 kg/t(Al) are calculated resulting in emissions of annually 0.08 Tg COS into the atmosphere due to electrolytic aluminium production in 1995. Besides the photochemical conversion of anthropogenic CS₂ aluminium production is established to be the second major industrial source of COS probably exceeding automotive tire wear’s and coal combustion’s contributions.     

交通噪声污染经济损失估算方法比较研究

目前闷内外对于噪声污染经济损失的研究还相当有限，且采用的方法也存在很大的差别。运用环境经济学的观点和方法，提出了估算噪声污染损失的3种常用方法；损害费用法、意愿型调查评估法和防护费用法，并对其进行了比较研究。     

岷江水系河水与沉积物中稀土,稀有元素背景值及其特征初探

报告了岷江水系河水及沉积物中８种稀土元素（Ｌａ，Ｃｅ，Ｎｄ，Ｓｍ，Ｅｕ，Ｔｂ，Ｙｂ，Ｌｕ）及８种稀有元素（Ｒｂ，Ｃｓ，Ｓｒ，Ｂａ，Ｓｂ，Ｔｈ，Ｓｃ，Ｕ）的背景值及其特征，并对元素的排列顺序及元素间的相关关系进行了初步探索，还列出了１６种元素在原水同积物中的相关矩阵及相互间的相关回归方程。     

高原深水湖泊沉积物重金属背景值研究及潜在生态风险评估

为了解青藏高原湖区典型深水湖泊——羊卓雍错沉积物重金属污染水平及当前生态风险,以表层沉积物为基础,采用参考元素法计算研究区的重金属背景值,并对重金属生态风险状况进行了初步评估.结果表明:①羊卓雍错沉积物中重金属Cr、Ni、Cu、Zn、As、Cd、Hg和Pb的背景值分别为（27.49±11.39）（22.53±4.74）（15.93±6.44）（28.22±9.68）（11.96±2.34）（0.22±0.11）（0.04±0.03）（11.59±5.29）mg/kg.②羊卓雍错表层沉积物重金属生态风险指数为66.96~227.79,平均值为119.45,各采样点重金属潜在生态风险均处于低风险或中等风险,流域整体处于低风险.③羊卓雍错表层沉积物中8种重金属的潜在生态风险顺序为Hg > Cd > As > Pb > Ni > Cu > Cr > Zn,各重金属生态风险指数范围为0.97~123.25,平均值在1.01~56.67之间,除Hg处于中等风险外,其余7种重金属均处于低风险状态.研究显示,参考元素法可便捷、准确地计算受人类活动影响较小湖泊的沉积物重金属背景值,当前羊卓雍错沉积物中重金属质量分数主要受背景值影响,而人类活动对重金属污染亦有贡献,需适当加强关注.      

PM_(2.5)和PM_(2.5~10)资料同化及在南京青奥会期间的应用试验

建立了面向PM_(2.5)和PM10观测资料的三维变分同化系统,并在南京地区青奥会期间进行了同化和预报试验.同化系统的控制变量为PM_(2.5)和PM_(2.5~10)(PM10中扣除PM_(2.5)后剩余部分),利用南京地区2014年8月的WRF-Chem模拟结果,估计了PM_(2.5)和PM_(2.5~10)的背景误差协方差,发现在水平和垂直方向上PM_(2.5)的相关系数随距离的衰减均小于PM_(2.5~10),这可能与PM_(2.5)粒径小、生命史长,在大气中传播地更远有关.利用南京及周边区域的134个监测站PM_(2.5)和PM_(10)逐时观测资料,对青奥会期间(2014年8月16~28日)进行滚动同化和预报试验,并利用模式最内层观测资料进行检验分析,结果表明同化对初始场有显著改进,PM_(2.5)和PM10的相关系数均提高53%以上,均方根误差降低55%以上,平均偏差则降低了90%左右;同化试验对其后的预报场也有明显改进,正效应可以持续到20h以后,模式对PM10的预报效果好于PM_(2.5).     

Understanding the effects of different social data on selecting priority conservation areas

Conservation success is contingent on assessing social and environmental factors so that cost‐effective implementation of strategies and actions can be placed in a broad social–ecological context. Until now, the focus has been on how to include spatially explicit social data in conservation planning, whereas the value of different kinds of social data has received limited attention. In a regional systematic conservation planning case study in Australia, we examined the spatial concurrence of a range of spatially explicit social values and land‐use preferences collected using a public participation geographic information system and biological data. We used Zonation to integrate the social data with the biological data in a series of spatial‐prioritization scenarios to determine the effect of the different types of social data on spatial prioritization compared with biological data alone. The type of social data (i.e., conservation opportunities or constraints) significantly affected spatial prioritization outcomes. The integration of social values and land‐use preferences under different scenarios was highly variable and generated spatial prioritizations 1.2–51% different from those based on biological data alone. The inclusion of conservation‐compatible values and preferences added relatively few new areas to conservation priorities, whereas including noncompatible economic values and development preferences as costs significantly changed conservation priority areas (48.2% and 47.4%, respectively). Based on our results, a multifaceted conservation prioritization approach that combines spatially explicit social data with biological data can help conservation planners identify the type of social data to collect for more effective and feasible conservation actions.     

Value Plurality among Conservation Professionals

Abstract: Debate on the values that underpin conservation science is rarely based on empirical analysis of the values conservation professionals actually hold. We used Q methodology to investigate the values held by international conservation professionals who attended the annual Student Conference in Conservation Science at the University of Cambridge (U.K.) in 2008 and 2009. The methodology offers a quantitative means of examining human subjectivity. It differs from standard opinion surveys in that individual respondents record the way they feel about statements relative to other statements, which forces them to focus their attention on the issues they believe are most important. The analysis extracts the diverse viewpoints of the respondents, and factor analysis is used to reduce the viewpoints to a smaller set of factors that reflect shared ways of thinking. The junior conservation professionals attending the conference did not share a unifying set of core values; rather, they held a complex series of ideas and a plurality of opinions about conservation and how it should be pursued. This diversity of values empirically challenges recent proposals for conservation professionals to unite behind a single philosophy. Attempts to forge an artificial consensus may be counterproductive to the overall goals conservation professionals are pursuing.     

春季沙尘过程对华东高山背景区域颗粒物中水溶性无机离子的影响

于2014年3—5月在国家大气背景监测福建武夷山站采集了PM2.5及PM2.5~10样品,利用离子色谱对其中的水溶性组分进行分析,并同步收集气象因子及污染物质量浓度数据,结合后向气流轨迹,分离出受沙尘影响的样品,探讨了春季沙尘过程华东高山背景区域颗粒物中水溶性组分的特征.结果表明,春季武夷山背景点沙尘影响期间颗粒物质量浓度及各水溶性离子浓度均比非沙尘期高,在粗粒子中表现更为明显;沙尘期间NO-3在粗粒子中明显富集,NO-3浓度显著升高;受沙尘影响,粗粒子中阳离子与阴离子的当量浓度比及NO2的二次转化率均明显升高.     

中小城市空气环境指标的多角度分析研究——以楚雄市为例

文章根据楚雄市空气污染数据,采用统计的方法从不同的角度探求中小城市空气污染指标的变化规律,并求出三种污染物的同时置信区间及它们之间的关联性。结果表明:楚雄市的空气污染主要由SO2造成,室外空气质量能达到一类地区的水平,三种污染物之间两两相关性较弱,但整体相关性较强,同时根据结论提出了相应的建议。