The Liupan Mountains is located in the southern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China, which forms an important dividing line between landforms and bio-geographic regions. The populated part of the Liupan Mountains r...The Liupan Mountains is located in the southern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China, which forms an important dividing line between landforms and bio-geographic regions. The populated part of the Liupan Mountains region has suffered tremendous ecological damages over time due to population pressure, excessive demand and inappropriate use of agricultural land resources. In this paper, datasets of land use between 1990 and 2000 were obtained from Landsat TM imagery, and then spatial models were used to characterize landscape conditions. Also, the relationship between the population density and land use/cover change (LUCC) was analyzed. Results indicate that cropland, forestland, and urban areas have increased by 44,186ha, 9001ha and 1550ha, respectively while the grassland area has appreciably decreased by 54,025ha in the study period. The decrease in grassland was most notable. Of the grassland lost, 49.4% was converted into cropland. The largest annual land conversion rate in the study area was less than 2%. These changes are attributed to industrial and agricultural development and population growth. To improve the eco-economic conditions in the study region, population control, urbanization and development of an ecological friendly agriculture were suggested.展开更多
The studies on prediction of climate in Xinjiang almost show that the precipitation would increase in the coming 50 years, although there were surely some uncertainties in precipitation predictions. On the basis of th...The studies on prediction of climate in Xinjiang almost show that the precipitation would increase in the coming 50 years, although there were surely some uncertainties in precipitation predictions. On the basis of the structure of glacier system and nature of equilibrium line altitude at steady state (ELA0), a functional model of the glacier system responding to climate changes was established, and itsimultaneously involved the rising of summer mean temperature and increasing of mean precipitation. The results from the functional model under the climatic scenarios with temperature increasing rates of 0.01, 0.03 and 0.05 K/year indicated that the precipitation increasing would play an evident role in glacier system responding to climate change: if temperature become 1℃ higher, the precipitation would be increased by 10 %, which can slow down the glaciers retreating rate in the area by 4 %, accelerate runoff increasing rate by 8 % and depress the ELA0rising gradient by 24 m in northern Xinjiang glacier system where semi-continental glaciers dominate, while it has corresponding values of only 1 %, 5 % and 18m respectively in southern Xinjiang glacier system, where extremely continental glaciers dominate.展开更多
Recent experimental and numerical investigations reveal that the onset of turbulence in plane-Poiseuille flow and planeCouette flow has some similar stages separated with different threshold Reynolds numbers.Based on ...Recent experimental and numerical investigations reveal that the onset of turbulence in plane-Poiseuille flow and planeCouette flow has some similar stages separated with different threshold Reynolds numbers.Based on these observations and the energy equation of a disturbed fluid element,a local Reynolds number Re L is derived to represent the maximum ratio of the energy supplement to the energy dissipation in a cross section.It is shown that along the sequence of transition stages,which include transient localized turbulence,"equilibrium" localized turbulence,spatially intermittent but temporally persistent turbulence and uniform turbulence,the corresponding thresholds of Re L for plane-Couette flow,Hagen-Poiseuille flow and plane-Poiseuille flow are consistent,indicating that the critical(threshold) states during the laminar-turbulent transition are determined by the local properties of the base flow and are independent of global features,such as flow geometries(pipe or channel) and types of driving forces(shear driving or pressure driving).展开更多
基金Under the auspices of the National Key Science and Technology Support Program of China (No. 2006BCA01A07-2)National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40671153)+1 种基金Hunan Land Resource Bureau Program (No. 2007-15)Hunan Educa-tion Bureau Program (No. 08C348)
文摘The Liupan Mountains is located in the southern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China, which forms an important dividing line between landforms and bio-geographic regions. The populated part of the Liupan Mountains region has suffered tremendous ecological damages over time due to population pressure, excessive demand and inappropriate use of agricultural land resources. In this paper, datasets of land use between 1990 and 2000 were obtained from Landsat TM imagery, and then spatial models were used to characterize landscape conditions. Also, the relationship between the population density and land use/cover change (LUCC) was analyzed. Results indicate that cropland, forestland, and urban areas have increased by 44,186ha, 9001ha and 1550ha, respectively while the grassland area has appreciably decreased by 54,025ha in the study period. The decrease in grassland was most notable. Of the grassland lost, 49.4% was converted into cropland. The largest annual land conversion rate in the study area was less than 2%. These changes are attributed to industrial and agricultural development and population growth. To improve the eco-economic conditions in the study region, population control, urbanization and development of an ecological friendly agriculture were suggested.
基金supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40371027).
文摘The studies on prediction of climate in Xinjiang almost show that the precipitation would increase in the coming 50 years, although there were surely some uncertainties in precipitation predictions. On the basis of the structure of glacier system and nature of equilibrium line altitude at steady state (ELA0), a functional model of the glacier system responding to climate changes was established, and itsimultaneously involved the rising of summer mean temperature and increasing of mean precipitation. The results from the functional model under the climatic scenarios with temperature increasing rates of 0.01, 0.03 and 0.05 K/year indicated that the precipitation increasing would play an evident role in glacier system responding to climate change: if temperature become 1℃ higher, the precipitation would be increased by 10 %, which can slow down the glaciers retreating rate in the area by 4 %, accelerate runoff increasing rate by 8 % and depress the ELA0rising gradient by 24 m in northern Xinjiang glacier system where semi-continental glaciers dominate, while it has corresponding values of only 1 %, 5 % and 18m respectively in southern Xinjiang glacier system, where extremely continental glaciers dominate.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos. 10972007 and 10921202) and (Grant No.2009CB724100)
文摘Recent experimental and numerical investigations reveal that the onset of turbulence in plane-Poiseuille flow and planeCouette flow has some similar stages separated with different threshold Reynolds numbers.Based on these observations and the energy equation of a disturbed fluid element,a local Reynolds number Re L is derived to represent the maximum ratio of the energy supplement to the energy dissipation in a cross section.It is shown that along the sequence of transition stages,which include transient localized turbulence,"equilibrium" localized turbulence,spatially intermittent but temporally persistent turbulence and uniform turbulence,the corresponding thresholds of Re L for plane-Couette flow,Hagen-Poiseuille flow and plane-Poiseuille flow are consistent,indicating that the critical(threshold) states during the laminar-turbulent transition are determined by the local properties of the base flow and are independent of global features,such as flow geometries(pipe or channel) and types of driving forces(shear driving or pressure driving).
