In the last half century,a significant warming trend occurred in summer over eastern China in the East Asian monsoon region.However,there were no consistent trends with respect to the intensity of the East Asian summe...In the last half century,a significant warming trend occurred in summer over eastern China in the East Asian monsoon region.However,there were no consistent trends with respect to the intensity of the East Asian summer monsoon(EASM) or the amount of summer rainfall averaged over eastern China.Both of the EASM and summer rainfall exhibited clear decadal variations.Obvious decadal shifts of EASM occurred around the mid- and late 1970 s,the late 1980 s and the early 1990 s,and the late 1990 s and early 2000 s,respectively.Summer rainfall over eastern China exhibited a change in spatial distribution in the decadal timescale,in response to the decadal shifts of EASM.From the mid- and late 1970 s to the late 1980 s and the early 1990 s,there was a meridional tri-polar rainfall distribution anomaly with more rainfall over the Yangtze River valley and less rainfall in North and South China; but in the period from the early 1990 s to the late 1990 s and the early 2000 s the tri-polar distribution changed to a dipolar one,with more rainfall appearing over southern China south to the Yangtze River valley and less rainfall in North China.However,from the early 2000 s to the late 2000 s,the Yangtze River valley received less rainfall.The decadal changes in EASM and summer rainfall over eastern China in the last half century are closely related to natural internal forcing factors such as Eurasian snow cover,Arctic sea ice,sea surface temperatures in tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean,oceaneatmospheric coupled systems of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation(PDO) and AsianePacific Oscillation(APO),and uneven thermal forcing over the Asian continent.Up to now,the roles of anthropogenic factors,such as greenhouse gases,aerosols,and land usage/cover changes,on existing decadal variations of EASM and summer rainfall in this region remain uncertain.展开更多
The authors used an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) of European Centre Hamburg Model (ECHAM5.4) and investigated the possible impacts of eastern Pacific (EP) and central Pacific (CP) El Ni(n)o o...The authors used an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) of European Centre Hamburg Model (ECHAM5.4) and investigated the possible impacts of eastern Pacific (EP) and central Pacific (CP) El Ni(n)o on the winter precipitation anomalies in South China.A composite analysis suggested much more rainfall during the mature phase of EP El Ni(n)o than in the case of CP El Ni(n)o,and their corresponding observed wet centers to be located in the southeast coast and the region to the south of the Yangtze River,respectively.Results obtained on the basis of model-sensitive run imply that the modelsimulated rainfall anomalies agree well with the observation,and the magnitude of simulated rainfall anomalies were found to be reduced when the amplitude of sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) forcing of EP and CP El Ni(n)o was cut down.These results imply that the rainfall anomaly in South China is very sensitive not only to the type of El Ni(n)o but also to its intensity.展开更多
The waveguide invariant,denoted asβ,can be used to describe the slope of the intensity of a broadband acoustic signal.In deep water,the interference patterns of the areas with dominant waterborne modes and only with ...The waveguide invariant,denoted asβ,can be used to describe the slope of the intensity of a broadband acoustic signal.In deep water,the interference patterns of the areas with dominant waterborne modes and only with bottom bounce modes are greatly different.This phenomenon is illustrated by simulation and explained by the distribution ofβ.The theory shows that in the convergence zone,βapproaches infinity,which leads to the larger slope of sound intensity;on the contrary,in the shadow zone,βis close to 1,leading to smaller slopes.展开更多
High-amylose maize starch has great pote ntial for widespread in dustrial use due to its ability to form strong gels and film and in the food processi ng field,thus servi ng as a resista nt starch source.However,there...High-amylose maize starch has great pote ntial for widespread in dustrial use due to its ability to form strong gels and film and in the food processi ng field,thus servi ng as a resista nt starch source.However,there is still a substa ntial shortage of high-amylose maize due to the limitation of natural germplasm resources,although the well-known amylose extender(ae)gene mutants have bee n found to produce high-amylose maize lines since 1948.In this con text,high-amylose maize lines(13 inbreds and 18 hybrids)originating from a natural amylose mutant in our testing field were utilized to study the correlation between amylose content(AC)and phenotypic traits(kernel morphology and endosperm glossiness),grain filling characteristics,gene expression,and amylose inheritanee.Our results showed that AC was negatively correlated with total starch con tent but was not correlated with grain phe no types,such as kernel full ness,kernel morphology and endosperm glossiness.Maize lines with higher amylose had a greater grain filling rate than that of the controI(B73)during the first 20 days after pollination(DAP).Both starch debranching enzyme(DBE)groups and starch branching enzyme lib(SBEIIb)groups showed a greater abundance in the control(B73)than in the high-amylose maize lines.Male parents directly predicted AC of Fv which was moderately positively correlated with the F2 generation.展开更多
A nonlinear optimization method is proposed to inverse the sea-bottom properties.The method is called seed division algorithm(SDA)and can be used to solve global optimization problem.A numerical test is carried out to...A nonlinear optimization method is proposed to inverse the sea-bottom properties.The method is called seed division algorithm(SDA)and can be used to solve global optimization problem.A numerical test is carried out to inverse the sea-bottom properties.The test is based on SDA and beam displacement ray mode theory.展开更多
A coupled-mode method for three-dimensional acoustic propagation and scattering in two-dimensional waveguides is presented.This method synthesizes the three-dimensional field solution by using Fourier transform techni...A coupled-mode method for three-dimensional acoustic propagation and scattering in two-dimensional waveguides is presented.This method synthesizes the three-dimensional field solution by using Fourier transform techniques based on a sequence of two-dimensional problems,each of which is solved by a numerical model recently developed by Luo et al.[Chin.Phys.Lett.29(2012)014302].Numerical results indicate that the present model is remarkably accurate,and thus can serve as benchmark against other numerical models.In addition,this model can be applied to realistic problems,and can also be used to analyze horizontal refraction in some range-dependent waveguides in reality,such as the continental shelf environment,ridge-like bathymetry,and underwater trenches.展开更多
The direct global matrix approach can be applied to modeling of range-dependent sound propagation in order to achieve numerically stable and accurate solutions.By solving the global system directly,this method feature...The direct global matrix approach can be applied to modeling of range-dependent sound propagation in order to achieve numerically stable and accurate solutions.By solving the global system directly,this method features high efficiency as well as accuracy by avoiding error accumulation.It is an important issue to solve linear systems numerically in the direct global matrix approach,especially for the large-scale problems.An efficient and memory-saving algorithm is developed for solving the global system,in which the global coefficient matrix is treated as a block pentadiagonal matrix.As a result,this numerical model has the ability to solve large-scale problems on regular computers.Numerical examples are also presented to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of this method.展开更多
In a realistic application of matched field processing for source localization,the ability to localize an acoustic source is strongly affected by the uncertainty of the environment.However,accurate environment measure...In a realistic application of matched field processing for source localization,the ability to localize an acoustic source is strongly affected by the uncertainty of the environment.However,accurate environment measurement is a difficult task in large regions of the ocean.We employ a Bayesian approach,referred to here as focalization,to overcome the mismatch by including the environment in the parameter search space.Focalization maximizes the posterior probability density over the unknown source and environmental parameters.The broadband signals recorded by a vertical line array in a Yellow Sea experiment are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of focalization.展开更多
The received shock waves produced by explosive charges are often polluted by bubble pulses in underwater acoustic experiments.A method based on warping operators is proposed to cancel the bubble pulses in the time-fre...The received shock waves produced by explosive charges are often polluted by bubble pulses in underwater acoustic experiments.A method based on warping operators is proposed to cancel the bubble pulses in the time-frequency domain.This is applied to the explosive data collected during the Yellow Sea experiment in November 2000.The original received signal is first transformed into a warped signal by warping operators.Then,the warped signal is analyzed in the time-frequency domain.Due to the different features between the shock waves and the bubble pulses in the time-frequency domain for the warped signal,the bubble pulses can be easily filtered out.Furthermore,the shock waves in the original time domain can be retrieved by the inverse warping transformation.The autocorrelation functions and the time-frequency representation show that the bubble pulses can be canceled effectively.展开更多
Sound propagation in a wedge with perfectly reflecting boundaries is one of the few range-dependent problems with an analytical solution.Since sound propagation towards the wedge apex will be completely backscattered ...Sound propagation in a wedge with perfectly reflecting boundaries is one of the few range-dependent problems with an analytical solution.Since sound propagation towards the wedge apex will be completely backscattered due to the perfectly reflecting boundaries,this test problem is an ideal benchmark for a full two-way solution to the wave equation.An analytical solution for sound propagation in a wedge with a pressure-release sea surface and a pressure-release bottom was presented by Buckingham et al.[J.Acoust.Soc.Am.87(1990)1511].The ideal wedge problem with a rigid bottom is also of great importance in underwater acoustics.We present an analytical solution to the problem with a wedge bounded above by a pressure-release sea surface and below by a rigid bottom,which may be used to provide informative means of investigating the sound field in depth-varying channels,and to establish the accuracy of numerical propagation models for which it is difficult to treat problems with a pressure-release bottom.A comparison of the analytical solution and the numerical solution recently proposed by Luo et al.[Chin.Phys.Lett.29(2012)014302]is also presented,indicating that this numerical propagation model provides high accuracy.展开更多
An accurate and numerically stable method based on the coupled-mode theory is presented.By applying the direct global matrix approach to obtain the modal expansion coefficients,this method is numerically stable.In add...An accurate and numerically stable method based on the coupled-mode theory is presented.By applying the direct global matrix approach to obtain the modal expansion coefficients,this method is numerically stable.In addition,appropriately normalized range solutions are introduced,which resolves the overflow problem entirely.Furthermore,we put forward source conditions appropriate for the line-source problem in plane geometry.As a result,this method is capable of dealing with the scenario where a line source is located inside the region of a deformation.Closed-form expressions for coupling matrices are provided for ideal waveguides.Numerical results indicate that the present method is accurate and numerically stable.Consequently,this model can serve as a benchmark in range-dependent propagation modeling.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41221064)
文摘In the last half century,a significant warming trend occurred in summer over eastern China in the East Asian monsoon region.However,there were no consistent trends with respect to the intensity of the East Asian summer monsoon(EASM) or the amount of summer rainfall averaged over eastern China.Both of the EASM and summer rainfall exhibited clear decadal variations.Obvious decadal shifts of EASM occurred around the mid- and late 1970 s,the late 1980 s and the early 1990 s,and the late 1990 s and early 2000 s,respectively.Summer rainfall over eastern China exhibited a change in spatial distribution in the decadal timescale,in response to the decadal shifts of EASM.From the mid- and late 1970 s to the late 1980 s and the early 1990 s,there was a meridional tri-polar rainfall distribution anomaly with more rainfall over the Yangtze River valley and less rainfall in North and South China; but in the period from the early 1990 s to the late 1990 s and the early 2000 s the tri-polar distribution changed to a dipolar one,with more rainfall appearing over southern China south to the Yangtze River valley and less rainfall in North China.However,from the early 2000 s to the late 2000 s,the Yangtze River valley received less rainfall.The decadal changes in EASM and summer rainfall over eastern China in the last half century are closely related to natural internal forcing factors such as Eurasian snow cover,Arctic sea ice,sea surface temperatures in tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean,oceaneatmospheric coupled systems of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation(PDO) and AsianePacific Oscillation(APO),and uneven thermal forcing over the Asian continent.Up to now,the roles of anthropogenic factors,such as greenhouse gases,aerosols,and land usage/cover changes,on existing decadal variations of EASM and summer rainfall in this region remain uncertain.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2009CB421404)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41175071,41221064)the Basic Research Fund of the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences(2012Z001,2013Z002,2010Z001,and 2010Z003)
文摘The authors used an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) of European Centre Hamburg Model (ECHAM5.4) and investigated the possible impacts of eastern Pacific (EP) and central Pacific (CP) El Ni(n)o on the winter precipitation anomalies in South China.A composite analysis suggested much more rainfall during the mature phase of EP El Ni(n)o than in the case of CP El Ni(n)o,and their corresponding observed wet centers to be located in the southeast coast and the region to the south of the Yangtze River,respectively.Results obtained on the basis of model-sensitive run imply that the modelsimulated rainfall anomalies agree well with the observation,and the magnitude of simulated rainfall anomalies were found to be reduced when the amplitude of sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) forcing of EP and CP El Ni(n)o was cut down.These results imply that the rainfall anomaly in South China is very sensitive not only to the type of El Ni(n)o but also to its intensity.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 10974218 and 10734100and the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(KZCX1-YW-12-2).
文摘The waveguide invariant,denoted asβ,can be used to describe the slope of the intensity of a broadband acoustic signal.In deep water,the interference patterns of the areas with dominant waterborne modes and only with bottom bounce modes are greatly different.This phenomenon is illustrated by simulation and explained by the distribution ofβ.The theory shows that in the convergence zone,βapproaches infinity,which leads to the larger slope of sound intensity;on the contrary,in the shadow zone,βis close to 1,leading to smaller slopes.
基金This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFD0300304),the Sci-Tech Project of Yangling City,China(2014NY-01),the Tang Foundation,China(A212021205),and the Shaanxi Science&Technology Co-ordination&Innovation Project,China(2015KTZDNY01-01-01).
文摘High-amylose maize starch has great pote ntial for widespread in dustrial use due to its ability to form strong gels and film and in the food processi ng field,thus servi ng as a resista nt starch source.However,there is still a substa ntial shortage of high-amylose maize due to the limitation of natural germplasm resources,although the well-known amylose extender(ae)gene mutants have bee n found to produce high-amylose maize lines since 1948.In this con text,high-amylose maize lines(13 inbreds and 18 hybrids)originating from a natural amylose mutant in our testing field were utilized to study the correlation between amylose content(AC)and phenotypic traits(kernel morphology and endosperm glossiness),grain filling characteristics,gene expression,and amylose inheritanee.Our results showed that AC was negatively correlated with total starch con tent but was not correlated with grain phe no types,such as kernel full ness,kernel morphology and endosperm glossiness.Maize lines with higher amylose had a greater grain filling rate than that of the controI(B73)during the first 20 days after pollination(DAP).Both starch debranching enzyme(DBE)groups and starch branching enzyme lib(SBEIIb)groups showed a greater abundance in the control(B73)than in the high-amylose maize lines.Male parents directly predicted AC of Fv which was moderately positively correlated with the F2 generation.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.19234040.
文摘A nonlinear optimization method is proposed to inverse the sea-bottom properties.The method is called seed division algorithm(SDA)and can be used to solve global optimization problem.A numerical test is carried out to inverse the sea-bottom properties.The test is based on SDA and beam displacement ray mode theory.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11125420 and 11174312the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
文摘A coupled-mode method for three-dimensional acoustic propagation and scattering in two-dimensional waveguides is presented.This method synthesizes the three-dimensional field solution by using Fourier transform techniques based on a sequence of two-dimensional problems,each of which is solved by a numerical model recently developed by Luo et al.[Chin.Phys.Lett.29(2012)014302].Numerical results indicate that the present model is remarkably accurate,and thus can serve as benchmark against other numerical models.In addition,this model can be applied to realistic problems,and can also be used to analyze horizontal refraction in some range-dependent waveguides in reality,such as the continental shelf environment,ridge-like bathymetry,and underwater trenches.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11125420 and 11104312the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
文摘The direct global matrix approach can be applied to modeling of range-dependent sound propagation in order to achieve numerically stable and accurate solutions.By solving the global system directly,this method features high efficiency as well as accuracy by avoiding error accumulation.It is an important issue to solve linear systems numerically in the direct global matrix approach,especially for the large-scale problems.An efficient and memory-saving algorithm is developed for solving the global system,in which the global coefficient matrix is treated as a block pentadiagonal matrix.As a result,this numerical model has the ability to solve large-scale problems on regular computers.Numerical examples are also presented to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of this method.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 10974218 and 10734100the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(KZCX1-YW-12-2)。
文摘In a realistic application of matched field processing for source localization,the ability to localize an acoustic source is strongly affected by the uncertainty of the environment.However,accurate environment measurement is a difficult task in large regions of the ocean.We employ a Bayesian approach,referred to here as focalization,to overcome the mismatch by including the environment in the parameter search space.Focalization maximizes the posterior probability density over the unknown source and environmental parameters.The broadband signals recorded by a vertical line array in a Yellow Sea experiment are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of focalization.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11174312 and 11074269.
文摘The received shock waves produced by explosive charges are often polluted by bubble pulses in underwater acoustic experiments.A method based on warping operators is proposed to cancel the bubble pulses in the time-frequency domain.This is applied to the explosive data collected during the Yellow Sea experiment in November 2000.The original received signal is first transformed into a warped signal by warping operators.Then,the warped signal is analyzed in the time-frequency domain.Due to the different features between the shock waves and the bubble pulses in the time-frequency domain for the warped signal,the bubble pulses can be easily filtered out.Furthermore,the shock waves in the original time domain can be retrieved by the inverse warping transformation.The autocorrelation functions and the time-frequency representation show that the bubble pulses can be canceled effectively.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11125420,10734100the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
文摘Sound propagation in a wedge with perfectly reflecting boundaries is one of the few range-dependent problems with an analytical solution.Since sound propagation towards the wedge apex will be completely backscattered due to the perfectly reflecting boundaries,this test problem is an ideal benchmark for a full two-way solution to the wave equation.An analytical solution for sound propagation in a wedge with a pressure-release sea surface and a pressure-release bottom was presented by Buckingham et al.[J.Acoust.Soc.Am.87(1990)1511].The ideal wedge problem with a rigid bottom is also of great importance in underwater acoustics.We present an analytical solution to the problem with a wedge bounded above by a pressure-release sea surface and below by a rigid bottom,which may be used to provide informative means of investigating the sound field in depth-varying channels,and to establish the accuracy of numerical propagation models for which it is difficult to treat problems with a pressure-release bottom.A comparison of the analytical solution and the numerical solution recently proposed by Luo et al.[Chin.Phys.Lett.29(2012)014302]is also presented,indicating that this numerical propagation model provides high accuracy.
基金Supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
文摘An accurate and numerically stable method based on the coupled-mode theory is presented.By applying the direct global matrix approach to obtain the modal expansion coefficients,this method is numerically stable.In addition,appropriately normalized range solutions are introduced,which resolves the overflow problem entirely.Furthermore,we put forward source conditions appropriate for the line-source problem in plane geometry.As a result,this method is capable of dealing with the scenario where a line source is located inside the region of a deformation.Closed-form expressions for coupling matrices are provided for ideal waveguides.Numerical results indicate that the present method is accurate and numerically stable.Consequently,this model can serve as a benchmark in range-dependent propagation modeling.