Modeling of Hillslope Runoff and Soil Erosion at Rainfall Events Using Cellular Automata Approach

A novel quantitative cellular automata (CA) model that simulates and predicts hillslope runoff and soil erosion caused by rainfall events was developed by integrating the local interaction rules and the hillslope surface hydraulic processes. In this CA model, the hillslope surface was subdivided into a series of discrete spatial cells with the same geometric features. At each time step, water and sediment were transported between two adjacent spatial cells. The flow direction was determined by a combination of water surface slope and stochastic assignment. The amounts of interchanged water and sediment were computed using the Chezy-Manning formula and the empirical sediment transport equation. The water and sediment discharged from the open boundary cells were considered as the runoff and the sediment yields over the entire hillslope surface. Two hillslope soil erosion experiments under simulated rainfall events were carried out. Cumulative runoff and sediment yields were measured, respectively. Then, the CA model was applied to simulate the water and soil erosion for these two experiments. Analysis of simulation results indicated that the size of the spatial cell, hydraulic parameters, and the setting of time step and iteration times had a large impact on the model accuracy. The comparison of the simulated and measured data suggested that the CA model was an applicable alternate for simulating the hillslope water flow and soil erosion.

An improved, SSH-based method to automatically identify mesoscale eddies in the ocean

Mesoscale eddies are an important component of oceanic features.How to automatically identify these mesoscale eddies from available data has become an important research topic.Through careful examination of existing methods,we propose an improved,SSH-based automatic identification method.Using the inclusion relation of enclosed SSH contours,the mesoscale eddy boundary and core(s) can be automatically identified.The time evolution of eddies can be examined by a threshold search algorithm and a tracking algorithm based on similarity.Sea-surface height(SSH) data from Naval Research Laboratory Layered Ocean Model(NLOM) and sea-level anomaly(SLA) data from altimeter are used in the many experiments,in which different automatic identification methods are compared.Our results indicate that the improved method is able to extract the mesoscale eddy boundary more precisely,retaining the multiple-core structure.In combination with the tracking algorithm,this method can capture complete mesoscale eddy processes.It can thus provide reliable information for further study of reconstructing eddy dynamics,merging,splitting,and evolution of a multi-core structure.

Topographic Characteristics for the Geomorphologic Zones in the Northwestern Edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Based on geomorphologic and digital elevation model(DEM) data, the topographic characteristics of the northwestern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are analyzed. Five representative peaks are first determined according to the topographic profile maps for the ridge and piedmont lines, and then the topographic gradient characteristics are analyzed according to the representative topographic profile acquisition method.Based on the geomorphologic database data, the regions between the ridge and the piedmont lines are divided into four geomorphologic zones; and the topographic characteristics are finally analyzed for the different geomorphologic zones regions using the DEM data. The research results show that from the piedmont to the ridge, there exist four geomorphologic zones: arid, fluvial, periglacial and glacial. The arid has the lowest elevation, topographic gradient, relief and slope characteristics. The fluvial has lower elevation and the highest topographic gradient, but with lower relief and slope characteristics. With higher elevation, the periglcial has lower topographic gradient, but the highest relief and slope characteristics. The glacial has the highest elevation with higher topographic gradient, relief and slope characteristics.

三相DC/DC非接触供电电路设计

用于电动汽车的非接触充电桩,其传输功率峰值高,如何提高充电效率和优化电路的结构是研究热点。此处提出非接触供电系统,采用三相六桥臂全桥斩波电路将直流电转换成三相高频交流电,其传输功率的能力强,且输出电流脉动比单相四桥臂斩波电路小,可有效减小滤波电容的体积。该电路的三相斩波占空比可在38%~50%之间调节。在不改变拓扑结构的前提下,该电路可以切换为单相四桥臂斩波电路传输功率。实验结果验证了电路的可行性,当输出功率为1.08kW时效率达到94.6%。

Developing a geographic Case-Based Reasoning approach

Case-Based Reasoning （CBR） is an AI approach and been applied to many areas. However, one area - geography - has not been investigated systematically and thus has been identified as the focus for this study. This paper intends to further extend current CBR to a geographic CBR （Geo-CBR）. First, the concept of Geo-CBR is proposed. Second, a representation model for geographic cases has been established based on the Tesseral model and on a further extension in spatio-temporal dimensions for geographic cases. Third, a reasoning model for Geo-CBR is developed by considering the spatio-temporat characteristics and the uncertain and limited information of geographic cases. Finally, the Geo-CBR model is applied to forecasting the production of ocean fisheries to demonstrate the applicability of the developed Geo-CBR in solving problems in the real world. According to the experimental results, Geo-CBR is an effective and easy-to-implement approach for predicting geographic cases quantitatively.