NUMERICAL SIMULATION STDUY OF HAIL CLOUDPART Ⅱ.MECHANISM OF HALL FORMATION AND HAIL SUPPRESSION WITH SEEDING

A detailed 3-D hail cloud numerical model and parameterization of mierophysieal processes were described in Part Ⅰ(Hong 1999)of this study.In this part,a hail cloud occurring in Xunyi area.Shaanxi Province on July 8,1997 is simulated by the model to analyze mechanisms of hail formation and hail suppression with seeding.The results show that 97% of hail embryos are frozen drops.The seeding experiments with AgI in terms of heights show that if the seeding is made before hail formation,the optimum seeding position is located in the maximum updraft area and its center,i.e.,AgI is seeded in the zone with high water content to be coordinated with maximum zone of the updraft.The seeding makes concentrations of graupel and frozen drop increase and their average mass or size decrease,so that the proportion of conversion from graupel and frozen drop into hail descends greatly,and the mass and concentration of hailstone are decreased to achieve our purpose for hail suppression.

Model Analysis of Radar Echo Split Observed in an Artificial Cloud Seeding Experiment

An artificial cloud seeding experiment was performed over the Japan Sea in winter to show how massive seeding could be effective to mitigate heavy snowfall damage.The results showed that 20 min after cloud seeding,a portion of the radar echo beneath the seeding track was weakened to divide the radar echo into two parts.In order to analyze the results,a numerical simulation was conducted by using the Weather Research and Forecasting model verion 3.5.1.In this simulation,the seeding effects were represented as phenomena capable of changing rain particles by accreting cloud ice and snow to form graupel particles and by changing cloud liquid water to snow particles.The graupel particles fell rapidly,thus temporarily intensifying the rainfall,which subsequently decreased.Therefore,the weakened radar echo in the field experiment is deemed to have been caused by the increase in rapidly falling graupel particles.

Seed and Wasp Production in the Mutualism of Figs and Fig Wasps

Figs (Moracea: Ficus) and fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chlocloids: Agaonideae) depend on each other to complete their reproduction. Monoecious fig species and their pollinating wasps are in conflict over the use of fig ovaries which can either produce one seed or one wasp. From observation on Ficus virens Ait., we showed that female flowers with outer layer of ovaries (near to the wall of syconium) had no significant difference from that with inner and interval layer of ovaries (near to the syconium cavity), in which most seeds and wasps were produced. This meant that fig tree provided the same potential resource for seed and wasps production. Observation indicated that there was usually only one foundress in syconium at female flower phase and no com- petition pollinators. Measurement of the style length of female flowers and the ovipositor of pollinators indicated that most ovaries could be reached by pollinator’s ovipositor. However, at the male flower phase, production of seeds was significantly more than that of wasps including non-pollinating wasps but there was no significant difference between seed and pollinating wasp production when without non-pollinating wasps produced. This result indicated that non-pollinating wasps competed ovaries not with seeds but with pollinating wasps for ovipositing. Bagged experiment showed that the sampling fig species was not self-sterile which was important for figs and wasps to survive bad season. Seed production in self-pollinated figs was not significantly different from total wasps in- cluding non-pollinating ones. This might be related with the weaker competition among wasps since bagged figs were not easy to reach by wasps from outside.