Prediction of the coupled heat radiation and conduction parameters and boundary condition using the unscented Kalman filter

The boundary emissivity, thermal conductivity, and boundary time-varying heat flux in the participating media are retrieved in this work. In the forward model, the coupled radiation-conduction heat transfer in the participating medium is resolved by the finite volume method combined with discrete ordinates method. The inverse model utilizes the temperature signals at the appropriate position of the medium as the known information and uses the unscented Kalman filter(UKF) as an optimization tool to reconstruct the boundary emissivity, thermal conductivity, and boundary time-varying heat flux. It is found that when the emissivity, thermal conductivity, and boundary time-varying heat flux are reconstructed simultaneously, only the temperature information of two locations is required. The influence of the measurement noise, sampling interval, absorption coefficient,process noise covariance, measurement noise covariance on the accuracy and stability of the retrieval results is investigated in detail. All the reconstruction results indicate that the UKF technique is effective and robust for estimating the photothermal parameters and boundary condition of the radiation-conduction heat transfer problems.

Source characteristics of O_3 and CO_2 at Mt. Waliguan Observatory,Tibetan Plateau implied by using ~7Be and ^(210)Pb

The weekly averages of near-surface ^7Be, ^210pb, 03, and CO2 concentrations at the Global Atmospheric Watch Observatory, Mt. Waliguan （101.98°E, 36.287°N, 3810 m a.s.l.）, from October 2002 to January 2004 are presented. With the establishment of the new datasets of DCCW （Differential Concentrations in Contiguous Weeks） of ^7Be,^210pb, and O3, CO2 （△^7Be, △^210pb, △O3, △CO2, respectively, the impacts of upper-level downward transports and land-surface emissions on O3 and CO2 concentrations are implied by ^7Be and ^210pb being as independent tracers. The relations among △^7Be, △^210pb, and △O3, △CO2 are examined statistically and compared. The results indicate that with the DCCWs, the interferences with the tracing significance of ^7Be and ^210Pb from the seasonal wet scavenging of atmospheric aerosol are greatly reduced, and the weighting sources of O3 or CO2 variations are more pronounced. Basically, the variability of surface O3 is controlled predominately by air mass transported from the upper atmosphere levels while the emission from the Continent Boundary Layer （CBL） has an obvious input for CO2. The relation between △^210pb and △O3 reflects that influences of CBL emission are generally positive/negative for surface O3 budget in summer/winter, and the relation of △^7Be and △CO2 also reveals that upper level downward transport has positive/negative inputs for CO2 in summer/winter. With the highly correlated relations between ^7Be and O3, a quantitative estimation is made of the stratospheric contributions to the budget of surface O3 at WLG： the monthly averages of stratospheric O3 range from 6 ×10^-9 to 8 ×10^-9 （volume mixing ratio） in April and from June to August, and 2 ×10^-9 to 4 ×10^-9 in the remaining months. For the ultimate sources of the baseline concentration of surface 03, which consist of only stratospheric transport and tropospheric photochemistry production, the contribution from stratospheric transport is estimated to be about 20 ×10^-9 from May to July, and （12-15） ×10^-9 in the remaining months, and the total relative contribution rate is about 35% to 40%.