Some Annual Variation Characteristics for the Northern Hemispheric Monthly Mean Precipitation Fields

By the utilization of monthly precipitation data from all stations in the Northern Hemisphere annexed to the 'World Survey of climatology, Vol. 1-15', the distributions of the maximum precipitation months (MPM), the annual relative precipitation (ARP) and the monthly relative precipitation (percent of annual) in January and July are respectively mapped. Moreover the distributions of intermonthly relative precipitation variabilities from January to December are plotted as well. From these figures, the precipitation in the Northern Hemisphere may be classified into three types(continental, oceanic and transitional types) and 17 regions. The precipitation regime may also be divided into two patterns, the global and regional patterns. The global pattern consists of planetary front system and ITCZ and its inter-monthly variation shows the north-and-south shift of the rain belt; the regional pattern consists of the sea-land monsoon and plateau monsoon regime, in which the inter-monthly variation of rain belt shows a east-and-wcst shift.

Study on the operational safety of high-speed trains exposed to stochastic winds

The characteristic wind curve （CWC） was com- monly used in the previous work to evaluate the operational safety of the high-speed trains exposed to crosswinds. How- ever, the CWC only provide the dividing line between safety state and failure state of high-speed trains, which can not evaluate the risk of derailment of high-speed trains when ex- posed to natural winds. In the present paper, a more realistic approach taking into account the stochastic characteristics of natural winds is proposed, which can give a reasonable and effective assessment of the operational safety of high-speed trains under stochastic winds. In this approach, the longitudi- nal and lateral components of stochastic winds are simulated based on the Cooper theory and harmonic superposition. An algorithm is set up for calculating the unsteady aerody- namic forces （moments） of the high-speed trains exposed to stochastic winds. A multi-body dynamic model of the rail vehicle is established to compute the vehicle system dynamic response subjected to the unsteady aerodynamic forces （mo- ments） input. Then the statistical method is used to get the mean characteristic wind curve （MCWC） and spread range of the high-speed trains exposed to stochastic winds. It is found that the CWC provided by the previous analyticalmethod produces over-conservative limits. The methodol- ogy proposed in the present paper can provide more signif- icant reference for the safety operation of high-speed trains exposed to stochastic winds.

THE OSCILLATION OF CERTAIN ZONAL MEAN CHARACTERISTICS OF MOTION ON A SPHERIC EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE——PART 2:ANISOTROPIC QUASI-EDDY MOTION

This paper is an extension of the author's paper (Xie,1982) to the spherical earth.It is found that the simi- lar results are obtained under the assumption of isotropic distribution of horizontal kinetic energy along the zonal and meridional directions.It points out the limitation of the results already obtained and paves the path for the approach of anisotropie semi-eddy or quasi-eddy motion of the atmosphere.

The effects of attached flexible tail length on the flow structure of an oscillating cylinder

Particle Imaging Velocimetry （PIV） is utilized to investigate the flow structures of an oscillating cylinder attached to a flexible tail. At the same oscillation frequency and amplitude, the mean streamwise velocity along the wake central-line and the mean vertical velocity around the trailing edge of the flexible tail can be greatly increased with the tail length. Meanwhile, the longer the flexible tail is, the larger its deformation is. In order to study the influence of flexible tail length on the wake pattern of the experimental model, the relationships between the swirling strength Aci of vortex structure near the tail end and the velocity of tail trailing edge have been revealed. Moreover, the convection tracks and the Aci of vortex cores for different flexible tails are discussed.

Forcibly Re-scrambled Randomized Response Model for Simultaneous Estimation of Means of Two Sensitive Variables

Recently,Ahmed et al.(Commun Stat Theory Methods 47(2):324-343,2018)have introduced the idea of simultaneously estimating means of two sensitive variables by collecting one scrambled response and another pseudo-response.In this paper,we extend their idea to the simultaneous estimation of two means by making use of the forced quantitative randomized response model of Gjestvang and Singh(Metrika 66(2):243-257,2007)but then re-scrambling the scrambled scores.This idea of re-scrambling already scrambled responses seems completely new in the field of randomized response sampling.The performance of the proposed forced quantitative randomized response model has been investigated analytically as well as empirically.