Effect of Spatial and Temporal Scales on Habitat Suitability Modeling:A Case Study of Ommastrephes bartramii in the Northwest Pacific Ocean

Temporal and spatial scales play important roles in fishery ecology,and an inappropriate spatio-temporal scale may result in large errors in modeling fish distribution.The objective of this study is to evaluate the roles of spatio-temporal scales in habitat suitability modeling,with the western stock of winter-spring cohort of neon flying squid （Ornmastrephes bartramii） in the northwest Pacific Ocean as an example.In this study,the fishery-dependent data from the Chinese Mainland Squid Jigging Technical Group and sea surface temperature （SST） from remote sensing during August to October of 2003-2008 were used.We evaluated the differences in a habitat suitability index model resulting from aggregating data with 36 different spatial scales with a combination of three latitude scales （0.5°,1 ° and 2°）,four longitude scales （0.5°,1°,2° and 4°）,and three temporal scales （week,fortnight,and month）.The coefficients of variation （CV） of the weekly,biweekly and monthly suitability index （SI） were compared to determine which temporal and spatial scales of SI model are more precise.This study shows that the optimal temporal and spatial scales with the lowest CV are month,and 0.5° latitude and 0.5° longitude for O.bartramii in the northwest Pacific Ocean.This suitability index model developed with an optimal scale can be cost-effective in improving forecasting fishing ground and requires no excessive sampling efforts.We suggest that the uncertainty associated with spatial and temporal scales used in data aggregations needs to be considered in habitat suitability modeling.

Real-time horizontality adjusting and control system of a large platform applied to satellite experiment

In order to satisfy a satellite horizontality requirement in an experiment, it is indispensable to monitor and adjust the horizontality of a large platform loading the satellite under the condition of ultra-low temperature with real time. So the control system design and control strategy are described in detail to accomplish the horizontality monitoring and adjusting. The system adopts the industry control computer as the upper computer and the SIEMENS S7-300 PLC as the lower computer. The upper computer that bases on industry configuration software IFIX takes charge of monitoring the platform and puts forward the control strategy. PLC takes charge of receiving the adjusting instructions and controlling the legs moving to accomplish the horizontality adjusting. The horizontality adjusting strategy is emphasized and the concept of grads is introduced to establish a mathematics model of the platform inclined state, so the adjusting method is obtained. Accordingly the key question of the automatic horizontality adjusting is solved in this control system.

China's First Space Laboratory Tiangong 2 Was Launched into Space Successfully

A LM-2F launch vehicle lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at22：04 Beijing time on September 15,putting China’s first space laboratory Tiangong 2 into space.575 seconds after the liftoff,Tiangong 2 separated from the carrier rocket and entered its preset orbit.The launch achieved complete success.

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Hybrid planning for LEO long-duration multi-spacecraft rendezvous mission

For the low-earth-orbit （LEO） long-duration multi-spacecraft rendezvous mission, a mixed integer nonlinear programming （MINLP） model is built with consideration of the , perturbation and the time window constraints based on lighting condition. A two-level hybrid optimization approach is proposed. The up-level problem uses the visiting sequence, the orbital transfer duration and the service time after each rendezvous as design variables, and employs the mix-coded genetic algorithm to search the optimal solution; the low-level problem uses the maneuver time and impulses in each rendezvous as design vari- ables, and employs the downhill simplex method to search the optimal solution. To improve the solving efficiency of the low-level problem, a linear dynamic model with J~ perturbation is derived, and the approximate strategy of the low-level prob- lem is then proposed. The proposed method has been applied to several numerical problems. The results lead to three major conclusions： （1） The MINLP model for LEO long-duration multi-spacecraft rendezvous mission is effective, and the proposed hybrid optimization strategy can obtain good solutions that satisfy time window constraints; （2） The derived linear dynamic equations are good first-order approximation to the long-duration rendezvous trajectory under ,J2 perturbation; （3） Under J2 perturbation, the long-duration rendezvous problem has multiple local minimums either in the duration of multiple orbits or in a single orbit, and it agrees with the problem＇s characteristic to use the mix-coded genetic algorithm.

A SINGLE SERVER RETRIAL QUEUE WITH GENERAL RETRIAL TIMES AND TWO-PHASE SERVICE

An M/G/1 retrial queue with a first-come-first-served (FCFS) orbit,general retrial time,two-phase service and server breakdown is investigated in this paper.Customers are allowed to balkand renege at particular times.Assume that the customers who find the server busy are queued inthe orbit in accordance with an FCFS discipline.All customers demand the first 'essential' service,whereas only some of them demand the second 'optional' service,and the second service is multi-optional.During the service,the server is subject to breakdown and repair.Assume that the retrialtime,the service time,and the repair time of the server are all arbitrarily distributed.By using thesupplementary variables method,the authors obtain the steady-state solutions for both queueing andreliability measures of interest.

Relationship between air temperature oscillations and solar variability on short and medium time scales

The contemporary science of climate change is increasingly focusing on the temporal and spatial characteristics of temperature oscillations and determining possible underlying causes.In particular,the effect of variations in solar irradiance on the variability of the climate remains a hot topic of debate.Most studies focus on the effects of solar variation on the Earth's climate on long time scales.This study presents the responses of regional climates to solar variations on shorter time scales using two datasets:one for the air temperature in Nanjing and the Greenwich sunspot number,and the other for the air temperature in Shijiazhuang and the United States sunspot number.Employing empirical mode decomposition,both the 11-year quasi-period of the sunspot number and similar periods including approximately 5.5-and 10.5-year cycles of the air temperature in Nanjing and Shijiazhuang are obtained.However,correlation analysis of similar periodic components for the sunspot number and air temperature indicates that changes in the air temperature on short and medium time scales are not linked to solar variations.This is further confirmed by a test of whether a mode component is a stochastic noise signal.Many shorter periods are also found at the 95% confidence level;in particular,the 3.1-year period of the Nanjing air temperature coincides with a previously obtained empirical result.Moreover,no temperature variations on shorter time scales correlate with solar variability.

Comparative analyses of current three-dimensional numerical solar wind models

We present a comparative study of the most advanced three-dimensional time-dependent numerical simulation models of solar wind. These models can be classified into two categories： （I） theoretical, empirical and numerically based models and （Ⅱ） self-consistent multi-dimensional numerical magnetohydrodynamic （MHD） models. The models of Category I are used to sep- arately describe the solar wind solution in two plasma flows regions： transonic/trans-Alfvrnic and supersonic/super-Alfvenic, respectively. Models of Category II construct a complete, single, numerical solar wind solution through subsonic/sub-Alfvrnic region into supersonic/super-Alfvrnic region. The Wang-Sheeley-Arge （WSA）/ENLIL in CISM is the most successful space weather model that belongs to Category I, and the Block-Adaptive-Tree-Solarwind-Roe-Upwind-Scheme （BATS-R-US） code in SWMF （Space Weather Modeling Framework） and the solar-interplanetary conservative element solution element MHD （SIP-CESE MHD） model in SWIM （Space Weather Integrated Model） are the most commonly-used models that belong to Category II. We review the structures of their frameworks, the main results for solar wind background studies that are essential for solar transient event studies, and discuss the common features and differences between these two categories of solar wind models. Finally, we conclude that the transition of these two categories of models to operational use depends on the availability of computational resources at reasonable cost and point out that the models＇ prediction capabilities may be improved by employing finer computational grids, incorporating more observational data and by adding more physical constraints to the models.

Wavelet analysis of the convectively-coupled equatorial waves

The spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of the main convectively-coupled equatorial waves were analyzed with the OLR data provided by NOAA and the method of wavelet analysis.The results indicate that the wavelet analysis can effectively distinguish MJO,Kelvin,ER,TD,and EMRG wave and the characteristics of their activities in 1992.The propagation speeds of MJO and ER wave are the slowest,following by Kelvin and TD wave and with MRG the fastest.The MJO from the Indian Ocean to the West Pacific Ocean,the Kelvin wave near the International Date Line,the ER and the TD wave around the West Pacific Ocean and the MRG in the eastern of the International Date Line have the biggest wave amplitude.The MJO in boreal winter and spring,the Kelvin wave in boreal spring and summer,the ER wave in boreal autumn,and the TD wave in boreal summer are active.The WMRG wave activates in boreal autumn,whereas EMRG wave appears year-round.These spatial and temporal characteristics agree well with the results of relevant theoretical studies,indicating that the wavelet analysis in the time-frequency domain is another effective method to reveal the evolution of convectively-coupled equatorial waves.

Control of orientation for spacecraft formations in the vicinity of the Sun-Earth L2 libration point

Formation flying in the vicinity of the libration point is an important concept for space exploration and demands reliable and accurate techniques for the control of a spacecraft.On the basis of previous works,this paper addresses the problem of relative orientation control of spacecraft formation flying utilizing the framework of the circular restricted three-body problem(CR3BP)with the Sun and Earth as the primary gravitational bodies.Two specific tasks are accomplished in this study.First,the tangent targeting method(TTM),an efficient two-level differential correction algorithm,is exploited to control the Chief/Deputy architecture to maintain a prespecified orientation.The time spent within the orientation error corridor between successive maneuvers is maximized while the relative separation between the vehicles is held constant at each target point.The second task is to further optimize the maneuver intervals by dropping the constraint imposed on the relative vehicle separation.Numerical investigation indicates that the number of maneuvers can be significantly reduced and the length of time between successive maneuvers can be greatly increased by utilizing the TTM.