Changes to the Natural Regional Boundaries in China During 1961-2007

Daily temperature data from 599 stations across China for the years 1961 to 2007 were used to analyze the changes in the natural regional boundaries. The results show that the accumulated temperature ≥10℃ and its duration changed dramatically from the end of 1990s to the early 21 st century. The amplitude of natural regional boundaries was greater in the 21st century than it was in the 20th century. In the eastern region of China, the climatic zones were migrating generally northward, with the northern edge of the subtropical zone and the eastern section of the warm temperate zone showing an obvious northward shift of up to 1-3° of latitude. The climatic zones moved south in the Qinghal-Tibet Plateau, western Inner Mongolia, and some areas of western Xinjiang, and slightly to the north in other parts of the western region.

Sectorial Approach of the Gradient Observability of the Hyperbolic Semilinear Systems Intern and Boundary Cases

The aim of this paper is to study the notion of the gradient observability on a subregion w of the evolution domain W and also we consider the case where the subregion of interest is a boundary part of the system evolution domain for the class of semilinear hyperbolic systems. We show, under some hypotheses, that the flux reconstruction is guaranteed by means of the sectorial approach combined with fixed point techniques. This leads to several interesting results which are performed through numerical examples and simulations.

Seismic Hazard Assessment in the Boundary Region of Indo-China:First Phase of Implementation of the Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program (GSHAP) in Continental Asia

The primary goal of the demonstration project endorsed by the Scientific and Technical Committee for IDNDR in 1992 is to ensure that national agencies are able to assess seismic hazard in a regionally coordinated fashion by using advanced methods.China,as a Regional Center of Central Southern Asia,has contacted with countries of the region to realistically practice seismic hazard assessments of Continental Asia.A test area located in the collision boundary between the Indian and Eurasian plates was chosen to examine the seismic hazard assessment approach in the regional coordinates.The seismotectonics and three versions of seismic sources of the test area are described in this paper and under the Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program(GSHAP),guidelines an earthquake catalogue of the test area was assembled.Because of the incompleteness of earthquake data in different countries,we adopt different time windows for different magnitude intervals in order to obtain the seismicity parameters of sources.By

DYNAMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COHERENT STRUCTURE IN THE OUTER REGION OF TURBULENCE BOUNDARY LAYER

In the present paper the coherent structures in the outer region of turbulent boundary layer were investigated experimentally and analytically. From the observation of the how field over smooth wall, rough wall and sand wave wall, it was found that the direct effect of wall on the flow structure can reach y(+1) approximate to 100, and both lateral and vertical vortices exist in the outer region, but the coherent structures in the outer region are mainly the formation, development and decay of the large-scale lateral vortices. By experimental and dynamical analysis, some influence factors and their relations associated with the dynamical process of lateral vortices were deduced.

Features of the M7.9 Earthquake in the Russia-Mongolia-China Boundary Region

At 19:33 p.m on September 27, 2003, an earthquake with M7.9 occurred in the Russia-Mongolia-China boundary Region. It was strongly felt in the Altay region of Xinjiang. The losses caused by the earthquake was 76 million yuan (RMB). Some information about the earthquake was outlined, including basic parameters, focal mechanism, evaluation of earthquake disaster losses and so on. The satellite remote sensing information worked initial analysis for deformation of ground and failure phenomenon.

Convective Boundary Layer in the Region of the Monsoon Trough-A Case Study

A case study of the convectively driven monsoon boundary layer has been carried out using the aerological observations at four stations in the region of monsoon trough during Monsoon Trough Boundary Layer Experiment (MONTBLEX) 1988. The Convective Boundary Layer (CBL) in the region of monsoon trough did not show double mixing line structure. A single mixing line representing the CBL with different stabilities with respect to the convective activities was observed.

The K Method for Estimating Earthquake Activity Parameters and Effect of the Boundary Uncertainty of the Source Region:Discussion on the Seismic Zoning Method

Two aspects of a new method,which can be used for seismic zoning,are introduced in this paper.On the one hand,the approach to estimate b value and annual activity rate proposed by Kijko and Sellevoll needs to use the earthquake catalogue.The existing earthquake catalogue contains both historical and recent instrumental data sets and it is inadequate to use only one part.Combining the large number of historical events with recent complete records and taking the magnitude uncertainty into account,Kijko’s method gives the maximum likelihood estimation of b value and annual activity rate,which might be more realistic.On the other hand,this method considers the source zone boundary uncertainty in seismic hazard analysis,which means the earthquake activity rate across a boundary of a source zone changes smoothly instead of abruptly and avoids too large a gradient in the calculated results.

Quantitative method for calculating spatial release region for laser-guided bomb

The laser-guided bomb(LGB)is an air-to-ground pre-cision-guided weapon that offers high hit rates,great power,and ease of use.LGBs are guided by semi-active laser ground-seek-ing technology,which means that atmospheric conditions can affect their accuracy.The spatial release region(SRR)of LGBs is difficult to calculate precisely,especially when there is a poor field of view.This can result in a lower real hit probability.To increase the hit probability of LGBs in tough atmospheric situa-tions,a novel method for calculating the SRR has been pro-posed.This method is based on the transmittance model of the 1.06μm laser in atmospheric species and the laser diffuse reflection model of the target surface to determine the capture target time of the laser seeker.Then,it calculates the boundary ballistic space starting position by ballistic model and gets the spatial scope of the spatial release region.This method can determine the release region of LGBs based on flight test data such as instantaneous velocity,altitude,off-axis angle,and atmospheric visibility.By more effectively employing aircraft release conditions,atmospheric visibility and other factors,the SRR calculation method can improve LGB hit probabi-lity by 9.2%.

Sample Generation for Security Region Boundary Identification Based on Topological Features of Historical Operation Data

Since the scale and uncertainty of the power system have been rapidly increasing,the computation efficiency of constructing the security region boundary(SRB)has become a prominent problem.Based on the topological features of historical operation data,a sample generation method for SRB identification is proposed to generate evenly distributed samples,which cover dominant security modes.The boundary sample pair(BSP)composed of a secure sample and an unsecure sample is defined to describe the feature of SRB.The resolution,sampling,and span indices are designed to evaluate the coverage degree of existing BSPs on the SRB and generate samples closer to the SRB.Based on the feature of flat distribution of BSPs over the SRB,the principal component analysis(PCA)is adopted to calculate the tangent vectors and normal vectors of SRB.Then,the sample distribution can be expanded along the tangent vector and corrected along the normal vector to cover different security modes.Finally,a sample set is randomly gen-erated based on the IEEE standard example and another new sample set is generated by the proposed method.The results indicate that the new sample set is closer to the SRB and covers different security modes with a small calculation time cost.

Superior strength-ductility combination resulted from hetero-zone boundary affected region in Cu-Fe layered material

The hetero-zone boundary affected region(HBAR)significantly influences the mechanical behaviors of layered materials,where the deformation mechanisms differ from those in the bulk layers.In this study,three kinds of heterogeneous Cu-Fe layered materials with different interface spacing but identical total thicknesses were prepared.The effects of HBAR and strain partitioning on the tensile behavior of the lay-ered materials were investigated.The results showed that layered materials had enhanced yield strength and uniform elongation with decreasing interface spacing.During tensile deformation,geometrically nec-essary dislocations(GNDs)were generated at hetero-zone boundaries and piled up near them,resulting in hetero-deformation induced(HDI)strengthening and HDI work hardening.Surface profilometry mea-surements showed that the Cu and Fe layers exhibited obvious strain partitioning and mutual constraint.With decreasing interface spacing,strain partitioning is enhanced by interlayer constraint,which pre-vented strain localization at interfaces and thus improved the synergetic deformation of layers.A higher fraction of HBAR can improve the mechanical performance of heterogeneous layered materials.This study deepens our understanding of the relationship between HBAR and strength-ductility synergy and provides some insight into the design of layered materials.

Climate warming and its impact on natural regional boundaries in China in the 1980s

The global climate warming accelerated in the 1980s has become a focus in the world. Based on the month by month and year by year temperature data from 160 representative stations throughout the country during 1951-1999, this paper analyses annual and four seasons’ temperature variations of China since the 1980s. It was found out that the non-equalibrium response with relative great regional and seasonal differences is represented in the country’s climate warming. In regional changes a trend of “warm in the north and cold in the south” occurs whereas in seasonal changes, the characters of “warm in winter and cool in summer” present. Significant verification of the temperature variations conducted in terms of mathematical statistics reveals that a confidence level of over 95% has been basically reached in areas north of the Yangtze River. Meanwhile, according to data of diurnal mean temperature steadily passing through accumulated temperature ≥10°C from 335 stations since 1951 or since the founding of the stations in the early 1950s to 1999, comparative analysis of the data of the last 19 years with that of the first 30 years was conducted and the accumulated temperature ≥10°C and the variation range of the persistent number of days ≥10°C were obtained. It was concluded that a general northward shift of central subtropics, north subtropics, warm temperate zone, mesothermal zone and frigid temperate zone of eastern China was observed. The northward shift of north subtropics and warm temperate zone was obvious but changes of south subtropics and marginal tropics were insignificant. In western China, in addition to southwestern Yunnan, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and western Inner Mongolia where the temperature zones of each either shifted northward or trended to move upward, not much changes were found in other areas or they shifted southward slightly and declined.

Orbiting Optimization Model for Tracking Voltage Security Region Boundary in Bulk Power Grids

A voltage security region(VSR)is a powerful tool for monitoring the voltage security in bulk power grids with high penetration of renewables.It can prevent cascading failures in wind power integration areas caused by serious over or low voltage problems.The bottlenecks of a VSR for practical applications are computational efficiency and accuracy.To bridge these gaps,a general optimization model for tracking a voltage security region boundary(VSRB)in bulk power grids is developed in this paper in accordance with the topological characteristics of the VSRB.First,the initial VSRB point on the VSRB is examined with the traditional OPF by using the base case parameters as initial values.Then,the rest of the VSRB points on the VSRB are tracked one after another,with the proposed optimization model,by using the parameters of the tracked VSRB point as the initial value to explore its adjacent VSRB point.The proposed approach can significantly improve the computational efficiency of the VSRB tracking over the existing algorithms,and case studies,in the WECC 9-bus and the Polish 2736-bus test systems,demonstrate the high accuracy and efficiency of the proposed approach on exploring the VSRB.

Altitude of the upper boundary of AAR based on observations of ion beams in inverted-V structures:A case study

Outflowing ion beams forming four successive inverted-V structures in the energy-time spectrograms of H+, He+, and O+ were observed at an altitude of 3.4 RE by Cluster satellites travelling above the auroral acceleration region (AAR) in the southern hemisphere on February 14, 2001. Energization by negative U-shaped potential structures in the AAR is believed to be responsible for the formation of these outflowing ion inverted-V structures. Thus, utilizing the different motion properties of the three ion species, the altitude of the upper boundary of the AAR is estimated to be ~11100 km. Moreover, based on multi-satellite observations, each of these U-shaped potential structures involved in this event crosses the latitudinal direction at ~0.4°–1° invariantlatitude (ILAT), moving poleward at an average speed of ~0.2° ILAT per minute, before disappearing at ~71.5° ILAT.