简介:The3^rdInternationalConferenceonContinentalEarthquakes,Mechanism,Prediction,EmergencyManagement&Insurance(the3^rdICCE)washeldonJuly9-14,2004inBeijing,China.TheICCEhasbeenheldeverydecadesinceitwaslaunchedovertwentyyearsago.ThefirstICCE,withthetitle""""InternationalSymposiumonContinentalSeismicityandEarthquakePrediction""""(ISCSEP),hadinternationalsponsorshipandwassupportedbye.g.,UNESCOandhostedbytheSeismologicalSocietyofChina(SSC)inBeijingin1982.In1992inresponsetotheinitiativesfromtheUN'sInternationalDecadeforNaturalDisasterReduction(IDNDR),
简介:Combinedmulti-bodydynamicswithstructuraldynamics,anewdiscreteelementwithflexibleconnector,whichisapplicablefor3-Dbeamstructures,isdevelopedinthispaper.Boththegeneralizedelasticcoefficientmatrixoftheflexibleconnectorandthemassmatrixofdiscreteelementmaybeoff-diag-onalinageneralcase.Thezero-lengthrigidelementisintroducedtosimulatethenodeatwhichmultipleel-ementsarejointedtogether.Itmayalsobeeffectivewhentheaxesofadjacentelementsarenotinthesameline.Theexamplesforeigenvaluecalculationshowthatthemodelissuccessful.Itcanbeextendedtothegeometricnonlinearresponseanalysis.
简介:TheMM5anditsfourdimensionalvariationaldataassimilation(4D-Var)systemareusedinthispaper.BasedontheNationalCentersforEnvironmentalPrediction/NationalCenterforAtmosphericResearch(NCEP/NCAR)reanalysisdata,theauthorsgenerateanoptimalinitialconditionforatyphoonbyusingthebogusdataassimilation(BDA)scheme.BDAisabletorecovermanyofthestructuralfeaturesoftyphoonsincludingawarm-corevertex,thecorrectcenterposition,andthestrongcirculation.AsaresultofBDAusingabogussurfacelow,dramaticimprovementisachievedinthe72hpredictionoftyphoonHerb.Throughseveralcases,theinitializationbyBDAeffectivelygeneratestheharmoniousinnerstructureofthetyphoon,butwhichislackingintheoriginalanalysisfield.Thereforetheintensityforecastisimprovedgreatly.Someimprovementsaremadeinthetrackforecast,butmoreworkstillneedstobedone.
简介:Thetechniqueoncomputingthehorizontalpressuregradientforce(PGF)inRegCM2isimprovedwiththeerrorsubtractionmethod.Moreover,theregionalclimateinJuneof1991inChinaissimulatedbyemployingtheRegCM2.ComparisonwithotherschemesforcomputingthePGFshowsthattheerrorsubtractionmethodcaneffectivelyreducetheerrorofthePGF,improvethesimulationofwindsandalleviatethespuriousprecipitationinsteeptopographicareas.Furthermore,thesimulationofprecipitationinotherareasisinbetteraccordancewiththeobservation.
简介:TheNCARcommunityclimatemodelwasrunfor20yearsandthesimulatedEastAsianclimatewasanalyzedandcheckedagainsttheobservationdata.Itisfoundthatthelarge-scalefeaturesoftheEastAsiaclimateweresimulatedprettywellbythemodel,thoughtherearestillsomediscrepanciesbetweenthemodeloutputandtheobservation.Thesimulatedgeopotentialheight,windandtemperaturefieldsareveryclosetotheobservations.Thelargescalesystemssuchassubtropicalhigh.Mongoliahigh,IndianlowwhichhaveimportantinfluenceontheEastAsiamonsoonalsosimulatedprettywell.Itisalsofoundthatthemoisturefieldisnotsimulatedsowellasthosefieldsmentionedabove.Thesimulatedprecipitationisratherdifferentfromtheobservations.ThesesuggestthatsomephysicalprocessesintheCCM2needtobeimproved.
简介:Aseriesofidealizedmodelsimulationsareanalyzedtodeterminethesensitivityofmodelresultstodifferentconfigurationsofthelateralboundaryconditions(LBCs)insimulatingmesoscaleshallowconvectionoverhillyterrain.Inthesimulationswithsteadythermalforcingatthemodelsurface,aradiationconditionatbothboundariesisthebestchoiceunderhighwindconditions,andthebestresultsareproducedwhenboththenormalvelocitiesandthetemperaturearetreatedwiththeradiationschemeinwhichthephasespeedisthesamefordifferentvariables.Whenthebackgroundwindspeedisreasonablysmall,theLBCconfigurationwitheithertheradiationorthezerogradientconditionatbothboundariestendstomakethenumericalsolutionunstable.Thechoiceofaconstantconditionattheinflowboundaryandaradiationoutflowboundaryconditionisappropriateinmostcases.Inthesimulationswithdiurnalthermalforcingatthemodelsurface,differentLBCschemesarecombinedtogethertoreducespurioussignalsinducedbytheoutflowboundary.Aspecificationinflowboundarycondition,inwhichthevelocityfieldsattheinflowboundaryareprovidedusingthetime-dependentresultsofasimulationwithperiodicLBCsoveraflatdomain,istestedandtheresultsindicatethatthespecificationconditionattheinflowboundarymakesitpossibletouseasmallermodeldomaintoobtainreasonableresults.Themodelhorizontaldomainlengthshouldbegreaterthanacriticallength,whichdependsonthedomaindepthHandtheanglebetweengravitywavephaselinesandthevertical.Anestimateofminimumdomainlengthisgivenby[(H-zi)/πU]√N2L2x-4π2U2,whereNandUarethebackgroundstabilityandwindspeed,respectively,Lxisthetypicalgravitywavelengthscale,andziistheconvectiveboundarylayer(CBL)depth.
简介:ProcessofsourcedynamicsoftheJingtaiearthquake(M=6.2)Xue-BinDU(杜学彬);Zhi-DeYAN(闫志德)andMing-WuZOU(邹明武)(EarthquakeResearchInstitu...