哈尼梯田区降水稳定氢氧同位素的旱雨季变化特征及其影响因素

水的稳定同位素(D和O)是水文过程的重要示踪剂。本文以哈尼梯田文化景观遗产核心区全福庄河扇形小流域为研究对象,通过采集流域内雨季和旱季的大气降水样品,并测定和分析氢氧同位素值(D和δ18O),得出以下结论:(1)研究区全年大气降水线方程为:δD=8.35δ~(18)O+22.41(R2=0.98,n=48),但年内旱季和雨季降水线方程的斜率和截距差异明显。(2)研究区大气降水中氢氧稳定同位素组成具有明显季节差异,雨季降水中氢氧同位素贫化,d值偏低;旱季降水氢氧同位素值相对偏正,d值偏高,这与我国季风区旱雨季水汽来源差异有关。(3)根据相关分析可知,温度、降水和相对湿度3个要素的变化是研究区降水同位素值变化的主要影响因素,但在不同的时间尺度下影响降水同位素变化的环境因素存在差异。(4)在年尺度下降水和相对湿度是主要的影响因素;在旱雨季尺度下,温度是雨季降水同位素值变化的主要因素,而温度、降水量和相对湿度对旱季降水同位素值变化的影响则不显著,旱季降水同位素δ18O值变化为三因素共同作用的结果。     

昆明大气降水稳定同位素分析

为阐明昆明地区稳定同位素与大气降水的关系,对GNIP昆明站点1986～2003年δD和δ18O进行分析,初步建立当地大气降水线方程,并与中国及全球降水线方程进行对比,揭示该降水线方程的特征.研究结果表明：大气降水稳定同位素组成受到温度、蒸发、水汽源地等多种因素的复杂影响,在不同时间有很大差异.研究区大气降水稳定同位素存在明显的季节变化,雨季偏负,旱季偏重,降雨效应明显,并在很大程度上影响和掩盖了温度效应.而d受其特殊地理位置影响,呈现出雨季高旱季低的独特变化特征.     

青藏高原西北部大气降水稳定同位素时空特征变化

作为水环境的重要指示剂,稳定同位素已经成为区域水文学、气候学研究的重要工具。降水作为水循环的输入项,其同位素组成是研究山地地表水过程、地下水形成转化、冰川变化等问题的必要信息。为了进一步增加对于青藏高原西北部降水过程及其控制因素的认识,本文基于青藏高原西北部五个长期观测站点降水中δD和δ18O数据,研究了青藏高原西北部与塔里木盆地交界地区大气降水稳定同位素时空分布特征。分析结果显示该地区降水稳定同位素季节变化较为明显,表现出夏高冬低的变化趋势,不同月份呈现出不同的空间分布特征。除狮泉河站降水δ18O值与温度关系不显著外,其余站点δ18O值随温度升高而增加。区域内降水量对降水δ18O值的影响不显著,降水稳定同位素高程效应明显,降水δ18O值随海拔上升而降低。降水过量氘(d值)的分布也呈现出显著的季节差异,总体表现出夏半年高、冬半年低的特点,受水汽再循环的影响,西合休站夏季降水的d值呈现较高的水平。研究表明,气温是控制该地区降水同位素分馏的重要因素,通过对于该区域降水蒸发比的计算发现,该地区临近沙漠的和田站的降水同位素受蒸发作用最为显著,而高海拔地区的狮泉河站降水受蒸发影响最小。     

西北地区大气降水δ18O的特征及水汽来源

根据2005年各月在中国大气降水同位素观测网(CHNIP)位于西北地区的阜康、策勒、临泽、海北、沙坡头、长武和安塞观测站点收集的降水样品,对其中的同位素的组分进行测定,分析了西北地区大气降水中δ18O的时空分布特征.所建立的局地大气降水线方程δD=7.05δ18O-2.17,反应了西北地区独特的局地气候特点.降水δ18O的温度效应显著,而降水量效应只在夏季(6-8月)间存在.δ18O的空间分布特征可以很好地反映西北地区的大气环流背景.应用瑞利分馏模型及动力分馏模型对阜康-安塞沿线降水δ18O的定量模拟结果,揭示了西北地区降水水汽的分馏主要以动力分馏为主,雨滴在降落过程中历经了一定的二次蒸发过程,其降水水汽中也混入一定量的由局地再蒸发的水汽.此外,利用西北地区在全球大气降水同位素观测网络(GNIP)中的乌鲁木齐、和田、张掖、兰州、银川和西安6个站点的长时间序列的δ18O与降水量、温度等气候因子建立的多元线性回归关系可以对降水δ18O进行定量估算;基于乌鲁木齐站点12年的δ18O资料对该地区的温度拟合,为历史气候的定量恢复提供了依据.     

祁连山东部大气降水分δ17O变化特征及水汽输送

祁连山作为我国西部重要生态安全屏障，是河西走廊内陆河流域核心水源区。通过测定2013年7月~2014年7月收集的降水样品中δ¹⁷O与δ¹⁷O值，分析了祁连山东部乌鞘岭大气降水中δ¹⁷O的特征，在此基础上对水汽来源进行了研究。结果表明：降水稳定同位素¹⁷O存在夏高冬低的变化特征；¹⁷O存在显著的温度效应而不存在降水量效应，¹⁷O与水汽压在干季呈现正相关关系。研究区大气降水的氧同位素降水线方程为：δ′¹⁷O = 0.509δ′¹⁷O -0.16，低于氧同位素全球降水线斜率；过量δ¹⁷O表现出夏低冬高的特点；综合分析氧同位素大气降水方程线和过量δ¹⁷O变化，发现该区域大气降水主要受局地水循环和大陆气团控制。祁连山东部地区主要受到西风和东南季风携带水汽影响，东南季风携带水汽对于祁连山东部的影响主要集中于夏季。研究可提高对祁连山区降水同位素演化的认知，为寒旱区同位素水文学的进一步研究奠定基础。     

敦煌盆地降水稳定同位素特征及水汽来源

基于敦煌盆地2012年11月至2013年11月降水氢、氧稳定同位素数据 (δD、δ¹⁸O和d-excess),结合GNIP降水同位素监测资料和HYSPLIT 4模型对降水后向气团传输路径模拟结果,对敦煌盆地降水稳定同位素特征及水汽来源进行研究。结果表明:敦煌盆地降水δD和δ¹⁸O存在明显的季节效应,即降水δD和δ¹⁸O具有夏高冬低的变化特征;同时降水δD和δ¹⁸O表现出显著的温度效应,温度每升高1 ℃,δD增加6.89‰,δ¹⁸O增加0.92‰。敦煌盆地局地大气水线(LMWL)为δD=7.45δ¹⁸O+2.72(R²=0.98),受降水二次蒸发的影响,其斜率和截距均低于全球大气水线(GMWL)。降水d-excess受当地气温和相对湿度的影响,冬半年(11月至次年4月)偏正,夏半年(5-10月)偏负。从全年来看,敦煌盆地降水水汽主要来源于西风输送,冬季和春季受极地气团的影响,夏季部分降水事件受西南季风和局地再循环水汽的影响。     

湘江流域中下游长沙地区不同水体中δ~(18)O、δD的变化

根据2010年在长沙地区所收集的降水、河水、泉水和井水水样资料,分析了取样期间不同水样稳定同位素的变化特征,并结合湘江长沙段水位和相关气象资料,揭示了降水中δ18O、δD因水汽来源不同而其表现出冬半年高、夏半年低的特点;由于降水降落于地表后,地表对降水滞留作用而使得河水、泉水和井水中δ18O、δD的波动幅度明显小于降水中δ18O的波动幅度;在汛期,河水中δ18O算术平均值大于降水,在枯水期河水中δ18O比泉水和井水中δ18O要大;河水线(RWL)的斜率和截距与全球大气水线(GMWL)比较接近,说明该地区位于季风区河流的补给主要来自大气降水,井水线(WWL)的斜率和截距比泉水线(SWL)要小,这表明降水入渗形成井水过程中经历的蒸发作用要比形成泉水要强,井水补给比泉水补给要复杂。这为今后研究该地区地表水-地下水-大气降水之间转换关系提供了科学依据,对掌握"三水"间转换规律和合理开发利用水资源具有重要的意义。     

极地冰雪氢氧同位素指标及其指示意义

本文综述了水汽来源状况、降水季节变化、火山喷发、太阳活动等气候环境因素对极地冰雪中同位素含量的可能影响及其程度 ,以及降水区域不均衡性、降水年际不均衡性、逆温层和同位素在冰雪中的扩散迁移作用等几种不稳定因素可能对冰雪同位素分析造成的干扰 ;在此基础上 ,综述了极地冰雪中δ1 8O、δD和其差值d(d =δD - 8δ1 8O)与局部或全球气温之间的一些线性关系 (包括全球尺度 ,格陵兰地区 ,南极地区等 )及它们在空间分布上的变化规律     

印度河上游Bagrot山谷降水稳定同位素变化及与水汽来源的关系

利用2015年8月至2016年7月在印度河上游流域Bagrot山谷降水稳定同位素（δ18O和δD）观测结果以及当地气象资料，利用同位素示踪及统计分析方法，并结合HYSPLIT模型，对研究区降水稳定同位素变化特征、大气水线以及水汽来源进行了分析。结果表明，观测期间Bagrot山谷降水稳定同位素的季节变化明显，δ18O与δD秋冬季偏低，春夏季偏高，且与气温变化一致，存在显著的温度效应，而降水量效应不明显。而且发现，研究区局地大气水线截距和斜率均低于全球的，反映了降水过程中云下二次蒸发作用较为强烈，特别是，不同的降水形态导致该研究区局地大气水线的斜率和截距不同。当液态降水（降雨）发生时，由于在较为干旱的气候环境下，雨滴在降落的过程中受到二次蒸发相对较强，使得局地大气水线的斜率和截距偏低；而当固态降水（降雪）发生时，由于温度较低，受再循环水汽和二次蒸发的影响较小，导致局地大气水线的斜率和截距均偏高。Bagrot山谷及其周边地区，从南到北局地大气水线的斜率相差不大，而其截距总体上随着纬度升高而降低，可能与云下二次蒸发导致稳定同位素发生的不平衡分馏逐渐强烈有关。通过Bagrot山谷站点降水稳定同位素观测结果并结合HYSPLIT模型的后向追踪，研究还发现，研究区全年主要受西风环流以及局地环流的影响。但与研究区以北的临近站点（慕士塔格、和田等）相比有所不同，由于Bagrot山谷位置更靠南，其仍然偶尔受到来自南方的海洋性水汽影响。这一研究结果可能对该地区树轮稳定同位素记录的解译具有一定的指示意义。     

西南地区大气降水中氢氧稳定同位素特征与水汽来源

为阐明西南地区稳定同位素与大气降水的关系,对GNIP昆明、贵阳、桂林、成都站点δD和δ18O进行分析,初步建立当地大气降水线方程,并与中国及全国降水线方程进行对比,揭示该降水线方程的特征.研究表明：大气降水稳定同位素组成受到温度、蒸发、水汽源地等多种因素的相互影响,在不同时间有很大差异.西南地区降水中的δ18O值表现出“夏高冬低”的季节特点.d值呈现出降水中过量氘水汽来源不同的特点,贵阳和桂林地区d值表现为“冬高夏低”的季节特点,而昆明和成都地区却与此相反,d值则表现为“夏高冬低”独特的季节性特征.     

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Reviews of geographic software in this article:

DEMO-GRAPHICS: WORLD POPULATIONS AND PROJECTIONS.

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GAUSS.

CEMODEL S. Damus

LIMDEP. William H. Greene

MICROSTAT 4.1

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PCIPS. (Personal Computer Image Processing System). H.J. Meyers and R. Bernstein.

REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF TIME SERIES (RATS)

SPSS/PC+

URBAN DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE (UDMS)     

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BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco . Janet Abu -Lughod . Marketplaces in a Developing Country: The Case of Western Nigeria . Isaac Ayinde Adalemo . Farming Development and Space: A World Agricultural Geography . Bernd Andreae . Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan . J. Clark Archer and Peter J. Taylor . Women and Space: Ground Rules and Social Maps . Shirley Ardener , ed. European Progress in Spatial Analysis . R. J. Bennett , ed. The Origins of Academic Geography in the United States . Brian W. Blouet Geographic Perspectives on Global Problems . Ronald Reed Boyce . Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty . Robert Chambers , Richard Longhurst and Arnold Pacey eds. The New Nationalism and the Use of Common Spaces: Issues in Marine Pollution and the Exploitation of Antarctica . Jonathan I. Charney , ed. Communications Tomorrow: The Coming of the Information Society . Edward Cornish , ed. The Design of Suburbia . Arthur Edwards . Explorer on the Northern Plains: Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren's Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota in the Years 1855–56–57. With an Introduction by Frank N. Schubert . The Changing Climate: Responses of the Natural Flora and Fauna . Michael J. Ford . Essentials of Physical Geography . Robert E. Gabler , Robert J. Sager , Sheila Brazier , and Daniel L. Wise. The Road to Jaramillo . William Glen . Valued Environments . John R. Gold and Jacquelin Burgess , eds. Proximity and Preference: Problems in the Multidimensional Analysis of Large Data Sets . Reginald G. Golledge and John N. Rayner , eds. A Search for Common Ground . Peter Gould and Gunnar Olsson , eds. Geography: Its History and Concepts . Arild Holt -Jensen . A Population Geography . Huw R. Jones . The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography, 3rd ed. Terry G. Jordan and Lester Rowntree . Urban Social Geography: An Introduction . Paul Knox . The Anatomy of Job Loss: The How, Why and Where of Employment Decline . Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan . The Information Society as Post-Industial Society . Yoneji Masuda . Map Librarianship, 2nd ed. Harold Nichols . India: Cultural Patterns and Processes . Allen G. Noble and Ashok K. Dutt , eds. The God that Limps: Science and Technology in the Eighties . Colin Norman . Geography: An Introductory Perspective . Robert E. Norris , Keith D. Harries and John D. Vitek . The Politics of Technology Assessment . David M. O'Brien and Donald A. Marchand . Ethnic Segregation in Cities . Ceri Peach , Vaughan Robinson and Susan Smith , eds. Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980 . Bernard Quinn , Herman Anderson , Martin Bradley , Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver . Energy in Australia: Politics and Economics . Hugh Saddler . Development from Above or Below? The Dialectics of Regional Planning in Developing Countries . Walter B. Stóuhr and D. R. Fraser Taylor , eds. Human Impact on the Ecosystem . Joy Tivy and Greg O'Hare . Plants and People: Vegetation Change in North America . Thomas R. Vale . The Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography from Antiquity to the Space Age . John Noble Wilford .     

Deserts and Aeolian Desertification in China: Book review and some thoughts

Desertification is a global phenomenon that affects about two billion people. It occurs in arid zones where the annual precipitation is below 400 mm, partic- ularly in the marginal areas of the world＇s largest deserts. It is a result of water and wind erosion, over- grazing, global warm-ing, improper soil cultivation, and increased pressure ot population growth, and it causes degradation of soil and natural and agricultural vegetation. The direct result is less food for people and livestock, which influences pop- ulation and animal husbandry fluctuations. Despite ef- forts to combat and reduce desertification, the affected areas are annually increasing.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: The Rice Economy of Asia . Randolph Barker and Robert W. Herdt with Beth Rose. Using Microcomputers: A Guidebook for Writers, Teachers, and Researchers in the Social Sciences . Blaine A. Erie—the Lake that Survived . Noel M. Burns. Geology and Society . Donald R. Coates. Caves and Karst of Kentucky . Percy H. Dougherty, ed. Altered Harvest: Agriculture, Genetics, and the Fate of the World's Food Supply . Jack Doyle. The Middle East and North Africa, A Political Geography . Alasdair Drysdale and Gerald H. Blake. Clamor at the Gates. The New American Immigration . Nathan Glazer, ed. Development and the Landowner: An analysis of the British experience . Robin Goodchild and Richard Munton. Discovering Landscape in England and Wales . Andrew Goudie and Rita Gardner. The Modern Plantation in the Third World . Edgar Graham and Ingrid Floering. Social Relations and Spatial Structures . Derek Gregory and John Urry, eds. The World Food Problem 1950–1980 . David Grigg. Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation in Historical Perspective . Carolyn Hall. The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey Consciousness and the Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey. Reviving Main Street . Deryck Holdsworth, ed. Rural Roads and Poverty Alleviation . John Howe and Peter Richards, eds. Uneven Development in Southern Europe: Studies of Accumulation, Class, Migration and the State . Ray Hudson and Jim Lewis, eds. Karst Geomorphology . J. N. Jennings. The Geomorphology of North-west England . R. H. Johnson, ed. Climate Impact Assessment: Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society . Robert Kates, Jesse Ausubel, Mimi Berberian, eds. Public Service Provision and Urban Development . Andrew Kirby, Paul Knox, and Steven Pinch, ed. State and Market: The Politics of the Public and the Private . Jan-Erik Lane, ed. Living Cities . Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Urban Preservation Policies. World Climatic Systems . John G. Lockwood. Urban Ethnicity in the United States. New Immigrants and Old Minorities . Lionel Maldonaldo and Joan Moore, eds. Culture and Conservation: The Human Dimension in Environmental Planning . Jeffrey A. McNeely and David Pitt, eds. The Andean Past. Land, Societies, and Conflicts . Magnus Mörner. Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management . Norman Myers, ed. Progress in Industrial Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Political Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Rivers and Landscape . Geoff Petts and Ian Foster. Urbanization and Planning in the 3rd World: Spatial Perceptions and Public Participation . Robert B. Potter. One Island, Two Nations? A Political Geographical Analysis of the National Conflict in Ireland . D. G. Pringle. Circulation in Third World Countries . R. Mansell Prothero and Murray Chapman. The Ozarks Outdoors: A Guide for Fishermen, Hunters, and Tourists . Milton D. Rafferty. Suburban Burglary: A Time and a Place for Everything . George Rengert and John Wasilchick. Geomorphology and Soils . K.S. Richards, R.R. Arnett, and S. Ellis, eds. The Homes and Homeless of Post-War Britain . Frederick Shaw. Indochinese Refugees in America . Paul J. Strand and Woodrow Jones, Jr. Wild Horses and Sacred Cows . Richard Symanski. Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve . Philip G. Terrie. The Regional Economic Impact of Technological Change . A.T. Thwaites and R.P. Oakey, eds. The Good Life . Yi-Fu Tuan.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: USA, Eine Geographische Landeskunde , Vol. I, Der Grossraum in Strukturellem, Wandel, 3rd Ed. Helmut Blume . Introduction to Remote Sensing . James B. Campbell . The Sounds of People and Places: Readings in the Geography of American Folk and Popular Music . George O. Carney , ED. Development and Underdevelopment . John Cole . Mobility and Employment in Urban Southeast Asia: Example from Indonesia and the Philippines . Michael A. Costello , Thomas R. Leinbach , AND Richard Ulack . Soviet Asia: Economic Development and National Policy Choices . Leslie Dienes . The Third World City . David Drakakis -Smith . Scholars' Guide to Washington, DC for Cartography and Remote Sensing Imagery (maps, charts, aerial photographs, satellite images, cartographic literature and geographic information systems). Ralph E. Ehrenberg . Population and Development in the Third World . Allan AND Anne Findlay . The Early Mapping of Hawaii . Gary L. Fitzpatrick . Energetics of Physical Environment: Energetic Approaches to Physical Geography . K. J. Gregory , ED. Wildland Recreation: Ecology and Management . William E. Hammitt and David N. Cole . Agricultural Commercialization and Government Policy in Africa . J. Hinderink AND J. J. Sterkenburg . The Dynamics of American Housing . James W. Hughes AND George Sternlieb . Thailand: Buddhist Kingdom as Modern Nation State . Charles F. Keyes . Resolving Locational Conflict . Robert W. Lake , ED. Lands at Risk in the Third World: Local-level Perspectives . Peter D. Little and Michael M. Horowitz , EDS. Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science . David N. Livingstone . Regions: The Economics and Politics of Territory . Ann R. Markusen . Wetlands . William J. Mitsch and James G. Gosselink . Historical Geography: Progress and Prospect . Michael Pacione , ED. Loess and Periglacial Phenomena . Marton P$eacsi and Hugh M. French , EDS. Regional Management of Metropolitan Floodplains, Experience in the United States and Abroad . Rutherford H. Platt , ED. Human Cartography: Mapping the World of Man . Janos Szegö . Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History . Helen H. Tanner , ED. The Botany of Mangroves . P. B. Tomlinson . Urban Spatial Traffic Patterns . Rodney Vaughan . The Night After … Climatic and Biological Consequences of a Nuclear War . Yevgeni Velikhov , ED. Industrial Geography . H. D. Watts . Dictionary of Quotations in Geography . James O. Wheeler and Francis M. Sibley . Vermont Townscape . Norman Wiliams , Jr. , Edmund K. Kellogg and Peter M. Lavigne .     

THE MOST PERFECT EXAMPLE OF AN ALIEN ECOLOGY EVER CONSTRUCTED

Much science-fiction literature is based upon the creation and exploration of alternative environments. Stanley G. Weinbaum's short story, “Parasite Planet,”introduces an unusual environment that may be wrong in the light of recent evidence on Venus but still stimulates the geographical imagination.