Assessing soil erosion rates on manually-tilled hillslopes in the Sichuan Hilly Basin using Cs-137 and Pb-210(ex) measurements

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Surface erosion of GaN bombarded by highly charged Pb-208(q+)-Ions

Surface change of gallium nitride specimens after bombardment by highly charged Pbq+-ions (q = 25, 35) at room temperature is studied by means of atomic force microscopy. The experimental results reveal that the surface of GaN specimens is significantly etched and erased. An unambiguous step-up is observed. The erosion depth not only strongly depends on the charge state of ions, but also is related to the incident angle of Pbq+-ions and the ion dose. The erosion depth of the specimens in 60 incidence (tilted incidence) is significantly deeper than that of the normal incidence. The erosion behaviour of specimens has little dependence on the kinetic energy of ion (E-k = 360, 700 keV). On the other hand, surface roughness of the irradiated area is obviously decreased due to erosion compared with the un-irradiated area. A fiat terrace is formed.

施氮对黄土高原水蚀风蚀交错区土壤矿质氮的影响

研究施氮对黄土高原水蚀风蚀交错区不同土层土壤矿质氮含量和累积量的影响。【方法】试验设作物和施肥2个因子,分析不同施氮水平和不同作物处理下黄土高原水蚀风蚀交错区0~100 cm土层土壤矿质氮的差异。【结果】不同施氮处理对土壤硝态氮含量及矿质氮累积量有明显影响,土壤硝态氮含量和0~100 cm土层土壤矿质氮累积量均随施氮量的增加而增加,但施氮量对土壤铵态氮的影响较小;不同施氮条件下,不同土层土壤硝态氮含量和矿质氮累积量均以0~20 cm土层最高,从总体上看,随着施氮量增加,较深土层(80~100 cm)土壤硝态氮含量和矿质氮累积量亦有所增加;不同作物间,除施90 kg/hm2磷+45 kg/hm2氮处理时,种植黑麦草作物的0~20cm土层土壤NO3--N含量有所增加外,其余施氮处理对种植两种不同作物土壤的NO3--N含量和NH4+-N含量均未产生明显影响,在相同施氮处理下,黑麦草地和苜蓿地0~100 cm土层土壤总矿质氮累积量的差异不明显。【结论】不同水平氮肥处理均对黄土高原水蚀风蚀交错区土壤矿质氮含量及累积量有一定影响,土壤矿质氮含量及累积量均与施氮量密切相关。

水蚀风蚀交错带小流域生态环境综合治理模式研究

:水蚀风蚀交错带是黄土高原侵蚀最严重的地区和黄河下游河床粗泥沙的主要来源区 ,其生态环境脆弱、治理难度大 ,加之晋陕蒙能源基地的大规模开发 ,也带来了新的环境问题。鉴于治黄和煤田开发及生态环境整治的紧迫需要 ,以水蚀风蚀交错带六道沟小流域为试区 ,分析研究了该区水蚀风蚀时空分布规律及脆弱生态环境特征 ,提出以防治水蚀和风蚀为中心 ,以提高生态经济效益和持续发展为目标 ,以基本农田优化结构和高效利用及植被建设为重点 ,建立具有防蚀固沙兼高效生态经济功能的大农业复合生态系统综合治理模式 ,取得了良好的社会与经济效益

天山北麓中段土壤侵蚀影响因素及特征分析

通过对天山北麓中段土地类型、河流径流和植被覆盖等土壤侵蚀影响因素的空间分布特征分析认为 :1天山北麓中段主要侵蚀类型为风蚀、水蚀、冻融侵蚀及人为加速侵蚀 ;2侵蚀产沙类型以及产沙强度在空间上具有明显的垂直变化规律 :沙漠以风力侵蚀、高山和亚高山以冻融侵蚀为强烈侵蚀类型 ,普遍存在微度水力侵蚀 ,局部表现为中度甚至强度 ;3水蚀类型有冰川融雪径流侵蚀和降雨径流侵蚀两种方式。天山北麓中段河流产沙时间上主要在每年的 5月初至 8月末 ,且冰川雪水径流产沙要比雨水径流产沙量大 ,空间上则主要位于海拔 80 0～ 1 50 0 m的由第三纪、第四纪地层和黄土堆积所组成的中、低山丘陵地

黄土区不同土地利用方式坡面土壤含水率的空间变异性研究

为掌握不同土地利用方式下坡面土壤含水率的空间分布特征及其变异规律,利用经典统计学方法对黄土高原水蚀风蚀交错带草地和农地坡面土壤含水率的空间变异性进行了对比研究。结果表明:草地和农地的土壤含水率均值在同一土层深度下差异极显著,但二者在垂直方向、坡长方向的变异程度均为中等变异程度;草地和农地坡面土壤含水率的垂直变化特征不同,前者为降低型,后者在100 cm以上为波动型,以下为稳定型;草地和农地坡面土壤含水率均随坡长的增加呈波浪式变化规律,整体上有增加趋势;将坡面划分为5个坡长或将土层划分为4层以后,草地和农地坡面土壤含水率沿垂直方向、坡长方向的总体变化趋势均没有改变,但由于尺度的扩展获得了一些较大尺度上的水分信息。

Modeling of Hillslope Runoff and Soil Erosion at Rainfall Events Using Cellular Automata Approach

National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China [40225004]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [40471048]

Extreme weathering/erosion during the Miocene Climatic Optimum: Evidence from sediment record in the South China Sea

Investigating the interplay between continental weathering and erosion, climate, and atmospheric CO2 concentrations is significant in understanding the mechanisms that force the Cenozoic global cooling and predicting the future climatic and environmental response to increasing temperature and CO2 levels. The Miocene represents an ideal test case as it encompasses two distinct extreme climate periods, the Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO) with the warmest time since 35 Ma in Earth's history and the transition to the Late Cenozoic icehouse mode with the establishment of the east Antarctic ice sheet. However the precise role of continental weathering during this period of major climate change is poorly understood. Here we show changes in the rates of Miocene continental chemical weathering and physical erosion, which we tracked using the chemical index of alteration ( CIA) and mass accumulation rate ( MAR) respectively from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1146 and 1148 in the South China Sea. We found significantly increased CIA values and terrigenous MARs during the MCO (ca. 17-15 Ma) compared to earlier and later periods suggests extreme continental weathering and erosion at that time. Similar high rates were revealed in the early-middle Miocene of Asia, the European Alps, and offshore Angola. This suggests that rapid sedimentation during the MCO was a global erosion event triggered by climate rather than regional tectonic activity. The close coherence of our records with high temperature, strong precipitation, increased burial of organic carbon and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration during the MCO argues for long-term, close coupling between continental silicate weathering, erosion, climate and atmospheric CO2 during the Miocene. Citation: Wan, S., W. M. Kurschner, P. D. Clift, A. Li, and T. Li (2009), Extreme weathering/ erosion during the Miocene Climatic Optimum: Evidence from sediment record in the South China Sea, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L19706, doi: 10.1029/2009GL040279.

On SAR wind speed ambiguities and related geophysical model functions

Recent investigations show that normalized radar cross sections for C-band microwave sensors decrease under high wind conditions with certain incident angles instead of increase, as is the case for low to moderate wind speeds. This creates the problem of ambiguities in high wind speed retrievals from synthetic aperture radar (SAR). In the present work, four geophysical model functions (GMFs) are studied, namely the high wind C-band model 4 (CMOD4HW), C-band model 5 (CMOD5), the high wind vertical polarized GMF (HWGMF_VV), and the high wind horizontal polarized GMF (HWGMF_HH). Our focus is on model behaviours relative to wind speed ambiguities. We show that, except for CMOD4HW, the other GMFs exhibit the wind speed ambiguity problem. To consider this problem in high wind speed retrievals from SAR, we focus on hurricanes and propose a method to remove the speed ambiguity using the dominant hurricane wind structure.

Speed ambiguity in hurricane wind retrieval from SAR imagery

Under strong ocean surface wind conditions, the normalized radar cross section of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is dampened at certain incident angles, compared with the signals under moderate winds. This causes a wind speed ambiguity problem in wind speed retrievals from SAR, because two solutions may exist for each backscattered signal. This study shows that the problem is ubiquitous in the images acquired by operational space-borne SAR sensors. Moreover, the problem is more severe for the near range and range travelling winds. To remove this ambiguity, a method was developed based on characteristics of the hurricane wind structure. A SAR image of Hurricane Rita (2005) was analysed to demonstrate the wind speed ambiguity problem and the method to improve the wind speed retrievals. Our conclusions suggest that a speed ambiguity removal algorithm must be used for wind retrievals from SAR in intense storms and hurricanes.

A new wind vector algorithm for C-band SAR

Ocean wind speed and wind direction are estimated simultaneously using the normalized radar cross sections or' corresponding to two neighboring (25-km) blocks, within a given synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image, having slightly different incidence angles. This method is motivated by the methodology used for scatterometer data. The wind direction ambiguity is removed by using the direction closest to that given by a buoy or some other source of information. We demonstrate this method with 11 EN-VISAT Advanced SAR sensor images of the Gulf of Mexico and coastal waters of the North Atlantic. Estimated wind vectors are compared with wind measurements from buoys and scatterometer data. We show that this method can surpass other methods in some cases, even those with insufficient visible wind-induced streaks in the SAR images, to extract wind vectors.