Improvements to air mass calculations for ground-based infrared measurements

High-resolution ground-based infrared solar spectra are routinely recorded at the Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change (NDSC) stations. These data sets play a key role in providing a long-term record of atmospheric composition and their links to climate change. The analysis of observed infrared spectra involves comparison to a computer-modeled atmosphere where knowledge of the air mass distribution is an essential component. This note summarises improvements made to an existing and widely used computer code (FSCATM) to perform refractive ray-tracing and calculation of the air mass distribution. Changes were made towards higher vertical resolution in the troposphere and increased numerical precision. The revised FSCATM improves the analysis of infrared spectra mostly through the more accurate representation of the temperature profile. Air mass differences with respect to earlier versions are documented and are typically <0.7%, exceptions being extreme cases of inversion layers. The current version provides ray tracing and air mass calculations for any terrestrial observation site. The output files are reported in a format compatible with the SFIT and SFIT2 retrieval algorithms, which are widely used for NDSC infrared atmospheric studies. The improved computer code, documentation, reference profiles, and test cases are available electronically.     

Fiber laser intracavity absorption spectroscopy for in situ multicomponent gas analysis in the atmosphere and combustion environments

Intracavity absorption spectroscopy with a broadband Er³⁺-doped fiber laser is applied for the measurements of several molecular species revealing quantitative information about the gas concentration, temperature and chemical reactions in flames. The spectral range of measurements extends from 6200 cm⁻¹ to 6550 cm⁻¹ with the proper choice of the fiber length and by moving an intracavity lens. With a pulsed laser applied in this experiment, the sensitivity to absorption corresponds to an effective absorption path length of 3 km assuming the cavity is completely filled with the sample. For a cw laser, the effective absorption path length is estimated to be 50 km. Absorption spectra of various molecules such as CO₂, CO, H₂O, H₂S, C₂H₂ and OH were recorded separately in the cell and/or in low-pressure methane and propane flames. The presented measurements demonstrate simultaneous in situ detection of three molecular products of chemical reactions at different flame locations. Variation of the relative strengths of OH absorption lines with the temperature enables the estimation of the local flame temperature. The sensitivity of this laser does not depend on the broadband cavity losses and it can be used for in situ measurements of absorption spectra in hostile environments such as contaminated samples, flames or combustion engines. The presented technique can be applied for various diagnostic purposes, such as in environmental, combustion and plasma research, in medicine and in the determination of stable isotope ratios.     

Generation and propagation of a picosecond acoustic pulse at a buried interface: time-resolved x-ray diffraction measurements

We report on the propagation of coherent acoustic wave packets in (001) surface oriented Al0.3Ga0.7As/GaAs heterostructure, generated through localized femtosecond photoexcitation of the GaAs. Transient structural changes in both the substrate and film are measured with picosecond time-resolved x-ray diffraction. The data indicate an elastic response consisting of unipolar compression pulses of a few hundred picosecond duration traveling along [001] and [001] directions that are produced by predominately impulsive stress. The transmission and reflection of the strain pulses are in agreement with an acoustic mismatch model of the heterostructure and free-space interfaces.     

Exchange field induced magnetoresistance in colossal magnetoresistance manganites.

The effect of an exchange field on the electrical transport in thin films of metallic ferromagnetic manganites has been investigated. The exchange field was induced both by direct exchange coupling in a ferromagnet/antiferromagnet multilayer and by indirect exchange interaction in a ferromagnet/paramagnet metallic superlattice. The electrical resistance of the metallic manganite layers was found to be determined by the magnitude of the vector sum of the effective exchange field and the external magnetic field.     

免跟踪透射式太阳聚光器的设计

针对目前太阳聚光器中因为自动跟踪系统故障率高导致使用成本大幅度增加的主要制约因素,在多年来探讨有效提高太阳能密度的基础上,提出了免跟踪线性菲涅尔透射式太阳聚光器设计的新思路,并对其结构形式和工作原理进行了阐述.     

Carriers and sideband pairs and their analogues in physics and Biology

This is a further development of the author's paper A Unified Theory of Biology and Physics. It is found that male and female in biology, as well as particle and antiparticle in physics, are analogues of symmetrical sideband pairs in communication theory. This gives a new point of view from which to investigate the significance and characteristics of these different paired entities.These findings are intimately related to the fact that there are two transform domains of representation of entities in all the cases involved. They are the somatic and the genetic domains in biology, the configuration domain and the domain of conserved observables in physics, and the time and frequency domains in communication.     

Nucleon internal structure: a new set of quark, gluon momentum, angular momentum operators and parton distribution functions

It is unavoidable to deal with the quark and gluon momentum and angular momentum contributions to the nucleon momentum and spin in the study of nucleon internal structure. However we never have the quark and gluon momentum, orbital angular momentum and gluon spin operators which satisfy both the gauge invariance and the canonical momentum and angular momentum commutation relation. The conflicts between the gauge invariance and canonical quantization requirement of these operators are discussed. A new set of quark and gluon momentum, orbital angular momentum and spin operators, which satisfy both the gauge invariance and canonical momentum and angular momentum commutation relation, are proposed. The key point to achieve such a proper decomposition is to separate the gauge field into the pure gauge and the gauge covariant parts. The same conflicts also exist in QED and quantum mechanics and have been solved in the same manner. The impacts of this new decomposition to the nucleon internal structure are discussed.     

Estimates for restrictions of monotone operators on the cone of decreasing functions in Orlicz space

We introduce a number of notions related to the Lyapunov transformation of linear differential operators with unbounded operator coefficients generated by a family of evolution operators. We prove statements about similar operators related to the Lyapunov transformation and describe their spectral properties. One of the main results of the paper is a similarity theorem for a perturbed differential operator with constant operator coefficient, an operator which is the generator of a bounded group of operators. For the perturbation, we consider the operator ofmultiplication by a summable operator function. The almost periodicity (at infinity) of the solutions of the corresponding homogeneous differential equation is established.     

45fs钛宝石强激光场中Ar与Ne气的高次谐波辐射的实验研究 *

以Ar气为工作介质 ,研究了激光强度、工作介质密度对高次谐波辐射的影响 .结果表明 ,足够高的激光强度和气体密度是获得更大强度更高次谐波的基本条件 .观察到可分辨的最高谐波次数为第81次(相应的波长为969nm) ,不可分辨的谐波辐射不低于第91次 (相应的波长为863nm) ,这是目前世界上从Ar气中观察到的最高级次(最短波长)的谐波辐射 .理论分析表明 ,更高次谐波是从Ar⁺产生的 .以Ne气为工作介质 ,通过观察Ne⁺的特征谱线 ,研究了气体电离产生的自由电子对高次谐波辐射的破坏作用 .目前 ,以Ne气为工作介质观察到的可分辨的最高次谐波为第107次(相应波长为7.33nm) .而观察到的不可分辨的谐波辐射不低于第131次谐波(相应波长短于5.99nm) .     

农作物冠层光谱信息的施肥管理分区研究

随着地面遥感技术的不断发展,越来越多的农作物冠层光谱检测传感器被应用到了农业生产,其中应用较为广泛的就是Greenseeker植物光谱检测仪,利用Greenseeker植物光谱检测仪可以获取农作物冠层光谱信息归一化植被指数(NDVI)数据,从而能够进行农作物的施肥管理分区的划分,依据划分好的施肥管理分区可以实现有针对性的变量施肥。模糊c-均值(FCM)算法是划分农作物施肥管理分区常用的算法,但是模糊c-均值算法具有一定的局限性,就是在计算过程中随着NDVI数据量的增加会不断进行数据的迭代计算,从而会影响施肥管理分区划分的速度。在模糊c-均值算法的基础上提出一种基于模型的模糊c-均值(MFCM)算法,基于模型的模糊c-均值算法在划分农作物施肥管理分区过程中不必在每获取一组数据时就对全部数据进行迭代计算,可有效提高划分施肥管理分区的速度。通过搭建的农作物冠层光谱信息采集平台获取大豆和玉米的NDVI数据,利用基于模型的模糊c-均值算法划分大豆和玉米的施肥管理分区,使用分区评价指标轮廓系数(SC)和调整兰德指数(ARI)评价划分施肥管理分区的效果。结果表明,随着获取的NDVI数据量的不断增加,...