Radium-226 and radon-222: concentration in atlantic and pacific oceans

Measurements of radon-222 in seawater suggest the following. The radium-226 content of surface water in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is uniformly close to about 4 x 10(-14) gram per liter. The deep Pacific has a concentration of radium-226 that is four times higher and the deep Atlantic a concentration twice as high as that of the surface. These distribution profiles can be explained by the same particle-settling rate for radium-226 from surface to depth for the two oceans and by a threefold longer residence time of water in the deep Pacific than in the deep Atlantic. The vertical distribution of the deficiency of radon-222 in the surface water of the northwest Pacific Ocean suggests a coefficient of vertical eddy diffusion as high as 120 square centimeters per second and a gas-exchange rate for carbon dioxide in surface water between 14 and 60 moles per square meter per year. Vertical profiles of the excess of radon-222 in near-bottom water of the South Atlantic give coefficients of vertical eddy diffusion ranging from 1.5 to more than 50 square centimeters per second.     

杂交棉种植密度与留叶枝对产量及其构成因素的互作效应研究

以杂交棉鲁棉研25号为试验材料,采用裂区设计,于2008年在山东临清、嘉祥和金乡三地大田条件下研究了种植密度与留叶枝对产量及其构成因素等的互作效应。结果表明：密度和整枝对杂交棉产量、产量构成以及熟相有显著的互作效应。去叶枝情况下,低密度（3.00株/m2）和高密度（7.50株/m2）处理的产量低,中高密度（4.50-6.00株/m2）的产量较高;留叶枝条件下,低密度（3.00株/m2）产量最高,中高密度（4.50-6.00株/m2）的产量居中,而高密度（7.50株/m2）处理的产量还是最低;整枝条件下4.50株/m2密度处理的籽棉和皮棉产量比3.00株/m2分别增产4.93%和5.51%,而留叶枝条件下3.00株/m2的籽棉产量比4.50株/m2高4.03%。低密度（3.00株/m2）下留叶枝的铃数多于去叶枝的铃数,但随密度增加（4.50株/m2及以上）,留叶枝的铃数显著少于去叶枝的铃数;留叶枝和增加密度都会降低铃重。密度与整枝对棉柴比没有显著的互作效应,但都可显著影响生物产量。密度与整枝对棉花早熟性也有互作效应,去叶枝的早熟性好于留叶枝的处理,随密度增加,早熟性降低。     

Age of Canada basin deep waters: a way to estimate primary production for the arctic ocean

An empirical model of carbon flux and (14)C-derived ages of the water in the Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean as a function of depth was used to estimate the long-term rate of primary production within this region. An estimate can be made because the deep waters of the Canadian Basin are isolated from the world oceans by the Lomonosov Ridge (sill depth about 1500 meters). Below the sill, the age of the water correlates with increased nutrients and oxygen utilization and thus provides a way to model the average flux of organic material into the deep basin over a long time period. The (14)C ages of the deep water in the Canada Basin were about 1000 years, the carbon flux across the 1500-meter isobath was 0.3 gram of carbon per square meter per year, and the total production was 9 to 14 grams of carbon per square meter per year. Such estimates provide a baseline for understanding the role of the Arctic Ocean in global carbon cycling.     

History of atmospheric lead deposition since 12,370 (14)C yr BP from a peat bog, jura mountains, switzerland

A continuous record of atmospheric lead since 12,370 carbon-14 years before the present (14C yr BP) is preserved in a Swiss peat bog. Enhanced fluxes caused by climate changes reached their maxima 10, 590 (14)C yr BP (Younger Dryas) and 8230 (14)C yr BP. Soil erosion caused by forest clearing and agricultural tillage increased lead deposition after 5320 (14)C yr BP. Increasing lead/scandium and decreasing lead-206/lead-207 beginning 3000 (14)C yr BP indicate the beginning of lead pollution from mining and smelting, and anthropogenic sources have dominated lead emissions ever since. The greatest lead flux (15.7 milligrams per square meter per year in A.D. 1979) was 1570 times the natural, background value (0.01 milligram per square meter per year from 8030 to 5320 (14)C yr BP).     

Vertical nitrate fluxes in the oligotrophic ocean

The vertical flux of nitrate across the thermocline in the upper ocean imposes a rigorous constraint on the rate of export of organic carbon from the surface layer of the sea. This export is the primary means by which the oceans can serve as a sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide. For the oligotrophic open ocean regions, which make up more than 75% of the world's ocean, the rate of export is currently uncertain by an order of magnitude. For most of the year, the vertical flux of nitrate is that due to vertical turbulent transport of deep water rich in nitrate into the relatively impoverished surface layer. Direct measurements of rates of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation, coupled with highly resolved vertical profiles of nitrate and density in the oligotrophic eastern Atlantic showed that the rate of transport, averaged over 2 weeks, was 0.14 (0.002 to 0.89, 95% confidence interval) millimole of nitrate per square meter per day and was statistically no different from the integrated rate of nitrate uptake as measured by incorporation of (15)N-labeled nitrate. The stoichiometrically equivalent loss of carbon from the upper ocean, which is the relevant quantity for the carbon dioxide and climate question, is then fixed at 0.90 (0.01 to 5.70) millimole of carbon per square meter per day. These rates are much lower than recent estimates based on in situ changes in oxygen over annual scales; they are consistent with a biologically unproductive oligotrophic ocean.     

Oxygen consumption in pelagic marine sediments

Measurements in the interstitial waters of pelagic red clay and carbonate ooze sediments in the central equatorial Pacific show that the dissolved oxygen content decreases with depth and levels off at nonzero values. The supply of reactive organic carbon introduced by bioturbation limits oxygen consumption at depth in the sediment. These gradients should produce diffusive fluxes across the sediment-water interface that average about 8.8 x 10(-14) mole per square centimeter per second or 0.08 milliliter per square meter per hour.     

马铃薯脱毒微型种薯生产技术的研究

在无虫网(温)室用扦插法繁殖马铃薯脱毒原原种,成活率99.2%,种植密度400株/m²,经50天左右,可产微型薯近600粒/m²,平均百粒重148.8g,其中1～3g的微薯占50%以上。日产薯当量约为10粒/m²·d,繁殖系数可达1:300以上。     

半干旱区梯田冬小麦膜侧沟播栽培密度试验

试验共设5个密度处理,设计播量区间240～660万粒/hm2,变幅105万粒/hm2。结果表明,以庄浪县为代表的旱寒区冬小麦膜侧沟播栽培靠主茎成穗,分蘖成穗率较低。在生产上,合理的群体密度基本苗360万株/hm2,即播量450万粒/hm2左右。     

窄冠速生刺槐培育技术研究

为了研究窄冠速生刺槐在惠水山区的培育技术,进行了插根育苗密度试验和幼林施肥试验。试验结果表明:窄冠速生刺槐最适宜的育苗密度是17株/m2(20 cm×30 cm),其次是22株/m2(15 cm×30 cm),最差50株/m2(10 cm×20 cm);幼林生长第1年最优的施肥组合方式为尿素25 g/株、氯化钾40 g/株。     

A potent greenhouse gas identified in the atmosphere: SF(5)CF(3)

We detected a compound previously unreported in the atmosphere, trifluoromethyl sulfur pentafluoride (SF(5)CF(3)). Measurements of its infrared absorption cross section show SF(5)CF(3) to have a radiative forcing of 0.57 watt per square meter per parts per billion. This is the largest radiative forcing, on a per molecule basis, of any gas found in the atmosphere to date. Antarctic firn measurements show it to have grown from near zero in the late 1960s to about 0.12 part per trillion in 1999. It is presently growing by about 0.008 part per trillion per year, or 6% per year. Stratospheric profiles of SF(5)CF(3) suggest that it is long-lived in the atmosphere (on the order of 1000 years).     

Estimate of the contribution of biologically produced dimethyl sulfide to the global sulfur cycle

Atmospheric dimethyl sulfide (DMS) measurements were made on the Atlantic Coast of the United States at Wallops Island and Cape Henry, Virginia, during June 1975. The very low concentrations, typically less than 30 parts per trillion observed at the Cape Henry site, were thought to result from the smog chemistry associated with the Norfolk metropolitan area. Atmospheric DMS concentrations at the Wallops Island site were much higher, having a geometric mean of 58 parts per trillion and a geometric standard deviation of 2.1. At this site the DMS source strength was estimated to be 6 milligrams of sulfur per square meter per year. Because of wind conditions during this experiment, the DMS source strength is thought to be representative of the DMS source strength of the ocean in the Wallops Island area and is much less than the 130 milligrams of sulfur per square meter per year needed to balance the ocean-atmosphere portion of the global sulfur budget.     

三倍体毛白杨地上凋落物对林龄的响应

2008年3月至2009年3月,对不同林龄(3a、5a、6a、7a)的三倍体毛白杨纸浆林地上凋落物动态变化进行分析研究。结果表明,不同林龄林分的凋落物量随林龄的增加而增加,全年凋落物总量为(216.03±59.73)～(482.38±101.34)g·m-2·a-1;凋落物的月动态变化表现为单峰曲线,最大凋落量出现在10月份;通过凋落物归还林地的N、P量及能量均随林龄的增加而增加,表现出与凋落物量相同的月动态规律。由凋落物归还的N为1.84～2.89g·m-2·a-1,归还的P为0.58～1.17g·m-2·a-1,归还到林地的能量为3.96×106～8.89×106J·m-2·a-1。     

The impact of boreal forest fire on climate warming

We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice, and postfire changes in surface albedo. The net effect of all agents was to increase radiative forcing during the first year (34 +/- 31 Watts per square meter of burned area), but to decrease radiative forcing when averaged over an 80-year fire cycle (-2.3 +/- 2.2 Watts per square meter) because multidecadal increases in surface albedo had a larger impact than fire-emitted greenhouse gases. This result implies that future increases in boreal fire may not accelerate climate warming.     

Direct Radiative Forcing by Smoke from Biomass Burning

Airborne measurements in smoke from biomass burning in Brazil have yielded optical parameters that permit an improved assessment of the effects of smoke on Earth's radiation balance. The global-mean direct radiative forcing due to smoke from biomass burning worldwide is estimated to be no more than about -0.3 watt per square meter (cooling), compared with +2.45 watts per square meter (warming) due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases. On regional scales, direct radiative forcing due to smoke can be large and might indirectly affect global climate.     

Deposition of DDE and polychlorinated biphenyls in dated sediments of the Santa Barbara basin

Analysis of dated oceanic sediments from the Santa Barbara Basin of the Southern California Bight has shown that deposition of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) began about 1945 and that DDE [1,1-dichloro-2-2-bis(p-chloro-phenyl)ethylene] first appeared in sediments deposited about 1952. Concentrations of both show a progressive increase through 1967; estimated deposition rates (in grams per square meter per year) in 1967 of DDE and PCB were 1.9 x 10(-4) and 1.2 x 10(-4), respectively.     

Do satellites detect trends in surface solar radiation?

Long-term variations in solar radiation at Earth's surface (S) can affect our climate, the hydrological cycle, plant photosynthesis, and solar power. Sustained decreases in S have been widely reported from about the year 1960 to 1990. Here we present an estimate of global temporal variations in S by using the longest available satellite record. We observed an overall increase in S from 1983 to 2001 at a rate of 0.16 watts per square meter (0.10%) per year; this change is a combination of a decrease until about 1990, followed by a sustained increase. The global-scale findings are consistent with recent independent satellite observations but differ in sign and magnitude from previously reported ground observations. Unlike ground stations, satellites can uniformly sample the entire globe.     

Autumn bloom of antarctic pack-ice algae

An autumn bloom of sea-ice algae was observed from February to June of 1992 within the upper 0.4 meter of multiyear ice in the Western Weddell Sea, Antarctica. The bloom was reliant on the freezing of porous areas within the ice that initiated a vertical exchange of nutrient-depleted brine with nutrient-rich seawater. This replenishment of nutrients to the algal community allowed the net production of 1760 milligrams of carbon and 200 milligrams of nitrogen per square meter of ice. The location of this autumn bloom is unlike that of spring blooms previously observed in both polar regions.     

山东生态条件下纯作春棉的适宜密度研究

以常规抗虫棉鲁棉研28号为材料,在山东广饶、夏津和冠县三地大田条件下纯作种植,研究了不同密度（3.00～9.00株/m2）下的棉花产量及产量构成。结果表明,种植密度对纯作抗虫棉产量、产量构成以及熟相均有显著的影响,对经济产量的调控效应三个试验点大致相同,都随密度的增加呈现先升后降的趋势。即低密度（3.00株/m2）和高密度（9.00株/m2）处理的产量低,中高密度（4.50～7.50株/m2）的产量较高。三个点平均,6.00株/m2密度处理的籽棉和皮棉产量与4.50株/m2处理相当,但比3.00株/m2分别增产10.1%和12.0%,比9.00株/m2处理分别增产22.3%和22.8%。提高密度能提高单位面积的生物产量和单位面积铃数,但可显著降低棉柴比、铃重和早熟性。密度偏高和偏低都不能获得较高的经济产量和协调的产量结构,山东春棉纯作条件下适宜种植密度为4.50～6.00株/m2。     

小麦单位面积粒数与产量性状的遗传相关和选择效果研究

对10个小麦品种（系）的单位面积粒数和产量性状的遗传相关、遗传参数和选择效果进行了研究。结果表明：产量三因素与籽粒产量相关不显著,单位面积粒数与籽粒产量的表型正相关达极显著水平,遗传正相关达显著水平,其对籽粒产量的相对选择效果高于产量三因素,因而研究单位面积粒数比研究产量三因素更具实际意义。     

高产水稻的产量构成及其生长发育规律

对水稻产量１１７１５．９ｋｇ／ｈｍ＾２的构成及其生长发育规律进行了研究。结果表明,高产田每平方米有效穗数在４５０个左右,有效分蘖率在８６％以上,每平方米实粒数达４．２万粒,齐穗期叶面积指数（ＬＡＩ）为６．８,齐穗期中层叶片的消光系数为０．６１,下层叶片的光照强度在光补偿点以上。