An experiment using the Community Climate System Model(CCSM4), a participant of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase-5(CMIP5), is analyzed to assess the skills of this model in simulating and predicting the...An experiment using the Community Climate System Model(CCSM4), a participant of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase-5(CMIP5), is analyzed to assess the skills of this model in simulating and predicting the climate variabilities associated with the oceanic channel dynamics across the Indo-Pacific Oceans. The results of these analyses suggest that the model is able to reproduce the observed lag correlation between the oceanic anomalies in the southeastern tropical Indian Ocean and those in the cold tongue in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean at a time lag of 1 year. This success may be largely attributed to the successful simulation of the interannual variations of the Indonesian Throughflow, which carries the anomalies of the Indian Ocean Dipole(IOD) into the western equatorial Pacific Ocean to produce subsurface temperature anomalies, which in turn propagate to the eastern equatorial Pacific to generate ENSO. This connection is termed the "oceanic channel dynamics" and is shown to be consistent with the observational analyses. However, the model simulates a weaker connection between the IOD and the interannual variability of the Indonesian Throughflow transport than found in the observations. In addition, the model overestimates the westerly wind anomalies in the western-central equatorial Pacific in the year following the IOD, which forces unrealistic upwelling Rossby waves in the western equatorial Pacific and downwelling Kelvin waves in the east. This assessment suggests that the CCSM4 coupled climate system has underestimated the oceanic channel dynamics and overestimated the atmospheric bridge processes.展开更多
Trans-sobrerol （Sob） and 8-p-menthen-1,2-diol （Limo-diol） are the primary products in the atmospheric oxidation of α-pinene and limonene, respectively. Because of their low volatility, they associate more likely ...Trans-sobrerol （Sob） and 8-p-menthen-1,2-diol （Limo-diol） are the primary products in the atmospheric oxidation of α-pinene and limonene, respectively. Because of their low volatility, they associate more likely to the liquid particles in the atmosphere, where they are subject to the aqueous phase oxidation by the atmospheric oxidants. In this work, through experimental and theoretical study, we first provide the rate constants of Sob and Limo-diol reacting with hydroxyl radical （.OH） in aqueous solution at room temperature of 3044-3 K and 1 atm pressure, which are （3.05±0.5）×10 9 and （4.57±0.2）×10 9 L/（mol.s）, respectively. Quantum chemistry calculations have also been employed to demonstrate the solvent effect on the rate constants in aqueous phase and the calculated results agree well with the measurements. Some reaction products have been identified based on liquid chromatography combined with mass spectroscopy and theoretical calculations.展开更多
The transition of strong-interaction matter from the hadronic phase to the quark-gluon plasma phase is a rapid crossover but not a true phase transition in nature.The true phase transition of strong-interaction matter...The transition of strong-interaction matter from the hadronic phase to the quark-gluon plasma phase is a rapid crossover but not a true phase transition in nature.The true phase transition of strong-interaction matter is expected to exist only in certain limits,e.g.chiral limit of massless quarks and etc.In this contribution to CNPC2023 Special Issue we present our recent studies on the true phase transition of strong-interaction matter in the chiral limit of massless quarks as well as its microscopic origin.The study is based on(2+1)-flavor lattice QCD simulations using highly improved staggered fermions,with pion masses ranging from 160 MeV down to 55 MeV.Utilizing a newly proposed method to compute the quark mass derivatives of the Dirac eigenvalue spectrum on the lattice,it is found that the axial U(1)anomaly is still manifested at 1.6T_(c),with a microscopic origin consistent with the dilute instanton gas approximation.Furthermore,based on lattice QCD results and a generalized Banks-Casher relation,it is found that the macroscopic singularity of the chiral phase transition is encoded in the correlation of the Dirac eigenvalue spectrum.Future research directions along these findings are also discussed,including the investigation of the temperature range between T_(c) and 1.6 T_(c) to understand the breakdown of the dilute instanton gas approximation and its connection to the chiral phase transition.展开更多
Background -We evaluated whether contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography(CE-MDCT) might characterize myocardial infarct(MI) with patterns similar to those obtained by contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance(C...Background -We evaluated whether contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography(CE-MDCT) might characterize myocardial infarct(MI) with patterns similar to those obtained by contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance(CE-MR)and studied the underlying mechanisms. Methods and Results -In vivo infarct characterization by CE-MDCT was shown to be feasible between 4 and 20 minutes after contrast injection in 7 pigs with MI. Subsequently, in 16 patients with acute MI and 21 patients with chronic MI, contrast patterns by CE-MDCT were related to CE-MR. Eighteen patients had hypoenhanced regions on early CE-MDCT images at the time of coronary imaging, and 34 patients had hyperenhanced regions on images acquired 10 minutes later. On a segmental basis, there was moderately good concordance of early hypoenhanced regions(92%, κ=0.54, P< 0.001) and late hyperenhanced regions(82%, κ=0.61, P< 0.001) between CE-MDCT and CE-MR. Absolute sizes of early hypoenhanced(6±16 versus 7±16 g, P=0.25) and late hyperenhanced(36±34 versus 31±40 g, P=0.14) regions were similar on CE-MDCT and CE-MR and were highly correlated(r=0.93, P< 0.001 and r=0.89, P< 0.001 respectively). In 8 retrogradely perfused infarcted rabbit hearts, contrast kinetics of iomeprol were similar to gadodiamide, ie, slow wash in(8.7±6.7 versus 1.2±0.3 minutes, P< 0.001) in infarct core and slow washout(20±12 versus 2.5±0.5 minutes, P< 0.001) in both infarct core and rim compared with the remote region. Conclusions -Because iodated contrast agents have similar kinetics in infarcted and noninfarcted myocardium as gadolinium DPTA, CE-MDCT can characterize acute and chronic MI with contrast patterns similar to CE-MR. CE-MDCT may thus provide important information on infarct size and viability at the time of noninvasive coronary imaging.展开更多
基金the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)(No.2012CB956000)the Strategic Priority Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDA11010301)+2 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41421005,U1406401)the Public Welfare Grant of China Meteorological Administration(No.GYHY201306018)the Global Change and Air-Sea Interactions of State Oceanic Administration(No.GASI-03-01-01-05)
文摘An experiment using the Community Climate System Model(CCSM4), a participant of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase-5(CMIP5), is analyzed to assess the skills of this model in simulating and predicting the climate variabilities associated with the oceanic channel dynamics across the Indo-Pacific Oceans. The results of these analyses suggest that the model is able to reproduce the observed lag correlation between the oceanic anomalies in the southeastern tropical Indian Ocean and those in the cold tongue in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean at a time lag of 1 year. This success may be largely attributed to the successful simulation of the interannual variations of the Indonesian Throughflow, which carries the anomalies of the Indian Ocean Dipole(IOD) into the western equatorial Pacific Ocean to produce subsurface temperature anomalies, which in turn propagate to the eastern equatorial Pacific to generate ENSO. This connection is termed the "oceanic channel dynamics" and is shown to be consistent with the observational analyses. However, the model simulates a weaker connection between the IOD and the interannual variability of the Indonesian Throughflow transport than found in the observations. In addition, the model overestimates the westerly wind anomalies in the western-central equatorial Pacific in the year following the IOD, which forces unrealistic upwelling Rossby waves in the western equatorial Pacific and downwelling Kelvin waves in the east. This assessment suggests that the CCSM4 coupled climate system has underestimated the oceanic channel dynamics and overestimated the atmospheric bridge processes.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （No.21177041 and No.21107026）, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities （No.2013ZZ0073）, and the Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry.
文摘Trans-sobrerol （Sob） and 8-p-menthen-1,2-diol （Limo-diol） are the primary products in the atmospheric oxidation of α-pinene and limonene, respectively. Because of their low volatility, they associate more likely to the liquid particles in the atmosphere, where they are subject to the aqueous phase oxidation by the atmospheric oxidants. In this work, through experimental and theoretical study, we first provide the rate constants of Sob and Limo-diol reacting with hydroxyl radical （.OH） in aqueous solution at room temperature of 3044-3 K and 1 atm pressure, which are （3.05±0.5）×10 9 and （4.57±0.2）×10 9 L/（mol.s）, respectively. Quantum chemistry calculations have also been employed to demonstrate the solvent effect on the rate constants in aqueous phase and the calculated results agree well with the measurements. Some reaction products have been identified based on liquid chromatography combined with mass spectroscopy and theoretical calculations.
文摘The transition of strong-interaction matter from the hadronic phase to the quark-gluon plasma phase is a rapid crossover but not a true phase transition in nature.The true phase transition of strong-interaction matter is expected to exist only in certain limits,e.g.chiral limit of massless quarks and etc.In this contribution to CNPC2023 Special Issue we present our recent studies on the true phase transition of strong-interaction matter in the chiral limit of massless quarks as well as its microscopic origin.The study is based on(2+1)-flavor lattice QCD simulations using highly improved staggered fermions,with pion masses ranging from 160 MeV down to 55 MeV.Utilizing a newly proposed method to compute the quark mass derivatives of the Dirac eigenvalue spectrum on the lattice,it is found that the axial U(1)anomaly is still manifested at 1.6T_(c),with a microscopic origin consistent with the dilute instanton gas approximation.Furthermore,based on lattice QCD results and a generalized Banks-Casher relation,it is found that the macroscopic singularity of the chiral phase transition is encoded in the correlation of the Dirac eigenvalue spectrum.Future research directions along these findings are also discussed,including the investigation of the temperature range between T_(c) and 1.6 T_(c) to understand the breakdown of the dilute instanton gas approximation and its connection to the chiral phase transition.
文摘Background -We evaluated whether contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography(CE-MDCT) might characterize myocardial infarct(MI) with patterns similar to those obtained by contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance(CE-MR)and studied the underlying mechanisms. Methods and Results -In vivo infarct characterization by CE-MDCT was shown to be feasible between 4 and 20 minutes after contrast injection in 7 pigs with MI. Subsequently, in 16 patients with acute MI and 21 patients with chronic MI, contrast patterns by CE-MDCT were related to CE-MR. Eighteen patients had hypoenhanced regions on early CE-MDCT images at the time of coronary imaging, and 34 patients had hyperenhanced regions on images acquired 10 minutes later. On a segmental basis, there was moderately good concordance of early hypoenhanced regions(92%, κ=0.54, P< 0.001) and late hyperenhanced regions(82%, κ=0.61, P< 0.001) between CE-MDCT and CE-MR. Absolute sizes of early hypoenhanced(6±16 versus 7±16 g, P=0.25) and late hyperenhanced(36±34 versus 31±40 g, P=0.14) regions were similar on CE-MDCT and CE-MR and were highly correlated(r=0.93, P< 0.001 and r=0.89, P< 0.001 respectively). In 8 retrogradely perfused infarcted rabbit hearts, contrast kinetics of iomeprol were similar to gadodiamide, ie, slow wash in(8.7±6.7 versus 1.2±0.3 minutes, P< 0.001) in infarct core and slow washout(20±12 versus 2.5±0.5 minutes, P< 0.001) in both infarct core and rim compared with the remote region. Conclusions -Because iodated contrast agents have similar kinetics in infarcted and noninfarcted myocardium as gadolinium DPTA, CE-MDCT can characterize acute and chronic MI with contrast patterns similar to CE-MR. CE-MDCT may thus provide important information on infarct size and viability at the time of noninvasive coronary imaging.
