Theory and detection scheme of seismic EM signals transferred into the atmosphere from the oceanic and continental lithosphere

Due to the compound structure of the medium and large portions of energy transferred, a seismic excitation in the oceanic or continental lithosphere disturbs all types of geophysical fields. To investigate the problem of electromagnetic (EM) disturbances in the atmosphere from the seismically activated lithosphere, we have formulated two mathematical models of interaction of fields of different physical nature resulting in arising of the low-frequency (from 0.1 to 10 Hz by amplitude of a few hundreds of pT) EM signals in the atmosphere. First we have considered the EM field generation in the moving oceanic lithosphere and then in the moving continental one. For both cases, the main physical principles and geological data were applied for formulation of the model and characteristics of the computed signals of different nature agree with measurements of other authors. On the basis of the 2D model of the seismo-hydro-EM-temperature interaction in the lithosphere–Ocean–atmosphere domain, a block-scheme of a multisensory vertically distributed (from a seafloor up to the ionosphere) tsunami precursors’ detection system is described. On the basis of the 3D model of the seismo-EM interaction in a lithosphere–atmosphere domain, we explain why Prof. Kopytenko (Inst. IZMIRAN of Russian Acad. Sci.) and co-authors were able to estimate location of the future seismic epicenter area from their magnetic field measurements in the atmosphere near the earth’s surface.     

大自然的契友——隐逸诗人华兹华斯和陶渊明

古今中外,有许多诗人创作了与自然有关的不朽名篇,抒发对大自然的热爱,以及从大自然中得到无尽的愉悦。通过赏析英国、中国文学史上两位杰出诗人代表威廉.华兹华斯和陶渊明的诗作,分析二人诗作的相同之处,研究大自然对诗人创作的影响。     

Proposal of application of same beam VLBI measurements in precision orbit determination of lunar orbiter and return capsule and lunar gravity field simulation in Chang’E-3 mission

High accuracy differenced phase delay can be obtained by observing multiple point frequencies of two spacecraft using the same beam Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) technology. Its contribution in lunar spacecraft precision orbit determination has been performed during the Japanese lunar exploration mission SELENE. In consideration that there will be an orbiter and a return capsule flying around the moon during the Chinese lunar exploration future mission Chang’E-3, the contributions of the same beam VLBI in spacecraft precision orbit determination and lunar gravity field solution have been investigated. Our results show that the accuracy of precision orbit determination can be improved more than one order of magnitude after including the same beam VLBI measurements. There are significant improvements in accuracy of low and medium degree coefficients of lunar gravity field model obtained from combination of two way range and Doppler and the same beam VLBI measurements than the one that only uses two way range and Doppler data, and the accuracy of precision orbit determination can reach meter level.     

Long term variability of total ozone yearly minima and maxima in the latitudinal belt from 20°N to 60°N derived from the merged satellite data in the period 1979–2008

This paper deals with the behavior of the annual cycle of total ozone (ACO3) and its amplitude (O3_AMP) in the latitudinal belt from 20°N to 60°N. The prominent feature of the O3_AMP spatial pattern is the sharp maximum over the north-east coast of Asia. The spatial correlation of O3_AMP with its highest/lowest value varies with location: in the middle latitudes it correlates predominantly with the values of annual maxima of total ozone, while in the lower latitudes, there is a strong negative correlation with the values of ACO3 minima. Regarding temporal evolution of O3_AMP we detected distinct negative trend in the period of 1979–1995 which is caused by stronger negative trend of maxima than the negative trend of minima in ACO3. In the period 1995–2008 we found the positive trend of ACO3 in most regions due to stronger positive trend of maxima than that of minima in ACO3 in the middle latitudes (especially over the central and northern Europe and the north-east Asia). In the lower latitudes a weak negative trend of O3_AMP was identified and linked to weaker positive trend of maxima than positive trend of minima in ACO3. The behavior of the temporal trends was linked to the changes in Brewer–Dobson circulation and to the trends of tropopause pressure.     

空间近程高速相对运动方程的状态转移矩阵

分析了空间近程高速相对运动的特点,建立了描述近程高速相对运动的线性微分方程组,并给出了状态转移矩阵与解析解。仿真结果表明:对于HEO-GEO近程高速相对运动,所建方程的相对距离计算误差仅为16 cm,不足Hill方程计算误差的15%。所给出的状态转移矩阵对于实现空间目标拦截等任务的实时高精度相对导航和制导算法具有一定的应用价值。     

GRAS radio occultation on-board of Metop

The GRAS radio occultation instrument is flying on Metop-A and belongs to the EPS (EUMETSAT Polar System). GRAS observes GPS satellites in occultation. Within this work, validation of GRAS closed-loop bending angle data against co-located ECMWF profiles extracted from model fields and occultations from the COSMIC constellation of radio occultation instruments is shown. Results confirm the high data quality and robustness, where GRAS shows lower bending angle noise against ECMWF than COSMIC and in terms of occultations per day, one GRAS ≈ two COSMIC satellites. This is partly due to the operational setup of EPS. For the investigation we focus on two observation periods where updates in the ECMWF (March 2009) and COSMIC processing (October 2009) have improved the statistics further. Bending angles biases agree to within 0.5% against ECMWF and to within 0.1% against COSMIC after the updates for altitudes between 8 and 40 km. In addition, we also analyze the impact of the Metop orbit processing on the derived GRAS bending angle data, where different GPS and Metop orbit solutions are analyzed. Results show that a batch based orbit processing would improve in particular the bending angle bias behavior at higher altitudes. Requirements for the operational processing of GRAS data are briefly outlined, options to ease the use of other positioning system satellites in the near future are discussed. A simplified analysis on the observation of several of these systems, e.g. GPS and Galileo, from one platform shows that about 16% of occultations are found within 300 km, ±3 h, thus providing similar information. A constellation of 2 GRAS like instruments would have only about 10% close-by.     

基于分段连续推力的晕轨道控制方法

基于小偏差理论,推导了三体动力学模型的误差线性模型,并将此假设下的控制归纳为终端固定的有限时间调节器问题。在此基础上,进一步利用该最优控制方法推导了晕轨道周期内的连续小推力控制方案,验证了控制加速度及状态量的收敛。同时针对整周期控制方式在超调后状态量收敛速度慢的问题,通过分段连续推力控制模式(Sectional Continuous Thrust Control,SCTC)来近似瞬时脉冲推力控制模式,给出了最短分段控制时间的计算方法。实验表明,SCTC模式加快了轨道状态的收敛速度。对于km级入轨偏差,通过1次控制即可使实际轨道收敛至标称轨道。     

推扫CCD相机对地观测卫星的轨道设计

针对推扫电荷耦合器件（CCD）相机成像特点,根据太阳同步回归轨道卫星轨道设计方法,给出了CCD光学对地观测卫星的轨道高度设计方案,并分析了所设计轨道的地面光照条件。结果表明设计方案合理可行。     

美国载人航天商业运输的发展

研究了美国载人航天商业运输的发展现状和趋势。美国在取消星座计划之后,实施商业乘员和货物项目,将依靠商业运输器实现＂国际空间站＂的乘员和货物运输,以缩短＂后航天飞机＂时代（航天飞机退役后）运输的断档期。美国商业乘员和货物项目包括商业轨道运输服务（COTS）计划、商业再补给服务（CRS）计划和商业乘员开发（CCDev）计划...     

嫦娥五号月面上升和下降段实时轨道确定

针对月球探测中月面上升和下降段的实时轨道确定问题,提出基于三向测量的实时自适应当前统计方法。首先,通过自适应当前统计模型描述探测器月面上升下降过程,其次,综合利用三向数据进行测量更新,最后,通过UKF滤波算法完成实时轨道确定。由于自适应当前统计模型具有良好的适应性,该方法能对探测器月面上升和下降段进行有效定位,通过嫦娥五号探测器实际上升和下降过程数据进行测试,结果表明,文章提出的基于三向测量的实时自适应当前统计方法比传统的几何定位方法具有更好的抗差性,对深空目标探测具有一定的工程应用价值。