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Before 1965 many scientists pictured the circulation of the ocean’s water mass as consisting of large, slow-moving currents, suc
Before 1965 many scientists pictured the circulation of the ocean’s water mass as consisting of large, slow-moving currents, suc
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2020-12-14
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Before 1965 many scientists pictured the circulation of the ocean’s water mass as consisting of large, slow-moving currents, such as the Gulf Stream. That view, based on 100 years of observations made around the globe, produced only a rough approximation of the true circulation. But in the 1950’s and the 1960’s, researchers began to employ newly developed techniques and equipment, including subsurface floats that move with ocean currents and emit identification signals, and ocean current meters that record data for months at fixed locations in the ocean. These instruments disclosed an unexpected level of variability in the deep ocean. Rather than being characterized by smooth, large-scale currents that change seasonally(if at all), the seas are dominated by what oceanographers call mesoscale fields: fluctuating, energetic flows whose velocity can reach ten times the mean velocity of the major currents.
Mesoscale phenomena—the oceanic analogue of weather systems—often extend to distances of 100 kilometers and persist for 100 days(weather systems generally extend about 1,000 kilometers and last 3 to 5 days in any given area). More than 90 percent of the kinetic energy of the entire ocean may be accounted for by mesoscale variability rather than by large scale currents. Mesoscale phenomena may, in fact, play a significant role in oceanic mixing, air-sea interactions, and occasional—but far-reaching—climatic events such as El Nino, the atmospheric-oceanic disturbance in the equatorial Pacific that affects global weather patterns.
Unfortunately, it is not feasible to use conventional techniques to measure mesoscale fields. To measure them properly, monitoring equipment would have to be laid out on a grid at intervals of at most 50 kilometers, with sensors at each grid point lowered deep in the ocean and kept there for many months. Because using these techniques would be prohibitively expensive and time consuming, it was proposed in 1979 that tomography be adapted to measuring the physical properties of the ocean. In medical tomography X-rays map the human body’s density variations(and hence internal organs); the information from the X-rays, transmitted through the body along many different paths, is recombined to form three-dimensional images of the body’ s interior. It is primarily that this multiplicative increase in data obtained from the multipath transmission of signals that accounts for oceanographers’ attraction to tomography: it allows the measurement of vast areas with relatively few instruments. Researchers reasoned that low-frequency sound waves, because they are so well described mathematically and because even small perturbations in emitted sound waves can be detected, could be transmitted through the ocean over many different paths and that the properties of the ocean’s interior—its temperature, salinity, density, and speed of currents—could be deduced on the basis of how the ocean altered the signals. Their initial trials were highly successful, and ocean acoustic tomography was born.
Which of the following is most similar to medical tomography as it is described in the passage?
选项
A、The use of earthquake shock-wave data collected at several different locations and combined to create a three-dimensional image of the Earth’ s interior.
B、The use of ocean-current meters to determine the direction and velocity of the ocean’ s mesoscale fields.
C、The use of a grid-point sensory system to map global weather patterns.
D、The use of subsurface floats to map large-scale circulation in the ocean.
答案
A
解析
细节题。根据“medical tomography”定位到第三段it was proposed in 1979that tomography be adapted to measuring the physical properties of the ocean.In medicaltomography X-rays map the human body’s density variations(and hence internalorgans);the information from the X-rays,transmitted through the body along manydifferent paths.is recombined to form three—dimensional images of the body’s interior.“在1975年,有人建议采用X射线断层摄影技术来测量海洋的物理性质。在医学上X射线断层摄影技术应用X射线通过测量人体的密度变化情况,来间接测量人体的内部器官。X射线通过多条路径穿过人体,把它所携带的信息与其他技术结合,就能够形成人体内部的三维影像。”可知A选项“利用在不同地区采集到的地震波数据,组合成有关地球内部构造信息的三维画面”跟医疗断层摄影术最相似。所以答案选A。
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