黄河钓口河口行水期泥沙输运过程的三维数值模拟

由于钓口流路行水时期普遍缺乏对河口和近海的系统观测,基于1976年黄河三角洲实测水深数据和汛期水沙数据,采用EFDC三维数值模式对钓口河口泥沙沉积动力过程进行了数值模拟研究。模型结果表明,钓口河口的羽状流和异重流的时空分布具有显著的潮周期变化特征。受与岸线平行的涨落潮流作用,表层羽状流的侧向摆动幅度较大,河口羽状流输沙主要平行于岸线方向,跨等深线的泥沙输运受到限制。汛期黄河入海的高浓度泥沙在钓口河口形成潜没的异重流,在底层沿河口轴线向北输运泥沙至三角洲前缘区域,泥沙输运通量比表层羽状流的输送通量高出一个数量级,且随着离岸距离的增大而呈指数形式快速衰减。随着水深增大,单宽泥沙通量的衰减速率逐渐减小。计算结果显示,由于汛期高浓度泥沙入海,钓口河口的异重流稳定存在,导致约75%的入海泥沙沉积在10m水深以浅的区域,25%的入海泥沙淤积在三角洲前缘外侧,异重流过程对汛期钓口河口泥沙向深水区输运和沉积具有控制作用。数值模拟结果与前人根据水深变化揭示的三角洲冲淤分布格局一致,与钻孔的沉积记录基本吻合。     

现代黄河三角洲表层沉积物的空间分布特征

基于近期在黄河三角洲附近海域采集的97个表层沉积物样品的粒度测试结果,研究了黄河三角洲海域表层沉积物的类型和空间分布特征,探讨了沉积物粒度分布特征与物源和沉积动力环境之间的关系。研究结果表明,研究区表层沉积物类型以砂质粉砂和粉砂为主,在绝大部分海域,表层沉积物的偏态表现为正偏和极正偏,分选程度较差,峰态表现为宽和很宽。现行河口三角洲叶瓣周围的表层沉积物以砂质粉砂为主,粒度较粗;而在远离河口的区域表层沉积物以粉砂为主,粒度较细。与20世纪80年代的观测结果相比,受物源供应和沉积环境的共同影响,近期黄河三角洲沿岸的表层沉积物有粗化的趋势,且河口口门区域表层沉积物粗化趋势最为明显。表层沉积物粒度粗化的主要原因是黄河入海泥沙供应不足,导致三角洲沿岸侵蚀加剧;黄河调水调沙以来入海泥沙的粒度变粗,粗颗粒组分在河口口门附近快速堆积。黄河水下三角洲现代沉积速率的分布特征表明,黄河入海沉积物主要在现行河口及三角洲的近岸区域沉积,在15m以深的区域沉积速率较低。同时,还可看出入海泥沙有向北和东北向的运移趋势,与渤海中部泥质沉积以及通过莱州湾向渤海海峡的泥沙输运相对应。粗颗粒沉积物在现行河口三角洲叶瓣的堆积范围与潮流切变锋的位置基本一致,反映了物源供应和沉积动力环境对研究区表层沉积物分布特征的控制性影响。     

黄河调水调沙期间黄河入海水沙的扩散与通量

以2007年夏季黄河调水调沙期间黄河三角洲海域3断面连续站及渤海南部24个大面站观测的流场、温度、盐度及含沙量资料为依据,分析了调查区水沙扩散特征,计算了各连续站的拉格朗日余流及泥沙输送单宽通量。结果表明,黄河入海泥沙扩散范围非常有限,主要分布在南至莱州湾西南部、北至北纬38°附近离岸约20km以内的带状沿岸区域;但黄河冲淡水出现大面积扩散,覆盖了整个莱州湾的北部和中部,最远可至龙口附近,黄河入海水沙扩散不同步。在现行河口和钓口流路废弃河口存在两个高浓度泥沙中心,分别对应于黄河入海泥沙和废弃钓口流路海域底质再悬浮产生的两个泥沙来源。河口及三角洲近岸切变锋的阻隔及辐聚作用,是大部分黄河入海泥沙沉积在河口及沿岸13m水深以内的主要动力因素。受余流方向及水体垂向湍动较弱的影响,两个高浓度泥沙中心很少有泥沙交换。冲淡水的大面积扩散主要受表层余环流的影响。余流及悬浮泥沙通量计算显示,夏季黄河入海水沙在近岸主要向东北方向扩散。     

基于DSAS和FA的1959—2002年黄河三角洲海岸线演变规律及影响因素研究

采用数字岸线分析系统(DSAS)和岸线分形分析(FA),以不同年份测量的9期历史地图为数据源,对1959—2002年黄河三角洲海岸线长度、形态及变化过程进行了定量分析。结果表明,从1959—1984年黄河三角洲海岸线长度减小,岸线平面轮廓形态变得平滑、简单;从1984—2002年三角洲海岸线长度增加,岸线平面轮廓形态变得曲折、复杂。与此同时,整个三角洲海岸中前进、后退及进退平衡岸线的比例构成变化也具有显著的阶段性。从总体上看,前进岸线所占比例变化呈不断减小趋势,但1980—1984年、1996—2000年曾有两次短暂的突然增大。从岸线变化速率及其空间分布看,三角洲海岸线进退变化于1968—1974年、1992—1996年两度达到或接近平衡状态。根据初步分析,1959—2002年黄河三角洲岸线演变是在黄河入海泥沙总体减少的背景下发生的,受到河口地貌变迁、海岸沉积动力系统的深刻影响。     

黄河三角洲海岸及滨海区演变与河口流路、入海水沙的关系

黄河自1855年夺大清河道入渤海的140多年来，除1938年以前部分时段在河口段以上改道使现三角洲河竭和1938～1947年花园口人为决口夺淮入海外，其余100多年均在现三角洲上行河入海。由于黄河每年都携带巨量泥沙进入河口地区，并且在三角洲面上决口、分汊、改道频繁，使三角洲演变剧烈，海岸变化复杂。黄河输往河口地区的泥沙除一部分淤积在河口附近河道外，其余部分进入河口滨海区，其中大部分快速落淤在河口附近的近岸海域．还有一部分被海洋动力输往较远的海域。因此．黄河三角洲海岸演变与河口流路的变化和入海水沙的变化关系密切。     

黄河三角洲海岸剖面类型与演变规律

根据1976-2002年黄河三角洲滨海区36个断面的地形实测资料以及利津水文站的水沙资料,运用动力地貌学的方法,对黄河三角洲海岸剖面形态及冲淤演变进行了研究。结果表明,黄河三角洲海岸剖面可分为建设型、破坏型和稳定型三种基本类型。建设型海岸分布于行水河口,等深线向海推进的距离取决于入海泥沙的堆积过程与海洋动力对泥沙的侵蚀过程两者之间的对比;破坏型海岸主要分布于停止行河不久的废弃河口附近,剖面侵蚀深度与海洋动力条件尤其是潮流流速大小密切相关;而稳定型海岸主要分布于长时间不行河的湾湾沟口附近和广利河以南岸段,前者受河海动力因素影响较小,而后者主要与莱州湾潮流流场有关。     

黄河入海口变迁的沉积记录:来自粒度和~(210)Pb的证据

自1855年黄河入海位置由黄海改为渤海以来,尾闾经历了十余次大的改道,最近的两次大的人工改道分别发生于1976年和1996年。研究了取自黄河水下三角洲的两个沉积物岩心,系统开展了沉积物粒度、210 Pb放射性同位素分析。研究表明:两个沉积物岩心垂向上粒度组成出现突变,它们记录了1976、1996年两次黄河入海口的变迁。其中A19站下段(14.0~24.0cm)属于三角洲沉积,上段(0~14.0cm)属于海岸沉积,记录了1996年黄河从清水沟改道清8汊入海的河口变迁;A25站下段(15.5~24.0cm)属于正常海岸环境沉积,上段(0~15.5cm)属于三角洲沉积,记录了1976年黄河从刁口改道清水沟入海的变动。黄河入海口的变动导致该处沉积物岩心中210Pb曲线复杂化,出现了阶段式、倒置式等形态,该曲线形态与黄河入海口的波动相一致。     

河口基面问题的初步研究

本文以黄河河口资料为基础,探讨了影响入海河口相对侵蚀基面的因素问题,主要有四个方面: 1.河口三角洲附近海域的潮汐状况; 2.三角洲上尾闾河段的长度变化; 3.河口尾闾河段的河槽形态; 4.河道入海流量的大小。从短时段看,这些因素对河口演变和三角洲以上河段的冲淤影响十分显著,在探讨短时段演变和冲淤问题时需以此为基础。唯有三角洲岸线全面延伸产生的河口相对基面和堆积性河段逐步升高的趋势,对长时段的演变具有重要意义。     

黄河入海水、沙通量变化对黄河口及邻近海域环境资源可持续利用的影响 Ⅲ. 黄河入海口的长期稳定对港口建设的影响

随着我国经济的快速发展，黄河三角洲已经成为重要的石油工业基地和重要的农业开发区，兴建了许多港口和养殖基地。历史证明，由人工控制的黄河尾闾段河道已处于相对稳定状态，在三角洲区的经济发展过程中起了重要的作用。1976年黄河改道由清水沟流路入海以来，该流路已行水20多年，为了保障该区的发展，有关部门提出了稳定流路多年不变的方针，并经专家论证，可以继续使用50-70年。黄河是一条多沙性河流，30多年平均输沙量10.1×108t(1959-1992年)。菜州湾是一个极浅的小海湾，水域面积仅6000km2，平均水深8.6m，水深小于10m的极浅水域约占其总面积的60%。巨量泥沙入海导致河口及其近海区海岸地貌发生重大变化。1977-1992年清水沟流路河口沙嘴向海延伸了约35km，年均延伸速率为2.3km，使原河口区海岸线呈鸟嘴状向海突出，沙嘴南岸形成了一个凹入陆地的次级海湾(图1)。至1990年底，0m线以上造陆面积为453km2(郭永盛等，1992)，沙嘴向海延伸不但改变了该区海岸的走向轮廓，而且引起了沿岸泥沙运动的变化，影响了邻近港口的建设和发展。     

现行黄河三角洲叶瓣蚀积演化对动力环境的影响

现行黄河三角洲地貌演化已使河口动力环境发生了显著变化,但黄河改道清8汊后,现行河口以及废弃河道清水沟河口动力环境如何变化尚不清楚。基于1976、1995和2002年黄河三角洲实测水深数据,应用Delft3D模型对清水沟流路不同时期冬夏季河口动力环境进行了数值模拟,定量研究了黄河三角洲地貌演化对动力环境的影响。模拟结果表明,黄河现行三角洲地貌演化导致河口动力环境发生了显著变化,1976年河口动力环境弱,随着河嘴向海突出,1995年河口处涨、落潮最大流速较1976年增长了约60%~90%,潮致剪切力增大约2倍,冬季大风条件下浪致剪切力较1976年增加1个数量级,2002年黄河改道清8汊入海后,现行河口处涨、落潮最大流速较1995年减小约20%,潮致剪切力减小1/3,冬季大风条件下浪致剪切力是1995年的1~2倍,而废弃河道河口处涨、落潮最大流速较1995年减小约20%~40%,潮致剪切力减小约20%。黄河三角洲动力环境变化也显著影响了入海泥沙的搬运与沉积,造成清水沟河口呈"南肥北瘦"形态,且废弃后侵蚀速率不断降低。同时,地貌形态与动力环境之间的耦合关系对黄河三角洲冲淤模式的转变有重要影响。     

Microbial Biomass and Organic Nutrients in the Deep-Sea Sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin

In order to assess the impact of deep-sea mining on the in situ benthic life, we measured the microbial standing stock and concentration of organic nutrients in the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin in the Indian pioneer area. Sediments were collected using box core and grab samples during September 1996. The total bacterial numbers ranged from 10 10 -10 11 cells per g -1 dry weight sediment. There was a marginal decrease in the number of bacteria from surface to 30 cm depth, though the subsurface section registered a higher number than did the surface. The highest numbers were encountered at depths of 4-8 cm. The retrievable number of bacteria were two orders less in comparison with the direct total counts of bacteria. An almost homogeneous distribution of bacteria, total organic carbon, living biomass, and lipids throughout the depth of cores indicates active microbial and benthic processes in the deep sea sediments. On the other hand, a uniform distribution of total counts of bacteria, carbohydrates, and total organic carbon in all the cores indicates their stable nature and suggests that they can serve as useful parameters for long-term monitoring of the area after the benthic disturbance. Further studies on temporal variability in this region would not only verify the observed norms of distribution of these variables but would also help to understand restabilization processes after the simulated benthic disturbance.     

Assessing the Validity of Seismo-Acoustic Predictor Equations for Obtaining Seabed and Sub-Surface Sediment Physical Properties

The interdependence between the seismo-acoustic properties of a marine sediment and its geotechnical/physical parameters has been known for many years, and it has been postulated that this should allow the extraction of geotechnical information from seismic data. Though in the literature many correlations have been published for the surficial layer, there is a lack of information for greater sediment depths. In this article, a desktop study on a synthetic seafloor model illustrates how the application of published near-surface prediction equations to subsurface sediments (up to several tens of meters burial depth) can lead to spurious predictions. To test this further, acoustic and geotechnical properties were measured on a number of sediment core samples, some of which were subjected to loading in acoustically-equipped consolidation cells (oedometers) to simulate greater burial depth conditions. For low effective pressures (representing small burial depths extending to around 10 meters subsurface), the general applicability of established relationships was confirmed: the prediction of porosity, bulk density, and mean grain size from acoustic velocity and impedance appears generally possible for the investigated sedimentary environments. As effective pressure increases through, the observed relationships deviate more and more from the established ones for the near-surface area. For the samples tested in this study, in some instances increasing pressure even resulted in decreasing velocities. There are several possible explanations for this abnormal behavior, including the presence of gas, overconsolidation, or bimodal grain size distribution. The results indicate that an appropriate depth correction must be introduced into the published prediction equations in order to obtain reliable estimates of physical sediment properties for greater subsurface depths.     

A Review of Some Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Mining

This article reviews information recently available from existing marine and coastal mining for responses to environmental issues affecting marine mining at different depths. It is particularly but not exclusively concerned with those issues affecting seabed biodiversity impact and recovery. Much information has been gathered in the past 10 years from shallow mining operations for construction aggregate, diamonds, and gold, from coastal mines discharging tailings to shallow and deep water, and from experimental deep mining tests. The responses to issues identified are summarized in a series of eight tables intended to facilitate site-specific consideration. Since impacts can spread widely in the surface mixing layer SML, and can affect the biologically productive euphotic zone, the main issues considered arise from the depth of mining relative to the SML of the sea. Where mining is below the SML, the issue is whether it is environmentally better to bring the extraction products to the surface vessel for processing (and waste discharge), or to process the extraction products as much as possible on the seabed. Responses to the issues need to be sitespecific, and dependent on adequate preoperational environmental impact and recovery prediction. For deep tailings disposal from a surface vessel, there are four important environmental unknowns: (1) the possible growth of "marine snow" (bacterial flocs) utilizing the enormous quantities of fine tailings particles (hundreds or thousands of metric tons per day) as nuclei for growth, (2) the possibility that local keystone plankton and nekton species may migrate diurnally down to and beyond the depth of deep discharge and hence be subjected to tailings impact at depth, (3) the burrow-up capability of deep benthos and their ability to survive high rates of tailings deposition, and (4) the pattern and rate of dispersion of a tailings density current through the deep water column from discharge point to seabed. Actions to obtain relevant information in general and site-specifically are suggested.     

Increased Particle Fluxes at the INDEX Site Attributable to Simulated Benthic Disturbance

Particle fluxes were measured 7 m above the sea bottom during the predisturbance, disturbance, and postdisturbance periods by using time series sediment traps attached to seven deep-sea moorings deployed in the INDEX experiment site in the Central Indian Basin. The predisturbance particle fluxes varied between 22.3 to 55.1 mg m -2 day -1 . Increased and variable particle fluxes were recorded by the sediment traps during the disturbance period. The increase observed was 0.5 to 4 times more than the background predisturbance fluxes. The increases in particle fluxes (~4 times) recorded by the sediment trap located in the southwestern direction (DMS-1) were the greatest, which could be the result of preferential movement of resuspended particles generated during the deep-sea benthic disturbance along the general current direction prevailing in this area during the experimental period. Also, the traps located closer to the disturbance area recorded greater fluxes than did the traps far away, across the Deep Sea Sediment Resuspension System path. This variability in recorded particle fluxes by the traps around the disturbance area clearly indicates that physical characteristics such as grain size and density of the resuspended particles produced during the disturbance had an important effect on particle movement. The postdisturbance measurements during ~5 days showed a reduction in particle fluxes of ~50%, indicating rapid particle settlement.     

Geoacoustic Inversion via Genetic Algorithm and Its Application to Manganese Sediment Identification

An acoustic inversion method using a wide-band signal and two near field receivers is proposed and applied to multiple layered seabed models including a manganese sediment. The inversion problem can be formulated into a probabilistic model comprised of signals, a forward model, and additive noise. The forward model simulates wide-band signals, such as chirp signals, and is chosen to be the source-waveletconvolution plane wave modeling method. The wavelet matching technique, using weighted least-squares fitting, estimates the sediment sound-speed and thickness on which determination of the possible numerical ranges for a priori uniform distribution is based. The genetic algorithm is applied to a global optimization problem to find a maximum a posteriori solution for determined a priori search space. Here the object function is defined by an L 2 norm of the difference between measured and modeled signals. Not only the marginal pdf but also its statistics are calculated by numerical evaluation of integrals using the samples selected during importance sampling process of the genetic algorithm.     

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中桩周土强度弱化研究

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中,桩周土体受到强烈扰动而发生强度弱化,掌握桩周土体强度弱化规律对于准确预测打桩过程、保证工程安全具有重要意义。为研究土体强度弱化规律,开展了环剪试验模拟打桩对桩周土体的扰动,测试土体强度随剪切速率的变化规律,建立了描述土体强度弱化规律的拟合公式,引入到打桩分析软件中。研究结果表明：土体的强度折减程度不仅与土体本身的性质有关还受到土体的埋深和剪切速率的影响,埋深越深土体强度折减程度越低,剪切速率越高土体强度折减越高,在打桩分析中可采用这里推荐的线性折减方法来模拟不同深度处土体强度的折减规律。     

Determination of In Situ Sediment Shear Strength from Advanced Piston Corer Pullout Forces

The advanced piston corer (APC) has been used by the Ocean Drilling Program since 1985 for recovering soft sediments from the ocean floor. The pullout force measured on extracting the core barrel from the sediment is shown to correlate with the average shear strength of the sediment core measured in the ship's laboratory. A simple rule of thumb is derived relating the shear strength of the sediment to the pullout force. Multiple APC holes at individual sites allow the consistency of the pullout measurements to be assessed. The effects of different operational procedures during APC coring are also explored. Although generally applicable, the correlation between pullout force and laboratory measurements of shear strength breaks down for some APC holes, possibly because of the disturbance of some sediment types during the APC coring process. A better understanding of the physical process of APC coring, and its effect on the properties of the sediment both inside and immediately outside the core barrel, would indicate what confidence can be put on the measurement of pullout force as a way of evaluating the in situ shear strength of deep sea sediments.     

Interannual Sea Level Variations and Annual Tides in the Northwestern Pacific

Specific properties of the interannual sea level variations and annual tides in the Northwestern Pacific were studied. Several tide stations were monitored. The monthly mean sea level for the year of 1995 was analyzed at each tide station. A seismic event in 1995, some tectonic activity around the subject area, and the Kuroshio (the oceanic western boundary current) may possibly contaminate results which would have occurred from the astronomical annual tide alone.     

Flow Cytometric Analysis of Coastal Lagoon Bacterioplankton and Picophytoplankton: Fixation and Storage Effects

The effect of different fixation and storage protocols on the flow cytometric (FCM) simultaneous analysis of bacterioplankton and phytoplankton in coastal seawater samples (Mediterranean coastal lagoons) was investigated. FCM measurements (cell number, fluorescence and scatter characteristics) were obtained through DAPI staining. Three fixatives [glutaraldehyde (GA), formaldehyde (FA) and paraformaldehyde (PFA)] and two storage (3 months duration) methods (5 °C and −196 °C) were tested. Two dominant populations were detected in studied samples: bacteria and eukaryotic picophytoplankton. Adding fixatives (2% final concentration) appears necessary to obtain FCM exhaustive counts of all the bacteria and phytoplanktonic cells. This was related to the permeation effect of fixatives which allowed a better DAPI staining of the cells. Maximum fluorescence, i.e. optimal staining of the cells was obtained with FA or PFA, and significant lower fluorescences with GA. Fixed samples stored at 5 °C induced rapid cell loss. Only storage in liquid nitrogen of samples fixed with FA or PFA, allows mid-term (≥4 months) preservation of bacteria or picophytoplankton cell numbers, and limited evolution of DAPI-induced fluorescence and scatter characteristics.