北太平洋气候若干特点分析

利用1950-1995年共46 a的北太平洋船舶报资料,以5°×5°网格为统计单元,绘制了历年各月风向频率、平均风速、6级和8级大风、能见度(≥10 km和≤4km)、雾、雷暴频率等气象要素分布图.在对影响海上航行的风、能见度、雾、和雷暴等主要气象要素进行统计的基础上,较为详细分析表述了北太平洋风、能见度、雾、雷暴等海洋气候要素的分布特点及其年变化规律.     

北印度洋气候特点分析

根据1950～1995年共46a的北印度洋气象船舶资料,按5°×5°网格统计单元,绘制了历年各月风向频率、平均风速、6级和8级大风、能见度(≥10km和≤4km)、雾和雷暴等气象要素分布图.较为详细地分析了北印度洋风、能见度、雾、雷暴、热带气旋等海洋气象要素的分布特点及其年变化规律.该区是世界著名的季风气候区,夏季的西南季风比冬季东北季风强盛,与我国南海海区的季风特点正好相反.     

台湾周边海区的海浪特点

本文收集了1960～1990年的国际气象船舶报资料,以台湾岛为中心,范围为20°～28°N、116．5°～124°E的海区,并将整个海区划分为台湾海峡、台湾东部、台湾北部、巴士海峡四个海域。按1°×1°网格逐月进行统计,并将统计结果绘制成海面风、海浪玫瑰图,以及平均波高、平均周期、大浪大涌(≥2．5m)频率、小于等于1．2m波高和各类波长频率分布图。通过分析得出全年的海浪特点及其分布规律,这对发展国民经济、航海和军事活动具有重要意义。     

南大西洋海面风场时空特征分析

本文根据 1950 年~1995 年共 46a 的南大西洋船舶气象报资料,按 1°×1°和 5°×5°网格统计的海面风进行分析研究。通过分析每月各要素的等值线分布图,得出南大西洋海面风场季节变化不如北大西洋显著,但仍有较明显的季节变化,冬季比夏季强盛,相应的平均风速较大,6、8 级大风频率也较高。位于赤道和 25°S 之间的信风区,主要盛行东南风;副热带高压带,风速小,风向变化不定;35°S 以南的西风带风力较强。对这些规律的总结归纳,为该地区的各种活动提供了较为翔实的海面风场变化规律。     

南印度洋风场时空特征分析

本文根据1950～1995年共46a的南印度洋船舶气象报资料,按1°×1°和5°×5°网格统计的海面风进行分析研究。通过分析每月各要素的等值线分布图,得出南印度洋风场季节变化不如北半球各大洋显著,但仍有较明显的季节变化,只是季节性差异较小,冬季比夏季风强盛,相应的平均风速、6级和8级以上大风频率也较大;全年风场基本相似,10°S以北为季风气候区,而其它海域信风区常年盛行东南风,40°S以南盛行偏西风。本文为船舶远洋交通运输、远洋出访和科学试验等活动,提供了较为详细的风场资料及变化规律。     

南太平洋风场时空统计特征分析

南太平洋风场时空统计特征对船舶远洋交通运输、远洋出访、南极考察和科学试验等活动有重要实用价值。本文根据 1 950～ 1 995年共 46a的南太平洋船舶气象报资料 ,按 1°× 1°和5°× 5°网格统计的海面风进行分析研究。通过分析每月风各要素的等值线分布图 ,得出南太平洋风场季节变化特点不如北半球各大洋显著 ,但仍有较明显的季节变化 ,只是季节性差异较小 ,冬季比夏季风强盛 ,相应的平均风速 6级和 8级以上大风频率也较大 ;全年风场基本相似 ,低纬度地区 (2 5°S以北至赤道 )为信风区 ,常年盛行东至东南风 ;2 5°S～ 35°S的广大海域上 ,风力较小 ,风向变化最大 ;40°S以南盛行偏西风 ,风力最强。     

夏,冬季对马暖流（表层）来源的数值模拟

本文利用黄海南部、东海及台湾以东海域表层流分布图提供的资料作为边界条件，对区域１１９°～１３２°Ｅ，２１°～４１°做数值模拟，模拟出的流场各流系与实测的基本吻合。所得主要结论为：（１）在３０°～３３°Ｎ，１２５°～１２８°Ｅ这一区域流速小，流向不稳定，它的西、南部分别有流入，东、北部有流出的这一特点与孙湘平所提出的“海水集散”区概念一致。（２）对马暖流不能简单地视为黑潮的分支，应该认为“海水集散区     

渤海多年月平均温盐场的季节变化特征及形成机制的初步分析

根据 1 970～ 1 996年渤海观测资料的各月平均值 ,绘制大面、38.5°N断面分布图与典型海域的季节变化图 ,进而概述渤海的温盐场特征 ,并探讨其成因 ,更好地为研究渤海环境变异提供高分辨率的平均场。研究表明 ,渤海温盐度对气候因子、径流量变化等因素响应很快 ,大约滞后 1个月左右 ,具有明显的季节特征。外强迫、岸形和地形所共同诱导的海水平均环流 ,是形成其水平分布和季节变化的决定因素之一。     

夏、冬季对马暖流（表层）来源的数值模拟

本文利用黄海南部、东海及台湾以东海域表层流分布图提供的资料作为边界条件，对区域１１９°～１３２°Ｅ，２１°～４１°Ｎ做数值模拟．模拟出的流场各流系与实测的基本吻合。所得主要结论为：（１）在３０°～３３°Ｎ，１２５°～１２８°Ｅ这一区域流速小，流向不稳定，它的西、南部分别有流入，东、北部有流出的这一特点与孙湘平所提出的“海水集散”区概念一致、（２）对马暖流不能简单地视为黑潮的分支，应该认为“海水集散区”是它的发源地，此“海水集散区“的水来源是多方面的。     

菲律宾海的气候特征

本文根据1950～1995年共46年西北太平洋船舶资料,以5°×5°网格为统计单元,绘制的累年各月风、温度、气旋、降水、能见度、雷暴、雾等气象要素图,并结合国内外其它资料对菲律宾海进行了较为详细的分析研究,阐明了该海区的气候特点及其变化规律.     

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.