大洋环流的诊断计算

采用二维的全球高分辨率（1／4°×1／4°）的自由表面诊断模型结合动力计算估算全球大洋环流，模拟结果与其他模拟结果非常相似。流函数的分布表明，全球大洋中的主要流系均得到体现，包括大洋环流的西向强化的现象（黑潮、湾流等）。黑潮主轴的流量约54Sv（1Sv=10^6m^3／s），非常接近实测值：各层水平流场分布情况显示，各大洋的一些基本流系都能得到很好的再现。如黑潮和南极绕极流可深达底层。湾流不能到达深层，大约在1000～2000m之间海流即已转向。     

基于HYCOM的风生大洋环流模拟及季节变化分析

基于垂向混合坐标系统的海洋模式HYCOM建立了全球大洋气候态环流场.在此基础上与前人研究工作进行对比,分析和讨论了全球风生大洋环流场的季节变化情况.从模拟结果看该模式具有较好的模拟能力,可以合理地模拟南极绕极流、赤道流系、黑潮和湾流等世界各主要大洋流系.从断面温度场、流函数分布和断面流量场等分析显示:南极绕极流堪称世界最强流,湾流整体强于黑潮,3者都具有夏季增强、冬季减弱的特点.HYCOM模式在国外的研究方兴未艾,而在国内的应用尚处在起步阶段.本文通过对该模式的介绍和结果分析,向读者推荐使用该模式.     

全球大洋环流诊断模式研究--流场及流函数

基于GFDL的MOM模式建立一个全球大洋环流的诊断模式(R0bust diagnostic model)来研究全球大洋环流.水平空间分辨率1°×1°.垂向分为21层.分别进行月平均和年平均模拟,积分的时间长度为11a.模式水流来自DBDB5(National Geodetic Center,Boulder,Colorado).所用的温度、盐度数据根据Levitus(1994)的资料,表面风应力根据Hellerman and Rosenstem(1983)的全球风场数据插值而来.从模拟结果看,全球大洋中的主要环流结构均得到体现.北太平洋副热带流圈得到合理的模拟,其最大的输运超过50 Sv.北赤道流在12.N附近分为南北两支.北支形成黑潮,而南支为棉兰老海流,在其东边,棉兰老冷涡得到很好的再现.在吕宋海峡有海水进入南海,在南海形成一个气旋式流圈,进而通过南海南部水道流入印度尼西亚海.模拟结果表明南极绕极流和黑潮可以深达底层.湾流则不能深达底层,其下方在1 000～2 000 m深度存在南向的深层流,显示了大西洋深层水的流动.     

黑潮——一支世界著名的大洋強流

翻开世界大洋的海流图,在北太平洋赤道与付热带区域之间,有一个巨大的顺时针转动的环流系统映入我们的眼帘。这就是由北赤道流-黑潮-黑潮延续体-北太平洋流-加利福尼亚流共同组成的付热带环流。黑潮位于大洋的西部边界,它以流幅窄、流速强、厚度大著称,成为这个大环流系统中最重要的环节。黑潮是与大西洋中的湾流齐名的世界大洋两大强流。     

吕宋海峡水交换季节变化的数值研究

提要利用POM(Princeton Ocean Model)对吕宋海峡附近的环流情况进行数值模拟,结果表明,吕宋海峡净流量季节变化明显,除5月和6月为东向净流外,全年自7月至翌年4月皆为西向净流。7月至11月净流量由1.6Sv(1Sv=1×106m3/s)持续增加至14Sv,12月至翌年4月净流量从13.8Sv持续减小至3.1Sv。年平均值为5.7Sv。500m以上,秋、冬季有明显的黑潮分支进入南海,而在春、夏季黑潮南海分支消失或者较弱。在500m以下,黑潮位置由于北赤道流分岔位置的变化而发生南北移动,从而影响黑潮深层入侵南海。作者以保持与表层流速方向相一致的最大深度为界将流场分为上下两层,上层西向(入)流区域占据吕宋海峡南部、中部,秋、冬季范围最大,夏季向中部收缩,其深度空间分布呈东浅西深结构,在吕宋海峡入口处,入流深度呈南北浅中间深的结构。上层东向(出)流主要分布在海峡北部,夏季向南部扩展,范围最大。120.75°E断面除9月和10月外,下层净输运量与上层反方向。9月和10月上、下层净输运量皆为西向。上层年平均净流量为?7.6Sv(这里"?"表示净流量向西,下同),下层为1.8Sv。上层出入流深度随季节上下浮动范围可达数百米,海峡中部入、出流最深可达1800m。     

东海黑潮与陆架海之间的水交换研究

利用三维海洋环流数值模型(Regional Ocean Model System,ROMS)对东中国海海域黑潮流系系统(东中国海黑潮流系)的季节变化和年际变化进行了模拟和研究,给出了东海黑潮流系穿越东海大陆架200 m等深线的体积通量及其变化规律。研究发现,黑潮的西南段,其主轴位置在春、夏季更加偏东;中间段具有最稳定的流径;而东北段则表现出最大的季节性变化。此外,从月平均结果看,黑潮流系穿越东海大陆架200 m等深线的体积通量,时间上表现为,在夏季减到最小,为0.479 6 Sv(1 Sv≡10~6m~3·s~(-1)),冬季达到最大值,为1.69 Sv;空间上表现为在西南段和中间段较大,而东北段较小。这反映了黑潮水与东中国海大陆架水的水交换区位置,在冬季在向岸方向上离黑潮主轴较远,在夏季离主轴较近。通过对长时间模型结果的时间序列分析,揭示了相对与2000年前,2000年后的黑潮在台湾岛东部水体积通量的季节变化呈现出减弱的趋势。     

副热带逆流二十年研究概况

副热带环流系统(或副热带流涡,Subtropical Gyre)是世界大洋总环流最显著的特征之一。长期以来,人们认为它是一个由单一的顺时针转动(北半球情况)的环流系统(即“单涡”)所组成,其西边界海流(如黑潮或湾流)强而窄,东边界海流(如加利福尼亚海流或Canary流)弱而宽,内区则为微弱的西向流且少变化。70年代发现大洋内区存在着强有力的中尺度涡这一现象剧烈地动摇了人们对大洋环流结构的传统认识。这确实是     

琉球海流起源及其变化特征的初步分析

采用1977年1月～2006年12月高分辨率全球大洋环流模型OFES输出结果,对琉球群岛附近海域水文要素进行了统计分析.结果表明:(1)琉球海流从西南到东北逐渐加强,其中在宫古海峡东侧断面琉球海流流量约为同断面黑潮流量的70％.(2)琉球海流的来源有4部分,分别为台湾以东黑潮的分支、宫古海峡以南的西向流、东海黑潮通过庆良间水道次表层流出的部分以及冲绳群岛和奄美群岛东面的西向流.(3)黑潮的流核主要位于表层至水深400m,而琉球海流的流核主要位于水深200～600m.(4)琉球海流受中尺度涡的影响十分剧烈,纬度越低,其受中尺度涡的影响越明显.(5)琉球海流和黑潮都存在1个约10 a的显著变化周期.     

关于台湾-对马-律轻流系的结构及其与黑潮的关系

作为世界两大洋流，黑潮和湾流有许多共同之处，但也有不少差异，其中之一是这两支强流的西侧陆架特征基本上是相反的。在湾流的离岸点——哈特拉斯角以北，陆架比较宽而离岸点以南则很窄。相反，黑潮离岸点——犬吠角以北则陆架很窄，而其南方，从台湾到九州这一段的西侧则有着很宽广的东海陆架。故对于位于副热带大洋西边界流西侧宽陆架上的这一流系的研究，在世界海洋的陆架环流研究中具有独特的意义。基于实际观测到的海流和水文资料，管秉贤［１４］指出，在我国东南近海存在着自海南岛以东海区向东北流经台湾海峡，穿过东海陆架并流向…     

海洋模式的水平分辨率对吕宋海峡深层环流数值模拟结果的影响

基于南海观测得到的垂向混合率修改KPP垂向混合方案,利用大洋环流模式HYCOM首次模拟得到了吕宋海峡深层环流的空间分布特征,并通过3个不同水平分辨率的实验(1/6(°)、1/12(°)、1/24(°))讨论水平分辨率对模拟吕宋海峡深层环流空间结构的影响。模拟结果表明:(1)1/6(°)水平分辨率过于粗糙,无法分辨巴士海峡和台东海峡地形特征,无法得到吕宋海峡深层环流的空间分布特征;(2)1/12(°)的水平分辨率可以很好的分辨吕宋海峡和台东海峡的地形特征,模拟得到吕宋海峡深层环流的空间分布和流场特征;(3)1/24(°)水平分辨率的模拟结果表明,更高的水平分辨率不会改变吕宋海峡深层环流的空间分布和主要出入口的垂向结构,只是会显示更细节的环流结构。1/12(°)和1/24(°)水平分辨率的模式结果都表明,西北太平洋深层水通过巴士海峡和台东海峡进入吕宋海沟,年平均流量分别为1.1和0.4Sv,然后沿吕宋海沟向南海方向流动,最后主要通过位于恒春海脊上的2个缺口进入南海,年平均流量分别为0.5和0.9Sv。     

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.     

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。     

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.     

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.     

Deep-Sea Sediment Compression Curves: Some Controlling Factors, Spurious Overconsolidation, Predictions, and Geophysical Reproduction

Oedometer tests have been carried out on 70 undisturbed surficial clays (at approximately 250 mm below the mudline), mostly collected by free-fall corers from sites widely scattered throughout the deep-sea North Atlantic. Acoustic measurements were also made, initially on contiguous samples and ultimately on the same sample using a geophysically instrumented oedometer which also collected electrical resistivity data. Apart from those quiescent areas below the carbonate compensation depth, such as north of the West Indies where very fine clays exist, most of the samples are silty clays whose geotechnical-geophysical properties are dependent on the type of clay minerals present (and their ability to take in moisture), the sand-size fraction, and the quantity of carbonate present. Thus the pure clays have high compressibilities which decrease on the addition of coarse particles, while the converse is true for the acoustic parameters, these increasing with the sand fraction. Using the notion of the intrinsic compression line for all samples, and comparison to it of the measured compression curves, it is clear that, contrary to some previously held ideas, most deep-sea clays are normally consolidated; the addition of carbonate has the effect of creating an open, stronger sediment skeleton. Interestingly, where information is available, the variation with depth of a sample's acoustic velocity follows the void ratio pressure relationship of the compression curve. This allows the construction of an in-situ sediment compression curve using the in-situ geophysical observations.     

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