东营港海域冲淤特征

东营港附近海岸是典型的粉砂质海岸,其周边海域泥沙运动活跃,岸滩冲淤变化显著。近年来,海岸工程建设对其沉积动力环境造成显著影响。基于东营港海域2007年和2015年实测水深数据,利用水深地形对比、数值模拟和流速对比的方法,探讨了东营港海域冲淤特征及其影响因素。结果表明:研究区整体呈近岸侵蚀、离岸淤积的状态,自飞雁滩向东营港。其冲淤平衡点水深由9m变化至6m;飞雁滩附近海域泥沙易于起动,海底侵蚀增强,侵蚀产生的泥沙有随SE向流运移的趋势;研究区最大波浪破碎水深为6m左右,东营港附近海域冲淤平衡点水深与该水深相对应;海岸工程建设造成局部海域冲淤趋势改变,东营港防波堤堤头周围海域侵蚀强烈,堤坝两侧显著淤积。     

黄河三角洲孤东近岸冲淤演变及其影响因素

为更好地了解近40年来孤东近岸的演变过程,以研究区剖面水深地形、Landsat影像和利津站水沙数据为数据源,采用遥感技术及数理统计法对研究区域岸线及面积变化进行监测计算,并分析1976—1986年、1986—1996年、1996—2002年、2002—2014年4个不同阶段的冲淤演变及影响因素。结果表明:(1)孤东近岸经历"强淤积-冲淤平衡-侵蚀-强侵蚀"4个阶段。孤东近岸海域由淤积向侵蚀转变始于1996年,且在2002—2014年间侵蚀最为严重,大部分近岸海域蚀深达到6～8 m,侵蚀最大深度超过8 m;(2)等深线变化时空差异明显,蚀退最先出现在北侧,且近岸5 m水深区域内冲淤变化较水深10 m内敏感;(3)研究区近岸侵蚀,离岸淤积,剖面冲淤平衡位置由CS19剖面的11 m水深变化到CS21剖面的5m水深;(4)黄河入海水沙的减少、河口人工改汊、孤东大堤建设和海洋动力作用都对孤东近岸的冲淤演变产生影响,维持研究区冲淤平衡的年均来沙阈值为3.78亿t/a。通过此来进一步探究孤东近岸演变进程,为孤东近岸防护提供科学指导。     

黄河三角洲飞雁滩海岸的侵蚀与机理

飞雁滩海域是1964—1976 年黄河刁口河流路入海区域。根据地形和断面水深监测资料,阐述了该岸段流路废弃后的岸滩侵蚀特征和地貌变化。研究结果表明,刁口河流路废弃后飞雁滩海岸向海凸出的地形特征,是造成该岸段强烈侵蚀的重要原因。进一步结合波、流动力的对应分析认为,波浪以掀沙为主,潮流以输沙为主,波浪和潮流的联合作用是飞雁滩海岸侵蚀的主要动力机制,其中潮流主要通过余流携沙外输,造成近岸泥沙亏损。     

套尔河湾海域泥沙冲淤特征——兼论黄河改道后三角洲的冲淤演化

将1855年、1934年、1959年、1984年的海图的深度基准面换算成为当地黄海平均海水面,把它们的深度变化转换成泥沙的冲淤变化。研究了套尔河湾海域及黄河改道后三角洲的冲淤演化规律,行水时是快速淤进;改道后,初期是强烈的侵蚀和冲刷,随着时间的推移,其速率均逐渐减慢,达到岸滩平衡剖面塑造后,发育为轻微淤进或此冲彼淤的稳定海岸。提出:冲淤速率≤0.056km/a,贝壳堤迅速发育是海岸稳定的标志;冲淤速率≤±0.084km/a,贝壳滩开始发育是海岸向稳定演化的标志。本海域5—10m海区的坡度小于1/2000,是平衡剖面海域的标志;坡度小于1/1500,是向平衡剖面发育的标志。这对认识近代黄河三角洲的冲淤演变以及对套尔河湾海岸的开发建设,都具有重要意义。     

黄河三角洲飞雁滩海岸的侵蚀及机理

飞雁滩海域是1964－1976年黄河刁口河流路入海区域。根据地形和断面水深监测资料，阐述了该岸段流路废弃后的岸滩侵蚀特征和地貌变化。研究结果表明，刁口河流路废弃后飞雁滩海岸向海凸出的地形特征，是造成该岸段强烈侵蚀的重要原因。进一步结合波、流动力的对应分析认为，波浪以掀沙为主，潮流以输沙为主，波浪和潮流的联合作用是飞雁滩海岸侵蚀的主要动力机制，其中潮流主要通过余流携沙外榆，造成近岸泥沙亏损。     

黄河三角洲孤东及新滩海岸侵蚀机制研究

黄河三角洲孤东及新滩地区是黄河1976年以来清水沟流路河口新淤积的滩涂地带。根据孤东及新滩海域1997—2003年16个海岸剖面的实测地形资料以及利津水文站的水沙资料，阐述了黄河口尾闻改道清8出汉后，孤东及新潍海岸剖面的冲淤演变过程，并从动力地貌的角度对其冲淤过程和机制做了重点研究．结果表明，1998年以后，除新口门附近轻微淤积，其它岸段均遭到不同程度的侵蚀．清水沟老河口附近剖面表现为上冲下淤的侵蚀类型；其余侵蚀剖面形态则表现为均衡侵蚀型．近年来黄河入海水沙量的减少以及1996年河口流路的改变，调整了入海水沙、海洋动力和海岸地形之间的动态平衡，海洋动力相对增强，从而导致海岸侵蚀后退。     

青岛港外航道开挖区海床演变趋势分析

采用不同年代的水深图和物质来源测量资料,研究了青岛港外航道开挖区的海床演变情况。分别利用等深线、区域地形及海底地形剖面来对比水深地形变化,研究开挖区的地形冲淤变化,结果表明拟开挖航道区近70 a来,其海床演变主趋势为轻微侵蚀,而其南北两侧的邻近海域海底地形变化则既有局部侵蚀又有局部淤积;通过外航道开挖区域11个观测点测量的有关水流、底沙粒径等数据计算分析,得到其开挖后淤积厚度在0.453~4.149 cm/a之间。青岛港外航道开挖区年平均回淤速率不大,适合扩建。     

典型无居民海岛(担子岛)岸滩冲淤变化过程研究

通过统计分析、空间分析、三维分析等方法,本文重现了50年担子岛及其周围海域的冲淤变化过程。得出如下结论:(1)近50年来,研究区内淤积面积大于侵蚀面积,但侵蚀强度大于淤积强度;侵蚀区主要分布在担子岛岸滩的-2m以浅区域,侵蚀呈明显的带状分布;冲淤速率呈加剧趋势,冲淤演变呈现明显的周期变化。(2)担子岛岸滩有4条剖面的冲淤形态以"整体侵蚀后退"居多,其他剖面呈"上冲下淤"的形态,剖面冲淤转换不同的剖面水深不同,在-2m以浅的岸滩,冲淤转换一般在-1.2m左右。剖面上下部位冲淤强度的不同,造成不同剖面具有不同的冲淤平衡点。本文研究成果为控制担子岛岸滩侵蚀的速率,减缓担子岛侵蚀程度提供一定的理论依据。     

黄河三角洲飞雁滩动力特征与地形剖面塑造

飞雁滩是1964年1月至1976年5月黄河尾闾由刁口流路入海形成的黄河亚三角洲。自1976年黄河改走清水沟入海后,飞雁滩岸滩发生强烈侵蚀后退。以20世纪70年代开始的地形固定断面观测资料、2004年4月现场水文泥沙及沉积物取样资料为基础,地形剖面后退距离作为统计参数,并根据实测资料计算了潮流和波浪底摩阻流速的横向分布,分布和沉积物结构方面解释了飞雁滩典型剖面的变化特征。30a来飞雁滩岸滩地形剖面经历了"快速后退侵蚀-慢速调整-波动触发"的变化过程,这也正是其三角洲前缘侵蚀逐渐消失过程。沉积物抗冲性强弱是剖面蚀退速度变化的主要原因,水动力条件的变化改变了不同阶段的地形剖面最大蚀退量水深范围与闭合深度。风暴潮仍是今后海滩地形剖面演变的触发动力。     

华南岬湾海滩冲淤演变特征及其机制分析—以南澳岛前江湾为例

岬湾海滩在华南地区普遍分布,众多海滩面临侵蚀退化问题,对其海滩冲淤演变特征及机制的研究具有重要的现实意义。本文以粤东重要的旅游海岛南澳岛南部的前江湾为研究区,利用滩面调查、遥感影像数据与历史海图和实测水深数据,研究1970—2022 年海滩冲淤特征,并从水动力、沿岸输沙、稳定岸线形态等方面,探讨人类活动对海滩冲淤演变的影响机制。结果表明：前江湾海滩蚀淤演变在东南沿岸码头防波堤海岸工程建设前后呈现不同的空间变化特征,切线岸段前期侵蚀、后期侵蚀加剧,弧形岸段前期淤积、后期侵蚀;人类海岸工程造成的岬角位置变化和沿岸输沙受阻是影响海滩蚀淤演变的主要机制,导致岬湾岸线平面形态变为不稳定状态,区域沉积物的亏损也加剧了海岸失衡;自东向西的沿岸输沙的不均衡对其海岸线演变的空间特征起控制作用。     

Model of the post-Cenozoic evolution of the cryolithozone of the shelf of the western part of the Laptev Sea

The analysis of the structure of the cryolithozone, facies, and thicknesses of the Quaternary sediments and the results of the physicochemical mathematical modeling of the modern shelf of the western part of the Laptev Sea support the influence of the Late Pleistocene glaciations on the heat conditions and the distribution of the permafrost in the area. A ～200-m thick glacier formed under aerial conditions from atmospheric precipitation represented the metamorphosed snow cover. According to the modeling, the long-living (from 60?50 to 10?4 ky) glacier reduced the thickness of the permafrost rocks in the reviewed shelf area for 280–360 m. The Holocene marine transgression additionally decreased the thickness from 50–140 m on the inner shelf to 220–350 m on the outer shelf. The modern submarine cryolithozone 450-0 m thick is wide-spread in the studied region from the coast to the shelf boundary (isobaths of 130–140 m), where it pinches out at a distance of ～380 km from the coast at a depth of ～250 m above the sea level.     

Investigation of the mechanism of the long-term evolution of the carbon cycle in the ecosystem of the Sevastopol bay

We analyze the components of the carbon system of the Sevastopol bay waters and the balance of main sediment-forming substances using the data of field investigations in 1998–2008. The interannual variations of total inorganic carbon and the equilibrium partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the bay water are noted. An increase in the flux of carbon dioxide into the bay and in the content of organic carbon in bottom sediments is revealed, and an explanation of this phenomenon is given. The priority accumulation of organic carbon in the sediments of the bay is established. We assess the interannual variation in the relative abundances of organic and inorganic carbon as an index of the carbon cycle stability.     

Contemporary state of the investigation of the influence of the discharge of rivers on the hydrologic structure of the Black Sea

We generalize and analyze the state of investigations of the influence of river waters on the hydrologic structure of the Black Sea. Specific features of the water, regime and hydrography of rivers flowing into the sea, data on the discharge of rivers, and intrayear and interyear variability of the discharge are presented. We discuss and analyze works studying the transformation of river waters, routes of desalinized sea waters, and their influence on the thermohaline structure and dynamic regime of the sea. Translated by Peter V. Malyshev and Dmitry V. Malyshev     

Modelling of the ecosystem of the Black-Sea shelf zone near the estuary of the Danube

We analyze the results of numerical calculations performed according to the three-dimensional interdisciplinary model of an ecological system of the Black-Sea shelf zone near the estuary of the Danube. The complete system of equations of hydrothermodynamics is solved together with transport equations of the advection-diffusion-reaction type used to describe the transformation of a substance (nitrogen) between the components of the characteristic vectors of the ecosystem: plankton, detritus, and biogenic elements (nitrates). We describe the distinctive features of the circumcontinental distribution of components obtained as a result of numerical experiments and present arguments for the conclusion that the ecosystem of the Danube estuary water area plays the role of a buffer zone between the press of the Danubian biogenic pollutions and the neighbouring areas of the shelf zone and open sea. Translated by Peter V. Malyshev and Dmitry V. Malyshev     

Dynamics of the ice cover and peculiarities of the ice transportation of the sediments at the tidal flats of the Kandalaksha Gulf of the White Sea

Ten years of semistationary studies of the interaction of the ice cover and the coastal relief of the Kandalakhsa Gulf in the White Sea allowed us to reveal the peculiarities of these processes in the warm and cold years and the mechanisms of the origination of ice forms, including ice tents, which govern the character of the tidal flats. Three dynamic fast ice zones are distinguished by their geomorphological location, morphology, and ice dynamics. The dependence of the mechanisms and volumes of the enrichment of the fast ice in the sediments on the coastal zone??s relief was established. At the coast of the Kindo Peninsula (Velikaya Salma Strait), the ice mostly contains fine-sandy sediments. Coarser sediments, including boulders, are occasional and frozen into the ice at the contact of the fast ice and the bottom. At the expense of the ice??s spreading by 4?C6 times in the warm years and 2?C4 times in the cold years, several thousand tons of sediments mostly from the tidal flat??s surface (100?C700 m³ from 1 km of coast in the wide tidal flats and <50 m³ on the steep coasts) are delivered to the water area.     

Relationship between the path of the Kuroshio in the south of Japan and the path of the Kuroshio Extension in the east

A relationship between paths of the Kuroshio and Kuroshio Extension (KE) is investigated, using the satellite-derived altimetry dataset of 1993–2008. When the Kuroshio takes the nearshore nonlarge meander path or typical large meander path and resultantly goes through the deeper channel (about 2500 m) of the Izu-Ogasawara Ridge, the KE path adopts a relatively stable state with the two quasi-stationary meanders. On the other hand, when the Kuroshio takes the offshore nonlarge meander path and then passes over the shallower part of the Ridge (about 1000 m), the KE path tends to be convoluted, i.e., an unstable state.     

A model of the dynamics of the ecosystem of the Sea of Azov

We use many-year archival observations of hydrologic and hydrobiologic state of the Sea of Azov for the identification of the structure of a model of its ecosystem. The ecosystem model, supplemented with expert estimates of bioresource consumption (fish reserve), contamination level, and possible ecologic fines for violation of the sea natural state, is formalized by the method of system dynamics. Hereat, the major part of influence functions is found in terms of observational data with application of self-organization algorithms. We also present the results of simulated experiments with the model of the ecosystem, which enable us to analyse scenarios of its behaviour under the influence of various external factors (wind, river discharge, water exchange with the Black Sea, etc.). Translated by Peter V. Malyshev and Dmitry V. Malyshev     

Parameters of the sediments of the deep-water basin of the Black Sea

The methodology and the first results of the computations of the volumes, masses, and growth rates of the sedimentary body of the buried Black Sea basin are presented. Their temporal evolution reflects the regional paleogeodynamics, in particular, the reorientation of the vector of the relative movement of the Arabian and Eurasian lithospheric plates and the related intensification of their collision in the late Miocene-Pliocene.     

Variability of the nutrient runoff of the rivers of the Arctic Basin

The spatiotemporal variability of the hydrochemical composition of the riverine runoff in nearmouth areas is presented using the example of selected rivers of the Arctic Basin. The temporal dynamics of the riverine nutrient runoff are mainly determined by the seasonal and interseasonal variations in the drainage basins. The spatial variations in the chemical composition of riverine waters in the near-mouth areas are mainly caused by the dynamics of the water flow and the river bed relief and, to a lesser degree, by biochemical processes. It is shown that the variations in the nutrient composition of the waters in near-mouth areas are comparable in magnitude to those at the river-sea geochemical barriers.     

On the Relationship between the Characteristics of the Annual Variations of the Virtual Height of the Ionospheric Sporadic E Layer with the Seasonal Rearrangements of the Stratomesospheric Circulation

Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics - Analysis of the temporal variations of the virtual heights of the sporadic E layer (h?ES) determined from ionograms with increased accuracy (1...