现场粒径分析仪与ADCP同步测量悬浮沉积物浓度的粒径修正方法

利用后散射强度(ABS)估计悬浮沉积物浓度原理,根据Rayleigh散射理论,给出了利用现场粒径分析仪与声学多普勒流速剖面仪(ADCP)同步测量悬浮沉积物浓度的粒径修正方法,并推导出了一种新的、用于对ABS进行粒径修正的等效粒径计算公式(9)。利用这一公式并结合LISST-100所测的粒径分布信息,可以对ADCP所测的ABS进行粒径修正,其修正方法见式(10)。结合利物浦湾和Anglesey周边海域的现场采样、测量及其分析结果,对上述粒径修正方法进行了验证。分析结果表明,采用上述公式进行粒径修正后,ADCP测量悬浮沉积物浓度的精度有较大程度的提高,线性拟合的相关系数从0．65-0．71提高到0．78-0．88。     

Estimating sand concentrations using ADCP-based acoustic inversion in a large fluvial system characterized by bi-modal suspended-sediment distributions

Quantifying sediment flux within rivers is a challenge for many disciplines due, mainly, to difficulties inherent to traditional sediment sampling methods. These methods are operationally complex, high cost, and high risk. Additionally, the resulting data provide a low spatial and temporal resolution estimate of the total sediment flux, which has impeded advances in the understanding of the hydro-geomorphic characteristics of rivers. Acoustic technologies have been recognized as a leading tool for increasing the resolution of sediment data by relating their echo intensity level measurements to suspended sediment. Further effort is required to robustly test and develop these techniques across a wide range of conditions found in natural river systems. This article aims to evaluate the application of acoustic inversion techniques using commercially available, down-looking acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) in quantifying suspended sediment in a large sand bed river with varying bi-modal particle size distributions, wash load and suspended-sand ratios, and water stages. To achieve this objective, suspended sediment was physically sampled along the Paraná River, Argentina, under various hydro-sedimentological regimes. Two ADCPs emitting different sound frequencies were used to simultaneously profile echo intensity level within the water column. Using the sonar equation, calibrations were determined between suspended-sand concentrations and acoustic backscatter to solve the inverse problem. The study also analyzed the roles played by each term of the sonar equation, such as ADCP frequency, power supply, instrument constants, and particle size distributions typically found in sand bed rivers, on sediment attenuation and backscatter. Calibrations were successfully developed between corrected backscatter and suspended-sand concentrations for all sites and ADCP frequencies, resulting in mean suspended-sand concentration estimates within about 40% of the mean sampled concentrations. Noise values, calculated using the sonar equation and sediment sample characteristics, were fairly constant across evaluations, suggesting that they could be applied to other sand bed rivers. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Circulation on the West Antarctic Peninsula derived from 6 years of shipboard ADCP transects

Over the past 30 years, shelf circulation on the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) has been derived from hydrographic data with a reasonable level of confidence. However, with the exception of a very few drifter tracks and current-meter timeseries from moorings, direct velocity measurements have not previously been available. In this article, shelf and shelf-edge circulation is examined using a new velocity dataset, consisting of several years of acoustic Doppler current profiler transects, routinely collected along the ship tracks of the R/V Gould and the R/V Palmer since the fall of 1997. Initial processing and quality control is performed by Dr. Teresa Chereskin and Dr. Eric Firing, who then place the data in an archive accessible by public website, resulting in the broad availability of the data for a variety of uses. In this study, gridded Eulerian means have been calculated to examine circulation on the shelf and slope off the South Shetland Islands, in Bransfield Strait, and on the shelf and slope south of these regions, including Marguerite Bay and the adjacent shelf and shelf-edge. Shelf-edge flow is northeastward in the study area from the offshore of northern Alexander Island to Smith Island, while a southward flowing shelf-edge feature, probably the shallow component of the polar slope current, appears between Elephant Island and Livingston Island. The shallow polar slope current appears to turn shoreward to pass through Boyd Strait between Smith and Livingston Islands. In Bransfield Strait, there is cyclonic circulation. The previously identified northeastward-flowing South Shetland Island jet is strong and present in all seasons, with a large barotropic component not revealed by the hydrography-based velocities derived in the past. On the shelf seaward of Adelaide, Anvers and Brabant Islands, the strong along-shelf Antarctic Peninsula coastal current flows southwestward, with strongest velocities in winter (June–September) off Anvers and Brabant Islands, but stronger in summer (December–March) off Adelaide Island. Seaward of Marguerite Bay, there is seaward flow in the upper 400 m of the water column over the southwest bank of Marguerite Trough, strongest in summer, and shoreward flow near the northeast bank and adjacent shallower shelf areas.     

台湾东北黑潮入侵东海陆架强度的变化规律:持续一年的ADCP现场流速观测

本文利用台湾东北陆坡附近海域持续一年的多普勒流速剖面仪(AcousticDopplerCurrent Profilers,ADCP)定点深水测流数据提取了观测站点处黑潮跨陆坡入侵强度的时间序列,并与美国海军混合坐标海洋模式(HybridCoordinateOceanModel,HYCOM)分析数据中提取的观测站点处以及台湾东北陆坡东西区段黑潮入侵强度的时间序列进行了对比研究。研究结果显示黑潮在观测站点处的跨陆坡入侵强度存在显著的季节和季节内变化特征,并且与台湾东北黑潮主轴位置的摆动有较好的对应关系,黑潮主轴东(西)移,则黑潮在台湾东北陆坡西段及观测站点处的入侵显著减弱(增强),而在台湾东北陆坡东段的入侵显著增强(减弱)。此外,观测站点处黑潮跨陆坡入侵强度的时间序列还显示出较强的10d和20d左右的短周期信号,其中10d的周期信号对应着东海黑潮斜压不稳定波动的特征周期,而20d的周期信号则体现了台湾东北附近海域局地涡旋的短期变化。     

2008年8—9月份吕宋海峡西南侧锚定ADCP的斜压海流观测

2008年8月份在吕宋海峡西侧大约4000m深的海域首次布放了两套深水潜标，对上层海洋进行了为期一个月的高频率ADCP海流采样。对数据进行了多重处理，分解得到平均流和逐层潮流，并分析了具有斜压性海流的频率分布。调和分析结果表明，该海域以不规则日周期潮流为主，潮流椭圆随深度旋转。海流的功率谱分析表明，内潮能量在温跃层附近最大，并随深度减小，同时海流有明显的近惯性振荡信号。该观测为了解吕宋海峡深层海洋的潮流、近惯性运动以及海峡水交换提供了第一手的资料。     

Study of the Kuroshio/Ryukyu Current system based on satellite-altimeter and <Emphasis Type="Italic">in situ</Emphasis> measurements

Data from satellite altimeters and from a 13-month deployment of in situ instruments are used to determine an empirical relationship between sea-level anomaly difference (SLA) across the Kuroshio in the East China Sea (ECS-Kuroshio) and net transport near 28°N. Applying this relationship to the altimeter data, we obtain a 12-year time series of ECS-Kuroshio transport crossing the C-line (KT). The resulting mean transport is 18.7 ± 0.2 Sv with 1.8 Sv standard deviation. This KT is compared with a similarly-determined time series of net Ryukyu Current transport crossing the O-line near 26°N southeast of Okinawa (RT). Their mean sum (24 Sv) is less than the mean predicted Sverdrup transport. These KT and RT mean-flow estimates form a consistent pattern with historical estimates of other mean flows in the East China Sea/Philippine Basin region. While mean KT is larger than mean RT by a factor of 3.5, the amplitude of the KT annual cycle is only half that of RT. At the 95% confidence level the transports are coherent at periods of about 2 years and 100–200 days, with RT leading KT by about 60 days in each case. At the annual period, the transports are coherent at the 90% confidence level with KT leading RT by 4–5 months. While the bulk of the Kuroshio enters the ECS through the channel between Taiwan and Yonaguni-jima, analysis of satellite altimetry maps, together with the transport time series, indicates that the effect of mesoscale eddies is transmitted to the ECS via the Kerama Gap southwest of Okinawa. Once the effect of these eddies is felt by the ECS-Kuroshio at 28°N, it is advected rapidly to the Tokara Strait.     

DGPS走航测深验潮技术中的潮位信息提取方法

提出了一种提取观测海域潮位信息的新方法--DGPS走航测深验潮技术,即在走航ADCP重复测量断面潮周期流场观测的同时获取潮位信息,并实现水下地形的潮位改正.该方法通过重复测量点瞬时水深数据选取、潮位差数据计算、叠加拟合和迭代逼近等预处理与算法,可在潮差约1.6 m、地形起伏高达10～20 m的台湾浅滩沙波区,获取均方根误差小于0.1 m的潮位观测结果.     

ADCP流量生成模型及相应计算方法研究

如何快速准确监测河道流量,一直是水文学者研究的对象。ADCP是一种先进的流量测验仪器。本文分析ADCP流量测验机理,提出ADCP流量生成模型的概念,分析出ADCP流量生成模型的结构,构建了ADCP流量生成模型。根据流量生成模型研制的ADCP流量计算程序计算结果和目前应用广泛的Winriver软件计算结果极其相似。ADCP流量生成模型概念准确、结构合理,数据处理计算方法得当、研制的程序可靠。这为ADCP国产化奠定了坚实的基础。     

基于ADCP反向散射强度估算悬沙浓度在洋山港的应用研究

洋山深水港地形差异大,流态复杂,在宽阔的西口门和窄深东口门,以传统方法同步开展悬沙输移监测十分困难。详述了在颗珠山汊道应用ADCP走航测沙的实现方法,结论显示,与传统代表垂线法成果相比,通过ADCP声反向散射信号计算的垂线平均含沙量,其对比标准差约为6%,随机不确定度在12%(置信水平为95%)左右,误差分布基本成正态,两种方法之间的断面输沙率相关系数达到0.96,可见,利用ADCP的声反向散射信号,只要标定得当,在洋山港区得到的垂线平均含沙量和断面输沙率是可信的,该技术将为洋山港区关键控制断面悬沙监测提供新思路。     

The current dynamics inside the Strait of Bonifacio: Impact of the wind effect in a little coastal strait

The dynamics of Bonifacio strait (south of Corsica) are investigated in a comprehensive study at long term from two set of data. First, by moored ADCP put in middle of the strait during six weeks (4 November 2004 to 7 January 2005), at a depth of 40 m and at few Kilometers from coast. Second, by velocity profiles obtained with a 314.4 kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) during seven cruises (Cyrce) covering entirety strait. From moored ADCP data, a study is made on time correlation between wind stress and current. Shipboard ADCP data permits to obtain a general view in totality of strait and mostly to observe spatial variability. This study shows that the circulation is governed both by wind stress and by general circulation of Mediterranean Sea.