美国加入《联合国海洋法公约》问题

1982年第三次联合国海洋法会议产生了《联合国海洋法公约》,美国积极参与并主导了该《公约》的整个谈判过程,对《公约》大部分条款持支持态度,但最终却没有签署《公约》,其原因主要在于它反对《公约》第十一部分关于深海采矿的规定。1994年《执行(公约)第十一部分的协定》对《公约》中与深海采矿有关的部分进行了实质性修改,满足了美国的利益和要求,但美国国内对《公约》还存在其他一些反对意见。目前美国国内各界支持加入《公约》的呼声日益高涨,美国正在积极考虑加入《公约》。     

“联合国海洋科学促进可持续发展十年”:内容与评述

为了找到逆转海洋健康状况衰退的有效途径,联合国决定自2021年启动“联合国海洋科学促进可持续发展十年”(以下简称“海洋十年”)计划。2020年12月31日获得联合国大会审议通过的《“海洋十年”实施计划》以“构建我们所需要的科学、打造我们所希望的海洋”为愿景,描绘了“海洋十年”的预期成果、挑战与目标,以及实施、治理、协调、筹资、监督与审查等机制。“海洋十年”被联合国喻为“一生一次”的计划,是联合国发起的海洋大科学综合性顶层计划,它将通过激发和推动海洋科学领域的变革,在全球和国家层面构建更加强大的基于科技创新的治理体系来实现海洋的可持续发展。这将深刻改变人类对海洋的认知与行为模式,深刻影响乃至引导海洋秩序的演化过程,也会对海洋区域合作整体布局产生较大影响。建议我国以“海洋命运共同体”理念为指导,积极参与“海洋十年”,作为深度参与全球海洋治理的核心抓手,尽快组建“海洋十年”国家委员会,制定中国行动方案,与国际社会一道推进海洋的可持续发展。     

Deep-towed side-scan survey of the United Nations Rise, eastern Mediterranean

 A newly discovered area of mud volcanism, about 170 km south of Crete, in the central–eastern part of the Mediterranean Ridge, was named the “United Nations Rise” (UNR). A survey of the UNR area with the deep-towed ORE tech side-scan sonar equipped with a subbottom profiler revealed the presence of some mud volcanoes and also showed various other sea-floor features, including slumps, escarpments and pockmark-type depressions. Several of our interpretations were ground-truthed by coring. The UNR area appears to belong to the Inner deformation front of the Mediterranean Ridge.     

To accede or not to accede: An analysis of the current US position related to the United Nations law of the sea

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (hereafter “UNCLOS”) is one of the most significant legal instruments of modern times, though the United States (US) has yet to join the 167 nations that have signed the document. Until the twentieth century, freedom of the seas led to inequity among nations, violence, and environmental disasters. UNCLOS provides a peaceful legal structure to resolve border disputes and enforce anti-pollution regulations while maintaining freedom of navigation, safety at sea, and marine scientific research efforts. However, the legitimacy of UNCLOS continues to deteriorate as China acts unilaterally while its global economic reach expands. Additionally, the US cannot participate in international agreements to access ocean resources in the deep seabed or claim portions of the Arctic due to non-accession to UNCLOS. Such accession would protect global security as the balance of power otherwise becomes increasingly unstable. The US must also accede to ensure economic development for itself as well as the preservation of coastal resources upon which many nations rely. In conclusion, US non-accession will risk global security, economic development, and the US position of strength.     

海洋在亚洲夏季风对全球变暖响应中的作用

前人的模式研究表明全球变暖之后亚洲夏季风降水和环流的改变存在着一种自相矛盾的现象。本文利用最新的IPCC-AR4模式模拟资料和FOAM模式来研究亚洲夏季风对全球增暖的响应机制。大多数IPCC-AR4模式以及FOAM模式重现了亚洲夏季风降雨与环流变化的自相矛盾性。利用FOAM模式,本文通过系统改变海洋增暖信号来理解海洋变暖在季风响应中的作用机理。结果表明亚洲夏季风降雨和环流对全球变暖的不同响应主要是由于印度洋的变暖加强了中上层大气的变暖(从而降低了经向的热梯度)和水汽输送。全球增暖导致海陆温差的增大使得大气对流中心北移从而减弱了北印度洋的底层大气季风风速。这些敏感性实验还表明了太平洋的变暖增强了亚洲夏季风环流但减少了降雨量,从而削弱了印度洋增暖对亚洲夏季风的颖响。模式研究还表明了海洋的增暖能够增强亚洲夏季风自身的内在变率。     

The politics of negotiation at the United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks

This article examines the dynamics and politics that led to the adoption in August 1995 of an ambitious and comprehensive legal instrument that aims to regulate the management of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks. In retrospect, such an achievement may appear surprising, but can be partly explained by a number of particularities that had not occurred in past similar international negotiations. Among such key factors were the actors of these negotiations, distant water fishing States and coastal States on the one hand, and other non-State actors on the other hand. Non-governmental organizations in particular played an innovative and important role, as did such inter-governmental organizations as the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). At the same time, the proceedings of this Conference owe to two series of dynamics, one global in nature, which ruled the dealings of the actors, and particularly the bargaining between distant water fishing States and coastal nations, the other, a series of shifts that motivated individual States or groups of States to evolve in their positions throughout the more than two years of negotiations. The Conference also needs to be seen within the wider framework of the ‘mosaic’ of international instruments that were being negotiated at the time, in particular the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. Furthermore, both the Conference and the Agreement are but the first steps in a long process where the commitment of the participating nations will be tested at the implementation stage.     

The South East Regional Marine Plan: Implementing Australia's Oceans Policy

In 1998, the Australian Government released Australia's Oceans Policy (AOP), a world first policy initiative focused on providing a framework for integrated ecosystem-based management of Australia's vast marine domain. The South East Regional Marine Plan, the first regional marine plan to be implemented under AOP, was released on 21 May 2004. This paper argues that although full integration across sectors and jurisdictions has not occurred, new AOP initiatives, institutions and governance processes have considerably increased sectoral and jurisdictional coordination in the South East region.     

Forecasting geopolitical risks: Oceans as source of instability

The publication of reports on geo-political risks in the world sponsored by intelligence agencies, university institutes and think tanks are valuable instruments in societies that are being increasingly exposed to the effects of globalisation. Although all express mention of geo-political risks of a maritime nature is absent from these documents, it is an interesting exercise to determine: i) Which geo-political risks or threats have a maritime dimension or imply derivations whose occurrence may be linked to maritime space? ii) Which processes or tendencies in the use, occupation and governance of maritime space can fall into the category of geo-political risk? The basic aim is to address the forms that instability and geo-political risks take in the ocean world. If the risks stated in the chosen literature are examined from the maritime perspective, it is possible to perceive ‘secondary’ risks whose size and reach can become major contingencies for international stability. They therefore should not be ignored in the prognosis and evaluation of geo-political risks. In as much as societies' political organisation continues to rest on the nation-State, the dominance of the maritime component in the territorial basis is a permanent source of tensions and conflicts. In parallel with this, the displacement of economic expectations and the supply of traditional and new resources to the marine environment broadens the spectrum of risks and threats.     

资料同化中的伴随方法及其在海洋中的应用

较系统地综述了资料同化中各种方法的分类,并着重说明了伴随方法的基本原理和具体实现步骤。并总结了伴随方法在海洋中的应用现状,并指出由于观测资料特别是遥感资料的日益丰富,伴随方法将有广泛地应用前景。     

The adjoint-based Two Oceans One Sea State Estimate(TOOSSE)

An eddy-resolving four-dimensional variational(adjoint) data assimilation and state estimate was constructed for the low-to mid-latitude Pacific, Indian Oceans, and South China Sea based on the framework of "Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Oceans(ECCO)". It is named as the Two Oceans One Sea State Estimate(TOOSSE). It fits a model to a number of modern observations of 2015–2016,including the Argo fl oat temperature and salinity, satellite altimetric sea surface anomalies, by adjust...     

区域性海洋业务化预报系统建设研究——以福建省为例

文章以福建省区域性海洋业务化预报系统为例,阐述其在为政府决策提供依据、为公众提供服务以及为经济发展和安全生产提供保障等方面的建设需求;以需求为导向,从基础能力、技术研发和支撑能力、预报产品、综合应用和服务系统以及信息发布和公众服务等方面,介绍福建省区域性海洋业务化预报系统建设的发展现状;在此基础上,以目前存在的人才、技术、产品和服务等方面的问题为导向,提出加强人才队伍建设、大力发展海洋预警报技术、不断丰富海洋预报产品以及健全海洋预警报信息服务系统的系统建设发展方向,旨在为其他地区的区域性海洋业务化预报系统建设提供有益参考。     

Life in the World's Oceans: Diversity,Distribution, and Abundance

October 2010, Wiley-Blackwell, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK

384 pages, hardcover

ISBN 978-1-4051-9297-2. Price £120.00/€144.00/$170.17     

极区海洋对全球气候变化的快速响应和反馈作用

分析了全球气候变化与极区海洋的相互作用;集成极区快速变暖促使极区海洋出现快速变化的各种现象,如海冰快速变薄和退缩,格陵兰冰盖严重融化,北冰洋和南大洋碳池的固碳能力下降以及极地海洋酸化等.研究提出:北冰洋夏季海冰覆盖面积快速退缩,海冰覆盖面积在2012年8月26日呈现了记录以来的最低值,有模型预测到2035年北冰洋夏季将会见不到海冰.格陵兰冰盖的消融对全球海平面的上升和大洋环流均会产生影响,格陵兰冰盖全部融化将会使全球海平面上升7 m.通过近10 a的观测发现极地海域对大气二氧化碳的吸收能力不升反降,海水对大气二氧化碳的吸收趋向饱和,南大洋和西北冰洋碳吸收能力变弱.有模式预测,到21世纪末,北冰洋表层海水pH值将会降低0.23～0.45,成为全球海洋酸化最严重的海区,而南大洋的表层海水二氧化碳浓度在21世纪下半叶或将超过600μatm的水平,极地海洋酸化对海洋食物链和生态系统的影响可能成为不可逆转的损害.这些极区海洋的快速变化将对全球气候变化产生反馈作用.     

Aetideus and Euaetideus (copepoda: Calanoida) from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

The genus Euaetideus Sars, 1925 is here merged with Aetideus Brady, 1883 (Copepoda : Calanoida : Aetideidae). Three new species of the genus Aetideus are described from the Pacific as well as the males of three other known species. A key is given to the known males and females in the genus Aetideus. The closely related genera Paivella and Snelliaetideus are compared with Aetideus.