基于无人船的大洋中尺度涡观测系统展望

中尺度涡在大洋中普遍存在,研究发现,其能量比大尺度海洋环流的能量大一个量级,在海洋物质能量输运和全球气候变化中起着重要作用。受观测条件限制,目前对中尺度涡的观测主要通过卫星高度计实现,只能从海面高度来推算中尺度涡大小、分布、强度及其伴随的水体和能量输送,而卫星高度计对中尺度涡垂直结构特征认识不足,也导致了对中尺度涡所引起的上层海洋能量、热量输送估计误差偏大。目前,对中尺度涡三维结构观测认识不足,展望未来将会出现基于无人船平台的大洋中尺度涡三维结构自动观测系统,该平台将集成自动水下剖面观测功能等先进技术,以便观测中尺度涡的垂直结构特征及其时空变化特征,进而系统地认识中尺度涡带来的物质和能量输送。     

南海上层中尺度涡统一三维结构

本文基于归一化合成分析的方法,利用卫星高度计资料和CTD观测资料,在满足静力平衡和地转平衡条件的假设下研究了南海中尺度涡的三维结构,给出了南海中尺度涡归一化之后的三维结构,并与全球大洋中尺度涡统一的三维结构进行对比。结果显示,在1.5倍涡旋半径以外,南海中尺度涡水平结构的收敛速度大约为全球大洋中尺度涡水平结构收敛速度的2.5倍,前者比后者的影响范围要小约1.5倍涡旋半径。由于数据原因,我们仅合成了南海0至800m水深中尺度涡的垂直结构,从垂直结构的合成结果来看,由于受到背景层结和科氏参数的影响,南海与全球大洋各海区中尺度涡的垂直结构具有明显的不同,随着深度的增加,南海中尺度涡垂直结构的衰减速度明显更快。     

海洋中尺度涡的机械能及其源汇研究*

由于观测手段的限制,海洋中尺度涡的能量输送及生成与耗散动力过程一直是世界大洋能量循环中悬而未决的一个问题,而中尺度涡在海洋中又广泛存在,它不仅占据海洋表层动能的绝大部分,而且是能量级串中连接大尺度和小尺度的中间环节,在大洋能量传输中扮演着重要的角色。文章以中尺度涡场机械能的大小、分布、源汇为主线,结合作者在这方面的最新研究成果,综述当前对中尺度涡机械能及其源汇的研究进展。     

多源数据中尺度涡三维结构分析方法研究

作为重要的海洋中尺度现象之一,中尺度涡的研究受到人们的关注和重视。随着数值模式的进一步发展、卫星资料的累积、时间更长以及更多更有效的海上实测数据的取得,使得综合利用实测资料、卫星遥感资料、再分析/数值预报产品等数据源,对中尺度涡进行自动识别与三维结构分析成为中尺度涡研究的主要方向之一。在前期对卫星遥感资料中尺度涡自动检测算法进行研究的基础上,开展多源资料中尺度涡三维结构分析方法研究,以表面漂流浮标运动轨迹为中尺度涡的判定依据,综合利用高度计观测、红外遥感观测、以及再分析/数值预报产品分析中尺度涡三维结构信息,在此基础上,提出中尺度涡研究的发展方向,为全面分析中尺度涡的时空特性提供技术途径,为中尺度涡的动力机制研究奠定基础。     

基于Voxler平台的太平洋中尺度涡合成三维结构

为深入研究太平洋中尺度涡的三维结构特征,解决常规一维剖面和二维平面图对温盐空间分布规律分析不足的弊端,文章在三维结构合成分析的基础上首次引入Voxler平台,建立太平洋中尺度涡温盐要素的三维数据模型,实现太平洋中尺度涡三维结构的可视化表达,利用历史观测数据合成的太平洋中尺度涡三维结构,对温盐结构特征进行直观的全空间三维分析。研究结果表明:太平洋反气旋涡温度异常的主体结构深度约200m,呈鹅卵石状,涡旋结构可维持到1 000m;盐度异常的主体结构深度约300m,呈水平扁平水滴状,涡旋结构仅维持约800m;与盐度异常的三维结构相比,温度异常结构较复杂,且涡旋结构更明显,到达深度也更深,即温度受中尺度涡的影响更显著。     

南海中尺度涡对深层流调控作用的个例研究

南海深层环流作为印太海域热盐环流的重要组成部分,研究其时间变异特征对于深入认识印太海域大洋环流具有重要意义。中尺度涡作为南海极为活跃的动力过程,有观测显示其影响深度可超过2000m。结合海表面高度计资料与潜标观测资料,识别南海区域中尺度涡,并分析了中尺度涡对深层流场以及温度场的影响。针对三个中尺度涡的潜标实测结果表明:在涡旋经过时,海洋深层流动有明显的变异,表现在速度、温度方面,速度增加量能达到5.5cm/s,温度变异可达到0.02℃。涡旋经过时,海洋上层、深层流向呈相反态势,第一斜压模动能显著增强。     

海洋中尺度涡旋源汇空间分布特征研究

借助卫星高度计数据,对中尺度涡进行识别和追踪;以16年内中尺度涡个数上的生消为判据,发现中尺度涡在除赤道外的全球大洋中生消频繁,但在海盆内区并没有明显的生成占优区或消亡占优区;而在中纬度近岸的狭窄东边界内中尺度涡生成居多,在另一侧近岸的狭窄西边界中尺度涡消亡居多。同时,我们以一阶斜压模态所对应的特征深度作为两层结构的内界面深度,并假定涡动能平均分配于正压模态和一阶斜压模态,计算得到了包含涡动能和涡有效重力位能的中尺度涡能量年平均净生成率和净耗散率,发现虽然海盆西边界是涡场能量耗散大于能量生成的区域,但强耗散过程实际上在海盆西侧内区的强流及其回流区均有发生。另外,中尺度涡生消个数差值的分布与中尺度涡能量净生成率和净耗散率的分布表明,虽然海盆东边界近岸区域内中尺度涡的生成居多,但该区域中尺度涡的能量偏弱,因此该区并非涡场能量的主要源区。     

基于高度计观测和模式数据诊断南大洋主要锋面与涡旋的特征

锋面和涡旋是南大洋重要的中尺度过程,南极绕极环流(Antarctic Circumpolar Current,ACC)系统中的锋面及其裹携的涡旋构成了能量和物质的东向传播通道,对全球大洋的能量和物质平衡具有重要影响.基于海表高度计和B-SOSE(Biogeochemical Southern Ocean State E...     

基于OceanDataView的中尺度涡分析研究

以西太平洋海域 2 个中尺度涡为例,利用 AVISO 卫星高度计观测的海平面高度异常(Sea Level Anomaly,SLA)数据、HYCOM 模式的温度、盐度数据及水下滑翔机实测数据,分析了 Ocean Data View 软件(ODV)在实现该区域中尺度涡运动特征规律研究的实用性,探讨了中尺度涡分析处理的关键技术和方法。 结果表明：利用 ODV 软件能够快速绘制海平面高度异常值和海表面流速的平面图,进而准确判别中尺度涡类型、追踪中尺度涡在海表面的水平空间尺度及演化特征;也可绘制任意航迹温、盐深断面图用于分析中尺度涡的垂直结构和判别涡结构类型;同时 ODV 软件也提供了垂直涡结构实测数据与模式数据对比分析模式,为中尺度涡研究提供强有力的分析工具和技术支撑方法。     

基于生成对抗网络模型的热带和亚热带海洋中尺度涡预报研究

中尺度涡蕴含海洋超过90%的动能,显著影响海洋物质能量循环。对中尺度涡的预报是目前物理海洋学研究的热点和难点。文章基于卫星高度计观测的近30年海表面高度异常数据(sea level anomaly, SLA),采用基于博弈思想的生成对抗网络方法(generative adversarial networks, GAN),构建了中尺度涡预报模型,进行了28天预报,并采用独立样本分析了预报涡旋的空间分布、时间分布、能量强度等特征参数,探讨影响预报结果准确性和时效性的主要因素。结果表明,半径为100～200km的涡旋在15天左右的预报时长仍能保持较好的准确性及时效性,误差在20%以内。该区域的平均涡动能约为0.875m²·s^–2,其预报的均方根误差(root mean square error, RMSE)普遍介于0.02～0.04m²·s^–2。且涡旋预报结果受异常天气影响较小,在正常天气条件和台风娜基莉条件下具有相似的预报能力。这些结果对进一步理解并应用生成对抗网络这一新方法预报海洋中尺度涡提供了参考。     

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.     

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.     

Phylogenetic diversity and phenotypic characterization of cultivable bacterioplankton isolated from polar oceans

A set of 27 marine planktonic bacteria isolated from the polar regions was characterized by 16S rDNA sequencing and physiological and biochemical testing. More than half of these bacteria were positive for caseinase, gelatinase and 13-glucosidase, and could utilize glucose, maltose or malic acid as carbon source for cell growth. Twelve isolates expressed nitrate reduction activities. Except for one antarctic isolate BSwlO175 belonging to Actinobacteria phylum, these isolates were classified as γ-Proteobacteria, suggesting that γ-Proteobacteria dominated in cultivable marine bacterioplankton at both poles. Genus Pseudoalteromonas was the predominant group in the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea, and genus ShewaneUa dominated in cultivable bacterioplankton in the Prydz Bay. With sequence similarities above 97%, genus Psychrobacter was found at both poles. These 27 isolates were psychrotolerant, and significant 16S rDNA sequence similarities were found not only between arctic and antarctic marine bacteria （ 〉 99% ）, but also between polar marine bacteria and bacteria from other aquatic environments （ ≥ 98.8% ）, including temperate ocean, deep sea, pond and lake, suggesting that in the polar oceans less temperature-sensitive bacteria may be cosmopolitan and have a bipolar, even global, distribution at the species level.     

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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<正>Acta Oceanologica Sinica(AOS)is a comprehensive academic journal edited by the Editorial Committee of Acta Oceanologica Sinica and is designed to provide a forum for important research papers of the marine scientific community which reflect the information on a worldwide basis.The journal publishes scholarly papers on marine science and technology,including physics,chemistry,biology,     

Evaluation of the Risk of Marine Slope Instability: A Pseudo-3D Approach for Application to Large Areas

This article presents a methodology developed to evaluate the instability of submarine slopes that extend over a large area. Special attention was paid to (1) the complex geometry (bathymetry) and the expanse of the slope, (2) the heterogeneity of the sediment, and (3) the distribution of the pore pressure. The safety factor was considered as a spatially varying quantity. The General Formulation (GLE, Fredlund and Krahn 1977), which fully satisfies equilibrium conditions, was used for evaluating the stability of the marine slope. The submarine slope failure, which occurred on 16 October 1979 during the construction of the new Nice airport, was studied in order to test the developed model. Geotechnical parameters were taken from experimental tests carried out by IFREMER on 19 cores extracted at different depths (from 27 m to 1300 m) (Cochonat, Bourillet, and Savoye, 1993; Mulder et al., 1994). Many scenarios were proposed in order to explain the cause of the Nice slope failure (Habib, 1994). In this article, two of those scenarios were tested. Simulation results are presented and discussed.