实际气象场驱动下太湖悬浮物浓度的模拟研究

本文利用高频变化的实际气象数据, 在考虑波浪作用的前提下利用FVCOM (Finite-volume Coastal Ocean Model)模式模拟了太湖底泥再悬浮的情况。模拟结果表明, FVCOM模式在考虑波浪作用下对太湖悬浮物浓度的模拟结果与卫星反演结果吻合较好。在模拟时刻, 湖心区和西南湖区是悬浮物浓度的大值区, 其原因在于: 湖心区虽然底泥较少, 但其流场的分布总是有利于周围悬浮物向湖心区输送; 而西南湖区本身有底泥的分布, 在上升运动和流场的配合下, 一方面有悬浮物向该区域输送, 另一方面该区域有沉积物悬浮。模拟时刻切应力和悬浮物浓度的空间配置是不一致的, 说明了底部切应力并不是影响悬浮物浓度的唯一因子, 还与湖流的输移和底泥的分布有关。     

湄洲湾峰尾围垦工程施工期间海水悬浮泥沙输移扩散的数值模拟

围填海工程施工过程导致海域悬浮物迅速增加,影响周围海洋生态系统,研究围填海工程悬浮泥沙的输移扩散规律对于区域生态环境质量及工程建设的综合生态影响评价具有重要的参考意义．针对湄洲湾峰尾围垦工程施工期悬浮泥沙可能造成的生态影响,对爆破挤淤（5．17t／s）和抛石挤淤（1．39kg／s）的悬沙源强进行了分析计算．在工程海区平面二维潮流场数学模型的基础上,采用二维对流扩散数学模型对施工范围内的模型网格点（40m×40m）进行了逐点计算,数值模拟结果表明,悬浮泥沙扩散范围和形态主要受潮流控制,工程施工联合影响下悬沙质量浓度大于10mg／dm3的全潮最大影响包络面积为5．848km2,施工9h后悬沙影响基本消失,为工程施工期环境管理提供了参考依据．施工悬浮泥沙的扩散整体表现为总悬沙质量浓度在离工程区较近的范围内较大,而距离越远质量浓度越接近自然状态的本底含沙量．施工悬浮泥沙对浮游生物、游泳生物和底栖生物等均会产生一定的影响,但随着施工结束而消失,不会对海洋生态产生长期的不利影响．     

星载散射计资料反演带有气旋及锋面的复杂风场

气象预报在确定热带气旋中的大风（风速17．2～20．7m／s）半径时，由于热带海洋地区在恶劣气候下缺乏现场数据，往往过高地估计了大风半径。星载散射计在探测海面上的风矢量的同时，也探测到许多热带气旋。本文利用Seasat－A卫星上的散射计（SASS）资料反演计算海面风暴的风矢量，并利用风速等值线进行风向多解排除，计算结果表明：星载散射计能探测到大风的阈值（17～18m／s），其准确度为2m／s或±10％（取大者）。     

盐度影响沉积物抗侵蚀性的环形水槽试验研究

黄河口海域盐度变化受入海径流量、海洋动力条件及气候等影响,时空变化显著。河口区盐度场的变化不仅会影响营养盐、污染物的运输,还会改变入海泥沙的沉降及固结特性,进一步影响沉积物的抗侵蚀性。为研究不同盐度环境对沉积物抗侵蚀性的影响,选用黄河三角洲沉积物进行室内循环水槽试验,模拟不同盐度条件下沉积物发生侵蚀再悬浮的过程。研究得出在本研究区盐度0～36‰范围内,黄河口细颗粒沉积物临界切应力值存在明显差异,变化范围为0.055 6～0.080 6 Pa。固结程度相同,沉积物临界切应力随盐度的增加呈对数增长特征,在盐度小于9‰的条件下,黄河口细颗粒沉积物抗侵蚀性受盐度环境变化的影响尤为明显;固结程度不同,随着固结时间的推移,盐度环境的增加对沉积物临界切应力的促进作用减小。     

泰山大风气候特征统计分析

利用泰山气象站1971-2010年近40a逐日风向风速观测资料,统计分析泰山大风天气的气候特征。结果表明：近40a泰山平均风速为7．0m／s,冬季风速最大,春季次之,夏季最小;近40a最大风速为37．7m／s,出现在1977年;年平均大风日数为160．3d,月平均大风日数最多为4月,9月最少,从季节分布：看,春季最多,...     

春季华南沿海海-气边界层动力参数的观测研究

通过对珠江口海岸边近地面边界层的观测资料的研究,发现该海岸带春季大气层结呈中性或近中性状态,强稳定或者强不稳定天气过程较少;摩擦速度不仅和稳定度有关,而且随平均风速呈线性增加,地形引起的扰动对它的离散性影响较大;无因次风速方差满足相似规律并符合“1/3”次方定律,在中性或者近中性条件下,u,v,,w3个方向分量的相似函数为常数:3.06、2.56、1.33;湍流强度在风速达到4～6 m/s时最弱,且变化不明显,在自由对流状态(风速小于2m/s)时湍流发展最旺盛,风速大于6 m/s时随风速增大略有增加,水平分量比垂向分量的增幅明显;海面空气动力粗糙度在距离海面10 m高处风速为3.0 m/s时最小,其与风速成二次曲线关系;中性或近中性条件下拖曳系数平均值为1.180×10-3,与风速的关系在小于4 m/s和大于4 m/s时不同,且有不同的拟合关系式.     

风暴潮对海浪影响的数位研究

采用第三代海浪模式和线性全流风暴潮模式计算封闭海域内风暴潮对风浪的影响。海浪模式中包含水深变化及平均流变化引起的波浪绕射项。计算了不同风速和不同静水深情况下风暴潮引起的风浪波南的变化。计算结果表明：静水深为１０ｍ及风速为３０ｍ／３时，风暴潮引起的风浪波高的相对变化的最大值达３９％；而静水深超过４０ｍ时，即使风速为４０ｍ／ｓ，风暴潮引起的风浪波高的相对变化的最大值小于５％。     

风暴潮对海浪影响的数值研究

采用第三代海浪模式和线性全流风暴潮模式计算封闭海域内风暴潮对风浪的影响，海浪模式中钫含水深变化及平均流变化引起的波浪绕射项，计算了不同风速和不同静水深情况下风暴潮引起的风浪波高的变化，计算结果表明：静水深为１０ｍ及风速为３０ｍ／ｓ，风暴潮引起的风浪波高的相对变化的最大值达３９％；而静水深超过４０ｍ时，即使风速为４０ｍ／ｓ，风暴潮引起的风浪波高的相对变化的最大值小５％。     

北部湾冬季强风的主分量神经网络预报方法研究

本文首先分析造成北部湾冬季强风的天气动力学机理，在此基础上以相关分析法确定强风的预报因子(气压梯度、气温梯度、高层风速等因子)与预报量之间存在着较好的相关性；进而采用人工神经网络与主分量分析(PCA)相结合的方法建立了北部湾冬季强风的预报模型．该预报方法所构造的预报模型对历史样本风速拟合平均绝对误差为1．80m/s，对独立样本风速试报的平均绝对误差为1．46m/s．计算结果表明，该方法的拟合效果及预报稳定性较好，可在预报业务中应用．     

波致应力对台风天气下南海上层海流的影响分析

利用海洋环流模式POM,分别在考虑波致应力和不考虑波致应力的情况下对1998年台风Faith影响南海期间的海洋环流进行了模拟试验,并将模拟结果与浮标观测资料进行了对比分析。初步的分析结果显示,在考虑波致应力情况下的模式结果无论在海表面温度(SST)的最大降温还是台风引起的海流的近惯性波动等方面均与观测结果更为接近;相对于不考虑波致应力的模式结果,最低SST降低了1℃,达到了24.12℃,而最大表层流速增加了17cm.s-1,达到了1.74m.s-1,计算的1 000m以内的正压流速大约增加了32%,达到了16.2cm.s-1。     

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.     

A Review of Some Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Mining

This article reviews information recently available from existing marine and coastal mining for responses to environmental issues affecting marine mining at different depths. It is particularly but not exclusively concerned with those issues affecting seabed biodiversity impact and recovery. Much information has been gathered in the past 10 years from shallow mining operations for construction aggregate, diamonds, and gold, from coastal mines discharging tailings to shallow and deep water, and from experimental deep mining tests. The responses to issues identified are summarized in a series of eight tables intended to facilitate site-specific consideration. Since impacts can spread widely in the surface mixing layer SML, and can affect the biologically productive euphotic zone, the main issues considered arise from the depth of mining relative to the SML of the sea. Where mining is below the SML, the issue is whether it is environmentally better to bring the extraction products to the surface vessel for processing (and waste discharge), or to process the extraction products as much as possible on the seabed. Responses to the issues need to be sitespecific, and dependent on adequate preoperational environmental impact and recovery prediction. For deep tailings disposal from a surface vessel, there are four important environmental unknowns: (1) the possible growth of "marine snow" (bacterial flocs) utilizing the enormous quantities of fine tailings particles (hundreds or thousands of metric tons per day) as nuclei for growth, (2) the possibility that local keystone plankton and nekton species may migrate diurnally down to and beyond the depth of deep discharge and hence be subjected to tailings impact at depth, (3) the burrow-up capability of deep benthos and their ability to survive high rates of tailings deposition, and (4) the pattern and rate of dispersion of a tailings density current through the deep water column from discharge point to seabed. Actions to obtain relevant information in general and site-specifically are suggested.     

Increased Particle Fluxes at the INDEX Site Attributable to Simulated Benthic Disturbance

Particle fluxes were measured 7 m above the sea bottom during the predisturbance, disturbance, and postdisturbance periods by using time series sediment traps attached to seven deep-sea moorings deployed in the INDEX experiment site in the Central Indian Basin. The predisturbance particle fluxes varied between 22.3 to 55.1 mg m -2 day -1 . Increased and variable particle fluxes were recorded by the sediment traps during the disturbance period. The increase observed was 0.5 to 4 times more than the background predisturbance fluxes. The increases in particle fluxes (~4 times) recorded by the sediment trap located in the southwestern direction (DMS-1) were the greatest, which could be the result of preferential movement of resuspended particles generated during the deep-sea benthic disturbance along the general current direction prevailing in this area during the experimental period. Also, the traps located closer to the disturbance area recorded greater fluxes than did the traps far away, across the Deep Sea Sediment Resuspension System path. This variability in recorded particle fluxes by the traps around the disturbance area clearly indicates that physical characteristics such as grain size and density of the resuspended particles produced during the disturbance had an important effect on particle movement. The postdisturbance measurements during ~5 days showed a reduction in particle fluxes of ~50%, indicating rapid particle settlement.     

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.     

Determination of In Situ Sediment Shear Strength from Advanced Piston Corer Pullout Forces

The advanced piston corer (APC) has been used by the Ocean Drilling Program since 1985 for recovering soft sediments from the ocean floor. The pullout force measured on extracting the core barrel from the sediment is shown to correlate with the average shear strength of the sediment core measured in the ship's laboratory. A simple rule of thumb is derived relating the shear strength of the sediment to the pullout force. Multiple APC holes at individual sites allow the consistency of the pullout measurements to be assessed. The effects of different operational procedures during APC coring are also explored. Although generally applicable, the correlation between pullout force and laboratory measurements of shear strength breaks down for some APC holes, possibly because of the disturbance of some sediment types during the APC coring process. A better understanding of the physical process of APC coring, and its effect on the properties of the sediment both inside and immediately outside the core barrel, would indicate what confidence can be put on the measurement of pullout force as a way of evaluating the in situ shear strength of deep sea sediments.     

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.