变分伴随数据同化在海表面温度预报中的应用研究

将变分伴随数据同化技术应用于海表面温度(SST)数值预报.采用中国近海海表面温度短期数值预报模式,将船舶测报海表面温度同化到该模型中,对SST初始场进行优化.文中给出了中国近海SST数值预报同化模型5d试报结果与观测值的比较,整个区域的均绝差由同化前的2.71℃降至0.87℃,即变分伴随数据同化对改进SST数值预报的效果是比较明显的,表明它可成为SST数值预报初始化的新方法.     

黄海水温垂直剖面的遥感反演与数值预报模型

基于黄海水温垂直剖面分层结构统计分析,建立了一个卫星遥感SST反演水温垂直剖面的参数化模式,以该模式反演数据作为一维数值预报模式的初值,同时用大气预报场资料作为预报模式的过程资料,发展了一个以卫星遥感资料作为主要输入量的黄海水温垂直剖面的数值预报模型.模型实现了利用卫星遥感资料反演预报黄海水温垂直剖面的目的,5 d时效的预报效果明显优于已往强温跃层数值预报模式.     

有限海域海水表温数值预报改进模式

以海洋上部混合层(UML)存在为基础,建立了考虑UML深度变化的二维层模式。探讨有限区域的短期海表温(SST)业务数值预报模式。预报方程有三:低频流(黑潮及其分支)的无幅散化余流方程组、动力预报方程和模式物理学方程。本模式用于3～5d的SST预报,同时也给出UML平均漂流的预报。指出在大风状况下的降温,UML深是一个重要的影响因子,并与UML为平底时情况进行了比较。     

海表面温度的变分同化预报模式:初始场的全局优化

利用变分同化技术,将船舶报资料与海表面温度短期数值预报模式有机结合,实现了渤、黄、东海的海表面温度短期数值预报。本预报模式利用伴随方法实现了预报模式的全局优化,不但最大限度地利用了船舶报资料,而且初始温度场的调整由自动的数值迭代过程来实现。在渤、黄、东海海域,4个季节的典型月份的SST连续1个月的24h后报结果与船舶报资料均方差均降至0.8℃以下。同化后海表面温度初始场的绝均差较同化前有显著下降。与以前所用的客观分析方法比较的结果表明,伴随同化的预报精度明显高于客观分析方法。     

遥感资料同化对海表温度预报的影响

本文将AMSR-E卫星微波遥感海表温资料运用到渤黄东海海表面温度短期数值预报模式当中.数值预报模式利用伴随方法实现了预报模式的初值场优化.微波遥感海表温资料与海表面温度短期数值预报模式有机结合后的试验结果表明:将预报结果和船舶报资料进行比对时,将遥感资料引入到数据同化的结果要明显优于仅同化船舶报资料的结果,且均方差大部...     

一种有限区域海表温度预报模式——Ⅰ.动力学部分

本文探索性地以建立短期SST业务数值预报模式为目的,从中国海域的海洋学特征出发,给出一个物理上合理、业务可行的上混合层二维原始方程预报模式。它包括低频流(黑潮及其分支)方程组、由漂流方程和热力学平流方程组成的动力方程组、从热力学方程中“割裂”出来的模式物理学方程三个组成部分。本模式用于3—5天SST预报,同时也给出混合层平均漂流的预报。由于本文属创新性研究,讨论内容较多,故将文章分作两部分。在部分Ⅰ仅限于讨论模式建立的物理依据以及模式的动力学方面的内容。     

卫星高度计波高数据同化对西北太平洋海浪数值预报的影响评估

通过数值试验验证卫星高度计波高数据同化对西北太平洋3 d海浪预报的改进效果。驱动海浪模式的强迫场采用国家海洋环境预报中心基于MM5模式预报的风场,波高数据同化使用的观测数据是Jason-1卫星高度计有效波高。用最优插值数据同化方法获得海浪有效波高的最优估计并重构相应的海浪方向谱,以此为初始场进行为期3 d的数值预报试验。与没有同化的预报进行了比较和分析,结果表明卫星高度计海浪数据同化对0~72 h预报有不同程度的明显改善,改进程度随预报时效的增加而减少。     

福建近海区海温数值预报试验

将在黄海和东海区建立的有限区域异常海温动力数值预报模式应用于福建近海区海温预报,根据福建近海海区特征对模式作了必要的调整.举出两个试验个例,一个在夏季(3d预报),另一个在冬季(10d预报).在夏季的试验中,恰值台风过境,所计算的流场对台风有较好的响应.冬季,预报海温场与实际海温场的变化趋势基本一致,整个海区的绝对平均误差为0.6℃.海温的变化主要决定于夹卷与抽吸作用,这与海峡的地形特征有关.     

Kalman滤波风暴潮数值预报四维同化模式研究进展

本文首先介绍了Kalman滤波在风暴潮数值预报中的应用，特别介绍了近年来国际上发展的一些在实际中可行的次优化Kalman滤波算法。并通过一个稳态Kalman滤波风暴潮数值预报模式的实例表明，使用资料同化可以明显改进风暴潮后报结果；资料同化能够提供更为合理的预报初始场，对风暴潮的短期预报有较明显的改进。一旦没有资料同化到模式中去，预报结果很快接近确定性模式。     

海浪初始谱误差演变初步分析

为了分析海浪初始场误差对于短期预报的影响,导出了海浪谱能量平衡方程的初始扰动谱线性演化方程,据此分析了数值实践中扰动谱的增长和衰减过程;在特定条件下,将初始扰动谱线性演化方程做了简化,依此考虑扰动谱持续时效问题。分析结果表明,初始谱误差是以指数形式增长或衰减的,即使在衰减情况下。持续时效也至少有1～2d的量级,初始场精度是影响海浪短期预报准确度的一个重要因素。     

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.     

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.     

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.