Argo溶解氧数据的气候态校正方法改进

Argo浮标观测的溶解氧数据的质量控制方法目前还还不够完善,其中传统的气候态校正方法存在的问题主要表现为会受到异常剖面和异常斜率系数的影响。本文针对这些问题,提出了一套气候态校正方法的改进方案,包括:1)使用中值法取代平均值法;2)利用比较浮标观测的溶解氧饱和度整个剖面与气候态剖面的方法,提出了一种异常剖面的剔除标准;3)提出了一种异常斜率系数的剔除标准。改进后的溶解氧剖面与气候态剖面更为接近,有效避免了异常剖面与异常值的影响,显著提高了Argo浮标观测溶解氧的整体数据质量。     

参考数据集对Argo剖面浮标盐度观测资料校正的影响

国际Argo计划采用新颖的Argo剖面浮标来监测全球大洋中上层的变化,对浮标盐度观测资料进行质量控制是非常重要的。本文采用历史水文观测资料集得到的温-盐度(-S)关系,并利用Wong等人开发的WJO延时模式盐度校正方法,对电导率传感器出现漂移、偏移等故障的Argo剖面浮标盐度资料进行校正。对影响校正结果的历史水文资料集(或参考数据集)的选取进行了初步研究,并在不同的海区进行试验。结果表明,选取合适的参考数据集可以提高盐度校正的精度。     

Argo剖面浮标压力测量误差问题剖析

部分配置Druck压力传感器的APEX型Argo剖面浮标所观测的压力值存在明显偏差.尽管压力传感器故障的原因已经查明,但目前还没有寻找到一种比较理想的解决方法.文章扼要介绍了压力传感器故障产生的原因.探讨了压力误差校正的办法,以及目前可供选择的措施等.供国内浮标技术研制人员和Argo、CTD用户参考.     

基于气候性温盐关系模型对Argo数据进行质量控制的研究

通过全球Argo计划的实施,我们获得了大量的温盐剖面数据。如果对浮标所在洋区的状况不是很了解,很难判断Argo浮标电导率传感器的工作状态及盐度数据的可靠性。为了避免错误的数据,必须对Argo进行有效的质量控制。国家海洋信息中心根据西北太平洋海区的南森站和CTD温盐数据,建立了高质量的气候学温盐数据集,对投放在西北太平洋海区的Argo浮标数据进行了相应的质量控制。结果表明,利用Argo浮标所在海区的气候学数据对Argo数据进行质控是比较有效的方法之一。     

HM2000型剖面浮标的主要特征及其应用

HM2000 型剖面浮标是一种新颖的国产海洋观测仪器,可以长期在海上自由漂移并连续测量 0~2 000 m 水深内的海水温、盐度剖面数据,已被国际 Argo 组织用于全球 Argo 实时海洋观测网建设和维护。 详细介绍了该型浮标的工作原理、结构、功能和主要技术指标等,并与 APEX 型浮标进行了比较分析, 表明了 HM2000 型剖面浮标具有明显的功能优势,且测量的温、盐度质量是有足够保证的,完全可以替代国外浮标用来主导建设我国的 Argo 区域海洋观测网。     

Argo数据同化方法及其网格化产品研究进展

正如卫星的出现使海洋表面的观测方式产生了革命性的变革一样,Argo计划的诞生改变了人们对海洋内部的监测手段和方式。目前,由Argo剖面浮标获得的中上层观测剖面已逾200万条,并正以每天数百条的速度在增长,这些资料对于研究全球海洋的温度、盐度、环流及其它们的变化情况(不管时间尺度是几天还是几十年),都将是一个不可或缺的资源。同时,由于Argo浮标具有随波逐流的特性,其观测剖面数据具有空间不均匀性,这对充分有效利用这些海量的观测数据带来一定的局限性。为此,国内外学者借助于一些常用的数据同化方法,研制了包含多个海洋要素、多种分辨率的网格化产品。本文对目前适用于Argo剖面资料的常用数据同化方法、国内外基于Argo观测资料构建的网格化数据产品进行了比较系统地回顾和总结,对比分析了各种同化方法的适用条件和计算效率,以及各种Argo网格化产品的特点,并针对目前Argo资料的观测现状,给出了未来Argo数据同化的研究展望。     

我国Argo浮标的设计与研究

自沉浮式剖面探测浮标是一种海洋观测平台,首先应用在国际Argo计划,故又称之为Argo浮标,专用于海洋次表层温、盐、深剖面测量。仪器布放后自行在大海中工作2a以上,直至电源耗尽;2004年11月8日实验的Argo浮标潜入深度已达到1900m,历时两年的浮标研究工作,在下潜深度、上浮水面、剖面测量、数据处理、卫星传递数据等功能上已经达到国际Argo组织的要求。文章详细阐述了剖面浮标的设计与研制内容和各种试验项目及所得数据,不仅为浮标设计提供科学的实测数据,还为今后该仪器产品化进程提供大量可靠依据和检测方法。     

Argo浮标电导率漂移误差检测及其校正方法探讨

文章引入位势电导比(potential conductivity ratio)的概念,对一个在西北太平洋上观测时间长达4a的Argo剖面浮标进行了诊断分析,并利用现场CTD资料和简单的误差消除法,对该浮标由电导率传感器漂移所产生的盐度误差进行了校正处理,且与目前同际上公认的WJO方法进行了比较,发现利用现场CTD资料校正Argo浮标长期观测所产生的盐度误差更直观、更简便,其校正结果也是可信的。     

一个Argo剖面浮标的观测过程及其资料应用探讨

提取了一个在海上长达5年的Argo剖面浮标观测资料,对观测资料进行评估和质量控制,通过对浮标观测资料进行综合分析,帮助人们了解Argo浮标的观测过程及其资料的应用.     

911Plus CTD溶解氧传感器校正方法及漂移过程的探讨

本文基于两个航次CTD观测资料与现场同步Winkler滴定溶解氧资料比对分析,阐述了溶解氧传感器测量误差校正方法以及剖面测量中测量误差变化过程,并依据传感器校正系数漂移变化预估传感器使用寿命,为今后海洋调查取得真实可信溶解氧资料提供技术指引。     

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.