Analysis of the influence of water exchange through the Kerch Strait on the surge processes and currents in the Azov Sea

We present the results of numerical modeling of the influence of water exchange through the Kerch Strait on the stationary motions in the Azov Sea. We use a three-dimensional nonlinear numerical model to perform the analysis of extreme deviations of the sea level and the surface and deep-water currents depending on the direction and velocity of constant wind with and without regard for the water exchange through the strait. It is shown that the influence of water exchange with the Black Sea leads to the increase in the maximum deviations of the sea level and the velocities of stationary currents. Thus, in particular, it is shown that, for a wind velocity of 10 m/sec, the maximum values of the surge and current velocities in the presence of the strait are higher than in the absence of the strait by 36 and 42%, respectively. In this case, the highest current velocities are induced by the south wind.     

刻赤海峡和亚速海的生成年代

为了普查和勘探陆架上的新油田和固体矿产,研究俄罗斯南部海洋具有非常现实的意义。正是在这里,解决着亚速海一黑海盆地的地层和古地理,以及与同时代形成的地中海和里海沉积层对比的主要问题。     

Distribution of macroalgae and seaweed in the Azov Sea,Kerch Strait,and Taman Bay

The analysis of the macroalgae distribution along the salinity gradient in the Azov Sea, the Kerch strait, and Taman Bay during the summer allowed finding two macroalgae complexes. The first complex (brackish) is formed by algae belonging to the Enteromorpha, Cladophora, Rhizoclonium, and Chaetomorpha genera in the Taganrog Gulf. The second complex (marine) with dominating algae belonging to the Enteromorpha, Chaetomorpha, Ceramium, and Polysiphonia inhabits the littoral part of the Azov Sea itself, the Kerch Strait, and Taman Bay. The saprobe analysis of the flora showed that the majority of macroalgae species inhabiting the Azov Sea are represented by meso- and polysaprobes and a small number of oligosaprobe species inhabit the Kerch Strait. The biggest species diversity of macroalgae was noted in the southwestern part of the sea; the value of Shannon’s index was 0.65 in the Taganrog Gulf, 1.04 in the Azov Sea, 1.38 in Taman Bay. The leading role in the littoral communities of Taganrog Gulf belongs to aquatic flowering plants with Potamogeton perfoliatus being dominant; as the salinity increases, the share of such species as P. pectinatus, Zostera marina, Z. noltii, Ruppia maritime, and Zannichellia major starts to increase.     

渤海夏季环流和渤海海峡水体输运的数值诊断研究

建立了一个基于POM的涵盖渤、黄、东海的海洋环流诊断模式来研究渤海夏季环流。分别进行了风海流、密度流和总环流的模拟。从模拟结果得出:渤海海峡夏季与北黄海的水交换总的来说表现为北进南出特征,但与冬季相比,其流量较小(约5×103m3s 1)且不能深入渤海。辽东湾基本上受气旋式环流控制,黄河口外至渤海湾受反气旋式环流控制。数值实验表明,渤海夏季主要属密度流性质。在渤海海峡的北岸存在一支明显的上升流,而且北部的海水垂向运动比南部要强许多。在渤海中部的纬向断面上,东部的海水垂直交换要比西部活跃得多;渤海海水的垂向运动亦主要是密度流导致的。     

Numerical Experiments of the Influences of the Transport Variation through the Korea Strait on the Japan/East Sea Upper Layer Circulation

Numerical experiments were performed in order to investigate the effects of variations of the transport through the Korea/Tsushima Strait, an inlet of the Japan/East Sea, on the upper layer circulation in the JES based on a 10-month transport observation from May 1999 to March 2000 (Perkins et al., 2000). All external forcings to the model were annual mean fields, except the transport variation through the Korea Strait. In the experiments where the periodic variation of the transport repeated continuously sinusoidally by several periods, strong variability of sea surface height (SSH) was detected in the region extending from the Korea Strait to the Japanese coast due to the geostrophy of the buoyancy forcing at the Korea Strait. The region along the Korean coast is more sensitive to the long-term variations than the short-term (≤60-day period) ones. In two experiments forced by realistic and monthly mean transport, the difference of rms of sea surface height was largest at the Japanese coast and relatively large at the East Korean Warm Current separation region (128∼130°E, 39∼41°N) and to the east of Yamato Rise. The distribution of difference of eddy kinetic energy at 100 m depth between the two experiments was similar to that of the rms of SSH. In the distributions of mean SSH and mean kinetic energy at 100 m depth the realistic transport invokes eddy variability to interact with mean current resulting in the changes of the mean SSH and the mean kinetic energy at the East Korean Warm Current separation region, but it does not produce conspicuous changes in the mean fields of entire JES compared with the mean fields forced by the seasonal transport.     

冬季高频大风过程对渤海冬季环流和水交换影响的数值模拟

利用ROMS海洋模式和NCEP CFSR提供的日平均和月平均驱动场资料,对渤海冬季风生环流和水交换进行了数值模拟。结果显示:使用包含渤海冬季频繁出现的高频大风过程的日平均风场资料模拟的渤海冬季环流流速明显增强,与用观测资料归纳得到的渤海冬季环流分布吻合较好;大风过程对渤海冬季环流的贡献较大,无论强度或是流态,大风作用下的渤海流场结构在冬季占主导作用。同时大风作用通过控制渤海海峡处强烈的流出和流入,提高渤海与黄海之间热量交换以及水交换能力:通过渤海海峡进入渤海的热输运量显著增加,平衡渤海整体的热量收支;渤海水体平均存留时间缩短,整体水交换得到改善,而在月平均风场驱动结果中只存在缓慢的季节性变化。这显示渤海冬季大风过程的发生频率和强度有可能直接影响着渤海冬季的环流形态和长期变化,也影响着渤海水交换的强弱。     

黄渤海水体交换、悬沙特征及其对渤海海峡沉积的影响

根据渤海潮流、环流和悬沙浓度特征，黄海水体由渤海海峡北部输入渤海，在渤海循环后，经由渤海海峡南部输出到北黄海。输出水体的悬沙浓度达到0.01kg/m^3的量级，远高于输入水体。因此，黄、渤海水体交换的结果是悬沙向北黄海输出。渤海海峡南部是高悬沙浓度区，又是渤海水体输往北黄海的通道，因而渤海海峡楔状堆积体似乎是截留部分悬沙并发生堆积的结果。但是，渤海海峡水动力条件和沉积物分布特征均不支持这个假说。楔状堆积体的主体部分可能是在全新世高海面以前就形成了，而其物质可能是来源于海面上升过程中的海底物质改造和局部的海岸侵蚀。要弄清渤海海峡楔状堆积体的成因和物质来源，还需深入研究堆积体的表层沉积速率、泥碳的年龄、泥质沉积区的动水沉降通量、以及浅地层剖面层序。     

Circulation and Mixing of Water Masses of Tatar Strait and the Northwestern Boundary Region of the Japan Sea

The deep waters of the northern portions of the Japan Sea are examined. It is found that the flow regime south of the southern Tatar Strait region is generally cyclonic in the upper ocean, with only weak flows present below depths of a few hundred meters. The Japan Sea appears to be remarkably well-mixed below depths of a few hundred meters, both horizontally and vertically. Based on chlorofluorocarbon measurements, it is concluded that the deep waters of the Japan Sea have been only weakly ventilated in recent decades. Results from a simple box model suggest two possible scenarios for the ventilation of the Japan Sea since the 1930s. In the first scenario, deep ventilation of the Japan Sea was relatively weak, but constant, from the 1930s to the present, with a deep-water residence time of approximately 500 years. In the second scenario, ventilation was relatively vigorous through the mid-1960s, with a deep-water residence time of approximately 100 years; after the mid-1960s, the ventilation of the deep waters stopped. The model results are consistent with the idea that presently the ventilation of the deep water of the Japan Sea is weak or nonexistent. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Numerical model of the hydrodynamics of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov with variational initialization of temperature and salinity

A numerical primitive-equation model of the hydrodynamics of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in σ-coordinates is proposed. The model has a resolution of ～4 × 4 km in horizontal coordinates with 40-σ levels in the vertical and includes the four-dimensional variational initialization of temperature and salinity fields. A numerical initialization algorithm combines splitting methods and adjoint equations. Flow, temperature, sea level, and salinity fields driven by atmospheric forcing are calculated for the year 2008. The calculations are made in a variational initialization — prediction regime. Temperature and salinity fields are initialized at the end of each month. The optimality system includes forward and adjoint transport-diffusion equations for heat and salt that are linearized on the assimilation interval. Results of three numerical experiments with different sets of assimilated data in comparison with the prediction obtained from the forward model are discussed.     

渤海和南海海域极值风速的置信区间

目前我国海洋台站积累的实测日最大风速资料长度还较短，本文提出采用实测日4次（或3次）平均风速产生日最大风速样本的方法。认为极值风速是随机变量，采用本文方法产生的日最大风速样本，统计推算了渤海和南海海域15个台站的若干年一遇极值风速的统计参数，得到了不同重现期的不同置信水平的极值风速区间，为更合理地确定海洋平台结构设计风荷载提供了依据。     

Wind Fields over Funka Bay and Their Effect on Water Circulation in the Bay

Horizontal wind fields over Funka Bay during cold air outbreaks were simulated using a 3-D meso-scale atmospheric model. The simulated wind fields over the bay have a positive curl in the north and a negative curl in the south. These wind fields were used to simulate the current in Funka Bay using a barotropic ocean model. The simulated current pattern was composed of two vortices—one with anti-clockwise vorticity in the north and the other with clockwise vorticity in the south—and was in the opposite direction to that simulated by the uniform wind fields. This is because the wind stress curl effect on the vorticity production in Funka Bay opposes and overwhelms the bathymetry torque effect during cold air outbreaks. These results show that the non-uniformity of the wind fields caused by the land topography around a shallow lake or bay cannot be neglected in simulating its currents.     

区域性海洋环流数值模式研究及对南海环流与海峡流量的模拟

基于MOM模式的物理框架,妥善考虑了开边界的物理过程,改造和发展了一个区域海洋数值模式。本模式不仅可以方便地调整开边界条件,使之满足边界的特定物理条件,而且可以方便地做针对性修改,使模式更加可靠。改进后的模式具有MOM模式物理概念明确、公式便于理解、结果便于表达的全部特点,同时克服了MOM模式边界条件不完整、程序不易调整、参数难以改变的缺点。区域性模式比全球模式的计算速度快很多倍,可以成为区域性研究的有效工具。将此模式应用于南海,利用Hellerman＆Rosenstein气候态风应力驱动模式10a,得到与全球模式效果相当的结果。模式模拟结果展现了南海流场的季节特征,在模式分辨率下表现出了多涡结构。根据模拟的流场计算了南海与其它海域的水交换通量。在年平均意义下,外海水通过吕宋海峡进入南海,南海水通过台湾海峡、民都洛海峡和卡里马塔海峡流出南海。各海峡水通量具有明显的季节变化。     

黄、东海环流的数值研究Ⅲ——正压环流的数值模拟

依据黄、东海环流的的动力学模型 ,运用“流速分解法”对黄、东海正压环流进行了数值模拟。计算结果表明冬季黄海正压环流主要受风应力影响 ,基本形态为黄海暖流由济州岛西南进入南黄海中部 ,其东西两侧分别为两支向南流动的沿岸流 ;夏季主要受到潮致体力的影响 ,为一逆时针涡旋。东海环流主要是边界力作用驱动的结果 ,东海黑潮、台湾暖流和对马暖流较稳定。冬季风应力对东海环流表层流场有消弱作用 ,在夏季则有一定增强作用。     

蒸发波导条件下风速风向对电磁波传播的影响

海洋蒸发波导是重要的军事敏感要素,严重影响着海上电磁波的传播。风向、风速是决定蒸发波导强弱的重要因素,为精确模拟蒸发波导条件下的电磁波传播,准确评估预报雷达、通信等电子设备的性能,文中利用抛物线方程模型,结合粗糙度参数和蒸发波导条件下大气修正折射指数廓线模型来求解电磁波波动方程,基于电磁波传播的数值模拟结果,重点研究蒸发波导条件下风速和风向对电磁波传播的影响。并得到如下结论:在同一传播距离处,风速越大,海面粗糙度越大,海面电磁波传播损耗就越大;当电磁波传播方向与风向夹角为0°时,其传播路径损耗远远大于在45°或90°条件下,即顺风条件下电磁波传播损耗大于侧风。     

黄、东海环流的数值研究Ⅰ. 黄、东海环流的数值模型

首先依据拉格朗日环流理论与黄、东海的环流物理和几何特征建立一个黄、东海环流的动力学统一模型 ,并按其无因次方程的量阶分析获得其零阶和一阶模型方程。最后依此模型方程的数学、物理特征确立了流速分解方案 ,从而形成完整的黄、东海拉格朗日环流数值模型。该课题组已完成较系统地对黄、东海环流的数值研究。该篇论文为系列报道之首篇。     

Effect of the East Siberian Current on Water Exchange in the Bering Strait Based on Satellite Altimetry Measurements

Oceanology - The seasonal and interannual variability of water exchange in the Bering Strait and its relationship with Arctic circulation is investigated on the basis of satellite-altimetry...     

黄、东海环流的数值研究Ⅱ潮及潮致环流数值模拟

该文中数值模拟了黄、东海陆架区的四大天文潮及其潮致拉格朗日环流。运用“流速分解法”将线性三维分潮波问题化为一个分潮潮位及深度平均流的二维问题和一个流速垂向剖面问题求解。其二维问题的底摩擦系数由三维模式导出 ,所导得的线性底摩擦力公式更符合物理意义 ,且避免一般二维模式中底摩擦力的经验假定。结果表明 ,三维模式完全可以通过准二维方法求解 ,以避免一般三维问题的繁重计算     

北太平洋冬季SST、风场及环流对淡水强迫的响应

通过海气耦合模式CCSM3(The Community Climate System Model version 3),研究在北大西洋高纬度淡水强迫下,北太平洋冬季的海表温度SST、风场及流场的响应及其区域性差异。结果表明:淡水的注入使北太平洋整体变冷,但有部分区域异常增暖;在太平洋东部赤道两侧,SST的变化出现北负南正的偶极子型分布。阿留申低压北移的同时中纬度西风减弱,热带附近东北信风增强。黑潮和南赤道流减弱,北太平洋副热带逆流和北赤道流增强,日本海被南向流控制。风场及流场的改变共同导致了北太平洋SST异常出现复杂的空间差异:北太平洋中高纬度SST的降温主要由大气过程决定,海洋动力过程主要影响黑潮、日本海及副热带逆流区域的SST,太平洋热带地区SST异常由大气与海洋共同主导。     

渤海水交换的数值研究-水质模型对半交换时间的模拟

介绍了几种关于水交换的概念和模型。认为以水质模型模拟半交换时间研究海域的水交换能力更全面、客观。对渤海水交换的研究表明 ,由于渤海环流结构及季节变化 ,使得渤海 3个海湾及渤海中部交换能力相差很大 ,莱州湾交换能力最强 ,辽东湾特别是其西部海域交换能力最弱。交换时间与物质初始浓度无关 ,与投放时刻、外源强迫密切相关。在治理渤海环境时 ,应分区进行 ,注意选择污染物排放时间和位置