Three-dimensional numerical experiments on tidal exchange through a narrow strait in a homogeneous and a stratified sea

We have investigated the three-dimensional Lagrangian motion of water particles related with tidal exchange between two basins with a constant depth connected through a narrow strait and the effects of density stratification on the exchange processes by tracking a number of the labeled particles. Tide-induced transient eddies (TITEs), which are similar to those in two-dimensional basin, are generated behind the headlands. Upwelling appears around the center of the eddy and sinking around the boundary. When the basins are filled with homogeneous water, a pair of vortices are produced in the vertical cross section of the strait due to bottom stress, with upwellings along the side walls of the strait and sinking in the center of the strait. These circulations form the horizontally convergent field in the cross-strait direction in the upper layers while the horizontal divergence takes place in the bottom layer. These vertical water-motions produce the three-dimensional distribution of velocity shear and phase lag of the tidal current around the strait, and the Lagrangian drifts of water particles become large. As a result, water exchange through the strait is greatly enhanced: The water exchange rate reaches 94.1% which is much larger than that obtained in the vertically integrated two-dimensional model. When the basins are stratified, the stable stratification suppresses the vertical motion so that a pair of vertical vortices are confined in the lower layers. This leads to a decrease in the exchange rate, down to 88.6%. Our numerical results show that the three-dimensional structure of tidal currents should be taken into account in tidal exchange through a narrow strait.     

Water exchange in Kabira Cove,Ishigaki Island

The mechanism and rate of water exchange were investigated in Kabira Cove, Ishigaki Island, in the southernmost part of Japanese islands, near Taiwan. During observations in the summers of 1976 and 1977, a larger proportion of the salt transport into the bay was derived from the so-called “tidal trapping effect”. In the latter period of observation carried out after heavy rain brought by a seasonal typhoon under annual mean tidal conditions, the turnover time, i.e. the scale of replacement of the whole bay water with the open sea water, is estimated to be 3.6 days. Based on these observational results, a concept of the tidal trapping due to coupling of the actions of tides and buoyancy in a vertical two-dimensional field with a sill at the bay mouth is proposed. Considering the topographical, hydrometeorological and geographical conditions of the cove, it is inferred that this water exchange process tends to be formed in Kabira Cove in summer except during neap tides.     

铁山湾建港前后水体交换能力的数值模拟

铁山湾是北部湾东北部较大的海湾,水深条件好,可用岸线长。为研究铁山湾建港工程前后湾内的水体交换能力,文章建立了平面二维的水动力模型以及平面二维对流—扩散模型,率定后水动力学模型模拟结果与实测结果吻合良好。运用二维对流—扩散模型计算了湾内不同区域的水体半交换时间,模拟结果表明：铁山湾的水体交换能力较强,工程前水体半交换时间为129天,海域的水体交换能力主要受铁山湾潮汐作用的影响。铁山湾潮汐作用较强,潮差较大,且铁山湾口门开阔,这都为铁山湾的水体交换提供了良好的条件。工程后铁山湾水体半交换时间为142天,工程前后铁山湾水体半交换时间仅相差13天,说明工程方案对铁山湾水体交换能力无重大影响。     

Vertical two-dimensional mechanism of tidal exchange in a bay with a sill-entrance

For a vertical two-dimensional field with a sill at a bay entrance, the tidal exchange mechanism is discussed.The schematic model is proposed as follows. The tidal trapping effect which is detected at the entrance section,i. e., the material transport due to the phase difference between the tidal periodic constituent of material concentration and tidal current at the entrance section, results because the oscillatory tidal flow at the sill entrance induces a gravitational flow along the sill slope inside the entrance. Accordingly, the tidal trapping effect depends largely upon the difference in water density between the bay and open sea and the density stratification in the bay.This model is supported by the observations at Kabira Cove (Okinawa Pref.) and Lake Hamana (Shizuoka Pref.) in 1976 through 1984. In addition, based on this model, in the case of Lake Hamana, the activity of the tidal exchange is inferred to change seasonally.     

普兰店湾潮滩养殖围堰工程拆除前后水动力特征的数值分析

普兰店湾四周大量的滩涂逐步被开发成海参及贝类围堰养殖池塘,致使普兰店湾出现自然岸线不断萎缩、水体交换通道堵塞等系列问题,通过拓宽海湾水体交换通道恢复其水文和水动力条件是重要的手段之一。文章采用 MIKE21 模型对普兰店湾的潮流分布特征进行数值模拟,在潮位、流速模拟验证的基础上,对比分析了养殖围堰拆除工程实施前后普兰店湾的水动力情况。结果表明：养殖围堰拆除区域的局部滩涂流速增大,其值在0.3~0.4 m/s左右变化,围堰拆除对于距离在1.5 km以内的海域有一定影响,而对较远的金州湾及外海的整体流场基本无影响;拆除养殖围堰拓宽了普兰店湾的水域面积,提高了湾内的涨落潮流速,湾内的纳潮量增大了8.535%,位于北岸的养殖池拆除区域流场呈现明显的潮滩特征,上述变化有利于加快潮滩上盐沼植物、海洋生物生境的营养物质交换。     

The concept of tidal exchange and the tidal exchange ratio

The principal character of the tidal exchange process is neither diffusion nor advection, but a third category of transport, “Massenaustausch”, which appears in the space/time averaged transport. The exchange process can be divided into four fluxes: the flux of standing eddies, the flux of tidal exchange, the flux of tidal eddies and the flux of local eddies. The results of observations at the entrance channel of Kumihama-Bay show a typical example of transport dominated by tidal exchange. The tidal exchange ratio defined by Parkeret al. (1972) applies to the process of exchange between the outflowing watermass and the surrounding watermass outside of the bay mouth, but this should also be considered as being coupled with the ratio for the process of exchange between the inflowing watermass and the surrounding watermass inside of the bay mouth. These two exchange ratios can be combined into a single exchange ratio which describes the exchange process between the outer watermass and the bay water.     

象山港水交换数值研究 Ⅱ.模型应用和水交换研究

使用水平二维对流－扩散型水交换模式模拟研究了象山港的水交换,对不同区域的水交换控制机理作了初步探讨,象山港水交换状况与其控制机制的区域性变化很大。牛鼻水道至佛渡水道是一个潮流较强的潮通道;９０％水交换周期为５天左右。象山港狭湾内水交换周期较长,湾顶处９０％水交换的周期约为８０天左右。     

湾口建闸海湾水体交换及景观水位数值模拟

大幅度的潮位变动对近岸景观和亲水性有较大影响,为此往往在湾口建闸控制湾内潮位变动,通过设置景观水位改善以上问题,但这将带来湾内的水动力及水体交换条件下降。本研究以马銮湾为例通过潮流数学模型模拟,研究湾口开闸孔数、开闸位置及不同景观水位与湾内水动力和水体交换的关系。利用湾口闸门调度,在湾内形成大尺度环流提高水体交换效率,对马銮湾景观水位和闸门调度方式提出了建议,有效地解决了湾内潮差减小引起水体交换效率减低的问题。     

Sea-level fluctuations in a coastal lagoon

Sea-level observations made during December, 1979, at six stations in Great South Bay (which is a coastal lagoon on the south shore of Long Island, New York) reveal that there were significant subtidal fluctuations in addition to the tidal oscillations. Harmonic analysis of the tidal oscillations of sea level indicates that M₂ is the dominant tidal constituent. The M₂ amplitude, however, suffered a more than 50% reduction in the interior of the Bay due largely to the narrow inlet. The subtidal sea level fluctuations within the Bay were forced primarily by the low-frequency fluctuations of the adjacent shelf water. The active subtidal exchange induced by this Bay-shelf coupling appeared to have suffered only minor attenuation within the Bay. As a consequence, the variance associated with subtidal sea level fluctuations was greater than that associated with the tidal oscillations over most of Great South Bay.     

The role of tidal vortices in material transport around straits

The strong tidal current (tidal jet) in straits generates tidal vortices with a scale of several kilometers. The role of the vortices in material transport was investigated in the Neko Seto Sea, located in the western part of the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. A clockwise vortex with a diameter of about 0.8 km was observed in Nigata Bay (lying between two straits, the Neko Seto Strait and the Meneko Seto Strait). It was concluded that the clockwise vortex was the tidal vortex which was generated by the tidal jet in the Meneko Seto Strait. The vortex moved into the bay with the tide, but tended to stay on the sand bank in the bay. It was confirmed by current measurement with an ADCP and turbidity measurement that the secondary convergent flow was generated in the bottom layer of the vortex. This secondary flow seemed to contribute to the formation of the sand bank. It was suggested that tidal vortices may play an important role in the sediment transport and formation of topography in and around straits.     

Water exchange and material exchange through a strait due to tidal flow

The process of material transport through a strait due to tidal flow is modeled, and then the differences between various concepts of tidal exchange which have been used hitherto are pointed out using this model. In particular, the exchange of water itself and the exchange of material should be distinguished even in the case where the material of interest is carried by the water,i.e., the material and water move as one body. Further, the physical meaning of “tidal trapping” (Fischeret al., 1979) is discussed by using the model in this paper. The relationship between the exchange ratio for the water itself (r) and the phase lag (δ) of material concentration to the tidal stream in a section of the strait, which is an important factor in tidal trapping, is obtained as follows: $$\delta = \tan ^{ - 1} \left( {\tfrac{1}{r} - 1} \right)$$ Observational results at Lake Hamana (Shizuoka Pref) and at Kabira Cove (Okinawa Pref.) support the validity of the above relationship.     

围填海累积效应对钦州湾水动力环境的影响

根据海图资料和卫星影像,确定了钦州湾2004年与2019年两个历史时期的岸线与水深.基于无结构网格有限体积海洋模型建立高精度的水动力模型,分析了近15年来围填海工程的累积效应对钦州湾水动力环境的影响.结果 表明:地形与岸线的改变使得钦州湾外湾潮汐振幅减小、茅尾海内潮汐振幅增加;潮流场改变明显,外湾中部流速普遍增加,围填...     

湄洲湾潮流特性的数值研究

本文运用一个含动边界的二维河口海岸动力模型模拟了湄洲湾潮汐潮流的基本特征,模拟结果与实测数据吻合较好．在此基础上估算了湄洲湾大、小潮过程的纳潮量,并根据湾内保守示踪物的质量（浓度）随涨、落潮流周期性的变化,进一步估算了湄洲湾的水交换周期,其半交换和80％的交换周期分别为5d和15d．同时可以看出,主航道深水区的水交换特性明显强于湾顶浅水区．     

A tidal flushing model of the Fleet—an English tidal lagoon

Observations of the spatial distribution of salinity and tidal salinity fluctuations along the length of the Fleet are presented and different structures are identified with different freshwater runoff conditions. The salinity distribution appears to be the result of a balance between weak tidal flushing and a small freshwater input. A tidal exchange box model is developed to represent this weak balance and is able to reproduce the semidiurnal, fortnightly and seasonal fluctuations of salinity. By use of the tuned model, estimates are made of the flushing times of different segments of the lagoon, the distribution of water from particular stream inputs, and hence their polluting potential, and the likely effect on the salinity structure of changes in the tidal regime which could result from sediment deposition.     

Year-to-year change in water exchange characteristics in a semi-enclosed bya,Lake Hamana

The year-to-year change in characteristics of water exchange between Lake Hamana, a semi-enclosed bya, and the adjacent open sea is investigated.The destruction of the bay mouth by a typhoon in 1953 and subsequent stabilization work on the bay mouth from 1954 to 1973 resulted in an increase in the tidal prism volume of the bay (Mazda, 1983). In the present paper, a simple model has been constructed in which the magnitude of water exchange depends on the tidal prism, and using this model, the year-to-year increase in salinity of the bay water after 1953 can be well explained. Consequently, it can be said that the salinity increase after 1953 is a result of a progressive increase in water exchange caused by successive changes in topography of the bay mouth.The extent of water exchange in Lake Hamana, which varies seasonally, has increased gradually since 1953, and became stable after about 1967. For instance, at present the turnover time of the bay for exchange with open sea water reaches a maximum (2.9 months) in January and a minimum (0.9 month) in October, while in 1955 it is estimated to have been about 2.5 times that at the present time.     

近70年胶州湾水动力变化的数值模拟研究

采用无结构三角形网格海洋模式FVCOM,基于胶州湾不同年代的岸线和水深地形条件,建立胶州湾及其邻近海域各年代的三维潮汐潮流数值模型,从数值模拟角度分析和比较胶州湾不同年代纳潮量、潮汐潮流、水交换率等水动力参数的变化。结果表明:随着胶州湾水域总面积不断缩小,纳潮量在逐渐减小,2008年全湾的纳潮量相对于1935年减少了31.5%,约合3.9×108 m3;海湾流场结构变化很小,流速呈减小趋势;胶州湾欧拉余流"团团转"的多涡结构基本保持不变,最大值都发生在团岛附近;海湾的水交换能力趋弱,对整个胶州湾水体的半交换时间进行海湾平均,不同年代5套岸线下海湾的水体半交换时间分别是37.0 d,36.7 d,39.2 d,39.7 d和40.8 d。     

象山港水交换特性研究

在验证良好的三维斜压潮流数学模型的基础上,以溶 解态的保守性物质为示踪剂,建立对流-扩散型的海湾水交换数值模型,计算了象山港水体半交换时间和平均滞留时间,并研究了斜压动力对湾内外水交换的贡献。研究结果表明,象山港水交换速度的区域性变化较大,水体半交换时间和平均滞留时间由象山港口门向湾顶逐渐增加,口门附近半交换时间在5d以内,平均滞留时间为5~10 d;湾顶水交换速度缓慢,水体半交换时间为30~35 d,平均滞留时间为35~40d。斜压动力对狭湾外段水交换影响较弱,对狭湾内段有较大的影响。     

胶州湾水交换的数值研究

基于一个成熟的水动力模型ECOM（Estuary Coastal Ocean Model），对胶州湾潮波系统及其驱动下的标识质点运移规律进行数值模拟。将胶州湾划分为6个区域，定量研究了整个海湾水的存留时间和不同区域水的交换能力，并指出流场结构对湾内水交换起了决定性作用。研究结果表明，湾内两余流涡对质点运动起阻碍作用，使得流入余流涡对的质点很难流出；海湾水交换有赖于初始投放时刻；东岸区域质点运移规律表明，东岸排污对前海旅游区和西岸养殖区均无很大影响。     

象山港水交换数值研究──Ⅰ.对流-扩散型的水交换模式

以溶解态的保守性物质作为湾内水的示踪剂,建立了对流－扩散型的海湾水交换数值模型。数值模型使用参数化的方法把重力环流和潮振荡的垂向剪切作用的水平混合效应包纳在水平二维的示踪剂对流－扩散方程中。在空间网距较小时,模型的稳定性和守恒性均可满足海湾水交换研究的需要。     

Effects of tidally induced eddies on sporadic Kuroshio-water intrusion (kyucho)

The sudden intrusion of Kuroshio warm water into the Bungo Channel (kyucho) occurs mainly at neap tides during summer, suggesting that tidal mixing is one of the essential factors regulating kyucho. In order to clarify the physical mechanisms responsible for the regulation of kyucho, we carry out non-hydrostatic three-dimensional numerical experiments allowing Kuroshio warm water to intrude into a strong tidal mixing region. It is shown that the Kuroshio warm water can (or cannot) pass through the tidal mixing regions off the east coast of the Bungo Channel during neap (or spring) tides. The analysis of the dynamic balance off the east coast of the Bungo Channel shows that tidal residual currents generated by tidal flow interaction with complicated land configurations off the east coast of the Bungo Channel can also play an important role in regulating kyucho. In order to assess separately the effects of tidal mixing and tidal residual currents on kyucho, we incorporate the parameterized vertical mixing and tidal stresses into the numerical model instead of tidal currents. It is demonstrated that tidal mixing cannot by itself block the northward intrusion of Kuroshio warm water, and that an additional effect induced by tidal residual eddies equivalent to horizontal mixing is needed to regulate kyucho. This strongly suggests that the basin–ocean water exchange processes in areas with complicated land configurations can only be reproduced by taking into account the effects of tidal residual eddies on a 1-km scale in addition to tidal mixing effects evaluated by microstructure measurements.