基于HYCOM的海洋环流仿真建模研究

HYCOM海洋模式是垂向混合坐标模式的代表。基于HYCOM海洋模式,采用三层嵌套技术对东海南部海域的海洋环流进行仿真建模研究。通过对仿真结果的验证表明,HYCOM模式的垂向混合坐标方案能够很好的模拟地形复杂海域的环流。     

黑潮的涡分辨率数值模拟

本文利用涡分辨率的HYCOM模式,以NCEP月平均再分析资料(1979—1993)为驱动场,并采用单向数值嵌套的方式对黑潮流域进行数值模拟,成功模拟了黑潮流域的高分辨率流场特征。模拟结果显示:黑潮路径符合前人对黑潮的认识;在地形和流量的共同作用下,黑潮对吕宋海峡的入侵呈现多平衡态的特征;日本以南的黑潮路径发生多种时间尺度的摆动(从季节内到年际)。黑潮在PN断面上流速跟同期观测十分相符,流轴集中在陆架破折处,季节变化较弱。台湾岛以东黑潮,东海黑潮以及吐噶喇海峡黑潮的流量符合对应时期观测,并且各自呈现出不同的变化特点。     

HYCOM模式对东海黑潮的气候态模拟

使用三重嵌套的HYCOM(The HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model)数值模式模拟气候态东海黑潮。模式水平分辨率从大区模式的1°×1°cosθ提高到小区模式的1/8°×1/8°cosθ。对模拟结果的分析表明:(1)高水平分辨率模式对黑潮特征量的模拟有明显的改进。这些改进主要由两方面的原因引起:地形分辨率的提高和改善的斜压效应。(2)小区模式的模拟结果较好地再现了PN断面的垂向结构。基本反映了PN断面流速和流量的季节变化规律。夏季流速最强、流量最大,秋季流速最弱、流量最小,冬、春两季处于过渡期。(3)模式成功地模拟出东海黑潮东侧的逆流。该逆流流速稳定,夏季流速略大。(4)模式模拟出了PN断面的流速双核结构。     

边界层高度和动量粗糙度的不确定性对台风“天鸽”(1713)模拟的影响

基于中国气象局区域台风数值预报系统(CMA-TYM),通过一系列敏感性试验,分析研究了台风“天鸽”(1713)生命过程中不同时间阶段的移动路径及强度的数值模拟对模式参数化方案中边界层高度(h)和动量粗糙度(z₀)的敏感性。试验结果表明,使用不同参数化方案计算的h在“天鸽”(1713)初期的热带风暴阶段对热带气旋的移动路径有较明显的影响,在台风成熟后对热带气旋的移动路径影响不显著 ;台风中心附近最大10 m风速对h的变化不敏感,而最低海平面气压对h的变化却非常敏感。同时发现在台风发展初期阶段,边界层过薄或过厚都不利于台风强度的发展加强。这表明边界层高度h在热带气旋数值模拟和预报中是非常重要的,尤其是在台风发展的初期阶段。动量粗糙度z0的变化对台风“天鸽”的影响主要体现在台风增强阶段,台风中心附近10 m风速最大值在台风增强阶段对z₀敏感,尤其是在台风发展的初期阶段     

东海黑潮混沌特征的数值分析

以英国 OCCAM(The Ocean Circulation and Climate Advanced Modeling Project)全球环流模式的 1 994年计算结果作为初始场和边界条件 ,用 POM模式 ,对东中国海黑潮季节变化进行了数值模拟 ,特别注意了海水运动的混沌特点和质点移动轨迹。研究结果表明 :东海黑潮区地形引起的黑潮流剪切是导致混沌的主要原因 ;东海黑潮区混沌运动有明显的季节变化 ;黑潮主轴区基本是输运的屏障区。     

基于拉格朗日方法对黑潮路径的数值模拟

利用ROMS模式和拉格朗日方法,研究了完整的黑潮路径及其特点。首先通过比较拉格朗日粒子的概率分布与HYCOM再分析资料和OSCAR海流反演产品统计的流场结构,验证了拉格朗日方法对黑潮路径的模拟效果。在此基础上,通过分析拉格朗日粒子的轨迹研究了黑潮路径的主要特征,发现黑潮入侵东海大陆架主要包括台湾东海岸北向路径、菲律宾离岸气旋式环流路径以及南海-台湾海峡北向路径3条主要路径,同时得到了黑潮路径主要通道上的净流量分布。     

东海黑潮与陆架海之间的水交换研究

利用三维海洋环流数值模型(Regional Ocean Model System,ROMS)对东中国海海域黑潮流系系统(东中国海黑潮流系)的季节变化和年际变化进行了模拟和研究,给出了东海黑潮流系穿越东海大陆架200 m等深线的体积通量及其变化规律。研究发现,黑潮的西南段,其主轴位置在春、夏季更加偏东;中间段具有最稳定的流径;而东北段则表现出最大的季节性变化。此外,从月平均结果看,黑潮流系穿越东海大陆架200 m等深线的体积通量,时间上表现为,在夏季减到最小,为0.479 6 Sv(1 Sv≡10~6m~3·s~(-1)),冬季达到最大值,为1.69 Sv;空间上表现为在西南段和中间段较大,而东北段较小。这反映了黑潮水与东中国海大陆架水的水交换区位置,在冬季在向岸方向上离黑潮主轴较远,在夏季离主轴较近。通过对长时间模型结果的时间序列分析,揭示了相对与2000年前,2000年后的黑潮在台湾岛东部水体积通量的季节变化呈现出减弱的趋势。     

夏季东中国海环流三维数值实验

东中国海由渤、黄、东海三部分组成，为典型的陆架边缘海。对这一海域环流的认识，过去多依赖于温盐资料分析和有限的测流数据。近年来随着计算机技术的迅猛发展，数值模拟已成为研究环流的结构、起源和动力机制的重要手段。国内、外学者在这一领域进行了大量的工作，袁耀初等(1982)使用单层模型对东中国海风生-热盐环流进行诊断计算；王卫等(1987)使用一个正压模式计算了黄、东海黑潮流系和涡旋现象；袁耀初等(1987a，b，1989)采用诊断数值计算方法求解涡度方程，得出其所测海区的三维夏、冬季海流流场；袁耀初等(1990)采用一种预报模式研究东中国海的冬季环流；Chao(1991)用三维有限差分模式探讨了黑潮、季风及长江流量等因子对东中国海环流的影响；袁耀初(1993)针对东海东部的流动建立了一个三维预报模式；朱耀华等(1994)建立了一个三维正压模式研究了渤、黄、东海冬、夏季的环流情况；梁湘三等( Liang et al.，1994)用二层模式模拟了黑潮在台湾东北入侵陆架的现象；王凯于1998年在冯士筰提出的浅海Lagrange余流理论上建立了一种三维斜压陆架环流模式，对渤、黄、东海冬、夏季环流进行了诊断数值模拟；王辉(1996)基于一种三维斜压浅海Lagrange余流的弱非线性理论，模拟计算了南黄海和东海夏季三维Lagrange余流；朱建荣等(1998)建立了一个σ坐标系下三维非线性斜压陆架模式，对东中国海冬、夏季环流进行模拟计算，并数值实验了长江径流量、台湾暖流、黄海冷水团、风场等因素对长江冲淡水扩展的作用。以上这些工作对了解东中国海环流的结构、起源和动力机制都具有重要意义。但是这些工作由于当时计算机速度和容量的限制，其数值模式不够完普，有的使用了二维(单层)或诊断模式，有的网格较粗，多数未考虑实际的海岸线和海面热交换对温度场的影响等，从计算结果来看，没有一个模式能全面地模拟出发生在东中国海的环流现象。 本文作者试图采用Blumberg等(1983,1987)建立的σ坐标系下三维斜压预报模式，考虑了东海主要水道间的流量交换、长江径流、海面风应力、海面热通量等诸多因素的影响，对东中国海夏季的环流进行了数值模拟，结果较全面地模拟了东中国海的环流现象，为今后进一步开展此项工作提供科学依据。     

粘性-地形修正项对潮汐数值模拟影响的研究

目前近海海洋模型大多从近海地形变化剧烈和细化浅水分层两个方面综合考虑,垂向坐标通常采用σ坐标变换,并且一般情况下均忽略了在坐标转换过程中出现的粘性-地形项.以POM海洋数值模式(Princeton OceanModel)为基础,在对渤、黄、东海M2分潮潮波的模拟中,具体分析了εu,εT,εs粘性-地形修正项对东中国海M...     

黄海、东海夏季环流的数值模拟

基于ECOM -si,建立了一个垂向取σ坐标、水平取球面坐标的三维高分辨率湍流闭合的黄海、东海海洋环流数值模式 .考虑实际岸线和水深、边界通量、密度梯度力和风应力 ,应用该模式较成功地模拟出了夏季黄海、东海环流 (黑潮、台湾暖流、对马暖流、黄海冷水团环流和沿岸流 ) ,摸拟结果与以往实际观测和研究结果较为一致 ,表明所建立的模式能较成功地应用于该海区环流的研究     

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.