网格嵌套技术在模拟海底沙波运移中的应用Ⅱ——南海北部沙波运移

本文发展了一套适用于模拟我国南海北部小尺度沙波运移的数值模型,该模型由超高分辨率三维海洋环境数值模块和泥沙运移模块组成,综合考虑了地形、潮汐、温盐和风应力等因素对海底流场和沙波运移的影响,可模拟时间间隔一年以上的沙波运移.研究发现,沙脊两侧沙波运移方向相反是潮汐、地形与温盐三方面因素综合作用的结果,其中温盐分布所导致的密度流是沙波运移中不可忽略的因素之一.与实测结果比较证明,本文模拟结果优于2DV模型和Q3D模型,并且可模拟沙脊两侧沙波运移方向翻转的现象.     

Sea surges in Camargue: Trends over the 20th century

The vulnerability to short-term and long-term sea-level rises is particularly high in subsiding deltaic areas, especially in microtidal seas, when surges (the differences between the observed sea heights and the simultaneous astronomical tide) are frequent. At the Grau-de-la-Dent tide-gauge in the Camargue (Rhone delta, France), daily sea-level records are available since 1905. Hourly tide data spanning the period 1979–1995 were obtained through the digitisation of the original paper records: the local harmonic constants and the surges for the whole 20th century have been computed from these hourly observations. It appears that the annual maximum observed sea-level height increases by 4 mm/yr at a rate that is two times faster than the average observed relative sea level. The increasing trend of the annual maximum positive sea surges (+1.9 mm/yr), which is equal to the average relative sea-level rise, is thus responsible for this difference. The most important meteorological factor associated with local sea-surge occurrences is wind blowing from 100° to 120° sectors, which tends to push the water toward the coasts. Since 1961, the frequency and the speed of wind from this sector increased, although with some variability, thus contributing in part to the increase in the frequency and intensity of the surges. Due to the changing hydrodynamics phenomenon in the Camargue, a positive feedback mechanism between extreme marine events and shoreline regression is another factor to explain the sea-surge rise over the long term. The increase in sea-surge frequency and height during the last century is especially of concern in the deltaic area if the near-future global sea-level rise predicted by climate models is also taken into account.     

Modelling of groundwater–vegetation interactions in a tidal marsh

Wetting and drying due to tidal fluctuations affect soil conditions and hence plant growth in tidal marshes. Here, a coupled one-dimensional model was developed to simulate interacting groundwater flow and plant growth in these wetlands. The simulation results revealed three characteristic zones of soil conditions for plant growth along a cross-creek section subjected to the combined influences of spring-neap tides and evapotranspiration: (1) a near-creek zone affected by semi-diurnal tides over the whole spring-neap cycle, where the soil is well aerated although the plant growth could be slightly limited by the local water content dropping periodically below the wilting point on the ebb tide; (2) a less well-drained zone where drainage occurs only during neap tides (for which the daily inundation is absent) and plant growth is aeration-limited; and (3) an interior zone where evapotranspiration determines the soil–water saturation. Plant growth dynamics, which depend on these soil conditions, lead to spatial biomass distributions that are consistent with the characteristic zonation. The simulations shed light on the feedback mechanism for groundwater–vegetation interactions in the marsh system. It was demonstrated that the growth of pioneer plants can improve the soil aeration condition as a result of transpiration. The strength of this feedback varies spatially in accordance with the three characteristic zones of soil–water saturation. However, the development of another species in the marsh system is likely to be more complicated than suggested by the “positive feedback” mechanism proposed previously, due to the influence of inter-species competition. The feedback effects are generally more complex, involving both plant growth enhancement and inhibition depending on the combined influence of the intra- and inter-species competition, the ecosystem’s carrying capacity and plant transpiration. These findings demonstrate the interplay of ecological and hydrological processes in tidal marshes, and provide guidance for future research, including field investigations that aim to establish the principle relationship between marsh morphology and plant zonation.     

Tide model comparison over the Southwestern Atlantic Shelf

Sea surface height (SSH) as measured by satellites has become a powerful tool for oceanographic and climate related studies. Whereas in the open ocean good accuracy has been achieved, more energetic dynamics and a number of calibration problems have limited applications over continental shelves and near the coast. Tidal ranges in the Southwestern Atlantic (SWA) continental shelf are among the highest in the world ocean, reaching up to 12 m at specific locations. This fact highlights the relevance of the accuracy of the tidal correction that must be applied to the satellite data to be useful in the region. In this work, amplitudes and phases of tidal constituents are extracted from five global tide models and three regional models and compared to the corresponding harmonics estimated from coastal tide gauges (TGs) and satellite altimetry data. The Root Sum Square (RSS) of the misfit of the common set of the five tidal constituents solved by the models (M₂, N₂, S₂, K₁ and O₁) is higher than 18 cm close to the coast for two of the regional models and higher than 24.5 cm for the rest of the models considered. Both values are too high to provide an accurate estimation of geostrophic non-tidal currents from satellite altimetry in the coastal region. On the other hand, the global model with the highest spatial resolution has a RSS lower than 4.5 cm over the continental shelf even when the non-linear M₄ overtide is considered. Comparison with in-situ current measurements suggests that this model can be used to de-tide altimetry data to compute large-scale patterns of SSH and associated geostrophic velocities. It is suggested that a local tide model with very high resolution that assimilates in-situ and satellite data should meet the precision needed to estimate geostrophic velocities at a higher resolution both close to the coast and over the Patagonian shelf.     

垂向和径向排水的潮汐水位振幅和位相变化研究

本文根据岩石力学和地下水动力学理论, 分析了潮汐力作用下含水层与隔水层之间垂向水流交换过程, 并提出了垂向排水条件下含水层潮汐孔压-引潮高振幅比和位相差公式。 结合Hsieh等关于潮汐力作用下井水位对含水层孔压(体应变)的振幅比和位相差响应公式, 进一步推导了垂向和径向水流条件下井水位-引潮高的振幅比和位相差公式。 在径向和垂向排水条件下, 应用M2和O1波潮汐水位-引潮高振幅比和位相差的数值关系, 可以识别影响潮汐水位振幅和位相的主要因素。     

Morphologic evolution of bifurcated reaches in a macrotidal estuary with mountain streams

A macrotidal estuary with mountain streams(MEMS) is characterized by rapidly rising and falling flood peaks and large tidal ranges and is a typical estuary type with strong flow dynamics that is found worldwide. Understanding the morphodynamic evolution of MEMSs has great significance for river management. The roles of the mountain stream river flood process and macrotides on the morphology evolution still needs further quantitative study. Taking the Oujiang Estuary as an example, the evolution ...     

杭州湾潮波三维数值模拟

采用“σ坐标下的三维数值模式”来模拟杭州湾三维潮波运动,水平方向上以较小尺度的差分网格覆盖计算区,垂直方向上给予均匀的分层,对占本湾水位谱总能量80％的半日潮波M_2和半日潮波m_1((K_1+O_1)/2)两类进行了数值模拟。水平流动和潮位的计算结果与相应的实测值拟合良好。计算表明,水平潮流具有明显的往复流性质,主要呈东-西方向;流速自湾口向湾顶增加,M_2分潮流最大可达270cm/s左右,m_1分潮流最大可达24cm/s左右。在太阴时1和13时,于湾的中部偏南存在一个弱的逆时针向的大涡旋;在7和19时于上述位置存在一个弱的顺时针向的大涡旋。垂直流速振幅一般为10~(-2)—2×10~(-2)cm/s,最大可达2.5×10~(-2)cm/s,位于乍浦附近的底层水域中。     

Tide versus storm in Epeiric coastal deposition: Two Proterozoic sequences,India

The relative importance of tides and storms in coastal sedimentation in ancient epeiric seas is frequently problematical. Here we appraise the depositional regimes in two Proterozoic Vindhyan formations in India with the aim of elucidating the records of each of these processes. The respective products of the two processes are not easily distinguished as both of them entail repeated fluctuations in water level and depositional energy. Two orders of fluctuation are recognized in both formations. The nature and scale of these two orders of fluctuation along with high-resolution facies analysis make the distinction between the respective products of the two processes possible. Many of the features so long counted as characteristics of tidal rhythms, in the studied formations, exclusively or frequently manifest waxing and waning of storms or fairweather–storm cyclicity. This study highlights the need for reevaluation of ancient coastal sequences in epeiric setting.