我国海区SeaWiFS资料大气校正

利用光谱辐射传输理论，结合海上同步实测资料，开发出我国海区SeaWiFS资料大气校正模型。经卫星资料处理结果比对，本模型在一类水体，基本消除了412nm和443nm波段离水辐射率小于0的现象；在二类水体，利用临近一类水体的大气条件进行了有效的大气校正；同时建立了670nm,765nm,865nm波段的大气校正模型，这三个面适用于高浓度悬浮泥沙的信息提取。本模型用于处理我国海区的SeaWiFS资料比美国NASA模型更适合我国海区特定的大气和海洋环境，为SeaWiFS资料海洋水色信息提取和我国海洋一号（HY－1）及风云一号（FY－1C）卫星资料的大气校正研究提供了技术基础。     

Spatial and temporal aspects of phytoplankton blooms in complex ecosystems off the korean coast from satellite ocean color observations

Complex physical, chemical and biological interactions off the Korean coast created several striking patterns in the phytoplankton blooms, which became conspicuous during the measurements of ocean color from space. This study concentrated on analyzing the spatial and temporal aspects of phytoplankton chlorophyll variability in these areas using an integrated dataset from a Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), Advanced Very High Resolution (AVHRR) sensor, and Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) sensor. The results showed that chlorophyll concentrations were elevated in coastal and open ocean regions, with strong summer and fall blooms, which appeared to spread out in most of the enclosed bays and neighboring waters due to certain oceanographic processes. The chlorophyll concentration was observed to range between 3 and 54 mg m^-3 inside Jin-hae Bay and adjacent coastal bays and 0.5 and 8 mg m^-3 in the southeast sea offshore waters, this gradual decrease towards oceanic waters suggested physical transports of phytoplankton blooms from the shallow shelves to slope waters through the influence of the Tsushima Warm Current (TWC) along the Tsushima Strait. Horizontal distribution of potential temperature (θ) and salinity (S) of water off the southeastern coast exhibited cold and low saline surface water (θ<19°C; S<32.4) and warm and high saline subsurface water (θ>12°C; S>34.4) at 75dBar, corroborating TWC intrusion along the Tsushima Strait. An eastward branch of this current was called the East Korean Warm Current (EKWC), tracked with the help of CTD data and satellite-derived sea surface temperature, which often influenced the dynamics of mesoscale anticyclonic eddy fields off the Korean east coast during the summer season. The process of such mesoscale anticyclonic eddy features might have produced interior upwelling that could have shoaled and steepened the nutricline, enhancing phytoplankton population by advection or diffusion of nutrients in the vicinity of Ulleungdo in the East Sea.     

Remote sensing of particle backscattering in Chesapeake Bay: A 6-year SeaWiFS retrospective view

Traditional field techniques to monitor water quality in large estuaries, such as boat-based surveys and autonomous moored sensors, generally provide limited spatial coverage. Satellite imagery potentially can be used to address both of these limitations. Here, we show that satellite-based observations are useful for inferring total-suspended-solids (TSS) concentrations in estuarine areas. A spectra-matching optimization algorithm was used to estimate the particle backscattering coefficient at 400 nm, b_bp(400), in Chesapeake Bay from Sea-viewing Wide-Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) satellite imagery. These estimated values of b_bp(400) were compared to in situ measurements of TSS for the study period of September 1997–December 2003. Contemporaneous SeaWiFS b_bp(400) values and TSS concentrations were positively correlated (N = 340, r² = 0.4, P < 0.0005), and the satellite-derived b_bp(400) values served as a reasonable first-order approximation for synoptically mapping TSS. Overall, large-scale patterns of SeaWiFS b_bp(400) appeared to be consistent with expectations based on field observations and historical reports of TSS. Monthly averages indicated that SeaWiFS b_bp(400) was typically largest in winter (>0.049 m⁻¹, November–February) and smallest in summer (<0.031 m⁻¹, June–August), regardless of the amount of riverine discharge to the bay. The study period also included Hurricanes Floyd and Isabel, which caused large-scale turbidity events and changes in the water quality of the bay. These results demonstrate that this technique can provide frequent synoptic assessments of suspended solids concentrations in Chesapeake Bay and other coastal regions.     

台湾海峡表层叶绿素a年变化特征的空间差异

SeaWiFS(sea-viewing wide field-of-view sensor)数据自1997年9月开始发布以来,为世界各地开展水色遥感研究提供了丰富的信息源.遥感数据本身所具有的大范围、海量、易形成时间序列的优势不仅使其非常适合大尺度的时空变化研究,而且它为世界各地海洋提供的大量叶绿素分布数据,对于海洋生态系统浮游植物、初级生产力、中心渔场、碳循环、海流等相关研究都具有重要意义.目前国内外SeaWiFS水色遥感的应用研究已取得许多成果[1~3],并已成为各海区叶绿素数据获取的重要来源之一.     

Potential of Argo Drifters for Estimating Biological Production within the Water Column

Argo drifters provide information of the vertical structure in the water column and have a potential for the improvement of understanding phytoplankton primary production and biogeochemical cycles in combination with ocean color satellite data, which can obtain the horizontal distribution of phytoplankton biomass in the surface layer. Our examples show that using Argo drifters with satellite-measured horizontal distribution of phytoplankton biomass at the sea surface allow an improved understanding of the development of the spring bloom. The other possible uses of Argo drifter are discussed.     

遥感技术在河口颗粒态总磷分布及扩散研究中的应用初探

以美国SeaStar卫星装载的SeaWiFS海洋水色遥感传感器作为遥感数据源,实测了光谱、海表温度、悬浮物含量、透明度、叶绿素浓度、颗粒态总磷含量等,建立了传感器悬浮物含量和颗粒态总磷含量的遥感信息提取模式,结果表明:(1)利用遥感技术估算的海水悬浮物的平均相对偏差为18.1%;(2)悬浮物在遥感图象上的分布和扩散趋势与实际吻合,并且在一定程度上反映了区域内海流运移路径;(3)颗粒态总磷含量在长江河口和杭州湾附近海域较高,由近岸向远岸迅速降低,与实际分布相符;(4)模型主要适用于河口等悬浮物含量高的Ⅱ类水休,对于以浮游植物为主的Ⅰ类水体应另外建立模式.