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A tidally-induced frontal system regularly develops in a small area off Newport News Point in the lower James River, one of the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. In conjunction with the front, a strong counter-clockwise eddy develops on the shoals flanking the northern side of the channel as the result of tidal interaction with the local bathymetry and estuarine stratification. A three-dimensional hydrodynamic model was applied to simulate the eddy evolution and front development, and to investigate time-varying circulation and material transport over a spring-neap tidal cycle. The model results show that variation of tidal range, together with periodic stratification-destratification of the estuary, has a significant impact on the residual circulation of the lower James River. The net surface water circulation, which takes the form of a counterclockwise eddy on the Hampton Flats, is stronger during neap tide than during spring tide. Strong stratification and weak flood current during neap tide results in a dominant ebb flow at the surface, which delays flooding within the channel and advances the phase lead of flood tide on shoals adjacent to the channel, thus increasing both period and intensity of the eddy. Front development in the area off Newport News Point provides a linkage between shoal surface water and channel bottom water, producing a strong net upriver bottom transport. The existence of the vertical transport mechanism was independently demonstrated through tracer experiments. The impact of the dynamics on larval dispersion was investigated through a series of model simulations of the movement of shellfish larvae over multiple tidal cycles following their release at selected bottom sites. These results show that eddy-induced horizontal circulation and vertical transport associated with the frontal system are important mechanisms for the retention of larval organisms in the James River. 相似文献
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为研究磨刀门盐水混合层化特征,基于SCHISM模型,建立了三维盐度数值模型,根据实测资料对其进行验证。结合水体势能异常理论,对枯季磨刀门河口混合层化的时空变化特征及深槽与浅滩的层化机制差异进行分析。结果表明:磨刀门河口小潮时水体层化最强,中潮时水体层化最弱,且拦门沙至挂定角段水体层化始终较强。磨刀门深槽水体层化主要受纵向平流、纵向水深平均应变和垂向混合影响,而浅滩水体层化则受横向平流、横向水深平均应变和垂向混合影响;磨刀门河口表、底层水体湍动能耗散率较高,而中间水层存在低耗散区,且涨潮时湍动能耗散率比落潮时大。 相似文献
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Jessica R. Lacy Steve Gladding Andreas Brand Audric Collignon Mark Stacey 《Estuaries and Coasts》2014,37(5):1058-1077
We investigate the dynamics governing exchange of sediment between estuarine shallows and the channel based on field measurements at eight stations spanning the interface between the channel and the extensive eastern shoals of South San Francisco Bay. The study site is characterized by longitudinally homogeneous bathymetry and a straight channel, with friction more important than the Coriolis forcing. Data were collected for 3 weeks in the winter and 4 weeks in the late summer of 2009, to capture a range of hydrologic and meteorologic conditions. The greatest sediment transport from shallows to channel occurred during a pair of strong, late-summer wind events, with westerly winds exceeding 10 m/s for more than 24 h. A combination of wind-driven barotropic return flow and lateral baroclinic circulation caused the transport. The lateral density gradient was produced by differences in temperature and suspended sediment concentration (SSC). During the wind events, SSC-induced vertical density stratification limited turbulent mixing at slack tides in the shallows, increasing the potential for two-layer exchange. The temperature- and SSC-induced lateral density gradient was comparable in strength to salinity-induced gradients in South Bay produced by seasonal freshwater inflows, but shorter in duration. In the absence of a lateral density gradient, suspended sediment flux at the channel slope was directed towards the shallows, both in winter and during summer sea breeze conditions, indicating the importance of baroclinically driven exchange to supply of sediment from the shallows to the channel in South San Francisco Bay and systems with similar bathymetry. 相似文献
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We describe the tidal circulation and salinity regime of a coastal plain estuary that connects to the ocean through a flood
tide delta. The delta acts as a sill, and we examine the mechanisms through which the sill affects exchange of estuarine water
with the ocean. Given enough buoyancy, the dynamics of tidal intrusion fronts across the sill and selective withdrawal (aspiration)
in the deeper channel landward appear to control the exchange of seawater with estuarine water. Comparison of currents on
the sill and stratification in the channel reveals aspiration depths smaller than channel depth during neap tide. During neap
tide and strong vertical stratification, seawater plunges beneath the less dense estuarine water somewhere on the sill. Turbulence
in the intruding bottom layer on the sill promotes entrainment of fluid from the surface layer, and the seawater along the
sill bottom is diluted with estuarine water. During ebb flow, salt is effectively trapped landward of the sill in a stagnant
zone between the aspiration depth and the bottom where it can be advected farther upstream by flood currents. During spring
tide, the plunge point moves landward and off the sill, stratification is weakened in the deep channel, and aspiration during
ebb extends to the bottom. This prevents the formation of stagnant water near the bottom, and the estuary is flooded with
high salinity water far inland. The neapspring cycle of tidal intrusion fronts on flood coupled with aspiration during ebb
interacts with the sill to play an important role in the transport and retention of salt within the estuary. 相似文献
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Surface accumulations of foam and flotsam as well as sharp salinity, density, turbidity gradients and regions of acoustic scatter were characteristic of ebb-tidal fronts in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Surface convergence velocities at these fronts averaged 0.06 m s?1 into the front at an angle of 30° to 60° with respect to the frontal axis, indicating along-front transport during the ebb. These fronts are tidally-induced, forming on the late flood and ebb along the interfaces of water masses. Horizontal and vertical measurements of density revealed that the upper harbor fronts form along the margin of a freshwater lens produced by riverine input. The hypothesis that these frontal zones have higher densities of phytoplankton and zooplankton than adjacent water masses was tested using chlorophylla measurements and net collections. The fronts did not demonstrate any significant accumulations of phytoplankton or zooplankton during the ebb tide. The results of this study suggest that the physical characteristics of ebb-tidal estuarine fronts in Charleston Harbor are periodic in nature and may indirectly affect plankton transport in this coastal plain estuary. 相似文献
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Tidal straining,density currents,and stirring in the control of estuarine stratification 总被引：9，自引：0，他引：9
Buoyancy input as fresh water exerts a stratifying influence in estuaries and adjacent coastal waters. Predicting the development and breakdown of such stratification is an inherently more difficult problem than that involved in the analogous case of stratification induced by surface heating because the buoyancy input originates at the lateral boundaries. In the approach adopted here, we have adapted the energy considerations used in the surface heating problem to describe the competition between the stabilizing effect of fresh water and the vertical mixing brought about by tidal and wind stirring. Freshwater input induces horizontal gradients which drive the estuarine circulation in which lighter fluid at the surface is moved seaward over heavier fluid moving landward below. This contribution to stratification is expected to vary in time as the level of turbulence varies over the tidal cycle. The density gradient also interacts directly with the vertical shear in the tidal current to induce a periodic input to stratification which is positive on the ebb phase of the tide. Comparison of this input with the available stirring energy leads to a simple criterion for the existence of strain-induced stratification. Observations in a region of Liverpool Bay satisfying this criterion confirm the occurrence of a strong semidiurnal variation in stratification with complete vertical mixing apparent around high water except at neap tides when more permanent stratification may develop. A simulation of the monthly cycle based on a model including straining, stirring, and the estuarine circulation is in qualitative agreement with the main features of the observations. 相似文献
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Arun Chawla David A. Jay António M. Baptista Michael Wilkin Charles Seaton 《Estuaries and Coasts》2008,31(2):269-288
The long-term response of circulation processes to external forcing has been quantified for the Columbia River estuary using
in situ data from an existing coastal observatory. Circulation patterns were determined from four Acoustic Doppler Profilers
(ADP) and several conductivity–temperature sensors placed in the two main channels. Because of the very strong river discharge,
baroclinic processes play a crucial role in the circulation dynamics, and the interaction of the tidal and subtidal baroclinic
pressure gradients plays a major role in structuring the velocity field. The input of river flow and the resulting low-frequency
flow dynamics in the two channels are quite distinct. Current and salinity data were analyzed on two time scales—subtidal
(or residual) and tidal (both diurnal and semidiurnal components). The residual currents in both channels usually showed a
classical two-layer baroclinic circulation system with inflow at the bottom and outflow near the surface. However, this two-layer
system is transient and breaks down under strong discharge and tidal conditions because of enhanced vertical mixing. Influence
of shelf winds on estuarine processes was also observed via the interactions with upwelling and downwelling processes and
coastal plume transport. The transient nature of residual inflow affects the long-term transport characteristics of the estuary.
Effects of vertical mixing could also be seen at the tidal time scale. Tidal velocities were separated into their diurnal
and semidiurnal components using continuous wavelet transforms to account for the nonstationary nature of velocity amplitudes.
The vertical structure of velocity amplitudes were considerably altered by baroclinic gradients. This was particularly true
for the diurnal components, where tidal asymmetry led to stronger tidal velocities near the bottom. 相似文献
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John L. Largier 《Estuaries and Coasts》1992,15(1):26-39
A tidal intrusion front forms as a dense seawater inflow plunges (subducts) beneath ambient estuarine water during flood tide. The associated foam lines and color changes have been observed on many smaller estuaries with constricted mouths. Internal hydraulic theory and laboratory experiments are reviewed and expressions are obtained for the position of plunging and the amount of associated mixing. The existence of a tidal intrusion front and its structure are discussed in terms of densimetric Froude numbers. These fronts are particularly important in smaller estuaries in which the intrusion process may dominate wind and tidal mixing and thus determine the overall stratification of the estuary. Three classes of three-dimensional plunging flow are identified and discussed. In particular, it is suggested that the peculiar, cursive V-shape plunge line is characteristic of strongly plunging flow. 相似文献
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珠江磨刀门水道地处亚热带季风气候区,直面南海,容易受到热带风暴的袭击。选取台风"纳沙",采用SCHISM模型建立磨刀门水道三维水流盐度数值模型,通过数值试验对比,结合势能异常分析法,探究了台风期间波浪和局地风对磨刀门水道混合与层化的影响。结果显示:由于近岸及河道内水深较浅,波高整体较小,波浪对水体层化过程影响不大,对流速分布有一定的调整作用,使其分布更为均匀,并在一定程度上加强水体掺混,利于外海高浓度盐水向河口和海岸扩散。而台风期间强劲的局地风对垂向水体状态以及势能异常变化率各项均有显著作用,影响着盐淡水的层化混合过程。 相似文献
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Jun Lin Chunyan Li Kevin M. Boswell Matthew Kimball Lawrence Rozas 《Estuaries and Coasts》2016,39(4):879-899
Numerical model experiments were conducted to examine how estuarine circulation and salinity distribution in the Calcasieu Lake Estuary (CLE) of southwest Louisiana respond to the passage of cold fronts. River runoff, local wind stress, and tides from December 20, 2011, to February 1, 2012, were included as input. The experiments showed an anticyclonic circulation in the eastern CLE, a cyclonic circulation in West Cove, and a saltwater conduit in the navigation channel between these circulation cells. Freshwater from the river and wetlands tends to flow over the shallow shoals toward the ocean, presenting a case of the conventional estuarine circulation with shallow water influenced by river discharge and with weak tidally-induced motion, enhanced by wind. The baroclinic pressure gradient is important for the circulation and saltwater intrusion. The effect of remote wind-driven oscillation plays an important role in circulation and salinity distribution in winter. Unless it is from the east, wind is found to inhibit saltwater intrusion through the narrow navigation channel, indicating the effect of Ekman setup during easterly wind. A series of north-south oriented barrier islands in the lake uniquely influenced water level and salinity distribution between the shallow lake and deep navigation channel. The depth of the navigation channel is also crucial in influencing saltwater intrusion: the deeper the channel, the more saltwater intrusion and the more intense estuarine circulation. Recurring winter storms have a significant accumulated effect on the transport of water and sediment, saltwater intrusion, and associated environmental and ecosystem effects. 相似文献
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Control of estuarine stratification and mixing by wind-induced straining of the estuarine density field 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Observations from the York River Estuary, Virginia, demonstrate that the along-channel wind plays a dominant role in governing the estuarine exchange flow and the corresponding increase or decrease in vertical density stratification. Contrary to previous findings that suggest wind stress acts predominantly as a source of energy to mix away estuarine stratification, our results demonstrate that the wind can play a more important role in straining the along-channel estuarine density gradient. Down-estuary winds enhance the tidally-averaged vertical shear, which interacts with the along-channel density gradient to increase vertical stratification. Up-estuary winds tend to reduce, or even reverse the vertical shear, reducing vertical stratification. In two experiments each lasting approximately a month, the estuarine exchange flow was highly correlated with the along-channel component of the wind. The changes in stratification caused by the exchange flow appear to control the amount of vertical mixing as parameterized by the vertical eddy viscosity. The degree of stratification induced by wind straining also appears to play an important role in controlling the effectiveness of wind and tidal mixing. 相似文献
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The effects of estuarine circulation and tidal trapping on transport in the Hudson estuary were investigated by a large-scale,
high-resolution numerical model simulation of a tracer release. The modeled and measured longitudinal profiles of surface
tracer concentrations (plumes) differ from the ideal Gaussian shape in two ways: on a large scale the plume is asymmetric
with the downstream end stretching out farther, and small-scale (1–2 km) peaks are present at the upstream and downstream
ends of the plume. A number of diagnostic model simulations (e.g., remove freshwater flow) were performed to understand the
processes responsible for these features. These simulations show that the large-scale asymmetry is related to salinity. The
salt causes an estuarine circulation that decreases vertical mixing (vertical density gradient), increases longitudinal dispersion
(increased vertical and lateral gradients in longitudinal velocities), and increases net downstream velocities in the surface
layer. Since salinity intrusion is confined to the downstream end of the tracer plume, only that part of the plume is effected
by those processes, which leads to the largescale asymmetry. The small-scale peaks are due to tidal trapping. Small embayments
along the estuary trap water and tracer as the plume passes by in the main channel. When the plume in the main channel has
passed, the tracer is released back to the main channel, causing a secondary peak in the longitudinal profile. 相似文献
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John L. Largier 《Estuaries and Coasts》1993,16(1):1-11
Estuarine fronts have a role in estuarine circulation, productivity, sediment dynamics, and water quality. Despite their importance, our understanding is rather modest. While some insight can be drawn from studies of oceanic fronts, the shorter time scales of estuarine fronts often exclude the role of Coriolis forcing and geostrophy from the hydrodynamics and exclude the prospect of physiological adaptation from ecosystem dynamics. Conservative processes and rapid nonconservative processes like aggregation, settling, and behavioral responses are expected to be most important at estuarine fronts. Although generally short-lived, the recurrent periodic nature of estuarine fronts does include longer time scales and some attention should be given to the importance of this recurrence to longer time scale ecological responses. 相似文献
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Ocean processes are generally large scale on the U.S. Pacific Northwest coast; this is true of both seasonal variations and event-scale upwelling-downwelling fluctuations., which are highly energetic. Coastal upwelling supplies most of the macronutrients available for production, although the intensity of upwelling-favorable wind forcing increases southward while primary production and chlorophyll are higher in the north, off the Washington coast. This discrepancy could be related to several mesoscale features: the wider, more gently sloping shelf to the north, the existence of numerous submarine canyons to the north, the availability of Columbia River plume water and sediment north of the river mouth, and the existence of a semi-permanent eddy offshore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. We suggest that these features have important effects on the magnitude and timing of macronutrient or micronutrient delivery to the plankton. These features are potentially important as well to transport pathways and residence times of planktonic larvae and to the development of harmful algal blooms. The coastal plain estuaries, with the exception of the Columbia River, are relatively small, with large tidal forcing and highly seasonal direct river inputs that are low to negligible during the growing season. Primary production in these estuaries is likely controlled not by river-driven stratification but by coastal upwelling and exchange with the ocean. Both baroclinic mechanisms (the gravitational circulation) and barotropic ones (lateral stirring by tide and, possibly, wind) contribute to this exchange. Because estuarine hydrography and ecology are so dominated by ocean signals, the coastal estuaries, like the coastal ocean, are largely synchronous on seasonal and event time scales, though, intrusions of the Columbia River plume can cause strong asymmetries between Washington and Oregon estuaries especially during spring downwelling conditions. Water property correlation increases between spring and summer as wind forcing becomes more spatially coherent along the coast. Estuarine habitat is structure not only, by large scale forcing but also by fine scale processes in the extensive intertidal zone, such as by solar heating or differential advection by tidal, curents. 相似文献
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Measurements over an annual cycle of longitudinal and vertical salinity distributions in a small sub-estuary, the Tavy Estuary,
UK, are used to illustrate the dependence of salt intrusion and stratification on environmental variables. The interpretations
are aided by vertical profiling and near-bed data recorded in the main channel and on the mudflats. Generally, high water
(HW) salt intrusion at the bed is close to the tidal limit and is dominated by runoff and winds, with decreasing salt intrusion
associated with increasing runoff and increasing up-estuary winds (or vice versa). Tidal effects are not statistically significant
because of two compensating processes: the long tidal excursion, which is comparable with the sub-estuary length for all but
the smallest neap tides, and the enhanced, near-bed, buoyancy-driven salt transport that occurs at small neap tides close
to the limit of saline intrusion. The effect of wind on HW surface salt intrusion in the main channel is not statistically
significant, partly because it is obscured by the opposing local and estuary-wide effects of an up-estuary or down-estuary
wind stress. These processes are investigated using a simple tidal model that incorporates lateral, channel–mudflat bathymetry
and reproduces, approximately, observed channel and mudflat velocities. Surface salinity at HW increases with tidal range
because of enhanced spring-tide vertical mixing—a process that also reduces salinity stratification. Stratification increases
with runoff because of increased buoyancy inputs and decreases with up-estuary winds because of reduced near-bed salt intrusion.
Stratification and plume formation are interpreted in terms of the bulk and estuarine Richardson Numbers, and processes at
the confluence of the sub-estuary and main estuary are described. 相似文献
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Wind Modulation of Dissolved Oxygen in Chesapeake Bay 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Malcolm E. Scully 《Estuaries and Coasts》2010,33(5):1164-1175
A numerical circulation model with a simplified dissolved oxygen module is used to examine the importance of wind-driven ventilation
of hypoxic waters in Chesapeake Bay. The model demonstrates that the interaction between wind-driven lateral circulation and
enhanced vertical mixing over shoal regions is the dominant mechanism for providing oxygen to hypoxic sub-pycnocline waters.
The effectiveness of this mechanism is strongly influenced by the direction of the wind forcing. Winds from the south are
most effective at supplying oxygen to hypoxic regions, and winds from the west are shown to be least effective. Simple numerical
simulations demonstrate that the volume of hypoxia in the bay is nearly 2.5 times bigger when the mean wind is from the southwest
as compared to the southeast. These results provide support for a recent analysis that suggests much of the long-term variability
of hypoxia in Chesapeake Bay can be explained by variations in the summertime wind direction. 相似文献
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中国近海海洋锋和锋面预报研究进展 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
海洋锋是水文要素特性不同的2个水团之间的狭窄过渡带,是一种重要的中尺度海洋现象,对渔业、军事和海洋环境保护等许多领域有重要影响,已经成为近年来物理海洋学以及海洋交叉学科中的重要课题之一。中国近海由于众多环流、水团和涡旋在此交汇,海洋锋现象十分显著,近年来,我国学者对中国近海的海洋锋产生机制和变化规律取得了一定的进展。首先从实测水文资料分析、遥感资料分析和数值模拟3个方面分别回顾了黄海、东海、南海北部等中国近海海域海洋锋的研究进展。对于海洋锋的预报研究,我国起步较晚,但目前对近海海洋锋预报的需求十分迫切。回顾总结了国外海洋锋预报的进展,集中介绍了黑潮锋、冰岛—法罗群岛锋、湾流锋和墨西哥湾锋面涡旋的预报方法和现状,最后对如何开展中国近海海洋锋预报提出思考和展望。 相似文献
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近岸强海流切变锋作用下悬浮沉积物的输送和沉积--以山东半岛东端外海为例 总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3
利用2007年国家908专项ST02区块（渤海海峡及北黄海）水体专项夏季和冬季两个航次调查的温度、浊度和悬浮体浓度数据,选取了跨越山东半岛东端外海泥质沉积体的B1和B2两个断面,结合该区浅地层剖面资料,辅以研究海域的冬季环流数值模拟,着重分析了山东半岛东端外海强海流切变锋作用下的悬浮体输送和沉积特征。结果表明山东半岛东端外海悬浮体向外海输送存在类似“夏储冬输”的规律:夏季,北黄海海水浊度普遍小,不仅北黄海温跃层抑制了底层悬浮体向中上层水体扩散,而且北黄海冷水团在中底层与山东半岛东部沿岸水也形成了显著的温度和悬浮体锋面,阻碍了悬浮物的纬向输送,故夏季应是悬浮体沉积的主要时节;冬季,温跃层消亡,在强风的作用下,山东半岛东部悬浮体浓度高且垂向混合较好,然而在泥质沉积体顶积层两侧,山东半岛东部沿岸中下层北上的逆风补偿流和北上的黄海暖流与位于顶积层上方表中层南下的沿岸流构成了两道显著的强海流切变锋,使得底积层上大量的再悬浮沉积物不能越过山东半岛东部陆架末梢,从而有助于形成山东半岛东端外海特有的Ω状泥质沉积体。 相似文献
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A 3-D coastal ocean model with a tidal turbine module was used in this paper to study the effects of tidal energy extraction on temperature and salinity stratification and density-driven two-layer estuarine circulation. Numerical experiments with various turbine array configurations were carried out to investigate the changes in tidally averaged temperature, salinity, and velocity profiles in an idealized stratified estuary that connects to coastal water through a narrow tidal channel. The model was driven by tides, river inflow, and sea surface heat flux. To represent the realistic size of commercial tidal farms, model simulations were conducted based on a small percentage (less than 10 %) of the total number of turbines that would generate the maximum extractable energy in the system. Model results show that extraction of tidal in-stream energy will increase the vertical mixing and decrease the stratification in the estuary. Installation of in-stream tidal farm will cause a phase lag in tidal wave, which leads to large differences in tidal currents between baseline and tidal farm conditions. Extraction of tidal energy in an estuarine system has stronger impact on the tidally averaged salinity, temperature, and velocity in the surface layer than the bottom layer even though the turbine hub height is close to the bottom. Finally, model results also indicate that extraction of tidal energy weakens the two-layer estuarine circulation, especially during neap tides when tidal mixing is weakest and energy extraction is smallest. 相似文献