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In October of 2004, a 3-d observational program to measure flow and sediment resuspension within a coastal intertidal salt
marsh was conducted in the North Inlet/Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve located near Georgetown, South Carolina.
Current and acoustic backscatter profiles were obtained from a moored acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) deployed in
a shallow tidal channel during the spring phase of the tidal cycle under high discharge conditions. The channel serves as
a conduit between Winyah Bay, a large brackish estuary, and North Inlet, a saline intertidal coastal salt marsh with little
freshwater input. Salinity measurements indicate that the water column is vertically well mixed during flood, but becomes
vertically stratified during early ebb. The stratification results from brackish (15 psu) Winyah Bay water entering North
Inlet via the tidal channel, suggesting an exchange mechanism that permits North Inlet to receive a fraction of the poor water
quality and high discharge flow from upland rivers. Although maximum flood currents exceed maximum ebb currents by 0.2 m s−1, suspended sediment concentrations are highest during the latter ebb phase and persist for a longer fraction of the ebb cycle.
Even though the channel is flood-dominated, the higher concentrations occurring over a longer fraction of the ebb phase indicate
net particulate transport from Winyah Bay to North Inlet during spring tide accompanied by high discharge. Our evidence suggests
that the higher concentrations during ebb result from increased bed friction caused by flow asymmetries and variations in
water depth in which the highest stresses occur near the end of ebb near low water despite stronger maximum currents during
flood. 相似文献
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Dissolved inorganic nutrient elements were analyzed from the samples collected in the South Passage of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary in March 2003, including NH4 , NO3-, NO2- and PO43-. The water samples were collected with a Niskin sampler hourly at the near-surface, middle and near-bottom depths at the three stations -A1, A2 and A3-during two complete tidal cycles of neap tide and spring tide. Results showed that 1) the concentrations of NH4 , NO3- and NO2- were a little higher respectively during the neap tide than those during the spring tide, while PO43- showed an opposite trend, and each was higher in the ebb tide than in the flood tide, either for the neap tidal cycle or the spring tidal cycle; 2) higher stratification of the nutrients existed obviously in this area, with the concentrations of which increased from the bottom to the surface, especially for NH4 and NO3-; 3) the coefficient of variation (C.V.) values of all dissolved inorganic nutrients varied from 4.06% to 36.8% beyond different influences of the tidal current and Changjiang runoff; 4) with increasing suspended matter in the water column, the concentrations of PO43- became lower in the filtered water; and 5) the total transport of each tidal cycle was much more in the spring tide than in the neap tide, and the positive values indicated that the nutrients had been exported to the East China Sea. Studies on the variations and net transport of dissolved inorganic nutrients in the South Passage of the Changjiang Estuary will provide the scientific basis for the study of the mechanism of red tide in the East China Sea. 相似文献
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R. Verney J.-C. Brun-Cottan R. Lafite J. Deloffre J. A. Taylor 《Estuaries and Coasts》2006,29(4):653-664
Tidal currents and the spatial variability of tidally-induced shear stress were studied during a tidal cycle on four intertidal
mudflats from the fluvial to the marine part of the Seine estuary. Measurements were carried out during low water discharge
(<400 m3 s−1) in neap and spring tide conditions. Turbulent kinetic energy, covariance, and logarithmic profile methods were used and
compared for the determination of shear stress. The cTKE coefficient value of 0.19 cited in the literature was confirmed. Shear stress values were shown to decrease above mudflats
from the mouth to the fluvial part of the estuary due to dissipation of the tidal energy, from 1 to 0.2 N m−2 for spring tides and 0.8 to 0.05 N m−2 for neap tides. Flood currents dominate tidally-induced shear stress in the marine and lower fluvial estuary during neap
and spring tides and in the upper fluvial part during spring tides. Ebb currents control tidally-induced shear stress in the
upper fluvial part of the estuary during neap tides. These results revealed a linear relationship between friction velocities
and current velocities. Bed roughness length values were calculated from the empirical relationship given by Mitchener and
Torfs (1996) for each site; these values are in agreement with the modes of the sediment particle-size distribution. The influence
of tidal currents on the mudflat dynamics of the Seine estuary was examined by comparing the tidally-induced bed shear stress
and the critical erosion shear stress estimated from bed sediment properties. Bed sediment resuspension induced by tidal currents
was shown to occur only in the lower part of the estuary. 相似文献
4.
An ephemeral estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM) occurs at high water in the macrotidal Taf estuary (SW Wales, United Kingdom).
A new mechanism of ETM formation, due to resuspension and advection of material by flood tidal currents, is observed that
differs from classical mechanisms of gravitational circulation and tidal pumping. The flood tide advances across intertidal
sand flats in the main body of the estuary, progressively entraining material from the rippled sands. Resuspension creates,
a turbid front that has suspended sediment concentrations (SSC) of about 4,000 mg I−1 by the time it reaches its landward limit which is also the landward limit of salt penetration. This turbid body constitutes
the ETM. Deposition occurs at high slack water but the ETM retains SSC values up to 800 mg I−1, 1–2 orders of magnitude greater than ambient SSC values in the river and estuarine waters on either side. The ETM retreats
down the estuary during the ebb; some material is deposited thinly across emergent intertidal flats and some is flushed out
of the estuary. A new ETM is generated by the next flood tide. Both location and SSC of the ETM scale on Q/R3 where Q is tidal range and R is river discharge. The greatest expression of the ETM occurs when a spring tide coincides with
low river discharge. It does not form during high river discharge conditions and is poorly developed on neap tides. Particles
in the ETM have effective densities (120–160 kg m−3) that are 3–4 times less than those in the main part of the estuary at high water. High chlorophyll concentrations in the
ETM suggest that flocs probably originate from biological production in the estuary, including production on the intertidal
sand flats. 相似文献
5.
We examined high frequency fluctuations in water quality parameters in two tropical coastal plain estuaries in response to
changing tidal flow conditions. The variability in total suspended sediments (TSS), volatile suspended solids (VSS), total
organic carbon (TOC) concentrations, and indicators of water quality, including pH, temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen,
over one spring tidal cycle during the early wet monsoon season was measured in two estuaries in eastern Sumatra. The relatively
high rainfall experienced throughout the year, in combination with the recent extensive vegetation clearing and modification
of the landscape, resulted in significant concentrations of TSS, VSS, and TOC being discharged to coastal waters. Maximum
values are reached on the ebb tide (TSS > 1,013 mg l−1; VSS > 800 mg l−1; TOC >60 mg l−1). The influence of freshwater discharge and tidal flow on water properties of the lower estuaries is also marked by the variability
in salinity, dissolved oxygen, and pH over the tidal cycle, with minimum values for each of these parameters following maximum
current velocities and after the completion of the strong ebb tide. Estimation of seaward sediment fluxes, which are of significant
interest in a region where rapid environmental change is occurring, would require further examination of sedimentary processes,
such as resuspension and advection of sediment, as well as a consideration of neap-spring tidal variations and the effect
of seasonality on estuarine circulation. 相似文献
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采用大凌河实测长系列河道径流及水下地形等数据, 通过建立水动力数值模型, 综合考虑潮流和河道径流的影响, 对大凌河口的潮流进行模拟, 探讨大凌河口及辽东湾北部海域水动力过程的主要特征. 结果表明: 大凌河口附近海域的海流以潮流为主, 具有明显的往复性质. 潮流总的运动趋势是, 涨潮主流向为北东, 落潮主流向为南西. 大潮流速大于小潮流速, 涨潮流历时与落潮流历时几乎相当. 最大涨潮流速约为0.52 m/s, 最大落潮流速约为0.4 m/s, 潮流涨落平均潮流强度的分布大体和该海域等深线相适应. 相似文献
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Measurements were made of tidal currents, bed sediment particle sizes, and bedform dimensions at the South Branch and the
South Channel of the Changjiang estuary, China, during the dry season in 1997 and the flood season in 1998. The near bottom
current speed and direction were measured by a mechanical current meter for 10 h in 1997. The near surface current speed and
direction were measured by a Current Meter of Endeco/YSI Inc. 174 SSM for 14 h in 1997 and 1998. Nine bed sediment samples
were taken and their particle sizes were analyzed with sieves and siphons. The bedforms were nautically detected by an echo
sounder and a side scan sonar. Results show that the ebb tides had larger near-bottom and near-surface current speeds and
longer durations than the flood tides, in which the former occurred during the flood season in 1998 and not in the dry season
in 1997. The bed sediments were composed of coarse silts and very fine sands during the dry season but of fine sands during
the flood season. Bedforms were dominated by ebb tidal currents, the height∶length ratios of dunes and lee face angles were
low, and heights and lengths were larger during the flood season in 1998. The ebb and flood tidal currents, bed sediment sizes,
and dune morphology were largely controlled by the seasonal runoff variations. A new tentative boundary might be proposed
for natural dunes in very fine sand with the availability of additional field data in the future. 相似文献
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现场试验表明,三角架观测系统稳定性良好,获取了边界层内多层位、连续的温、盐、流速、浊度同步观测数据,适用于浅海近底部沉积动力过程高分辨率观测及物质输运研究。观测结果显示:观测期间,边界层内存在向陆的余流,并呈现逐渐减小的趋势,其主要由涨、落潮流的不对称造成,大风天气和密度环流亦是影响余流强弱的重要因素;观测期间多数时刻底部切应力大于起动切应力,底质沉积物可产生明显的搬运甚至再悬浮;悬沙浓度对沉积动力的响应在涨、落潮,大、小潮阶段均有各自的特点,水动力的变化、潮流加/减速时间的长短、床面泥沙的供应量、上部水体泥沙的沉降是导致悬沙浓度变化的主要原因;底部边界层内,涨、落潮期间不对称输沙导致潮周期内悬沙净向河口湾内输运。 相似文献
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潮间带周期性淹水区域水深、流速的变化过程是潮滩水动力过程的基本组成部分,也是潮流与泥沙相互作用的基础。通过2002年4月至2003年1月4个季节的野外实测,获得了平静天气条件下,崇明东滩滩面潮流水深、流速与流向的变化过程数据。结果表明,崇明东滩盐沼和邻近光滩处涨潮历时均小于落潮历时,水深过程变化呈现出“陡涨缓落”的特点。光滩与盐沼交界处光滩一侧流速过程呈“双峰型”特征,涨落潮均出现流速峰值;盐沼（植物生长期）流速过程具有“单峰型”特点,仅在涨潮初出现峰值。研究区潮流不对称性明显,主要表现为涨潮优势,且由光滩向盐沼上部不断增强,潮沼植物和地形变化是加强盐沼区涨潮优势的主要原因。流速变化过程的差异和潮流不对称性使盐沼区域发生稳定的泥沙淤积,盐沼前缘光滩则会出现较频繁的冲淤变化,平静天气条件下,它们是控制崇明东滩泥沙输移和潮滩动力地貌过程的动力基础。 相似文献
10.
A study of the dynamics of a marine sandwave 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
D. N. LANGHORNE 《Sedimentology》1982,29(4):571-594
The movement of the crest of a sandwave was studied using cross-sectional profiles obtained from lines of sea-bed reference stakes. Measurements were made, over a six month period, before and after flood and ebb tides in relation to both spring and neap tides and surface wave conditions. Additional observations were obtained on a daily basis, over an equinoctial neap to spring to neap tidal period, in conjunction with boundary layer flow measurements. Tracer experiments were conducted to study the dispersion of sediment from the sandwave crest. The results showed that the sandwave was relatively stable at neap tides, whilst at higher tidal ranges, the crest position oscillated with successive flood and ebb tides. Net flank erosion occurred on the less steep, upstream slope during the dominant ebb tide. This, together with increased deposition on the lee slope, caused the crest to advance. It was not possible to extrapolate sandwave migration over long periods as the tidal dynamic trends were interrupted by wind stress and surface wave activity. High particle orbital velocities, generated at the sea-bed by storm waves, caused major reductions in crestal heights. Calculated volumes of sediment eroded and accreted were used, with boundary layer flow measurements, to calculate threshold velocities for the movement of the sediment and sediment transport rates. 相似文献
11.
José D. Carriquiry Julio A. Villaescusa Víctor Camacho-Ibar L. Walter Daesslé Pedro G. Castro-Castro 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2011,62(7):1407-1418
During the last century, the Colorado River delta (CRD) has been dramatically altered by the diversion of river water for
use in human activities. This alteration has eliminated the delivery of fresh water to the Gulf of California radically transforming
the former estuary into an inverse-estuary. Under the new conditions, the new materials budget was estimated at the mouth
of the Colorado River in terms of salts, total suspended sediments, organic suspended matter and nutrients. The results of
this study show that, because of the asymmetry of the tidal wave, the variability of seston concentration follows a sedimentation
pattern of three successive stages: re-suspension (erosion at ebb flow) > dilution (during flood flow) > sedimentation (at
the end of the flood stage). The tidal asymmetry during neap tides was characterized by longer ebb (at least, 30 min longer)
than flood and more intense ebb currents (as much as 43% higher), hence characterizing an ebb-dominated system. The CRD is
characterized by high nutrients concentrations. Maximal levels are: nitrates (41 μM), phosphates (2.6 μM) and silicates (68 μM),
nitrite (15 μM). The mass balance indicates that the system acts as a net exporter of suspended sediment with rates as high
as 7 tons per tidal cycle. This behavior indicates that the CRD is in a destructive stage as a result of the lack of freshwater
inflow and supply of sediment into the system. 相似文献
12.
Suspended sediment fluxes in a tidal wetland: Measurement, controlling factors, and error analysis 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Suspended sediment fluxes to and from tidal wetlands are of increasing concern because of habitat restoration efforts, wetland
sustainability as sea level rises, and potential contaminant accumulation. We measured water and sediment fluxes through two
channels on Browns Island, at the landward end of San Francisco Bay, United States, to determine the factors that control
sediment fluxes on and off the island. In situ instrumentation was deployed between October 10 and November 13, 2003. Acoustic
Doppler current profilers and the index velocity method were employed to calculate water fluxes. Suspended sediment concentrations
(SSC) were determined with optical sensors and cross-sectional water sampling. All procedures were analyzed for their contribution
to total error in the flux measurement. The inability to close the water balance and determination of constituent concentration
were identified as the main sources of error; total error was 27% for net sediment flux. The water budget for the island was
computed, with an unaccounted input of 0.20 m3s−1 (22% of mean inflow), after considering channel flow, change in water storage, evapotranspiration, and precipitation. The
net imbalance may be a combination of groundwater seepage, overland flow, and flow through minor channels. Change of island
water storage, caused by local variations in water surface elevation, dominated the tidally averaged water flux. These variations
were mainly caused by wind and barometric pressure change, which alter regional water levels throughout the Sacramento-San
Joaquin River Delta. Peak instantaneous ebb flow was 35% greater than peak flood flow, indicating an ebbdominant system, though
dominance varied with the spring-neap cycle. SSC were controlled by wind-wave resuspension adjacent to the island and local
tidal currents that mobilized sediment from the channel bed. During neap tides sediment was imported onto the island but during
spring tides sediment was exported because the main channel became ebb dominant. Over the 34-d monitoring period 14,000 kg
of suspended sediment were imported through the two channels. The water imbalance may affect the sediment balance if the unmeasured
water transport pathways are capable of transporting large amounts of sediment. We estimate a maximum of 2,800 kg of sediment
may have been exported through unmeasured pathways, giving a minimum ent import of 11,200 kg. Sediment flux measurements provide
insight on tidal to fortnightly marsh sedimentation processes, especially in complex systems where sedimentation is spatially
and temporally variable. 相似文献
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The evolution of a front that forms inshore of the main Chesapeake Bay plume, near Cape Henry, Virginia, United States, was
observed during a period of downwelling-favorable winds in May 1999. A novel aspect of this study was the use of an underway,
horizontally-oriented acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) to map the front and to study its evolving shape. Measurements
made during flood tide show the front forming about 2 km from shore and then advancing shoreward (at about 20 cm s−1) over dense, inshore water. Measurements made while anchored 1 km from shore show the surface salinity increasing during
ebb tide, then abruptly decreasing during flood tide as the front moves inshore. To account for this cycle of events, a conceptual
model is proposed in which dense water upwells to the surface during ebb tide near Cape Henry, helping to set the stage for
frontal formation on the flood. The cyclic recurrence of this Cape Henry front so close to the mouth of the bay may provide
a mechanism for recirculating estuarine material that would otherwise be transported southward in the coastal buoyancy current. 相似文献
14.
The Mfolozi Estuary on the KwaZulu-Natal coast of South Africa is the most turbid estuary in Natal due to poor catchment
management, leading to large quantities of suspended particulate matter (SPM) entering the estuary from the Mfolozi River.
This paper quantities some of the solute and sediment dynamics in the Mfolozi Estuary where the main documented environmental
concern is the periodic input of SPM from the Mfolozi Estuary to the St. Lucia system, causing reduction of light penetration
and endangering biological productivity in this important nature reserve. Synoptic water level results have allowed reach
mean bed shear stresses and velocities to be calculated for an observed neap tidal cycle. Results indicate that ebb velocities
dominate the sediment transport processes in the estuary when fluvial input in the Mfolozi River is of the order of 15–20
m3 s–1. Observed and predicted flood tide velocities are too low (<0.35 m s–1) to suspend and transport significant amounts of SPM. Observed results indicate that although the SPM load entering the estuary
is dominantly from the Mfolozi River, the Msunduzi River flow plays a major role in the composition of the estuary's salinity
and velocity fields. It is calculated that the Mfolozi Estuary would fill with sediment in 1.3 years if it was cut off from
the sea. The major fluvial flood events help maintain the estuary by periodically pushing sediment seawards (spit progrades
seawards 5 m yr–1) and scouring and maintaining the main flow channel in the estuary. During low fluvial flow conditions, tidal flow velocities
will become the dominant control on sediment transport in the estuary. Interchange of SPM between the St. Lucia and Mfolozi
estuaries under present conditions is complicated by the strong transverse velocity shear between the two systems at their
combined mouth. This is creating a salinity-maintained axial convergence front that suppresses mixing of solutes and SPM between
the systems for up to 10 h of the tidal cycle during observed conditions.
Received: 22 May 1995 · Accepted: 31 July 1995 相似文献
15.
长江口表层沉积物粒度时空分布特征 总被引：16，自引：3，他引：16
结合近期长江口558个表层沉积物采样资料，分析了长江口表层沉积物时空分布特性，得到了近期长江口表层沉积物中值粒径和沉积物类型分布特征。横沙以上海域表层沉积物粒径洪枯季变化较小；浑浊带海域洪季粗，枯季细；口外海域则枯季粗，洪季细。横沙以上和口外海域沉积物类型洪枯季变化较小，浑浊带海域沉积物类型变化较复杂。无论洪枯季北港表层沉积物最粗，北槽次之，南槽最小。表层沉积物大小潮变化较小，两次采样平均差别为9.7％；沉积物年际变化随大通流量和输沙量的变化而变化。近十五年来，长江口表层沉积物类型变化较大的区域主要是北支上段、南北港分流口、北槽和南槽浑浊带海域，主要与河槽的自然演变和人类活动有关。结合Pejrup新三角图对长江口各沉积动力环境进行分区，对比各沉积环境亚区的粒度特征，并对黄河口、长江口、珠江口表层沉积物粒度参数进行对比。 相似文献
16.
Data are presented from several experiments in the freshwater-saltwater interface (FSI) region of the Tamar Estuary. Longitudinal surveys of salinity and suspended particulate matter (SPM) at high water showed that the location of the FSI could be predicted in terms of a power-law regression with freshwater runoff. Longitudinal transects also were surveyed over periods of several hours. The FSI was observed to advect into the region on the flood with strong vertical mixing. After high water, stratification became intense as fresher water ebbed in the surface layers. The near-bed water in the stratified region began to ebb between 2 h and 3 h before low water. A model of the vertical structure of longitudinal currents showed that the enhanced stratification on the ebb, coupled with the longitudinal density gradient, partly produced this long period of slack, near-bed currents following high water. A strong turbidity maximum (TM) occurred during spring tides and was located slightly up-estuary of the FSI at high water. Longitudinal transects during a period of low freshwater runoff and large neap tide showed that at the start of the flood the TM was associated with the FSI region. As the FSI advected up-estuary on the flood there was considerable resuspension of sediment at the FSI. Some of this SPM moved with the FSI and reached the limit of saline intrusion, where it formed a slowly-eroding TM as particles settled during the long, high-water slack period. As the near-bed currents increased on the ebb and the FSI moved down-estuary, strong vertical mixing and resuspension of recently deposited sediment occurred in the unstratified water behind the FSI and the associated TM advected down-estuary. Additional effects were present with stronger tides and increased runoff. 相似文献
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Evolution and mechanics of a Miocene tidal sandwave 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
A remarkable exposure of Miocene marine molasse in western Switzerland records the evolution of a tidal sandwave over a period of approximately 2 1/2 months. The sandwave is composed of tidal ‘bundles’ in which a sandwave reactivation stage and full vortex stage can be recognized for the dominant flow (ebb tide) and a rippled flood apron overlain by high water drape for the reversed flow. Bundle thicknesses vary systematically through neap–spring cycles, with a periodicity of 27 demonstrating the semi-diurnal lunar control of sedimentation. Waves were an additional component, especially when superimposed on flood tides, producing near-symmetrical combined-flow ripple marks in the flood apron. Tidal current velocities are estimated using critical shear velocities for entrainment, the ripple-dune transition and the dune-plane bed transition. Using appropriate estimates of roughness lengths and a logarithmic velocity law, maximum tidal speeds at 1 m above the bed were approximately 0·6 m sec?1 for ebbs and up to 0·5 m sec?1 for floods. The enhancement by waves of bed shear stress (τwc/τ of approximately 2 for 1 m high waves) under flood currents implies flood tidal velocities closer to 0·2–0·3 m sec?1. Peak instantaneous bedload sediment transport rates using a modified Bagnold equation are nearly 5 times greater under ebb tides than floods. The average net sediment transport rate at springs (0·04 kg m?1 sec?1) is over 10 times greater than at neaps (0·002 kg m?1 sec?1). Comparison with transport rates in modern tidal environments suggests that the marine molasse of Switzerland was deposited under spatially confined and relatively swift tidal flows not dissimilar to those of the present Dutch tidal estuaries. 相似文献
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Luiz Bruner de Miranda Belmiro Mendes de Castro Björn Kjerfve 《Estuaries and Coasts》1998,21(2):204-214
Bertioga Channel is a partially mixed (type 2) tidal estuary on the coastal plain of São Paulo, Brazil. Hourly current and salinity measurements during neap and spring tides in July 1991 yielded information about the physical structure of the system. Peak along-channel velocities varied from 40 cm s?1 to 60 cm s?1 during flood tides and from 70 cm s?1 to 100 cm s?1 during ebb tides. Net vertical velocity profiles indicate that the net current reverses directions at a depth of 2.5–3.0 m in the halocline. Due to appreciable fortnightly tidal modulation, the estuary alternates from being highly stratified (type 2b) during neap tides, with advection and diffusion contributing equally to the net upstream salt flux, to being moderately stratified (type 2a) during spring tides, when 90% of the net upstream salt transport is the result of effective tidal diffusion. Decomposition of the salt flux indicates that the relative contribution to the upstream salt transport by gravitational circulation shear is greater than the oscillatory tidal flux by a factor of 2.6 during neap tides. The oscillatory tidal flux is generated by the correlation of the tidal components of the u-velocity and salinity and is responsible for approximately the same amount of upstream salt transport, during neap and spring tides. However, during spring tides, this oscillatory term is greater than the other salt flux terms by a factor of 1.4. The total salt transport, through a unit width of the section perpendicular to the flow, was within 2% of the sum of the seven major decomposed, advective and dispersive terms. On the assumption that the Bertioga Channel is laterally homogeneous, the results also indicate that the estuary is not in steady state with respect to salt flux. 相似文献
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Using both the photosynthetically active chlorophylla (chla) content of the organic carbon fraction of suspended particulate matter (chla/POC) and the percentage of photosynthetically, active chla in fluorometrically measured chla plus pheophytina (% chla), we determined that under specified hydrodynamic conditions, neap-spring tidal differentiation in particle dynamics could
be observed in the Columbia River estuary. During summer time neap tides, when river discharge was moderate, bottom chla/POC remained relatively unchanged from riverine chla/POC over the full 0–30 psu salinity range, suggesting a benign trapping environment. During summertime spring tides, bottom
chla/POC decreased at mid range salinities indicating resuspension of chla-poor POC during flood-ebb transitions. Bottom % chla during neap tides tended to average higher than that during spring tides, suggesting that neap particles were more recently
hydrodynamically trapped than those on the spring tides. Such differentiation supported the possibility of operation of a
particle conveyor belt process, a process in which low-amplitude neap tides favor selective particle trapping in estuarine
turbidity maxima (ETM)., while high-amplitude spring tides favor particle resuspension from the ETM. Untrapped river-derived
particles at the surface would continue through the estuary to the coastal ocean on the neap tide; during spring tide some
particles eroded from the ETM would combine with unsettled riverine particles in transit toward the ocean. Because in tensified
biogeochemical activity is associated with ETM, these neap-spring differences may be critical to maintenance and renewal of
populations and processes in the estuary. Very high river discharge (15, 000 m3 s−1) tended to overwhelm neap-spring differences, and significant oceanic input during very low river discharge (5,000 m3 s−1) tended to do the same in the estuarine channel most exposed to ocean input. During heavy springtime phytoplankton blooms,
development of a thick bottom fluff layer rich in chla also appeared to negate neapspring differentiation because spring tides apparently acted to resuspend the same rich bottom
material that was laid down during neap tides. When photosynthetic assimilation numbers [μgC (μgchl,a)−1h−1] were measured across, the full salinity range, no neap-spring differences and no river discharge effects occurred, indicating
that within our suite of measurements the compositional distinction of suspended particulate material was mainly a function
of chla/POC, and to a lesser extent % chla. Even though these measurements suggest the existence of a conveyor belt process, proof of actual operation of this phenomenon
requires scalar flux measurements of chla properties in and out of the ETM on both neap and spring tides. 相似文献
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The Humber Estuary, UK, divides into the Ouse and Trent estuaries at the so-called Apex within its upper reaches. Remotely sensed Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) images and boat measurements were used to observe a strong turbidity maximum in the upper Humber and Ouse during a spring tide in November 1995. Surface suspended particulate matter (SPM) concentrations during the late ebb, as estimated from the CASI data, increased from approximately 6 to 13 g I−1 moving up-estuary into the Ouse. Greater SPM concentrations (∼10 g I−1) were evident in the deeper channels of the Ouse, compared with shallower areas, possibly due to faster ebb currents there and differential down-estuary advection of the turbidity maximum. Ribbons, or streaks, of lower SPM and slightly cooler waters were observed. It appears that slightly cooler and lower turbidity waters from the confluent Trent estuary remained fairly distinct for distances of approximately 2 km down-stream of its confluence with the upper Humber and Ouse. These waters eventually broke into ribbon-like or streak-like structures within the higher SPM-laden and slightly warmer waters of the Humber. They were discernible for more than 5 km down-estuary of the confluence of the Humber, Ouse, and Trent. Boat measurements showed that the turbidity maximum occurred over a fairly restricted region of the upper Humber, between about 20 to 50 km from the tidal limit at high water. The turbidity maximum’s sediment load was largely suspended in the water column during stronger currents. SPM rapidly settled close to the bed during high water and low water slack periods. At these times, SPM concentrations in a thin, near-bed layer were >60 g I−1 in the turbidity maximum region of the Ouse and >30 g 1−1 in the upper Humber (where channel volumes were much greater). SPM within the turbidity maximum comprised very fine-grained material and its low organic content demonstrated that the SPM was essentially mineral, clastic sediment derived originally from erosion and decay of crustal rocks. 相似文献