The effect of groundwater on topographic changes in a gravel beach     

Kwang-Ho Lee  Norimi Mizutani  Dong-Soo Hur  Atsushi Kamiya 《Ocean Engineering》2007,34(3-4):605-615

In recent years, several attempts to stabilize the beach by control of the percolation of water have been proposed. However, morphodynamics in the surf zone is still not clear because of the complexity of wave actions and sediment transport. Especially, there is a little research on gravel beach morphodynamics including wave breaking in the surf zone. The present study investigates experimentally how groundwater level influences topographic changes in a gravel beach and simulates numerically the wave fields and flow patterns in the surf zone, considering the porosity of the media and the presence of groundwater. In experiments, water-level control tank was designed to control the simulated groundwater elevation and the wave flume was divided into two parts to maintain a constant mean water level. The experimental results show that the berm formed in the upper portion of the shoreline moves up the beach as the groundwater level falls and the lower the groundwater level, the steeper the beach surface. The numerical model was developed to clarify these features capable of simulating the difference of groundwater and mean water level. Numerical results showed different flow patterns due to the groundwater elevation; wave run-up weakens and wave run-down strengthens by the seaward currents caused by elevated groundwater. These deformations of the flow pattern explain well how the beach profile is affected by the groundwater elevation.  相似文献   

Latitudinal Differences in the Planktonic Biomass and Community Structure Down to the Greater Depths in the Western North Pacific     

Atsushi Yamaguchi  Yuji Watanabe  Hiroshi Ishida  Takashi Harimoto  Kazushi Furusawa  Shinya Suzuki  Joji Ishizaka  Tsutomu Ikeda  Masayuki Mac Takahashi 《Journal of Oceanography》2004,60(4):773-787

As part of the research program WEST-COSMIC Phase I (1997–2001), vertical profiles down to the greater depths (0–2000 m or 5800 m) of the plankton community structure composed of heterotrophic bacteria, phytoplankton, protozooplankton and metazooplankton were studied at one station in each subarctic (44°N) and in transitional region (39°N), and two stations in subtropical region (30°N and 25°N); all in 137–155°E in the western North Pacific Ocean. The biomass of all four taxonomic groups decreased rapidly with increasing depths at all stations, although the magnitude of depth-related decrease differed among the groups. As plankton community structure, metazooplankton biomass and bacterial biomass occupied >50% of the total in 0–2000 and 2000–4000 or 5000 m strata, respectively, at subarctic and transitional stations, while bacterial biomass contributed to >50% of the total consistently from 0 through 4800 or 5800 m at subtropical stations. Metazooplankton biomass integrated over the greater depths exhibited a clear latitudinal pattern (high north and low south), but this was not the case for those of the other taxonomic groups. As a component of metazooplankton, an appreciable contribution of diapausing copepods to the metazooplankton was noted at subarctic and transitional stations, but they were few or nil at subtropical stations. As protozooplankton assemblages, heterotrophic microflagellates (HMF) and dinoflagellates were two major components at subarctic and transitional stations, but were only HMF predominated at subtropical stations. From biomass ratios between heterotrophic bacteria, HMF and dinoflagellates, “sinking POC-DOC-heterotrophic bacteria-HMF-heterotrophic dinoflagellates” link was proposed as a microbial food chain operative in the deep layer of the western North Pacific. All results are discussed in the light of latitudinal differences in the structure and functioning of plankton community contributing to the ‘biological pump’ in the western North Pacific Ocean. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

The temperature effect on the development of Calanoid copepod,Acartia tsuensis,with some comments to morphogenesis     

Takashi Takahashi  Atsushi Ohno 《Journal of Oceanography》1996,52(1):125-137

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A Numerical Study of Turbulence Statistics and the Structure of a Spatially-Developing Boundary Layer Over a Realistic Urban Geometry     

Atsushi Inagaki  Manabu Kanda  Nurul Huda Ahmad  Ayako Yagi  Naoyuki Onodera  Takayuki Aoki 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2017,163(2):161-177

Sonic anemometer measurements are analyzed from two primary field programs and 12 supplementary sites to examine the behaviour of the turbulent heat flux near the surface with high wind speeds in the nocturnal boundary layer. On average, large downward heat flux is found for high wind speeds for most of the sites where some stratification is maintained in spite of relatively intense vertical mixing. The stratification for high wind speeds is found to be dependent on wind direction, suggesting the importance of warm-air advection, even for locally homogenous sites. Warm-air advection is also inferred from a large imbalance of the heat budget of the air for strong winds. Shortcomings of our study are noted.  相似文献   

Fractal distribution of an oceanic copepodNeocalanus cristatus in the subarctic pacific     

Atsushi Tsuda 《Journal of Oceanography》1995,51(3):261-266

Horizontal distribution of the copepodNeocalanus cristatus was shown to be fractal on the scale between tens of meters and over 100 km. The fractal dimensions ranged between 1.68–1.89, significantly higher than those of oceanic turbulence and phytoplankton distribution.  相似文献   

Mineral distribution within polymineralic veins in the Sanbagawa belt,Japan: implications for mass transfer during vein formation     

Atsushi Okamoto  Taketo Kikuchi  Noriyoshi Tsuchiya 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2008,156(3):323-336

Pelitic schists of the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt contain several types of polymineralic veins that formed during the late stages of exhumation. The vein mineral assemblages are quartz + albite + K-feldspar + chlorite ± calcite (Type I, II) and quartz + albite + calcite (Type III). Type I and II veins contain quartz and albite with stretched-crystal and elongate-blocky textures, respectively. The mineral species within Type I veins vary with compositional bands within the host rocks. Type III veins are characterized by euhedral to subhedral quartz grains with concentric zoning and a homogeneous distribution along the vein length. The vein textures vary depending on the crack aperture during multiple crack-seal events: <0.08 mm for Type I, and 0.5–10 mm for Type III. Type II veins show intermediate features between Type I and III veins in terms of mineral distribution (weak dependence on the host rock composition) and apparent crack aperture (less than 1–15 mm). These observations suggest a transition in the dominant transport mechanism of vein components with increasing crack aperture, from diffusion from host rocks to fluid advection along cracks.  相似文献   

Tropical cyclone activity in nested regional and global grid-refined simulations     

Atsushi Hashimoto  James M. Done  Laura D. Fowler  Cindy L. Bruyère 《Climate Dynamics》2016,47(1-2):497-508

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Impact of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami on zooplankton community in Otsuchi Bay,northeastern Japan     

Yuichiro Nishibe  Hiroshi Isami  Hideki Fukuda  Shuhei Nishida  Toshi Nagata  Aiko Tachibana  Atsushi Tsuda 《Journal of Oceanography》2016,72(1):77-90

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The roles of fluid transport and surface reaction in reaction-induced fracturing,with implications for the development of mesh textures in serpentinites     

Hiroyuki Shimizu  Atsushi Okamoto 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2016,171(8-9):73

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Vertical changes in abundance,biomass and community structure of copepods down to 3000 m in the southern Bering Sea     

Tomoe Homma  Atsushi Yamaguchi 《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2010,57(8):965-977

Vertical changes in abundance, biomass and community structure of copepods down to 3000 m depth were studied at a single station of the Aleutian Basin of the Bering Sea (53°28′N, 177°00′W, depth 3779 m) on the 14th June 2006. Both abundance and biomass of copepods were greatest near the surface layer and decreased with increase in depth. Abundance and biomass of copepods integrated over 0–3000 m were 1,390,000 inds. m^?2 and 5056 mg C m^?2, respectively. Copepod carcasses occurred throughout the layer, and the carcass:living specimen ratio was the greatest in the oxygen minimum layer (750–100 m, the ratio was 2.3). A total of 72 calanoid copepod species belonging to 34 genera and 15 families occurred in the 0–3000 m water column (Cyclopoida, Harpacticoida and Poecilostomatoida were not identified to species level). Cluster analysis separated calanoid copepod communities into 5 groups (A–E). Each group was separated by depth, and the depth range of each group was at 0–75 m (A), 75–500 m (B), 500–750 m (C), 750–1500 m (D) and 1500–3000 m (E). Copepods were divided into four types based on the feeding pattern: suspension feeders, suspension feeders in diapause, detritivores and carnivores. In terms of abundance the most dominant group was suspension feeders (mainly Cyclopoida) in the epipelagic zone, and detritivores (mainly Poecilostomatoida) were dominant in the meso- and bathypelagic zones. In terms of biomass, suspension feeders in diapause (calanoid copepods Neocalanus spp. and Eucalanus bungii) were the major component (ca. 10–45%), especially in the 250–3000 m depth. These results are compared with the previous studies in the same region and that down to greater depths in the worldwide oceans.  相似文献