Thermoconvective instabilities in a vertical cylinder of water with maximum density effects part 1. Experiments     

M. A. Azouni  C. Normand 《地球物理与天体物理流体动力学》2013,107(3):209-222

Abstract

Thermoconvective instabilities were investigated in cylindrical water layers under a 0-4° C vertical temperature gradient. For aspect ratios (height/diameter) ranging from 0.3 to 5.7. angular flow patterns were deduced from thermocouple measurements. The first two diametrically antisymmetrical modes (n=l,2) were detected in the steady and unsteady regime. Slow oscillatory motions with a characteristic time of severals hours were found for aspect ratios (height/diameter) larger than 2. The Fourier analysis of the angular temperature distribution at regular time intervals yields the result that the vertical nodal planes rotate around the cylinder axis in the oscillatory regime. A physical mechanism is suggested to explain the occurrence of such oscillatory instability.  相似文献   

Downscaling the hydrological cycle in the Mackenzie basin with the Canadian regional climate model     

Murray D. MacKay  Ronald E. Stewart  Guy Bergeron 《大气与海洋》2013,51(3):179-211

Abstract

The Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM) has been nested within the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis ‘ second generation General Circulation Model (GCM), for a single month simulation over the Mackenzie River Basin and environs. The purpose of the study is to assess the ability of the higher resolution CRCM to downscale the hydrological cycle of the nesting GCM. A second 1‐month experiment, in which the CRCM was nested within analyzed fields of a global data assimilation system, was also performed to examine the sensitivity of the basin moisture budget to atmospheric lateral boundary forcing.

We have found that the CRCM can produce realistic lee cyclogenesis, preferentially in the Liard sub‐basin, along with associated circulation and precipitation patterns, as well as an improved rainshadow in the lee of the Rocky Mountains compared to the GCM. While these features do quantitatively affect the monthly average climate statistics, the basin scale moisture budgets of the models were remarkably similar, though some of this agreement is due to compensating errors in the GCM. Both models produced excessive precipitation compared to a recent climatology for the region, the cause of which is traced to lateral boundary forcing. A second experiment, identical to the first except that the CRCM was forced with analyzed fields at the lateral boundaries, produced a qualitatively different basin moisture budget, including a much more realistic precipitation field. Errors in the moisture budget of the first experiment appear to be associated with the poor representation of the Aleutian Low in the GCM, and do not appear to be strongly connected to (local) surface processes within the models. This suggests that an effective strategy for modelling the hydrological cycle of the Mackenzie Basin on the fast climate timescale ‐ a major requirement of the Mackenzie GEWEX Study ‐ will involve nesting the CRCM within analyzed (or re‐analyzed) atmospheric fields.  相似文献   

A vessel‐deployed passive postlarval collector to assess settlement of the American lobster Homarus americanus     

Richard A. Wahle  Carl Wilson  Matthew Parkhurst  Charlene E. Bergeron 《新西兰海洋与淡水研究杂志》2013,47(1):465-474

Passive collectors are used widely in postlarval settlement and recruitment monitoring of spiny lobsters and crabs, but they have only been used in a limited way with clawed lobsters. For nearly two decades, diver‐based suction sampling has served to monitor spatial‐temporal patterns of American lobster (Homarus americanus) postlarval settlement and early juvenile abundance in shallow near‐shore nurseries. Collectors could reveal settlement patterns in zones beyond the practical limits of diving. In 2005, we launched a fisher‐scientist collaboration to evaluate the performance of passive collectors designed to extend the reach of sampling, and to be deployable from a vessel equipped with a standard pot‐hauler. Building on previous designs, our collectors comprised wire mesh trays lined with fine screening on the floor and walls and filled with cobble to simulate natural nursery habitat. Results indicate that no newly settled lobsters were lost during the retrieval process, and densities of young‐of‐year lobsters found in the collectors were similar to those in directly adjacent natural cobble habitat sampled by divers with suction samplers. The collectors also proved to be effective samplers of juvenile fish and crabs, suggesting a possibility for wider application. This success bodes well for expanded deployment of cobble collectors to broaden our understanding of the recruitment processes of lobster and other cobble‐dwelling fauna along the coast of New England, United States and Atlantic Canada.  相似文献   

A field method for the concurrent measurement of fine sediment content and embryo survival in artificial salmonid redds     

Mylne Levasseur  Francis Brub  Normand E. Bergeron 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2006,31(4):526-530

The infiltration cube method presented in this paper allows concurrent field measurement of fine sediment content and embryo survival in an incubating environment reproducing, as closely as possible, the morphology and grain size composition of a natural salmonid redd. An infiltration cube is made up of a rectangular (30 cm square and 20 cm high) steel frame with no walls, which has a folded plastic bag attached to its base. Each infiltration cube is buried in the substrate using a procedure aimed at reproducing, as closely as possible, the construction and morpho‐sedimentological structure of a natural salmonid redd. Using a tripod installed on the river bed or at the surface of the ice, the infiltration cube method provides a quick, easy and robust way to pull relatively large samples (approximately 65 kg) out of underwater substrate even during tough winter field conditions. The absence of walls on the cube also precludes bias in infiltration rates by both allowing lateral sediment transport within substrate and preventing loss of fine particles during retrieval from underwater. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Premiers résultats d'une étude géophysique sur le flanc nord des glissements de Storegga (Norvège)     

Hervé Nouzé  Isabelle Contrucci  Jean-Paul Foucher  Bruno Marsset  Yannick Thomas  Estelle Thereau  Alain Normand  Éliane Le Drezen  Stéphane Didailler  Jean-Pierre Regnault  Sandie Le Conte  Stéphanie Guidart  Wim Lekens  Simon Dean  Alexandre Throo 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2004,336(13):1181-1189

The Storegga slides, off Norway, are among the largest submarine slides ever known on a continental slope. The HYDRATECH cruise on N/O Le Suroît aimed at a high-resolution survey of an area at the northern boundary of the slides. This survey images in great detail the bottom simulating reflector (BSR) extent and properties, the various fluid escape structures and the sediment deformations. The combination and the quality of the data help to understand the still poorly constrained relationships between fluid escapes, gas hydrates and slope stability in the survey area. To cite this article: H. Nouzé et al., C. R. Geoscience 336 (2004).  相似文献   

Finite Prandtl number 2-D convection at high Rayleigh numbers     

Catherine A. Hier Majumder  David A. Yuen  Erik O. Sevre  John M. Boggs  Stephen Y. Bergeron 《Visual Geosciences》2002,7(1):1-53

Finite Prandtl number thermal convection is important to the dynamics of planetary bodies in the solar system. For example, the complex geology on the surface of the Jovian moon Europa is caused by a convecting, brine-rich global ocean that deforms the overlying icy “lithosphere”. We have conducted a systematic study on the variations of the convection style, as Prandtl numbers are varied from 7 to 100 at Rayleigh numbers 106 and 108. Numerical simulations show that changes in the Prandtl number could exert significant effects on the shear flow, the number of convection cells, the degree of layering in the convection, and the number and size of the plumes in the convecting fluid. We found that for a given Rayleigh number, the convection style can change from single cell to layered convection, for increasing Prandtl number from 7 to 100. These results are important for determining the surface deformation on the Jovian moon Europa. They also have important implications for surface heat flow on Europa, and for the interior heat transfer of the early Earth during its magma ocean phase. Electronic Supplementary Material is available if you access this article at . On that page (frame on the left side), a link takes you directly to the supplementary material. Electronic Supplementary Material is available if you access this article at . On that page (frame on the left side), a link takes you directly to the supplementary material.  相似文献   

Use of carbon rather than dry weight to assess the DNA content and nutritional condition index of sole larvae   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

Bergeron  Jean-Pierre; Ruyet  Jeannine Person-Le; Koutsikopoulos  Constantin 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》1997,54(1):148-151

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Scale-space analysis of stream-bed roughness in coarse gravel-bed streams     

Normand E. Bergeron 《Mathematical Geology》1996,28(5):537-561

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Do river discharge rates drive the overall functioning of the pelagic ecosystem over the continental shelf of the Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic)? A comparison of two contrasting years with special reference to anchovy (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Engraulis encrasicolus</Emphasis> L.) nutritional state     

Jean-Pierre Bergeron  Daniel Delmas  Noussithé Koueta 《Journal of Oceanography》2010,66(5):621-631

In the 2000 and 2001 springtime periods, mesozooplankton samples were systematically taken during research cruises devoted to the study of the distribution and abundance of small pelagic fishes in the French part of the Bay of Biscay, NE Atlantic, continental shelf. Simultaneous activities of three enzymes were measured in these mesozooplankton samples, to characterize the main features of ecosystem function at a regional scale. The aim was to assess assimilation rates of carbohydrates, through pyruvate kinase activity, and protein, through trypsin activity, by the mesozooplankton community and the resulting overall productivity, through aspartate transcarbamylase activity. The highest influence on the pelagic environment was the strong difference in the freshwater outflow rates from the two main large rivers, the Loire and the Gironde, which was principally responsible for the inter-annual fluctuations of the nutrients in the Bay. This overall influence of river flow results in a characteristic pattern of sea-surface salinity, which was reflected by the phytoplankton biomass distribution. Mesozooplankton enzyme activities showed high variations between the two years. The contrast in the dynamics of the pelagic food web processes between the two consecutive years, with higher activity in 2001, affected the nutritional condition of the zooplanktivorous breeding anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus.  相似文献