Wind-wave variability in a shallow tidal sea—Spectral modelling combined with neural network methods     

Agnieszka Herman  Ralf Kaiser  Hanz D. Niemeyer 《Coastal Engineering》2009

In this paper the wind-wave variability in the tidal basins of the German Wadden Sea is modelled with combined numerical and neural-network (NN) methods. First, the wave propagation and transformation in the study area are modelled with the state-of-the-art third-generation spectral wave model SWAN. The ability of SWAN to accurately reproduce the phenomena of interest in nonstationary conditions governed by highly variable winds, water levels and currents is shown by comparisons of the modelled and measured mean wave parameters at four stations. The principal component analysis of the SWAN results is then used to reveal the dominating spatial patterns in the data and to reduce their dimensionality, thus enabling an efficient and relatively straightforward NN modelling of mean wave parameters in the whole study area. It is shown that the data produced with the approach developed in this work have statistical properties (discrete probability distributions of the mean wave parameters etc.) very close to the properties of the data obtained with SWAN, thus proving that this approach can be used as a reliable tool for wind wave simulation in coastal areas, complementary to (often computationally demanding) spectral wave models.  相似文献   

HydrIS:一个用于地下水管理的开放的GIS决策支持系统——以Morocco为例(英文)   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

JARAR OULIDI Hassane  LWNER Ralf  BENAABIDATE Lahcen  WCHTER Joachim 《地球空间信息科学学报》2009,12(3):212-216

A regional groundwater management system has been elaborated, integrating Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) and various web services. It consists of web geospatial application so-called HydrIS ( Hydrogeological Information System) based on Open Source components and technologies, leading to a feasible and low-cost solution. Therefore, HydrIS permits delivery of data from a number of heterogeneous sources to standards supported by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The protocols used for exchanging data are also derived from OGC standards, i.e., WMS (Web Mapping Service), WFS (Web Feature Service), and WCS (Web Coverage Service). Finally, a geoportal was developed, which consists of client-applications that communicate with different Web Services (WMS, WCS, and WFS) through http-requests. A prototype for web-based GIS application was designed using the deegree Framework to provide systematic interfaces and functions. This system was developed to demonstrate the value of making hydrogeological data more widely accessible through client/server architecture. This experience and knowledge already gained in this project will be a source for technology transfer and policy decisions. Otherwise, this will enable user groups to improve the management of their groundwater resources and contribute to enhanced decision support capabilities.   相似文献   

Analysis of dune erosion processes in large-scale flume experiments   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

J.S.M. van Thiel de Vries  M.R.A. van Gent  D.J.R. Walstra  A.J.H.M. Reniers   《Coastal Engineering》2008,55(12):1028-1040

Large-scale physical model tests were conducted with different wave periods to examine the physical processes driving dune erosion. The model tests have been carried out in a flume (2DV) with a sandy dune exposed to extreme surge and wave conditions [Van Gent, M.R.A., Van Thiel de Vries, J.S.M., Coeveld, E.M., De Vroeg, J.H. and Van de Graaff, J., 2008. Large-scale dune erosion tests to study the effect of wave periods. Coastal Engineering. doi:10.1016/j.coastaleng.2008.04.003.]. Detailed measurements in time and space of water pressure, flow velocities and sediment concentrations were performed in the near shore area. The data revealed that both short- and long waves are important to inner surf hydrodynamics. Depth averaged flows are directed offshore and increase towards the shore line. The corresponding mean sediment concentrations rise sharply towards the dune face (up to 50 g/l near the bed). The strong increase in the mean sediment concentration towards the dune face correlates well with the maximum wave surface slope which in turn is coupled to both the pressure gradient and the near-bed wave-breaking induced turbulence. Analysis shows that the pressure gradient is only partially coupled to the flow acceleration suggesting that the latter cannot always be used as a proxy for the first. Weak correlation is obtained with the near-bed flows related to the bed shear stress. Tests with a larger wave period resulted in a larger dune erosion volume. During these tests more wave energy (combined incident and infragravity waves) reached the dune face, but more importantly, this wave energy is dissipated by fewer waves resulting in more intense wave breakers and steeper wave fronts. It is therefore expected that the wave-breaking induced near-bed turbulence increases resulting in significantly higher (O(100%)) mean sediment concentrations. In addition the mean flow velocities are comparable, yielding a substantially larger offshore directed sediment transport capacity. This increase in offshore directed transport is only partially compensated by a concurrent increase in the wave related onshore transport capacity associated with intrawave processes, resulting in a net increase in the dune erosion rate.  相似文献   

Early Archean spherule layers from the Barberton Greenstone Belt,South Africa: Mineralogy and geochemistry of the spherule beds in the CT3 drill core          下载免费PDF全文

Seda Ozdemir  Toni Schulz  Christian Koeberl  Wolf Uwe Reimold  Tanja Mohr‐Westheide  Desiree Hoehnel  Ralf Thomas Schmitt 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2017,52(12):2586-2631

Little is known about the Hadean and the Archean impact record on Earth. In the CT3 drill core from the Fig Tree Group of the northern Barberton Greenstone Belt, 17 spherule layer intersections occur, which, provide an outstanding new opportunity to gain insights into meteorite bombardment of the early Earth. CT3 spherules, as primary features, mostly exhibit textural patterns similar to those of the other Barberton spherule layers, but locally mineralogical and chemical compositional differences are observed, likely as a result of various degrees of alteration. The observed mineralogy of the spherule layers is of secondary origin and comprises K‐feldspar, phyllosilicates, carbonates, sulfides, and oxides, with the exception of secondary Ni‐Cr spinel that is of primary origin. Our petrographic investigations suggest alteration by K‐metasomatism, sericitization, silicification, and carbonatization. Siderophile element contents of bulk samples show significant enrichments in Ni (up to 2 wt%) and Ir (up to ~3 ppm), similar to previously studied Archean spherule layers. These values are indicative of the presence of a meteoritic component. On the other hand, lithophile and chalcophile element abundances indicate hydrothermal overprint on the CT3 samples; this may also have influenced the redistribution of the meteoritic component(s). Last, we group the CT3 spherule layers, which occur in three intervals (A, B, and C), according to their petrographic and geochemical features, which indicate evidence for at least three distinct impact events before tectonic overprint that affected the original deposits.  相似文献   

Long-term statistics of potentially hazardous sea states in the North Sea 1958–2014     

Tobias Teich  Nikolaus Groll  Ralf Weisse 《Ocean Dynamics》2018,68(11):1559-1570

Significant wave height and mean wave period are two of the most commonly used parameters to describe wave climate, wave climate variability, and their potential long-term changes. While these parameters are generally useful to characterize the distribution of waves within a given sea state, they provide less information about potentially high-risk situations. Over the recent years, a number of criteria were suggested that are considered to better characterize high-risk situations and which could bear a potential for the development of safety warning indices. Based on a multi-decadal high-resolution wind-wave hindcast, a climatology of such parameters is developed for the North Sea covering the years 1958–2014. More specifically, average conditions, inter-annual variability and long-term changes for unusually steep, rapidly developing and crossing sea states are considered. Generally, there are pronounced spatial variations in the frequency of such sea states, while over time, there is some seasonal and inter-annual variability but no substantial long-term trend could be identified.  相似文献   

Noise transfer in variable‐depth streamer deghosting          下载免费PDF全文

Ralf Ferber  Dirk‐Jan van Manen 《Geophysical Prospecting》2017,65(4):903-912

Single‐component towed‐streamer marine data acquisition records the pressure variations of the upgoing compressional waves followed by the polarity‐reversed pressure variations of downgoing waves, creating sea‐surface ghost events in the data. The sea‐surface ghost for constant‐depth towed‐streamer marine data acquisition is usually characterised by a ghost operator acting on the upgoing waves, which can be formulated as a filtering process in the frequency–wavenumber domain. The deghosting operation, usually via the application of the inverse Wiener filter related to the ghost operator, acts on the signal as well as the noise. The noise power transfer into the deghosted data is proportional to the power spectrum of the inverse Wiener filter and is amplifying the noise strongly at the notch wavenumbers and frequencies of the ghost operator. For variable‐depth streamer acquisition, the sea‐surface ghost cannot be described any longer as a wavenumber–frequency operator but as a linear relationship between the wavenumber–frequency representation of the upgoing waves at the sea surface and the data in the space–frequency domain. In this article, we investigate how the application of the inverse process acts on noise. It turns out that the noise magnification is less severe with variable‐depth streamer data, as opposed to constant depth, and is inversely proportional to the local slant of the streamer. We support this statement via application of the deghosting process to real and numerical random noise. We also propose a more general concept of a wavenumber–frequency ghost power transfer function, applicable for variable‐depth streamer acquisition, and demonstrate that the inverse of the proposed variable‐depth ghost power transfer function can be used to approximately quantify the action of the variable‐depth streamer deghosting process on noise.  相似文献   

Seasonality of stable isotope composition of atmospheric water input at the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro,Tanzania          下载免费PDF全文

Insa Otte  Florian Detsch  Adrian Gütlein  Martha Scholl  Ralf Kiese  Tim Appelhans  Thomas Nauss 《水文研究》2017,31(22):3932-3947

To understand the moisture regime at the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, we analysed the isotopic variability of oxygen (δ¹⁸O) and hydrogen (δD) of rainfall, throughfall, and fog from a total of 2,140 samples collected weekly over 2 years at 9 study sites along an elevation transect ranging from 950 to 3,880 m above sea level. Precipitation in the Kilimanjaro tropical rainforests consists of a combination of rainfall, throughfall, and fog. We defined local meteoric water lines for all 3 precipitation types individually and the overall precipitation, δD_prec = 7.45 (±0.05) × δ¹⁸O_prec + 13.61 (±0.20), n  = 2,140, R ² = .91, p  < .001. We investigated the precipitation‐type‐specific stable isotope composition and analysed the effects of amount, altitude, and temperature. Aggregated annual mean values revealed isotope composition of rainfall as most depleted and fog water as most enriched in heavy isotopes at the highest elevation research site. We found an altitude effect of δ¹⁸O_rain = ?0.11‰ × 100 m^?1, which varied according to precipitation type and season. The relatively weak isotope or altitude gradient may reveal 2 different moisture sources in the research area: (a) local moisture recycling and (b) regional moisture sources. Generally, the seasonality of δ¹⁸O_rain values follows the bimodal rainfall distribution under the influences of south‐ and north‐easterly trade winds. These seasonal patterns of isotopic composition were linked to different regional moisture sources by analysing Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory backward trajectories. Seasonality of d excess values revealed evidence of enhanced moisture recycling after the onset of the rainy seasons. This comprehensive dataset is essential for further research using stable isotopes as a hydrological tracer of sources of precipitation that contribute to water resources of the Kilimanjaro region.  相似文献   

The marine prochlorophyte Prochlorococcus contributes significantly to phytoplankton biomass and primary production in the Sargasso Sea     

Ralf Goericke  Nicholas A. Welschmeyer   《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》1993,40(11-12)

The newly-discovered prochlorophyte Prochlorococcus marinus is often numerically dominant in the euphotic zone of the tropical and subtropical ocean; however, its contribution to phytoplankton biomass and primary production is largely unknown. Using its unique pigment divinyl-chlorophyll a (Chl a₂) as a chemosystematic marker, we show that Prochlorococcus is present at a station in the Sargasso Sea throughout most of the year. Whereas it is only found at depth during the early summer, it can be found throughout the euphotic zone during the rest of the year. Averaged over the year Prochlorococcus pigment-biomass constitutes about 30% of the total. Its growth rate, estimated from the incorporation of ¹⁴C into Chl a₂ ranged from values of 0.3 day⁻¹ in the surface layer to values less than 0.1 day⁻¹ at the bottom of the euphotic zone. Averaged over the seasons, approximately 25% of the total productivity was due to Prochlorococcus. Prochlorococcus clearly is an important component of the ecosystem in the Sargasso Sea, and perhaps the world ocean.  相似文献   

What is DMO coverage?     

Ralf Ferber 《Geophysical Prospecting》2000,48(6):995-1008

'Coverage' or 'fold' is defined as the multiplicity of common-midpoint (CMP) data. For CMP stacking the coverage is consistent with the number of traces sharing a common reflection point on flat subsurface reflectors. This relationship is not true for dipping reflectors. The deficiencies of CMP stacking with respect to imaging dipping events have long been overcome by the introduction of the dip-moveout (DMO) correction. However, the concept of coverage has not yet satisfactorily been updated to a 'DMO coverage' consistent with DMO stacking. A definition of constant-velocity DMO coverage will be proposed here. A subsurface reflector will be illuminated from a given source and receiver location if the time difference between the reflector zero-offset traveltime and the NMO- and DMO-corrected traveltime of the reflection event is less than half a dominant wavelength. Due to the fact that a subsurface reflector location is determined by its zero-offset traveltime, its strike and its dip, the DMO coverage also depends on these three parameters. For every surface location, the proposed DMO coverage consists of a 3D fold distribution over reflector strike, dip and zero-offset traveltime.  相似文献   

The Nahe Caldera — A resurgent Caldera in the permocarboniferous Saar Nahe basin,SW-Germany     

Ralf Krupp 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1984,73(3):981-1005

In the Saar Nahe basin, SW-Germany, a large resurgent caldera complex of Lower Permian age was recognized recently, for which the name Nahe Caldera is proposed.The Nahe caldera was formed during a period of bimodal basalt-rhyolite volcanism of calc-alkaline character. After the emplacement of a silicic high-level magma chamber, large volumes (100 km³) of rhyolitic tuffs were erupted, leading to the collapse of the caldera along ring fractures. Simultaneously, the Kreuznach Rhyolite was emplaced along the eastern ring fracture zone. The tuffs were deposited into a largely aquatic environment. Resurgence of new magma led to a general updoming of the caldera block and to the subsidence of an apical graben. Four domes intruded into the caldera floor and dacitic to quartzlatitic ignimbrites were discharged, while another nested caldera (Niederhauser Wald caldera) collapsed near the center of the Nahe caldera. Hydrothermal solutions deposited mercury, copper, uranium and some other metals in a late volcanic stage.A general decrease in the SiO₂ content of erupted magmas, and also a decrease of magma volumes with time is observed.The Nahe caldera as well as other silicic volcanic complexes in the Saar Nahe basin are probably related to a postulated batholith beneath the Pfälzer Sattelzone of the Saar Nahe basin.

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Zusammenfassung Im Saar-Nahe-Becken, SW-Deutschland, wurde ein großer, im Rotliegenden gebildeter Caldera-Komplex erkannt, für den der Name Nahe Caldera vorgeschlagen wird.Die Nahe Caldera entstand während einer Periode eines bimodalen Basalt-Rhyolith Vulkanismus von kalkalkalischem Charakter. Nach der Platznahme sauren Magmas in einer Magmakammer in geringer Tiefe, wurden große Mengen (ca. 100 km³) rhyolithischer Tuffe gefördert, wodurch die Caldera entlang Ringbrüchen einsank. Der Kreuznacher Rhyolith, genauer sein intrusiver Teil, intrudierte entlang dem östlichen Teil der Ringbruchzone. Die Tuffe kamen in einem überwiegend aquatischen Milieu zur Ablagerung. Der Aufstieg neuen Magmas führte zu einer allgemeinen Aufdomung des Calderabodens und zur Einsenkung eines Gipfelgrabens. Vier subvulkanische Dome intrudierten in den Calderaboden und dacitische bis quarzlatitische Ignimbrite wurden gefördert, während eine weitere, kleine Caldera (Niederhauser Wald Caldera) etwa in der Mitte der Nahe Caldera einbrach. Hydrothermale Lösungen führten zur Bildung von Quecksilber-, Kupfer-, Uran- und anderen Erzen während einer spätvulkanischen Phase.Es wird eine generelle Abnahme des SiO₂-Gehaltes und der geförderten Magmenvolumen im Laufe der Zeit beobachtet.Die Nahe Caldera wie auch andere saure Vulkankomplexe im Saar-Nahe-Gebiet stehen wahrscheinlich mit einem postulierten Batholithen unterhalb der Pfälzer Sattelzone des Saar-Nahe-Beckens im Zusammenhang.

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Résumé Dans le bassin Saar-Nahe, un large complexe volcanique d'âge permien et de type caldeira résurgente a été reconnu, pour lequel le nom de «Nahe-Caldera» est proposé.La Nahe-Caldera s'est formée pendant une période de volcanisme bimodal basaltiquerhyolitique à caractère calco-alcalin. Après la mise en place d'un magma acide dans une chambre peu profonde, de grands volumes (ca 100 km³) de tufs rhyolitiques ont été éjectés, provoquant l'effondrement de la caldeira le long de fractures annulaires. La rhyolite de Kreuznach, plus précisément sa partie intrusive, s'est mise en place dans la zône des fractures annulaires, dans le secteur oriental de la Caldeira. Les tufs ont été déposés dans un milieu principalement aquatique. Plus tard, une nouvelle ascencion (résurgence) du magma conduisit à la formation d'une voüte dans la caldeira et à l'effondrement d'un graben dans la partie apicale de celle-ci. Quatre domes subvolcaniques prirent place à l'intérieur de la caldeira et des ignimbrites de composition dacitique à latitique quartzique furent émises, tandis qu'une caldeira mineure secondaire (Niederhauser-Wald-Caldera) se formait près du centre de la Nahe-Caldera.Des solutions hydrothermales ont déposé des minerais de mercure, cuivre, uranium, et autres métaux lors d'une phase volcanique tardive.On observe au cours du temps une diminution générale des teneurs en SiO₂ dans les roches éruptives, ainsi qu'une diminution des volumes magmatiques.La Nahe-Caldeira, comme d'ailleurs d'autres complexes volcaniques acides, du bassin Saar-Nahe, est en relation probable avec un batholite dont l'existence est postulée sous la zone anticlinale du Palatinat (Pfälzer Sattelzone) du bassin Saar-Nahe.

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