Time series surface-wave recovery from pressure gage     

Hsiang Wang  Dong-Young Lee  Allen Garcia 《Coastal Engineering》1986,10(4)

Recovery of surface-wave time series from pressure gage data is a time-consuming process and is not customarily carried out. Such information is, however, useful particularly in real-time for warning of freak waves or waves of unusual characteristics. Two simple numerical filters are developed here to serve such purpose. The first method is a linear filter with a built-in window to suppress high-frequency noise. The second method recovers the surface wave by computing the local surface curvature. These filters are very simple and can be programmed into a microprocessor to be integrated into field instrument packages.Both filters have been tested satisfactorily against conventional linear filters using simulated wave data and wave data collected in intermediate water depth. Neither filter requires pre-filtering of noise from raw data, which is commonly required to recover surface-wave information from sub-surface pressure data.  相似文献   

Food habits of Dipturus chilensis (Pisces: Rajidae) off Patagonia, Argentina   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Alonso  M. Koen; Crespo  E. A.; Garcia  N. A.; Pedraza  S. N.; Mariotti  P. A.; Vera  B. Beron; Mora  N. J. 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2001,58(1):288-297

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Daily egg production of anchovy in European waters   总被引：7，自引：1，他引：7  

Somarakis  Stylianos; Palomera  Isabel; Garcia  Alberto; Quintanilla  Luis; Koutsikopoulos  Constantin; Uriarte  Andres; Motos  Lorenzo 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2004,61(6):944-958

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Sediment distribution patterns on the Galicia-Minho continental shelf   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

J. M. A. Dias  R. Gonzalez  C. Garcia  V. Diaz-del-Rio 《Progress in Oceanography》2002,52(2-4)

A sedimentological and bathymetric study of the Minho-Galicia Shelf shows a strong contrast between a southern shelf region with a thin partially relict cover of sands and gravel, and a northern region where fine-grained sediments predominate. This contrast is explained through differences in the sediment supply, the oceanographic environment (storms and ocean currents) and the morphology of the shelf which results from its underlying tectonic framework.Most sediment is supplied to the Galicia-Minho Shelf by river discharges onto the Minho Shelf, particularly that from the Douro River. In the northern part of the shelf the Galician Rías act as sediment traps rather than sediment suppliers. The bulk of the sediment washes out of the rivers during episodic storm events. While most of the coarse sediments remain deposited close to the coast, the fine-grained material is exported to the outer areas of the shelf. Subsequently, coarse sediments close to the coast are transported southwards by the littoral drift. Whereas the fine-grained material is frequently resuspended through the action of the large swells who influence reaches deep into the water. This frequent resuspension has a long-term sorting effect on the sediments. Furthermore, resuspended sediments on the middle and outer regions of the shelf are transported northwards by a poleward flowing bottom current.As a consequence of the differential transport of coarse sediments to the south, and of the fine-grained sediments to the north, the outer reaches of the Minho Shelf are relatively poor in recent sediments. In many areas relict sediments as well as features associated with ancient coastlines and river mouths, still appear as seabed features. In contrast, the northern regions of the shelf are covered by a thin veneer of fine-grained material that smooth other most of these fossil features.The fine-grained sediment fractions (mostly very fine sands to coarse silts) are deposited in two large mud patches, the Douro and the Galicia Mud Patches, which are situated at water depths of around 100–120 m. These two mud patches are both controlled by the local hydrodynamics and morphology. The Beiral de Viana, to the west of the Douro Mud Patch is a plateau, up to 20 m high lying parallel to the shelf-break and is a morphological expression of an underlying horst system. This plateau acts as a barrier that prevents the drift of some of the fine-grained material to the west, out over the shelf-break and the continental slope. The Galicia Mud Patch is situated on the eastern part of the Galician Shelf to the north of the Douro Mud Patch. It is situated near the extension of the Porto–Tomar fault, which results in the shelf being usually steep in this region, down to a depth of about 100 m. West of this area the slope is much more gentle. Northward transport of the sediment is strongly reduced by the E–W trending outcrops of plutonic and metamorphic rocks.  相似文献   

Zooplankton responses to sandbar opening in a tropical eutrophic coastal lagoon   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Jayme M. Santangelo  Adriana de M. Rocha  Reinaldo L. Bozelli  Luciana S. Carneiro  Francisco de A. Esteves   《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2007,71(3-4):657-668

The effects of a disturbance by sandbar opening on the zooplankton community were evaluated through a long-term study in an eutrophic and oligohaline system, Imboassica Lagoon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Zooplankton samples and limnological data were collected monthly from March 2000 to February 2003. Before the sandbar was opened in February 2001, the lagoon showed eutrophic conditions, with high mean nutrient concentrations and low salinity (total nitrogen – TN = 190.28 μM, chlorophyll a content – Chl. a = 104.60 μg/L and salinity = 0.87′). During this period, the zooplankton species present, such as the rotifers Brachionus calyciflorus and Brachionus havanaensis, were typical of freshwater to oligohaline and eutrophic environments. After the sandbar opening, the lagoon changed to a lower trophic status and increased salinity (TN = 55.11 μM, Chl. a = 27.56 μg/L and salinity = 19.64′). As a result, the zooplankton community came to consist largely of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis, marine copepods and meroplanktonic larvae, mainly Gastropoda. Salinity was the main force structuring the zooplankton community after the sandbar opening. Two years after this episode, the prior zooplankton community had not reestablished itself, indicating a low resilience to this disturbance. The conditions developed prior to a sandbar opening can be crucial to the community responses in the face of this disturbance and for the capacity of the original zooplankton community to re-establish itself.  相似文献   

Mediterranean Marine Reserves: Fish Indices as Tests of Protection Efficiency   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

J.-G. Harmelin    F. Bachet  F. Garcia 《Marine Ecology》1995,16(3):233-250

Abstract. The fish assemblages of a strictly protected area and of a neighbouring fished area, located off a Mediterranean urbanized coast (Carry-le-Rouet, France), were compared in order to select the most evident, constant, and easily recorded indices of the 'reserve effect'. Visual censusing was repeated simultaneously at both sites eight time a year during 3 years along four permanent transects layed on shallow rocky bottoms (9–14 m). Overall species richness was 16% higher in the reserve, but differences in average instantaneous richness were only marginally significant. The most contrasting results were shown by the occurrence frequency, abundance, and demographic structure of two types of target species. The type A target species group comprises 16 large meso- and macrocarnivores particularly threatened by spearfishing, including the common nectobenthic sparids Diplodus spp. Type B target species are represented by two small territorial fishes particularly impacted by angling: the serranid Serranus cabrilla and the terminal phase males of the labrid Coris julis . The size structure of Diplodus spp., S. cabrilla , and C.julis subpopulations strongly argues for the role of protected areas as a reservoir of large spawners. Fishing pressure is assumed to modify the social conditions of the C. julis local populations and to induce earlier sex change.  相似文献   

A phytoplankton class-specific primary production model applied to the Kerguelen Islands region (Southern Ocean)     

Julia Uitz  Hervé Claustre  F. Brian Griffiths  Joséphine Ras  Nicole Garcia  Valérie Sandroni 《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2009,56(4):541-560

As part of the KErguelen: compared study of the Ocean and the Plateau in Surface water (KEOPS) project in late summer 2005, we examine the phytoplankton community composition and associated primary production in the waters surrounding the Kerguelen Archipelago, with the emphasis on two contrasted environments: (i) the Kerguelen Plateau, where a large bloom occurs annually, and (ii) the high-nutrient low-chlorophyll (HNLC) offshore waters. A biomarker pigment approach was used to assess the community composition in terms of chlorophyll biomass of three phytoplankton size classes, namely micro-, nano-, and picophytoplankton. The second objective was to evaluate a global class-specific approach for estimating the contribution of the three pigment-based size classes to the primary production in the study area. To do so, primary production rates associated with each phytoplankton class were computed from the class-specific chlorophyll biomass coupled to a class-specific primary production model, and compared with in situ measurements of size-fractionated ¹³C-based primary production. The iron-enriched bloom region was dominated by microphytoplankton (diatoms), which contributed 80–90% to the total primary production (of ≈1 g C m^?2 d^?1). In the HNLC area, the primary production was about 0.30 g C m^?2 d^?1, mainly (65%) achieved by small diatoms and nanoflagellates. The model results show a good overall agreement between predicted and measured total primary production rates. In terms of size classes, agreements were higher for the bloom region than for the HNLC waters. Discrepancies in this complex iron-limited area may be explained essentially by the smaller size of diatoms, or a different set of photophysiological properties.  相似文献   

Intragroup diffuse light in compact groups of galaxies: HCG 79, 88 and 95     

C. Da Rocha  C. Mendes de Oliveira 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,364(3):1069-1081

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Effects of shock‐induced incongruent melting within Earth’s crust: the case of biotite melting     

Dailto Silva  Cristiano Lana  Gary Stevens  Carlos R. Souza Filho 《地学学报》2011,23(4):225-231

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Uncertainty assessment of hydrologic and climate forecast models in Northeastern Brazil     

Hyun‐Han Kwon  Francisco de Assis de Souza Filho  Paul Block  Liqiang Sun  Upmanu Lall  Dirceu S. Reis Jr 《水文研究》2012,26(25):3875-3885

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