Short-term hydrophysical and biological variability over the northeastern Black Sea continental slope as inferred from multiparametric tethered profiler surveys   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Alexander Ostrovskii  Andrey Zatsepin 《Ocean Dynamics》2011,61(6):797-806

This presentation introduces a new ocean autonomous profiler for multiparametric surveys at fixed geographical locations. The profiler moves down and up along a mooring line, which is taut vertically between a subsurface flotation and an anchor. This observational platform carries such modern oceanographic equipment as the Nortek Aquadopp-3D current meter and the Teledyne RDI Citadel CTD-ES probe. The profiler was successfully tested in the northeastern Black Sea during 2007–2009. By using the profiler, new data on the layered organization of the marine environment in the waters over the upper part of the continental slope were obtained. The temporal variability of the fine-scale structure of the acoustic backscatter at 2 MHz was interpreted along with biooptical and chemical data. The patchy patterns of the acoustic backscatter were associated with physical and biological processes such as the advection, propagation of submesoscale eddy, thermocline displacement, and diel migration of zooplankton. Further applications of the multidisciplinary moored profiler technology are discussed.  相似文献   

Amplitude calibration of an acoustic backscattered signal from a bottom-moored ADCP based on long-term measurement series     

V. B. Piotukh  A. G. Zatsepin  S. B. Kuklev 《Oceanology》2017,57(3):455-464

A possible approach to, and preliminary results of, amplitude calibration of acoustic signals backscattered from an ADCP moored at the bottom of the near-shelf zone of the Black Sea is considered. The aim of this work is to obtain vertical profiles of acoustic scattering signal levels, showing the real characteristics of the volume content of suspended sediments in sea water in units of conventional acoustic turbidity for a given signal frequency. In this case, the assumption about the intervals of maximum acoustic transparency and vertical homogeneity of the marine environment in long-term series of ADCP measurements is used. According to this hypothesis, the intervals of the least values of acoustic backscattered signals are detected, an empirical transfer function of the ADCP reception path is constructed, and it is calibrated. Normalized sets of acoustic backscattered signals relative to a signal from a level of conventionally clear water are obtained. New features in the behavior of vertical profiles of an acoustic echo-signal are revealed due to the calibration. The results of this work will be used in subsequent analysis of the vertical and time variations in suspended sediment content in the near-shelf zone of the Black Sea.  相似文献   

Laboratory study of a shear instability of an alongshore sea current     

D. N. Elkin  A. G. Zatsepin 《Oceanology》2014,54(5):576-582

A laboratory study of the alongshore current shear instability in a rotating and nonrotating homogeneous fluid was carried out with special attention paid to the conditions of the coherent eddy structure formation in a shear flow. The cases with both cyclonic and anticyclonic velocity shear between the current core and the coast were reproduced in a wide range of nondimensional velocity shear variations. No coherent eddy-like structure formation was observed in the nonrotating fluid; the flow was always chaotic or turbulent. However, chains of coherent eddy-like structures were formed in the rotating fluid in the case with cyclonic velocity shear in a broad range of its variations. In the case with anticyclonic velocity shear, a chain of eddies was observed only when the velocity shear was quite low. When it was high, the flow was chaotic or turbulent. A physical model that explained the asymmetry in the conditions of the coherent eddy-like structure formation in the rotating fluid with cyclonic and anticyclonic velocity shear was considered. The laboratory results agreed with the observations of coherent submesoscale eddies in the Black Sea coastal zone.  相似文献   

GPS-drifters for study of water dynamics in the Black Sea shelf zone     

K. P. Silvestrova  S. A. Myslenkov  A. G. Zatsepin  E. V. Krayushkin  V. I. Baranov  T. E. Samsonov  S. B. Kuklev 《Oceanology》2016,56(1):150-156

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Formation of the coastal current in the Black Sea caused by spatially inhomogeneous wind forcing upon the upper quasi-homogeneous layer     

A. G. Zatsepin  V. V. Kremenetskiy  V. B. Piotukh  S. G. Poyarkov  Yu. B. Ratner  D. M. Soloviev  R. R. Stanichnaya  S. V. Stanichny  V. G. Yakubenko 《Oceanology》2008,48(2):159-174

A poorly known mechanism of formation of a warm coastal current by spatially nonstationary and nonuniform wind forcing in the northeastern part of the Black Sea is described. Owing to the blocking influence of the Caucasian Mountains, the northeasterly wind (nordost) west and east of Tuapse is characterized by a spatially nonuniform speed distribution over the Russian sector of the sea. In the first half of the year, during the nordost wind, the intense wind forcing upon the upper quasi-homogeneous layer (UQL) leads to its fast cooling due to the turbulent entrainment of cold waters from the shallow seasonal thermocline. Satellite data and measurements from ships obtained at the end of June-beginning of July 2006 showed that, during two days, the temperature of the UQL west of Tuapse dropped by 7–10°C, whereas, east of Tuapse where the wind was weak, it practically did not change. As a result, a narrow frontal zone between the warm (less dense) and cold (denser) upper layer waters oriented quasi-normally to the shore was formed. A hydrodynamic analysis showed that, in such situation, an intense jet of a near-shore density current is developed that transports warm waters to the northwest at a velocity of 40–60 cm/s. This estimate agrees well with satellite data and observations from ships. The satellite data allowed us to find that this jet reached the Kerch Strait region in a few days. During the time of its existence (approximately 2 weeks), the jet transports a large volume of water and can change the functioning regime of the coastal ecosystem. The mechanism of the near-shore current formation revealed may also function in other seas and oceanic regions.  相似文献