A fluorescent sand-tracer experiment was performed at Comporta Beach (Portugal) with the aim of acquiring longshore sediment transport data on a reflective beach, the optimization of field and laboratory tracer procedures and the improvement of the conceptual model used to support tracer data interpretation.
The field experiment was performed on a mesotidal reflective beach face in low energetic conditions (significant wave height between 0.4 and 0.5 m). Two different colour tracers (orange and blue) were injected at low tide and sampled in the two subsequent low tides using a high resolution 3D grid extending 450 m alongshore and 30 m cross-shore. Marked sand was detected using an automatic digital image processing system developed in the scope of the present experiment.
Results for the two colour tracers show a remarkable coherence, with high recovery rates attesting data validity. Sand tracer displayed a high advection velocity, but with distinct vertical distribution patterns in the two tides: in the first tide there was a clear decrease in tracer advection velocity with depth while in the second tide, the tracer exhibited an almost uniform vertical velocity distribution. This differing behaviour suggests that, in the first tide, the tracer had not reached equilibrium within the transport system, pointing to a considerable time lag between injection and complete mixing. This issue has important implications for the interpretation of tracer data, indicating that short term tracer experiments tend to overestimate transport rates. In this work, therefore, longshore estimates were based on tracer results obtained during the second tide.
The estimated total longshore transport rate at Comporta Beach was 2 × 10− 3 m3/s, more than four times larger than predicted using standard empirical longshore formulas. This discrepancy, which results from the unusually large active moving layer observed during the experiment, confirms the idea that most common longshore transport equations under-estimate total sediment transport in plunging/surging waves. 相似文献
A wide-angle seismic survey, combining ocean-bottom seismometers (OBS) and multi-channel seismic (MCS) profiling, was implemented
in the southwestern Ryukyu subduction zone during August and September 1995. In this paper, we present the data analysis of
eight OBSs and the corresponding MCS line along profile EW9509-1 from this experiment. Seismic data modeling includes identification
of refracted and reflected arrivals, initial model building from velocity analysis of the MCS data, and simultaneous and layer-stripping
inversions of the OBS and MCS arrivals. The velocity-interface structure constructed along profile EW9509-1 shows that the
northward subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate has resulted in a northward thickening of the sediments of the Ryukyu Trench
and the Yaeyama accretionary wedge north of the trench. The boundary between the subducting oceanic crust and the overriding
continental crust (represented by a velocity contour of 6.75 km/s) and a sudden increase of the subducting angle (from 5 degrees
to 25 degrees) are well imaged below the Nanao Basin. Furthermore, velocity undulation and interface variation are found within
the upper crust of the Ryukyu Arc. Therefore, the strongest compression due to subduction and a break-off of the slab may
have occurred and induced the high seismicity in the forearc region.
This revised version was published online in November 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
