A new hypothesis about the surface circulation in the eastern basin of the mediterranean sea   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3  

Najwa Hamad  Claude Millot  Isabelle Taupier-Letage 《Progress in Oceanography》2005,66(2-4):287

In time, the circulation of the Atlantic Water (AW) in the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea has been described differently, according to two major representations. The historical one, which began with the scheme from Nielsen in 1912 and has been refined up to the 1980s, favours a counterclockwise circulation in the whole basin, with AW flowing in its southern part as a broad flow off Libya and Egypt (from the Ionian to the Levantine subbasins), then continuing along Middle-East and Turkey before flowing back westwards. The more recent one, issued in the 1990s, favours a clockwise circulation in the northern part of the Ionian continuing offshore across the basin from the Cretan to the central part of the Levantine as the so-called “Mid-Mediterranean Jet”. This jet is depicted then as splitting both clockwise in the southeastern part of the basin and counterclockwise off Turkey (where this representation agrees with the former). Because the recent representation cannot be considered as a refinement of the historical ones, we have been interested in understanding why a given data set available to everybody is interpreted in such different ways.In the Algerian subbasin, the combined use of satellite infrared images and a significant amount of in situ data sets (hydrology and both Eulerian and Lagrangian current measurements) allowed us to solve a similar controversy. Therefore, we examined the circulation features in the eastern basin, undertaking the detailed analysis of 1000 daily and weekly composite images spanning the period 1996–2000, and of monthly composite images available since 1985. Whenever in situ observations were available, we have confronted them with the satellite thermal signatures and have shown that both are consistent. This paper focuses on the overall (basin scale) results while the detailed ones are published in an other paper. The new scheme we propose is basically a refined version of the historical ones: the circulation of AW is counterclockwise in the whole eastern basin but it is more constrained alongslope than previously thought, and the broadening historically schematised appears to be due to intense mesoscale eddies mainly generated by the instability of this circulation.  相似文献   

Wave characteristics past a flexible fishnet   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

A. T. Chan  S. W. C. Lee 《Ocean Engineering》2001,28(11)

The scattering of surface waves by a flexible fishnet is studied analytically. The fishnet is modelled as a porous flexible barrier displaced solely by hydrodynamic force like a catenary. The objective is to investigate how a flexible permeable barrier affects the passing waves in the way they are transmitted and reflected, as observed by the fact that the water inside a fishfarm surrounded by fishnets is significantly calmer than that outside. The boundary value problems are solved by defining the reflection coefficient in terms of velocity potential and then the full solutions are obtained by suitable application of the eigenfunction expansion method and the least squares approximation method. The variations of the reflection coefficient, hydrodynamic pressure, barrier deformation and surface wave elevation are determined with respect to the barrier length, porosity and stiffness. It is observed that as the fishnet gets more flexible, its deformation increases and the reflection coefficient decreases, whereas as the fishnet gets more porous, more water can pass through it and thus the reflection coefficient, barrier deformation and the hydrodynamic force are reduced. The flexibility of the barrier behaves like its porosity by allowing more wave energy to act on it through its deformation and hence reduce the reflection and hydrodynamic force of the incident waves acting on the barrier.  相似文献   

顺逆铣加工刷柄曲面的若干特性分析     

李巨光  王继尚 《中国海洋大学学报(自然科学版)》1995,(Z1)

刷柄侧曲面是典型的曲线形外型表面，其加工方式有顺铣和逆铣两种方法．本文分析了两种铣削方法分别对铣削过程中的切削力，工件表面不平度等几个重要参数的影响，提出了木制品曲面加工中顺铣较逆铣具有消耗动力小，刀具耐用度高，工件不易破裂，加工表面平整等几个突出优点．  相似文献   

Short-term variability of fCO₂ in seawater and air–sea CO₂ fluxes in a coastal upwelling system (Ría de Vigo, NW Spain)     

J. Gago  M. Gilcoto  F. F. Prez  A. F. Ríos 《Marine Chemistry》2003,80(4):247-264

Coastal upwelling systems are regions with highly variable physical processes and very high rates of primary production and very little is known about the effect of these factors on the short-term variations of CO₂ fugacity in seawater (fCO₂^w). This paper presents the effect of short-term variability (<1 week) of upwelling–downwelling events on CO₂ fugacity in seawater (fCO₂^w), oxygen, temperature and salinity fields in the Ría de Vigo (a coastal upwelling ecosystem). The magnitude of fCO₂^w values is physically and biologically modulated and ranges from 285 μatm in July to 615 μatm in October. There is a sharp gradient in fCO₂^w between the inner and the outer zone of the Ría during almost all the sampling dates, with a landward increase in fCO₂^w.CO₂ fluxes calculated from local wind speed and air–sea fCO₂ differences indicate that the inner zone is a sink for atmospheric CO₂ in December only (−0.30 mmol m⁻² day⁻¹). The middle zone absorbs CO₂ in December and July (−0.05 and −0.27 mmol·m⁻² day⁻¹, respectively). The oceanic zone only emits CO₂ in October (0.36 mmol·m⁻² day⁻¹) and absorbs at the highest rate in December (−1.53 mmol·m⁻² day⁻¹).  相似文献   

海洋中液-固界面作用的分形研究 Ⅱ.混合交换剂表面分维的加和性规律和非加和性规律研究     

刘莲生  张正斌  杨长春  管清录  王超英  郭国霖 《海洋与湖沼》1992,23(6):581-590

用SAXS方法验证了海洋化学液-固界面研究中一些混合交换剂体系的分维分别具有加和性和非加性规律。实验测得:针铁矿/蒙脱石、水锰矿/无定形氧化铁、δ-MnO_2/针铁矿、δ-MnO_2/无定形氧化铁等混合交换剂体系的表面分维对混合百分率具有线性加和性;而高岭石/无定形氧化铁、无定形氧化铁/蒙脱石、δ-MnO_2/蒙脱石、δ-MnO_2/氧化铁凝胶等混和交换剂具有非线性加和性。上述诸体系在海水介质中平衡一年后,SAXS测定的表面分维皆具有非线性加和性,或非线的程度有所增加。  相似文献   

Numerical study of the storm-induced circulation on the Scotian Shelf during Hurricane Juan using a nested-grid ocean model   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Jinyu Sheng  Xiaoming Zhai  Richard J. Greatbatch 《Progress in Oceanography》2006,70(2-4):233

A nested-grid ocean circulation modelling system is used to assess the upper ocean response of the Scotian Shelf and adjacent slope to Hurricane Juan in September 2003. The nested-grid system consists of a fine-grid inner model covering the Scotian Shelf/slope and a coarse-grid outer model covering the northwest Atlantic Ocean. The model-calculated upper ocean response to Hurricane Juan is characterized by large divergent surface currents forced by the local wind forcing under the storm, and intense near-inertial currents in the wake of the storm. The sea surface temperature (SST) cooling produced by the model is biased to the right of the storm track and agrees well with a satellite-derived analysis. Over the deep water, off the Scotian Shelf, some of the near-inertial energy input by the storm is advected eastward by the Gulf Stream away from the storm track. The hurricane also generates shelf waves that propagate equatorward with the coastline on their right. In comparison with the outer model results, the inner model captures more meso-scale structures, greater SST cooling and stronger near-inertial currents in the study region.  相似文献   

Anisotropy of wind and wave regimes in the Baltic proper   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Tarmo Soomere 《Journal of Sea Research》2003,49(4):305

The directional distribution of moderate and strong winds in the Baltic Sea region is shown to be strongly anisotropic. The dominating wind direction is south-west and a secondary peak corresponds to north winds. North-west storms are relatively infrequent and north-east storms are extremely rare. Angular distribution of extreme wind speed also has a two-peaked shape with maxima corresponding to south-west and north winds, and a deep minimum for easterly winds. The primary properties of the anisotropy such as prevailing winds, frequency of their occurrence, directional distribution of mean and maximum wind speeds coincide on both sides of the Baltic proper. The specific wind regime penetrates neither into the mainland nor into the Gulf of Finland or the Gulf of Riga.Properties of the saturated wave field in the neighbourhood of proposed sites of the Saaremaa (Ösel) deep harbour are analysed on the basis of the wave model WAM forced by steady winds. The directional distribution of wave heights in typical and extreme storms is highly anisotropic. Remarkable wave height anomalies may occur in the neighbourhood of the harbour sites.  相似文献   

沿海市区近地面大气层风、温、湿湍流特征的观测和分析          下载免费PDF全文

赵永平  陈永利  杨连素  范继铨 《海洋科学》1993,17(2):52-56

用三向风速仪和高灵敏温湿度脉动观测装置,测量沿海城市上空大气表面层风速、温度和湿度脉动。并用涡动相关法计算了大气表面层动量、热量和水汽湍流通量,给出了复杂地形上各物理量的谱特征,讨论了各湍流通量的特性。结果指出,风速、温度和湿度谱密度分布基本上都服从—5/3律。由于建筑物的影响,在f≥0.2Hz频段内拢动能量明显偏大。动量和热量输送主要由f<0.2Hz的扰动完成的,高频扰动的贡献可以忽略不计。  相似文献   

二阶非线性随机海浪波面高度和波面垂直速度的联合分布     

管长龙 《海洋与湖沼》1997,28(5):503-508

基于Longuet－Higgins提出的非线性随机海浪模型，在二阶近似下通过直接计算联合分布的各阶矩，导出了非线性海浪波面高度和波面垂直速度的联合分布。该分布为非正态，其形式为截断的级数，而非由累积矩母函数方法可能得到的渐近无穷级数。由于非线性的影响，波面高度与波面垂直速度不再相互独立。  相似文献   

An inverse design approach for minimising wake at propeller plane using CFD     

V. Anantha Subramanian  R. Vijayakumar 《Ocean Engineering》2006,33(2):119-136

Knowledge of wake characteristics in the stern region is important for ensuring good propeller design and performance. This work examines the utility of CFD in the analysis of flow in the case of full aft beam vessels having characteristic cut stern shape to facilitate propeller aperture. The underwater stern shape may be more complex due to the occurrence of stern appendages such as bossings, strut supports and local shape variations. To this extent, CFD offers an effective tool for both qualitative as well as quantitative assessment of the local geometry. Wake estimate is required for choice of the most favorable propeller geometry. In the present method, the analysis quantifies the effects of small changes in stern rake angles and offers an inverse design approach towards finalising the stern shape. The method consists of solving the standard k-ε turbulent model of RANS equations in cell centered finite volume multi zone grid in the flow domain. This approach has been used in estimating the velocity at the propeller plane. The results have been compared with experimentally obtained values of nominal wake. The approach suggests that CFD can provide a cost effective and quick assessment of flow. It is also an attractive means of pre-empting heterogeneous flow related problems such as vibration and noise due to unfavorable wake in the stern region.  相似文献