Carbon sequestration and decreased CO2 emission caused by terrestrial aquatic photosynthesis: Insights from diel hydrochemical variations in an epikarst spring and two spring-fed ponds in different seasons     

《Applied Geochemistry》2015

Whether carbonate weathering could produce a stable carbon sink depends primarily on the utilization of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) by aquatic phototrophs (the so-called Biological Carbon Pump-BCP effect). On this basis, water temperature (T), pH, electrical conductivity (EC) and dissolved oxygen (DO) were synchronously monitored at 15-min resolution for one and two days respectively in January and October 2013 in Maolan Spring and the spring-fed midstream and downstream ponds in Maolan Nature Reserve, China. A thermodynamic model was used to link the continuous data to allow calculation of CO₂ partial pressures (pCO₂) and calcite saturation indexes (SI_C). A floating static chamber was placed on the water surface successively at all sites to quantify CO₂ exchange flux between atmosphere and water so as to evaluate the BCP effect. Results show that, in both winter and autumn, remarkable diel variations of hydrochemical parameters were present in the midstream pond where DO, pH, and SI_C increased in the day and decreased during the night while EC, $\left[{{\text{HCO}}_3}^{-}\right]$, [Ca²⁺] and pCO₂ showed inverse changes mainly due to the metabolic processes of the flourishing submerged plants, with photosynthesis dominating in the day and respiration dominating at night. However, hydrochemical parameters in the spring and downstream pond show less change since few submerged plants developed there. It was determined that the BCP effect in the midstream pond was 285 ± 193 t C km⁻² a⁻¹ in winter and 892 ± 300 t C km⁻² a⁻¹ in autumn, indicating a potential significant role of terrestrial aquatic photosynthesis in stabilizing the carbonate weathering-related carbon sink.  相似文献   

频率编码水声遥控指令的抗多途对策     

粘宝卿  黄衍镇 《海洋技术学报》1999,18(1):46-49

浅海信道中,多途干扰是水声遥控指令可靠检测的首要障碍,本文探讨频率编码遥控指令的抗多途对策,即通过阻塞多途来削落多途干扰。  相似文献   

On the formulation of a finite element method for the stiffened multi-layered airfoil/hydrofoil structure: Post buckling analysis for the wings of underwater gliders     

《Applied Ocean Research》2017

A finite element method is developed for the stiffened multi-layered airfoil/hydrofoil structure for the large deformation and finite strain problem. The kinematics of the airfoil/hydrofoil is set up. The Consistent Orthogonal Basis Function Space is applied for the airfoil/hydrofoil structure. Given the airfoil/hydrofoil configuration and boundary conditions, the basis function space can be uniquely determined, such that the diagonal mass matrix is obtained accurately and the basis functions are very identical with the mode shape functions of the structure. In order to satisfy the displacement compatibility condition between adjacent layers of the airfoil/hydrofoil, the traction degree-of-freedom is also induced.The post buckling analysis is presented for the wing (hydrofoil) structure of the underwater glider. The water pressure is applied on the outer surface and the critical buckling pressure is calculated. The post buckling equilibrium path is also given. The results are verified with ANSYS. The present study of the buckling analysis of the airfoil/hydrofoil under water pressure is helpful to the design of underwater glider.  相似文献   

A direction-sensitive underwater blast detector and its application for managing blast fishing     

Woodman GH  Wilson SC  Li VY  Renneberg R 《Marine pollution bulletin》2004,49(11-12):964-973

Little is known about the spatial and temporal distribution of blast fishing which hampers enforcement against this activity. We have demonstrated that a triangular array of hydrophones 1 m apart is capable of detecting blast events whilst effectively rejecting other sources of underwater noise such as snapping shrimp and nearby boat propellers. A total of 13 blasts were recorded in Sepangor bay, North of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia from 7th to 15th July 2002 at distances estimated to be up to 20 km, with a directional uncertainty of 0.2 degrees . With such precision, a network of similar hydrophone arrays has potential to locate individual blast events by triangulation to within 30 m at a range of 10 km.  相似文献   

The environmental effects of the installation and functioning of the submarine SwePol Link HVDC transmission line: a case study of the Polish Marine Area of the Baltic Sea     

Eugeniusz Andrulewicz  Dorota Napierska  Zbigniew Otremba 《Journal of Sea Research》2003,49(4):337

This paper describes the two-phase study of the environmental impact of the SwePol Link submarine electrical energy transfer system between Sweden and Poland. During the first phase (1997–1998), the potential effects of proposed technical solutions for the transmission line and different routes across the Baltic Sea were analysed. During the second phase (1999–2000), studies on environmental and background conditions before cable installation (1999) and studies on the environmental effects after cable system installation (2000) were undertaken. During this phase, underwater TV and video inspection of the bottom, observations of the bottom habitats by scuba-divers, sampling and laboratory analysis of macrozoobenthos and measurements of the earth's magnetic field were conducted.Underwater observations along the cable route indicated that one year after the cable had been laid no mechanical disturbances on the dynamic sandy bottom were visible. Studies of the bottom macrofauna indicated that there had been no significant changes in zoobenthos species composition, abundance or biomass which could have been clearly related to cable installation. Changes in the components of the magnetic field, although significant in the vicinity of the cable itself, did not exceed natural variability at a distance of 20 m.  相似文献   

Variation reduction in quality of an optical triangulation system employed for underwater range finding     

Hsin-Hung Chen   《Ocean Engineering》2002,29(15):1011-1893

This paper attempts to more thoroughly understand the factor effects on the performance of an optical triangulation system used for range finding in water. In this study analytical expressions for estimating the peak of the laser spot and for image processing were presented. Both the design of experiment process and the Taguchi method have been used to evaluate factor effects and to specify design parameters. To assess the effects of monochrome and color image displays on the performance of range finding, two sets of experiments were carried out. The optimum models based on factor effects were predicted and constructed through the analysis of variance. The confirmation experiments were performed and the outcomes are in good agreement with the predicted optima. Based upon the results of experiments and analyses, it is found that brightness, contrast, and peak detection algorithms are the main factors to dominate the quality of range finding while using a monochrome camera. And further, all control factors of brightness, contrast, peak detection algorithm, sampling range, and specific primary color for intensity computation are critical to the quality of range finding while using a color camera. Notably, right selections of the image resolution and the sampling range can shorten the computing time and get high precision results.  相似文献   

A re-configuring sliding-mode controller with adjustable robustness     

Ufuk Demirci  Feza Kerestecio lu 《Ocean Engineering》2004,31(13):5-1682

In this paper, a controller design method for underwater vehicles is presented, which is based on re-configuration of a sliding-mode controller in case of disturbances caused by shallow water conditions. The disturbance distribution information can be obtained and used to update the corrective gain vector of the sliding-mode controller. This increases the robustness of the controller and, hence, keeps the system performance within acceptable limits. Proposed method is validated with simulations on a submarine model.  相似文献   

Acoustic plane-wave scattering from a rough interface over an inhomogeneous transition fluid layer     

Jin-Yuan Liu  Chen-Fen Huang 《Ocean Engineering》2001,28(6)

Acoustic scattering of a plane wave incident upon a rough surface over a transition fluid layer within which both the density and sound speed vary with depth is considered. A theory based upon a boundary perturbation method has been applied to a typical seabed environment to study the power spectral density representing the energy distribution of the scattered field over the space. The effects of frequency and roughness properties, including the roughness height, spatial correlation, and power spectrum, on the power spectral density have been investigated. The results demonstrate that the power spectral density of the scattered field depends upon all the aforementioned parameters, particularly the correlation length and the power spectrum of the rough surface, a conclusion in distinct contrast to the results for the coherent field obtained in an earlier study. It was found that the constituents of the rough surface such as the correlation length and wavenumber spectrum dominate the angular distribution of the scattered energy. These results indicate that it is crucial to employ a suitable topological model in the study of rough seabed scattering.  相似文献   

Monitoring moored instrument motion by optimal estimation     

Fabienne Gaillard  Thierry Terre 《Ocean Engineering》2006,33(1):1-22

Many oceanographic applications require the positioning of the underwater sensor at measurement times. We consider here the case of subsurface moored tomographic instruments, where the distance between source and receiver must be known within a few meters. For that purpose, a long baseline array is deployed: this system includes a navigator, attached to the mooring element and an array of three transponders set on the ocean bottom. To process the navigation data collected with such system, we have developed a method based on optimal estimation. The triangulation problem is not a basic spherical constraints one and the specificity of deep underwater positioning, related to the variability of the ocean sound speed profile are pointed out. Correcting terms are proposed and introduced into the system. Simultaneous inversion of all data, defining an overconstrained problem allows to estimate biases and errors. The algorithm is applied here to a dataset collected in the Azores-Canary basin during CAMBIOS experiment.  相似文献   

Evaluation of the effects of the communication cable on the dynamics of an underwater flight vehicle   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Z. Feng  R. Allen 《Ocean Engineering》2004,31(8-9):1019-1035

This paper presents a numerical scheme to evaluate the effects of the communication cable attached to an underwater flight vehicle. Both simulation and model validation results show that the numerical scheme is effective and provides a means for developing a feed-forward controller to compensate for the cable effects when developing an autopilot for the tethered vehicle. Moreover, the numerical scheme can also be applied to predict the effects of the ROVs umbilical during its deployment.  相似文献