Beach nourishments at Coolangatta Bay over the period 1987–2005: Impacts and lessons     

Bruno Castelle  Ian L. Turner  Xavier Bertin  Rodger Tomlinson 《Coastal Engineering》2009

Erosion of the southern Gold Coast beaches (SE Queensland, Australia) was exacerbated after the extension of the Tweed River training walls in the early 1960s. To achieve the objective of restoring and maintaining beach amenity, significant nourishment works have been undertaken in Coolangatta Bay over the past 30 years. Particularly, under the Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Project (TRESBP) since 1995, a number of nourishment campaigns and the implementation of a permanent sand bypass system in 2001 have resulted in significant changes of Coolangatta Bay morphology. The present case study investigates the influence of both wave climate and nourishment works on the area extending from the updrift Snapper Rocks area to downdrift Kirra Beach. SWAN spectral wave model is implemented at Coolangatta Bay area and forced by the global wave model WW3 to estimate wave forcing and the potential natural longshore drift entering in Coolangatta. Specific transects extracted from accurate bathymetric surveys are used to investigate and quantify Coolangatta Bay sedimentation for the period 1987–2005. A network of Argus video stations provides high sample rate information on the shoreline evolution. Results show that, over the past 10 years, Coolangatta Bay has infilled rapidly. Sedimentation reached up to 6 m in some areas between 1995 and 2005, with beach width increasing by 200 m at Kirra Beach. Rapid seaward shoreline migration is consistent with the intense over-pumping of sand relative to the natural potential to move sand alongshore. The nourishment strategy used during this project has successfully delivered large amounts of sand to the southern Gold Coast embayment, although it has been up to now controversial from many community perspectives. The artificial sand bypassing process proved to be much more efficient than depositing the dredged sand in the nearshore area which requires a significant period of low energy condition in order for the deposited sediment to migrate shoreward and weld to the shore. This case study confirms that, when carefully undertaken, sand bypassing is a sustainable and flexible soft engineering approach which can work in concert with natural processes.  相似文献   

ISA accelerometer onboard the Mercury Planetary Orbiter: error budget     

Valerio Iafolla  David M. Lucchesi  Sergio Nozzoli  Francesco Santoli 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2007,97(3):165-187

We have estimated a preliminary error budget for the Italian Spring Accelerometer (ISA) that will be allocated onboard the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) of the European Space Agency (ESA) space mission to Mercury named BepiColombo. The role of the accelerometer is to remove from the list of unknowns the non-gravitational accelerations that perturb the gravitational trajectory followed by the MPO in the strong radiation environment that characterises the orbit of Mercury around the Sun. Such a role is of fundamental importance in the context of the very ambitious goals of the Radio Science Experiments (RSE) of the BepiColombo mission. We have subdivided the errors on the accelerometer measurements into two main families: (i) the pseudo-sinusoidal errors and (ii) the random errors. The former are characterised by a periodic behaviour with the frequency of the satellite mean anomaly and its higher order harmonic components, i.e., they are deterministic errors. The latter are characterised by an unknown frequency distribution and we assumed for them a noise-like spectrum, i.e., they are stochastic errors. Among the pseudo-sinusoidal errors, the main contribution is due to the effects of the gravity gradients and the inertial forces, while among the random-like errors the main disturbing effect is due to the MPO centre-of-mass displacements produced by the onboard High Gain Antenna (HGA) movements and by the fuel consumption and sloshing. Very subtle to be considered are also the random errors produced by the MPO attitude corrections necessary to guarantee the nadir pointing of the spacecraft. We have therefore formulated the ISA error budget and the requirements for the satellite in order to guarantee an orbit reconstruction for the MPO spacecraft with an along-track accuracy of about 1 m over the orbital period of the satellite around Mercury in such a way to satisfy the RSE requirements.  相似文献   

Models of α Centauri A and B with and without seismic constraints: time dependence of the mixing-length parameter     

M. Y&#;ld&#;z 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,374(4):1264-1270

The α Centauri (α Cen) binary system is a well-known stellar system with very accurate observational constraints on the structure of its component stars. In addition to the classical non-seismic constraints, there are also seismic constraints for the interior models of α Cen A and B. These two types of constraint give very different values for the age of the system. While we obtain 8.9 Gyr for the age of the system from the non-seismic constraints, the seismic constraints imply that the age is about 5.6–5.9 Gyr. There may be observational or theoretical reasons for this discrepancy, which can be found by careful consideration of similar stars. The α Cen binary system, with its solar-type components, is also suitable for testing the stellar mass dependence of the mixing-length parameter for convection derived from the binaries of Hyades. The values of the mixing-length parameter for α Cen A and B are 2.10 and 1.90 for the non-seismic constraints. If we prioritize the seismic constraints, we obtain 1.64 and 1.91 for α Cen A and B, respectively. By taking into account these two contrasting cases for stellar mass dependence of the mixing-length parameter, we derive two expressions for its time dependence, which are also compatible with the mass dependence of the mixing-length parameter derived from the Hyades stars. For assessment, these expressions should be tested in other stellar systems and clusters.  相似文献   

遥感信息在南水北调西线工程区构造解译中的应用   总被引：7，自引：1，他引：6  

李家存  魏永明  蔺启忠 《吉林大学学报(地球科学版)》2004,34(1):150-153

以南水北调西线工程区的构造解译为例,对信息源选择、波段组合、影像融合、几何精校正、图像镶嵌等一系列处理方法进行针对性研究,证实了该方法组合对南水北调西线工程区的遥感影像处理的有效性,进而建立了色调、形状、地层或岩体被错断、地貌形态差异和水系格局等解译标志.通过对断裂构造解译的实地验证,表明解译准确率达到90%以上,位置误差小于15m.与常规地质调查方法相比,遥感信息具有视域宽广、内容丰富、主要断裂突出、受地面条件限制较少、有效提高野外验证效率的优势.  相似文献   

地理国情普查影像解译自动化方案研究     

任思思  张学之  张禹 《东北测绘》2014,(6):44-46

随着空天地一体化对地观测传感网的逐步完善,积累了大量的空间遥感影像。地理国情普查项目进一步地推动了遥感技术的发展和遥感影像的使用,使遥感影像更好地服务于经济社会的发展和生态文明的建设。传统的依靠人工的地物信息提取方式不能满足需求,本文尝试影像解译自动化方案替代完全依靠人工采集的方式,提高遥感信息提取的效率。  相似文献   

浅谈地理国情普查中的遥感解译具体实施方案     

张岩  边珍  马钢 《东北测绘》2014,(6):173-175

遥感解译数据库的建立为地表覆盖自动化操作提供了可参考的数据源,对指导地理国情和省情建设具有指导意义。  相似文献   

一种基于神经网络的探地雷达信号解释研究   总被引：8，自引：7，他引：1  

刘敦文  徐国元  黄仁东  古德生 《地球物理学进展》2004,19(1):179-182

运用人工神经网络理论和方法,建立了用于隧道衬砌厚度探地雷达探测信号解释的BP神经网络模型,对某公路隧道衬砌检测厚度进行了分析应用,并与钻孔取芯结果进行比较,实践证明,该方法可提高探地雷达信号解释精度和工作效率．  相似文献   

基于T213集合预报的延伸期产品释用方法及初步试验   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

陈良吕  陈静  陈德辉  田华  周迪  汪娇阳 《气象》2014,40(11):1293-1301

基于T213集合预报系统2008年1月中国及附近区域500 hPa高度和850 hPa温度的1~15 d预报资料,构建延伸期产品释用方法,通过对逐日11~15 d预报资料做集合平均和后向衰减权重系数滑动平均,进而得到延伸期(11~15 d)候平均和候距平预报,并对预报效果进行检验,结果表明:对11~15 d预报场做集合平均和后向衰减权重系数滑动平均均能降低预报误差,改善整体预报效果。由此得到的500 hPa高度场和850 hPa温度场11~1 5 d候平均预报误差与逐日控制预报第5d的水平相当,候距平相关系数均接近0.6,整体而言效果较好,具备一定的应用价值。500 hPa高度场和850 hPa温度场11~15 d候距平预报在中国大陆地区位相准确率均较高,东南沿海和东北部分地区稍差,且850 hPa温度场的位相准确率整体高于500 hPa高度场。候距平预报对延伸期(11~15 d)的大范围持续性异常距平具有较强的捕捉能力,对异常距平出现的范围和分布、强距平中心的位置的预报均较好,但强度整体偏弱。  相似文献   

An artificial neural network-based snow cover predictive modeling in the higher Himalayas     

Bhogendra Mishra  Nitin K. Tripathi  Mukand S. Babel 《山地科学学报》2014,11(4):825-837

With trends indicating increase in temperature and decrease in winter precipitation, a significant negative trend in snow-covered areas has been identified in the last decade in the Himalayas. This requires a quantitative analysis of the snow cover in the higher Himalayas. In this study, a nonlinear autoregressive exogenous model, an artificial neural network （ANN）, was deployed to predict the snow cover in the Kaligandaki river basin for the next 30 years. Observed climatic data, and snow covered area was used to train and test the model that captures the gross features of snow under the current climate scenario. The range of the likely effects of climate change on seasonal snow was assessed in the Himalayas using downscaled temperature and precipitation change projection from - HadCM3, a global circulation model to project future climate scenario, under the AIB emission scenario, which describes a future world of very rapid economic growth with balance use between fossil and non-fossil energy sources. The results show that there is a reduction of 9% to 46% of snow cover in different elevation zones during the considered time period, i.e., 2Oll to 2040. The 4700 m to 52oo m elevation zone is the most affected area and the area higher than 5200 m is the least affected. Overall, however, it is clear from the analysis that seasonal snow in the Kaligandaki basin is likely to be subject to substantialchanges due to the impact of climate change.  相似文献   

江西一次大雾天气诊断分析和ECMWF集合预报产品释用     

肖安  郑婧  洪浩源 《气象与减灾研究》2014,(1):49-54

利用常规气象资料,对2013年11月15日出现在江西省北部地区的一次大雾天气过程进行了诊断分析,并利用ECMWF集合预报产品对该大雾天气过程的预报进行了解释应用。诊断结果表明,该次大雾天气过程是一次典型的辐射雾。14日傍晚到夜间,江西省北部地区转处冷高压控制,阴转晴,冷空气和地面辐射共同造成的冷却作用明显;大雾发生时的逆温层高度大约在981 hPa;1—3 m/s的风速有利于形成较厚的冷却层;地面相对湿度大,水汽充足。通过对ECMWF集合预报的气温、地面湿度、地面风速和天空总云量预报产品的释用,可以在大雾出现的前日判断出江西省西北部地区同时满足辐射雾出现4个条件(水汽、晴空辐射冷却、微风、近地层的稳定层结)的概率最大,因此出现大雾的可能性最大;江西其他地区不能同时满足4个条件,出现大雾天气的可能性很小。随着对集合预报产品的不断深入挖掘,可以进一步提高集合预报对大雾等灾害性天气的预报能力。  相似文献