青岛滨海电厂温排水对海洋生态环境影响研究现状

随着滨海电厂的迅速发展,电厂温排水排放对邻近海域的生态环境影响越来越受到人们的关注。文章概括了青岛电厂温排水数值模拟现状、温排水排放对海洋生态环境影响方面的一些研究成果,并提出了存在的问题和今后应关注的研究方向。     

基于Landsat-8数据的田湾核电站温排水分布研究

为研究潮汐变化对连云港田湾核电站邻近海域温排水时空分布与变化规律的影响,利用Landsat-8热红外数据,构建基于劈窗算法的温度反演模型,结合潮汐数据分析田湾核电站邻近海域的温排水分布规律。得出结论:基于Landsat-8数据的劈窗算法温度反演模型应用在田湾核电站邻近海域温排水的监测效果较好;潮汐运动直接影响田湾核电站温排水的时空分布与扩散方向,并呈现一定的规律性。本文的研究方法为核电站温排水常规性监测提供了一定的技术参考。     

海水淡化浓海水与电厂温排水混排方案研究

本文以渤海湾为例，运用MIKE3 FM数值模拟软件建立了渤海湾天津附近海域海水淡化浓海水与电厂温排水混合排放温盐扩散三维数值模型，开展了浓海水和温排水不同混合比例温盐扩散对比研究。研究结果表明：浓海水与温排水混合排放可以使受纳海域盐升范围显著减小，并且混合比例越高，效果越明显。在温升影响方面，与等量温排水单独排放相比，混合排放会使底层海域温升包络面积增大，表层减小，但当混合比例超过1：30（温排水量约为35 m³/s），表层和底层海域温升包络面积接近于等量温排水单独排放的温升包络面积；综合考虑温盐扩散，当海水淡化浓海水排放量在10×104 m³/d，盐升不超过20时，与温排水混合排放比例超过1：30（温排水量超过35 m³/s），盐度在排放口附近可稀释到背景值，由于混合排放密度变化引起的温度下沉影响几乎可以忽略不计。相关研究结论可为海水淡化浓海水科学排放/推动海水淡化和海洋环境和谐可持续发展提供技术支撑。     

滨海电厂温排水用海管理范围界定初步研究

目前我国电厂温排水用海面积大、占用岸线长、形状不规则等问题已经造成海域资源的严重浪费,同时增加海域使用管理的难度。文章基于对我国18个滨海电厂温排水排放特性的调查研究,分析18个案例中的温排水用海确权情况,通过单位兆瓦发电量对温排水的实际用海面积和申请用海面积进行量化取值;针对案例分析结果,结合温排水降温效果,从方便温排水用海管理角度提出建议。     

热通量计算方法在开敞海域温排水模拟中的应用——以田湾核电站为例

海气热通量对海气的热量交换具有重要的影响,能够很大程度地影响局部海域的热量扩散情况。在滨海电厂所在海域,由于温排水与环境水域温差引起的斜压效应,将对附近海域温度分布、局部环流结构变化等海洋生态环境造成影响,因此现有的数学模型要考虑海气热通量才能更加准确地模拟温排水造成的温升场。本文在了解田湾核电站温排水特点和附近海域潮流特征的基础上,应用FVCOM数值模式,采用《物理海洋学》中的海表面热通量计算方法,建立了田湾核电站附近海域温排水数值模型,对温排水造成的温升进行了模拟。模式考虑斜压效应,在排水口考虑了温排水的叠加效应,通过与实测资料比对表明:该文建立的田湾核电站温排水模型可以较好地模拟该海域的温度变化和温排水造成的温升变化。     

电厂温排水中余氯浓度预测

利用有限元分步杂交方法,对胶州湾海域潮流场进行了数值模拟。考虑余氯在水体中的化学反应,利用前人大量实验成果选取余氯衰减系数,建立胶州湾余氯的二维输运-扩散模型,并将此模型应用于青岛市黄岛发电厂三期温排水工程,预测了温排水中余氯的浓度分布及影响范围,为电厂冷却水排放口邻近水域的生态环境保护提供依据。     

Landsat-8热红外数据监测田湾核电站温排水分布

基于2015—2017年的多景Landsat-8热红外数据,采用辐射传输方程法反演田湾核电站邻近海域海面温度,依据反演所得海面温升分布图对温排水的分布特征进行分析。结果表明:田湾核电站温排水的扩散方向和影响范围与潮汐状态密切相关。在涨潮中期阶段,温排水分布范围较小,其中1℃以上温升区域面积不足10 km~2;在高、低平潮阶段,温排水扩散面积相近,其中1℃以上温升区域面积约15 km~2;在落潮中期阶段温排水分布范围最大,1℃以上温升区域面积可达30 km~2,但4℃以上高温升区域面积较小。高温升区域多出现在排水口以南至以东附近海域,随着温排水向周围海域扩散,温升逐渐呈衰减分布。     

差位式取排水布置下滨海核电温排水试验研究

针对潮流具有顺岸往复流特征的海湾,以某核电厂为例,采用小变态物理模型开展了温排水输运特性的模拟研究。通过分析工程海域岸线、地形及潮流特点,结合设计与环保要求,依据差位式理论提出"近岸明渠分散取水、离岸明渠集中排水"的取排水总体布局。采用全潮水文测验资料进行了定点潮位及潮流流速、流向的验证,在此基础上深入研究了温排水的随潮演变过程、温升分布特点及电厂取水温升变化规律。研究结果表明,温排水在顺岸往复潮流作用下热水带呈伴岸窄带型分布,采用差位式取排水布置对有效降低电厂取水温升、减小温排水对环境的影响具有明显效果。研究成果可为工程设计与环境影响评价提供科学依据。     

滨海电厂温排水对临近海域浮游动物生态特征的影响研究

为评估滨海电厂温排水对浮游动物群落的影响,选取象山港国华电厂附近海域的10个站位,于2010、2011年春夏秋冬4个季节进行了环境因子调查及浮游动物采样。研究结果表明,国华电厂温排水提高了温度、盐度和电导率,降低了溶氧值;4个航次共计采集到浮游动物20种(含幼体),其中小拟哲水蚤、中华哲水蚤、腹针胸刺水蚤、太平洋纺锤水蚤、短尾类溞状幼体等种类为优势种;电厂附近水域浮游动物丰度季节分布为冬季春季夏季秋季,而种类数量为春季秋季冬季夏季;温排水的增温效应不改变浮游动物的季节分布格局,但不同月份的优势种因其发生改变;冬季温排水会提高浮游动物种丰度,但降低了多样性,而夏季温排水降低了浮游动物的种类、丰度及多样性,秋季丰度值达到最高丰度值达到最低;浮游动物的分布与电厂排水口分布有明显关系,并有"迁移"现象发生。     

青岛电厂温排水对胶州湾海域影响评价

本文叙述了青岛电厂温排水对海域的环境影响,分析了温排水对胶州湾水质、沉积物、生物群落的影响,给出了影响范围和影响程度,研究结果为海洋环境保护提供了一定依据。     

Model of the post-Cenozoic evolution of the cryolithozone of the shelf of the western part of the Laptev Sea

The analysis of the structure of the cryolithozone, facies, and thicknesses of the Quaternary sediments and the results of the physicochemical mathematical modeling of the modern shelf of the western part of the Laptev Sea support the influence of the Late Pleistocene glaciations on the heat conditions and the distribution of the permafrost in the area. A ～200-m thick glacier formed under aerial conditions from atmospheric precipitation represented the metamorphosed snow cover. According to the modeling, the long-living (from 60?50 to 10?4 ky) glacier reduced the thickness of the permafrost rocks in the reviewed shelf area for 280–360 m. The Holocene marine transgression additionally decreased the thickness from 50–140 m on the inner shelf to 220–350 m on the outer shelf. The modern submarine cryolithozone 450-0 m thick is wide-spread in the studied region from the coast to the shelf boundary (isobaths of 130–140 m), where it pinches out at a distance of ～380 km from the coast at a depth of ～250 m above the sea level.     

Investigation of the mechanism of the long-term evolution of the carbon cycle in the ecosystem of the Sevastopol bay

We analyze the components of the carbon system of the Sevastopol bay waters and the balance of main sediment-forming substances using the data of field investigations in 1998–2008. The interannual variations of total inorganic carbon and the equilibrium partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the bay water are noted. An increase in the flux of carbon dioxide into the bay and in the content of organic carbon in bottom sediments is revealed, and an explanation of this phenomenon is given. The priority accumulation of organic carbon in the sediments of the bay is established. We assess the interannual variation in the relative abundances of organic and inorganic carbon as an index of the carbon cycle stability.     

Contemporary state of the investigation of the influence of the discharge of rivers on the hydrologic structure of the Black Sea

We generalize and analyze the state of investigations of the influence of river waters on the hydrologic structure of the Black Sea. Specific features of the water, regime and hydrography of rivers flowing into the sea, data on the discharge of rivers, and intrayear and interyear variability of the discharge are presented. We discuss and analyze works studying the transformation of river waters, routes of desalinized sea waters, and their influence on the thermohaline structure and dynamic regime of the sea. Translated by Peter V. Malyshev and Dmitry V. Malyshev     

Modelling of the ecosystem of the Black-Sea shelf zone near the estuary of the Danube

We analyze the results of numerical calculations performed according to the three-dimensional interdisciplinary model of an ecological system of the Black-Sea shelf zone near the estuary of the Danube. The complete system of equations of hydrothermodynamics is solved together with transport equations of the advection-diffusion-reaction type used to describe the transformation of a substance (nitrogen) between the components of the characteristic vectors of the ecosystem: plankton, detritus, and biogenic elements (nitrates). We describe the distinctive features of the circumcontinental distribution of components obtained as a result of numerical experiments and present arguments for the conclusion that the ecosystem of the Danube estuary water area plays the role of a buffer zone between the press of the Danubian biogenic pollutions and the neighbouring areas of the shelf zone and open sea. Translated by Peter V. Malyshev and Dmitry V. Malyshev     

Dynamics of the ice cover and peculiarities of the ice transportation of the sediments at the tidal flats of the Kandalaksha Gulf of the White Sea

Ten years of semistationary studies of the interaction of the ice cover and the coastal relief of the Kandalakhsa Gulf in the White Sea allowed us to reveal the peculiarities of these processes in the warm and cold years and the mechanisms of the origination of ice forms, including ice tents, which govern the character of the tidal flats. Three dynamic fast ice zones are distinguished by their geomorphological location, morphology, and ice dynamics. The dependence of the mechanisms and volumes of the enrichment of the fast ice in the sediments on the coastal zone??s relief was established. At the coast of the Kindo Peninsula (Velikaya Salma Strait), the ice mostly contains fine-sandy sediments. Coarser sediments, including boulders, are occasional and frozen into the ice at the contact of the fast ice and the bottom. At the expense of the ice??s spreading by 4?C6 times in the warm years and 2?C4 times in the cold years, several thousand tons of sediments mostly from the tidal flat??s surface (100?C700 m³ from 1 km of coast in the wide tidal flats and <50 m³ on the steep coasts) are delivered to the water area.     

Relationship between the path of the Kuroshio in the south of Japan and the path of the Kuroshio Extension in the east

A relationship between paths of the Kuroshio and Kuroshio Extension (KE) is investigated, using the satellite-derived altimetry dataset of 1993–2008. When the Kuroshio takes the nearshore nonlarge meander path or typical large meander path and resultantly goes through the deeper channel (about 2500 m) of the Izu-Ogasawara Ridge, the KE path adopts a relatively stable state with the two quasi-stationary meanders. On the other hand, when the Kuroshio takes the offshore nonlarge meander path and then passes over the shallower part of the Ridge (about 1000 m), the KE path tends to be convoluted, i.e., an unstable state.     

A model of the dynamics of the ecosystem of the Sea of Azov

We use many-year archival observations of hydrologic and hydrobiologic state of the Sea of Azov for the identification of the structure of a model of its ecosystem. The ecosystem model, supplemented with expert estimates of bioresource consumption (fish reserve), contamination level, and possible ecologic fines for violation of the sea natural state, is formalized by the method of system dynamics. Hereat, the major part of influence functions is found in terms of observational data with application of self-organization algorithms. We also present the results of simulated experiments with the model of the ecosystem, which enable us to analyse scenarios of its behaviour under the influence of various external factors (wind, river discharge, water exchange with the Black Sea, etc.). Translated by Peter V. Malyshev and Dmitry V. Malyshev     

On the Relationship between the Characteristics of the Annual Variations of the Virtual Height of the Ionospheric Sporadic E Layer with the Seasonal Rearrangements of the Stratomesospheric Circulation

Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics - Analysis of the temporal variations of the virtual heights of the sporadic E layer (h?ES) determined from ionograms with increased accuracy (1...     

Parameters of the sediments of the deep-water basin of the Black Sea

The methodology and the first results of the computations of the volumes, masses, and growth rates of the sedimentary body of the buried Black Sea basin are presented. Their temporal evolution reflects the regional paleogeodynamics, in particular, the reorientation of the vector of the relative movement of the Arabian and Eurasian lithospheric plates and the related intensification of their collision in the late Miocene-Pliocene.     

Variability of the nutrient runoff of the rivers of the Arctic Basin

The spatiotemporal variability of the hydrochemical composition of the riverine runoff in nearmouth areas is presented using the example of selected rivers of the Arctic Basin. The temporal dynamics of the riverine nutrient runoff are mainly determined by the seasonal and interseasonal variations in the drainage basins. The spatial variations in the chemical composition of riverine waters in the near-mouth areas are mainly caused by the dynamics of the water flow and the river bed relief and, to a lesser degree, by biochemical processes. It is shown that the variations in the nutrient composition of the waters in near-mouth areas are comparable in magnitude to those at the river-sea geochemical barriers.