Showing papers in "Continental Shelf Research in 2001"

TL;DR: The preliminary conclusion can be drawn that warming will cause a northern shift of distribution limits for both species with a rise in growth performance and fecundity larger than expected from the Q10 effect in the north and lower growth or even extinction of the species in the south.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors computed the three-dimensional cyclonic circulation for the Yellow and Bohai Seas in a series of six bimonthly realizations, including seasonal hydrography, seasonal mean wind and river input, and oceanic tides.

TL;DR: The Tinto and Odiel rivers are small, with a combined mean discharge of 18m 3/s, and are strongly acidic (pH < 3) with extremely high and variable metal concentrations.

TL;DR: In this article, liver, liver, gill and gonad tissue were analysed for arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury and zinc by various atomic absorption techniques.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine field studies and laboratory experiments in order to assess the importance of salt induced flocculation in the case of the saltwedge estuary of the Rhone river.

TL;DR: In this article, the seabed morphology and sedimentary regime in this area result primarily from sediment deposition during the last glacial, modified by erosion and re-distribution of surficial sediments during the Holocene.

TL;DR: In this article, detailed measurements of suspended sediment concentration and particle size profiles were collected using a multi-frequency acoustic backscatter system in the river Taw estuary, UK, over a sandy rippled bed.

TL;DR: Particulate matter (PM) distribution in the NW Aegean Sea (Eastern Mediterranean) over a series of four seasons was studied in this article, showing that PM concentrations in the surface and bottom nepheloid layers exhibit persistent maxima close to river mouths; the rivers are identified as the major sources of PM.

TL;DR: The Atchafalaya sediment samples from seven shallow cross-shelf transects were analyzed during three sampling periods to determine the distribution of organic matter along the shelf and to evaluate the temporal variability of its deposition as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the Chao Phraya River estuarine mixing zone was used to study the flux of dissolved Ba, 226 Ra and 228 Ra to the Gulf of Thailand.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used satellite ocean color data from the coastal zone color scanner (CZCS) data to calculate cross-shelf transects of phytoplankton pigment concentrations in the California Current and quantify their seasonal and interannual variability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined flooding of the North Adriatic coast through 14 years of hourly sea-level data, recorded at Bakar, and the threshold-exceeding sea levels were studied in respect to four major components: (i) tides, (ii) elevations generated by synoptic and smaller-scale meteorological disturbances, (iii) low-frequency oscillations (0.01)

TL;DR: In this article, a thermistor chain mooring was used to observe non-linear internal waves propagating onto the Portuguese shelf for one month during the summer upwelling season, during which the arrival time of the waves relative to local high water varied by over 5h during the month and was closely correlated with wind events.

TL;DR: In this paper, a forced oscillation model for the Gulf of Riga and the Vainameri is presented, where the response to wind stress and the open sea level is modelled using motion equations with a quadratic bottom friction for the narrow channel.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of sediment lift off under sheared and zero-mean flow turbulence were compared in the Gulf of Lyon, showing that lower boundary Reynolds stresses are required for sediment bed of equal characteristics than in shear-induced flows, indicating the dominant role of r.m.s. velocity fluctuations at the sediment bed.

TL;DR: Exmouth Gulf is a shallow (mean depth 11.9m, 2600 km 2 area) inverse estuarine embayment on the northwest shelf of Australia, with a catchment area of 6400 km 2 with low human and livestock populations in an arid climate as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a two-layer KdV theory for the mass transport due to the waves, which relates transport to the elevation of the interface and the linear long wave phase speed, is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 3.5 kHz continuous subbottom profiling system was used to survey the cyclades plateau with side-scan sonar and 3D-MMD.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple point model of wind-wave conditions (calculated using the JONSWAP wave-growth formulations), wave-induced bottom orbital velocities (linear Airy and Stokes theory) and waveinduced sand-transport magnitudes and directions (Bailard bed-load transport formulation) in the southern North Sea is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential for sediment transport in the Storfjord, east of Hopen Island, and in Olgastretet in the Barents Sea near the southeast Svalbard Archipelago was evaluated.

TL;DR: Samples of sediment collected from the seabed by the British Geological Survey (BGS) have been analysed to measure their concentrations of metals as mentioned in this paper, which can be used to assess the inputs of metals to the marine environment due to human activities and contribute to assessments of the environment prior to the main phase of industrial activity at the Atlantic margin.

TL;DR: In this article, an existing, local, one-dimensional vertical (1DV), one-equation turbulent kinetic energy (k) numerical model is extended to study the eects of (i) graded sediment sizes, (ii) turbulence damping and (iii) hindered settling, on the suspended sediment concentration beneath large symmetrical waves, and also on sediment transport rates under large asymmetrical waves.

TL;DR: In this article, a three dimensional σ-coordinate model has been implemented for simulating the circulation in Saltfjorden, Saltstraumen and Skjerstadføorden.

TL;DR: In this article, an approximate but computationally exact model is presented for evaluating the inundation characteristics of significant wave groups which propagate almost orthogonally to the coast on straight beaches.

TL;DR: In this paper, the long-term average flux of water, salt, nutrients and oxygen from the Arkona Basin towards the Baltic Sea is calculated based on an assumption of geostrophic flow and utilises historical hydrographical/hydrochemical profiles from two stations situated in the western (BY1) and eastern (BY2) part of the Arkola Basin.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the trace metal content of fine sand (250-63mm), silt and clay (the dominant source of particles was Nile derived material) to determine whether observed trends in total trace metal contents were natural or due to anthropogenic inputs.

TL;DR: In this paper, a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model covering the area off the west coast of Scotland and part of the ocean beyond, and extending south through the North Channel and into the Irish Sea is used to examine wind-driven and oceanically forced currents in the region.

TL;DR: This study presents the first report on Dinophysis sensu lato species composition and spatio-temporal distribution in these essentially oligotrophic waters of the Adriatic Sea and evidenced significant correlations to chlorophyll a and phytoplankton.

TL;DR: In this paper, eight concrete land-based mesocosms have been set up for a study of the effect of nutrient enrichment on littoral hard bottom ecosystems, where Oxygen concentration, temperature and salinity are measured continuously by probes.