The Impact of Nearshore Eddies on the Design of Marine Environmental Monitoring Sites

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10.2991/rsete.2013.130How to use a DOI?

Keywords

marine monitoring, observational sites, eddy, numerical model, FVCOM

Abstract

Design of the in-situ observational sites depends on topography and hydrodynamic characteristics in the observational region, which is significantly important in marine environmental monitoring and evaluation. The tidal motion in Jiaozhou Bay and Aoshan Bay is simulated in this study using the unstructured grid, finite-volume coastal ocean model (FVCOM). With an accurate geometric representation of irregular coastlines and islands and sufficiently high horizontal resolution in narrow channels, FVCOM provides an accurate simulation of the tidal current in the bays and also resolves the strong tidal flushing processes in the narrow channels. There exist many small-scale eddies due to the interaction of tidal flushing and complex coastlines. Small-scale eddies formation will cause inhomogeneous distribution of the marine environmental element, then affects design of the in-situ observational sites. We proposed that design of the in-situ observational sites should consider nearshore eddies in order to conform to reality and enhance environmental protection.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xing Wang
AU  - Lunyu Wu
AU  - Hongliang Zhang
AU  - Baolei Li
PY  - 2013/08
DA  - 2013/08
TI  - The Impact of Nearshore Eddies on the Design of Marine Environmental Monitoring Sites
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 the International Conference on Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 536
EP  - 539
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/rsete.2013.130
DO  - 10.2991/rsete.2013.130
ID  - Wang2013/08
ER  -