Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024700115
A. S. Ulyantsev, E. A. Streltsova, A. N. Charkin
Abstract
Based on the results of an analysis of 174 samples of bottom sediments collected at 48 stations in the Chaun Bay during the cruise 60 of the R/V Akademik Oparin (October 2020), it was found that their grain size distribution varies from poorly sorted silty clay to well sorted sand. The results of the study led to conclusion that the main sedimentation mechanisms in Chaun Bay are thermal abrasion, river runoff, and abrasion, as well as ice rafting and aeolian transport. The zoning of grain size types of bottom sediments is related to the bottom topography and consistent with areas affected by riverine runoff, abrasion, and thermal coastal abrasion, as well as with the direction of currents. The high occurrence of coarse clastic matter in sediments is evidence of abrasion of the coastal zone and active ice rafting of large (up to 15 cm) rock fragments. The vertical variability of the grain size parameters of the studied bottom sediments within the upper 20 cm layer reflects gradual Late Holocene intensification of terrigenous (fluvial and thermal abrasion) fluxes with the current effects of climate change in the Arctic.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024700024
V. V. Sterlyadkin
Abstract
Currently, there are no remote methods for recording the instantaneous two-dimensional profile of the sea surface Z(x, y, t) in field conditions, nor are there any methods for recording capillary wave profiles directly on the sea surface. The short-wavelength component of sea waves plays a very important role in radiometry in the formation of the surface’s own radiation and in solving inverse radar problems. This article proposes an optical measurement technique that can measure the parameters of the entire wave spectrum, including capillary waves with amplitude of less than 0.1 mm. However, the author has not yet been able to fully solve the inverse problem of reconstructing the two-dimensional wave profile. The author considered it expedient to formulate this problem and involve the scientific community in its successful solution. Obtaining the profile of sea waves Z(x, y, t) in natural conditions with a high update rate will yield complete information about the characteristics of waves, temporal and spatial spectra of elevations, spectra of slopes; it will also be possible to study the evolution of waves when the wind changes. The possibility of recording and studying the short-wavelength components of waves, including capillary waves, is of particular value.
{"title":"The Problem of Reconstructing the Profile of the Sea Surface from the Video Image of Laser Beams","authors":"V. V. Sterlyadkin","doi":"10.1134/s0001437024700024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437024700024","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>Currently, there are no remote methods for recording the instantaneous two-dimensional profile of the sea surface <i>Z</i>(<i>x</i>, <i>y</i>, <i>t</i>) in field conditions, nor are there any methods for recording capillary wave profiles directly on the sea surface. The short-wavelength component of sea waves plays a very important role in radiometry in the formation of the surface’s own radiation and in solving inverse radar problems. This article proposes an optical measurement technique that can measure the parameters of the entire wave spectrum, including capillary waves with amplitude of less than 0.1 mm. However, the author has not yet been able to fully solve the inverse problem of reconstructing the two-dimensional wave profile. The author considered it expedient to formulate this problem and involve the scientific community in its successful solution. Obtaining the profile of sea waves <i>Z</i>(<i>x</i>, <i>y</i>, <i>t</i>) in natural conditions with a high update rate will yield complete information about the characteristics of waves, temporal and spatial spectra of elevations, spectra of slopes; it will also be possible to study the evolution of waves when the wind changes. The possibility of recording and studying the short-wavelength components of waves, including capillary waves, is of particular value.</p>","PeriodicalId":54692,"journal":{"name":"Oceanology","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141520531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024700048
Yury I. Zuenko
Abstract
Spatial variations of the nutrient concentration along the northwestward stream from the Bering Sea to the Chukchi Sea are considered for dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP) based on data from two surveys conducted in early September 2010 and 2020. The water mass from the Bering Sea has higher DIP than Chukchi Sea water, but in the upper layer its phosphorus is gradually lost due to both mixing with local water and consumption for photosynthesis. In the subsurface layer, the decrease in DIP is prevented by its recycling from degraded organic matter. The fluxes of phosphorus are estimated separately using the balance model with TS analysis, previously used in estuarial studies. Successive DIP utilization along the stream is traced, which forms in the Chukchi Sea two zones of high productivity divided by a wide low-productive zone. Nutrients from the upper layer are utilized within the southwestern Chukchi Sea, resulting in primary production 0.1–0.2 gC m–3 day–1, but the main stock of allochthonous nutrients from the subsurface layer is utilized further downstream (at Wrangel Island or in the northern Chukchi Sea) and results in production of 0.3–0.4 gC m–3 day–1. Localization of high-productive zones is determined by density stratification, which possibly depends on the stream strength: the stronger the advection through Bering Strait, the farther from the strait both zones are located. The recent tendency of strengthening of the stream tends to remove the zones of utilization the nutrients of Pacific origin from the southwestern Chukchi Sea.
{"title":"Utilization of Nutrients Entering Through the Bering Strait to the Southwestern Chukchi Sea with the Example of Mineral Phosphorus","authors":"Yury I. Zuenko","doi":"10.1134/s0001437024700048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437024700048","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>Spatial variations of the nutrient concentration along the northwestward stream from the Bering Sea to the Chukchi Sea are considered for dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP) based on data from two surveys conducted in early September 2010 and 2020. The water mass from the Bering Sea has higher DIP than Chukchi Sea water, but in the upper layer its phosphorus is gradually lost due to both mixing with local water and consumption for photosynthesis. In the subsurface layer, the decrease in DIP is prevented by its recycling from degraded organic matter. The fluxes of phosphorus are estimated separately using the balance model with TS analysis, previously used in estuarial studies. Successive DIP utilization along the stream is traced, which forms in the Chukchi Sea two zones of high productivity divided by a wide low-productive zone. Nutrients from the upper layer are utilized within the southwestern Chukchi Sea, resulting in primary production 0.1–0.2 gC m<sup>–3</sup> day<sup>–1</sup>, but the main stock of allochthonous nutrients from the subsurface layer is utilized further downstream (at Wrangel Island or in the northern Chukchi Sea) and results in production of 0.3–0.4 gC m<sup>–3</sup> day<sup>–1</sup>. Localization of high-productive zones is determined by density stratification, which possibly depends on the stream strength: the stronger the advection through Bering Strait, the farther from the strait both zones are located. The recent tendency of strengthening of the stream tends to remove the zones of utilization the nutrients of Pacific origin from the southwestern Chukchi Sea.</p>","PeriodicalId":54692,"journal":{"name":"Oceanology","volume":"202 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141520533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024700085
A. K. Zalota, A. A. Udalov, M. V. Chikina, D. V. Kondar, I. V. Lyubimov, E. V. Lipukhin, I. M. Anisimov, A. V. Lesin, V. O. Muravya, A. V. Mishin
Abstract
During cruise 89 of the R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh in September–October 2022, search for the snow crab Chionoecetes opilio were conducted in benthic communities of the Kara Sea using a Sigsby bottom trawl and the TUV Videomodule; as well, plankton samples were collected with a Bongo net in order to record crab larvae in the water column. Single large individuals of snow crab were found for the first time in the eastern Kara Sea, on a transect from the Voronin Trough towards the coast of Taimyr, starting at a depth of 490 m. At the same time, not a single crab larva was caught, which indicates penetration of mature crabs into these areas across the bottom. Conversely, in the western part of the sea and in Blagopoluchiya Bay, large numbers of all size groups of C. opilio on the bottom, as well as crab larvae in the water column, were observed. The differences in the speed and nature of the snow crab invasion are explained by the contrast in the ice conditions in the western and eastern Kara Sea. The snow crab population is likely to spread further in the eastern Kara Sea due to trends towards an increase in the ice-free period in the Arctic.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024700103
S. V. Maznev, O. V. Kokin, V. V. Arkhipov, E. A. Moroz, A. P. Denisova, R. A. Ananiev, S. L. Nikiforov, N. O. Sorokhtin, S. V. Godetskiy
Abstract
The ice-gouging topography of bed of the southwestern Kara Sea is the result of the impact of icebergs and sea ice. During cruise 52 of the R/V Akademik Nikolaj Strakhov using a multibeam echo sounder, we collected representative data on the key parameters of ice scours (location, orientation, depth, width) for the first time, which allows us to draw conclusions on a regional scale. We revealed regularities in the spatial and temporal distribution of ice scours and their density in different parts of the seabed. It was revealed that the maximum dimensions of the ice scours decrease with distance from the sources of iceberg calving from NW to SE. The orientation of the ice scours correlates with the main drift directions of icebergs. Most of the ice scours are located at depths up to 220 m and could have formed both at the modern and lower sea levels (in postglacial time). We identified a high degree of seabed transformation by ice-gouging processes in the southwestern Kara Sea.
摘要喀拉海西南部海床的冰刨地形是冰山和海冰撞击的结果。在 Akademik Nikolaj Strakhov 号考察船第 52 次航行期间,我们使用多波束回声测深仪首次收集了冰刨关键参数(位置、方向、深度、宽度)的代表性数据,从而可以得出区域范围的结论。我们揭示了冰蚀的时空分布及其在海底不同区域的密度的规律性。结果表明,冰蚀槽的最大尺寸从西北向东南随着与冰山碎裂源的距离减小而减小。冰蚀槽的方向与冰山的主要漂移方向相关。大多数冰蚀槽位于水深 220 米以下,可能在现代海平面和较低海平面(冰川期后)形成。我们在喀拉海西南部发现了冰刨过程对海床的高度改造。
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Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024700036
E. O. Dubinina, S. A. Kossova, A. A. Osadchiev, Yu. N. Chizhova, A. S. Avdeenko
Abstract
The isotope parameters and sources of freshwater components for the subsurface, intermediate, and deep water of the western Bering Sea were estimated using the isotope (δ18О, δD) data for 177 seawater samples. We show that subsurface, dichothermal and, partially, intermediate water (<1000 m) are freshened by regional precipitation. For these waters, the next equations of relations between delta and salinity values were obtained: δ18О = [0.390 ± 0.018]S – 13.521 ± 0.613 and δD = [3.07 ± 0.08]S – 107 ± 2.74. Deeper (1000–2500 m) water is also freshened by precipitation but from the more southern region (≈40°–45° S). The deepest water (2800–4300 m) retain their isotope signal obtained via freshening by Antarctic glacier ice meltwater. The distribution of isotope parameters with the depth shows that vertical mixing at depths of ≈1000–2500 m takes place. This process should influent the redistribution of nutrients, dissolved oxygen, organic matter, and other components in water of the western Bering Sea. The isotope composition of water passing into the Arctic Ocean halocline (S = 33.1) from the Bering Sea are δ18О = –0.61‰ and δD = –5.4‰.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024700140
M. V. Flint, S. G. Poyarkov, N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, N. J. Knivel, A. Yu. Miroshnikov
Abstract
Cruise 92 of the R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh was organized by Shirshov Institute of Oceanology within the long-standing program “Marine Ecosystems of the Siberian Arctic” October 5–November 7, 2023. A total of 76 scientists from institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, VNIRO, and MES participated in the cruise. Coordinated hydrophysical, hydrochemical, biooceanological, and geochemical research were carried out in the eastern Kara Sea in the period of seasonal ice formation, as well as in the Ob River estuary and fjords of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The conditions of largest radioactive waste disposals in the Kara Sea were evaluated.
{"title":"Ecosystems of the Siberian Arctic Seas–2023: (Cruise 92 of the R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh in the Kara Sea)","authors":"M. V. Flint, S. G. Poyarkov, N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, N. J. Knivel, A. Yu. Miroshnikov","doi":"10.1134/s0001437024700140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437024700140","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>Cruise 92 of the R/V <i>Akademik Mstislav Keldysh</i> was organized by Shirshov Institute of Oceanology within the long-standing program “Marine Ecosystems of the Siberian Arctic” October 5–November 7, 2023. A total of 76 scientists from institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, VNIRO, and MES participated in the cruise. Coordinated hydrophysical, hydrochemical, biooceanological, and geochemical research were carried out in the eastern Kara Sea in the period of seasonal ice formation, as well as in the Ob River estuary and fjords of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The conditions of largest radioactive waste disposals in the Kara Sea were evaluated.</p>","PeriodicalId":54692,"journal":{"name":"Oceanology","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141531385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}