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Classification of Sailboat Tell Tail Based on Deep Learning
The tell tail is usually placed on the triangular sail to display the running state of the air flow on the sail surface. It is of great significance to make accurate judgement on the drift of the tell tail of ...
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Open AccessSea level variability and modeling in the Gulf of Guinea using supervised machine learning
The rising sea levels due to climate change are a significant concern, particularly for vulnerable, low-lying coastal regions like the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). To effectively address this issue, it is crucial to ...
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In-situ detection equipment for radon-in-water: unattended operation and monthly investigations
Radon is recognized as a powerful tracer of certain geophysical processes in marine and aquatic environments. In the past few decades, the instruments and methods for measuring radon concentration in water hav...
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Using radium isotopes to quantify submarine groundwater discharge at different scales in the Huanghe River Estuary, China
As an important land-ocean interaction process, submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is composed of multiple dynamical processes at different scales and plays an important role in the study of coastal ocean g...
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Open AccessA global assessment of the mixed layer in coastal sediments and implications for carbon storage
The sediment-water interface in the coastal ocean is a highly dynamic zone controlling biogeochemical fluxes of greenhouse gases, nutrients, and metals. Processes in the sediment mixed layer (SML) control the ...
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Assessment of the Tidal Current Energy Resources and the Hydrodynamic Impacts of Energy Extraction at the PuHu Channel in Zhoushan Archipelago, China
An unstructured model FVCOM (The Unstructured Grid Finite Volume Community Ocean Model) with sink momentum term was applied to simulate the tidal current field in Zhoushan Archipelago, China, with focus on the...
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Optimization of environmental variables in habitat suitability modeling for mantis shrimp Oratosquilla oratoria in the Haizhou Bay and adjacent waters
Habitat suitability index (HSI) models have been widely used to analyze the relationship between species abundance and environmental factors, and ultimately inform management of marine species. The response of...
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Fungal Community Composition and Potential Depth-Related Driving Factors Impacting Distribution Pattern and Trophic Modes from Epi- to Abyssopelagic Zones of the Western Pacific Ocean
Fungi play an important role in cycling organic matter and nutrients in marine ecosystems. However, the distribution of fungal communities in the ocean, especially the vertical distribution along depth in the ...
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Assessment of tidal range energy resources based on flux conservation in Jiantiao Bay, China
La Rance Tidal Range Power Station in France and Jiangxia Tidal Range Power Station in China have been both long-term successful commercialized operations as kind of role models for public at large for more th...
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Estimation of annual energy output from BCM tidal barrage and the corresponding marine environmental impact
Based on the finite-volume coastal ocean model (FVCOM), a three-dimensional numerical model FVCOM was built to simulate the ocean dynamics in pre-dam and post-dam conditions in Bachimen (BCM). The domain decom...
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Modeling assessment of tidal current energy in the Qiongzhou Strait, China
In the present study, an existing three-dimensional finite volume computational ocean model (FVCOM) was refined and configured including an algorithm for computing the power density and mean power density at Q...
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Tidal characteristics in the Wenzhou offshore waters and changes resulting from the Wenzhou Shoal Reclamation Project
The Wenzhou Shoal Reclamation Project is the core part of Wenzhou Peninsula Engineering which is a big comprehensive development project to expand the city space. The dynamics of the surrounding area was prove...
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A numerical study on the circulation and tide in a zigzag bay
The Shacheng Bay (SCB) is one of the most complex coastal bays in southeast China and due to the fact of complicated geometry and dynamic coastal processes, it is considered as a challenging area for the numer...
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New Unstructured Mesh Water Quality Model for Cooling Water Biocide Discharges
A new unstructured mesh coastal water and air quality model has been developed that includes species transport, nonlinear decay, by-product formation, and mass-exchange between sea and atmosphere. The model ha...
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A numerical study of the barotropic tides and tidal energy distribution in the Indonesian seas with the assimilated finite volume coastal ocean model
The tides and tidal energetics in the Indonesian seas are simulated using a three-dimensional finite volume coastal ocean model. The high-resolution coastline-fitted model is configured to better resolve the h...
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Numerical study of the barotropic responses to a rapidly moving typhoon in the East China Sea
Barotropic responses of the East China Sea to typhoon KOMPASU are investigated using a high-resolution, three-dimensional, primitive equation, and finite volume coastal ocean model. Even the fact that the typh...
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A novel high resolution model without open boundary conditions applied to the China Seas: first investigation on tides
We developed a Global Ocean Circulation and Tide Model (GOCTM) with coarse grids in the open deep ocean degrading ‘smoothly’ into the highly resolved China Seas (CS) of refined grids to study the tides and cir...
