OceanologyPub 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
{"title":"Morphometry of Ice Scours in the Southwestern Kara Sea","authors":"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","doi":"10.1134/s0001437024700103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437024700103","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>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 <i>Akademik Nikolaj Strakhov</i> 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.</p>","PeriodicalId":54692,"journal":{"name":"Oceanology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141531383","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}
OceanologyPub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024700036
E. O. Dubinina, S. A. Kossova, A. A. Osadchiev, Yu. N. Chizhova, A. S. Avdeenko
{"title":"Sources of Freshwater Components in Western Part of the Bering Sea According to Isotope (δ18О, δD) Data","authors":"E. O. Dubinina, S. A. Kossova, A. A. Osadchiev, Yu. N. Chizhova, A. S. Avdeenko","doi":"10.1134/s0001437024700036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437024700036","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>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 (δ<sup>18</sup>О, 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: δ<sup>18</sup>О = [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 δ<sup>18</sup>О = –0.61‰ and δD = –5.4‰.</p>","PeriodicalId":54692,"journal":{"name":"Oceanology","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141520532","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}
OceanologyPub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024700140
M. V. Flint, S. G. Poyarkov, N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, N. J. Knivel, A. Yu. Miroshnikov
{"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}
OceanologyPub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024700139
A. Zabanbark, L. I. Lobkovsky
{"title":"Geological Structure and Prospects of the Oil-And-Gas-Bearing Mozambique Continental Margin","authors":"A. Zabanbark, L. I. Lobkovsky","doi":"10.1134/s0001437024700139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437024700139","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>The principal basins on the Mozambique continental margin are the Mozambique and Rovuma, on the passive continental margin with complex tectonic history, following after the East African Rift System in the Triassic. Although the first gas fields in the coastal zone of the Indian Ocean in southeast Mozambique are appeared yet in the 1960s, only in 2010, did Mozambique achieve a new status as a major world hydrocarbon player—with the discovery of a number of large gas fields in the northeast of the country, in deep-water regions of the Indian Ocean, and in the Rovuma Basin. More than 20 recently discovered gas fields are located in deep-water regions and on the continental slope of the Indian Ocean at depths of 468–2610 m. It is noteworthy that the pays of the same age, the deeper they are buried beneath the water column, the greater their volume of hydrocarbon reserves. A similar trend may help in the case of targeted oil and gas exploration. The prospects of liquid hydrocarbon discoveries are possible in the Madagascar channel behind the Davie Ridge and in deep-water parts on the slopes of the Mozambique continental margin.</p>","PeriodicalId":54692,"journal":{"name":"Oceanology","volume":"176 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141520538","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}
OceanologyPub Date : 2024-05-14DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024020103
N. D. Romanova, M. A. Boltenkova, E. M. Bezzubova
{"title":"Bacterioplankton in the Western Kara Sea","authors":"N. D. Romanova, M. A. Boltenkova, E. M. Bezzubova","doi":"10.1134/s0001437024020103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437024020103","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">\u0000<b>Abstract</b>—</h3><p>This paper reports data on the structural and production characteristics of bacterioplankton in the western Kara Sea at the beginning and middle of summer. On the slope of the St. Anna Trough, the average prokaryote abundance in the water column was 594–708 × 10<sup>3</sup> cells mL<sup>−1</sup> (26.4–36.5 mgC m<sup>–3</sup>) in June and 247–517 × 10<sup>3</sup> cells mL<sup>−1</sup> (12–28 mgC m<sup>–3</sup>) at the beginning of August. On the transect along the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, the average bacterioplankton abundance in the water column was 186–554 × 10<sup>3</sup> cells mL<sup>−1</sup> (8.5–30 mgC m<sup>–3</sup>) within a week after the seasonal ice retreat and 169–443 × 10<sup>3</sup> cells mL<sup>−1</sup> (8–21 mgC m<sup>–3</sup>) in midsummer. The specific bacterial growth rate did not exceed 1.28 day<sup>–1</sup>; high values were observed in the upper warm water layer, above the halocline, and also in near-bottom water. At the beginning of summer, the bacterioplankton production tended to decrease in the northeast direction. The prokaryote abundance distribution was associated with water temperature and oxygen saturation possibly as an indirect indicator of the past phytoplankton bloom.</p>","PeriodicalId":54692,"journal":{"name":"Oceanology","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140931019","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}
OceanologyPub Date : 2024-05-14DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024020061
N. N. Dunaev, I. O. Leont’yev, T. Yu. Repkina
{"title":"State and Forecast of Development of the Shallow Sandy Coast of a Tidal Sea (A Case Study of Madagascar)","authors":"N. N. Dunaev, I. O. Leont’yev, T. Yu. Repkina","doi":"10.1134/s0001437024020061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437024020061","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>Currently, most seashores are experiencing increased erosion and retreat. To a large extent, this applies to coasts subjected to the influence of high-amplitude sea tides, which is extremely negatively manifested on the accumulative coasts of oceanic islands. The problem of their dynamics, the theoretical foundations of which are still in the development stage, can only be solved on the basis of wide-regional studies. This study is aimed at elucidating the specific features of the dynamics of such a coast with a case study of the key region of a large oceanic island. The main reasons for its degradation are identified, recommendations are given for stabilizing the coastline, and the development trend according to the natural scenario is considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":54692,"journal":{"name":"Oceanology","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140941951","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}
OceanologyPub Date : 2024-05-14DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024020140
V. V. Zhmur
{"title":"On the Similarity of Quasi-Geostrophic Vortices Against the Background of Large-Scale Barotropic Currents","authors":"V. V. Zhmur","doi":"10.1134/s0001437024020140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437024020140","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>The paper proposes a theory of similarity of quasi-geostrophic vortices against the background of large-scale flows. This information is useful when planning laboratory and numerical experiments to study mesoscale and submesoscale vortex dynamics of vortices interacting with currents. Special attention is paid to studying geometric similarity of phenomena. It is revealed that the complete set of dimensionless similarity numbers of baroclinic vortices includes four dimensionless parameters: the dimensionless intensity of the vortex, the geometric similarity of the background flow (the ratio of the relative vorticity to the deformation coefficient of the background flow), the coefficient of horizontal stretching of the vortex core, and the coefficient of vertical oblateness of the vortex core coinciding with the Burger number. To describe the similarity of barotropic vortices against the background of barotropic flows, the number of necessary dimensionless parameters is reduced by one number: the coefficient of vertical oblateness of the vortex core is eliminated from consideration. When studying axisymmetric vortices or vortex structures close to axisymmetric, another geometric parameter of the vortex is eliminated from consideration—the coefficient of horizontal stretching of the vortex core. As a result, the maximum possible set of similarity parameters includes four dimensionless numbers, and the minimum is two.</p>","PeriodicalId":54692,"journal":{"name":"Oceanology","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140931161","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}
OceanologyPub Date : 2024-05-14DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024020024
E. G. Arashkevich, A. V. Drits, A. F. Pasternak, S. E. Frenkel, V. A. Karmanov
{"title":"Relationship between Respiration Rate and Body Weight in Arctic Copepods at Subzero Temperature","authors":"E. G. Arashkevich, A. V. Drits, A. F. Pasternak, S. E. Frenkel, V. A. Karmanov","doi":"10.1134/s0001437024020024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437024020024","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>The dependence of the respiration rate (<i>R</i>) on an animal’s weight (<i>W</i>) is described by the equation <i>R</i> = <i>aW</i> <sup><i>b</i></sup>, where the exponential coefficient <i>b</i> is usually taken equal to 3/4. However, several authors have indicated that the value of coefficient <i>b</i> may vary with temperature changes, as well as during ontogeny. In Arctic seas, copepods spend most of their lives at temperatures below or close to zero. Meanwhile, there are very few respiration rate measurements at temperature ≤ 0°C, which does not allow us to estimate the value of coefficient <i>b</i> at subzero temperature. The study was carried out on three cruises of the R/V <i>Akademik Mstislav Keldysh</i> in the Siberian Arctic seas in 2018–2020. Copepods caught from the sea were adapted to the experimental temperature and placed in tightly capped vials filled with filtered seawater for 24 h. The oxygen concentration was measured with a fiber-optic oxygen probe. The results of 120 respiration rate measurements and 111 body carbon measurements in five species of copepods at a temperature of –1.5°C are presented. The obtained relationship between body carbon content (<i>W</i>) and prosome length (<i>L</i>) is described by the equation <i>W</i> = 6.982<i>L</i><sup>3.221</sup>, and the dependence of respiration on body weight is described by the equation <i>R</i> = 0.077<i>W</i> <sup>0.753</sup>. No effect of subzero temperature on coefficient <i>b</i> was revealed. The parameters of regression <i>R</i>(<i>W</i>) did not change with the ontogenetic development of <i>Calanus glacialis</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":54692,"journal":{"name":"Oceanology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140931154","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}
OceanologyPub Date : 2024-05-14DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024020127
E. A. Streltsova, N. A. Belyaev, V. Y. Fedulov, E. M. Pushkareva
{"title":"Grain Size Distribution, Organic Carbon, and Geochemical Markers in the Surface Layer of Bottom Sediments in the Northeastern Kara Sea","authors":"E. A. Streltsova, N. A. Belyaev, V. Y. Fedulov, E. M. Pushkareva","doi":"10.1134/s0001437024020127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437024020127","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>The upper layer of bottom sediments in the northeastern Kara Sea is studied. It is shown that the sediment composition is dominated by silt, while the percentage of sand increases towards the coast. The organic carbon content (average value 1.1 wt %) is close to the average content in Kara Sea sediments, increasing at deep-sea stations. The linear correlation found between the organic carbon content and surface area of sediments shows adsorption on particle surfaces and is the predominant form of organic matter (OM) accumulation in the sediments. The average n-alkane concentration in the analyzed samples is 1.1 μg/g of sediment; the distribution spectrum is dominated by odd high-molecular homologues of terrigenous origin.</p>","PeriodicalId":54692,"journal":{"name":"Oceanology","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140931017","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}
OceanologyPub Date : 2024-05-14DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024020097
I. P. Medvedev, T. N. Ivelskaya, A. B. Rabinovich, E. S. Tsukanova, A. Yu. Medvedeva
{"title":"Observations of Tsunami Waves on the Pacific Coast of Russia Originating from the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai Volcanic Eruption on January 15, 2022","authors":"I. P. Medvedev, T. N. Ivelskaya, A. B. Rabinovich, E. S. Tsukanova, A. Yu. Medvedeva","doi":"10.1134/s0001437024020097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437024020097","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption on January 15, 2022 generated a tsunami that affected the entire Pacific Ocean. Tsunami waves from the event have been generated both by incoming waves from the source area with a long-wave speed in the ocean of ~200–220 m/s, and by an atmospheric wave propagating at a sound speed of ~315 m/s. Such a dual source mechanism created a serious problem and was a real challenge for the Pacific tsunami warning services. The work of the Russian Tsunami Warning Service (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) during this event is considered in detail. The tsunami was clearly recorded on the coasts of the Northwest Pacific and in the adjacent marginal seas, including the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Bering Sea. We examined high-resolution records (1-min sampling) of 20 tide gauges and 8 air pressure stations in this region for the period of January 14–17, 2022. On the Russian coast, the highest waves, with a trough-to-crest wave height of 1.3 m, were recorded at Malokurilskoe (Shikotan Island) and Vodopadnaya (southeastern coast of Kamchatka). Using numerical simulation and data analysis methods, we were able to separate oceanic “gravity” tsunami waves from propagating atmospheric pressure waves. In general, we found that on the outer (oceanic) coasts and southern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, oceanic tsunami waves prevailed, while on the coast of the Sea of Japan, oceanic and atmospheric tsunami waves had similar heights.</p>","PeriodicalId":54692,"journal":{"name":"Oceanology","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140931157","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}