Observations of the Fawn Trough Current over the Kerguelen Plateau from instrumented elephant seals

Due to its great meridional extent and relatively shallow depths, the Kerguelen Plateau constitutes a major barrier to the eastward flowing Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean. While most of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport is deflected north of the Kerguelen Islands, the remainder ( 50 Sv, 1 Sv = 10⁶ m³ s^− 1) must pass south of the islands, most probably through the Fawn and Princess Elizabeth Troughs. However, the paucity of finely resolved quasi-synoptic hydrographic data in this remote and infrequently sampled area has limited the progress in our knowledge of the regional circulation. Since 2004, a new approach using elephant seals from the Kerguelen Islands as autonomous oceanographic profilers has provided new information on the hydrography over the Kerguelen Plateau, covering the entire Antarctic Zone between the Polar Front and Antarctica, with a mean along-track resolution of about 25 km. These finely resolved bio-logged data revealed details of a strong northeastward current found across the Fawn Trough (sill depth: 2600 m; 56°S, 78°E). This so-called Fawn Trough Current transports cold Antarctic waters found mostly south of the Elan Bank, between the Ice Limit (58°S) and the Antarctic Divergence (64°S) in the eastern Enderby Basin, toward the Australian–Antarctic Basin. Our analysis also demonstrates that the Deep Western Boundary Current, which carries cold Antarctic water along the eastern flank of the southern Kerguelen Plateau collides with Fawn Trough Current at the outlet of the Fawn Trough sill. In other words, the Fawn Trough constitutes a veritable bottleneck, channelling the quasi-totality of the Antarctic Circumpolar flow found south of the Polar Front. Thanks to the unprecedented fine resolution of seal-borne data, a branch of flow centered at the Winter Water isotherm of 1 °C is also revealed along the northern escarpment of the Elan Bank, and then along the southern edge of Heard Island. Further analysis of different supplementary data reveals a complex circulation pattern in the entire Enderby Basin, with several distinctive branches of flow being strongly controlled by prominent topographic features such as the Southwest Indian Ridge, Conrad Rise, Elan Bank, and Kerguelen Plateau. This newly emerged frontal structure refines considerably previous large-scale circulation schematics of the area.     

HX_D1型机车制动空气管路冲脱分析及改进方案

根据橡胶密封式管接头的作用原理和使用要求,对HXD1型机车制动空气管路冲脱故障产生的原因进行分析。从结构上对橡胶密封式管接头进行改进,并提出采用卡套式管接头代替橡胶密封式管接头的建议。     

谈物流外包策略

随着信息技术的发展,新的物流服务形式不断出现,企业可以更专注于其具有竞争力的核心业务,而将其他的商业活动外包给物流服务提供商来完成。通过外包,企业可减少成本,节约投资,并不断地改善服务和技术水平。但同时,物流外包会使企业对物流活动的控制力减弱,因此在采用物流外包策略的时候必须考虑外包的成本和改变员工的观念。     

纳米化对1Cr17不锈钢耐高温氧化的影响

喷丸处理可以使铁素体不锈钢1Cr17实现表面自身纳米化.对不同工艺的试样进行在高温空气介质中的耐氧化试验,结果表明1Cr17不锈钢经纳米化喷丸后,在氧化20 h后材料的表面可以形成一层富Cr的致密的内氧化物层,有效的防止了材料的进一步氧化.喷丸后又经过退火的试样,在氧化12 h时表面就形成了一层致密的内氧化物层,因为退火可以有效地释放因为喷丸而产生的压应力,可以更好地促进Cr向表面的扩散,更快的在合金表面形成富Cr的氧化物,从而显著提高了合金的抗高温氧化性.     

新巴拿马型散货船系泊系统推荐布置

针对巴拿马运河扩建后,通航运河的散货船增多,前期建造的散货船由于系泊系统不合要求,不能通过运河的情况,根据巴拿马运河管理局2021年颁布的航运通告对系泊系统的布置要求,对某改造及新造两系列散货船,依次从艏、舯、艉部给出系泊系统的推荐布置,运营结果表明,船舶系泊系统布置方案满足相关规则及船东要求.     

智能马达控制中心在海洋平台设计中的应用

介绍一种利用新型智能电机过载继电器E3 PLUS、现场通信总线DeviceNet及PLC等技术相结合的船舶智能马达控制系统,阐述智能马达控制中心(Smart MCC)的工作原理、功能及应用实例,该系统可以提供电机多种故障检测和诊断功能以及计算机集中控制,使马达控制系统逐步向自动化集成型发展,系统的性能和可靠性高,能最大限度地降低船舶整体运行成本,提高运行效率.     

ZK4型电空转辙机锁闭性能改进探讨

针对目前ZK4型电空转辙机存在的锁闭问题进行分析,并对主要问题的应对措施进行介绍,为实际应用提供理论指导。     

Estimates of vertical mixing during a Lagrangian experiment off the Galician coast

An adjoint 1-D model was used to determine vertical diffusivity coefficients from temperature profiles collected within a filament escaping from the Galician coast following an upwelling event. The optimisation scheme ended with relatively high diffusivity values within the thermocline (9×10⁻⁵ m² s⁻¹). Such high values are relevant for biogeochemical exchanges between surface and deep waters in stratified areas.The optimised values were several orders of magnitude higher than the bulk of diffusivity measurements recorded with a free-falling device; however, the optimisation solution was consistent with the arithmetic mean of the measurements in the thermocline (7.7×10⁻⁵ m² s⁻¹), giving more weight to the few largest values. Below the thermocline, the data assimilation method failed because of the three-dimensional nature of the advective field of the upwelling system. Ignoring this advective forcing in the model led to estimates that were two orders of magnitude too high.The results suggest that turbulent mixing is a random process where a few intense events determine the average mixing that drives the long-term evolution of the water column structure. This statistical property is very important when one wants to use instantaneous diffusivity measurements for modelling purposes.     

我国汽车产业循环经济模式的研究

在借鉴和总结国内外汽车产业在生态设计、减量化制造、废旧汽车回收再利用等方面的先进经验基础上,提出了汽车产业实施循环经济的"4R"原则,按产品生命周期的不同阶段分别探讨了实施循环经济的有效途径,并结合我国的实际特点,提出了相关的政策建议。     

基于卡尔曼滤波的4WD电动车辆寄生功率的测量技术

根据串励直流电动机工作特性,利用车辆行驶过程中较易测得的驱动电机工作电流及驱动轮转速,运用MATLAB/SIMULINK软件,建立基于卡尔曼滤波的驱动轮滑转率模型和寄生功率模型并进行仿真;通过道路试验对电动机工作电流和驱动轮转速的检测,实时预测驱动轮的滑转率与产生的寄生功率。结果表明,驱动轮滑转率和寄生功率的仿真结果与试验结果非常接近。