A novel cross‐shore transport mechanism revealed by subsurface, robotic larval mimics: Internal wave deformation of the background velocity field
A novel cross‐shore transport mechanism revealed by subsurface, robotic larval mimics: Internal wave deformation of the background velocity field
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地下机器人幼虫模仿揭示了一种新颖的跨岸运输机制:背景速度场的内波变形
DOI:
10.1002/lno.11400
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Franks, Peter J. S.
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作者:
Garwood, Jessica C.;Lucas, Andrew J.;Naughton, Perry;Alford, Matthew H.;Roberts, Paul L. D.;Jaffe, Jules S.;deGelleke, Laura;Franks, Peter J. S.
Coastal physical processes are essential for the cross‐shore transport of meroplanktonic larvae to their benthic adult habitats. To investigate these processes, we released a swarm of novel, trackable, subsurface vehicles, the Mini‐Autonomous Underwater Explorers (M‐AUEs), which we programmed to mimic larval depth‐keeping behavior. The M‐AUE swarm measured a sudden net onshore transport of 30–70 m over 15–20 min, which we investigated in detail. Here, we describe a novel transport mechanism of depth‐keeping plankton revealed by these observations. In situ measurements and models showed that, as a weakly nonlinear internal wave propagated through the swarm, it deformed surface‐intensified, along‐isopycnal background velocities downward, accelerating depth‐keeping organisms onshore. These higher velocities increased both the depth‐keepers' residence time in the wave and total cross‐shore displacement, leading to wave‐induced transports twice those of fully Lagrangian organisms and four times those associated with the unperturbed background currents. Our analyses also show that integrating velocity time series from virtual larvae or mimics moving with the flow yields both larger and more accurate transport estimates than integrating velocity time series obtained at a point (Eulerian). The increased cross‐shore transport of organisms capable of vertical swimming in this wave/background‐current system is mathematically analogous to the increase in onshore transport associated with horizontal swimming in highly nonlinear internal waves. However, the mechanism described here requires much weaker swimming speeds (mm s−1vs. cm s−1) to achieve significant onshore transports, and meroplanktonic larvae only need to orient themselves vertically, not horizontally.
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影响因子:
2.5
作者:
A. Shanks;L. Brink
通讯作者:
L. Brink
DOI:
10.1016/0011-7471(71)90124-0
发表时间:
1971
期刊:
Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts
影响因子:
--
作者:
C. Wunsch
通讯作者:
C. Wunsch
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
T. S. Bremer;H. Yassin;B. Sutherland
通讯作者:
B. Sutherland
DOI:
--
发表时间:
1979
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
W. Peterson;Charles B. Miller;A. Hutchinson
通讯作者:
A. Hutchinson
影响因子:
4.5
作者:
Franks, PJS
通讯作者:
Franks, PJS