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RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
卷 28, 期 7, 页码 893-907出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1485
关键词
thermal stratification; environmental flow; HEC-RAS; HEC-GeoRAS; hydraulic modelling; layer Richardson number
资金
- NSW Office of Water
- Sydney Catchment Authority
Reduced mixing of deep pools attributable to river regulation and downstream flow suppression can lead to an increase in the magnitude, frequency and duration of thermal stratification in riverine pools over summer. This study monitored hourly temperature profiles with five thermistor loggers in a 15?m deep natural pool over 12 months from May 2005. Detailed bathymetric and topographic survey data and HEC-RAS hydraulic modelling of layer Richardson numbers were used to extend thermistor observations of flow-related stratification breakdown in this single deep pool to a 20?km long pool-riffle dominated river reach below the dam. Reach-wide breakdown of persistent thermal stratification in deep pools over spring and summer was likely to be achieved by a flow rate of 3000?ML?day-1. This flow rate approximates the long-term mean annual natural flow (2860?ML?day-1) and the 16th flow duration percentile (mean daily flows equalled or exceeded for 16% of time), indicating that thermal stratification of the deepest pools in the Shoalhaven River is a common, natural phenomenon not solely attributable to river regulation. Should reasonably consistent hydraulic geometry relationships exist between low salinity rivers in similar climatic, hydrologic and geomorphic settings, then we suggest that the mean annual natural flow is likely to achieve widespread breakdown of thermal stratification across lengthy reaches of similar pool-riffle sequence rivers elsewhere. Hourly mean wind speeds of up to 65?km?h-1 recorded at an automated weather station 25?km from the study site were found to suppress of the degree of thermal stratification in the study pool but did not achieve deep mixing of persistent seasonal thermoclines. Large, rapid and sustained air temperature decreases associated with the passage of cold fronts across southeastern Australia in summer were found to be more effective than wind and achieved mixing to depths of at least 4.2?m. Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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