期刊
ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE
卷 206, 期 -, 页码 76-86出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2016.11.008
关键词
Sediment erodibility; Critical shear stress for erosion; lntratidal bed-level change; Fined-grain sediment; Intertidal mudflat
资金
- Major State Basic Research Development Program [2013CB956502]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [41576090, 41376044]
- Nature Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20130569]
Understanding of bottom sediment erodibility is necessary for the sustainable management and protection of coastlines, and is of great importance for numerical models of sediment dynamics and transport. To investigate the dependence of sediment erodibility on degree of consolidation, we measured turbidity, waves, tidal currents, intratidal bed-level changes, and sediment properties on an exposed macrotidal mudflat during a series of tidal cycles. We estimated the water content of surface sediments (in the uppermost 2 cm of sediment) and sub-surface sediments (at 2 cm below the sediment surface). Bed shear stress values due to currents (tau(c)), waves (tau(w)), and combined current wave action (tau(cw)) were calculated using a hydrodynamic model. In this study, we estimate the critical shear stress for erosion using two approaches and both of them give similar results. We found that the critical shear stress for erosion (tau(ce)) was 0.17-0.18 N/m(2) in the uppermost 0-2 cm of sediment and 0.29 Nm(2) in subsurface sediment layers (depth, 2 cm), as determined by time series of tau(cw), values and intratidal bed-level changes, and values of tau(ce), obtained using the water content of bottom sediments, were 0.16 N/m(2) in the uppermost 2 cm and 0.28 N/m(2) in the sub-surface (depth, 2 cm) sediment. These results indicate that the value of tau(ce) for sub-surface sediments (depth, 2 cm) is much greater than that for the uppermost sediments (depth, 0-2 cm), and that the tau(ce) value is mainly related to the water content, which is determined by the extent of consolidation. Our results have implications for improving the predictive accuracy of models of sediment transport and morphological evolution, by introducing variable tau(ce) values for corresponding sediment layers, and can also provide a mechanistic understanding of bottom sediment erodibility at different sediment depths on intertidal mudflats, as related to differences in the consolidation time. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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