Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2019, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (1): 27-34.doi: 10.11978/2018044CSTR: 32234.14.2018044

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Relationship of tidal level and different tidal species in complex river networks

Lizhen QIN1,2(), Wei ZHANG1,2(), Mingkai GUAN3, Sheng ZHAO4, Liangqiu CHENG5   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Coastal Disaster and Defence (Hohai University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210098, China
    2. College of Harbour, Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
    3. Shanghai Investigation Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. Fujian Branch, Fuzhou 350001, China;
    4. Department of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
    5. Guiyang Investigation and Design Institute of Power Construction Corporation of China, Guiyang 550081, China;
  • Received:2018-04-18 Revised:2018-06-29 Online:2019-01-16 Published:2019-01-16
  • Supported by:
    National Key Research Program of China (2017YFC0405900);National Natural Science Foundation of China (41676078)

Abstract:

The surface level variation greatly depends on semidiurnal and diurnal tidal species in the estuaries of irregularly semidiurnal tides. However, fortnightly tidal species have a great impact on the mean water surface topography upriver due to substantial difference in damping of the main different tidal species. Therefore, the effect of different tidal species on tidal level distribution has obviously regional characteristics when tides propagate into deltaic river networks. In this paper, a one-dimensional flow model of the Pearl River networks was used to obtain a series of high-frequency and long-period tidal levels. Then, spatial distributions of the four main tidal species in the study area were obtained for further study by continuous wavelet transformation (CWT) and reconstruction. Finally, a new pixel affinity for spectral image segmentation was employed to compare the similarity between two figures, which implied a spatial correlation of tidal species and tidal level distribution in the complex river network. The results showed that surface level variation is influenced by semi-diurnal and diurnal tidal species near the outlets, while mean water surface topography is influenced by fortnightly tidal species in the complex river network.

Key words: amplitude of tidal species, continuous wavelet transport, complex river network, a one-dimensional flow model of river network, the Pearl River delta