AVHRR satellite remote sensing and shipboard measurements of the thermal plume from the Daya Bay, nuclear power station, China

Ecosystem-Based Assessment Indices of Restoration for Daya Bay near a Nuclear Power Plant in South China

“…The area near DNPP experienced rapid development including petrochemical, shipping, marine culture, and fishing, thus residual levels of total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH), heavy metal (Hg) (36), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and artificial radionuclides (e.g., 90 Sr or 137 Cs) in benthic molluscs will give a judgment of the main sources of stress to restoration. As shown in Figure S (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27), sharp fluctuations are seen in both the biomass and seafood qualities. Despite the increase in zooplankton biomass, phytoplankton decreased by 99.4% in 2007, and benthic biomass in 2008 dropped to 27.3% of the baseline.…”

Retrieval of Sea Surface Temperature from MODIS Data in Coastal Waters

“…Sea surface temperature (SST) measurements retrieved from remote images are used to analyze these valuable and vulnerable habitats, e.g., environmental conditions of benthic marine organisms [6,7], ground water discharges [8], interactions between residual circulation, tidal mixing and fresh influence [9], karstic springs [10], river plumes [11], thermal plume contamination [12][13][14], upwelling phenomena [15], and water quality [16]. Nevertheless, error, defined as the difference between some idealized "true value" and the measured value [17], in SST measurements is highlighted in different coastal regions by several studies, e.g., China [13], Western Australia [7], South Africa [18], and the US [7].…”

Effects of the Operating Nuclear Power Plant on Marine Ecology and Environment - A Case Study of Daya Bay in China

“…Many international programs and projects have been launched to address the problems confronting the world's coastal ecosystems and biological resources (YanezArancibia et al, 1999;Huang et al, 2003). Tang et al (2003) applied AVHRR data to the study of thermal plume from power plant at Daya Bay. Satellite remote sensing can provide information on the distribution and seasonal variation of thermal plumes from nuclear power plants that discharge cooling waters to the coastal zone.…”

“…The annual mean biomasses of benthic animals ranged from 55.70 g m -2 to 148.91 g m -2 ranging from 1982 to 2004 (Table 5). The lowest mean biomass of the benthic animal in Daya Bay was found to occur during 1990-1997, which was the largest foreign investment along the Daya Bay coast (Zang, 1993;Wang et al, 2006Wang et al, , 2008Wang et al, , 2011Tang et al, 2003 (Table 6). The maximum biomass in the year mainly occurred at the northeast and middle parts of Daya Bay, those were living areas of the mollusca (Xu, 1989;Wang et al, 2008Wang et al, , 2011.…”