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COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
卷 2, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00213-8
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- MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
- UC Ship Time Program
- MIT Policy Lab
- Fundacion Bancariala Caixa [100010434, LCF/BQ/AN15/10380006]
- The 11th Hour Project of The Schmidt Family Foundation
- The Benioff Ocean Initiative
- Republic of Korea [20160099]
The impact of deep-sea nodule mining midwater discharge plumes is influenced by various factors including environmentally acceptable threshold levels, discharged sediment quantity, and turbulent diffusivity in the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone, according to numerical modeling and direct experiments.
Deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining research activity has substantially increased in recent years, but the expected level of environmental impact is still being established. One environmental concern is the discharge of a sediment plume into the midwater column. We performed a dedicated field study using sediment from the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone. The plume was monitored and tracked using both established and novel instrumentation, including acoustic and turbulence measurements. Our field studies reveal that modeling can reliably predict the properties of a midwater plume in the vicinity of the discharge and that sediment aggregation effects are not significant. The plume model is used to drive a numerical simulation of a commercial-scale operation in the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone. Key takeaways are that the scale of impact of the plume is notably influenced by the values of environmentally acceptable threshold levels, the quantity of discharged sediment, and the turbulent diffusivity in the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone. The extent of impact by midwater discharge plumes from deep-sea nodule mining will be influenced by the quantity of plume sediment, ocean turbulence and acceptable environmental thresholds, according to numerical modelling and direct experiments
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