地球科學系(含 海洋環境科技研究所)

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本系設立的宗旨,首在養成學生具備地球科學五大學術領域–地質學、大氣科學、海洋科學、天文學和地球物理–充分之本職學能;本系的教育目標,則首重致力培養有志從事地球科學之專精人才,以培育優秀之地球科學研究人才和實務工作的專業人才為主軸,並以培養優良的中學地球科學師資為輔。特別是在國內各地球科學相關系所中,本系是唯一同時涵蓋五大地球科學研究領域,並擁有師範大學在科學教育專業基礎的高等學術機構,此為本系之特色。若志在從事中等學校地科教學,本系亦可提供地科教學知能和教育專業知識,充分培育健全之地球科學師資。

在課程上,為營造更優質的學習與研究環境,本系已適度調整原以師資培育目標為主的舊有課程架構,整合各地球科學次領域之基礎課程,降低本系必、選修課程之比例,大幅減少各次領域之必修課程學分,以增加學生在各次領域課程選修之自由度及彈性,進而充分落實各次領域之專業進階課程。此外本系並積極鼓勵學生,實際參與實驗、撰寫論文、從事專題計畫研究等,以豐富其研究經驗,訓練學生使其具備獨立研究之精神與能力。經由選修本系提供之更多進階專業課程,進而厚植學生之理論基礎、充實其專業背景,並強化其選定目標次領域之學術養成和專業訓練;連同充足的研究經驗,本系學生的未來發展,將更具時代性與面對挑戰時的競爭力,進一步達到「博而精、廣而深」的終極目標。近來本系更積極增聘優秀外籍專任師資,以全英語教學方式授課,期能增加學生之國際觀與國際競爭力。

本系在碩、博士班研究所的教育上,採一系多所之架構,除地球科學研究所外,還包括海洋環境科技研究所。本系研究所的研究重點與發展方向,首在地球科學各領域之深耕與研究發展,並加強各次領域間之跨學門合作,以進一步提升本系之學術研究及國際化,並為本系學生的訓練和學習,提供全面全方位的考量,以訓練學生從容面對多變的世界,因應未來的挑戰。

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    台灣周邊海域海流之數值研究
    (2008) 辛宜佳; Yi-Chia Hsin
    A multiple grid-size nesting ocean model system is developed in this work to perform studies on the variations of the flow in the Taiwan Strait and the Kuroshio east of Taiwan. The transport in the Taiwan Strait is studied using the East Asian Marginal Seas (EAMS) model. Three model experiments using different wind data sets (ERA40, NCEP Reanalysis version 2, and QuikSCAT/NCEP blend wind) were performed. Model experiments suggested that the best simulation is achieved when the model is driven by the QuikSCAT/NCEP blend wind forcing. Involving the strong wintertime southward flow events in the Taiwan Strait, the annual averaged modeled transports through the Taiwan Strait is 1.09 Sv (1 Sv=106 m3/s). The result suggests that shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (sb-ADCP) observations are biased toward estimates in summer and fair weather since bad weather during the winter northeast monsoon often prevents seagoing observations. Linear regression lines are also proposed to give simple relations between transport and wind stress for roughly evaluating the transport through a known wind stress value. The spatial and temporal variations of the Kuroshio east of Taiwan are investigated using model outputs, surface drifter trajectories, satellite-based altimetric data, and wind data. From the simulation of the EAMS model over a span of 24 years from 1982 to 2005, the variability of the Kuroshio east of Taiwan is studied in detail. Between 22 and 25°N, the mean state and variability of the Kuroshio, such as the two paths observed in the trajectories of surface drifters southeast of Taiwan and the branching of the Kuroshio northeast of Taiwan, are well reproduced by the model. Southeast of Taiwan, the Kuroshio is mostly in the top 300 m in the inshore path but extends to 600 m in the offshore path. Northeast of Taiwan, the Kuroshio follows the shelf edge in the East China Sea, but sometimes branches along a path south of the Ryukyu Islands. The latter path often meanders southward, and a significant portion of the Kuroshio transport may be diverted to this path. The Kuroshio extends from the coast to 123°E ~ 123.5°E between 22°N ~ 25°N with currents reaching a depth of 1000 m at some latitudes. The Kuroshio transports averaged over five sections east of Taiwan are 28.4 ± 5.0 Sv and 32.7 ± 4.4 Sv with and without the contribution from the countercurrent, respectively. Using satellite data and the Seas Around Taiwan (SAT) model simulation, the intra-seasonal variation of the Kuroshio southeast of Taiwan is further studied. Superimposed with the main stream of the Kuroshio, two intra-seasonal signals longer than 2 weeks are revealed in the study region, 20 ~ 30 days and 40 ~ 90 days. The variation of 20 ~ 30 days is only significant between Taiwan and the Lan-Yu Island. Amechanism is proposed to describe how the wind stress curl in the northeastern South China Sea modulates the circulation southeast of Taiwan on this timescale. The fluctuation with a longer period of 40 ~ 90 days is resulted from the westward propagating eddies.