The northern South China Sea hosts highly heterogeneous deep-sea habitats, dotted with numerous active cold seeps and associated chemosynthetic ecosystems, while the Qiongdongnan Basin represents one of the most important natural gas hydrate accumulation regions in this area. Benthic fauna are core components sustaining deep-sea ecosystem stability and function, yet the biodiversity and community structure of benthic assemblag...

The Yellow Sea is an important offshore area in China, and the accurate prediction of its seawater temperature is of great significance for marine environmental monitoring and climate adaptation management. However, existing research on predicting the three-dimensional (3D) temperature field in the Yellow Sea is scarce and insufficiently accurate. This study proposes a TCN-U-Net++ fusion model to reconstruct the Yellow Sea tem...

Coastal foredune blowout is a significant indicator of shoreline retreat, activation of backshore dune fields, and land desertification. Among current research on the terminal phase of coastal foredune blowouts, few studies explain blowouts’ morphological and airflow interaction mechanisms in the late stage through comprehensive field surveys and observations. In this study, the coastal blowout on the foredune at Tannanwan Bea...