Water Quality Drivers in 11 Gulf of Mexico Estuaries
Coastal water-quality is both a primary driver and also a consequence of coastal ecosystem health. Turbidity, a measure of dissolved and particulate water-quality matter, is a proxy for water quality, and varies on daily to interannual periods. Turbidity is influenced by a variety of factors, includ...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:6f8e4bb0c3f6406d9388c2cb1b3af0e5 2023-05-15T17:33:39+02:00 Water Quality Drivers in 11 Gulf of Mexico Estuaries Matthew J. McCarthy Daniel B. Otis Pablo Méndez-Lázaro Frank E. Muller-Karger 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10020255 https://doaj.org/article/6f8e4bb0c3f6406d9388c2cb1b3af0e5 EN eng MDPI AG http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/2/255 https://doaj.org/toc/2072-4292 2072-4292 doi:10.3390/rs10020255 https://doaj.org/article/6f8e4bb0c3f6406d9388c2cb1b3af0e5 Remote Sensing, Vol 10, Iss 2, p 255 (2018) MODIS turbidity wind speed discharge Science Q article 2018 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10020255 2022-12-31T11:26:41Z Coastal water-quality is both a primary driver and also a consequence of coastal ecosystem health. Turbidity, a measure of dissolved and particulate water-quality matter, is a proxy for water quality, and varies on daily to interannual periods. Turbidity is influenced by a variety of factors, including algal particles, colored dissolved organic matter, and suspended sediments. Identifying which factors drive trends and extreme events in turbidity in an estuary helps environmental managers and decision makers plan for and mitigate against water-quality issues. Efforts to do so on large spatial scales have been hampered due to limitations of turbidity data, including coarse and irregular temporal resolution and poor spatial coverage. We addressed these issues by deriving a proxy for turbidity using ocean color satellite products for 11 Gulf of Mexico estuaries from 2000 to 2014 on weekly, monthly, seasonal, and annual time-steps. Drivers were identified using Akaike’s Information Criterion and multiple regressions to model turbidity against precipitation, wind speed, U and V wind vectors, river discharge, water level, and El Nino Southern Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation climate indices. Turbidity variability was best explained by wind speed across estuaries for both time-series and extreme turbidity events, although more dynamic patterns were found between estuaries over various time steps. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Remote Sensing 10 2 255 |
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Coastal water-quality is both a primary driver and also a consequence of coastal ecosystem health. Turbidity, a measure of dissolved and particulate water-quality matter, is a proxy for water quality, and varies on daily to interannual periods. Turbidity is influenced by a variety of factors, including algal particles, colored dissolved organic matter, and suspended sediments. Identifying which factors drive trends and extreme events in turbidity in an estuary helps environmental managers and decision makers plan for and mitigate against water-quality issues. Efforts to do so on large spatial scales have been hampered due to limitations of turbidity data, including coarse and irregular temporal resolution and poor spatial coverage. We addressed these issues by deriving a proxy for turbidity using ocean color satellite products for 11 Gulf of Mexico estuaries from 2000 to 2014 on weekly, monthly, seasonal, and annual time-steps. Drivers were identified using Akaike’s Information Criterion and multiple regressions to model turbidity against precipitation, wind speed, U and V wind vectors, river discharge, water level, and El Nino Southern Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation climate indices. Turbidity variability was best explained by wind speed across estuaries for both time-series and extreme turbidity events, although more dynamic patterns were found between estuaries over various time steps. |
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Water Quality Drivers in 11 Gulf of Mexico Estuaries |
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