Extreme Flood Impact on Estuarine and Coastal Biogeochemistry: the 2013 Elbe Flood
Within the context of the predicted and observed increase in droughts and floods with climate change, large summer floods are likely to become more frequent. These extreme events can alter typical biogeochemical patterns in coastal systems. The extreme Elbe River flood in June, 2013 not only caused...
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fthzgzmk:oai:publications.hereon.de:34824 2023-06-11T04:09:35+02:00 Extreme Flood Impact on Estuarine and Coastal Biogeochemistry: the 2013 Elbe Flood Voynova, Y.G. Brix, H. Petersen, W. Weigelt-Krenz, S. Scharfe, M. 2017 https://publications.hereon.de/id/34824 https://publications.hzg.de/id/34824 https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-541-2017 en eng EGU - Copernicus Publication http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-541-2017 urn:issn:1726-4170 https://publications.hereon.de/id/34824 https://publications.hzg.de/id/34824 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess open_access oa_gold issn:1726-4170 Voynova, Y.G.; Brix, H.; Petersen, W.; Weigelt-Krenz, S.; Scharfe, M.: Extreme Flood Impact on Estuarine and Coastal Biogeochemistry: the 2013 Elbe Flood. In: Biogeosciences. Vol. 14 (2017) 3, 541 - 557. (DOI:10.5194/bg-14-541-2017) info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/551 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Zeitschrift Artikel 2017 fthzgzmk https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-541-2017 2023-05-28T23:24:25Z Within the context of the predicted and observed increase in droughts and floods with climate change, large summer floods are likely to become more frequent. These extreme events can alter typical biogeochemical patterns in coastal systems. The extreme Elbe River flood in June, 2013 not only caused major damages in several European countries, but also generated large scale biogeochemical changes in the Elbe Estuary and the adjacent German Bight. The high-frequency monitoring network within the Coastal Observing System for Northern and Arctic Seas (COSYNA) captured the flood influence on the German Bight. Data from a FerryBox station in the Elbe Estuary (Cuxhaven) and from a FerryBox platform aboard the M/V Funny Girl ferry (traveling between Büsum and Helgoland) documented the salinity changes in the German Bight, which persisted for about 2 months after the peak discharge. The Elbe flood generated a large influx of nutrients, dissolved and particulate organic carbon on the coast. These conditions subsequently led to the onset of a phytoplankton bloom, observed by dissolved oxygen supersaturation, and higher than usual pH in surface coastal waters. The prolonged stratification also led to widespread bottom water dissolved oxygen depletion, unusual for the south-eastern German Bight in the summer. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Phytoplankton Hereon Publications (Helmholtz-Zentrum) Arctic Helgoland Biogeosciences 14 3 541 557 |
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Within the context of the predicted and observed increase in droughts and floods with climate change, large summer floods are likely to become more frequent. These extreme events can alter typical biogeochemical patterns in coastal systems. The extreme Elbe River flood in June, 2013 not only caused major damages in several European countries, but also generated large scale biogeochemical changes in the Elbe Estuary and the adjacent German Bight. The high-frequency monitoring network within the Coastal Observing System for Northern and Arctic Seas (COSYNA) captured the flood influence on the German Bight. Data from a FerryBox station in the Elbe Estuary (Cuxhaven) and from a FerryBox platform aboard the M/V Funny Girl ferry (traveling between Büsum and Helgoland) documented the salinity changes in the German Bight, which persisted for about 2 months after the peak discharge. The Elbe flood generated a large influx of nutrients, dissolved and particulate organic carbon on the coast. These conditions subsequently led to the onset of a phytoplankton bloom, observed by dissolved oxygen supersaturation, and higher than usual pH in surface coastal waters. The prolonged stratification also led to widespread bottom water dissolved oxygen depletion, unusual for the south-eastern German Bight in the summer. |
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Extreme Flood Impact on Estuarine and Coastal Biogeochemistry: the 2013 Elbe Flood |
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