Forecasting Gulf's hypoxia: The next 50 years?

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 791-801

  Justić, Dubravko ^a   Bierman Jr , Victor J ^b   Scavia, Donald ^c   Hetland, Robert D ^d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LimnoTech   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; FORECASTING METHOD; HYPOXIA; MODELING; NITROGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 38349058353     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02841334     Document Type: Review

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