Quantifying the impacts of stratification and nutrient loading on hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 5489-5496

  Obenour, Daniel R ^a   Michalak, Anna M ^a,b   Zhou, Yuntao ^a   Scavia, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL SYSTEMS; GEOSTATISTICAL; GULF OF MEXICO; NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO; NUTRIENT LOADING; PRIMARY FACTORS; SPATIAL COORDINATES; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STRATIFICATION EFFECTS;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

NUTRIENTS;

BOTTOM WATER DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRATE; NITRITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BOTTOM WATER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; HYPOXIA; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; MEXICO; NUTRIENT LOADING; RIVER; SALINITY; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATURE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GULF OF MEXICO; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLUBILITY; WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84861150128     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204481a     Document Type: Article

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