Hypoxia in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary: How physics controls spatial patterns

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Lefort, S ^a   Gratton, Y ^b   Mucci, A ^a   Dadou, I ^c   Gilbert, D ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; BOTTOM WATER; DEEP WATER; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; HYPOXIC CONDITION; LAURENTIAN; LAWRENCE ESTUARIES; OXYGEN DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE WATERS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

OXYGEN;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; BOTTOM WATER; DEEP WATER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ESTUARINE CHEMISTRY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE; LAURENTIAN CHANNEL; QUEBEC [CANADA]; SAINT LAWRENCE ESTUARY;

EID: 84864600747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007751     Document Type: Article

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