Assessing temporal and spatial variability of hypoxia over the inner Louisiana-upper Texas shelf: Application of an unstructured-grid three-dimensional coupled hydrodynamic-water quality model

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 72, Issue , 2014, Pages 163-179

  Justić, Dubravko ^a   Wang, Lixia ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics of hypoxia; Ecosystem modeling; FVCOM; Mississippi River; Northern Gulf of Mexico; WASP

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BATHYMETRY; BOTTOM WATER; COLD FRONT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTINENTAL SHELF; DATA SET; DISSIPATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HEAT FLUX; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYPOXIA; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESUSPENSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; WATER COLUMN; WATER QUALITY;

ATCHAFALAYA RIVER; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890311267     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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