Modeling Lake Erie's hypoxia response to nutrient loads and physical variability

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 40, Issue S3, 2014, Pages 151-161

  Rucinski, Daniel K ^a,b   DePinto, Joseph V ^a   Scavia, Donald ^b   Beletsky, Dmitry ^b  

^a LimnoTech   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; Hypoxia; Lake Erie; Loading

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EUTROPHICATION; LOADING; PHOSPHORUS;

EUTROPHICATION MODEL; HYPOXIA; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAKE ERIE; PHOSPHORUS LOADING; PHOSPHORUS LOADS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; RESPONSE ENVELOPE;

LAKES;

EID: 84918813165     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2014.02.003     Document Type: Article

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