Record-breaking Lake Erie hypoxia during 2012 drought

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 800-807

  Zhou, Yuntao ^a   Michalak, Anna M ^a   Beletsky, Dmitry ^b   Rao, Yerubandi R ^c   Richards, R Peter ^d  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; NUTRIENTS; RIVER POLLUTION; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CONTROLLING FACTORS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT; PARSIMONIOUS MODELING; SOLUBLE REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS;

LAKES;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FRESH WATER; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ALGAL BLOOM; ANNUAL VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER DISCHARGE; TRIBUTARY; WATER QUALITY; WIND STRESS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGAL BLOOM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; EUTROPHICATION; LAKE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NUTRIENT LOADING; NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RIVER; WIND; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NORTH AMERICA; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE;

ALGAE;

BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; DROUGHTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; FRESH WATER; LAKES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RIVERS; SEASONS; WIND;

EID: 84921737657     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503981n     Document Type: Article

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