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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2011-2016
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2011-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
| 
06 Apr 2016
Research article |
| 06 Apr 2016
Challenges associated with modeling low-oxygen waters in Chesapeake Bay: a multiple model comparison
Isaac D. Irby
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, P.O. Box 1346, Gloucester Point, VA 23062, USA
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, P.O. Box 1346, Gloucester Point, VA 23062, USA
Carl T. Friedrichs
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, P.O. Box 1346, Gloucester Point, VA 23062, USA
Aaron J. Bever
Anchor QEA, LLC, 130 Battery Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA
Raleigh R. Hood
Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, P.O. Box 775, Cambridge, MD 21613, USA
Lyon W. J. Lanerolle
NOAA/NOS/OCS Coast Survey Development Laboratory, 1315 East–West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
ERT Inc., 14401 Sweitzer Lane Suite 300, Laurel, MD 20707, USA
Ming Li
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, P.O. Box 38, Solomons, MD 20688, USA
Lewis Linker
US Environmental Protection Agency Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 410 Severn Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21403, USA
Malcolm E. Scully
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Kevin Sellner
Chesapeake Research Consortium, 645 Contees Wharf Road, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA
Jian Shen
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, P.O. Box 1346, Gloucester Point, VA 23062, USA
Jeremy Testa
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, P.O. Box 38, Solomons, MD 20688, USA
Hao Wang
Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, P.O. Box 775, Cambridge, MD 21613, USA
Ping Wang
VIMS/Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 410 Severn Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21403, USA
Meng Xia
Department of Natural Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, MD, USA
Data sets
Chesapeake Bay Operational Forecast System (CBOFS) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration http://www.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ofs/cbofs/cbofs.html
Chesapeake Bay Program Water Quality Database (1984-present) USGS http://www.chesapeakebay.net/data/downloads/cbp_water_quality_database_1984_present
Short summary
A comparison of eight hydrodynamic-oxygen models revealed that while models have difficulty resolving key drivers of dissolved oxygen (DO) variability, all models exhibit skill in reproducing the variability of DO itself. Further, simple oxygen models and complex biogeochemical models reproduced observed DO variability similarly well. Future advances in hypoxia simulations will depend more on the ability to reproduce the depth of the mixed layer than the degree of the vertical density gradient.
A comparison of eight hydrodynamic-oxygen models revealed that while models have difficulty...
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