Articles | Volume 14, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-541-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-541-2017
Research article
 | 
06 Feb 2017
Research article |  | 06 Feb 2017

Extreme flood impact on estuarine and coastal biogeochemistry: the 2013 Elbe flood

Yoana G. Voynova, Holger Brix, Wilhelm Petersen, Sieglinde Weigelt-Krenz, and Mirco Scharfe

Related authors

Spring–neap tidal cycles modulate the strength of the carbon source at the estuary–coast interface
Vlad A. Macovei, Louise C. V. Rewrie, Rüdiger Röttgers, and Yoana G. Voynova
Biogeosciences, 22, 3375–3396, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3375-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3375-2025, 2025
Short summary
Intertidal Regions Regulate Seasonal Coastal Carbonate System Dynamics in the East Frisian Wadden Sea
Julia Meyer, Yoana G. Voynova, Bryce Van Dam, Lara Luitjens, Dagmar Daehne, and Helmuth Thomas
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3048,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3048, 2024
Short summary
Recent inorganic carbon increase in a temperate estuary driven by water quality improvement and enhanced by droughts
Louise C. V. Rewrie, Burkard Baschek, Justus E. E. van Beusekom, Arne Körtzinger, Gregor Ollesch, and Yoana G. Voynova
Biogeosciences, 20, 4931–4947, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-4931-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-4931-2023, 2023
Short summary
Seasonal variability of nitrous oxide concentrations and emissions in a temperate estuary
Gesa Schulz, Tina Sanders, Yoana G. Voynova, Hermann W. Bange, and Kirstin Dähnke
Biogeosciences, 20, 3229–3247, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-3229-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-3229-2023, 2023
Short summary
Nitrogen isotopes reveal a particulate-matter-driven biogeochemical reactor in a temperate estuary
Kirstin Dähnke, Tina Sanders, Yoana Voynova, and Scott D. Wankel
Biogeosciences, 19, 5879–5891, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-5879-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-5879-2022, 2022
Short summary

Related subject area

Biogeochemistry: Coastal Ocean
Spring–neap tidal cycles modulate the strength of the carbon source at the estuary–coast interface
Vlad A. Macovei, Louise C. V. Rewrie, Rüdiger Röttgers, and Yoana G. Voynova
Biogeosciences, 22, 3375–3396, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3375-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3375-2025, 2025
Short summary
Spatiotemporal variations in surface marine carbonate system properties across the western Mediterranean Sea using volunteer observing ship data
David Curbelo-Hernández, David González-Santana, Aridane G. González, J. Magdalena Santana-Casiano, and Melchor González-Dávila
Biogeosciences, 22, 3329–3356, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3329-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3329-2025, 2025
Short summary
Amplified bottom water acidification rates on the Bering Sea shelf from 1970–2022
Darren J. Pilcher, Jessica N. Cross, Natalie Monacci, Linquan Mu, Kelly A. Kearney, Albert J. Hermann, and Wei Cheng
Biogeosciences, 22, 3103–3125, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3103-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3103-2025, 2025
Short summary
Depositional controls and budget of organic carbon burial in fine-grained sediments of the North Sea – the Helgoland Mud Area as a natural laboratory
Daniel Müller, Bo Liu, Walter Geibert, Moritz Holtappels, Lasse Sander, Elda Miramontes, Heidi Taubner, Susann Henkel, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Denise Bethke, Ingrid Dohrmann, and Sabine Kasten
Biogeosciences, 22, 2541–2567, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2541-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2541-2025, 2025
Short summary
Effects of submarine groundwater on nutrient concentration and primary production in a deep bay of the Japan Sea
Menghong Dong, Xinyu Guo, Takuya Matsuura, Taichi Tebakari, and Jing Zhang
Biogeosciences, 22, 2383–2402, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2383-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2383-2025, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Allan, R. P. and Soden, B. J.: Atmospheric warming and the amplification of precipitation extremes, Science, 321, 1481–1484, 2008.
Amann, T., Weiss, A., and Hartmann, J.: Carbon dynamics in the freshwater part of the Elbe estuary, Germany: Implications of improving water quality, Estuar. Coast. Shelf S., 107, 112–121, 2012.
Bauer, J. E., Cai, W.-J., Raymond, P. A., Bianchi, T. S., Hopkinson, C. S., and Regnier, P. A. G.: The changing carbon cycle of the coastal ocean, Nature, 504, 61–70, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12857, 2013.
Becker, G. A., Giese, H., Isert, K., König, P., Langenberg, H., Pohlmann, T., and Schrum, C.: Mesoscale structures, fluxes and water mass variability in the German Bight as exemplified in the KUSTOS-experiments and numerical models, German Journal of Hydrography, 51, 55–179, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02764173, 1999.
Download
Short summary
This study focuses on how the June 2013 Elbe River flood affected the southern German Bight. The largest summer flood within the last 140 years, it generated a substantial plume of nutrient-rich, buoyant waters from the Elbe estuary onto the coast. During the calm 2013 summer, the flood was followed by prolonged (2-month) water column stratification, chlorophyll blooms in surface, and uncharacteristically low oxygen in bottom waters. With climate change, these events are becoming more frequent.
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint