The competing impacts of climate change and nutrient reductions on dissolved oxygen in Chesapeake Bay

Irby, Isaac D.; Friedrichs, Marjorie A. M.; Da, Fei; Hinson, Kyle E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-2649-2018

Articles | Volume 15, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-2649-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-2649-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 9

Research article

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04 May 2018

Research article |

| 04 May 2018

The competing impacts of climate change and nutrient reductions on dissolved oxygen in Chesapeake Bay

Isaac D. Irby, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs, Fei Da, and Kyle E. Hinson

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Final revised paper (published on 04 May 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 17 Oct 2017)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of Irby et al', Anonymous Referee #1, 05 Nov 2017
- SC1: 'Reply to Reviewer #1', Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, 16 Nov 2017
- AC1: 'Author Response to Anonymous Referee #1', Isaac Irby, 23 Dec 2017
RC2: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Nov 2017
- SC2: 'Reply to Reviewer #2', Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, 18 Nov 2017
- AC2: 'Author Response to Anonymous Referee #2', Isaac Irby, 23 Dec 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (08 Jan 2018) by Caroline P. Slomp

AR by Isaac Irby on behalf of the Authors (25 Feb 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (26 Feb 2018) by Caroline P. Slomp

RR by Perran Cook (27 Mar 2018)

ED: Publish as is (04 Apr 2018) by Caroline P. Slomp

AR by Isaac Irby on behalf of the Authors (08 Apr 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

We use an estuarine-watershed modeling system of the Chesapeake Bay to examine the impact climate change may have on the ability of nutrient reduction regulations to increase dissolved oxygen. We find that climate change will move the onset of hypoxia ~7 days earlier, while also decreasing oxygen in the bay primarily due to increased temperature. While this effect is smaller than the increase in oxygen due to nutrient reduction, it is enough to limit the regulation's future effectiveness.