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Destruction and reinstatement of coastal hypoxia in the South China Sea off the Pearl River estuary
Yangyang Zhao
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean
and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China
Environmental Physics, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant
Dynamics, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Khanittha Uthaipan
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean
and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China
Zhongming Lu
Division of Environment and Sustainability, The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Yan Li
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean
and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China
Jing Liu
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean
and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China
Hongbin Liu
Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Department of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Jianping Gan
Division of Environment and Sustainability, The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Department of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Feifei Meng
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean
and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean
and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China
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In situ oxygen consumption rates were estimated for the first time during destruction of coastal hypoxia as disturbed by a typhoon and its reinstatement in the South China Sea off the Pearl River estuary. The reinstatement of summer hypoxia was rapid with a comparable timescale with that of its initial disturbance from frequent tropical cyclones, which has important implications for better understanding the intermittent nature of coastal hypoxia and its prediction in a changing climate.
In situ oxygen consumption rates were estimated for the first time during destruction of coastal...
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