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The influence of mesoscale climate drivers on hypoxia in a fjord-like deep coastal inlet and its potential implications regarding climate change: examining a decade of water quality data
Johnathan Daniel Maxey
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Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Kuching 93350, Malaysia
ADS Environmental Services, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 88400, Malaysia
Neil David Hartstein
ADS Environmental Services, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 88400, Malaysia
Aazani Mujahid
Faculty of Resource Science & Technology, University Malaysia
Sarawak, Kota Samarahan 94300, Sarawak, Malaysia
Moritz Müller
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Kuching 93350, Malaysia
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Deep coastal inlets are important sites for regulating land-based organic pollution before it enters coastal oceans. This study focused on how large climate forces, rainfall, and river flow impact organic loading and oxygen conditions in a coastal inlet in Tasmania. Increases in rainfall were linked to higher organic loading and lower oxygen in basin waters. Finally we observed a significant correlation between the Southern Annular Mode and oxygen concentrations in the system's basin waters.
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