Temporal and spatial evolution of bottom-water hypoxia in the St Lawrence estuarine system

Jutras, Mathilde; Mucci, Alfonso; Chaillou, Gwenaëlle; Nesbitt, William A.; Wallace, Douglas W. R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-839-2023

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Temporal and spatial evolution of bottom-water hypoxia in the St Lawrence estuarine system

Mathilde Jutras, Alfonso Mucci, Gwenaëlle Chaillou, William A. Nesbitt, and Douglas W. R. Wallace

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