Physicochemical and urban land-use characteristics associated with resistance to precipitation in estuaries vary across scales

Tureţcaia, Anna B.; Dix, Nicole G.; Nicklay, Hannah; Ferner, Matthew C.; Graham, Emily B.

doi:10.5194/bg-23-7009-2026

Articles | Volume 23, issue 19

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-7009-2026

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-7009-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 19

Research article

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07 Oct 2026

Research article |

| 07 Oct 2026

Physicochemical and urban land-use characteristics associated with resistance to precipitation in estuaries vary across scales

Anna B. Tureţcaia, Nicole G. Dix, Hannah Nicklay, Matthew C. Ferner, and Emily B. Graham

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-7009-2026-supplement

Data sets

Accompanying Dataset for Physicochemical Factors and Urban Land-Use Characteristics Associated with Resistance to Precipitation in Estuaries Vary Across Scales A. Turețcaia et al. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25050197

Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily) (Version 3) M. J. Menne et al. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5D21VHZ

Global land use/land cover with Sentinel 2 and deep learning (https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/landcoverexplorer/#mapCenter=-83.21000%2C34.33200%2C4.00&mode=step&timeExtent=2017%2C2021&year=2017&downloadMode=true) K. Karra et al. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553499

Census/projection-disaggregated gridded population datasets for 189 countries in 2020 using Built-Settlement Growth Model (BSGM) outputs M. Bondarenko et al. https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00684

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We investigated what physicochemical and land-use factors relate to estuarine resistance to precipitation across spatial scales and salinity gradient. Urbanized estuaries generally showed higher apparent resistance. Water temperature, depth, turbidity, nitrogen, and chlorophyll-a were associated with resistance at the continental scale, but relationships varied across salinity groups and individual estuaries, highlighting context-dependent responses to precipitation.