DISTRIBUTION OF SALINITY AND TEMPERATURE IN MUSI ESTUARY: USING VERTICAL SALINITY GRADIENT FOR ESTUARY CLASSIFICATION ZONE

Spatial-temporal distribution of salinity and temperature in the Oued Loukkos estuary, Morocco: using vertical salinity gradient for estuary classification

BACKGROUND Several different classifications to characterize estuarine systems have been proposed. In this present paper, one of the most important estuaries in North Africa, the Oued Loukkos (Morocco), forms a case-study for proposing a systematic classification of this particular tidal estuary according to the vertical salinity gradient. FINDINGS This study, conducted using a CTD, shows tha...

Fault detection for salinity sensors in the Columbia estuary

[1] Sensors deployed in the Columbia River estuary gather information on physical dynamics and changes in estuary habitat. Of these sensors, conductivity sensors are particularly susceptible to biofouling, which gradually degrades sensor response and corrupts critical data. Several weeks may pass before degradation is visibly detected. Since the onset time of biofouling is unknown, an indetermi...

Salinity and turbidity distributions in the Brisbane River estuary, Australia

Nitrate, nitrite, and nitrous oxide transformations in sediments along a salinity gradient in the Weser Estuary

The dynamics of the nitrogen intermediates N2O and NO2 in estuarine sediments were studied along a salinity gradient in the eutrophied Weser Estuary (Germany) using microsensors for N2O, NO2, NOx, and O2. During dark incubations in the laboratory of sediment samples from a freshwater site, a brackish water site with fluctuating salinity, and a marine site, the effects of environmental changes i...

Continuous Salinity and Temperature Data from San Francisco Estuary, 1982–2002: Trends and the Salinity–Freshwater Inflow Relationship

SHELLENBARGER, G.G. and SCHOELLHAMER, D.H., 2011. Continuous salinity and temperature data from San Francisco estuary, 1982–2002: Trends and the salinity–freshwater inflow relationship. Journal of Coastal Research, 27(6), 1191–1201. West Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The U.S. Geological Survey and other federal and state agencies have been collecting continuous temperature and salinity ...