Assessing Carbon Properties in Coastal Waters with a New Observing System Testbed
| dc.contributor.author | Clark, J. Blake | |
| dc.contributor.author | Uz, Stephanie Schollaert | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tsontos, Vardis | |
| dc.contributor.author | Huang, Thomas | |
| dc.contributor.author | Scott, Joel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rogers, Laura | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-05T15:39:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-05T15:39:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-11-16 | |
| dc.description | IEEE Explore Meeting (Virtual), November 16, 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Large rainfall events over land can lead to a substantial flux of carbon and nutrients to estuaries and the coastal ocean. In the mid-Atlantic on the east coast of North America (35° - 42° N), these events often happen due to tropical storm activity as well as less predictable anomalously large midlatitude storms or abrupt spring snow melt runoff. Storms can directly impact the coastal carbon cycle via export of carbon from land to sea, while also stimulating phytoplankton production due to the influx of nutrients to the coastal ocean. To assess the impact of high precipitation and river flow events on the coastal carbon cycle, we have integrated multiple observing platforms in an analytical framework to dynamically observe carbon-related properties. The new observing system testbed (NOS-T) allows for an estimate of phytoplankton and organic carbon stocks in the surface ocean, with a goal of providing near real time analytical capability. A case study of high river discharge in the mid-Atlantic in the summer and fall of 2018 and 2021 were used to examine how riverine carbon manifests along the land-estuary-ocean continuum particularly in Chesapeake Bay. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | We acknowledge the NASA Earth Science Technology Office for support on this project. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20220017237 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 6 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | conference papers and proceedings | en_US |
| dc.genre | preprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m28jiu-zsrr | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/26564 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC GESTAR II Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.rights | This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law. | en_US |
| dc.rights | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ | * |
| dc.title | Assessing Carbon Properties in Coastal Waters with a New Observing System Testbed | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8454-1458 | en_US |