دورية أكاديمية

Organic matter composition and inorganic nitrogen response to Hurricane Harvey’s negative storm surge in Corpus Christi Bay, Texas

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Organic matter composition and inorganic nitrogen response to Hurricane Harvey’s negative storm surge in Corpus Christi Bay, Texas
المؤلفون: Audrey R. Douglas, Dorina Murgulet, Megan Greige, Kousik Das, J. David Felix, Hussain A. Abdulla
المصدر: Frontiers in Marine Science, Vol 9 (2022)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Science
LCC:General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution
مصطلحات موضوعية: extreme event, hydrologic changes, nitrogen sources, estuarine chemistry, Orbitrap-MS, groundwater-surface water interactions, Science, General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution, QH1-199.5
الوصف: Extreme weather events, such as tropical storms and hurricanes, are known to deliver large amounts of freshwater (surface runoff) and associated inorganic and organic nutrients to estuaries and the coastal ocean, affecting water quality and nutrient budgets. However, while Hurricane Harvey produced an unprecedented 1,000-year flood event in 2017 that inundated areas north of the landfall, like the Houston/Galveston region (Texas, United States), the impact on the Corpus Christi area, south of the landfall, was an intermittent negative surge (∼0.5 m below mean sea level (MSL)), caused by the southerly direction of winds and limited freshwater inflows. With the use of pre- and post-landfall surface-water, porewater, and groundwater nutrient measurements and dissolved organic matter (DOM) molecular characterization analyses, this study assessed the influence of negative storm surge on groundwater–surface water interactions and nutrient composition. Within 2 weeks following the first landfall, the forms and inputs of inorganic and organic nutrients fluctuated significantly nearshore Corpus Christi Bay. Sudden drops in sea level were correlated with pulses of NH4+ and disproportionately more dissolved organic carbon (DOC) than dissolved organic nitrogen (DON), likely from a carbon-rich groundwater or benthic source with slightly lower labile characteristics. Recovery to MSL drove higher proportions of nitrogenous DOM and lower dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) inputs. An increased presence of sulfurized DOM derived from anaerobic microbial processing of organic matter mineralization in marine sediments post-landfall was facilitated by enhanced groundwater inputs and flushing of porewater due to considerable drops in sea level and steepening hydraulic gradients toward the coast. The induced pulses of higher groundwater advective fluxes are also hypothesized to have intermittently enhanced flushing of anoxic DIN and biodegraded DOM from porewater and groundwater and suggested that dynamic hurricane-induced negative surge events affect net nutrient budgets in estuarine and coastal seas.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2296-7745
العلاقة: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.961206/fullTest; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-7745Test
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.961206
الوصول الحر: https://doaj.org/article/5bf4b2744c254b4ea9e95ce5331b6365Test
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.5bf4b2744c254b4ea9e95ce5331b6365
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:22967745
DOI:10.3389/fmars.2022.961206