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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2016
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 07-2013
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 15-04-2022
Abstract: Southeast Asia’s peatlands are considered a globally important source of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to the ocean. Human disturbance has probably increased peatland DOC fluxes, but the lack of monitoring has precluded a robust demonstration of such a regional-scale impact. Here, we use a time series of satellite ocean color data from northwestern Borneo to show that DOC concentrations in coastal waters have increased between 2002 and 2021 by 0.31 μmol liter −1 year −1 (95% confidence interval, 0.18 to 0.44 μmol liter −1 year −1 ). We show that this was caused by a ≥30% increase in the concentration of terrigenous DOC and coincided with the conversion of 69% of regional peatland area to nonforest land cover, suggesting that peatland conversion has substantially increased DOC fluxes to the sea. This rise in DOC concentration has also increased the underwater light absorption by dissolved organic matter, which may affect marine productivity by altering underwater light availability.
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 09-07-2019
DOI: 10.5194/GMD-2019-115
Abstract: Abstract. Since the mid 1990s, Australia's Commonwealth Science Industry and Research Organisation (CSIRO) has developed a biogeochemical (BGC) model for coupling with a hydrodynamic and sediment model for application in estuaries, coastal waters and shelf seas. The suite of coupled models is referred to as the CSIRO Environmental Modelling Suite (EMS) and has been applied at tens of locations around the Australian continent. At a mature point in the BGC model's development, this paper presents a full mathematical description, as well as links to the freely available code and User Guide. The mathematical description is structured into processes so that the details of new parameterisations can be easily identified, along with their derivation. The EMS BGC model cycles carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous and oxygen through multiple phytoplankton, zooplankton, detritus and dissolved organic and inorganic forms in multiple water column and sediment layers. The underwater light field is simulated by a spectrally-resolved optical model that includes the calculation of water-leaving reflectance for validation with remote sensing. The water column is dynamically coupled to the sediment to resolve deposition, resuspension and benthic-pelagic biogeochemical fluxes. With a focus on shallow waters, the model also includes particularly-detailed representations of benthic plants such as seagrass, macroalgae and coral polyps. A second focus has been on, where possible, the use of geometric derivations of physical limits to constrain ecological rates, which generally requires population-based rates to be derived from initially considering the size and shape of in iduals. For ex le, zooplankton grazing considers encounter rates of one predator on a prey field based on summing relative motion of the predator with the prey in iduals and the search area, chlorophyll synthesis includes a geometrically-derived self-shading term, and the bottom coverage of benthic plants is generically-related to their biomass using an exponential form derived from geometric arguments. This geometric approach has led to a more algebraically-complicated set of equations when compared to more empirical biogeochemical model formulations. But while being algebraically-complicated, the model has fewer unconstrained parameters and is therefore simpler to move between applications than it would otherwise be. The version of the biogeochemistry described here is implemented in the eReefs project that is delivering a near real time coupled hydrodynamic, sediment and biogeochemical simulation of the Great Barrier Reef, northeast Australia, and its formulation provides an ex le of the application of geometric reasoning in the formulation of aquatic ecological processes.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 17-06-2022
DOI: 10.3390/RS14122892
Abstract: The bio-optical properties of coral reef waters were examined across coral reef ecosystems not influenced by land-derived run-off, in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon (Heron Island) and the Coral Sea (the Coringa-Herald and Lihou Reefs). The aim was to determine whether the absorption properties, the concentration-specific absorption properties, and the phytoplankton and non-algal pigmented particle (NAP) absorption concentrations varied from the ocean waters flushing onto the reef at high tide to those waters on the reef or flushing off the reef at low tide. The optical and biogeochemical properties of on-reef waters systematically differed from the surrounding ocean waters. The chl a concentration values varied up to 7-fold and the NAP concentrations up to 29-fold for the reef s les, the chl a values were on average 2 to 3 times lower than for the oceans whilst the NAP values were slightly higher on the reefs. The spectral absorption values of the chl a, NAP, and colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) varied up to 6-fold for reef waters and up to 15-fold for ocean waters. The spectral absorption for chl a was up to 3-fold lower on the reef waters, the absorption by the CDOM was up to 2-fold higher and the NAP absorption was 1.6-fold higher on the reef waters. The concentration-specific absorption coefficients for chl a and NAP varied up to 9-fold in reef waters and up to 30-fold in ocean waters. In the case of Heron Island and Coringa-Herald cays, this concentration-specific absorption was on average 1.3 to 1.7-fold higher for chl a and up to 2-fold lower for NAP on the reefs. The Lihou Reef measurements were more ambiguous between the reef waters and ocean waters due to the complex nature and size of this reef. Based on our results, the assumption that the optical properties of on-reef waters and the adjacent ocean waters are the same was shown to be invalid. Ocean waters flowing on to the reef are higher in phytoplankton, whilst waters on the reef or flowing off the reefs are higher in CDOM and NAP. We found differences in the pico,- nano-, and microplankton distributions as well as in the ratios of photosynthetic to photoprotective pigments. The variability in the bio-optical properties between the reef waters and adjacent ocean waters has implications for the estimations of sunlight absorption along the water column, the UV penetration depth, the temperature distributions, and the nutrient and carbon fluxes in coral reef ecosystems. As Earth observation algorithms require proper parameterization for the water column effects when estimating benthic cover, the actual optical properties need to be used. These results will improve the use of Earth observation to systematically map the differences in the water quality between reefs and the adjacent ocean.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2014
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 16-11-2018
Abstract: Abstract. South-East Asia is home to one of the world's largest stores of tropical peatland and accounts for roughly 10 % of the global land-to-sea dissolved organic carbon (DOC) flux. We present the first ever seasonally resolved measurements of DOC concentration and chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) spectra for six peatland-draining rivers and coastal waters in Sarawak, north-western Borneo. The rivers differed substantially in DOC concentration, ranging from 120–250 µmol L−1 (Rajang River) to 3100–4400 µmol L−1 (Maludam River). All rivers carried high CDOM concentrations, with a350 in the four blackwater rivers between 70 and 210 m−1 and 4 and 12 m−1 in the other two rivers. DOC and CDOM showed conservative mixing with seawater except in the largest river (the Rajang), where DOC concentrations in the estuary were elevated, most likely due to inputs from the extensive peatlands within the Rajang Delta. Seasonal variation was moderate and inconsistent between rivers. However, during the rainier north-east monsoon, all marine stations in the western part of our study area had higher DOC concentrations and lower CDOM spectral slopes, indicating a greater proportion of terrigenous DOM in coastal waters. Photodegradation experiments revealed that riverine DOC and CDOM in Sarawak are photolabile: up to 25 % of riverine DOC was lost within 5 days of exposure to natural sunlight, and the spectral slopes of photo-bleached CDOM resembled those of our marine s les. We conclude that coastal waters of Sarawak receive large inputs of terrigenous DOC that is only minimally altered during estuarine transport and that any biogeochemical processing must therefore occur mostly at sea. It is likely that photodegradation plays an important role in the degradation of terrigenous DOC in these waters.
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 12-06-2004
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 09-2014
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010205
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2016
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 19-05-2022
DOI: 10.5194/BG-2021-347
Abstract: Abstract. High-quality ocean colour observations are increasingly accessible to support various monitoring and research activities for water quality measurements. In this paper, we present a newly developed regional total suspended solids (TSS) empirical model using MODIS-Aqua’s Rrs(530) and Rrs(666) reflectance bands to investigate the spatial and temporal variation of TSS dynamics along the southwest coast of Sarawak, Borneo. The performance of this TSS retrieval model was evaluated using error metrics (bias = 1.0, MAE = 1.47, and RMSE = 0.22 in mg/L) with a log10 transformation prior to calculation, as well as a k-fold cross validation technique. The temporally averaged map of TSS distribution, using daily MODIS-Aqua satellite datasets from 2003 until 2019, revealed large TSS plumes detected particularly in the Lupar and Rajang coastal areas on a yearly basis. The average TSS concentration range of 15 – 20 mg/L was estimated at these coastal areas. Moreover, the spatial map of TSS coefficient of variation (CV) indicated strong TSS variability (approximately 90 %) in the Samunsam-Sematan coastal areas, which could potentially impact nearby coral reef habitats in this region. Our findings on temporal TSS variation provide further evidence that monsoonal patterns drive the TSS release in these tropical water systems, with distinct and widespread TSS plume variations observed between the northeast and southwest monsoon periods. Map of relative TSS distribution anomalies revealed strong spatial TSS variations in the Samunsam-Sematan coastal areas, while 2010 recorded a major increase (approximately 100 %) and widespread TSS distribution with respect to the long-term mean. Furthermore, our findings on the contribution of river discharge to the TSS distribution showed a weak correlation across time at both the Lupar and Rajang river mouth points. The variability of TSS distribution across coastal river points was studied by investigating the variation of TSS pixels at three transect points, stretching from the river mouth into territorial and open water zones, for eight main rivers. Our findings showed a progressively decreasing pattern of nearly 50 % in relation to the distance from shore, with exceptions in the northeast regions of the study area. Essentially, our findings demonstrate that the TSS levels at the southwest coast of Sarawak are within local water quality standards, promoting various marine and socio-economic activities. This study presents the first observation of TSS distributions at Sarawak coastal systems with the application of remote sensing technologies, to enhance coastal sediment management strategies for the sustainable use of coastal waters and their resources.
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 19-12-2022
Abstract: Abstract. High-quality ocean colour observations are increasingly accessible to support various monitoring and research activities for water quality measurements. In this paper, we present a newly developed regional total suspended solids (TSSs) empirical model using MODIS Aqua's Rrs(530) and Rrs(666) reflectance bands to investigate the spatial and temporal variation in TSS dynamics along the southwest coast of Sarawak, Borneo, with the application of the Open Data Cube (ODC) platform. The performance of this TSS retrieval model was evaluated using error metrics (bias = 1.0, MAE = 1.47, and RMSE = 0.22, in milligrams per litre) with a log10 transformation prior to calculation as well as using a k-fold cross-validation technique. The temporally averaged map of the TSS distribution, using daily MODIS Aqua satellite datasets from 2003 until 2019, revealed that large TSS plumes were detected – particularly in the Lupar and Rajang coastal areas – on a yearly basis. The average TSS concentration in these coastal waters was in the range of 15–20 mg L−1. Moreover, the spatial map of the TSS coefficient of variation (CV) indicated strong TSS variability (approximately 90 %) in the Samunsam–Sematan coastal areas, which could potentially impact nearby coral reef habitats in this region. Study of the temporal TSS variation provides further evidence that monsoonal patterns drive the TSS release in these tropical water systems, with distinct and widespread TSS plume variations observed between the northeast and southwest monsoon periods. A map of relative TSS distribution anomalies revealed strong spatial TSS variations in the Samunsam–Sematan coastal areas, while 2010 recorded a major increase (approximately 100 %) and widespread TSS distribution with respect to the long-term mean. Furthermore, study of the contribution of river discharge to the TSS distribution showed a weak correlation across time at both the Lupar and Rajang river mouth points. The variability in the TSS distribution across coastal river points was studied by investigating the variation in the TSS pixels at three transect points, stretching from the river mouth into territorial and open-water zones, for eight main rivers. The results showed a progressively decreasing pattern of nearly 50 % in relation to the distance from shore, with exceptions in the northeast regions of the study area. Essentially, our findings demonstrate that the TSS levels on the southwest coast of Sarawak are within local water quality standards, promoting various marine and socio-economic activities. This study presents the first observation of TSS distributions in Sarawak coastal systems with the application of remote sensing technologies and aims at enhancing coastal sediment management strategies for the sustainable use of coastal waters and their resources.
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 11-09-2018
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
Date: 04-2006
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002310
Abstract: Spectral measurements of remote-sensing reflectance (Rrs) and absorption coefficients carried out in three European estuaries (Gironde and Loire in France, Tamar in the UK) are presented and analyzed. Typical Rrs and absorption spectra are compared with typical values measured in coastal waters. The respective contributions of the water constituents, i.e., suspended sediments, colored dissolved organic matter, and phytoplankton (characterized by chlorophyll-a), are determined. The Rrs spectra are then reproduced with an optical model from the measured absorption coefficients and fitted backscattering coefficients. From Rrs ratios, empirical quantification relationships are established, reproduced, and explained from theoretical calculations. These quantification relationships were established from numerous field measurements and a reflectance model integrating the mean values of the water constituents' inherent optical properties. The model's sensitivity to the biogeochemical constituents and to their nature and composition is assessed.
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
Date: 10-11-2004
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005981
Abstract: Field determinations of the remote sensing reflectance signal are necessary to validate ocean color satellite sensors. The measurement of the above-water downwelling irradiance signal Ed(0+) is commonly made with a reference plaque of a known reflectance. The radiance reflected by the plaque (L(dspec)) can be used to determine Ed(0+) if the plaque is assumed to be near Lambertian. To test this assumption, basic experiments were conducted on a boat under changing sky conditions (clear, cloudy, covered) and with different configurations for simultaneous measurements of L(dspec) and Ed(0+). For all measurement configurations, results were satisfactory under a clear sky. Under cloudy or covered skies, shadow effects on the plaque induced errors up to 100% in the determination of Ed(0+). An appropriate measurement configuration was defined, which enabled Ed(0+) to be determined with an accuracy of better than +/- 15% regardless of the sky conditions.
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 09-07-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2022
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 19-05-2022
Publisher: Authorea, Inc.
Date: 21-02-2023
DOI: 10.22541/AU.167701301.18502422/V1
Abstract: The terrigenous dissolved organic carbon (tDOC) exported from the peatlands in Southeast Asia appears to be extensively remineralized in the shelf sea, but the processes that drive this remineralization remain unclear. Here, we combined incubation experiments and model simulations to quantify the rate and extent of photodegradation of tDOC in the Sunda Shelf Sea. Laboratory photodegradation experiments indicate that up to 74% of the peatland tDOC is potentially labile to photochemical remineralization. Based on our estimated apparent quantum yield for tDOC remineralization, modeled in-situ solar irradiance, and measured inherent optical properties of the water column, we simulated peatland tDOC photoremineralization for two coastal regions of the Sunda Shelf Sea. These simulation results show that natural solar radiation can directly remineralize 20±11% of tDOC over 2 years, which corresponds to the approximate residence time of water in the Sunda Shelf Sea, and that significant photobleaching of tDOC can occur in coastal waters over shorter time-scales. We further derived a simplified photochemical decay constant of 0.008–0.017day-1 for Southeast Asia’s peatland-derived tDOC, which can be used to parameterize the recently proposed UniDOM model framework. We conclude that direct photodegradation may be a greater sink for tDOC in Southeast Asia’s coastal ocean compared to higher latitudes, although it is insufficient to account for the total tDOC remineralization observed in the Sunda Shelf Sea.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 22-01-2023
DOI: 10.3390/RS15030652
Abstract: In January 2013, tropical cyclone Oswald caused widespread flooding in the North-East coast of Australia, and large and highly episodic inputs into Princess Charlotte Bay (PCB, northern Great Barrier Reef). Freshwater outflows from the Normanby and Kennedy rivers, the two main rivers draining the adjacent catchments, resulted in drastic changes in physical, biogeochemical and optical properties within PCB. On 31 January, 2 days after the peak riverine discharge from the Normanby river, nutrients and dissolved organic matter contents peaked under the influence of large outflows from the Kennedy river into the western section of the bay (5.8 μM for dissolved inorganic nitrogen, 6.9 g m−3 for dissolved organic carbon and 6.1 m−1 for the colored dissolved organic matter absorption coefficient at 412 nm). In the eastern section of the bay, the situation appeared more ‘mixed’, with a suspended solids concentration reaching 23.1 g m−3 close to the Normanby river mouth. The main phytoplankton bloom occurred in the transition zone between the Kennedy and Normanby flood plumes, and was dominated by diatoms with a chlorophyll a concentration reaching 14.6 mg m−3. This study highlights the need to better describe the critical spatial and temporal scales of variability of key biogeochemical and optical properties after a major flood event. The data collected is key to improve the accuracy of ocean color remote sensing algorithms and regional biogeochemical budgets following highly episodic inputs.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 30-12-2020
DOI: 10.3390/RS13010099
Abstract: Coastal water quality degradation is a global challenge. Marine pollution due to suspended sediments and dissolved matter impacts water colour, biogeochemistry, benthic habitats and eventually human populations that depend on marine resources. In Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo), peatland-draining river discharges containing suspended sediments and dissolved organic carbon influence coastal water quality at multiple locations along the coast. Optical remote sensing is an effective tool to monitor coastal waters over large areas and across remote geographic locations. However, the lack of regional optical measurements and inversion models limits the use of remote sensing observations for water quality monitoring in Sarawak. To overcome this limitation, we have (1) compiled a regional spectral optical library for Sarawak coastal waters, (2) developed a new semi-analytical remote sensing model to estimate suspended sediment and dissolved organic carbon in coastal waters, and (3) demonstrated the application of our remote sensing inversion model on satellite data over Sarawak. Bio-optical data analysis revealed that there is a clear spatial variability in the inherent optical properties of particulate and dissolved matter in Sarawak. Our optical inversion model coupled with the Sarawak spectral optical library performed well in retrieving suspended sediment (bias = 3% and MAE = 5%) and dissolved organic carbon (bias = 3% and MAE = 8%) concentrations. Demonstration products using MODIS Aqua data clearly showed the influence of large rivers such as the Rajang and Lupar in discharging suspended sediments and dissolved organic carbon into coastal waters. The bio-optical parameterisation, optical model, and remote sensing inversion approach detailed here can now help improve monitoring and management of coastal water quality in Sarawak.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2005
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 23-03-2020
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU2020-4393
Abstract: & & South-East Asian peatlands are a globally significant carbon store. Rivers draining these peatlands have some of the highest dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations in the world and account for up to 10% of the global land-to-ocean carbon flux, thus representing an important input to the marine carbon cycle. The release of DOC from peatlands is a natural process, yet the rapid and extensive transformation of these peatlands for agriculture over the past two decades is thought to have increased fluvial carbon losses significantly. However, not only do we lack a firm understanding of the fate of this terrigenous DOC in tropical seas, the distribution and long-term variability in DOC have never been studied at large scales in SE Asia. We will present the seasonal climatology (2002-2018) of spatial distribution patterns of DOC concentrations and optical properties (absorption coefficients, spectral slope) of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) for coastal waters of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo derived using a regionally tailored semi-analytical inversion model from MODIS Aqua. Our results reveal substantial inputs of DOC from Sarawak rivers DOC close to shore exceeds 125 & #181 M, and CDOM across the study region shows predominantly terrigenous spectral signatures. DOC concentrations were higher during the rainier northeast monsoon than during the drier south-west monsoon. Our data suggest that long-term increases in DOC concentration have occurred across parts of our study region from 2002& #8211 , which has implications for the aquatic light regime and coastal biogeochemistry[PM5]. These results will be discussed in the context of past anthropogenic disturbance to coastal peatlands.& &
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 28-04-2021
DOI: 10.1029/2020GL092130
Abstract: Terrigenous dissolved organic matter (tDOM) carried by rivers represents an important carbon flux to the coastal ocean, which is thought to be increasing globally. Because tDOM is rich in light‐absorbent chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM), it may also reduce the amount of sunlight available in coastal ecosystems. Despite its biogeochemical and ecological significance, there are few long‐term records of tDOM, hindering our understanding of its drivers and dynamics. Corals incorporate terrestrial humic acids, an important constituent of CDOM, resulting in luminescent bands that have been previously linked to rainfall and run‐off. We show that luminescence green‐to‐blue (G/B) ratios in a coral core growing in waters affected by peatland run‐off correlate strongly with remote sensing‐derived CDOM absorption. The 24‐year monthly resolution reconstructed record shows that rainfall controls land‐to‐ocean tDOM flux from this protected peatland catchment, and suggests an additional impact by solar radiation, which degrades tDOM at sea.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2014
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 11-09-2018
DOI: 10.5194/BG-2018-389
Abstract: Abstract. South-East Asia is home to one of the world's largest stores of tropical peatland, and accounts for roughly 10 % of the global land-to-sea dissolved organic carbon (DOC) flux. We present the first-ever seasonally-resolved measurements of DOC concentration and chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) spectra for six peatland-draining rivers and coastal waters in Sarawak, north-western Borneo. The rivers differed substantially in DOC concentration, ranging from 120–250 µmol L−1 (Rajang river) to 3,100–4,400 µmol L−1 (Maludam river). All rivers carried high CDOM concentrations, with a350 in the four blackwater rivers between 70–210 m−1, and 4–12 m−1 in the other two rivers. DOC and CDOM showed conservative mixing with seawater except in the largest river (the Rajang), where DOC concentrations in the estuary were elevated, most likely due to inputs from the extensive peatlands within the Rajang delta. Seasonal variation was moderate and inconsistent between rivers. However, during the rainier north-east monsoon, all marine stations in the western part of our study area had higher DOC concentrations and lower CDOM spectral slopes, indicating a greater proportion of terrigenous DOM in coastal waters. Photo-degradation experiments revealed that riverine DOC and CDOM in Sarawak are photo-labile: up to 25 % of riverine DOC was lost within five days of exposure to natural sunlight, and the spectral slopes of photo-bleached CDOM resembled those of our marine s les. We conclude that coastal waters of Sarawak receive large inputs of terrigenous DOC that is only minimally altered during estuarine transport, and that any biogeochemical processing must therefore occur mostly at sea. It is likely that photo-degradation plays an important role in the degradation of terrigenous DOC in these waters.
Publisher: SPIE
Date: 13-09-2007
DOI: 10.1117/12.735809
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 04-03-2021
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU21-6864
Abstract: & & The flux of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon (tDOC) from land to the coastal ocean is an important component of the global carbon cycle, and can impact coastal marine ecosystems. A potentially large fraction of this tDOC flux can be oxidised to CO& sub& & /sub& , resulting in coastal ocean acidification and ultimately degassing to the atmosphere. tDOC is also rich in chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) which is the fraction of dissolved organic matter that absorbs light. CDOM plays an important role in aquatic systems by absorbing sunlight and reducing its transmission through the water column. This is a partially beneficial effect since photodegradation reactions release nutrients and protect biota from harmful UV radiation. However, CDOM light absorption also reduces the light available for primary producers. Long running tDOC and CDOM measurements from North America and Europe show that tDOC fluxes have been increasing in the 20& sup& th& /sup& century in response to climate and land-use change. However, despite the biogeochemical and ecological significance of tDOC, there are few long-term records of tDOC, and none at all from tropical shelf sea environments. This severely limits our understanding of its drivers and processes.& & & & & Here, we show that luminescence green-to-blue (G/B) ratios in coral skeleton cores are an accurate proxy for tDOC concentration in seawater. Coral luminescence is generated by humic-like substances, which are highly fluorescing compounds that are incorporated by corals into their skeletons during growth, forming sub-annual growth layers that luminesce under UV light. These humic-like substances are an integral component of tDOC and are an important constituent of the CDOM pool. We used solution fluorescence excitation emission matrix (EEM) measurements of dissolved powders of coral skeletons collected from multiple locations on the Sunda Sea Shelf along with abiogenic aragonite growth experiments to show that coral luminescence G/B is quantitatively related to the fluorescence intensity of terrestrial humic substances. We then combined a satellite-retrieved time series of CDOM with an analysis of a coral core section from an area of Borneo affected by run-off from tropical peatlands. We show that coral G/B ratio is a quantitative proxy for CDOM concentration at monthly resolution over a period of 12 years at this site (R& sup& & /sup& = 0.57). Furthermore, we examine data from a multi-year biogeochemical time series in Singapore combined with recently collected coral cores from the monitoring site. These results show that coral luminescence G/B ratios are highly correlated with terrestrial CDOM absorption across the ultraviolet and visible wavelength spectrum, as well as with the tDOC concentration as estimated from stable isotopes of dissolved organic carbon. Taken together, our results show that coral G/B ratios can be a powerful proxy to reconstruct bio-optical and biogeochemical variability resulting from tDOC input. Corals can therefore allow us to potentially reconstruct tDOC flux variability across tropical seas over past centuries, and therefore to investigate seasonal to inter-annual drivers of tDOC dynamics.& &
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 25-09-2020
Abstract: Abstract. Since the mid-1990s, Australia's Commonwealth Science Industry and Research Organisation (CSIRO) has been developing a biogeochemical (BGC) model for coupling with a hydrodynamic and sediment model for application in estuaries, coastal waters and shelf seas. The suite of coupled models is referred to as the CSIRO Environmental Modelling Suite (EMS) and has been applied at tens of locations around the Australian continent. At a mature point in the BGC model's development, this paper presents a full mathematical description, as well as links to the freely available code and user guide. The mathematical description is structured into processes so that the details of new parameterisations can be easily identified, along with their derivation. In EMS, the underwater light field is simulated by a spectrally resolved optical model that calculates vertical light attenuation from the scattering and absorption of 20+ optically active constituents. The BGC model itself cycles carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous and oxygen through multiple phytoplankton, zooplankton, detritus and dissolved organic and inorganic forms in multiple water column and sediment layers. The water column is dynamically coupled to the sediment to resolve deposition, resuspension and benthic–pelagic biogeochemical fluxes. With a focus on shallow waters, the model also includes detailed representations of benthic plants such as seagrass, macroalgae and coral polyps. A second focus has been on, where possible, the use of geometric derivations of physical limits to constrain ecological rates. This geometric approach generally requires population-based rates to be derived from initially considering the size and shape of in iduals. For ex le, zooplankton grazing considers encounter rates of one predator on a prey field based on summing relative motion of the predator with the prey in iduals and the search area chlorophyll synthesis includes a geometrically derived self-shading term and the bottom coverage of benthic plants is calculated from their biomass using an exponential form derived from geometric arguments. This geometric approach has led to a more algebraically complicated set of equations when compared to empirical biogeochemical model formulations based on populations. But while being algebraically complicated, the model has fewer unconstrained parameters and is therefore simpler to move between applications than it would otherwise be. The version of EMS described here is implemented in the eReefs project that delivers a near-real-time coupled hydrodynamic, sediment and biogeochemical simulation of the Great Barrier Reef, northeast Australia, and its formulation provides an ex le of the application of geometric reasoning in the formulation of aquatic ecological processes.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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