Impacts of anthropogenic inputs on hypoxia and oxygen dynamics in the Pearl River estuary
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Abstract
Abstract. In summer, the Pearl River estuary (PRE) experiences hypoxia, largely driven by the high input of fresh water with low dissolved oxygen (DO), abundant nutrients and particulate organic carbon from the Pearl River network. In this study, we used a well-validated physical–biogeochemical model together with a DO species-tracing method to study the responses of hypoxia and oxygen dynamics to the anthropogenic perturbations of riverine inputs (i.e. DO, nutrients, and particulate organic carbon) in July–August 2006. Model results showed that hypoxia in the PRE was most sensitive to riverine inputs of particulate organic carbon, followed by DO concentrations and nutrients. Specifically, a 50 % decrease (increase) in riverine input of particulate organic carbon led to a 47 % decrease (64 % increase) in hypoxic area, with the sediment oxygen demand and water column production being the two most important processes contributing to changes in DO concentration. Changes in the riverine inputs of DO and nutrients had little impact on the simulated hypoxia because of the buffering effects of re-aeration (DO fluxes across the air–sea interface); i.e. the re-aeration responded to the changes in surface apparent oxygen utilization (AOU) associated with river-induced variations of oxygen source and sink processes. The PRE features shallow waters (with averaged depth of 10 m) in which oxygen provided by the re-aeration could penetrate to bottom waters via vertical diffusion and largely offset the changes in DO contributed by other oxygen source and sink processes. This study highlights the importance of re-aeration in reducing hypoxia variability in shallow estuaries.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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