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2015 Delaware Estuary Science and Environmental Summit
Aboozar Tabatabai and John Wilkin
بسم هللا الرحمن الرحيم
Ocean Modeling Group
Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University
January 27, 2015
Estimation of Nitrogen Removal in Delaware Estuary as a Function of Spatial Residence Time
Hydrodynamical Model
• ROMS (BGC Fennel with DOM)
• 98x386 horizontal grid (~ 0.2x2 km resolution)
• 20 terrain-following vertical layers (~ 0.03-6.2 m resolution)
• Realistic forcing: Six rivers (USGS), wind and ambient physical climatology (NARR), tides (ADCIRC), BGC parameters (DLEM, USGS and Sharp)
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SDet
Burial
Denitrification
Remineralization
DON
NH4
Phy
Phy SDet LDet
Resuspension
Bottom PON
N2
Bottom Cell
Bottom Stress
Solubilization
Solubilization
Remineralization
Uptake
Velocity
Modeling Nitrogen Loss; Benthic Processes
Conclusion
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A 3D coupled hydro-biogeochemical model was employed to study N cycling in Delaware Estuary, with satisfactory results in the main Bay. We modified a classic RT estimation technique to be incorporated in the model. This is a powerful tool for other biogeochemical applications (including observational studies). Denitrification and N burial rates are highly variable spatially, as well as temporally, and using different methods of averaging yields very different total N loss estimates in the model. In order to improve previous N loss estimates based on very few observations, we introduced a log-log relationship between N loss and RT with a statistically significant correlation. These site and time-specific relationships are products of a simplified N-cycle model and may be applied, with consideration, to fill the gaps in data or improve N Loss estimations and balancing a N budget.
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