While the global ocean is losing its oxygen content due to climate warming and associated changes in ocean circulation, coastal waters are exposed to the additional stress of oxygen reduction by various anthropogenic perturbations such as eutrophication and topography alternation. The impact of these perturbations has been manifested in observed change of oxygen content in coastal waters, global and coastal deoxygenation. Owing to rich dynamics and fine-scale biogeochemical processes in coastal waters, the variability of oxygen content is quite complex and hard to forecast with numerical models.
This Research Topic aims to cultivate our joint recognition of the current status of oxygen variability in coastal waters, its causes and underlying processes, consequences for marine species, and future projection by gathering case studies from various coastal areas.
Potential submission topics include, but are not limited to:
• Spatial-temporal variations of oxygen decline in coastal waters in new observations, model and data assimilation studies.
• Physical / biological processes and their interactions that control oxygen variations in coastal waters
• Effect of oxygen depletion on marine species, coastal ecosystems and fishery
• Present situation of model skills in simulating oxygen content in coastal waters, including model development, parameter optimization and data assimilation
• Future predictions of oxygen content in coastal waters, including recommendations on desirable socio-economical treatment of coastal areas to avoid future hypoxia
While the global ocean is losing its oxygen content due to climate warming and associated changes in ocean circulation, coastal waters are exposed to the additional stress of oxygen reduction by various anthropogenic perturbations such as eutrophication and topography alternation. The impact of these perturbations has been manifested in observed change of oxygen content in coastal waters, global and coastal deoxygenation. Owing to rich dynamics and fine-scale biogeochemical processes in coastal waters, the variability of oxygen content is quite complex and hard to forecast with numerical models.
This Research Topic aims to cultivate our joint recognition of the current status of oxygen variability in coastal waters, its causes and underlying processes, consequences for marine species, and future projection by gathering case studies from various coastal areas.
Potential submission topics include, but are not limited to:
• Spatial-temporal variations of oxygen decline in coastal waters in new observations, model and data assimilation studies.
• Physical / biological processes and their interactions that control oxygen variations in coastal waters
• Effect of oxygen depletion on marine species, coastal ecosystems and fishery
• Present situation of model skills in simulating oxygen content in coastal waters, including model development, parameter optimization and data assimilation
• Future predictions of oxygen content in coastal waters, including recommendations on desirable socio-economical treatment of coastal areas to avoid future hypoxia
