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Long-Term Time Series of Remote Sensing Observations for Development of Regulatory Water Quality StandardsWater quality standards in the U.S. consist of: designated uses (the services that a water body provides; e.g., drinking water, aquatic life, harvestable species, recreation) . criteria that define the environmental conditions that must be maintained to support the uses For estuaries and coastal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, there are no numeric (quantitative) criteria to protect designated uses from effects of nutrients. This is largely due to the absence of adequate data that would quantitatively link biological conditions to nutrient concentrations. The Gulf of Mexico Alliance, an organization fostering collaboration between the Gulf States and U.S. Federal agencies, has identified the development of the numeric nutrient criteria as a major step leading to reduction in MODIS Products Figure 6. Map of the Mobile Bay with a yellow patch indicating the Bon Secour Bay area selected in this study for averaging water clarity parameters retrieved from MODIS datasets. nutrient inputs to coastal ecosystems. Nutrient enrichment in estuaries and coastal waters can be quantified based on response variables that measure phytoplankton biomass and water clarity. Long-term, spatially and temporally resolved measurements of chlorophyll a concentration, total concentration of suspended solids, and water clarity are needed to establish reference conditions and to quantify stressor-response relationships.
Document ID
20100006920
Acquisition Source
Stennis Space Center
Document Type
Presentation
Authors
Blonski, Slawomir (Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Bay Saint Louis, MS, United States)
Spiering, Bruce A. (NASA Stennis Space Center Stennis Space Center, MS, United States)
Holekamp, Kara L. (Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Bay Saint Louis, MS, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
February 22, 2010
Subject Category
Quality Assurance And Reliability
Report/Patent Number
IT35A-01
SSTI-2220-0190
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNS04AB54T
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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