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Oubelkheir, Kadija, Ford, Phillip W., Cherukuru, Nagur, Clementson, Lesley A., Petus, Caroline, Devlin, Michelle 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2194-2534, Schroeder, Thomas and Steven, Andrew D.L.
(2023)
Impact of a Tropical Cyclone on Terrestrial Inputs and Bio-Optical Properties in Princess Charlotte Bay (Great Barrier Reef Lagoon).
Remote Sensing, 15 (3).
ISSN 2072-4292
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Data Availability Statement: Discrete optical data and phytoplankton pigments are available on the AODN portal: https://portal.aodn.org.au/ (last accessed on 10 October 2022). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | biogeochemical and optical properties,floods,ocean color,tropical cyclone,general earth and planetary sciences ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1900 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2026 10:05 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2026 21:01 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103427 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/rs15030652 |
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