ORCID
0000-0001-8819-189X (Mulholland)
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
DOI
10.1002/lol2.10308
Publication Title
Limnology and Oceanography Letters
Volume
8
Issue
3
Pages
498-508
Abstract
Climate change and nutrient pollution contribute to the expanding global footprint of harmful algal blooms. To better predict their spatial distributions and disentangle biophysical controls, a novel Lagrangian particle tracking and biological (LPT-Bio) model was developed with a high-resolution numerical model and remote sensing. The LPT-Bio model integrates the advantages of Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches by explicitly simulating algal bloom dynamics, algal biomass change, and diel vertical migrations along predicted trajectories. The model successfully captured the intensity and extent of the 2020 Margalefidinium polykrikoides bloom in the lower Chesapeake Bay and resolved fine-scale structures of bloom patchiness, demonstrating a reliable prediction skill for 7-10 d. The fully coupled LPT-Bio model initialized/calibrated by remote sensing and controlled by ambient environmental conditions appeared to be a powerful approach to predicting transport pathways, identifying bloom hotspots, resolving concentration variations at subgrid scales, and investigating responses of HABs to changing environmental conditions and human interference.
Rights
© 2023 The Authors.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Data Availability
Article states: "Data and metadata are available in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/Jilian0717/LPT-Bio_model."
Original Publication Citation
Xiong, J., Shen, J., Qin, Q., Tomlinson, M. C., Zhang, Y. J., Cai, X., Ye, F., Cui, L., & Mulholland, M. R. (2023). Biophysical interactions control the progression of harmful algal blooms in Chesapeake Bay: A novel Lagrangian particle tracking model with mixotrophic growth and vertical migration. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 8(3), 498-508. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10308
Repository Citation
Xiong, Jilian; Shen, Jian; Qin, Qubin; Tomlinson, Michelle C.; Zhang, Yinglong J.; Cai, Xun; Yi, Fei; Cui, Linlin; and Mulholland, Margaret R., "Biophysical Interactions Control the Progression of Harmful Algal Blooms in Chesapeake Bay: A Novel Lagrangian Particle Tracking Model with Mixotrophic Growth and Vertical Migration" (2023). OES Faculty Publications. 475.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/oeas_fac_pubs/475