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    Mapping the pollutants in surface riverine flood plume waters in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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    Authors
    Devlin, M.
    McKinna, Lachlan
    Álvarez-Romero, J.
    Petus, C.
    Abott, B.
    Harkness, P.
    Brodie, J.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Devlin, M.j. and McKinna, L.w. and Álvarez-Romero, J.g. and Petus, C. and Abott, B. and Harkness, P. and Brodie, J. 2012. Mapping the pollutants in surface riverine flood plume waters in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 65 (4-9): pp. 224-235.
    Source Title
    Marine Pollution Bulletin
    DOI
    10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.03.001
    ISSN
    0025326X
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27530
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The extent of flood plume water over a 10 year period was mapped using quasi-true colour imagery and used to calculate long-term frequency of occurrence of the plumes. The proportional contribution of riverine loads of dissolved inorganic nitrogen, total suspended sediments and Photosystem-II herbicides from each catchment was used to scale the surface exposure maps for each pollutant. A classification procedure was also applied to satellite imagery (only Wet Tropics region) during 11 flood events (2000– 2010) through processing of level-2 ocean colour products to discriminate the changing characteristics across three water types: ‘‘primary plume water’’, characterised by high TSS values; ‘‘secondary plume water’’, characterised by high phytoplankton production as measured by elevated chlorophyll-a (chl-a), and ‘‘tertiary plume water’’, characterised by elevated coloured dissolved and detrital matter (CDOM + D). This classification is a first step to characterise flood plumes.

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