Assessing the Causes and Severity of Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Using Geostatistical and Mechanistic Modeling.

摘要: xi CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1 2: Gulf Hypoxia Literature Review 6 2.1 Biological and physical controls on hypoxia formation 2.1.1 eutrophication 2.1.2 Hydrodynamic transport stratification 10 2.1.3 Seasonal timing of 12 2.2 Documenting in the Northern Mexico 2.2.1 Hypoxic severity prior to 1985 2.2.2 Monitoring Campaigns 13 2.2.3 Mapping 15 2.3 Modeling 16 2.3.1 Mechanistic models 2.3.2 Empirical 20 2.3.3 Simple versus complex 23 3: Methods Background 27 3.1 Geostatistics modeling background 3.1.1 The univariate geostatistical model 28 3.1.2 spatially correlated stochasticity 30 3.1.3 Geostatistical interpolation 32 3.2 Bayesian 34 4: Regression 38