Are the Chesapeake Bay Waters Warming up?

Brady, D.K.

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“…10 They also presented a continuous 117 year record from Woods Hole, Massachusetts and documented a significant warming of 0.04 C a À1 for the 1970 to 2002 period. Other analyses of temperature time series of approximately 50 years or greater also indicate recent increases in water temperature including for the North Sea at Helgoland, 11 the Chesapeake Bay, 2,3,[12][13][14] and the Hudson River. [14][15][16] Most studies, to date, have not examined air-water temperature relationships nor complicating factors like freshwater discharge which can influence temperature variation in rivers, estuaries, and nearshore coastal waters.…”

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Climate change drives warming in the Hudson River Estuary, New York (USA)

Seekell

Pace

2011

J. Environ. Monit.

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Estuaries may be subject to warming due to global climate change but few studies have considered the drivers or seasonality of warming empirically. We analyzed temperature trends and rates of temperature change over time for the Hudson River estuary using long-term data, mainly from daily measures taken at the Poughkeepsie Water Treatment Facility. This temperature record is among the longest in the world for a river or estuary. The Hudson River has warmed 0.945 °C since 1946. Many of the warmest years in the record occurred in the last 16 years. A seasonal analysis of trends indicated significant warming for the months of April through August. The warming of the Hudson is primarily related to increasing air temperature. Increasing freshwater discharge into the estuary has not mitigated the warming trend.

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Climate change drives warming in the Hudson River Estuary, New York (USA)

Seekell

Pace

2011

J. Environ. Monit.

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“…Studies of recent Chesapeake Bay temperatures have provided various estimates of warming using a variety of methods. Projected surface warming based on records of early 20th Century Baltimore Harbor data from a handful of observing stations was posited (and discounted) by Brady (1976), who suggested that, by 2012, average Bay temperatures could be 2.2°C higher than those observed in the first half of the 20th Century. Increasing temperatures (0.8°C-1.1°C) were found Bay-wide at the surface during winter and spring and at the bottom during winter, spring, and summer in the latter half of the 20th Century (Preston 2004).…”

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Extent and Causes of Chesapeake Bay Warming

Hinson

Friedrichs

St‐Laurent

et al. 2021

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Coastal environments such as the Chesapeake Bay have long been impacted by eutrophication stressors resulting from human activities, and these impacts are now being compounded by global warming trends. However, there are few studies documenting long‐term estuarine temperature change and the relative contributions of rivers, the atmosphere, and the ocean. In this study, Chesapeake Bay warming, since 1985, is quantified using a combination of cruise observations and model outputs, and the relative contributions to that warming are estimated via numerical sensitivity experiments with a watershed–estuarine modeling system. Throughout the Bay’s main stem, similar warming rates are found at the surface and bottom between the late 1980s and late 2010s (0.02 ± 0.02°C/year, mean ± 1 standard error), with elevated summer rates (0.04 ± 0.01°C/year) and lower rates of winter warming (0.01 ± 0.01°C/year). Most (~85%) of this estuarine warming is driven by atmospheric effects. The secondary influence of ocean warming increases with proximity to the Bay mouth, where it accounts for more than half of summer warming in bottom waters. Sea level rise has slightly reduced summer warming, and the influence of riverine warming has been limited to the heads of tidal tributaries. Future rates of warming in Chesapeake Bay will depend not only on global atmospheric trends, but also on regional circulation patterns in mid‐Atlantic waters, which are currently warming faster than the atmosphere.

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What drove the nonlinear hypoxia response to nutrient loading in Chesapeake Bay during the 20th century?

2023

Science of The Total Environment

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Are the Chesapeake Bay Waters Warming up?

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Climate change drives warming in the Hudson River Estuary, New York (USA)

Climate change drives warming in the Hudson River Estuary, New York (USA)

Extent and Causes of Chesapeake Bay Warming

What drove the nonlinear hypoxia response to nutrient loading in Chesapeake Bay during the 20th century?

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