Data in support of the Pawcatuck River and Little Narragansett Bay Eutrophication Modeling Effort

This data repository has been created to support Cashel et al. 2024 publication titled “Using Monitoring and Mechanistic Modeling to Improve Understanding of Eutrophication in a Shallow New England Estuary”. This research served to explore the applicability of observed data and a dynamic, mechanistic fate and transport water quality model to assess eutrophication and hypoxia in the Pawcatuck River Estuary (New England, USA). Associated files include outputs from the Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed HSPF model, atmospheric forcing functions, continuous and discrete observed data in the Pawcatuck River Estuary, and additional information used to support this research. Refer to Section 6 of the Supplementary Materials associated with this research paper for a description of the contents of each file. Continuous (15-min intervals) sonde data and grab samples were collected across several years with locations designed to capture longitudinal, vertical, and lateral spatial variation within the system. Observed data include: salinity (SAL, ppt), water temperature (WT, °C), depth (DEP, m), dissolved oxygen (DO, mg/L), chlorophyll a (chl a, μg/L as chl a), ammonium (NH4, μg/L as N), nitrate (NO3, μg/L as N), dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP, μg/L as P), total nitrogen (TN, μg/L as N), total phosphorus (TP, μg/L as P), and total suspended solids (TSS, μg/L). This dataset is associated with the following publication: Cashel, F.S., C.D. Knightes, C. Lupo, T. Iott, K. Streich, C.J. Conville, T.W. Bridges, and I. Dombroski. Using monitoring and mechanistic modeling to improve understanding of eutrophication in a shallow New England estuary. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA, 355(March 2024): 120478, (2024).

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