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IDENTIFICATION OF SPATIOTEMPORAL NUTRIENT PATTERNS AND ASSOCIATED ECOHYDROLOGICAL TRENDS IN THE TAMPA BAY COASTAL REGION
| Title: | IDENTIFICATION OF SPATIOTEMPORAL NUTRIENT PATTERNS AND ASSOCIATED ECOHYDROLOGICAL TRENDS IN THE TAMPA BAY COASTAL REGION. |
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| Name(s): |
Wimberly, Brent, Author Chang, Ni-Bin, Committee Chair University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2012 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | The comprehensive assessment techniques for monitoring of water quality of a coastal bay can be diversified via an extensive investigation of the spatiotemporal nutrient patterns and the associated eco-hydrological trends in a coastal urban region. With this work, it is intended to thoroughly investigate the spatiotemporal nutrient patterns and associated eco-hydrological trends via a two part inquiry of the watershed and its adjacent coastal bay. The findings show that the onset of drought lags the crest of the evapotranspiration and precipitation curve during each year of drought. During the transition year, ET and precipitation appears to start to shift back into the analogous temporal pattern as the 2005 wet year. NDVI shows a flat receding tail for the September crest in 2005 due to the hurricane impact signifying that the hurricane event in October dampening the severity of the winter dry season in which alludes to relative system memory. The k-means model with 8 clusters is the optimal choice, in which cluster 2 at Lower Tampa Bay had the minimum values of total nitrogen (TN) concentrations, chlorophyll a (Chl-a) concentrations, and ocean color values in every season as well as the minimum concentration of total phosphorus (TP) in three consecutive seasons in 2008. Cluster 5, located in Middle Tampa Bay, displayed elevated TN concentrations, ocean color values, and Chl-a concentrations, suggesting that high colored dissolved organic matter values are linked with some nutrient sources. The data presented by the gravity modeling analysis indicate that the Alafia River Basin is the major contributor of nutrients in terms of both TP and TN values in all seasons. Such ecohydrological evaluation can be applied for supporting the LULC management of climatic vulnerable regions as well as further enrich the comprehensive assessment techniques for estimating and examining the multi-temporal impacts and dynamic influence of urban land use and land cover. Improvements for environmental monitoring and assessment were achieved to advance our understanding of sea-land interactions and nutrient cycling in a coastal bay. | |
| Identifier: | CFH0004132 (IID), ucf:44878 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
2012-05-01 B.S.C.E. Engineering and Computer Science, Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering Bachelors This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): |
Ecohydrology Remote Sensing Climate Change Coastal Watershed Urban Sustainability Urban Heat Island Nutrient monitoring K-means Clustering Gravity Model Tampa Bay |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004132 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | campus 2015-04-01 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
