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Water clarity variations in Jiaozhou Bay over 39 years based on satellite observations

Zhou, Yan, Yu, Dingfeng, Yang, Lei, Gai, Yingying, Yi, Zezheng, Yuan, Qing, Han, Zhen and Pan, Shunqi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8252-5991 2024. Water clarity variations in Jiaozhou Bay over 39 years based on satellite observations. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 306 , 108895. 10.1016/j.ecss.2024.108895

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Abstract

Water clarity is an important indicator for the water quality of aquatic ecosystems and measured as Secchi disk depth (ZSD). In this study, images from Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM), Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), and Operational Landsat Imager (OLI) over the period from 1984 to 2022 are used to study the spatiotemporal variation in Jiaozhou Bay, a typical semi-enclosed bay in China, and to gain the insights into the drivers for the variation during the study period. The satellite images are first processed to obtain ZSD, and corrected against the field measurements to ensure the ZSD to be high-quality, and then the spatial and temporal distributions of ZSD are analysed. The results show that the regional monthly average ZSD over the study period are the highest in May and lowest in January. From long-term seasonal observation, it declines most significantly in Summer. In terms of inter-annual variation, the results clearly indicate that 2015 was a turning point, as the regional average ZSD decreased significantly from 1984 to 2014 at a rate of approximately 0.022 m/year, but significantly increased from 2015 to 2022 with a rate of about 0.049 m/year. The turning trend of the water clarity in Jiaozhou Bay can be mainly attributed to the increasing sunshine duration during 2015–2022, as well as rapidly reduction emissions of industrial waste from Qingdao city during 2015–2016.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Schools > Engineering
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0272-7714
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 24 September 2024
Date of Acceptance: 26 July 2024
Last Modified: 26 Jul 2025 01:45
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/171894

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