Impacts of a record-breaking storm on physical and biogeochemical regimes along a catchment-to-coast continuum.

ABSTRACT: The impacts of changes in climate are often most readily observed through the effects of extremes in local weather, effects that often propagate through multiple ecosystem levels. Precise effects of any extreme weather event depend not only on the type of event and its timing, but also on the ecosystem affected. Here the cascade of effects following the arrival of an atmospheric river (directed by record-breaking Storm Desmond) across terrestrial, freshwater and coastal zones is quantified, using the Burrishoole system on the Atlantic coast of Ireland as a natural observatory. We used a network of high-frequency in-situ sensors to capture in detail the effects of an unprecedented period of rainfall, high wind speeds and above-average winter air temperatures on catchment and estuarine dynam

SUBMITTER: Kelly S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7386647 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature