Red tide bloom dynamics with respect to rainfall and riverine flow. Final report.

Abstract

This report documents the procedures and results of an examination of blooms of Karenia brevis in the Gulf of Mexico for relationships to rainfall and riverine flows as surrogates for nutrient loadings, to hurricanes as a potential source of nutrients by water overturn, to selected climatological indices as surrogates for temperature or rainfall-related forcing functions, and to the atmospheric deposition of inorganic nitrogen. The data obtained was a compilation of any red tide organism counts in Florida waters from 1953 through 1998.