1	Florida Bay Innerbasin Study Transport and Exchange of Florida Bay Interior Waters
2	Florida Bay & Everglades National Park
3	The Problem Florida Bay is located downstream of the Everglades discharge that has been altered over the past century due to South Florida land use practices. The salinity of Florida Bay has undergone dramatic changes. Salinity values reached their most extreme, up to 70, in the late 1980s, concurrent with ecological changes in Florida Bay including degradation of water quality and a mass sea-grass die-off.
4	Question How and at what rate do storms, changing fresh water flows, sea level rise and local evaporation-precipitation patterns influence circulation and salinity patterns within Florida Bay and exchanges between the bay and adjacent waters ?
5	Proposed Research Objectives Multi-institutional study to resolve the volume and salt transports in Florida Bay. Compute volume transport, salt balances and resident times in the Bay.
6	Florida Bay
7	Florida Bay Regions
8	Florida Bay Bathymetry
9	Florida Bay Banks
10	Fresh Water Inputs
11	Daily average fresh water discharge to Florida Bay for 2001. Data provided by U.S. Geological Survey, South Florida Ecosystem Program, Information Access Site (USGS, 2005).
12	Monthly average fresh water fluxes to Fla. Bay from long-term (25 years) measurements. (Nuttle et al., 2000).
13	Seasonal cycle of monthly average salinity for the four regions of Florida Bay
14	Moored instrumentation sites from recent studies of the inner basin circulation and exchange processes in northeast, north-central, and western basin sub-regions of Florida Bay. Also shown are USGS transport and river discharge measurement stations.
15	The Boat R/V Virginia K
16	Instruments (The Boat)
17	Instruments (The Moorings)
18	Instruments (The Drifters)
19	Central Basin Florida Bay
20	Location of Central Basin Measurement Stations
21	Central Basin Surface Salinity from high-resolution surveys of the R/V Virginia K using continuous underway measurement for: A) Mar. 28 dry season; B) Jul. 16 near the end of the dry season; C) Sept. 16 wet season; and D) Oct. 28 near the end of wet season 2001. Vessel track shown with dotted line. Surface drifter trajectories shown with red arrows.
22	Time series of the Central Basin average salinity during dry and wet seasons of 2001 from R/V Virginia K spatial surveys.
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24	Location of ENP marine monitoring stations in Florida Bay (triangles), CMAN/SeaKeys wind stations (squares), and the location of fresh water discharge points (arrows) superimposed on the bays bank/basin configuration (yellow/white) and mangrove islands (green).
25	Florida Bay Hypersalinity Event (2001)
26	Linear regression of along-channel currents against volume transport measured with shipboard ADCP transects across the current meter sites at Topsy (top) and Twisty (bottom) transects during the wet season of 2001.
27	Channel Volume Transports Wet Season 3 hour low-pass filtered volume transports derived for the major flow channels to the Central Basin for a one month period from the 2.5 month total record of the wet season 2001. Positive values are inflows and negative are outflows. Also shown are east-west and north-south wind components from the NWFB SeaKeys site.
28	40 hour low-pass filtered NWFB wind components and volume transports through CB flow channels during wet season 2001. Positive values are inflows and negative are outflows.
29	Linear regression between subtidal time series of east-west wind and transports through Central Basin flow channels during the wet season 2001.
30	Florida Bay Sea Level Anomaly Movie
31	Subtidal sea level time series from selected stations of the ENP monitoring array and winds for the NWFB SeaKeys station, rotated 50º into along-bay axis and cross-bay axis components (along-axis winds + toward 50º and cross-axis winds + toward 140º. Sea level stations were selected to provide coverage of the entire bay.
32	Sea Level Anomaly Movie Hurricane Gabrielle (2001)
33	Gridded and Contoured Sea Level Fields Derived from the ENP monitoring array for fall 2001 wind events. Winds from the NWFB SeaKeys station are shown with black arrows.
34	Subtidal time series of the Total Volume Transport (Q_T) into (+) and out of (-) Central Basin derived from gridded sea level fields, shown with east-west (U) and north-south (V) winds for dry (a) and wet (b) seasons of 2001.
35	Wet season 2001 subtidal time series of the: Total channel flow (Q_c) and Total bank flow (Q_b) (top panel); Total bank flow plotted with along-axis winds (middle panel); and Total channel flow plotted with winds rotated 80deg (bottom panel).
36	Seasonal and annual means of Total Transport (Q_T) from Central Basin sea level monitoring data, total measured channel transport (Q_c) and residual bank transport (Q_b) from Q_b = Q_T - Q_c in m³/s for 2001. [Mean volume of Central Basin is 56.55 x 10⁶ (m³).]
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39	NE Basin Florida Bay
40	Location of NE Basin Measurement Stations
41	Drifters Deployment
42	Salinity Surveys (NE Basin & Florida Bay 2002 -2003)
43	Salinity and Fresh Water Discharge (NE Basin 2002 - 2003)
44	Channels Transport and Wind
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46	Seasonal and annual means of Total Transport (Q_T) from NE Basin volume anomalies data, total measured channel transport (Q_c) and residual bank transport (Q_b) from Q_b = Q_T - Q_c in m³/s for 2002. [Mean volume of NE Basin is 4.41 x 10⁸ (m³).]
47	West Basin Florida Bay
48	West Basin Florida Bay Mooring Array
49	Virginia K W Basin and Monthly Survey
50	Salinity Surveys (W Basin - Fl. Bay)
51	Salinity Survey (W Basin & Florida Bay)
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53	Salinity Surveys (W Basin)
54	Drifter Deployments
55	Drifter Deployments
56	Drifter Deployments
57	Drifter Deployments
58	Drifter Deployments
59	Moorings Wet Season Jun Dec 2004
60	Hurricanes Frances & Ivan
61	Salinity Time Series
62	Moorings
63	Moorings Current - Transport
64	Moorings Transport
65	Moorings Dry Season Dec 2004 – Jun 2005
66	Salinity Time Series
67	Moorings Current
68	Moorings Current - Transport
69	Moorings Transport
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72	Conclusions In the Central Basin 2001: Dry Season - eastward winds produce mean through-flow of 11 m³/s and basin renewal times of 2-3 mo. Wet Season – westward winds cause mean through-flow of 3 m³/s and basin renewal times of 6-7 mo. Flushing time for complete water renewal ~= 6-12 mo. In the NE Basin 2002-2003: Dry Season - eastward winds produce mean through-flow of 31 m³/s and basin renewal times of 5.5 mo. Wet Season – westward winds cause mean through-flow of 13 m³/s and basin renewal times of 12 mo. Flushing time for complete water renewal ~= 6-12 mo. ************************************************************************************************************ Water renewal and residence times in Florida Bay are primarily controlled by local wind forcing. Hypersalinity development in north-central Florida Bay results from reduced fresh water inputs during the dry season coupled with poor exchange with surrounding regions. Hypersalinity development in Fl. Bay could be regulated by redirection of a portion of Everglades flow to Whipray Basin via McCormick Creek during the dry season.
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74	For the Future ? Florida Bay Transport and Salinity Patterns
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