Sentences with phrase «large hypoxic zone»
Two surveys conducted in June and early July, one of which was led by a NOAA - supported Texas A&M University team, suggested a large hypoxic zone was forming in the Gulf, though the LUMCON July measurement will be the official one as required of NOAA by the Task Force.
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The largest hypoxic zone measured to date occurred in 2002 and encompassed more than 8,400 square miles.
The Black Sea once hosted one of the largest hypoxic zones in the world, stretching 15,000 square miles.
The largest hypoxic zone currently affecting the United States, and the second largest hypoxic zone worldwide, is the northern Gulf of Mexico adjacent to the Mississippi River.
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By 2017, excessive nitrogen from agriculture had created a hypoxic zone in the Gulf extending 22,729 square kilometers (8775.7 square miles)-- an area larger than the state of New Jersey.
NOAA - supported scientists found a large Gulf of Mexico oxygen - free or hypoxic «dead» zone, but not as large as had been predicted.
NOAA - supported modelers at the University of Michigan, Louisiana State University, and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium are forecasting that this year's Gulf of Mexico hypoxic «dead» zone will be between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles which could place it among the ten largest recorded.
The Gulf of Mexico's hypoxic zone is predicted to be the largest ever recorded due to extreme flooding of the Mississippi River this spring, according to an annual forecast by a team of NOAA - supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University and the University of Michigan.
«While there is some uncertainty regarding the size, position and timing of this year's hypoxic zone in the Gulf, the forecast models are in overall agreement that hypoxia will be larger than we have typically seen in recent years.»
This summer's hypoxic zone («dead zone») is one of the largest measured since the team of researchers from Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and Louisiana State University began routine mapping in 1985.