Monitoring water quality in estuarine environments: lessons from the MAGEST monitoring program in the Gironde fluvial-estuarine system

Type Article
Date 2011
Language English
Author(s) Etcheber H.1, Schmidt S.1, Sottolichio Aldo2, Maneux E.3, Chabaux G.2, Escalier J. -M.1, Wennekes H.1, Derriennic H.2, Schmeltz M.2, Quemener LoicORCID4, Repecaud MichelORCID4, Woerther Patrice4, Castaing P.2
Affiliation(s) 1 : EPOC, UMR 5805, CNRS, Talence, France.
2 : Univ Bordeaux 1, EPOC, UMR 5805, F-33405 Talence, France.
3 : GEO Transfert ADERA, Pessac, France.
4 : Ifremer Brest, Plouzane, France.
Source Hydrology And Earth System Sciences (1027-5606) (Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh), 2011 , Vol. 15 , N. 3 , P. 831-840
DOI 10.5194/hess-15-831-2011
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Abstract The Gironde Estuary, one of the largest European ones, presents temporary low dissolved oxygen content in its fluvial section close to the Bordeaux urban area. In a context of population growth and of long-term environmental changes, the development of a high-frequency monitoring programme of the fluvial-estuarine system of the Gironde, called MAGEST (MArel Gironde ESTuary), had appeared essential to address current and future water-quality issues/evaluations. The objectives of the MAGEST survey program are to establish a reference database to improve the knowledge of the Gironde Estuary functioning, encompassing the aspects of hydrology, sediment dynamics and biogeochemistry. Through examples of results from intratidal to seasonal time scales, we demonstrate how such a long-term, high-frequency monitoring of a fluvio-estuarine system is of valuable interest to extract the main trends of its functioning and of the water quality in relation to external forcings (climatology, urban wastes, land use, ...) and to predict the future evolution of an estuary with global and environmental changes.
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Etcheber H., Schmidt S., Sottolichio Aldo, Maneux E., Chabaux G., Escalier J. -M., Wennekes H., Derriennic H., Schmeltz M., Quemener Loic, Repecaud Michel, Woerther Patrice, Castaing P. (2011). Monitoring water quality in estuarine environments: lessons from the MAGEST monitoring program in the Gironde fluvial-estuarine system. Hydrology And Earth System Sciences, 15(3), 831-840. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-15-831-2011 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00033/14466/