Surface sediment and water column data for 12 shallow estuaries in southwest Western Australia. The dataset includes total nutrient and chlorophyll a concentrations, with calculated sediment loads ranging from 0.2 to 10.8 kg m-2 year-1. It was published by the Australian Ocean Data Network via data_gov_au.
Use Cases
- Modeling the relationship between sediment load and nutrient concentrations based on the described inverse correlation.
- Analyzing the impact of soil versus bedrock erosion on sediment geochemistry based on the described weathering index patterns.
- Assessing water quality problems associated with intermediate sediment loads as indicated in the description.
- Studying the role of sulfate reduction in organic matter degradation based on TOC:TS and TS:Fe(II) ratio correlations.
Strengths
- Covers 12 distinct estuaries, providing comparative data.
- Includes calculated sediment loads across a defined range from 0.2 to 10.8 kg m-2 year-1.
- Measures multiple variables: sediment total nitrogen, phosphorus, organic carbon, chlorophyll a, and water column total nutrients.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Freshness should be verified; last updated date is 2026-06-04.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Examination of surface sediment and water column samples from 12 estuaries.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-04 08:39:30.334395
- Geography
- Wave-dominated estuaries of southwest Western Australia