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FESDIA (v1.0): exploring temporal variations of sediment biogeochemistry under the influence of flood events using numerical modelling
Stanley I. Nmor
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
LSCE/IPSL,CEA-CNRS-UVSQ-Université Paris Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette,
France
Eric Viollier
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
LSCE/IPSL,CEA-CNRS-UVSQ-Université Paris Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette,
France
Institut de Physique Du Globe de Paris, 1 Rue Jussieu, Université Paris Cité, 75238, Paris CEDEX 05, France
Lucie Pastor
Laboratoire Environnement Profond, Ifremer – Centre de Bretagne,
29280 Plouzané, France
Bruno Lansard
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
LSCE/IPSL,CEA-CNRS-UVSQ-Université Paris Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette,
France
Christophe Rabouille
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
LSCE/IPSL,CEA-CNRS-UVSQ-Université Paris Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette,
France
Karline Soetaert
Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ), Department of
Estuarine and Delta Systems, Korringaweg 7, P.O. Box 140, 4401 NT Yerseke,
the Netherlands
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Short summary
The coastal marine environment serves as a transition zone in the land–ocean continuum and is susceptible to episodic phenomena such as flash floods, which cause massive organic matter deposition. Here, we present a model of sediment early diagenesis that explicitly describes this type of deposition while also incorporating unique flood deposit characteristics. This model can be used to investigate the temporal evolution of marine sediments following abrupt changes in environmental conditions.
The coastal marine environment serves as a transition zone in the land–ocean continuum and is...
