About the Authors

Qiang Yao

qyao4@lsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, School of the Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Kam-biu Liu

Affiliation Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, School of the Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KBL QY. Data curation: QY. Formal analysis: QY. Funding acquisition: KBL QY. Investigation: QY. Methodology: QY. Project administration: KBL. Resources: KBL. Software: KBL. Supervision: KBL. Validation: KBL. Writing – original draft: QY. Writing – review & editing: KBL.