Quantifying Karenia brevis bloom severity and respiratory irritation impact along the shoreline of Southwest Florida

• Richard P. Stumpf ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Richard P. Stumpf, Yizhen Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Richard.stumpf@noaa.gov

  Affiliation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5531-6860

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• Yizhen Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Richard P. Stumpf, Yizhen Li

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CSS Inc. Under Contract to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

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• Barbara Kirkpatrick ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BK, RWL, KAH, RDC, KKH and MCT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System Regional Association, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas United States of America

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• R. Wayne Litaker ,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BK, RWL, KAH, RDC, KKH and MCT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation CSS Inc. Under Contract to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

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• Katherine A. Hubbard ,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BK, RWL, KAH, RDC, KKH and MCT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

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• Robert D. Currier ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

  ¶‡ BK, RWL, KAH, RDC, KKH and MCT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System Regional Association, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas United States of America

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• Katherine Kohler Harrison ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BK, RWL, KAH, RDC, KKH and MCT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System Regional Association, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas United States of America

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• Michelle C. Tomlinson

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BK, RWL, KAH, RDC, KKH and MCT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

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