For almost three decades, the relative size of the hypoxic region on the Louisiana-Texas
continental shelf has drawn scientific and policy attention. During that time, both simple and
complex models have been used to explore hypoxia dynamics and to provide management
guidance relating the size of the hypoxic zone to key drivers. Throughout much of that
development, analyses had to accommodate an apparent change in hypoxic sensitivity to
loads and often cull observations due to anomalous meteorological conditions. Here, we …