Mercury transport and fate in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic) - A two-dimensional modelling approach

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 645-655

  Širca, Andrej ^a   Rajar, Rudi ^a   Harris, Reed C ^b   Horvat, Milena ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical processes; Gulf of Trieste; Hydrodynamics; Mass balance; Mathematical model; Mercury; Northern Adriatic; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; IMPURITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERCURY (METAL); SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; GULF OF TRIESTE; MASS BALANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR QUALITY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

ITALY;

EID: 0032704508     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(99)00006-7     Document Type: Article

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