Analysis of water temperatures in conowingo pond as influenced by the peach bottom atomic power plant thermal discharge

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 197-209

  Hamrick, John M ^a   Mills, William B ^a  

^a TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Far field mixing; Hydrodynamic model; Near field mixing; Surface heat exchange; Thermal discharge; Water temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039770005     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1462-9011(00)00053-8     Document Type: Article

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