Application of three-dimensional mercury cycling model to coastal seas

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 171, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 139-155

  Rajar, Rudi ^a   Žagar, Dušan ^a   Četina, Matjaž ^a   Akagi, Hirokatsu ^b   Yano, Shinichiro ^c   Tomiyasu, Takashi ^d   Horvat, Milena ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Gulf of Trieste; Hydrodynamic modelling; Mercury cycling; Minamata Bay; Modelling of mercury; Three dimensional modelling; Yatsushiro Sea

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MARINE POLLUTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ADRIATIC SEA; ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GULF OF TRIESTE; JAPAN; KUMAMOTO; KYUSHU; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MINAMATA BAY;

EID: 0742323625     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.08.001     Document Type: Article

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