Calculating mercury loading to the tidal Hudson River, New York, using rating curve and surrogate methodologies

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 165, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 233-248

  Wall, Gary R ^a   Ingleston, Hannah H ^a   Litten, Simon ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Hudson River; Load; Mercury; Mohawk River; Rating curve; Surrogate; Suspended sediment concentration; Yield

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); HYSTERESIS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

HUDSON RIVER; LOADS; MOHAWK RIVER; RATING CURVES; SURROGATE; SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION (SSC);

MERCURY DEPOSITS;

ICE; MERCURY;

MERCURY (ELEMENT); RIVER POLLUTION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HYSTERESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; RIVER; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

HUDSON RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23844485548     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-005-5146-1     Document Type: Article

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