Experiences from a case study of multi-model application to assess the behaviour of pollutants in the Dnieper-Bug Estuary

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 195, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 247-263

  Monte, Luigi ^a   Håkanson, Lars ^b   Periañez, Raul ^c   Laptev, Gennady ^d   Zheleznyak, Mark ^e   Maderich, Vladimir ^e   Angeli, Giacomo ^a   Koshebutsky, Vladimir ^e  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^d Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute Kiev   (Ukraine)

^e Institute of Mathematical Machines and System Problems   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Coastal areas; Contamination; Environmental models; Multi model approach

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTUARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS;

COASTAL AREAS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELS; MULTI-MODEL APPROACH;

POLLUTION DETECTION;

CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; POLLUTANT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

BUG ESTUARY; DNIEPER ESTUARY; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MYKOLAYIVSKA; UKRAINE;

EID: 33646506369     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.11.040     Document Type: Article

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