Modelling faecal coliforms dynamics in the Seine estuary, France

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 177-184

  Garcia Armisen, T ^a   Thouvenin, B ^b   Servais, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Estuaries; Faecal coliforms; Faecal pollution; Modelling

Indexed keywords

FAECAL COLIFORMS; FAECAL POLLUTION; RIVER FLOW RATE; SEINE ESTUARY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; ESTUARIES; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRODYNAMICS;

COLIFORM BACTERIA;

COLIFORM BACTERIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; ESTUARIES; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRODYNAMICS;

ESTUARINE POLLUTION; FECAL COLIFORM; GEOMICROBIOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CALCULATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ESTUARY; FECES ANALYSIS; FRANCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; RIVER; VALIDATION PROCESS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; FRANCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SANITATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; SEINE ESTUARY; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749151169     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2006.466     Document Type: Article

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