Forecasting of dinoflagellate blooms in warm-monomictic hypertrophic reservoirs in South Africa by means of rule-based agents

Water SA

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 531-538

  Van Ginkel, Carin ^a   Cao, Hongqing ^b   Recknagel, Friedrich ^b   Du Plessis, Sandra ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF WATER AFFAIRS AND FORESTRY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ceratium; Dinoflagellates; Hybrid evolutionary algorithms (HEA); Hypertrophic warm monomictic lakes; Rule based agents

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; ODORS; POTABLE WATER; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CERATIUM; DINOFLAGELLATE BLOOMS; HYPERTROPHIC WARM-MONOMICTIC LAKES; OPERATIONAL IMPACT;

WATER ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; ODORS; POTABLE WATER; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS;

ALGAL BLOOM; ALGORITHM; DINOFLAGELLATE; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYPERTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; RESERVOIR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CERATIUM; CERATIUM HIRUNDINELLA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 34547111536     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: 18167950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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