Validation of a water quality model for the Ria de Aveiro lagoon, Portugal

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 479-494

  Lopes, José Fortes ^a   Silva, Catarina I ^a   Cardoso, Ana C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Numerical modelling; Phytoplankton respiration; Primary production; Ria de Aveiro lagoon; Validation; Water quality

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN; PHYTOPLANKTON; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEWAGE LAGOONS;

GRAVITATIONAL CIRCULATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RIA DE AVEIRO LAGOON;

WATER QUALITY;

COASTAL LAGOON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESPIRATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIDAL CURRENT; WATER QUALITY;

AVEIRO [PORTUGAL]; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; RIA DE AVEIRO; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 36148941791     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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