The use of modelling to implement the Water Framework Directive

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 104, Issue , 2007, Pages 11-20

  Hartnett, M ^a   Berry, A ^b   Irvine, K ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b MarCon Computations International Limited   (Ireland)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Estuaries; GIS; Heavy metals; Integration; Modelling; Nutrients; Rivers; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ESTUARY; EUTROPHICATION; GIS; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIVER WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 38849196265     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/RM070021     Document Type: Article

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