Monitoring and modelling of the Irish Sea and Liverpool Bay: An overview and an SPM case study

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 212, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 37-52

  Krivtsov, V ^a   Howarth, M J ^b   Jones, S E ^a   Souza, A J ^b   Jago, C F ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical cycling; Flocculation; Indirect effects; LISST; Regression trees; Resuspension; Size spectrum; Statistical modelling; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOCCULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; INDIRECT EFFECTS; REGRESSION TREES; RESUSPENSION; SIZE SPECTRUM; STATISTICAL MODELING; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

SEDIMENTS;

FLOCCULATION; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MODELING; MONITORING; PARTICLE SIZE; RESUSPENSION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRISH SEA; LIVERPOOL BAY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39149140378     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.10.038     Document Type: Article

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