TREX: Spatially distributed model to assess watershed contaminant transport and fate

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 404, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 113-128

  Velleux, Mark L ^a   England Jr , John F ^b   Julien, Pierre Y ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminants; Hydrology; Metals; Mine waste; Model; Runoff; Sediment transport; Watershed

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; COPPER; EARTH SCIENCES; EROSION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MECHANICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS; ZINC;

CONTAMINANTS; HYDROLOGY; METALS; MINE WASTE; MODEL; WATERSHED;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

CADMIUM; COPPER; RUNOFF; WATER; ZINC;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FLOW MODELING; MINE WASTE; MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; SOIL; TIME; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; WASTE; WATERSHED;

ALGORITHMS; CALIFORNIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS, HEAVY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 51149099463     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.053     Document Type: Article

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