Environmental modelling in the Gulf of Cadiz: Heavy metal distributions in water and sediments

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3392-3406

  Perianez R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gulf of Cadiz; Heavy metals; Hydrodynamics; Numerical modelling; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

3-D MODELS; ATLANTIC OCEANS; BAROCLINIC MODELS; BAROTROPIC MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; GULF OF CADIZ; IBERIAN PENINSULAS; IBERIAN PYRITE BELTS; MEDITERRANEAN SEAS; METAL DISPERSIONS; METAL DISTRIBUTIONS; METAL INTERACTIONS; METAL TRANSPORTS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODELS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; STRAIT OF GIBRALTARS; SUSPENDED MATTERS;

COASTAL ZONES; EROSION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAVY METALS; HEAVY WATER; METALS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PYRITES; RECREATIONAL FACILITIES; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; ZINC;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HEAVY METAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEAWATER; SPAIN; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; GULF OF CADIZ; IBERIAN PENINSULA; IBERIAN PYRITE BELT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 62749139474     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.01.023     Document Type: Article

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