Assessing the parameterisation of the settling flux in a depth-integrated model of the fate of decaying and sinking particles, with application to fecal bacteria in the Scheldt Estuary

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 157-175

  de Brauwere, Anouk ^a,b   Deleersnijder, Eric ^a  

^a Catholic University of Louvain   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Decay; Depth integrated model; Mixing; Mortality; Pycnocline; Reactive tracer; Residence time; Settling

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; FECAL COLIFORM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MORTALITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SETTLING; PYCNOCLINE; RESIDENCE TIME; SETTLING VELOCITY; STRATIFICATION; TRACER; WATER COLUMN;

WESTERSCHELDE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 75949129385     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-009-9151-6     Document Type: Article

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