Lagrangian models of dispersion in marine environment

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 637-656

  Monti, Paolo ^a   Leuzzi, Giovanni ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geophysical flows; Lagrangian stochastic models; Marine environment; Pollutant dispersion

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLING; DISPERSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; STOCHASTICITY; TURBULENCE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 78049373063     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-010-9184-x     Document Type: Article

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