Measuring and modeling the flux of fecal bacteria across the sediment-water interface in a turbulent stream

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Grant, Stanley B ^a,b,c   Litton Mueller, Rachel M ^a   Ahn, Jong H ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c The University of Melbourne   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION BOUNDARY LAYER; DYE INJECTION; EXTREME FLOWS; FECAL BACTERIA; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; FLUID MOTIONS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HUMAN DISEASE; HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE; HYPORHEIC ZONE; IN-SITU GROWTH; MASS BALANCE; MASS TRANSFER VELOCITY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; PORE FLUIDS; PRIMARY MECHANISM; SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE; TREATED WASTEWATER; TURBULENT STREAMS; WATER COLUMNS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EFFLUENTS; EROSION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEDIMENTOLOGY; STREAM FLOW; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER INJECTION;

RIVERS;

BACTERIUM; BIOINDICATOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIFFUSION; DISCHARGE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISINFECTION; DYE; EFFLUENT; EROSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FECES; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HYPORHEIC ZONE; LINEARITY; MAGNITUDE; MASS BALANCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAM; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY; WASTEWATER; WATER COLUMN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79957479269     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009460     Document Type: Article

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