The use of Lagrangian trajectories for the identification of the environmentally safe fairways

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1410-1420

  Soomere, Tarmo ^a,b   Andrejev, Oleg ^c   Myrberg, Kai ^c   Sokolov, Alexander ^d  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Coastal protection; Fairway design; Gulf of Finland; Lagrangian transport; Numerical modelling; Pollution control

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; COASTAL PROTECTION; FAIRWAY DESIGN; GULF OF FINLAND; LAGRANGIAN TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODELLING;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MARINE POLLUTION; PROBABILITY; SHORE PROTECTION; TRAJECTORIES;

POLLUTION CONTROL;

COASTAL PROTECTION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MARINE POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION CONTROL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FINLAND; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FINLAND; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF FINLAND;

EID: 79959345540     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.04.041     Document Type: Article

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