Modeling the inter-annual variability of salinity in the lagoon of Venice in relation to the water framework directive typologies

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 706-719

  Ghezzo, Michol ^a   Sarretta, Alessandro ^b   Sigovini, Marco ^a   Guerzoni, Stefano ^a   Tagliapietra, Davide ^a   Umgiesser, Georg ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL QUALITY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH RELIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LAGOON OF VENICE; MODEL RESULTS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NUMERICAL GRIDS; NUMERICAL TOOLS; OTHER APPLICATIONS; RESIDENCE TIME; SAMPLING STATIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMICS; TYPICAL VALUES; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES; WATERBODIES;

LAKES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CALIBRATION; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; DISCHARGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INSTABILITY; LAGOON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SALINITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TYPOLOGY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ITALY; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE;

EID: 80051868270     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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