Modelling transport and transformation of mercury fractions in heavily contaminated mountain streams by coupling a GIS-based hydrological model with a mercury chemistry model

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 4596-4605

  Lin, Yan ^a,b   Larssen, Thorjørn ^a,b   Vogt, Rolf D ^a   Feng, Xinbin ^c   Zhang, Hua ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Fluvial stream; GIS; HEC HMS; Hg; Modelling; Particle transport; WASP

Indexed keywords

FLUVIAL STREAM; HEC-HMS; MODELLING; PARTICLE TRANSPORT; WASP;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERCURY (METAL); RIVERS; STREAM FLOW;

RIVER POLLUTION;

MERCURY;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MOUNTAIN STREAM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HYDROLOGY; MINING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENTATION; SIMULATION; STREAM (RIVER); WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MERCURY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RIVERS; SEASONS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHINA; GUIZHOU; WANSHAN;

EID: 80052539409     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.07.033     Document Type: Article

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