Modelling the environmental behaviour of pollutants in Algeciras Bay (south Spain)

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-232

  Perianez R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Algeciras Bay; Dispersion; Heavy metals; Hydrodynamics; Numerical modelling; Sediments

Indexed keywords

ALGECIRAS BAY; BAROTROPIC MODELS; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; DISPERSION SIMULATIONS; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; FLUSHING TIME; METAL DISPERSIONS; METAL INTERACTIONS; METAL TRANSPORT; MODEL RESULTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; RESIDUAL CURRENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODEL; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SUSPENDED MATTERS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAVY METALS; HEAVY WATER; HYDRODYNAMICS; METALS; MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLLUTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TIDES;

COPPER;

COPPER; HEAVY METAL; NICKEL; NITRATE; ZINC;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; FLUSHING; HEAVY METAL; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARINE SEDIMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRACER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DISPERSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPAIN; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TIDE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER CYCLE; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BAYS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEAWATER; SPAIN; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALGECIRAS BAY; ANDALUCIA; CADIZ [ANDALUCIA]; SPAIN;

EID: 84856253795     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.11.030     Document Type: Article

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