Assessment of current water pollution loads in Europe: Estimation of gridded loads for use in global water quality models

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2395-2410

  Williams, Richard ^a   Keller, Virginie ^a   Voß, Anja ^b   Bärlund, Ilona ^c   Malve, Olli ^d   Riihimäki, Juha ^d   Tattari, Sirkka ^d   Alcamo, Joseph ^b,e  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e United Nations Environment Programme   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Biochemical Oxygen Demand; Diffuse pollution; Point source pollution; Source apportionment; Total Dissolved Solids

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSE POLLUTION; DIFFUSE SOURCES; DOMESTIC EFFLUENTS; GRID CELLS; IRRIGATED LANDS; NORTH AFRICA; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS; URBAN RUNOFF; WATER COURSE; WATER POLLUTION LOAD; WATER QUALITY MODELS;

AGRICULTURE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CATCHMENTS; EFFLUENTS; LOADING; MANUFACTURE; POLLUTION; RUNOFF; SEWAGE; WATER QUALITY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CATCHMENT; DISSOLVED MATTER; EFFLUENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION; RUNOFF; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84864301414     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9427     Document Type: Article

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