Tracer behaviour and analysis of hydraulics in experimental free water surface wetlands

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 201-211

  Bodin, Hristina ^a   Mietto, Anna ^b   Ehde, Per Magnus ^c   Persson, Jesper ^d   Weisner, Stefan E B ^c  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Free water surface wetlands; Gauss modelling; Hydraulic performance; Inlet; Lithium tracer; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS METHODS; DATA SETS; DENSE VEGETATION; EFFICIENT TREATMENT; EMERGENT VEGETATION; FREE WATER SURFACE WETLAND; HYDRAULIC EFFICIENCY; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE; INLET; INLET DESIGN; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; LOW WATER; MASS RECOVERY; METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TRACER MASS; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER DISPERSION; WATER FLOWS; WETLAND HYDRAULICS; WETLAND VEGETATION;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DATA REDUCTION; FLOW OF WATER; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HYDRAULICS; INTAKE SYSTEMS; LITHIUM; METHOD OF MOMENTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DATA INTERPRETATION; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYDRAULICS; IMMOBILIZATION; LITHIUM; MAINTENANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESIDENCE TIME; SURFACE WATER; TRACER; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84868624908     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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