Simulation tools to support bathing water quality management: Escherichia coli bacteria in a Baltic lagoon

Journal of Coastal Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 473-488

  Schernewski, Gerald ^a   Fischer, Elisabeth ^a   Huttula, Timo ^c   Jost, Günter ^a   Ras, Monique ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bathing Water Directive; Beach management; Flow model; Microbial pollution; Particle tracking; Szczecin Lagoon

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BATHING WATER; COASTAL LAGOON; FLOW MODELING; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LITERATURE REVIEW; MARINE POLLUTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER QUALITY;

POLAND; SZCZECIN LAGOON; ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84870296032     PISSN: 14000350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11852-012-0202-7     Document Type: Article

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