Twenty-one-year simulation of Chesapeake Bay water quality using the CE-QUAL-ICM eutrophication model

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1119-1133

  Cerco, Carl F ^a   Noel, Mark R ^a  

^a US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Eutrophication; Simulation; Transport and fate

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; CHESAPEAKE BAY; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION; EUTROPHICATION MODEL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SUMMARY; TRANSPORT AND FATE; WATER QUALITY MODELING;

EUTROPHICATION; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; WATER QUALITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; EUTROPHICATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LIGHT ATTENUATION; MARINE POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884981852     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12107     Document Type: Article

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