Three Gorges Reservoir: Density pump amplification of pollutant transport into tributaries

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 7798-7806

  Holbach, Andreas ^a   Norra, Stefan ^a   Wang, Lijing ^b   Yijun, Yuan ^c   Hu, Wei ^a   Zheng, Binghui ^b   Bi, Yonghong ^c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; HYDRODYNAMICS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; WATER QUALITY;

DENSITY CURRENTS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; MITIGATION MEASURES; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RESERVOIR WATER; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR; WATER QUALITY ANALYSIS; YANGTZE RIVER;

WATER POLLUTION;

HEAVY METAL;

CHANNEL FLOW; IMPOUNDMENT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRIBUTARY; WATER MASS; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHINA; HYDRODYNAMICS; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PUMP; RESERVOIR; RIVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; METALS, HEAVY; PARTICULATE MATTER; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84904438965     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501132k     Document Type: Article

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