Sediment diagenesis models: Review of approaches, challenges and opportunities

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 61, Issue , 2014, Pages 297-325

  Paraska, Daniel W ^a   Hipsey, Matthew R ^a   Ursula Salmon, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquatic systems; Meta analysis; Sediment diagenesis model

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC SYSTEM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELLING; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; MATTER TRANSFORMATION; MEASURABLE PARAMETERS; META ANALYSIS; SPATIALLY RESOLVED;

SEDIMENTS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; DIAGENESIS; LITERATURE REVIEW; META-ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 84908093327     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.05.011     Document Type: Article

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