Modeling historical fecal coliform loadings to large European rivers and resulting in-stream concentrations

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 63, Issue , 2015, Pages 251-263

  Reder, Klara ^a   Flörke, Martina ^a   Alcamo, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Europe; Fecal coliforms; In stream concentrations; Large scale; Loadings; Modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOADING; MODELS; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER QUALITY;

EUROPE; FECAL COLIFORMS; LARGE-SCALE; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MANURE APPLICATIONS; MODEL SIMULATION; REGIONAL PATTERN; WATER QUALITY MODELING;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FECAL COLIFORM; MANURE; RIVER POLLUTION; RUNOFF; SUSPENDED LOAD; WATER QUALITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84919772606     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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